This United States report responds to a questionnaire that the general reporter for the project prepared. The project describes United States law features of hedge funds, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds and identifies critical current issues in their regulation and governance....

Over the past several decades, many countries that historically relied on progressive taxes on income, wealth, and decedents' estates for much governmental revenue have shifted to less progressive and regressive taxes on labor and consumption. Reasons for the shift are many but include...

This chapter reviews statutory and court sanctioned private regulatory frameworks affecting the creation of private equity (PE) funds and their primary activity of acquiring corporate enterprises. The chapter reviews U.S. legislation regulating securities, investment companies, and tender...

This article briefly traces the history of tax sheltering in the latter half of the twentieth century in the United States, including the transformation of the role of tax professionals from support functions in tax planning for transactional efficiency to profit center functions through...