Seminar | Hedge Funds

Private Equity Investment Funds - European Update
Thursday 19th May 2005
at 222 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8XF

The Private Equity Team at SJ Berwin is holding its Eighth Annual Evening Seminar and Drinks. A short overview of important commercial, legal, tax and regulatory developments, followed by an opportunity to catch up with friends over a glass of wine.

Background
The private equity industry is entering a new era. Opportunities abound, and fundraising continues apace for buy-out funds in particular. At this seminar we will take our annual look at the state of the market, and examine in detail the evolution of fund terms. But the last twelve months have also seen some important challenges. In particular, the industry has to face a new environment: with private equity never far from the headlines, and the Government looking for new ways to raise revenue, the tax and regulatory landscape has changed dramatically. We will also analyse some of the most important threats faced by private equity practitioners.

Timetable

Timetable: Thursday 19 May 2005 and Thursday 9 June 2005

16.30 Registration
17.00 Seminar Commences
18.00 Panel Discussion
18.30 Drinks Party

Timetable: Tuesday 28 June 2005

08.30 Registration
08.45 Seminar Commences
09.45 Panel Discussion
10.15 More Refreshments

Programme
The state of private equity in 2005, the shifting landscape and current challenges to the industry

  • The fundraising environment
  • The impact of hedge funds
  • Private equity under attack
  • Risks emerging from the UK's Freedom of Information Act
  • LLPs, internal carried interests and co-investment arrangements
  • Secondaries
  • European fund vehicles
Terms and Conditions of European Funds
  • Evolving financial terms?
  • The push-backs from investors
  • Corporate governance issues
Threats emerging from the changing tax environment
  • Carried interest taxation
  • Deductions for shareholder debt: the effect of transfer pricing rules on buy-outs
  • Anti-avoidance and the Inland Revenue's attitude to private equity
The shifting regulatory landscape?
  • Threats to the regulatory environment from Europe
  • Accessing high net worth individual investors
Panel discussion and questions from the floor

Training
We send a weekly email on tax and legal matters relevant to the European private equity community. If you wish to receive this, please send your details to sjbnetworks@sjberwin.com SJ Berwin is accredited as a provider of continuing professional development by the Law Society and other professional bodies. Attendance at each seminar qualifies as 1 CPD hour quoting reference 012/SJBE.

RSVP
RSVP by email to suzanne.clark@sjberwin.com including in the message your name and organisation. Alternatively by fax on 020 7533 2000. Colleagues are welcome to come with you or in your place, but please let us know if this is the case.

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