A number of recent developments in the private equity market may serve to challenge the traditional notion that independent governance in the sector is not needed, says Simon Thomas, Partner.<\/p>\n
Cayman Funds 2017 Article: The Governance of Private Equity<\/a><\/p>\n Expertise: Private Equity & Venture Capital<\/a>, Investment Funds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Partner, Simon Thomas, takes a look at why it has historically been the case that independent directors are far less common in the private equity (PE) industry and considers whether there is scope, in light of recent developments, for an increased role for the independent director in the PE context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[531,985,524,525],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.campbellslegal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}