{"id":10959,"date":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"interview-eu-law-set-to-discriminate-against-private-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/interview-eu-law-set-to-discriminate-against-private-equity.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview: EU law set to discriminate against private equity \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EurActiv.com &#8211; European&nbsp;Commission proposals to regulate alternative investment funds discriminate against private equity&nbsp;and favour direct competitors&nbsp;like sovereign wealth funds or maverick businessmen, Javier Echarri, secretary-general of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), told EurActiv in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are not against regulation, but it has to be fair,&quot; Echarri said, complaining that&nbsp;an EU draft directive on alternative investment funds will hit private equity firms in a disproportionate&nbsp;manner in&nbsp;comparison with other financial actors, further damaging the credit market&nbsp;&quot;when most European companies are in desperate need for capital&quot;.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/enterprise-jobs\/interview-eu-law-set-discriminate-private-equity\/article-183743?FORM=ZZNR2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/en\/enterprise-jobs\/interview-eu-law-set-discriminate-private-equity\/article-183743?FORM=ZZNR2\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EurActiv.com &#8211; European&nbsp;Commission proposals to regulate alternative investment funds discriminate against private equity&nbsp;and favour direct competitors&nbsp;like sovereign wealth funds or maverick businessmen, Javier Echarri, secretary-general of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), told EurActiv in an interview. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10089,7078,10985,13799,11437,10849,13800,13801,9174,406,2251,11104,5398,6580,13103],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-actors","tag-alternative-investment","tag-businessmen","tag-commission-proposals","tag-desperate-need","tag-draft-directive","tag-euractiv","tag-evca","tag-favour","tag-investment-funds","tag-maverick","tag-nbsp","tag-private-equity-firms","tag-secretary-general","tag-venture-capital-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}