Discussion with Simon Clark — Talking about his upcoming book on what is the alleged biggest fraud in private equity of all times, and coming from the inventor of impact investing, rather ironic…. This is the first public discussion of the book, which will no doubt become an iconic movie. Meanwhile, we learn a lot about the private equity industry and what needs to be done to ensure its sustainability when reading this superbly well-documented account of this big moment in PE young life.

Book is available on Amazon (et al.). Here is the link for Amazon UK and US

Discussion with Joseph Mate — Talking about the nascent yet ancient private debt market in Africa. 

Discussion with Eamon Devlin — Talking about the increasing involvement of private equity in football. This is an extract of a video call — with the full video available on youtube here.

Discussion with Vindi Banga — Talking about value-add in private equity with a focus on what was done by PE firms during the Covid-19 crisis to help their portfolio companies, the role of operating partners and a bit of ESG. This is a double session.

Discussion with Blair Jacobson — Talking about private debt in the US, where it started pre-2008, and how it expanded to the rest of the world including Asia recently.

Transcript available here.

Discussion with Tait Simpson — Talking about the Investor Relation function in PE firms.

Discussion with myself — talking about performance of Private Equity funds

Discussion with James Ranger — Talking about how bankers had to re-invent themselves and learn to co-exist with shadow bankers (private debt) in the world of leverage finance.