8th Private Equity Europe Forum

ATOZ is a high-end independent advisory firm based in Luxembourg offering a comprehensive and integrated range of tax, corporate finance and ESG services. We advise on and deliver solutions for sophisticated local and global professional clients. With over 100 highly skilled professionals, our team has in depth experience of serving demanding businesses and institutional clients in need of tailor made advice. ATOZ is the Luxembourg member of Taxand. Taxand focuses on delivering high quality, integrated tax advice, free from time consuming audit conflicts. Taxand advisers work together to deliver global tax services for clients.

CAC Specialty is an industry-leading specialty insurance broker and advisor that provides expertise and placement capabilities across the spectrum of insurance and capital markets. CAC delivers customized solutions for a wide range of risks, serving both large corporations and small-to-medium enterprises. It is an employee-owned company, housing top industry talent dedicated to meeting clients’ comprehensive risk management needs and ranked in the top 40 of all U.S. brokerage firms.

CAC Specialty’s Tax Insurance Practice comprised of seasoned tax attorneys and former tax insurance underwriters, combines deep tax technical expertise, industry experience, and business acumen to craft innovative and unique tax insurance solutions so any client can quickly transfer the risk of the unanticipated and detrimental consequences of a successful challenge by a taxing authority—creating more certainty for sponsors, corporations, and stakeholders.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices and a global perspective. Approximately 800 lawyers work in ten offices across three continents, within integrated global practices, serving clients around the world. The Debevoise Private Equity Group continues to lead the field, in an industry it has helped shape for decades. It brings a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to deal after deal, and has been a recognized leader for more than 40 years. The practice’s scope and focus make it extraordinarily market wise. It includes specialized groups skilled in fund formation and investment management, buyouts and other strategic investments, finance, securities and capital markets, tax, and management compensation and employee benefits. Each group approaches its work with a distinctive private equity focus.

Dechert has been at the forefront of advising private equity firms for more than 40 years. With 350 private capital and private equity clients, we have unique insights into how the industry has evolved and where it’s going next. Our globally integrated team of more than 500 lawyers advises private equity, private credit and multi-strategy asset managers on flexible solutions at every phase.

At Goodwin our 1,800+ lawyers across Europe, the US and Asia excel at fund formation, complex transactions, high-stakes litigation and world-class advisory services in the private equity, real estate, infrastructure, technology, life sciences and financial indus-tries. Goodwin is recognized as a “go to” law firm for fund formation and acts on some of the most prominent fundraisings across these asset classes. The team has been named ‘Investment Fund Formation and Management Firm of the Year’ by Legal 500 and ‘Legal Advisor of the Year for Fund Structuring’ at the SuperReturn Awards. Goodwin was recently ranked by Refinitiv as the #1 legal advisor (by deal count) for global M&A in 2021, acting on more than 1,080 announced deals valued at US$176 billion.

At Herbert Smith Freehills, we have a multi-capability private equity practice. We advise clients across the full lifecycle of investments from fundraising and capital deployment, supporting their investments all the way to exit.

We advise our private equity clients in EMEA and Asia Pacific with offices across 25 countries. Our geographical spread means we are able to advise on complex cross-border transactions and our deep sector knowledge gives us an expert's view of the underlying investments.

Novata is your sustainability management partner. Our trusted data management platform and advisory practice empowers our clients to confidently align business decisions to their sustainability goals. Our solutions automate data collection and reporting, streamline carbon accounting, and simplify regulations. We make it easy for organisations to achieve their sustainability goals, because it’s good for business and it’s good for the planet.

Primary Wave IP Investment Management is the leading manager focused on investing in music intellectual property, with over $3.5 billion in AUM. Primary Wave has invested in the music IP of iconic artists Bob Marley, Prince, Whitney Houston, James Brown, and The Doors, among many others, and recently announced a $2 billion JV with Brookfield.

S-RM is a Corporate Intelligence and Cyber Security consultancy. Founded in 2005, we have 400+ practitioners spanning nine international offices, serving clients across all regions and major sectors. We support our clients and partners by delivering intelligence that informs strategy and decision-making; by supporting them in building resilience to cyber threats; and by providing rapid response to cyber incidents and other organisational crises. Our teams frequently support private equity firms and other leading investors, providing top tier reputational and integrity due diligence, cyber risk management, and ESG services.

SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations rely on SS&C for expertise and technology. SS&C provides highly flexible, scalable and cost-effective solutions to enable our financial services clients to track complex securities, better employ sophisticated investment strategies, scale efficiently and meet evolving regulatory requirements. Our products and services allow clients to automate and integrate their front-office, middle-office and back-office functions, enabling straight-through processing to increase productivity and reduce costs.

Stax is a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for private equity firms, PE-back companies, hedge funds, and investment banks. The firm works across a diverse range of industries including software/technology, healthcare, business services, industrial, consumer/retail, and the events ecosystem. Stax partners with clients to provide data-driven, actionable insights designed to drive growth, enhance profits, increase value, and make better investment decisions.

White & Case is a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many. White & Case has one of the largest Private Equity practices across EMEA, the US and APAC, representing sponsors and financial investors through every stage of the investment lifecycle—from pre-investment due diligence to strategic growth and exits. As part of our Private Equity practice, our Investment Funds team supports fund managers and investors throughout the entire fund lifecycle, with deep expertise across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit and secondaries funds, as well as hedge and hybrid funds.

Apex Group Ltd., established in Bermuda in 2003, is a global financial services provider. With over 13,000 employees globally, Apex Group provides services into 50 jurisdictions delivering an expansive range of services to asset managers, financial institutions, private clients, and family offices. The Group has continually improved and evolved its capabilities to offer a single-source solution through establishing the broadest range of services in the industry; including fundraising solutions, fund administration, digital onboarding and bank accounts, depositary, custody, super ManCo, corporate services and a pioneering ESG ratings and advisory solution. Apex Group’s purpose is to be more than just a financial services provider and is committed to driving positive change to address three core areas; the environment and climate change, women’s empowerment and economic independence, education and social mobility.

Revenue Management Labs (RML) was founded in 2015 as a boutique revenue management consulting company by Michael Stanisz and Avy Punwasee. With experience in both industry and consulting, they built RML to deliver actionable pricing strategies tailored to real-world challenges. Their hands-on approach ensures clients can implement and sustain growth-driven pricing solutions. Today, RML is a fast-growing revenue management consulting firm, helping businesses worldwide drive growth through in-depth insights, innovative pricing, and practical solutions. Their client-centric focus creates long-term value for business leaders across industries.

Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA) was born from the research developed at the EDHEC Business School and has been an index and data provider since 2019, serving numerous prestigious clients representing hundreds of billions of dollars of private equity and infrastructure assets under management. We offer a solution to the main data challenge investors face in private markets: an endemic lack of risk and performance data restricting best practices and obfuscating investment decisions.

Founded in 1848, Lazard is the preeminent financial advisory and asset management firm, with operations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Lazard provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and capital solutions, restructuring and liability management, geopolitics, and other strategic matters, as well as asset management and investment solutions to institutions, corporations, governments, partnerships, family offices, and high net worth individuals. For more information, please visit Lazard.com and follow Lazard on LinkedIn.