| Wednesday, January 23, 2019 |
Morgan Lewis partner Brendan Kalb recently presented at Goldman Sachs Prime Services Asia’s 8th Annual Regulatory “Year Ahead” event discussing global and regional regulatory and tax developments scheduled and anticipated in 2019 and beyond, likely to impact hedge funds managers trading and doing business in Asia Pacific at their Singapore and Hong Kong offices. The program was geared towards identifying and developing solutions to the operational and strategic issues facing market participants and the asset management industry as a whole. The event also focused on the latest on central counterparty cross-border equivalence, recent CFTC proposals affecting non-US commodity pool operators, recent topics from cross border regulatory exams and recent enforcement actions, direct and indirect impacts from Brexit relating to cross-border fund marketing, MiFID II and portfolio delegation, swaps initial margin phase-in recommendations as well as trends in private fund and alternative fund structuring for the Asia-Pacific market.