COVID-19 Checklist & Considerations for Private Fund Advisers

With COVID-19 concerns and market volatility, advisers should consider compliance challenges that are likely to arise. This COVID-19 Checklist & Considerations for Private Fund Advisers highlights key compliance issues, questions and considerations with respect to the COVID-19 outbreak and government response. Please note that if an adviser does not document its compliance efforts, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will assume that such efforts did not occur. This checklist is not exhaustive and does not, for example, cover Commodity Futures Trading Commission considerations, which are discussed in a separate client alert.

Authors:
Nicole Kalajian – Counsel, Chicago
John Hamilton – Counsel, New York
Prufesh Modhera – Chair, Private Funds Group, Washington, DC
Sara Crovitz – Partner, Washington, DC
George Michael Gerstein – Co-Chair, Fiduciary Governance Group, Washington, DC

Blog Authors

Sara P. Crovitz

Sara Crovitz, most recently Deputy Chief Counsel and Associate Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management, provides counsel on all aspects of investment company and investment adviser regulation. She worked at the SEC for 21 years, including 17 years in the Division of Investment Management focusing on issues under the Investment Company and Investment Advisers Acts of 1940. While in the Division, Sara supervised the provision of significant legal guidance to the investment management industry through no-action and interpretive letters, exemptive applications, IM guidance updates and other written and oral means.

William T. Mandia

William Mandia represents financial institutions and insurers in complex commercial and class action litigation. He regularly defends and advises life insurers, intermediaries, banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other financial services providers in connection with sales practices claims arising from a wide range of financial and life insurance products, including, but not limited to, claims for alleged breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and violations of state consumer protection laws.

Peter M. Hong

Peter Hong uses his many years of service at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to guide clients through the various regulatory requirements involved in the offer of financial services and products. His practice includes the registration and regulation of investment advisers, broker-dealers, commodity trading advisers, commodity pool operators, and introducing brokers under federal and state laws, as well as the formation and ongoing compliance obligations of registered and private investment companies.