Company: DBRG
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001679688-25-000017
Chunk: 42

Company: DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 42
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The SEC recently adopted amendments to Form PF that enhance reporting obligations for private fund advisors and to Regulation S-P, which requires, among other things, that private fund advisors adopt written policies and procedures for an incident response program to address unauthorized access to customer information.  The SEC has also proposed, and can be expected to propose, additional rules and rule amendments under the Investment Advisers Act including in respect of custody requirements, cybersecurity risk governance, disclosures regarding how environmental, social and governance ("ESG") factors are taken into consideration in investment strategies, the use of predictive data analytics or similar technologies and the outsourcing of certain functions to service providers (the “Proposed Rules”). The Proposed Rules, to the extent adopted, are expected to significantly increase compliance burdens and associated costs and complexity. This regulatory complexity, in turn, may increase the need for broader insurance coverage by fund managers and increase such costs and expenses. Certain of the Proposed Rules may also (i) increase the cost of entering into and maintaining relationships with service providers; (ii) limit the number of service providers; and/or (iii) increase the costs of engaging with service providers, in each case, in a detrimental manner. In addition, these amendments could increase the risk of exposure to additional regulatory scrutiny, litigation, censure and penalties for noncompliance or perceived noncompliance, which in turn would be expected to adversely (potentially materially) affect our reputation. There can be no assurance that the Proposed Rules or any other new SEC rules and amendments will not have a material adverse effect on us.

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Investment Company Act of 1940 

An issuer will generally be deemed to be an “investment company” for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), and the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder if: it is or holds itself out as being engaged primarily, or proposes to engage primarily, in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities; or, absent an applicable exemption or exception, it owns or proposes to acquire investment securities having a value exceeding 40% of the value of its total assets (exclusive of U.S. government securities and cash items) on an unconsolidated basis (the "40% test").

We do not propose to engage primarily in the business of investing, reinvesting or trading in securities. We hold ourselves out as an investment management firm engaged primarily in deploying and managing capital in infrastructure assets, and we believe that we are not an investment company under the