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The Filings Desk 8 stories this week · 32 total

Primary sources only: what the SEC filings say, what changed, and why it matters.

Bain Capital files Form D for a direct lending fund with no offering amount

The 29 September notice names four related persons and records $0K sold to date, but no fund size or terms.
September 30

IRS rules certain 351 ETF conversions taxable, says more guidance could follow

Rev. Rul. 2026-20 recharacterizes the exchange between the seeding investor and the authorized participant, while Notice 2026-62 expresses no view on seed transactions that match the fund's strategy and that the fund expects to keep.
September 29

Canyon and Castlelake file Form D for new private credit funds, no sales reported

Canyon's two home equity vehicles and Castlelake's asset-based private credit fund disclose no offering amount and zero sales in Sept. 28 Form D filings.
September 29

AE Industrial and Barings file Form Ds for new series with undisclosed size

The AE Industrial filing covers Series 7 of an aggregator vehicle; the Barings filing covers Series B of a CLO equity partnership.
September 29

AQR's four-series filing reports $145.6M sold, no stated ceiling

Four Form Ds in one day put a $90 million sleeve on the public record and leave advisors with a diligence question no named fund would pose.
September 25

AQR's $96.8M filing batch shows the Flex wrapper doing the work

Four Form Ds posted the same day, each with a blank offering amount, point to a series-LLC machine for standing up sleeves in batches.
September 18

CAZ raises $175.3 million with the ceiling left blank

Fourteen days from first sale to Form D, and an offering amount filed as undisclosed, point to capital assembled before the paperwork existed.
September 16

Brown Advisory is selling venture access on a three-week clock

Three Form Ds in twenty days report $57.8 million sold and never state an offering amount, which is what a client-driven wrapper looks like in the SEC's own form.
September 11

Baceline's two Form Ds show $394 million sold in fourteen days

Both vehicles left the offering total unstated; on a Form D, that blank is an open shelf.
September 11

8VC files $55.5M fund with zero sold

A Lonsdale-tied vehicle enters the market with the fundraise still ahead of it, and the first amended Form D will decide whether the ask sticks.
September 9

Brown Advisory files a second venture feeder in ten days

The $12.3 million Form D landed a week and a half after a $29.9 million venture feeder, its '- B' suffix marking a planned series rather than a one-off.
September 1

AQR's $95M Flex series reveal a mandate-driven machine

Four Form Ds, one filing day: the $95 million in new AQR Flex sleeves looks less like a product launch than a batch of discrete mandates.
August 28

Ares files a secondaries vehicle with nothing sold

An empty Form D is a parked option on the secondaries shelf.
August 28

Private equity's quiet $124M Form D

A $124 million raise in two weeks, with no cap stated, shows up only on Form D — the public ledger of the private-markets wealth flow.
August 28

Deep-tech resilience fund reports $500M in 16 days

A $500 million raise in sixteen days lands on a Form D that leaves the fund's cap blank and its terms in the private placement memorandum.
August 25

Elad Gil's Cosmic files three venture funds seeking $3.76 billion

Three Form Ds, one date, no capital sold: the architecture tells allocators the manager is selling choice, not a single fund.
August 25

Brown Advisory files a $29.9 million venture feeder fund

A Form D filing shows the RIA pooling client money into a venture-capital vehicle.
August 21

FINRA panel orders $509,000 payout over conservation easements

The award may be the first final decision to name a 'land easement,' giving claimants a figure in a corner of arbitration where cases usually end in confidential settlements.
August 20

Vanguard Canada moves to delist its global minimum-volatility ETF

Vanguard Canada gives VVO unitholders until Oct. 29 to sell before a pro rata wind-down.
August 19

Cohen & Steers' new realty fund takes in $50M

The filing adds a private realty vehicle to the asset manager's push for wealth allocator capital.
August 19

Avenir Growth fund closes at $48.9 million in eight days

A Form D shows the private equity vehicle was fully subscribed by the time it reached EDGAR.
August 19

Brightstar and Coatue file private equity fund forms

Brightstar and Coatue filed SEC Form Ds for two private equity vehicles apiece, each with no capital sold yet.
August 18

FINRA asks SEC to double fraud-hold window to 10 business days

A proposed FINRA rule would give member firms a safe harbor to freeze suspicious transactions for 10 business days, and vulnerable-adult holds could stretch to 145 business days.
August 18

AITi Global revenue rises 11% as takeover talk builds

The firm’s loss narrowed, and reports say Franklin Templeton may be in talks to buy it.
August 17

Cube Infra Fund IV Logs $100M Sold, Target Undisclosed

SEC Form D shows $100 million raised by Cube Infrastructure Fund IV with no target disclosed.
August 15

Blackford Capital's Two Funds Report $130M in Combined Sales

Main fund sold $90M of $130M target; co-investment vehicle fully subscribed at $40M, per SEC filings.
August 15

CRCM Special Situations Fund Reports $52.4M in Sales

A new SEC filing reports $52.4 million in sales for the fund as of Aug. 12.
August 15

New Trump Account employer contribution rules cap at $2,500

Proposed IRS regulations set contribution limits and nondiscrimination tests for employer Trump Account programs.
August 14
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