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Main Conference Day 1: 16th September 2009

 

8.00 - Registration And Morning Coffee
Registration And Morning Coffee
8.45 - Chairman’s Opening Address
Vince O’Brien, Director, Montagu Private Equity
Chairman’s Opening Address
9.00 - What Is the Future For The Industry? What Will Private Equity Look Like In 2014
Jon Moulton, Managing Partner, Alchemy
  • Consolidation bankruptcy and opportunity – how has the Private Equity landscape changed to date?
  • Identifying the sources of capital available to private equity in 2009 and how these will develop over the next 5 years
  • Mapping the political and economic ramifications of portfolio companies failing and their impact on the industry
  • Tracking the growth of fundraising to 2007 and changes over the past 12 months to better understand the fundraising landscape by 2014

Jon Moulton

Jon Moulton is Managing Partner of Alchemy, a UK-based private equity firm, which has invested £2.0 billion of equity with an emphasis on dealing with troubled companies. Alchemy also has a £300m European special opportunities fund investing principally in distressed debt.
9.30 - Survival Of The Fittest: How Leading GPs Are Adapting To Succeed In The Current Climate
Michael Wand, Managing Director, European Technology, Carlyle Group
Vince O’Brien, Director, Montagu Private Equity
David Abrams, Managing Partner, Apollo European Principal Finance Fund
Hans Albrecht, CEO, Nordwind Capital
  • Examining the existing model of a discreet fund – will this change dramatically to adapt to market conditions?
  • Measuring the impact of change: are big GPs preparing for fundamental strategic shifts or waiting for a return to the norm?
  • In which areas can we expect growth in 2010 and where will recovery begin?

Michael Wand

Michael Wand is a Managing Director focused on European technology opportunities in the software sector. Mr. Wand joined Carlyle in 2001 and his investment interests include enterprise and infrastructure software, wireless technology and IT security. He is based in London. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Wand worked for approximately 10 years in investment banking, the last seven years in the technology sector. As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the European software and internet [ read more ...]
10.00 - What Do LPs Expect From 06, 07 and 08 Vintages And Can We Expect A Reversal In Trends For 2009/10?
Axel Kuehn, Head of Private Equity Funds Group, Zurich, AIG Investments
Mary Kuusisto, Partner, Proskauer Rose
Jonny Maxwell, Global Head of Private Equity Fund, Allianz Private Equity Partners
Peter McKellar, Chief Investment Officer, Standard Life Investments
  • Outlining the state of the market today and assessing current valuation on deals done at the top of the market
  • Predicting market change to map potential exits moving forward
  • Can you add operational value? Assessing success stories from this high-risk period and applying lessons learnt to your portfolio

Axel Kuehn

Axel Kuehn is Head of Private Equity Funds Group Zurich at AIG INVESTMENTS. The Private Equity Funds Group is a global advisor for private equity fund investments. Axel Kuehn's current responsibilities include overseeing investments in European geographies out of Zurich, as well as sourcing, due diligence, monitoring and product marketing. He has been in private equity funds business for more than a decade and joined from Allianz Private Equity in 2005.

Mary Kuusisto

Mary Kuusisto is a partner in the Private Investment Funds Group of Proskauer Rose LLP in London. She has over fifteen years of experience in the private equity industry and has advised hundreds of GPs and LPs on fund formation and operational matters involving private investment funds globally, with particular experience in tax-related matters.

Jonny Maxwell

Jonny Maxwell is Global Head of Private Equity Fund of Funds at Allianz Private Equity Partners. Jonny has overall responsibility for Allianz’s indirect private equity activities, operating out of locations in Munich, New York and Singapore. Allianz, one of the world's largest insurance companies manages in excess of Euro 6.3 billion of private equity fund assets.

