James joined Advent in 1997 and co-chairs Advent’s global Executive Committee. Based in London, he co-heads Advent in Europe and is a member of the business and financial services sector team.

In addition to his investment focus, James is an advocate for diversity and sustainability in the industry. He is a member of the advisory council of private equity diversity organisation Level 20 and serves as chair of the private equity task force of the Sustainable Markets Initiative.

ADVENT INTERNATIONAL

Founded in 1984, Advent International is one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors. The firm has invested in 421 private equity investments across 43 countries, and as of March 31, 2024, had $90 billion in assets under management*. With 15 offices in 12 countries, Advent has established a globally integrated team of over 315 private equity investment professionals across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The firm focuses on investments in five core sectors, including business and financial services; health care; industrial; retail, consumer, and leisure; and technology. For 40 years, Advent has been dedicated to international investing and remains committed to partnering with management teams to deliver sustained revenue and earnings growth for its portfolio companies.

For more information, visit
Website: www.adventinternational.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/advent-international

* Assets under management include assets attributable to Advent advisory clients as well as employee and third-party co-investment vehicles.

Ms. Cohen joins from Monroe Capital LLC, where she was the Global Head of Institutional Partnerships, responsible for fostering key partnerships and driving growth initiatives. Before her tenure at Monroe Capital, she held top leadership positions at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (USA) (“MUFG”), including Chief Investment Strategy Officer. At MUFG, Ms. Cohen was responsible for advising, directing, and governing the strategic alternatives investment portfolio, as well as playing a strategic role in the Firm's ESG and DEI initiatives.

Additionally, Ms. Cohen has held senior investment banking and trusted advisor roles at J.P. Morgan, UBS Investment Bank, and Credit Suisse First Boston, where she honed her abilities in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and client relations.

Gwenola Chambon is CEO and Founding Partner of Vauban Infrastructure Partners. She has built and developed the firm’s equity infrastructure activity over the past 12 years. She developed the team, led fundraising for various vintages, designed the funds’ strategies, and spearheaded their capital deployment. She has successfully turned Vauban into a multibillion asset manager with a strong international client base.

Throughout her 28-year career, Gwenola has developed an extensive knowledge of the European infrastructure sector and has deep experience financing and investing in infrastructure assets. She has worked on numerous landmark transactions, from the first PPP projects in continental Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, France) to the development of strategic acquisitions in the European core infrastructure space (notably in digital infrastructure in France, Spanish PPPs, smart meters, etc.). Prior to developing the equity infrastructure activities of Natixis IM in 2010 she spent two years at the infrastructure fund Galaxy. Before that, Gwenola was Head of European Infrastructure at CFIG, and previously was a senior member of the project finance team at BNP Paribas.

In addition to her responsibilities as director on the boards of various European infrastructure companies (Proxiserve, Axione, Comsa Concessiones, Alis, etc.) Gwenola is a member of several industry groups including the European Commission working group of Experts in Infrastructure, the PRI expert group, EFAMA, and the AFG and AFIC working groups for infrastructure. She is also an active member of the Institut de la Gestion Déléguée in France. Gwenola is an active member of IFA (Institut Français des Administrateurs) and is responsible for project finance courses in ESSEC’s Masters of Complex Financing.

Gwenola is fluent in French, Spanish, and English, and holds a Master’s in Business from ESCP.

Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Vauban Infrastructure Partners is a leading infrastructure asset manager focused on European core infrastructure investments. Headquartered in Paris, Vauban employs c.70 professionals, the majority of whom have been working together for over a decade. Vauban targets predominantly European brownfield mid-market assets, and pursues a long-term, yield-driven strategy matching the underlying nature of the assets and long-term commitment to all stakeholders’ interests through a strong focus on creating sustainable value. Vauban has raised over €8bn across 7 funds in core infrastructure, and has invested in the mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors spanning 12 different geographies.

Sabrina is the Chief Executive Officer for the European Leveraged Finance Association, an investor-only trade association comprised of European leveraged finance investors from over 60 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance companies, and pension funds. ELFA seeks to support the growth and resilience of the leveraged finance market while acting as the voice of its investor community by promoting transparency and facilitating engagement among European leveraged finance market participants.

Sabrina is a recognised expert in the European leveraged finance market focused on increasing transparency, improving disclosure standards, and educating market participants on the importance of lender protections in documentation.

