Profiles
GP Profile: Palatine tops £1bn for total funds raised
Founder Gary Tipper talks to Real Deals after the GP achieved the landmark and gives his forecast for the remainder of the year
GP Profile: Lightrock
CEO Pål Erik Sjåtil sits down with Real Deals to discuss the firm’s new strategy and why he remains committed to private investments
IWD: Helen Steers, Pantheon Ventures
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Real Deals catches up with Pantheon partner Helen Steers to discuss what it means to be a woman in private equity
GP Profile: Core Equity
Real Deals catches up with ex-Bain Capital alum and Core Equity co-founder Thomas De Waen to discuss the atypical GP’s strategy and why it prefers to stay away from PE’s traditional pass-the-parcel model
GP Profile: Perwyn
Managing partner Andrew Wynn speaks to Real Deals about what makes the perfect deal and the firm's new office in Milan
GP Profile: Swen Capital Partners
Co-founder and CEO Jerome Delmas talks to Real Deals about the importance of expertise in impact investing
GP Profile: Maven Capital Partners
Partner Tom Purkis sits down with Real Deals to reflect on the SME investor’s journey and his ambitions for the new year
GP Profile: Three Hills
Managing partner Mauro Moretti tells Real Deals there are no coincidences in the PE world
GP Profile: Main Capital Partners
As the Dutch sponsor turns 20, founder and chief investment officer Charly Zwemstra sits down with Real Deals to reflect on the firm’s establishment and his ambitions for the new year
GP Profile: Intriva Capital
Simon Finn, managing partner at Intriva Capital, reflects on setting up the firm, navigating the deals market post-pandemic and developing the team
GP Profile: Armen
Industry heavyweight founders Dominique Gaillard and Laurent Bénard sit down with Real Deals to discuss its approach to the GP-stakes market
GP Profile: Altor Equity Partners
Altor Equity Partners' Harald Mix, Klas Johansson and Paal Weberg spoke to Real Deals about adapting and prospering during macro crises.
GP Profile: Blume Equity
Real Deals speaks with the all-female founding team behind the emerging GP to understand how they plan to deliver profits with a purpose by investing in the climatetech space.
GP Profile: Endless
Partners Chris Cormack and Aidan Robson speak to Real Deals to discuss the meaning of complex situations, taking calculated risks and the firm’s hiring criteria.
GP Profile: Dr Rafaèle Tordjman, Jeito Capital
The founder and CEO of Jeito Capital speaks to Real Deals about her winning formula, what differentiates the French healthcare investment firm, and the importance of having women in private equity.
Profile: Matt Harrison, Stanley Capital
The firm's CFO discusses the way technology helps influence investment decisions and how his firm uses AI to drive portfolio company growth.
GP Profile: Pelican Capital
Partners Anthony Francis and Richard Morrison sit down with Real Deals to explain why they’re not keen on launching a fund, exit returns in the last three years and future plans
Sullivan Street Partners hires Zeina Bain as managing partner
In an exclusive interview with Real Deals, newly appointed Zeina Bain discusses her career at The Carlyle Group and ICG, and why operational leadership is key in today's market.
Key Capital Partners: Readying for success
Fresh from becoming Key Capital Partners’ sole managing partner, James Hall sits down with Real Deals to discuss how the growth investor plans on refining its strategy in this new cycle.
Profile: Foresight
Foresight partner Matt Smith discusses how the firm’s strategy has developed to make an impact on UK-based SMEs, the importance of investing beyond the South, and where it sees opportunity in the current market.
Earth Capital: Energetic Transition
In an exclusive interview, Earth Capital’s newly appointed CEO Avent Bezuidenhoudt and Elise Hockley, COO and head of investor relations, discuss the firm’s recent succession, its own sustainability journey and its future plans.
All Seas Capital Partners two years on
Co-founders at All Seas Capital Partners, Marc Ciancimino & Cristobal Cuart, reflect on setting up a firm over the last two years, navigating the deals market post-pandemic and developing the team.