Peter McKellar

Peter McKellar, Chief Investment Officer, Standard Life Investments started his career in investment banking at JP Morgan and worked in corporate finance before moving into industry in 1995 as corporate development director and then group finance director of Clydeport plc, a London Stock Exchange listed company and a former Montagu Private Equity buyout. Peter joined Standard Life Investments’ private equity team in the autumn of 1999, as Investment Director, and was promoted to Chief [ read more ...]
10.30 - Morning Networking Coffee
Morning Networking Coffee
11.00 - Growth Capital and Small/Mid Size Buy-Outs - Stable Performance in Volatile Times
A. Michael Hoffman, Chairman, Palamon Capital Partners
Nigel McConnell, Managing Partner, Cognetas
Roberto Pilotto, Partner, PPM Managers
Scott Collins, Managing Director, Summit Partners
  • As alternatives to large/mega buy-out market--how has performance evolved?
  • What are the prospects for these markets in the current and likely near-term environment; what trends are we seeing?
  • How are funds in these spaces differentiating themselves?
  • What issues are they facing in terms of pricing of deals, structuring of transactions, debt financing where required and achieving exits?

A. Michael Hoffman

A. Michael Hoffman co-founded Palamon Capital Partners in 1999 and is Chairman. He has extensive experience in private equity having established the London Office of Warburg Pincus in 1987.
11.30 - Positioning and Managing Your Portfolio to Maximise Returns Process?
Ian Croxford, Group Operations Director, Stocks Spirits Group
Philip A. Dougall, Managing Director, Sun European Partners, LLP.
Jean-Charles Douin, Principal (EMEA), Teachers’ Private Capital
Rick Krens, Vice-President, Oaktree Capital Management
Mark McDonald, Principal Europe, Pomona Capital
Peter Smith, Director, Private Equity, M & A, Celerant Consulting
  • Understanding the implications: assessing the impact of the decline in demand-end markets on your portfolio as a whole
  • Finding the balance: identifying where you can add greatest operational value and how, when and where to release cash
  • Making it happen: realising incremental value from your portfolio: a practical guide

Ian Croxford

Ian joined Stock Spirits Group in December 2007. He has worked in the industry since 1996, when he joined United Distillers & Vintners (a subsidiary of Diageo PLC) as Packaging Director, Global Operations and Operations Director, Packaging, UK Operations. He was most recently CEO of Inter Link Foods Ltd.

Philip A. Dougall

Philip is responsible for Sun European Partners, LLP which identifies European leveraged buyout and investment opportunities for affiliates of Sun Capital Partners. Mr. Dougall spent twelve years, from 1991 to 2003, with Lehman Brothers where, most recently, he was Managing Director and Co–Head of the firm’s European telecommunications practice.

Jean-Charles Douin

Jean-Charles Douin joined the London team at Teachers’ in 2008 with international experience in private equity. Previously, he worked at CapVest Ltd., a mid-cap private equity fund based in London, and UBS Investment, where he focused on the consumer and retail sector

Rick Krens

Prior to joining Oaktree in 2007, Mr. Krens was CFO and Financial Controller of GROHE, a leading provider of Water Technology solutions in Germany. Before that, he spent four years at Black & Decker Europe, most recently as a Vice-President in the Lean Six Sigma group. Prior experience includes work at Stanley Works Inc., GE Capital and GE Plastics.

Mark McDonald

Mark McDonald is Principal of Pomona Capital’s London office and joined the firm in 2004. He focuses on the origination and execution of private equity secondary transactions as well as primary fund investments in Europe. Prior to Pomona, Mark spent four years with Barclays Capital in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region where he focused on M&A, leverage finance and private equity. He also spent three years with VCI, an investment firm backed by 3i, based in Milan and London.

Peter Smith

Peter joined Celerant in 2008 as a Director of Celerant’s Private Equity and M&A practice. He has previously worked in consulting, industry and Private Equity, where he has held CEO positions with a number of PE backed companies, overseeing the doubling of revenue and profitability.
12.00 - Examining The Consequences Of The End Of The Private Equity ‘Perfect Storm’
Rod Selkirk, CEO, Hermes Private Equity
  • Assessing the underlying drivers fro explosive growth in the industry until 2007
  • Examining the consequences of this trend going into reverse
  • How far are GPs now in control of their own market strategy?
  • Who will be shaken out, who will survive and who will prosper?
12.30 - LP Portfolio Management Strategies: How Investors Plan To Manage Their Commitments And Where They Plan To Deploy Capital in 2010
Frank Amberg, Head of Private Equity, MUNICH ERGO AssetManagementGmbH (MEAG)
Beat Buehlmann, Head of Private Equity Investment, Horizon21
Tom Clausen, Partner, Capvent
Pål Ristvedt, Partner, Lexington
  • Finding opportunities in a capital constrained market
  • Using the secondary market to balance your current commitments
  • Maintaining your vintage year diversification

