The Expert
21 September 2023
In conversation: The real cost of ESG
With a spate of new rules hitting the industry, alongside increasing LP demands, how much does it actually cost to be ESG compliant and how can these efforts be more than just a cost centre?
21 September 2023
Comment: Ensuring insurers and pension funds invest in PE
Eric de Montgolfier, CEO of Invest Europe, says amendments voted on in July offer a unique opportunity to address the shortcomings of Solvency II
18 September 2023
Column: ChatGPT: Enhancement or hindrance?
Natalia Ramsden of Sofos Associates considers the ways AI applications such as ChatGPT could both boost and diminish human cognition
11 September 2023
Comment: Comply or get off the pension pots
Mayer Brown lawyers examine how defined benefit occupational pension schemes add an additional layer of complexity when a PE firm acquires a distressed business.
6 September 2023
Comment: Financing for the future
Proskauer’s Cameron Roper and Paul Tannenbaum explain why it is vital to get the structure and financing right for secondaries
4 September 2023
The valuation conundrum
Malcolm Goddard, COO of Zetland Capital, questions whether the industry built up to assess PE valuations is fit for purpose
31 August 2023
Comment: A generative approach
Beyond AI's mainstream buzz, increasing applications for private equity are becoming impossible to ignore, according to Lantern’s Tom Richardson
21 August 2023
Comment: Mulling cyber risks
Abacus Group CTO Paul Ponzeka examines how to manage third-party security risks without compromising on competitive edge
15 August 2023
Searching for harmony
The Riverside Company's Dörte Höppner assesses the competing ESG standards impacting PE and how they could be more in tune with each other
7 August 2023
Comment: Avoiding the tripwires
Pinsent Masons partner Mark Shaw details how to avoid regulatory issues when distributing non-EU funds within the EU
6 July 2023
Comment: Baby don’t harm me
Patricia Volhard (partner) and John Young (international counsel) at Debevoise & Plimpton say the concept of ‘do no significant harm' in the SFDR is becoming clearer
29 June 2023
Comment: Cutting through conflicts in GP-led transactions
Travers Smith’s Victoria Bramall and James Ravden outline five strategies to mitigate conflicts in GP-led deals
29 June 2023
Column: You are worth it
Executive coach Cressida Hamilton, of Chryse Coaching, provides advice to COOs on how to demonstrate their value
26 June 2023
Comment: Decision delegation
Hamish Paget-Brown, associate at ECI Partners , explores the potential of AI to lead decision making in the private equity market.
22 June 2023
Comment: Preparing for regulatory changes in 2023
Ros Clark, regulatory risk assistant director, NatWest Trustee & Depositary Services details the upcoming regulatory changes financial services firms need to prepare for in 2023.
19 June 2023
Comment: Future-proofing operational models key to supporting global GP ambitions
Elliot Refson, head of funds at Jersey Finance, says the jurisdiction’s JPF and LLC structures provide stability in a turbulent environment
8 June 2023
Column: Walking on eggshells
Zetland Capital COO Malcolm Goddard explores the possible implications of ATAD III, also known as the Unshelling Directive, on holding companies
30 May 2023
Column: A mindfully bigger brain
Natalia Ramsden of Sofos Associates discusses the benefits of meditation as the golden ticket to brain hacking
30 May 2023
The conversation: Are you prepared? Liquidity strategies in a turbulent market
The Drawdown hosted a webinar to discuss how managers can respond to liquidity and risk management challenges that have been thrown into sharp focus in recent weeks
3 May 2023
Comment: Transforming the alternative investment industry
Alter Domus's chief commercial officer Alex Traub discusses the fund administrator's digital transformation
14 April 2023
Comment: Welcome to the altverse
Rafay, Farooqui, founder and CEO of +SUBSCRIBE, outlines the need for a novel private markets' digital tech stack to replace fragmented, manual and paper-based workflows of the past
14 April 2023
Comment: Empowering the middle office
Patrycja Dos Santos, middle office specialist at AssetMetrix, shares her thoughts on the need for a full middle office services platform and current trends towards tech-enabled solutions
30 March 2023
Comment: DORA - a paradigm shift
Robert D Maddox and Tristan Lockwood at Debevoise & Plimpton assess new continuity requirements and suggest organisational and technical changes will be needed to comply
28 March 2023
Comment: Antitrust in me
Merger enforcers turn up the heat on private equity: what can you do to stay cool?
3 January 2023
Comment: Why the DPI performance metric is so important to investors today
ECI’s Jeremy Lytle urges private equity firms to use appropriate performance metrics as macroeconomic turbulence attracts greater investor scrutiny
19 December 2022
Column: The power of reflection
As the year draws to a close, Nikki Swan - founder of Mindful Swan, explores the benefits of self-reflection and the ways in which it can support achieving goals
8 December 2022
The great talent depression
Natalia Ramsden of Sofos Associates believes private equity firms can be doing much more to better understand, and therefore attract fresh talent
5 December 2022
Comment: Known or knowable? It depends
Nic Müller, CEO of Avega Capital Management, looks at a recent clarification to the IPEV guidelines, and hopes greater harmonisation is coming
1 December 2022
Column: You are what you eat
Natalia Ramsden of Sofos Associates highlights the importance of nutrition when it comes to performance
28 November 2022
Comment: The dangers of an uncertain legacy
History bears witness to the destructive potential of unplanned succession, but private equity and VC funds aren't planning for it, especially in Europe. Diana Meyel, managing partner at Cipio Partners, considers the dangers and strategies surrounding a strangely unexamined issue
7 November 2022
Looking back to look forward
By looking back at how and where the international funds industry has evolved, we can better understand how the sector might develop in the future, argues Elliot Refson, head of funds at Jersey Finance
31 October 2022
Comment: Negotiating GP stakes deals in uncertain times
Lawyers from Cleary Gottlieb say careful negotiation of key terms will be more important than ever
27 October 2022
Comment: Co-sourcing
Kimberly Kale, head of operations for the PE Back Office at Allvue Systems explains how GPs can have their data and their fund administrators too, without complicating their data flows
24 October 2022
Comment: We need to talk about valuations, or face a credibility crisis
Robert Quartly-Janeiro, IR consultant and former LSE Visiting Fellow urges GPs to face the music
20 October 2022
Column: Tricky maths
Dörte Höppner, chief sustainability officer at the Riverside Company, explores the complexities of collecting ESG data
12 October 2022
Comment: UK LP reform package
Goodwin lawyers outline key proposals of the UK limited partnership legislative reform package introduced in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
10 October 2022
Comment: Brexit and PE - where are we now?
