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Private equity, venture capital and alternative investments - long-form podcasts with industry leaders

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Private equity, venture capital and alternative investments - long-form podcasts with industry leaders

    Deal prospects: a global lawyer's perspective, with Chris Field of Dechert

    Deal prospects: a global lawyer's perspective, with Chris Field of Dechert

    With a deal drought across the global private equity industry, we talk to Chris Field of global law firm Dechert about what's next for M&A and buyout deal flow for 2024. We discuss valuations and defensive deal structures as vendors and buyers find ways to come together.
    Top quote: "I have never worked on an earn-out, ever, that has not resulted in some form of dispute.'"
    In this Fund Shack podcast with Ross Butler, Chris reveals what it takes to make it as a top private equity lawyer. 

    • 42 min
    African private equity: a conversation with Stephane Bacquaert

    African private equity: a conversation with Stephane Bacquaert

    Private equity is a great way of investing in uncertain, high growth environments. Strange then, that the African private equity industry is so small. In fact, Stephane Bacquaert, managing partner of Adenia Capital, argues that the mature Western private capital industry has systematically misunderstood the African opportunity, and its risk profile in particulare.
    In this Fund Shack podcast with Ross Butler, he talks about managing one of Africa's largest buyout funds, and the value that so many investors are missing out on.

    • 52 min
    Henry Freeman: repackaging private equity

    Henry Freeman: repackaging private equity

    Private equity fund managers are racing to find structures that will allow small private investors to invest with them. Meanwhile governments are introducing ELTIF and LTAF structures to encourage "democratization". Henry Freeman has been working at the nexus of public and private equity for two decades. And he has concerns.
    Henry is founder of the Fund Society, an insight aggregator for investors, launching imminently.
    Fund Shack: https://fund-shack.com/

    • 41 min
    Daniel Zwirn, Arena Investors: Avoiding moral hazard in private markets

    Daniel Zwirn, Arena Investors: Avoiding moral hazard in private markets

    Daniel Zwirn is CEO of Arena Investors LP. In this episode of the Fund Shack private equity podcast, he talks to Ross Butler about the opportunities in private markets, and how to prosecute them in a way that truly aligns incentives with underlying investors. [00:00:16] Ross Butler: You’re listening to fund Shack. I’m Ross Butler, and today my guest is Daniel Zwern, CEO and CIO of Arena Investors, a global asset manager that seeks out special situations across the world. Daniel has some very alternative perspectives on the opportunities in private markets and how to prosecute them. And so we […]

    • 52 min
    Hans Lovrek on private equity's ancient precedent

    Hans Lovrek on private equity's ancient precedent

    Hans Lovrek stumbled on Medieval Florentine documents that showed structures were being used to align interests in ventures with high information asymmetry that were uncannily similar to today’s limited partnerships. Through a method of historical institutionalism, Hans demonstrates how the same techniques have been used to solve similar problems, down the ages, and that today’s private equity industry is based on ideas that successful trading nations have used before. This episodes was recorded in March 2019 and is released on podcast for the first time in December 2023. [00:00:00] Ross Butler: You’re listening to fund Shack. I’m Ross Butler, and […]

    • 28 min
    Yaron Valler, Target Global - AI, VR, venture capital and separating hot air from substance

    Yaron Valler, Target Global - AI, VR, venture capital and separating hot air from substance

    Yaron Valler is a founder of venture capital firm Target Global. He is a successful entrepreneur and investor, and was part of the team at Intel that invented the Pentium Processor. In this episode of the Fund Shack podcast, he talks to Ross Butler about how AI will change ‘everything’, virtual reality, how government’s should direct innovation and risk capital, and much more. [00:00:00] Ross Butler: You’re listening to Fund Shack. I’m Ross Butler, and today I’m speaking with Yaron Valler, a founder at Target Global, a venture capital firm with offices in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Tel Aviv and elsewhere. […]

    • 46 min

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