Recipe for success
In an exclusive interview with Real Deals, Eurazeo CEO Virginie Morgon outlines her winning formula for success, and how the firm has established itself as a unique force that is determined to drive positive change in the industry.
BGF’s Stephen Welton readies for succession
BGF has appointed Andy Gregory as CEO, as Stephen Welton becomes a non-executive chair. Welton was a founding CEO at BGF in 2011.
Two years as N4
Two of N4 Partners’ founders, Allan Dowie and Shauna Powell, discuss how they have navigated setting up a firm over the last two years, the development of their team and establishing N4’s investment niche.
British Business Bank appoints Louis Taylor as CEO
Louis Taylor replaces Catherine Lewis La Torre, who became interim CEO in September 2020. Taylor starts his role on October 1st.
To the rescue
The Development Bank of Wales reflects on how it reacted to Covid, funding issues post-Brexit, and a future decarbonisation agenda.
MML Capital: Skyrocketing
MML Capital has been working tirelessly to supercharge its growth and launch the firm into a league of its own.
CVC’s Steve Koltes to step down
The co-founder and co-chair will be stepping down from an active role, effective October 1st, 2022.
Catherine Lewis La Torre: Beyond the present
In an exclusive interview, British Business Bank CEO Catherine Lewis La Torre opens up about the firm’s record lending figures, D&I and net zero agenda, and setting an example for the rest of the industry.
Inflexion hires new partner and strengthens team
Former OMERS MD Isabelle Pagnotta joins Inflexion as a partner on its services team. The appointment follows a string of new hires across the firm this year.
Bregal Investments names new CEO
Co-CEOs Steve Black and Quentin Van Doosselaere will begin their retirement, as Alain Carrier will take the reins in the new year.
Kerry Baldwin: Thinking bigger
In an exclusive interview, new BVCA chair Kerry Baldwin speaks to Real Deals about her bold visions for the future.
Abris Capital: Future thinkers
Real Deals speaks with the new management team at Abris Capital about the firm’s recent succession, it’s forward looking value creation plans and why the firm is ahead of its industry peers on ESG.
Montagu hires ESG manager
Montagu has expanded its ESG team with the appointment of Kim Woehl as ESG manager, based in London.
N4 makes well-being coach hire
Chris Moon MBE has been appointed to drive employee wellbeing at the new firm.
Q&A: Livingbridge’s Wol Kolade on the industry’s latest diversity initiative
Wol Kolade, managing partner at Livingbridge, talks to Real Deals on behalf of reboot., an initiative which aims to provide insight to senior leaders at corporations and inspiration to ethnic minorities in the financial sector.
BVCA names IQ Capital’s Baldwin as new chair
IQ Capital’s co-founder & managing partner Kerry Baldwin has taken over the role from Silverfleet’s Neil MacDougall.
Q&A: Tomasz Czechowicz, MCI Capital
Tomasz Czechowicz, MCI Capital’s founder and managing partner talks to Real Deals on what makes the firm’s investment strategy unique and what’s attractive in CEE right now.
New firm WovenLight’s manifesto for next generation private equity
New firm WovenLight, a hybrid investment and technology firm, outlines its plans to re-engineer private equity processes and create true value for its investments.
CEE Focus: Mid Europa Partners
Mid Europa Partners’ partner and CEO Robert Knorr discusses CEE’s convergence towards Western Europe and successful dealmaking in the region over the last year.
CEE Focus: Innova Capital
Innova Capital’s senior partners Andrzej Bartos, Krzysztof Kulig and Leszek Muzyczyszyn speak with Real Deals about the firm’s recently concluded succession process, the continued economic health of the CEE region and key deals from the past year.
CEE Focus: Enterprise Investors
Enterprise Investors’ chairman and president Jacek Siwicki discusses the rise in expansion financing, the impact of the Warsaw Stock Exchange’s recent revival and dealmaking in CEE.
Central and Eastern Europe – overlooked opportunities for private equity investors?
