On June 23, 2020, a Risk Alert was released by the SEC on behalf of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) that provides an overview of compliance issues found during examinations of registered investment advisers that manage private equity or hedge funds (“private fund advisers”). The Risk Alert…

The Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification (FASB ASC) defines fair value, or Topic ASC 820, as the “amount that would be received in an orderly transaction using market participant assumptions at the measurement date”. The uncertainty associated with COVD-19 and the actions taken to reduce the spread of…