03
Jul
Private equity’s evolving role in UK dealmaking – Risk-on or risk-off?
Private equity funds have been under increasing pressure to deploy and realise following two years of tricky M&A markets. Buyout activity is expected to remain on the uptick, but normalised valuations and emboldened LPs are forcing sponsors to change the way they buy, grow and sell. How is private equity’s role in UK dealmaking evolving?
- How are new deals being structured to ensure good outcomes for GPs, LPs, portfolio companies and lenders?
- How are sponsors shoring up their portfolio companies to ensure growth in volatile markets?
- Which new strategies are private equity firms raising and deploying to be proactive in capturing current dealmaking opportunities?
- What’s the competitive landscape for UK-based sponsors as more global funds and other types of investors, like family offices, enter the UK market?
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SpeakersRachel Lewis Head of Auctions, EMEA Mergermarket
Chris Warren Partner Charterhouse Capital Partners
Imogen Richards Partner Pantheon
Jim Weight Managing Partner Weight Partners Capital
Layton Tamberlin Managing Partner Sullivan Street
Tom Wrenn Managing Partner ECI Partners
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Chris joined Charterhouse in 2013. He is a Partner in the Deal Team. During Chris’s time at Charterhouse, he has been involved with numerous transactions including Comexposium, Mirion Technologies, Sagemcom and SLR Consulting.He previously spent ten years with ECI Partners where he completed a number of transactions across a wide range of sectors. Prior to ECI, Chris worked at BC Partners and before that as a consultant with COBA in their Strategy and Private Equity Group.Chris holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.
Imogen is a Partner and Head of Primaries in Pantheon’s European Private Equity team, and also head of the firm’s portfolio strategy and treasury & fund management teams. Prior to Pantheon Imogen worked on small and mid-market private equity and mezzanine transactions for Anglo Irish Bank in Dublin. She holds a master’s degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University.
WPC is a specialist private equity investor founded in 2009 to invest in the consumer and healthcare sectors where the team has operational experience. Jim founded WPC in 2009. He leads the investment team and chairs the investment committee. WPC has extensive experience in the healthcare sector, with a strong network of healthcare operators and investors. Jim Weight was CFO of Westminster Health Care Group under the ownership of Goldman Sachs and Welsh Carson. This was when Westminster was the market leader in mental health through Priory Healthcare and number 2 in care homes through Westminster Health Care. Jim has also worked as an operating partner for numerous private equity firms on healthcare transactions that did not complete, including Nuffield Hospitals, Capio AB, Nestor Healthcare, Patientline, Priory, Partnerships in Care, and Westminster Care Homes. Before launching WPC, Jim boosted profits as corporate operator and private equity advisor at a series of large companies. He was CFO of HiT Entertainment backed by Apax Partners and operating partner at Fortress for the 2005 acquisition of Boxclever from administration. He also worked as a commercial and operational due diligence advisor to numerous PE houses, including Montagu, Fortress, Permira, Apax, Terra Firma, Electra, HgCapital, EPIC, and Blackstone. Prior to this Jim spent a number of years as a divisional board director of Kingfisher subsidiaries including Comet, B&Q, Staples, Entertainment UK, and e-Kingfisher. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group where he spent eight years as a consultant. Jim was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Business School where he received an MBA. He also holds a BA in Engineering from Cambridge.
Layton has over 20 years’ experience as an investor, the first seven years of which was spent in more traditional private equity at large-cap firm TDR Capital. For the last 15 years Layton has been serving as Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Sullivan Street Partners working with smaller UK businesses. He takes the lead in driving investments, as well as operationally improving businesses and working closely with management. In this time, he has invested in and served as a Director for companies with values of £1m to £5bn and has seen the benefits of driven ownership and the pitfalls in the market of financial machinations, short-term stewardship, and governance.
Tom is one of the three Managing Partners at ECI Partners, forming part of the Investment Committee and helping to lead the firm’s strategic direction. He leads on Origination, Portfolio Management and Investor Relations, having spent the majority of his career partnering with tech and tech-enabled businesses, supporting them in achieving their global growth ambitions, whether organically or via M&A.