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Welcome to the Legal Week Private Equity Forum 2012: Positioning for change
Wednesday 25 April 2012
St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
London NW1
Private equity backed companies have done much to justify the industry's approach to continuing market turbulence. By demonstrating a level of flexibility and responsiveness not shown by listed corporates these companies and their private equity sponsors should feel cautiously confident when looking to their futures. Deal flow seems to be increasing with many transactions deploying novel structuring and increased levels of equity. Raising debt for new deals, however, remains stubbornly difficult.
With both the European AIFMD and the US Dodd-Frank Act expected to impact significantly on business costs at both a holding and portfolio company level, private equity houses will be expected to become ever more flexible and forward thinking in their approach to investment and management. Outside of investment specific regulatory developments, ongoing shifts in corporate criminalisation, legal services provision and transparency requirements will all obviously impact upon legal advisers working within private equity.
So how should such lawyers best operate to complement the responsiveness and ingenuity currently being demonstrated by the industry as a whole? What legal and ‘soft' skill development will allow you to position yourself at the heart of your organisation as an indispensable adviser? Join us at Legal Week's Private Equity Forum 2012 to collectively seek answers to such poignant questions alongside your industry peers.
Thomas Pearson
Conference producer, Legal Week
Organisations that attended Private Equity Forum 2011 included:
Abingworth, Actis, Alchemy Partners, ANACAP Financial Partners, Apax Partners, Ashurst, Auereos Advisers, Berkeley Energy, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Better Capital, BVCA, Capital Dynamics, Capital International Research, CDC Group, Chayton Capital, Citi Venture Capital, Clifford Chance, Cofra, Cognetas, Coller Capital, CVC Capital Partners, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, DLA Piper, Equity Trust, FinanceMalta, Guernsey Finance, Herbert Smith, Hermes Fund Managers, Intel Capital, JP Morgan Asset Management, JP Morgan Private Bank, Kirkland & Ellis, Langham Hall, London Business School, Macfarlanes, Mark Brady Law, Marker Global, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Muscat Azzopardi and Associates Advocates, Novus Modus, Oakley Capital, Ogier, O'Melveny & Myers, Partners Group, Pinsent Masons, Private Equity News, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Star Capital Partners, Sustainable Devlopment Capital, Terra Firma Capital Partners, The Pension Protection Fund, TowerBrook, Triton, Universities Superannnuation Scheme, Vinge, WillHeim Muller Attorneys at Law.