Most recently, Sabrina was Head of European High Yield Research for Covenant Review. Prior to that, she was Counsel with DLA Piper in London.

For more information about ELFA, including our mission statement and member benefits, visit www.elfainvestors.com.

Laurie Mahon served as Vice Chair of CIBC’s Global Investment Banking business until May of this year, a role she assumed after having led the Global Infrastructure and Power team since August 2013. She has spent her entire professional life in the infrastructure space, having had a multifaceted career as a banker, public sector manager, infrastructure executive, consultant, journalist and developer focusing on the development and financing of large infrastructure projects around the globe.

Before joining CIBC Capital Markets, Ms. Mahon was a senior expert in McKinsey’s infrastructure practice. Previously, she spent 12 years as an independent advisor, helping numerous public and private entities develop transportation projects in the U.S., Latin America, China and the U.K. From 1984 until 1999, she worked on Wall Street as an investment banker, focusing on the infrastructure markets in both the U.S. and emerging markets. She started her banking career as a municipal banker.

Prior to her banking career, Ms. Mahon spent five years at New Jersey Transit, where she held various positions in planning and policy until becoming deputy Chief Financial Officer.
Ms. Mahon began her professional career as a journalist with The Boston Globe and The Bergen Record.

She is a member of the North American Advisory Board of Transurban Inc., a global developer and operator of toll facilities, serves as a trustee for Public Media New Jersey Inc., which operates NJ PBS, and served as a director for Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives Inc., a NASDAQ company which constructs wind, solar and rail projects, until its sale last year.

Ms. Mahon holds a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Harvard University, and a B.S. summa cum laude in journalism from Boston University.

Teia Merring is a Senior Investment Director in the Private Equity Funds and Co-Investment team at USS Investment Management (~£70bn under management), the corporate pension plan for universities in the United Kingdom.

She is responsible for executing and managing private equity fund commitments and co-investments across all sectors and geographies and sits on various supervisory boards.

In addition to her role at USS, Teia is the Chair of the ILPA Board.

Prior to joining USS in 2011, Teia was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the Healthcare division.
She holds a MSc in Applied Economics and Finance from Copenhagen Business School, and her university studies included a MBA term at IIM Ahmedabad, India.

USS

The Universities Superannuation Scheme is a pension scheme in the United Kingdom with ~£70 billion under management. It has over 400,000 members, made up of active and retired academic and academic-related staff (including senior administrative staff) across Universities in the UK established prior to 1992. It is the largest private pension scheme in the UK by fund size. The headquarters of Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited (USS) are in Liverpool.

Patricia is an experienced Non-Executive Board Director with a breadth of institutional investment experience across infrastructure, private equity and sustainability. Over the past two decades, Patricia has been an investment manager at Macquarie and direct investor at the UK Government and PSP. 

Patricia’s dual ambitions of investing well and seeking to protect the planet led her to join the UK Government to co-create the world’s first green bank in 2011. 

Patricia is a Non-Executive Board Director at Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd and Chair of the Rem/NomCo at Aquila European Renewables AERI plc. Patricia is a Non-Executive Independent Investment Committee Member at GLIL, investing in UK infrastructure on behalf of its pension plan members, and at Old Mutual’s African Infrastructure Investment Fund 4. SHE'S A FELLOW OF CHAPTER ZERO AND CO-FOUNDER OF REAL ASSETS INFRANEDS NETWORK.

Patricia began her career in finance with Morgan Stanley. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University.

Deborah Zurkow is Global Head of Investments at Allianz Global Investors, and a member of the Executive Committee. In January 2020, Deborah took on responsibility for leading AllianzGI’s investment platform, which comprises Private Markets, Equities, Fixed Income and Multi-Asset strategies.

Deborah joined AllianzGI in 2012 as CIO and Head of Infrastructure Debt, leading a team that pioneered infrastructure debt as an asset class for institutional investors. Since its inception, the team has made over EUR 25bn of debt investments in a variety of infrastructure sectors across the globe.

Before joining AllianzGI, Deborah was CEO of Trifinium Advisors Limited and head of Public Finance EMEA for MBIA UK Insurance Limited.

Deborah holds an MBA from Yale School of Management and a BA from Wellesley College. She is the Chair of the ACC (Alternatives Credit Council) and a Founding Board member of the LTIIA (Long-term Infrastructure Investors Association).