EY Luxembourg associate partner, private equity, Anca Lungu-Negoita explores the advantages and disadvantages of investing in CEE, as well as the region’s road to recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
CEE Focus: Abris Capital
Pawel Gierynski, managing partner at Abris Capital Partners, reveals how the firm maintained deal activity in 2020, attractive sectors in CEE and the firm's decarbonisation ambitions.
New firm focus: Queen’s Park Equity
Newly launched Queen’s Park Equity became one of the only first-time funds to have been raised entirely during Covid. With its first fund under its belt, the new firm is raring to go.
LP Corner: Peter Linthwaite, Royal London
Royal London’s Peter Linthwaite discusses the importance of manager experience, the response of the industry to the pandemic and GPs’ downfall when it comes to delivering regular valuations.
Placement agent of the year: Campbell Lutyens
Andrew Bentley, Partner at Campbell Lutyens outlines the evolution of LP and GP investment appetite over the last year.
Specialist adviser of the year: Palladium Digital Group
Private equity firms are accelerating digitisation plans dramatically as Covid bites, says director and co-founder of Palladium, James Prebble.
Germany, Austria and Switzerland Deal of the Year: AnaCap for heidelpay
AnaCap partner Tassilo Arnhold discusses how AnaCap’s partnership with heidelpay helped the business to increase earnings almost eightfold.
Continental Regional Private Equity House of the Year: Summa Equity
Reynir Indahl, Founder and Managing Partner of Summa Equity, discusses how the firm has evolved and what role private equity can play in saving the world.
GP Workshop: How to maintain employee wellbeing
James Brocklebank, managing partner at Advent International and Bhavna Katkar, chief human capital officer & head of strategic initiatives at BC Partners, discuss how their firms have worked to maintain employee wellbeing this year.
Level 20 appoints new chair
Former Permira partner Cheryl Potter has been appointed as chair, succeeding George Anson, with effect from 1st January 2021.
Revealed: Future 40 Diversity and Inclusion Leaders 2020
The Real Deals Future 40 Diversity and Inclusion Leaders list, in association with Private Equity Recruitment (PER), showcases key individuals in the asset class who have made or are making a notable impact on improving D&I across the industry.
LP Corner: Alex Hutton-Mills, Lincoln Pensions
Lincoln Pensions managing director Alex Hutton-Mills discusses missed M&A risk in carve-out transactions and the impact on DB pension schemes.
Q&A: Renaud Oury, Apex Group
Apex’s Renaud Oury discusses the trends, challenges and opportunities facing the private equity industry in the Grand Duchy.
Q&A: Joost Mees, JTC Luxembourg
JTC’s managing director, Luxembourg Joost Mees reflects on the jurisdiction’s resilience, how the pandemic could see long-term changes to the way private equity funds operate and sustainable investing in a post-lockdown world.
Drake Star Partners appoints tech advisor
Colin Tenwick has over 30 years of experience in the software and security sector globally, where he has held various leadership positions.
Q&A: William Barrett and Jean Philippe Boige, Reach Capital
Reach Capital’s co-founders discuss the fundraising climate, the changing role of placement agents and if there is a place for new private equity managers.
Corporate finance corner: Tremayne Ducker, Zeus Capital
Zeus Capital's Tremayne Ducker discusses bolt-on acquisitions in the current climate and how they will be used by private equity funds as a lower risk approach to deploying capital.
Profile: London Technology Club
A glimpse into the establishment, investment mandate and goals of new technology investor London Technology Club, as told by founder Konstantin Sidorov.
Q&A: Jonathan Arrowsmith, head of advisory, Investec
Arrowsmith discusses the most lucrative sectors during and after the crisis and the impact of extended holding periods.
New firm focus: Inverleith LLP
Born just a few months before the Brexit vote, Edinburgh-based Inverleith LLP has not allowed market disruptions to get in its way.
