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When it comes to private equity firms and digital transformation, there isn’t much Thomas Ballard, founder of Market Hill, hasn’t seen. Market Hill works alongside private equity firms to maximise portfolio companies’ future valuations, and as the company’s founder and chief commercial officer, he collaborates directly with private equity operating partners and portfolio company CEOs to uncover the unconsidered needs of firms within the space.
Since Ballard’s worked with some of the biggest tech companies around, as well as being involved with building the backbone infrastructure for the 2012 Olympics in London, Private Equity Wire sat down with the founder
ESG
Almost four out of five (75 per cent) of LPs expect sustainability to drive investment decisions over next five years, while 66 per cent of LPs see value creation as a leading driver of ESG, according to new research from Manulife on how private equity relates to sustainable investing.
The paper, called ‘Sustainable private equity and the new drivers of value creation’, also revealed that private equity firms are showing significant commitment to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) – including six of the world’s top ten PE firms having signed up to its six aspirational principles.
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Pensions
Local government pension schemes are increasingly choosing more expensive alternative investments, including private equity and infrastructure, which is raising the overall fees they pay to asset managers as pension funds seek out higher returns, diversification benefits, and lower investment risk.
PODCAST
Private Equity Wire is joined by Thomas Ballard, CEO of Market Hill, to talk about digital transformation within the private equity space. Ballard explains what digital transformation actually means for private equity firms and what best practices look like when it comes to structuring efficient systems and new ways of working.
INTERVIEW
Michael Whelchel, co-founder and managing partner of US-based investment bank Big Path Capital, outlines what he thinks will be the hottest trends within impact investing in the next few years, as well as the links between positive impact investments and profits.
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Following HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) recently published manual on cryptoassets, Stephen Kenny from Blick Rothenberg’s Financial Services team provides guidance on what they are, how they’re used and how they’re treated for tax purposes.
GUEST ARTICLE
By Thomas Holm Moller (EY-Parthenon EMEIA Digital Leader) and Laura McGarrity (EY-Parthenon Principal, Digital Innovation) – Private equity can develop and deploy digital capabilities in a portfolio company by building in-house capabilities, entering into collaborations, acquiring businesses with the necessary capabilities or outsourcing the need completely. Ambitious PE firms should consider the currently under-explored route of partnering with start-ups to stoke digital transformation.
Why work with start-ups? Based on successful examples in industries and organisations outside of PE, there is good reason for general partners to consider an ambitious partnership strategy:
Expertise: Start-ups tend to have specific expertise and the relevant
RESEARCH
A new global study has found that 70 per cent of private equity firms plan to invest in LatAm in the next five years – ahead of Asia Pacific – while over nine out of ten North American-based GPs are set to commit capital to the region by 2026.
According to the report ‘Recovery to Rediscovery: Capitalizing on a Changed Private Equity Landscape’, commissioned by Auxadi, 90 per cent of US-based private equity firms said they are interested in doing deals in LatAm. Auxadi provides accounting and tax services to private equity, real estate and multinationals.
The research was based
RESEARCH
We’ve already surpassed the EUR45.1 billion that was invested into European-based startups in 2020 – with only half the year gone VC deal value is currently standing at a whopping EUR47.1 billion, according to Pitchbook’s Q2 VC report, released today (Monday, 26 July).
“Deal value in the first six months of 2021 has already beaten the full year record that was set in 2020. The pace set in Q1 was relatively strong, and then that increased to another record amount of capital in Q2,” said Nalin Patel (pictured), author of Pitchbook’s latest VC report. He doesn’t think this will slow
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SECONDARIES
PE secondaries market sees surge in interest
SECONDARIES
PE secondaries market sees surge in interest