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ACA was established in 2002 and is the world’s largest independent compliance consultancy.
ACA is headquartered in New York with 12 offices across America and Europe (Hong Kong opening in 2012) and a rapidly expanding team of over 120 professionals, a third of which are former regulators.
Our team combines former FSA, SEC, FINRA, NSFA, Stock Exchange and US State regulators with senior compliance practitioners, regulatory lawyers and accountants.
The ACA team in London which, alongside former FSA Officers, includes legal and accounting qualified individuals combines over 35 years’ experience as UK regulatory consultants as well as practical industry experience of holding the FSA-approved Compliance Officer and MLRO functions.
ACA in London also includes ex-FSA and ex-SEC examiners – a unique offering in Europe.
ACA’s clients include hedge and long-only equity and derivative managers, large mutual complexes, banking and asset management institutions, trust companies, brokers, smaller boutiques and other wholesale finance companies.
ACA currently provide support to over 700 clients, including:
- Seven of the world’s top ten private equity firms (as noted from Private Equity International’s ‘2011 PEI 300’);
- More than half of the top 100 hedge fund managers (as noted from the October 2011 Absolute Return + Alpha article ‘Billionaire Dollar Club’);
- Six of America’s top ten private equity real estate firms (as noted from the 2011 Prequin ‘Private Equity Real Estate Fund of Funds Review’);
- Two thirds of Europe’s most prominent start-up hedge fund managers (as noted from HFMWeek’s article ‘20 for 2012’)
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