Private Equity for Tomorrow

Private Equity is the queen asset class, scrutinized by both Limited Partners and Retail investors thanks to its impressive returns. As GPs bring value in their portfolio, Private Equity helps sectors to evolve and to grow on the long-term.

Entrepreneurs and business leaders encounter various situations in their odyssey. Transmission, hypergrowth, complex periods, internationalization, pivots, from creation to turnaround, investors are bringing cash and much more to help their management teams to achieve ambitious business plans. If success is not easy and automatic, both GPs and the portfolio teams can boost their activity by implementing top class operational standards and build ups strategies. Funds must also find their path in the “size run”.

Consolidation has started and innovative operations such as GP Stakes or Nav Financing are shaping the PE industry to its next form. This opportunistic period also implies internal changes for funds who are expected to be handle a diversity and inclusion challenge.

In a fast-paced and changing world the queen asset class thus faces a new context, brought together by social, economic, and environmental challenges of recent years, that has put the role of the industry in check.

By its role of supporting businesses in their growth, the private equity industry creates real value that impacts society, and thus plays a leading role in promoting and advancing key themes through its investments, such as inclusion & diversity, sustainable investment, impact investment and green economy.

In face of this new context, the 22nd Edition of the Private Equity Exchange brings a whole new format: