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Latest News in Private Equity
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September 22, 2023
Envision Inks $177M Deal In Billing Practices Securities Suit
Pension fund investors asked a Tennessee federal judge Friday to bless the $177.5 million settlement they reached with Envision Healthcare Corp. to resolve their claims the health care services provider and its directors misled them about its allegedly improper billing practices.
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September 22, 2023
SEC Fines Broker-Dealer For Slacking On Reg BI Compliance
A Wisconsin broker-dealer has agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations it ran afoul of regulations aiming to ensure firms act in their clients' best interests and avoid potential conflicts of interest.
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September 22, 2023
Goldman Sachs To Pay $12M For Trade Data Reporting Gaffes
Financial services giant Goldman Sachs agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority $6 million apiece Friday over claims that it failed in its recordkeeping and reporting obligations when it handed over inaccurate trading data in response to thousands of regulatory requests.
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September 22, 2023
SEC Case Receiver Sues Atty To Undo 'Fraudulent Transfers'
A court-appointed receiver for a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement case has filed a lawsuit in Colorado federal court as part of his "efforts to trace, recapture, and return to investors millions of dollars of losses in a fraudulent Forex trading scheme," naming an attorney, his law firm and others as defendants in the suit.
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September 22, 2023
PE Adviser To Pay $1.6M To Settle SEC Conflict Allegations
A California-based private equity fund adviser that focuses on infrastructure investments agreed Friday to pay more than $1.6 million to settle claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it effectively carried out an undisclosed loan to a fund advised by an affiliated adviser, among other things.

Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Private equity deals valued at $50MM or more
- Venture capital investments of $25MM or more
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Capital investments, including mezzanine and growth capital deals
- Joint ventures involving private equity firms
- Hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts
- Distressed investment deals
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- International competition and securities regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Delaware corporate law
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Private equity industry lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Merger reviews
- Second requests
- Challenges and divestitures
- Litigation
- Antitrust suits
- Shareholder disputes
- Corporate governance fights
- Poison pill challenges
- Hostile takeover disputes
- Privacy and consumer protection suits
- Bankruptcy proceedings involving private equity stakeholders
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of private equity practices
Readership
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- Executives and attorneys in the private equity industry
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- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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