The Guidelines Monitoring Group was created in 2007 as an independent body to monitor the private equity industry’s compliance with Sir David Walker’s Guidelines for Disclosure and Transparency in Private Equity. This was in response to the increased scrutiny and negative publicity the private equity industry faced in 2007 from the media, trade unions and […]

On 21 March 2016 the Private Equity Reporting Group (formerly the Walker Guidelines Monitoring Group) published an updated version of its guidance on good practice reporting by private equity portfolio companies under the Walker Guidelines. The substantive content of the guidance remains largely unchanged from the version published in July 2014 but the examples have […]