Ropes & Gray Asset Management Partner Amanda Persaud to Speak at Practising Law Institute on Advanced Issues in Private Funds 2021
Ropes & Gray asset management partner Amanda Persaud will be a speaker in the Practising Law Institute’s faculty on Advanced Issues in Private Funds 2021, happening on June 8, via Zoom webcast.
Panel Details
June 8, 2021
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM: Upper Tier: Structures and Considerations
Running a successful private fund business requires paying attention to the way that employees and partners are being promoted, retained, and when necessary, terminated. This session will focus on:
- Manner in which closed- and open-ended managers structure their upper-tier arrangements
- Different types of retention mechanisms
- Long-term equity and incentive plans
- Restrictive covenants
- Variability in compensation systems, including how they relate to fund waterfalls
- Various tax considerations relating to structuring a successful upper-tier entity