Q&A: Pawel Gierynski, Abris Capital
Abris Capital’s managing partner Pawel Gierynski discusses the current deal environment, the firm’s new Value Enhancement Team and changes that will be maintained post Covid-19.
Legal corner: Stephen Rosen & Ben Shribman, Cooley LLP
Stephen Rosen & Ben Shribman, partners in law firm Cooley’s M&A group discuss the fast-changing PE landscape during the Covid-19 crisis.
Covid-19 Corner: ‘There is an unprecedented amount of PE funding in place which will still need to be deployed once there is some stability - GCA Altium
GCA Altium's chief executive at global investment bank, Phil Adams discusses how PE deal flow will progress through on other side of the crisis.
Profile: Jonathan Blake, Herbert Smith Freehills
Real Deals spoke to the pioneer of private equity law, Jonathan Blake, about the maturation of the asset class, current trends in fund formation, and how the ongoing Covid-19 crisis will shape the future of the industry.
PE veteran José María Loizaga Viguri dies
The Spanish private equity veteran died at the age of 84 after falling victim to the Coronavirus.
Legal Corner: Helen Rodwell, managing partner CMS
CMS' Helen Rodwell discusses what attracted her to private equity law, key market trends in 2020 and the industry's diversity problem.
Covid-19 corner: “GPs and portfolio companies are being tested, some will come through this better than others” - ESO Capital
Steve Edwards, partner at ESO Capital’s perspective on Covid-19’s effects on the PE market.
Avedon promotes Alexis Weege to partner
Weege has 12 years’ experience in private equity and joined Avedon Capital Partners at inception in 2011.
LP Corner: Guy Lodewyckx, Amundi
Amundi head of fund of funds Guy Lodewyckx talks GP relationships, what is attractive about the asset class and why the manager is increasing its allocations to alternatives.
New firm focus: Inspirit Capital
Inspirit Capital's Will Stamp and Albert Farrant discuss their key tactics for standing out in the special situations market.
Corporate Finance Corner: Claudio Alvarez, GP Bullhound
Claudio Alvarez, partner at GP Bullhound, discusses market challenges, company valuations and how GP Bullhound differentiates itself from its competition.
New fund focus: BID Equity
BID Equity's managing partner Axel Jansen tells Real Deals that the key to staying ahead of competition in the software market is to find the right balance between deal size and internal workload.
Q&A: Jacek Siwicki, Enterprise Investors
This year Enterprise Investors celebrates its 30th year as one of CEE’s largest and longest-standing private equity firms. Siwicki discusses how the firm has weathered momentous change in the region to withstand the test of time.
Q&A: Duncan Johnson, Caledonia Private Capital
Caledonia Private Capital head Duncan Johnson discusses portfolio construction, the difference between investment and speculation and why longer hold periods can pay off.
Future 40 2019: Jonathan Thorne, Sovereign Capital
Jonathan Thorne worked on Sovereign Capital's investment in Premier Park.
Future 40 2019: Andy Leach, NVM Private Equity, David Gudgin and Samuel Gray, Albion Capital and Apposite Capital
Andy Leach worked on NVM's investment in Secure Retail and David Gudgin and Samuel Gray worked on Albion Capital and Apposite Capital's investment in Mirada Medical.
Q&A: Martin Calderbank, Agilitas Private Equity
As 2019, the year in which Real Deals marked its 20th anniversary, draws to a close, Agilitas’s Martin Calderbank reflects on how the asset class has evolved over the last two decades.
Future 40 2019: David Milroy, Maven Capital Partners and Greg Allen, TPA Capital
David Milroy worked on Maven Capital Partners' investment in Symphonic Software and Greg Allen worked on TPA Capital's investment in Pallet-Track.
Future 40 2019: Hiti Singh, Octopus Investments and Ian Jones, Magnesium Capital
Hiti Singh worked on the latest fundraise for Octopus Healthcare and Ian Jones worked on Magnesium Capital's investment in Cyberhawk Innovations.
