Private Equity Forum Austin 2024
Our Austin forum returns for a second year!
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Four Seasons Hotel Austin, Austin
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Mergermarket's Private Equity Forum Austin Returns!
Why should I attend?
Strategic Insights
Gain a competitive edge with actionable insights from expert LPs and GPs in the region. Get an inside look at their capital allocation plans and distinctive investment strategies. Armed with this expert knowledge, you'll be better equipped to make informed decisions and stay ahead in this rapidly changing market.
Professional Growth
Empower your professional development in the private equity domain. Participate in thought-provoking discussions led by industry veterans. Whether you're an experienced professional or just embarking on your private equity journey, you'll walk away with enhanced skills and fresh perspectives to drive success in your organization.
Networking
Enhance your professional network by engaging with prominent LPs, GPs, and M&A advisors during our networking sessions. Exchange ideas, form potential collaborations, and identify prospective partners, setting the stage for future business opportunities. Seize this chance to strengthen your network and achieve success.
Sponsors
Adams Street Partners
http://www.adamsstreetpartners.comAdams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Adams Street’s 90+ investment professionals focus on five strategies: primary fund partnerships, secondary transactions, co-investments, direct growth equity company investments, and private credit deals. Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles by drawing on 50 years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships. The firm is 100% employee-owned and has $51 billion in assets under management. Adams Street maintains a worldwide presence with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Baker McKenzie
https://www.bakermckenzie.comBaker McKenzie is a transactional powerhouse with unmatched private equity focus and expertise. We work with some of the world's largest financial sponsors on acquisitions, exits and portfolio company needs. We help structure deals to minimize risk and ensure that clients achieve their goals.
With over 300 private equity lawyers, we have more experts in more markets than any other private equity practice and work seamlessly across borders to deliver onnovative advice wherever it may be. Seamless, global operation is part of our DNA.
Our full service firm and breadth of practices enables us to address all aspects of the transaction, bringing specialists that are best in class in their fields.
The combination of our deep sector local expertise, and our ability to work seamlessly across each of the countries and specialisations means we can add unique value in shaping, negotiating and closing the deal. We are a true partner in the investment process, from initial investment to exit, that can help structure financing, incentivise management, create value in the portfolio company and execute a successful exit.
The results speak for themselves - we lead and close complex deals - every day.
Haynes and Boone
https://www.haynesboone.com/Founded in 1970, Haynes and Boone, LLP is among the fastest-growing firms in the Am Law 100, providing a full spectrum of legal services across multiple sectors, including corporate, energy, financial services, real estate, restructuring, litigation, intellectual property and specialty transactions. The firm’s nearly 700 lawyers practice across 19 global offices in California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai. The 2023 Chambers USA Legal Guide ranked 31 different firm practice areas, and in 2024, Haynes Boone became the first Am Law 100 firm to ever earn a Gold-level Bell Seal from Mental Health America, recognizing its industry-leading commitment to creating a mentally healthy workplace. Haynes Boone’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group has comprehensive experience handling middle-market deals, having helped clients close more than 500 transactions in the last five years, with an aggregate value exceeding $50 billion. The firm routinely represents private equity firms, closely held corporations, founders, large financial institutions and Fortune 500 public companies. For more information, visit haynesboone.com.
Integrum
Integrum is an investment firm focused on partnering with technology-enabled services companies in the financial and business services sectors.
The firm was founded by a team of proven leaders with a vision to build a different type of investing platform benefiting from their diverse and complementary backgrounds and vast relationship network.
Integrum’s approach is to build a concentrated portfolio of high-conviction investments. Integrum aims to accelerate growth through investments in technology and other forms of innovation and by partnering with management teams to enhance access to talent, relationships, and capabilities.
Kirkland & Ellis
https://www.kirkland.comKirkland & Ellis is an international law firm with approximately 2,900 attorneys representing clients in private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions, litigation and dispute resolution/arbitration, restructuring, and intellectual property matters. The Firm operates from offices in 18 cities around the world: Austin, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.