This article highlights some of the less talked about issues and considerations, provides some guidance, and should spark new thoughts on how an investor should approach investing in private equity-type funds
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The following report is provided free each week by McAlinden Research Partners exclusively to members of Hedge Connection. Today’s issue cluster focuses on Huawei
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The pursuit of non-correlated, investable, high-returning assets has led private funds to consider ever more esoteric asset classes for possible investment. Merchant cash advance transaction contracts (“MCATs” for short), are one of those receiving the attention of the hedge and private equity industries. MCATs are, in their basic form, an unregulated futures contract for the present purchase of a portion of a merchant’s future receivables. Properly structured, they provide the benefit of discount pricing in the purchase of a financial asset (similar to a factoring arrangement), where that asset — the receivables to be created — does not yet exist
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Our law firm, Pepper Hamilton, regularly advises prospective private equity and hedge fund managers on the various legal structure options associated with launching a new private investment fund. In our experience, first-time fund managers often have preconceived notions of how their new fund should be structured and what economic and liquidity features, capital commitments, investment horizon and other terms the fund should have. Such preconceived notions, however, frequently evolve based on further exploration of the different fund structure options available and which structures better align with investor interests given the fund’s underlying investment strategy and return objectives
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Download this report today to learn more about impressive growth of the securities class action industry and its impact on maximizing recovery efforts in 2018
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