Frank Amberg

As Head of Private Equity, Frank Amberg is responsible for the Private Equity and Infrastructure investments of Munich Re Group. Prior to joining MEAG, Mr. Amberg spent eight years in the execution of direct investments in Venture Capital, Buyout and mezzanine financings and worked several years in Private Equity Fundraising. Previously, he was responsible for M&A with a Germany based industrial company.

Beat Buehlmann

Beat Buehlman is a partner at Horizon21. Previous to this he was Founding Partner and Chairman at Tendo Corporate Finance AG, Zürich, where he established a corporate finance advisory boutique in the fields of Private Equity and M&A for SME in Switzerland, Germany and US.

Tom Clausen

Tom is a co-founder and managing partner of Capvent AG and Capvent India Advisors Private Ltd as well as a member of the firm’s investment committee. He has more than 16 years of direct and fund investment experience with growth companies in the US, private equity transactions in Europe and fund investments in Asia. Tom helped to develop the firm’s investment and due diligence process and has advised on all fund investment opportunities

Pål Ristvedt

Pål Ristvedt is based in Lexington Partners’ London office where he is responsible for Lexington’s secondary activities outside the United States and leading a team focused on the sourcing, valuation and negotiation of secondary purchases of non-US buyout, venture and mezzanine private equity partnerships.
13.00 - Lunch
Lunch
14.15 - Secondaries Statistics & Analysis
Stream A: Secondaries and Valuations
Elly Livingstone, Partner, Pantheon European Investment
Designed to give you critical insight into the hard fact around the debate, these Statistics and Analysis sessions aims to provide you with the freshest insight into key areas affecting your business in 2010.
  • Key trends and developments
  • Valuations and seller expectations
  • Market conditions

Elly Livingstone

Elly leads Pantheon’s global secondary investment funds and is a member of the firm’s Investment Management Committee and European Investment Committee. He joined Pantheon in 2001. Prior to joining [ read more ...]
14.15 - Acquisition Statistics & Analysis
Stream B: Acquisitions and Human Capital
Designed to give you critical insight into the hard fact around the debate, these Statistics and Analysis sessions aims to provide you with the freshest insight into key areas affecting your business in 2010.
  • What sectors should you focus on?
  • Where is growth occurring?
  • Precedents for success in a tough market
14.30 - Tracking The Growth Of Secondaries In 2009 And Their Effect On The Private Equity Landscape
Stream A: Secondaries and Valuations
Elly Livingstone, Partner, Pantheon European Investment
Christina Pamberg, Director, European Head of Investor Relations, KKR
Andrew Sealy, Managing Partner, Campbell Lutyens
Christiaan de Lint, Partner, Headway Capital
Peter Wilson, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners (U.K.) Ltd
  • Developments in the market over the past year which have led to the acceleration in secondary acquisitions
  • Identifying the changes in investor bases caused by a rise on secondaries
  • Examining the impact of more interventionist GP policies on secondaries
  • Managing complex process issues to ensure a smooth transition from primary to secondary

Elly Livingstone

Elly leads Pantheon’s global secondary investment funds and is a member of the firm’s Investment Management Committee and European Investment Committee. He joined Pantheon in 2001. Prior to joining [ read more ...]

Christina Pamberg

Christina A. Pamberg joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) as a Director in 2005 and focuses on investor relations and capital raising activities for Europe. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. [ read more ...]

Andrew Sealy

Andrew joined Campbell Lutyens in 1990 and became the Managing Partner in 2003. He also leads the firm’s financial advisory activities which focus on secondary transactions and fund restructurings. [ read more ...]

Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson joined the Firm’s London-based subsidiary in 1996 and focuses principally on secondary investments in Europe and European venture partnerships. He serves on the advisory committees for [ read more ...]
14.30 - An Overview Of Acquisition Opportunities: Mapping The Landscape Now, In 12 Months And In 24 Months
Stream B: Acquisitions and Human Capital
William van Eesteren, Managing Director, Wilshire Europe
Ben Hewetson, Director, Teachers’ Private Capital
Peter Laib, Managing Director, Adveq
Hans van Swaay, Partner, Lyrique
  • Tracking market change over the past year to predict patterns for the next 12 months – has the market bottomed yet
  • Exploring the opportunity for smaller, all-equity deals and the impact this will have on small and mid-market buyout firms
  • Reviewing GP strategy shifts and the growth of pseudoinfrastructure deals

William van Eesteren

Mr. van Eesteren is responsible for origination, due diligence, and monitoring of buyout and venture capital investments in Europe. He has 14 years of investment experience. Prior to joining WPM, he [ read more ...]

Ben Hewetson

Ben Hewetson, Director, Teachers’ Private Capital. Ben Hewetson joined Teachers’ Private Capital in 2008 with 15 years experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions and banking. He is [ read more ...]

Peter Laib

Peter joined the company in 1999 as Managing Director. From 1995 to 1999, he was at A.T. Kearney Management Consultants in Germany, focusing on corporate restructuring and new business strategies. [ read more ...]

Hans van Swaay

Hans van Swaay has been more than twenty years in private equity as Head of Private Equity at Pictet & Cie, as Managing Director of UBS Capital, as Managing Director of Merifin and as partner of [ read more ...]
15.00 - A Tool For PortfolioManagement – How LPs Are Using Secondaries To Shuffle Their Commitments
Stream A: Secondaries and Valuations
André Aubert, Principal, LGT Capital Partners
Greg Holden, Partner, Adams Street Partners
Matthew Hudson, Partner, Proskauer Rose
David Jeffrey, Managing Partner, Parish Capital
  • Examining the drivers for divestiture in the current economy
  • Correlating buyer and seller objectives and establishing optimal conditions for secondary deals
  • Secondaries as an solution for LP defaults – where can the secondaries market add value to a portfolio?
  • Establishing valuations and maintaining clear visibility over valuations in the secondaries market

André Aubert

Prior to joining LGT CP in 2005, Mr. Aubert was a Principal at Index Ventures, a pan-European venture capital firm, which he joined in 1999. At Index Mr. Aubert focused on investment opportunities in [ read more ...]

Greg Holden

Greg is a Partner who primarily specializes in the sourcing and execution of secondary investments. He actively participates in all fund investment decisions at Adams Street. He is a Certified Public [ read more ...]

Matthew Hudson

Matthew Hudson is a partner in the Corporate Department of Proskauer Rose LLP and head of the London Office. His practice focuses on private equity, corporate finance and M&A, including advising [ read more ...]

David Jeffrey

Mr. Jeffrey is a Managing Partner of Parish Capital and is based in London managing a team of investment professionals focusing on primary, secondary and direct investments throughout Europe.
15.00 - A Review Of Pricing: Drivers For Current Trends And Predicted Market Developments
Stream B: Acquisitions and Human Capital
Marleen Groen, CEO, Greenpark
Graeme Gunn, Partner, Standard Life Capital Partners
Lorenzo Russo, Partner, Vision Capital
Fabien Prevost, President, CAPE
  • Assessing the decline in end-user demand and the effect on global markets
  • Market conditions since 2006 – are sellers’ expectations in line with the current climate?
  • Pinpointing the trigger for selling: what drivers will force assets onto the market and what market conditions will drive this?

Marleen Groen

Marleen Groen is principal founder and CEO of Greenpark, an independent global private equity secondaries investment group, currently advising funds of €1.3 billion. Marleen has extensive global [ read more ...]

Graeme Gunn

Graeme Gunn is responsible for European private equity investment activity. He currently sits on a number of European private equity fund advisory boards and has responsibility for a portfolio of [ read more ...]

