Who’s coming at IPEM 2022?
Building on new foundations seems like an entirely appropriate theme for IPEM 2022 given the enormity of the shifting macro and geopolitical sands we are currently witnessing.
IPEM 2022: A global village experience for private markets
It looks like UK private equity firms have tapped in to their ‘inner Gallic’ sensibilities. Rather than get all hot and flustered at the prospects of Brexit for their European deal making, they appear to have responded with a swift shrug of the shoulders and a perfunctory ‘Meh’. During 2021, UK general partners charged across the channel to do business with their cosy neighbours, completing some 442 deals. One wonders what all the Brexit fuss was about. Like the cigar smoke on a late summer afternoon, it seems to have evaporated like a bad memory. That good old British pragmatism is alive and well!
ALMOST THERE! A few summer words before IPEM 2021
Dear IPEM friends, We are so close to meeting for the first time in over a year! I hope that you enjoyed a well-deserved summer break and are now preparing to join us in Paris next September 8/9. To date, 863 companies / 301 GPs / 346 LPs totaling 2,292 delegates have confirmed their attendance. This…
Get ready for IPEM 2021 Special Paris Edition, September 8/9 at ParisLonchamp racecourse!
Dear IPEM friends, I hope you are doing well and staying positive! We have been in touch with many of you over the last few weeks and felt a real will of our community to reconnect in person after months of travel and conference starvation. The current context is obviously not easy to navigate but…
IPEM January Letter – Why is private equity a club of such “incorrigible optimists”?
Dear IPEM Friends, In 2009, Jean-Michel Guenassia published “Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes”. The novel had an extraordinary popular success in France, which is regularly ranked as the most pessimistic country in the developed world, only surpassed by Iraq and Afghanistan in the world moaners championship. This refreshing book tells the story of 12-years old…