Mergermarket: Expansion Of The Hedge Fund Law Report Into Europe Changes The Regulatory Game For Hedge Fund Managers

For the better part of a decade, The Hedge Fund Law Report (HFLR) has been an essential source of instruction on best practices for general counsels, CCOs, COOs and CFOs of top U.S. hedge fund managers.  100% of top U.S. thought leaders, decision-makers and influencers on hedge fund regulation are subscribers to and collaborators with HFLR.
 
Mergermarket Group, owner of the HFLR, is pleased to announce the launch of the HFLR in Europe.  The HFLR’s core editorial team is being augmented by a dedicated group in London focused on U.K. and European hedge fund regulation.  Seasoned U.K. hedge fund lawyer Kate Westcott has been named Associate Editor of the HFLR and is responsible for leading the London-based team of HFLR attorneys and professionals.
 
The launch of HFLR in Europe marks the dawn of a new era of transparency for the European hedge fund community.  It also offers European hedge fund professionals a unique opportunity to avoid mistakes and to access best practices on AIFMD, MiFID II, EMIR and related developments. 
 
Michael Pereira, President of The Law Report Group (the Mergermarket brand under which the HFLR sits), said: “The launch of the HFLR in Europe comes not a moment too soon.  Assets in hedge funds managed by European managers are growing rapidly, and the regulatory climate in Europe is becoming more complex every day.  Expanding assets plus increased regulation equals a greater imperative for regulatory clarity.  We at The HFLR will do for European hedge fund managers what it has done for U.S. managers for seven years: spot the major regulatory, structuring, tax and related issues and explain – point by point, based on detailed interviews with the best minds in the field – how to negotiate those issues.  We are a nuts-and-bolts, how-to information resource rather than an academic journal.  We enable hedge fund general counsels, CCOs, COOs and CFOs to do their jobs better in tangible, quantifiable way.  For example, U.S. prosecutors declined to bring insider trading charges against a leading hedge fund manager based on policy and procedure changes made by that manager’s general counsel in direct response to an article that the GC read in the HFLR.  We will add at least as much value in Europe – likely more, in light of the strength of our increasing European team.”