On January 26, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC or Commission) voted in favor of proposing amendments to Form
PF, which is the confidential reporting form that certain
SEC-registered investment advisers to private funds must file with
the SEC. In the SEC's press
release regarding the proposed amendments, Chair Gary Gensler
pointed to the decade of experience the SEC and Financial Stability
Oversight Council (FSOC) have had analyzing the information
collected on Form PF, and stated: "We have identified
significant information gaps and situations where we would benefit
from additional information."
The proposed rules,
which will be open for a 30-day public comment period, would (i)
require large advisers to hedge funds and private equity funds to
file reports within one business day of the occurrence of certain
reporting events, (ii) lower the reporting threshold for large
private equity advisers from $2 billion to $1.5 billion in private
equity