Private Equity Wire has announced the winners of the Private Equity Wire ESG AAA European Awards, which recognise excellence among private equity fund managers across a wide range of categories.

A buoyant private equity market has powered the growth of Addleshaw Goddard’s transactional practice, as the focus on ESG came further to the fore and cross-border deal activity also experienced significant uplift.  “ESG firmly took centre stage in 2021. This has been driven by the increased “mainstreaming” of impact funds and

Fund managers’ ever-evolving regulatory and contractual obligations generate complex compliance requirements that can be simplified by technology focused on contract automation and intelligence.  “In recent years, we saw increased demand from our asset management clients for a technology tool that would make compliance with fund documentation simpler,” says Bridget Deiters,

The year ahead promises to be exciting as continued interest in private markets persists and the market uncertainty creates potential for investment opportunity. “We know there’s going to be continued interest in digital transformation of the private markets ecosystem, in how we’re onboarding funds, how we’re serving investors and how

Stiff competition in the private equity world means deals are being done at incredible speed. In this context, managers need their advisers to work at pace; across jurisdictions, service lines and time zones, to ensure those deal timetables can be met.  “These goals can only be met by co-ordinated, technologically-savvy

As automation allows private equity firms to achieve scalability, the tightening of data governance processes behind the technology becomes indispensable. Further, best-in-class operating models are becoming more accessible to smaller organisations.  “As the industry grows and the inflow of capital increases, firms are increasingly looking to scale,” outlines Travis Broad,

The last two years have been particularly challenging as the global insurance market went through a ‘hard market’, that is, a sustained period of constriction and correction. This environment, coupled with the uncertainty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic meant insurance brokers have had to ensure key parts of cover remain

As private equity asset managers forge more strategic relationships with their institutional investor clients, their needs for data and timely reporting are becoming sharper and more essential. The advent of retail participation in the PE space will also herald new challenges.  The PE space has been growing faster than anyone