IPEM Paris 2025: The Patience Premium

News, PARIS 2025

While the era of cheap capital and high leverage might be over, there are significant tailwinds for GPs to harness and ride the next wave of innovation, seeking out creative ways to do deals and accelerate performance.

Digitization and other mega trends offer huge potential for GPs to consider how to build companies, invest in large-scale projects, and find new ways to transfer the economics of value creation over an extended timeframe.

The private wealth industry is looking closely, seeking more and more ways to partner with best-in-class managers to develop novel, ‘evergreen’ fund vehicles and put capital to work that can transform the interests of Europe for decades to come.

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News, WEEKLY SPIN

Private equity and high performance often go hand in hand and by some measure 2024 was a banner year for sports dealmaking. Next season maybe we’ll be watching PE executives joining in with endzone celebrations… sure the fans would love to see that. So what’s the hype? Well, a new report by financial advisory firm Oaklins reveals that M&A sports deals involving PE groups nearly doubled year-on-year, rising from 96 in 2023 to 190 in 2024.