Lorenzo Russo

Lorenzo joined Vision Capital as a Partner in 2008. Previously he was a Director at Change Capital Partners focusing on mid-market buyouts in the consumer and retail goods sector. Prior to Change [ read more ...]
15.30 - Afternoon Networking Coffee
Afternoon Networking Coffee
16.15 - Ensuring Consistency Of Valuations In A Turbulent Market
Stream A: Secondaries and Valuations
William Gilmore, Investment Director, Private Equity, Scottish Widows
Ross Marshall, Chief Executive, Dunedin
Charles Soulignac, Managing Partner and Founder, Fondinvest Capital
Annette Wilson, Investor Relations Director, Palamon Capital Partners
Richard Green, Chairman, August Private Equity
  • How important is marking to market in the current climate?
  • Examining GP and LP objectives in establishing valuations – how often do they align and how can they be reconciled when they don’t?
  • What criteria are most important when making valuations?
  • Following the European guidelines and assessing their relevance in a period of economic downturn
  • Examining the impact of unclear valuation on individual companies and the industry as a whole

William Gilmore

William is an investment director in the private equity team, which he heads up, and is responsible for making investments in private equity funds globally. The private equity team manages more than [ read more ...]

Ross Marshall

Ross Marshall joined Dunedin in 1994 after ten years with 3i. He has 25 years private equity experience, including leading the negotiations for the MBO of Dunedin in 1996. He chairs Dunedin's [ read more ...]

Charles Soulignac

Charles Soulignac, Managing Partner and Founder of Fondinvest Capital, started in 1993 the fund-of-funds business (primary and secondary). He has been a member of the EVCA board of directors and [ read more ...]

Annette Wilson

Annette Wilson is Investor Relations Director of Palamon Capital Partners. She joined Palamon in 1999 as the founding Chief Financial Officer and took on the investor relations role solely in 2005.
16.15 - An LP View On Managing Private Equity Teams In A Tough Environment
Stream B: Acquisitions and Human Capital
Rhonda Ryan, Head of Private Equity Funds Group, London, AIG Investments
  • Changing attitudes: Will GPs begin to employ HR strategies used in their portfolio within their own organisation?
  • Managing cutbacks and higher turnover to ensure you retain top performers
  • Maintaining staff motivation throughout a period of decreased deal flow
  • Assessing the impact of cutbacks on generational attitudes and ensuring a high ratio of experience in your team

Rhonda Ryan

Ms. Ryan joined AIG Investments in 2006. In addition to heading the London private equity funds group, Ms. Ryan is responsible for evaluating and meeting with private equity fund managers, making [ read more ...]
16.45 - Rewarding Success: Is Remuneration For GPs Fair In The Current Climate?
Capital Creation Debates
William Gilmore, Investment Director, Private Equity, Scottish Widows
Jonny Maxwell, Global Head of Private Equity Fund, Allianz Private Equity Partners
Jon Moulton, Managing Partner, Alchemy
Vince O’Brien, Director, Montagu Private Equity
  • Tracking the shifts in returns over the last 12 months and how LP and GP expectations have changed to reflect this
  • Identifying the critical competencies and success factors which both LPs and GPs agree warrant high rewards
  • Examining how terms and conditions have altered to reflect the new economic environment

William Gilmore

William is an investment director in the private equity team, which he heads up, and is responsible for making investments in private equity funds globally. The private equity team manages more than €1.5bn in private equity commitments in over 60 fund investments. William is also a member of the advisory committees of a number of private equity funds, a director of the Private Equity Association and is regularly invited to speak at private equity conferences.

Jonny Maxwell

Jonny Maxwell is Global Head of Private Equity Fund of Funds at Allianz Private Equity Partners. Jonny has overall responsibility for Allianz’s indirect private equity activities, operating out of locations in Munich, New York and Singapore. Allianz, one of the world's largest insurance companies manages in excess of Euro 6.3 billion of private equity fund assets.

Jon Moulton

Jon Moulton is Managing Partner of Alchemy, a UK-based private equity firm, which has invested £2.0 billion of equity with an emphasis on dealing with troubled companies. Alchemy also has a £300m European special opportunities fund investing principally in distressed debt.
17.30 - Cocktail Reception
Cocktail Reception