Yesterday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments to the Form PF, the confidential reporting form for certain SEC registered investment advisers to private funds.

First, the SEC proposed that investment advisers to large hedge funds report within one day extraordinary investment losses, significant margin and counterparty default events, material changes in prime broker relationships, changes in unencumbered cash, operations events, and events associated with withdrawals and redemptions. Likewise, advisers to private equity funds would be required, as proposed, to report within one business day events pertaining to the execution of adviser-led secondary transactions, implementation of general partner or limited partner claw backs, removal of a fund’s general partner, termination of a fund’s investment period, or termination of a fund.

Second, the proposed amendments to the Form PF would reduce the threshold for reporting as a large private equity adviser from $2 billion to $1.5 billion in private equity fund assets under management. The large private equity adviser would be required to report more information regarding fund strategies, use of leverage and portfolio company financings, controlled portfolio companies (“CPCs”) and CPC borrowings, fund investments in different levels of a single portfolio company’s capital structure, and portfolio company restructurings or recapitalizations.

Third, the proposed amendments by the SEC would require large liquidity fund advisers to report substantially the same information that money market funds would report on Form N-MFP.

For additional information, the SEC has prepared a Fact Sheet Proposed Amendments to Form PF. The SEC is taking comments on this proposal for 30 days after publication in the Federal Register.

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SEC Proposes Amendments to Form PF for Investment Advisers to Private Funds

January 27, 2022

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