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Global Secondaries Summit
24 September 2025
DoubleTree by Hilton London - Tower of LondonUK

Laura Shen
Partner & Co-Founder at Headway Capital
Speaker

Profile

Laura Shen is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Headway Capital. Headway has €1.5 billion of advised funds and invests with private equity managers on a deal-by-deal basis with a focus on lower middle market buyout and independent sponsors in Europe and the US.

Prior to Headway, Laura invested in private equity secondaries at Coller Capital. Earlier in her career, Laura worked in leveraged buyouts at Bain Capital in Boston and in leveraged finance at Goldman Sachs in New York.

Laura received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, where she was a Siebel Scholar and a Bachelor of Arts with high honours in Economics and Political Science from Amherst College.


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Agenda Sessions

  • GP-leds: Single Asset

    14:30