Main Conference Day 1
By invitation only, closed-door discussion run under the Chatham House Rule
This exclusive breakfast is only open to invited development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.
For more information, please contact Sarah Donahue on sarah.donahue@informa.com
- Johanna Lottman - Partner, PJT Park Hill
What factors have driven the secondary market's transformation from a niche liquidity solution to a significant segment of private equity? How have major players influenced the growth and institutionalization of the secondary market? In what ways has this diversified the secondary market across asset classes?
- Bruno Bertrand-Delfau - Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
- Philippe Ferneini - Partner, StepStone Group
- Bertrand Chevalier - Deputy Co-Head of Europe Secondaries & Primaries, Ardian
- William Thompson - Managing Director, HarbourVest
- Sebastien Burdel - Partner, Secondaries, Ares Management
- Gabriel Mollerberg - Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Simon Saitowitz - Partner, Weil
- Marianne Parker - Managing Director, AlpInvest Partners
- Emma Inger - Managing Director, Lexington Partners
- Warren Allan - Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
- David Lee - Head of GP Solutions, Eldridge Capital Management
- Philipp Patschkowski - Managing Director, Neuberger
- Patrick Knechtli - Head of Secondaries, Patria Investments
- Antony Anastasiadis - Managing Director, Secondaries, Hamilton Lane
- Tosin Adeyeri - Partner, Travers Smith LLP
- Tara Walsh - Senior Funds Consultant, Loan Market Association
- Andrew White - Senior Investment Principal, Capricorn Private Investments
- Patrick Sixsmith - Head of Co-Investments and GP-Led Secondaries, HSBC Alternatives Investments
- Jaime Alvarez - Head of PE and Infrastructure, Brunel PP
- Stephen Pike - Partner, Macfarlanes LLP
- Pravi Prakash - Investment Manager Private Markets, Railpen
- Dusan Senderak - Senior Principal, Secondaries, Mercer, a Marsh Business
- Tim Griggs - Managing Parter, Bluetower Associates
- James Munro - Deputy Head of Portfolio Group, Albourne Partners Ltd.
- Brenlen Jinkens - Partner, PJT Park Hill
How can fund managers overcome capital constraints and stand out in a competitive market, especially for first-time or niche secondaries funds? What can smaller firms learn from record-breaking campaigns to succeed amid mega-manager dominance and market challenges?
- Angela Enzo - Director, Probitas Partners
- Thomas Hallinger - Managing Director, Golding Capital Partners
- Rohan Dutt - Managing Director, Global Secondaries, Cambridge Associates
- Konstantin Sidorov - Founder & CEO, London Technology Club
Given that venture and growth capital secondaries are hard to scale, what is the most significant opportunity set for new entrants, and what are the specific challenges in this area? What makes VC and growth secondary deal structuring different from PE, and are established PE players equipped to handle the unique volatility of the VC market?
- Francois Bouillon - Partner, Ely Place Partners
- Mark Barry - Senior Investment Director, British Business Bank
- Diego Recondo - General Partner, Acurio Ventures
- Omolade Adebisi - Principal, Isomer Capital
How is the current high-interest rate environment affecting the pricing and valuation of private credit secondaries? With so many new players entering the market, what specific strategies are required to source and execute private credit secondary deals effectively? Are the deal structures and risk profiles of private credit secondaries fundamentally different from those in the traditional private equity secondary market?
- Kenneth Blazejewski - Partner, Co-Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s Sponsor Solutions Group, Cleary Gottlieb
- Maëlle Reichenbach - Senior Principal, Montana Capital Partners / PGIM Credit Secondaries
- Joaquin Ardit - Senior Portfolio Manager, Allianz Global Investors
- Anish Satija - Managing Director, Ares Management
Joint session with SuperReturn Private Credit Europe
- Deborah Meaden - Entrepreneur, Investor, Author, and Environmentalist, -
- Neil Callanan - Head of private companies coverage, Bloomberg News
What is the primary motivation for the growing wave of retail capital moving into the secondaries market, and is this a sustainable trend? Do retail investors truly understand the risks of illiquid assets, and what is the responsibility of the funds and GPs that are marketing to them? How will the influx of smaller investors change the dynamics of deal-making and the fair valuation of assets in GP-led transactions?
- Jonathan Sherman - Managing Director | Fund Accounting, SS&C
- Sean Ward - Managing Partner, Hicks Street Holdings
- Ricardo De Sousa - Chief Investment Officer, Logiver
Table 1: Are secondaries becoming a stand-alone asset class?
Table 2: How are secondaries reshaping the LP-GP relationship?
Table 3: What are the opportunities in niche strategies for direct secondaries?
- Konstantin Sidorov - Founder & CEO, London Technology Club
- Henry Potter - Partner, EastPeak
- Olav Ostin - Managing Partner, TempCap
- Brenlen Jinkens - Partner, PJT Park Hill