John Young, international counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton, highlights growing concerns around the EU granting equivalence to the UK and the implications for PE firms
29 September 2022
Comment: Coming to terms
Steven Ward and Anjuli Chatterjee of Squire Patton Boggs compare and contrast fund terms between VC and PE, and ask how both might change in an increasingly challenging funding environment
26 September 2022
Comment: The Mother of Invention
James Wood, investment funds partner at Hogan Lovells in Sydney, explores fund structuring innovations throughout the APAC region
22 September 2022
Column: Reality check
You are the creator of your own reality, writes Thomas Woodland, The Private Equity Coach
12 September 2022
The most influential fund finance experts of 2022
Charting the market’s movers and makers
1 September 2022
Comment: The world has changed - how are lenders and markets reacting?
With great challenge comes great opportunity, writes Mohith Sondhi, senior director – debt finance at OakNorth Bank
3 August 2022
Data, cyber security and AI compliance: managing the evolving landscape
Debevoise & Plimpton’s Robert Maddox and Martha Hirst detail how new cyber and privacy rules from regulators worldwide will impact PE firms, and provide five key tips to stay ahead
1 August 2022
Setting the record straight
Eric de Montgolfier, CEO of Invest Europe goes beyond the fiction and details the facts about private equity and venture capital in Europe
27 June 2022
More signal, less noise: enhancing the UK’s position as a fund domicile
Despite housing the largest asset management industry in Europe, the UK ranks behind other jurisdictions as a domicile of choice for UCITS and AIFs
23 June 2022
Column: Ukraine and ESG
The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine has put ESG into sharp focus for private equity firms, writes Riverside Europe’s COO Dörte Höppner
20 June 2022
Comment: Keep your head in the cloud to track ESG
To be good at ESG investing you need an exceptional ESG tracking system, which requires the power of the cloud, writes Ben Harrison of Intapp
7 June 2022
Comment: ESG and PE in Asia: rules of attraction
Stephanie Keen, leader of Hogan Lovells’ corporate & finance practice in Asia Pacific and associate Amelia Lee detail regulatory developments putting ESG firmly on the map in Asia.
26 May 2022
Column: A song of ice and fire
SOFOS Associates’ Natalia Ramsden continues her series of detailing various techniques and treatments for enhancing cognitive performance - this time looking at hot and cold therapies
26 May 2022
Column: The illusion of two paradigms and its impact on performance
Depending on whether you’re in the outside-in or the inside-out paradigm, your behaviour will vary significantly. But only one of them is real and understanding this leads to considerable outperformance, writes executive coach Thomas Woodland
23 May 2022
Could NLP be the silver bullet for the asset servicing industry’s challenges?
Tim Mietus of Citco Technology Management asks if natural language processing could be an essential tool for data integration in lieu of greater industry standardisation and ever-growing capacity woes
18 May 2022
Comment: Fund forecast
Mohith Sondhi of OakNorth Bank shares his top predictions as macroeconomic challenges intensify
28 April 2022
The oxygen effect
Natalia Ramsden of SOFOS Associates details the cognitive improvements that can be achieved with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
25 April 2022
Leading managers embrace a new standard in contract negotiation
Troy Pospisil, CEO and founder of Ontra, charts the adoption of legal tech by blue chip private equity firms
25 April 2022
Comment: Make it hard for hackers
Drawbridge CEO Jason Elmer explores cybersecurity threats for PE firms and portfolio companies and explains why preventing easy access is key to mitigating breaches
21 April 2022
Private equity and hedge funds’ cyber security demands converge
Tom Cole, managing director - UK & Europe, Abacus Group, charts private equity’s increasing needs for robust cyber security,
13 April 2022
CTOs: Dealing with (unfair?) pressure
Alex Tyler and Ingolv Urnes of psKINETIC look at the challenges and successful coping strategies
11 April 2022
Comment: Unlocking private markets’ ESG potential
Hemal Mehta, founder and CEO of AtomInvest discusses the importance of sophisticated tech when it comes to ESG data collection, analysis and reporting
28 March 2022
“C-Suite and non-competes in the age of the tweet” – restrictive covenants and social media
Proskauer Rose’s Dorothy Murray and Nicola Bartholomew discuss the increasingly blurred lines when it comes to non-competes and personal social media accounts
28 March 2022
Let’s talk about the data
Tim Friedman, founder of PE Stack, discusses all things data, including the adoption of alternative data sources and how to create a data plan