Conference programme

Two leading private equity investment bankers from Goldman Sachs will lead us through a review of the current state and last 12 months of the PE world.

2025 has been predicted to be the year that exits finally come to fruition. Five leading practitioners will talk about current deal issues they are seeing in their respective jurisdictions.

Please join us in welcoming Raymond Svider who is the Chairman of BC Partners as well as chair of the management committee. Raymond joined BC in 1992 and has spent three decades investing capital, managing businesses and guiding the evolution of BC to success across changing trends and markets.

Take this tour through the current state of the debt world, open and closed windows, the role of geopolitics, and the continued growth of non-bank players with these leading credit market lawyers and investment and underwriting professionals. 

Professional services is one of the hottest sectors for private equity interest these days. This facilitated dialogue between two high profile leaders of professional services firms will explore the trajectory of the two businesses which they lead, Alixpartners and DWF, through phases of public ownership, private equity ownership and distributed institutional ownership looking at the pros and cons and lessons from the different types of structure. 

The world has become a much more unpredictable place in the past year. Sponsors and investors have had to adapt and reach back into their bag of tricks. A group of fundraising experts will guide you through the state of the world as it now exists.

Healthcare represented over 20% of global PE deal value in 2024 with over 1000 PE healthcare deals in the US and over 150 in Europe. It is one of the most resilient and prized sectors amongst investors. It is also extraordinary broad, with assets ranging from the heavily asset-backed through health tech and into complex intellectual property-intensive areas such as pharmaceuticals. Leading experts will equip you with valuable insights into PE segmentation, key themes and sponsor focus for tomorrow.

Nothing underscores the importance of government and regulators to the overall private equity & MYA market more than the recent bout of elections in various parts, growing obstacles to cross border investments and the impact of “transactional” regimes.  We will be joined by Laurence Boone and David Muir, each of whom has had senior appointments in French, UK and European governments, to discuss how sponsors and other financial institutions and counsel should think about managing the risks and securing the benefits of government affairs.

As market volatility and regulatory shifts continue to challenge listed companies, public to privates (P2Ps) are emerging as attractive opportunities for both private equity (PE) sponsors and target boards and shareholders alike. With momentum building, a clear grasp of deal dynamics and the ability to advise clients on the latest technical and structural developments is now an essential part of the PE lawyer’s toolkit. Join our expert panel for a lively, market focused discussion on the key trends driving P2P activity in the US and Europe, and the implications for legal teams supporting these transactions. 

This panel is for many the highlight of the conference. What is keeping our clients awake at night? This is where the lawyers from private practice in our audience hear what their clients are worrying about and what they want to see from their outside counsel. The in-house lawyers in our audience will pick up on the trends and challenges that their counterparts in major sponsor houses are tackling currently.