16th November Secondaries Summit
16th November Fundraising Summit
17th – 19th November Main Conference
SuperInvestor is Europe’s foremost Private Equity, Venture Capital & LP/GP Relationship Management Summit. Uncover new LP best practice, investment opportunities and critical changes such as global regulation from leading LPs such as:
 BP PENSION FUND
BRITISH AIRWATS PENSION INVESTMENT
CAISSE DE DEPOT ET PLACEMENT DU [...]

17th October Investor Summit
18th – 20th October Main Conference
 SuperReturn Middle East is the leading private equity and venture capital event in the Middle East. The most powerful GPs discussing the most pertinent topics affecting the industry, just some of the industry leaders confirmed include:
  INTERNATIONAL
 David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group),
Steve Pagliuca (Bain Capital)
Thomas Kubr (Capital Dynamics)
  REGIONAL
 Abraaj Capital, Amwal AlKhaleej, [...]

The global economy is on the rebound and, with it, is the private equity industry, according to a new report.
More than 80% of p.e. professionals surveyed in a new Rothstein Kass report say that the credit crisis has ended or will end within a year. Indeed, fully one-third say that the crisis has been over [...]

Private equity now favors a second bite at the buyout.
This year, 35% of private-equity purchases have been “secondary buyouts,” in which one financial buyer sells to another. That is easily the highest proportion in at least a decade, according to data provider Dealogic.
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Mexico’s private pension funds are set to invest up to $600 million in three private equity deals in the coming weeks, as they stock up on riskier assets that promise bigger yields, market sources said.
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Britain’s private equity industry has enjoyed its busiest month in two and a half years as debt markets ease and firms look to spend cash, in a sign that the prolonged deal slump may be over.
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Thomson Reuters Buyouts Texas 2010 (http://www.buyoutsconferences.com/events/texas_2010/summary.cgi) is the leading private equity industry event in the Southern US for senior private equity fund managers and institutional investors’ meeting and networking requirements.
ILPA members may attend free of charge and they also receive a free copy of the PE/VC Partnership Agreements study after they have attended.
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The unquote” Private Equity Barometer, published in association with Candover, shows deal activity (buyout, early stage and growth capital) in the previous quarter by volume and Euro value. Figures are also recorded on a quarterly basis going back to Q1 2009, allowing comparison of deal activity. Figures are based on preliminary quarterly data from Incisive Media’s [...]

Buyout firms need to spend about $1 trillion (€777bn) of dry powder – committed but uncalled capital – that was raised during the boom years of 2005 to 2007, according to data provider Preqin. Some $400bn of that cash pile must be spent in three years or returned to investors, but the continuing recession has [...]