Liquidity and Performance Representations Present Potential Pitfalls for Hedge Fund Managers

Hedge fund managers must guard against insidious issues that can give rise to conflicts of interest or trigger anti-fraud violations, such as liquidity issues caused by a manager’s operation of multiple funds. See “Operational Conflicts Arising Out of Simultaneous Management of Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds (Part Two of Three)” (May 14, 2015). Similarly, performance representations present potential issues for hedge fund managers, including possible misrepresentations caused by improper valuation practices and fee deferrals. Both the enforcer and industry perspectives of these and other topics were explored at a recent Practising Law Institute program. Barry P. Barbash, a former Director of the SEC Division of Investment Management and now a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, moderated the program, which featured Stephanie R. Breslow, a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel; and Igor Rozenblit, co-leader of the Private Funds Unit of the SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations. This article highlights the panelists’ commentary on these matters. For more from Breslow, see our two-part series on “Gates, Side Pockets, Secondaries, Co-Investments, Redemption Suspensions, Funds of One and Fiduciary Duty”: Part One (Dec. 4, 2014); and Part Two (Dec. 11, 2014). For insight from Rozenblit, see “SEC’s Rozenblit Offers Perspectives From the Private Funds Unit” (Feb. 11, 2016); and “Operations and Priorities of the Private Funds Unit” (Sep. 24, 2015).

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