15
Oct
Private equity exit outlook- where do we go from here?
The private equity exit market remains slow compared to 2021 highs, although activity in the first quarter of 2024 shows positive signs compared to 2023, with 282 deals worth USS71m compared to 270 deals with $62million the year before according to Mergermarket data. Whilst the exit market remains muted, however, GPs are increasingly turning towards strategies such as carve outs and divestitures to get out of a backlog of old investments in order to put new funds to work and return cash to their LPs. How will the exit market continue to look as we head into 2025? Our panel of experts will discuss:
- Exit challenges- how will the deal backlog from 2023 impact activity in the year ahead?
- Are GPs facing mounting pressure to return profits to their investors? How are LPs assessing the situation at hand and are they pulling back allocations?
- Getting creative- how are GPs finding alternative ways to keep capital flowing back to their LPs?
- A potential IPO market bounceback- is the recovering IPO market a key solution to the exit problem?
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SpeakersKaci Boyer Managing Director, Private Equity NEUBERGER BERMAN
Hunter Peterson Founder and Managing Partner SKYLARK PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNERS
Yoni Riemer Managing Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Development PEAK ROCK CAPITAL
Carlos Martinez Canada Editor MERGERMARKET
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Kaci Boyer is a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman and a senior member of the private equity investment team. Ms. Boyer focuses on designing and implementing customized private equity portfolios for institutional clients, acting as a program manager and a client investment contact for some of NB Private Equity’s largest custom account mandates. In addition, she is also responsible for evaluating and executing private equity investments and assists with business development activities across the private equity platform. Ms. Boyer joined the Dallas office in 2007 and spent nine months in Neuberger Berman’s Hong Kong office focused on private equity investments throughout the Asia Pacific region. In 2017, the National Association of Investment Companies recognized Ms. Boyer as a Rising Star for outstanding contributions she has made to the private equity industry early in her career. Ms. Boyer received a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University.
Hunter has spent over 25 years investing in lower middle market companies across a variety of industries including healthcare, specialty manufacturing, and business services. He wholeheartedly believes that entrepreneurs are the backbone of the world’s economy and respects the talent, skill, and risk tolerance required to start a new business. As an investor, he enjoys working alongside business founders and their families and believes it a great privilege to provide strategic counsel to the companies in which he invests. Hunter considers private equity to be a great tool which can be used to amplify the success these businesses have already achieved.
Prior to starting Skylark Private Equity Partners, Hunter was a partner at both The Riverside Company and Trinity Hunt Partners. Earlier in his career, he worked at TA Associates, William Blair & Company, and Heller Financial. Hunter received a BA in Economics, from Vanderbilt University and his MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Yoni Riemer is the Managing Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Development at Peak Rock Capital. In his role, Yoni leads the Investor Relations team across all Peak Rock fund strategies, and also helps oversee communications and firm development initiatives. He joined Peak Rock in its inaugural fund as a Vice President, and subsequently served as a Principal on the Private Equity investment team prior to his current leadership role.
Peak Rock Capital is a leading middle-market private investment firm headquartered in Austin, Texas, making equity and debt investments in companies in North America and Europe. Peak Rock’s equity investment platform focuses on opportunities where it can support senior management to drive rapid growth and performance improvement, with expertise in corporate carve-outs and partnering with families and founders seeking first-time institutional capital.
After eight years collaborating for Mergermarket from Latin America, Carlos is joining our staff as the new Canada Editor, where he will boost coverage and build up a strong source network, as well as spearhead Mergermarket’s energy and mining reporting.
Carlos started out as a Colombia correspondent in late 2014 and quickly became a crucial member of the Latin America team, helping with edits, sharing leads on Teams, and closely collaborating with Debtwire and Infralogic’s regional teams. He was named Deputy Latin America Editor in 2021.
Prior to joining Mergermarket, Carlos was senior features editor at Mexico’s leading business magazine and held similar roles at various other media outlets in Canada and the UK. He started his journalism career as a researcher/reporter at the Los Angeles Times’ foreign bureau in Mexico City back in 2005.
Carlos holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Thompson Rivers University in Canada and a master’s degree in international development from the University of Manchester in the UK. He is fluent in English and Spanish and is refreshing his high school French language skills. Outside of work he spends most of his time playing with his six-year-old daughter Sienna and walking his mixed-breed schnauzer Max.