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Luxembourg Private Equity Funds – Valuation and AML Practices Requirements Luxembourg Private Equity Funds – Valuation and AML Practices Requirements 9 December 2020 Agenda 1. Organizational (housekeeping rules) 2. Welcome 3. Introduction 4. Trident Trust - The role and responsibility of the central administrator and the depository 5. Duff & Phelps - Valuing private assets in a post-COVID-19 world: establishing and maintaining credible valuation practices in the face of an unprecedented trifecta of macroeconomic, market and geopolitical instability 6. Duff & Phelps - Know your customer (KYC) corruption and Anti Money Laundering AML regulatory requirements how to keep up with ever evolving regulatory requirements 7. Questions Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 2 Duff & Phelps Duff & Phelps is the global advisor that protects, restores and maximizes value for clients in the areas of valuation, corporate finance, investigations, disputes, cyber security, compliance and regulatory matters, and AIFM service in Luxembourg and Dublin. We work with clients across diverse sectors, mitigating risk to assets, operations and people. 4,000+ MORE THAN 13,500 CLIENTS INCLUDING TOTAL 19,000 NEARLY PROFESSIONALS ENGAGEMENTS 47% OF THE GLOBALLY PERFORMED IN 2019 S&P 500 THE EUROPE AND ASIA AMERICAS MIDDLE EAST PACIFIC 1,900+ 1,100+ 700+ PROFESSIONALS PROFESSIONALS PROFESSIONALS Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 3 One Company Across 25 countries worldwide E U R O P E A N D THE AMERICAS MIDDLE EAST ASIA PACIFIC Addison Houston Pittsburgh Abu Dhabi Lisbon Porto Bangalore Shenzhen Atlanta Libertyville Reston Agrate Brianza London Rome Beijing Singapore Austin Lisle St. Louis Amsterdam Longford Turin Guangzhou Sydney Bogota Los Angeles San Francisco Athens Luxembourg Warsaw Hanoi Taipei Boston Mexico City São Paulo Barcelona Madrid Ho Chi Minh City Tokyo Buenos Aires Miami Seattle Berlin Manchester Hong Kong Cayman Islands Milwaukee Secaucus Bilbao Milan Hyderabad Chicago Minneapolis Silicon Valley Birmingham Moscow Mumbai Dallas Morristown Stamford Channel Islands Munich New Delhi Denver Nashville Toronto Dubai Padua Shanghai Detroit New York Washington, DC Dublin Paris Grenada Philadelphia Frankfurt Pesaro Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 4 Enhancing Value Across a Range of Expertise V A L U A T I O N C O R P O R A T E GOVERNANCE, RISK, PRIME FINANCE INVESTIGATIONS CLERK ADVISORY AND DISPUTES Valuation and consulting for Objective guidance to Combined Duff & Phelps and Provides bankruptcy and financial reporting, tax, management teams and Kroll risk management and class action claims investment and risk stakeholders throughout mitigation, disputes and other administration through its management purposes restructuring, financing and advisory services proprietary software and M&A transactions, including industry leading management • Valuation Services independent fairness and • Business Intelligence and team. • Alternative Asset Advisory solvency opinions Investigations • Chapter 11 • Real Estate Advisory • Disputes • Strategic Communications • Tax Services • M&A Advisory • Cross-Border Restructuring • Contract Review • Transfer Pricing • Fairness Opinions • Cyber Risk • Fixed Asset Management • Solvency Opinions • Legal Management Consulting • Corporate Actions • Class Action and Insurance Solutions • Transaction Advisory • Security Risk Management • ESOP and ERISA Advisory • Compliance Risk and • Commercially Reasonable Diligence Debt Opinions • Compliance and Regulatory • Distressed M&A and Special Consulting Situations • Management Company/AIFM Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 5 Luxembourg Private Equity Funds – Valuation and AML Practices Requirements Role & responsibility of the central administrator and depositary 6 WWW.TRIDENTTRUST.COM Role and Responsibility of a Depositary ►What is a depositary ►Duties and responsibilities: ►Cash flow monitoring ►Safekeeping of assets ►Oversight duties ►What is depositary lite 7 WWW.TRIDENTTRUST.COM Role and Responsibility of Central Administrator ►Fund administration explained ►Role of the fund administrator ►Main responsibility of the fund administrator 8 WWW.TRIDENTTRUST.COM How the Admin and the Depo relates to Lux AIF ►RAIF Law requires that the central administration of a RAIF must be located in Luxembourg ►Luxembourg-based central administration agent: ►Domiciliary agent ►Registrar and transfer agent ►Central administration and depositary - valuation of assets ►Segregation of responsibilities 9 WWW.TRIDENTTRUST.COM Luxembourg RAIF – Service Providers 10 WWW.TRIDENTTRUST.COM Luxembourg Office Established in 2009 to meet expanding client needs, our 30+ strong Luxembourg office is one of our two EU fund administration hubs, with the other being Malta. Its professional multilingual team is experienced in a wide range of investment