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The Baltic Boom; Brexit blues; soaring in Sweden

20 years of deals
Private equity has changed radically during the last 20 years, with due diligence undergoing a particularly thorough overhaul

Peter Hodson
NVM Private Equity investment partner Peter Hodson explains how the firm has stayed true to its small-cap roots during a period of huge change

20 years of funds
The amount of capital that has flowed into the private equity industry during the last 20 years has exceeded even the most optimistic of expectations

Q&A: Capstone
Capstone’s Giacomo Biondi Morra di Belforte on bottom-up investing, the true impact of AIFMD and his hopes for the democratisation of the asset class

The big funds
The largest funds raised in each of the last 20 years

William Barrett
Reach Capital’s William Barrett talks fundraising

The big deals
A rundown of the 20 biggest deals in each of the last 20 years

Most Influential
We rank the 20 most influential figures in private equity since 1999

Sovereign Capital
Sovereign Capital’s secrets to buyout success

Q&A: Rutland Partners
Nick Morrill on the changing face of special situations deals

Timeline
The key events, in politics and private equity, since 1999

Politics and PE
WA’s Lizzie Wills on why politics matters for deals

The unexpected
What we never saw coming 20 years ago

Predictions
What the next 20 years hold for private equity.

Q&A: Darren Forshaw
Endless dealmaker Darren Forshaw on the growth of the industry

What won’t happen
With tongues in our cheeks, we list the things in private equity that will never matter

Q&A: Alpha
Edoardo Lanzavecchia on a career at the heart of private equity

Sector shifts
The sectors private equity backs have changed significantly

David Hall
YFM head David Hall on private equity’s past, present and future

New territory
How private equity became a pan-European force

Gavin George
The head of Alteri on what it takes to make sense of retail deals

Debt daze
Acquisition finance then and now

Paul Beveridge
PNC’s Paul Beveridge talks ABL and private equity

Tech savvy
How technology is and isn’t changing private equity

Q&A: JTC
Jonathan Jennings on fund administration in a digital age

Money is green
ESG has gone from a nice have to a must have

Chris Parsons
ClearlySo’s Chris Parsons on why profit and purpose are not mutually exclusive.

Quotes
Soundbites from some of private equity’s finest

Campbell Lutyens
Andrew Sealey on the changing face of raising a private equity fund

Best of the best
GPs tell Real Deals about their most memorable deals

Detail delivers
How Piper works with operating partners

Gender Agenda
Diversity and private equity: work to do

Gail McManus
PER’s boss talks private equity talent

Wise words
Industry experts share some of their best advice

Operations
Humatica’s Andros Payne on pulling the right levers

Vulture
Lookalikes; the merits of toilet queues; good taste; grim forecasts