Deborah received 100 Women in Finance’s 2024 EMEA Industry Leadership Award, and she has been included in Financial News’ list of ‘100 Most Influential Women in European Finance’ on multiple occasions.

Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager with over 600 investment professionals in over 20 offices worldwide and managing EUR 516 billion in assets. We invest for the long term and seek to generate value for clients every step of the way. We do this by being active – in how we partner with clients and anticipate their changing needs, and build solutions based on capabilities across public and private markets. Our focus on protecting and enhancing our clients’ assets leads naturally to a commitment to sustainability to drive positive change. Our goal is to elevate the investment experience for clients, whatever their location or objectives.

Maria is Co-Head of the Infrastructure Funds and Co-Investments team at Allianz Capital Partners. Maria joined ACP’s team in 2017, shortly after the inception of the Infrastructure Funds and Co-Investments strategy. Sourcing deals successfully during the last few years, Maria has been essential to the success and deployment of the AGDIEF I and II that attracted over EUR 2bn in client commitments over four years. In October 2023, the AGDIEF II held its final close at over EUR 1bn. Before joining ACP, Maria Aguilar-Wittmann was with EQT Infrastructure and Macquarie for six years. She played an important role in building out AllianzGI’s indirect infrastructure equity platform into a successful franchise. In December 2023, Maria Aguilar-Wittmann was recognized by Infrastructure Investor as one of the “Rising Stars –20 under 40”.

Sophia is Head of Direct Lending and Portfolio Manager for EMEA within Macquarie Asset Management (MAM). She is responsible for leadership of the business and stewardship of investor capital. She sits on the Direct Lending Investment Committee and the Infrastructure and Investment Grade Private Credit Investment Committee.

Sophia has proven experience in Private Credit investing and ~20 years in the industry. She has extensive expertise in credit risk and investing across private credit strategies. Previously she was Co-Head of Infrastructure & Investment Grade Private Credit and Head of Credit Risk within MAM Private Credit, with decision-making responsibility and accountability for all investments on the platform. Before joining MAM, Sophia worked in Macquarie’s Credit Risk Management Group.

Sophia has a Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies) (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney and an Executive Master in finance from INSEAD.

Laurine is an Investment Director in AustralianSuper’s Private Credit team, based in London. She joined the Fund in 2022 to participate in the development and expansion of the Private Credit franchise.

She started her career in Paris with Natixis, where she spent nearly 10 years working predominantly in commercial real estate finance. She spent five years based in New York where she worked on the origination, execution and closing of over $3.0bn of CRE loans to US borrowers. Between 2019 and 2021 and prior to joining AustralianSuper, she was working on the European syndication desk for CRE loans done for Natixis’ clients.

Laurine holds a Bachelor in Applied Mathematics and a Masters in Economics and Engineering Finance from University Paris Dauphine.

Alena Antonava is Investment Manager at Railpen responsible for origination and execution of investment opportunities in infrastructure and energy transition. Since joining Railpen, Alena originated and led to completion several investments in various sectors including wind, solar, geothermal, and energy storage. Alena is also responsible for the ongoing asset management and serves as a Board member for various investee companies. Prior to Railpen, Alena worked at Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP where she was part of the telecoms investment team. She has more than 10 years of experience in financial services.

Alena is a Chartered Accountant, holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Belarusian State Economic University and an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University.

Railpen

Railpen is one of the UK’s largest and longest established pension funds. Railpen is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of circa £35 billion on behalf of the scheme’s 350,000 members who are connected to the railway industry. Railpen has an in-house investment team with expertise in the infrastructure debt and equity markets and has invested over £1.9bn in infrastructure to date. Railpen is increasingly focussed on energy infrastructure investments and has invested c. £500m in energy transition to date. Railpen’s most recent investments include Tralorg Wind Farm, Carraig Gheal Wind Farm, Sleaford and Margam Biomass Plants, Bracks Solar Park and Constantine Energy Storage.

Graduate of EM Lyon.
Bérénice Arbona is heading the infrastructure debt activities at LBP AM. She has 21 years of experience in project finance on both the sponsor and banking sides.
Bérénice Arbona began her career in 2003 at Autoroutes du Sud de la France (now part of the Vinci group) and then Eiffage, where she was in charge of structuring the financing of motorway, rail and PPP infrastructure projects. She then moved to the banking side in 2007, in the infrastructure team of Dexia Crédit Local where she was in charge of arranging infrastructure projects in France and mainly internationally. In 2012, she joined Alstom Transport and was in charge of structuring the financing of concession and PPP projects for railways and tramways. She joined LBP AM in 2014 and became Head of Infrastructure Debt in 2020. In 2023, Bérénice won the Women in Energy Transition Price awarded by Andera Partners and GreenUnivers.

