This paper analyses the private equity fund compensation. We build a model to estimate the expected revenue of fund managers as a function of their investor contracts. We tried to evaluate the present value of the carried interest, which is one of the most common profit sharing arrangements...

Using a sample of acquisitions of unlisted firms completed by public companies from 17 Western European countries over the period 2003-2008, this study investigates whether private equity (PE)-backing of acquired firms has an impact on announcement period abnormal returns to acquirers. 12.5% of...

This article considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption, and culture in setting fund manager fees. With better legal conditions, fixed fees are lower, carried interest fees are higher, clawbacks are less likely, and share...

This paper considers an international sample of venture capital and private equity funds to assess the role of law, corruption and culture in setting fund manager fees in terms of their fixed management fees, carried interest performance fees, clawbacks of fees and cash versus share...

The compliance function, today a cornerstone of the control system in place within financial services providers, acts as an «instant legislator» that produces norms when legal or regulatory texts do not match practical contexts faced by market operators. Compliance officers can be described as...

L'article présente le document publié par le Comité de Bâle, redéfinissant le champ de la fonction "compliance".

Because IPO mechanisms determine both the initial trading price and the allocation of newly-listed firms' shares, they have financial and strategic consequences for shareholders. For that reason, it is of interest to analyse the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different procedures...

For well over a decade many observers had warned that the European Union was ill-prepared in case of a financial storm because its market integration far outpaced its policy integration. This situation was well known to policy-makers but it was hoped that financial crises would wait until policy...