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Hedge funds aren’t the only ones facing their first brush with a Securities and Exchange Commission inspection team, one of its top enforcers said. Carlo di Florio, who heads the regulator’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, said that 37 of the world’s 50 largest private equity managers are now registered with the SEC. And many of them will face “coordinated examinations.” Those regulatory looks will focus “on the highest-risk areas of their business,” di Florio told a private equity conference in Manhattan last week. The SEC plans to tackle the new registrants—including 18 of the 50 biggest p.e. funds in the world—with a three-step examination, beginning with the SEC’s explanation of its expectations. The OCIE will also seek to meet with top executives at firms, in an effort to evaluate their cultures of compliance.

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