During her 18 years in infrastructure, Pilar has worked across sectors and throughout the whole investment cycle, from product strategy and fundraising to project realisations.

As a Partner in InfraRed’s Fund Management team, Pilar has a key role driving the value-add strategies and sits on the Investment Committees for two value-add funds.

Pilar leads the implementation of value enhancements within the value-add funds and serves on the board of Nexspace, a portfolio company dedicated to the development of data centres in the DACH region.

Pilar was responsible for the development of InfraRed’s latest value-add fund, from the initial design to its investment strategy. Previously, Pilar was a Portfolio Director for one of InfraRed’s value-add funds and she led the origination and execution of investment opportunities for a number of years.

Before joining InfraRed in 2013, Pilar was a member of the investment team at Isolux, Eiffage Concessions and Acciona Concesiones.

InfraRed Capital Partners

InfraRed Capital Partners is an international infrastructure asset manager, with more than 160 professionals operating worldwide from offices in London, Madrid, New York, Sydney and Seoul. Over the past 25 years, InfraRed has established itself as a highly successful developer and steward of infrastructure assets that play a vital role in supporting communities. InfraRed manages US$13bn+ of equity capital [1] for investors around the globe, in listed and private funds across both core and value-add strategies.

A long-term sustainability-led mindset is integral to how InfraRed operates as it aims to achieve lasting, positive impacts and deliver on its vision of Creating Better Futures. InfraRed is a signatory of the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) [2], a member of the Net Zero Asset Manager’s Initiative, and is a TCFD supporter.

InfraRed is part of SLC Management, the institutional alternatives and traditional asset management business of Sun Life. InfraRed represents the infrastructure equity arm of SLC Management, which also incorporates BGO, a global real estate investment management adviser, and Crescent Capital, a global alternative credit investment asset manager.

Svetlana is SVP in the GIC Infrastructure team, based in the London Office. Her leadership responsibilities include supervising our efforts in the European digital infrastructure sector, overseeing deal origination and execution, and representing GIC on the Board of some of our portfolio companies.

GIC

GIC is a leading global investment firm established in 1981 to secure Singapore’s financial future. As the manager of Singapore’s foreign reserves, we take a long-term, disciplined approach to investing, and are uniquely positioned across a wide range of asset classes and active strategies globally. These include equities, fixed income, real estate, private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure. Our long-term approach, multi-asset capabilities, and global connectivity enable us to be an investor of choice. We seek to add meaningful value to our investments. Headquartered in Singapore, we have a global talent force of over 2,300 people in 11 key financial cities and have investments in over 40 countries.

Michela joined Phoenix Asset Management as Chief Credit Officer in May 2021. In this newly created role, Michela will lead the Credit Research and Ratings team for all asset strategies pursued by Phoenix Group, which will have capabilities to assign internal ratings to private credit and illiquid assets in an approach that will be consistent with industry peers and adhere to regulatory requirements. Michela joins Phoenix from Pension Insurance Corporation where she served as Head of Ratings and Credit Research. Prior to that, Michela spent 14 years at S&P Global Ratings, London, most recently as Senior Director, Infrastructure Ratings – EMEA Analytical Head, managing a team of 20 analysts and a portfolio of over 150 issuers in the infrastructure sector. The portfolio included corporate and project finance transactions covering social infrastructure, road, transport and renewables. Michela started her career at Goldman Sachs within the Equities Division. She holds a DEA en Analyse et Politique Economique (Master in Economics) from EHESS, Paris and a Specialization in Finance as a Ph.D. candidate from HEC, Paris.

Katie is an Investment Director at August Equity, with a particular focus on healthcare software and services into the healthcare market.

She currently sits on the board of OneTouch (care management operational software), and was a board director at Agilio Software which August exited to TA Associates and Five Arrows earlier this year. Other investments across the healthcare space include Impact Futures (healthcare apprenticeships and training), Hallmarq (veterinary imaging) and Sonderwell (complex care provider).

