Legality and venture capital fund manager compensation

Douglas Cumming and Sofia Johan

Venture Capital, 2008, vol. 11, issue 1, 23-54

Abstract: This paper introduces a new dataset from 50 venture capital and private equity funds from 17 countries in Africa, North and South America, Europe and Australasia. We analyse compensation in regard to fixed management fees (as a percentage of fund size), performance fees (the carried interest percentage), clawbacks (reduced fees for poor performance), and cash versus share distributions (payment to institutional investors). We control for a variety of factors including market conditions, institutional investor and fund manager characteristics. The data indicate that legal conditions by far have the most robust statistically and economically significant effect on compensation across countries: fixed fees are higher and performance fees are lower in countries with poor legal conditions; clawbacks are more likely in countries with poor legal conditions; and cash-only distributions are much more likely to be mandated among offshore funds.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/13691060802351206

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