Featuring speakers from CapLink Group's European Private Capital Summit, NY Private Capital Summit, and Dubai Private Capital Summit. Private equity leaders and venture capitalists share insights on deal strategies, market trends, and investment opportunities.
The Operating Partner Role Has Changed More in Five Years Than the Previous Twenty
The operating partner has gone from a niche capability to a standard feature of private equity, but the role itself is changing faster than most people have adapted to it. Fredrik Bürger of EY traces how the function has evolved over two decades: from later-stage involvement to early diligence integration, from financial engineering to genuine operational transformation, and from internal resource to a source of healthy tension with portfolio company leadership that requires real emotional intelligence to manage well.
Recorded at the European Private Capital Summit in London, this conversation covers the value creation levers that actually drive PE outperformance including pricing, procurement, growth, and technology, and why a company's proprietary dataset is often more valuable than whatever AI sits on top of it.
6 May 2026
Private Credit Isn't in Crisis. It's Going Through Its First Real Cycle
After fifteen years without a true credit cycle, an uptick in defaults across private and public credit markets is neither surprising nor a signal of structural failure. It is the market functioning as it should. Natalia Tsitoura of Apollo makes a measured and confident case for why the fundamental supply and demand dynamics that created private credit remain intact, and why the firms that will define the next decade are the ones willing to innovate on structure rather than rely on what worked in the last one.
In conversation with Diala Minott of Paul Hastings, the discussion covers the capital needs still unmet across European infrastructure and energy transition, the investor education gap around semi-liquid evergreen structures, and why Apollo's view is that investment remains a judgment business where culture and experience, not data patterns alone, will determine who wins.
6 May 2026
Why Your Tax Team Should Be in the Room Before the Deal Is Done
The best in-house tax teams in private capital are not waiting to be consulted. They are in the room before a deal is structured, translating complex legislation into decisions investment teams can actually act on. Ed Hammond of Coller Capital makes the case that the shift from compliance function to trusted business advisor is not just cultural. It requires tax professionals to understand the commercial logic of a transaction well enough to know when some tax leakage is simply the cost of doing good business.
In conversation with Laura Underhill of Clifford Chance, the discussion covers the growing complexity of fund structures, why data management has become the top operational priority for tax teams in secondary funds, and how post-pandemic professional mobility is creating unexpected carried interest and permanent establishment risks that need active monitoring.
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