types including hedge funds, PE, venture capital, real estate, debt/credit funds, fund of funds and securitisation. Assists a broad range of professional and financial clients in the establishment and maintenance of Luxembourg structures: – Regulated and supervised by the CSSF – Qualified Accountants & Lawyers – Dedicated IT systems – ISAE certification 11 WWW.TRIDENTTRUST.COM Why Trident Trust? – Independence. – Global Knowledge – Expertise and – Our People Excellence – We are a private – We are one of the – We develop stable – We have been organisation that is largest independent and accomplished global providers of establishing and and will continue to teams across administering off and on fund administration jurisdictions, enabling be owned by the shore entities for more services with 100 us to offer our clients families of its than 40 years. dedicated staff in 11 the benefits of their founders and is not Provision of top class fund domiciles, who experience and administration is in our owned by or are able to call on the continuity of DNA and it means we indebted to any third resources of an 800 relationship and form long-standing party. We offer our strong global group. service. The average relationships with our We bring a breadth tenure of our senior clients a stable, clients: We have client and depth of executives exceeds sustainable, private relationships that date knowledge, 15 years. We believe partnership that will back to 20 years. We understanding and we offer one of the not be compromised put our clients at the experience across heart of what we do and highest levels of by conflicts of our global footprint provide tailored professional interest or changes that we believe is services that suit their qualification in the unmatched. in ownership. needs. industry. 12 WWW.TRIDENTTRUST.COM Valuing Private Assets in a Post- COVID-19 World Establishing and maintaining credible valuation practices in the face of an unprecedented trifecta of macroeconomic, market and geopolitical instability KYC, Corruption and AML Regulatory Requirements How to keep up with ever evolving regulatory requirements Good Governance An increasingly complicated obligation Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 15 At the Start of Value Creation Is a strong compliance programme and understanding of risks and obligation Routine checks on large Risk-based screening of all counter High-risk situations only numbers of third parties parties led by senior leadership Led by in-house compliance Involvement of all internal Extensive ad hoc due team stakeholders diligence Volume driven cost pressures Increased use of technology Targeted research to address Focussed solely on regulatory Holistic risk review, including a specific concern risk reputational risks To detect: financial crimes, sanctions, political exposure, bribery, corruption But also: reputational risk, payment risks, business continuity risks Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 16 Global Regulatory Pressures Ownership transparency requirements on the rise • Luxembourg – UBO Register (August 2019) – New requirement to make UBO information publicly available – Covers all Luxembourg registered companies, including foreign funds and SPVs • Denmark – Central Business Register (December 2017) – UBO information and nature of ownership – 25% stakes or more to be disclosed • France – Sapin 2 (June 2017) – Strengthens French ABC law – Increases ownership disclosure and UBO identification requirements • Germany - Geldwäschegesetz (GwG June 2017) – Transparency register (Transparenzregister) – fines of up to EUR 1 million • Isle of Man – Beneficial Ownership Act (April 2017) – Restricted access database of corporate beneficial ownership – Criminal offence not to comply with the Act • UK – Person of Significant Control (April 2016) – Disclosure of “Persons with Significant Control” – Applicable for all UK private companies and partnerships Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 17 Global Regulatory Pressures Growing focus on corporate modern slavery and wider ESG obligations • Hong Kong Modern Slavery Law (pending) • Australia Modern Slavery Bill (2018) • UK Criminal Finances Act (September 2017) • Dutch Child Labour Due Diligence Bill (August 2017) • French Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law (February 2017) • UK Modern Slavery Act (2015) • EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (2014) • California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (2010) • UN Palermo Protocol (2000) Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 18 The Trap of “one-size” Fits All Aim for holistic risk-based assessments NOT rigid rules Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 19 Compliance is Only as Good as its Weakest Link Ensure your rules are applied consistently Duff & Phelps | Private and Confidential 20 How Often do you
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