Private equity

Stephen Schwarzman said the risk of an increase in U.S. capital gains taxes has led to explosive growth in potential targets for his alternative investment firm.

Even as they look to ramp up acquisitions, funds are worried about the potential impact of these much-discussed taxes.

Three Democratic senators introduced legislation that would stop the tax breaks used by private equity money managers and others.

Amid regulatory change, margin pressure and technological shifts, private equity firms need to rethink their approach to tax and finance functions. Petter Wendel, EY global tax private equity leader, shares how based on findings from the 2020 EY Tax and Finance Operate Survey.

Three House Democrats are pushing legislation that would repeal the carried-interest tax break used by fund managers to reduce the levies they owe to the Internal Revenue Service.

Many HNW investors are underwhelmed with the offerings of the average financial planning firm.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax could be a gift to an industry she has accused of looting Americans — private equity.

The guidance helps with determining the fair market value of companies in an investment portfolios.

An upcoming guide from the AICPA weighed heavily, both figuratively and literally, during a recent forum.

The bakery chain was rescued by an Irish private-equity firm after an accounting scandal pushed the U.K. cake baker into insolvency.

Highly-leveraged companies can start calculating just how much the Republican tax law limits their interest deductions for debt, thanks to 439 pages of regulations released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday.

The tools are helping the Top 100 Firm’s accounting and tax practice improve its performance.

The private equity firm has an enticing pitch for the ultra wealthy: Invest in hedge funds and avoid paying taxes forever.

The private equity firm has bought a provider of financial software and information on private companies that caters to accounting firms and banks.

The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking the IRS to provide maximum flexibility in its regulations for the new centralized partnership audit regime.

The Internal Revenue Service’s announcement that it plans to issue regulations clarifying the limitations on carried interest aims to head off a flurry of activity aimed at getting around a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

A private equity firm has acquired the family-owned Petz Enterprises' professional tax software business.

PricewaterhouseCoopers signed an agreement Wednesday to sell its U.S. Public Sector business to the private equity firm Veritas Capital.

CBIZ, Inc. has acquired Laurus Transaction Advisors LLC, a Denver-based business that provides buy-side and sell-side financial and accounting due diligence services for M&A transactions to private equity firms along with public and private companies, effective Feb. 1, 2018.

Now that Republicans in Congress have released their final tax bill, two big questions remain. What will companies do with all that cash, and who will benefit the most?