Future 40 2019: Elena Lieskovka, Varde Partners and Thomas Holroyd, Chiltern Capital
Elena Lieskovka worked on Varde Partners' investment in Equiom Group and Thomas Holroyd worked on Chiltern Capital's investment in Perfect Image.
Future 40 2019: Stephen Delaney, Bowmark Capital and Chris Casgar, Webster Equity Partners
Stephen Delaney worked on Bowmark Capital's investment in Tax Systems and Chris Casgar worked on Webster Equity Partners' Vivona Brands deal.
Future 40 2019: Oliver Bevan, Dunedin and Matthew Scaife, Causeway Capital Partners
Oliver Bevan worked on Dunedin's investment in Acquis Insurance Management and Matthew Scaife worked on Causeway Capital Partners' investment in Group GTI.
Future 40 2019: Owen Wilson, Epiris and Humphrey Baker, Graphite Capital
Owen Wilson worked on Epiris' investment in IFG and Humphrey Baker worked on Graphite's investment in Hanson Wade.
Future 40 2019: Lawrence Dean, LDC and Oliver Hoenich, G Square
Lawrence Dean worked on LDC's investment in Instinctif Partners and Oliver Hoenich worked on G Square's investment in Dental Care Group.
Future 40 2019: Tristan Nagler, Aurelius and Rick Shrotri, Digital Alpha
Tristan Nagler worked on Aurelius' investment in BT Fleet Solutions and Rick Shrotri worked on Digital Alpha's investment in UKCloud.
Future 40 2019: John Clarke, LDC and Michele Titi-Cappelli, Goldman Sachs
John Clarke worked on LDC's investment in SRL Traffic Systems and Michele Titi-Cappelli worked on the Goldman Sachs' investment in Aston Lark.
Future 40 2019: Andy Thomas, YFM Equity Partners and Nick O’Donohoe, CDC
Andy Thomas co-led YFM’s buyout of The Protein Works and Nick O'Donohoe worked on CDC's investment in Liquid Telecoms.
Future 40 2019: Simon Hitchcock, Horizon Capital and Timothy Green, Apse Capital
Simon Hitchcock worked on Horizon’s purchase of Juniper Education and Timothy Green worked on Apse Capital's acquisition of Ultima Business Solutions.
Q&A: Paul Beveridge, PNC
ABL’s place in private equity’s armoury was cemented by the financial crisis, says PNC’s Paul Beveridge. Another downturn will bring further opportunity.
The Future 40 2019: Adam Maidment, Kester Capital and Michael Wagman, Clairvest Group
Adam Maidment worked on Kester’s buyout of ComplianceOnline and Michael Wagman worked on Clairvest's purchase of FSB Tech.
Level 20 announces new CEO
PwC's Pam Jackson has been appointed as the group's new CEO, succeeding Jeryl Andrew who will step down from the role at the end of the year.
Future 40 2019: Matthew Upton, Livingbridge and Adam Lewis, Horizon Capital
Matthew Upton worked on Livingbridge's purchase of Brainlabs and Adam Lewis worked on Horizon's acquisition of Agribriefing.
Q&A: Gavin George, Alteri Investors
Retail specialist Alteri’s chief executive discusses how private equity investing in the retail sector has changed and what the future holds as the firm launches a new fund.
Q&A: Edoardo Lanzavecchia, Alpha
Alpha managing partner Edoardo Lanzavecchia speaks to Real Deals about his first deal, lessons learned from Bill Conway and David Rubenstein and why a passion for deals is crucial for success in the asset class.
Q&A: Darren Forshaw, Endless
Endless co-founder and senior partner Darren Forshaw talks about the changing turnaround market and how the firm has evolved alongside it.
Q&A: Nick Morrill, Rutland Partners
Rutland Partners' Nick Morrill reflects on how special situations investing has evolved through boom and bust.
Q&A: Clive Short, Intertrust
Technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and blockchain are increasingly impacting the way private capital firms operate. Clive Short shares his views on how the industry is adapting to disruptive technology.