Hedge Funds & Prime Brokers 2nd

The financial crisis is reshaping the hedge fund industry. Governments wish to regulate hedge funds. Prime brokers have curtailed funding, which impacts hedge fund trading and profitability. Regulators are bringing increasing numbers of hedge fund fraud and ponzi scheme cases. How will hedge funds and prime brokers respond? This is the first book that discusses all the regulatory proposals for the hedge fund industry in the major jurisdictions. Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers, Second Edition explores the ever-changing and dynamic hedge fund-prime broker relationship, with contributions from some of the world's experts in investment, law and regulation. This comprehensive guide builds on the best selling coverage of the first edition, with new coverage and new contributors. This new edition of Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers provides the first, and only, analysis of the impact of the global credit crisis and the emerging governmental and regulatory agenda on the hedge fund-prime broker relationship. New and completely revised chapters in the book address: * The changed relationship between hedge funds and prime brokers * Trading and economic factors that drive the relationship, pre- and post-credit crisis * The changing legal and regulatory landscape * What key clauses in prime brokerage agreements really mean * Conflicts of interest * Key issues in litigation, reorganisation and insolvency Hedge Funds and Prime Brokers Second Edition is critical reading for fund managers, hedge funds, investors, law firms, in-house legal and compliance departments, regulators, securities professionals, investment bankers, accounting professionals, treasurers, the financial services community, corporate governance professionals and practitioners working in listing rules or markets activity.