Prior to joining August Katie worked in the UK M&A team at Barclays Investment Bank, and holds a BA (Hons) in History from Oxford University.

Assia Belkahia joined Antin in 2017 and is based in London.
She holds board seats for CityFibre, the UK’s third largest full fibre network; Wildstone, Europe’s largest owner of outdoor media infrastructure; Hippocrates, the leading Italian independent pharmacy platform; as well as Consilium Safety, a global leader in safety management infrastructure. Assia led the feasibility phase, preparation and launch of Antin’s NextGen infrastructure strategy.

Prior to Antin, she was with CPP Investments, focusing on core infrastructure.
Assia started her career in M&A at Rothschild and holds an MSc in Business from ESSEC Business School.

Antin Infrastructure Partners

Antin Infrastructure Partners is a leading private equity firm focused on infrastructure. With over €30bn in assets under management across its Flagship, Mid Cap and NextGen investment strategies, Antin targets investments in the energy and environment, digital, transport and social infrastructure sectors. With a presence in Paris, London, New York, Singapore and Luxembourg, Antin employs over 200 professionals dedicated to growing, improving and transforming infrastructure businesses while delivering long-term value to portfolio companies and investors.

Isabel Berger is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Isabel is a member of the Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions and Real Estate practice groups.

Isabel advises private equity funds and other financial investor clients on domestic and cross-border transactions including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and divestitures, equity growth investments, joint ventures and co-investments and management equity plans, as well as related advisory work. She has experience advising sponsors across a broad range of industries including real estate private equity transactions.

Isabel is recognised by Legal 500 UK 2023 for private equity: transactions – high-value deals and Real Estate: Commercial Property – Investment and by Expert Guides as a Rising Star in their 2022 Guide, which recognizes the brightest and most talented practitioners under 40 in the area of business law and related practices.

Gibson Dunn

Gibson Dunn is a recognized leader in representing companies ranging from start-up ventures and emerging growth companies to multinational corporations across all major industries, particularly technology, communications, manufacturing and consumer services. We also represent the investment community, including commercial and investment banks, partnerships, and individuals. Our offices and practice groups work together seamlessly to craft customized, cutting-edge deals for our clients. Our corporate clients benefit from Gibson Dunn’s network of over 1,800 attorneys located in 20 offices in major cities in the United States and throughout the world. In the structuring, negotiation and execution of transactions, our corporate attorneys work closely with colleagues in other practice groups, including antitrust, tax, finance and executive compensation, all of which are vital to the success of complex corporate transactions. In addition, Gibson Dunn lawyers have played key roles before regulatory bodies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Dr. Tara Bishop is the founder and managing director of Black Opal Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in companies that are transforming healthcare through technology. Tara served as the Chief Medical Officer at Bind, a health insurance start-up at the forefront of disrupting healthcare.  Prior to joining Bind, Tara was the Medical Director and Senior Expert at McKinsey ＆ Co. She served as an associate professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy at Cornell Medical School and directed quality improvement and cared for patients at Cornell. Tara serves on the boards of Optellum and led investments in Intellihealth, Empatica, and Conceivable Life Sciences. Tara is also an Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences (Courtesy) at Weill Cornell Medical School and was named a Woman of Influence in Venture Capital by Private Equity International in 2022. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an MD degree from Weill Cornell Medical School.

Black Opal Ventures

Black Opal Ventures is a visionary technology venture capital firm co-founded by managing directors Dr. Tara Bishop and Eileen Tanghal. The firm’s mission is to invest in startups that harness the power of technology for good to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. The firm’s inaugural fund aims to improve health outcomes for all by investing in companies at the collision of healthcare and technology. Evidence shows that when two industries collide, the outcome is industry-transforming companies with exponential impact and returns. The firm's mission is to create a more inclusive venture capital ecosystem that invests in companies using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.

Kirsten is Co-Head of Pan European Private Debt. Before joining Muzinich, Kirsten worked as a Managing Director in the principal debt investing team at Macquarie, responsible for sourcing and executing transactions ranging from leveraged senior, unitranche and mezzanine debt to equity in the UK, Germany and Benelux. Previously, she worked for Silver Point Capital, a U.S.-based credit/distressed fund, in the private debt team in Europe. Kirsten started her career at Morgan Stanley in 1999, working in the generalist M&A and Leveraged Finance teams in Germany and London. Kirsten graduated from ESB Reutlingen and Middlesex University London with a B.A. (Hon) in European Business Administration.

