Did the SEC consider credit secondaries in its rulemaking?
Getting a fairness or valuation opinion on a private equity GP-led secondaries transaction is a straightforward, albeit costly task. In credit secondaries, however, the rule change creates a cumbersome burden.
Expert analysis by Madeleine Farman
Did the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission take into account credit secondaries when it imposed its GP-led secondaries rule? Market participants don’t think so and warn it will create some difficulties.
Within the private fund advisers rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which were voted through last month, GPs either based in the US or with US investors must obtain a fairness opinion or a valuation opinion from a third party in continuation fund transactions...