Private Equity 2009, 18 - 20 May, Meliá White House, London
Private Equity 2009 has been researched with industry leaders within private equity to provide real-world responses and strategies to these questions. By attending, you will discover:
· Distressed Debt
- where to find the good deals from distressed sellers
- will diversifying into distressed investing prove divisive?
· Secondaries & Exits
- how much value will be found in secondaries and listed private equity?
- fewer cash-out deals & more take-privates?
· Portfolio Management
- how will you need to re-structure your portfolio companies?
- how to forensically generate structural and strategic enhancements
e.g. workforce productivity
· Minority Positions
- PIPE (private investment in public equity) transactions
- minority stakes in listed vehicles
- unconventional equity only transactions
· New Deal Structures
- revisited expectations for financial reward and time horizons
- refocusing on innovative deals and operational expertise
· Deal Flow
- growth opportunities in business ‘rescues’
- mid-market: an attractive option given the crowded marketplace?
- new opportunities arising from the demise of the investment banks`
· Structure & Pricing
- do you need to transform into a broader financial shop?
- single source integrated approach without external bank funding: a powerful proposition?
- prospects for regional teams
· Fundraising & Investor Issues
- investor concern to avoid cash calls
- restructuring portfolio companies to get investors some of their money back
- implications on carry
· Investments
- vintage year for new investment? Better if banks tighten finance to smaller companies
- opportunities from PLCs needing to raise cash selling-off quality, non-core subsidiaries
- lower prices good for making attractive bolt-on acquisitions & for new investments
- reduced asset allocations vs. investor competition looking into the secondary market
- offering a more risk adjusted return with better downside protection
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