The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Tue, 05 May 2026 11:32:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Changes to CFTC Regulations Affecting Private Funds – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Changes to CFTC Regulations Affecting Private Funds https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/10/11/changes-to-cftc-regulations-affecting-private-funds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changes-to-cftc-regulations-affecting-private-funds https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/10/11/changes-to-cftc-regulations-affecting-private-funds/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:00:51 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=34222?d=20150113135507EST Posted by Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Thursday, October 11, 2012
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Douglas P. Warner, senior member of the Private Equity practice and head of the Hedge Fund practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. This post is based on a Weil Gotshal client alert by Richard Ellenbogen and Venera Ziegler.

Who Is Affected?

As a result of recent changes made to the Commodity Exchange Act by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act) and new Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC) rules, private fund sponsors investing in commodity interests need to examine their portfolios and determine whether they are subject to registration with the National Futures Association (NFA) or, if available, claim an exemption from such registration.

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