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Fund Transactions Conference 2019
We are delighted to announce that our annual Fund Transactions Conference will take place on 14 May 2019. Panel discussions will cover a range of topics, including:
- management of risk in private equity transactions
- court processes as transaction tools
- regulation as a source of investment opportunity
We hope that you will join us for what promise to be lively discussions between experts from different parts of the private equity industry, sharing their insights and learning. Further details about each panel and the panellists can be accessed via the links below.
Management of Risk in Private Equity Transactions
This panel will explore a broad range of 'risk' topics, both in transaction conduct as well as bedding down portfolio investments. Risk comes from a variety of angles and must be understood, quantified and managed appropriately.
The panellists will consider sources of risk as well as mitigation measures, including:
• market risk (FX, interest rates, commodities)
• people risk (talent strategy as a tool for managing performance risk)
• risk management tools and insurance solutions
• legal and regulatory risk (including competition law, sanctions)
• reputational/PR risk
Moderator
Mark Chambers, Mourant
Panellists
Andrew Honnor, Greenbrook Communications
Alan Foster, ghSMART
Davina Garrod, Akin Gump
Haakon Blakstad, Validus Risk Management
Vanessa Young, WillisTowersWatson
See You in Court: court processes as a transaction tool
Private equity transactions have traditionally been implemented through asset or share sale processes, but increasingly a wider toolkit is being utilised. This panel will consider how and why private equity transactions are being undertaken through court processes, whether schemes of arrangement, statutory mergers (with related appraisal litigation), tactical use of insolvency regimes, and others.
Moderator
John Rochester, Mourant
Panellists
Andrew Thornton, Erskine Chambers
Chris Field, Dechert
Edoardo Lupi, South Square
Greg Campbell, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Josh Dwyer, Alix Partners
Prisoners of Geography: breaking free
The premise of the book 'The Prisoners of Geography' is that a nation state's trading success and international influence will be facilitated or constrained by its physical geography.
Regulation is an overlay which has a shaping influence on the relative ability of nations to play on a world stage, as do world politics and economic policy. This panel will look at the role of international finance – and specifically that of the leading international financial centres – in facilitating or extending the geographic reach of nations and economic development globally, and in unlocking opportunity which otherwise remains imprisoned by geography.
Moderator
Tim Morgan, Mourant
Panellists
Ed Bowles, Standard Chartered Bank
Geoff Cook, Mourant
Jamie Whyte, Institute for Economic Affairs
Lisa Cawley, Kirkland & Ellis
Richard Hay, Stikeman Elliott