Muzinich

Muzinich & Co. is a privately owned, investment firm specializing in public and private corporate credit. Our business was founded on three key principles: to understand and manage risk better than our competitors, to navigate business cycles and find value in credit markets, and to deliver the best possible returns for our clients. These principles are as relevant to the clients of today as they were when our firm was founded in the late 1980s. Our capabilities cover a wide range of global public and private credit markets, from investment-grade, emerging markets and syndicated loans to direct lending, parallel lending and aviation finance. Our team comprises more than 250 professionals in 15 offices across the globe, helping us stay close to our investments and our clients. Our commitment is to build true and lasting partnerships with our clients, listening to their challenges and developing solutions that meet their objectives.

Francesca Boucard holds the role as Head Real Estate Research ＆ Strategy at Swiss Life Asset Managers, where she has been part of the Research team since 2016. She is responsible for analysing the European real estate markets, which includes both the assessment of developments and the analysis of risks, and formulate an investment strategy. Her responsibilities also include presenting the real estate market analysis to internal and external clients, as well as producing specialist publications. Francesca has many years of expertise in the real estate and economics context with work experience at the Swiss National Bank and Wüest Partner AG. She also holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Bern.

Swiss Life Asset Managers

Swiss Life Asset Managers has more than 165 years of experience in managing the assets of the Swiss Life Group. This insurance background has exerted a key influence on the investment philosophy of Swiss Life Asset Managers, which is governed by such principles as value preservation, the generation of consistent and sustainable performance and a responsible approach to risks. Swiss Life Asset Managers offers this proven approach to third-party clients in Switzerland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, Italy and the Nordic countries.

As at 30 June 2024 assets under management for third-party clients amount to £ 102.7 billion. Together with insurance assets for the Swiss Life Group, total assets under management at Swiss Life Asset Managers stood at £ 230.8 billion. Swiss Life Asset Managers is a leading institutional real estate investor in Europe1. Of the assets totalling £ 230.8 billion, £ 77.2 billion is invested in real estate. In addition, Swiss Life Asset Managers, in cooperation with Livit, manages real estate totalling £ 18.3 billion in value. Total real estate assets under management and administration at the end of June 2024 thus came to £ 95.5 billion.

Swiss Life Asset Managers employs more than 2200 people in Europe.

Alice Brogi is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Alice is a member of the Private Equity and Infrastructure practice groups.

Alice represents sponsors in cross-border transactions across a number of sectors with a focus on infrastructure and hard assets. She has advised clients on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, disposals, preferred equity and debt investments, joint ventures, loan-to-own restructurings, and portfolio acquisitions in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Austria and the Nordics.

Alice advises private equity firms on investments across a number of sectors, including telecom, utilities, renewables and education. She has previously completed secondments both at Hudson advisors UK and also to the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs.

Alice is named in 2023 International Rising Stars guide published by Law.com, which recognizes the industry’s ‘best and brightest’ female lawyers. She has been previously named in The Lawyer’s Hot 100 2023 list, which recognises the most daring, innovative and creative lawyers and among Europe’s 25 best up-and-coming private equity lawyers by Law.com International in its Rising Stars 2022 list. Alice is also recognised by Legal 500 UK 2023 for Infrastructure and private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+).

Gibson Dunn

Gibson Dunn is a recognized leader in representing companies ranging from start-up ventures and emerging growth companies to multinational corporations across all major industries, particularly technology, communications, manufacturing and consumer services. We also represent the investment community, including commercial and investment banks, partnerships, and individuals. Our offices and practice groups work together seamlessly to craft customized, cutting-edge deals for our clients. Our corporate clients benefit from Gibson Dunn’s network of over 1,800 attorneys located in 20 offices in major cities in the United States and throughout the world. In the structuring, negotiation and execution of transactions, our corporate attorneys work closely with colleagues in other practice groups, including antitrust, tax, finance and executive compensation, all of which are vital to the success of complex corporate transactions. In addition, Gibson Dunn lawyers have played key roles before regulatory bodies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Nadine has over 20 years’ advisory and investment experience. Nadine co-founded Zenzic Capital with Tom Lloyd-Jones in 2013 and co-led Zenzic’s historic debt advisory business which in 6 years advised on over £1.5bn of opportunistic credit transactions in asset backed scenarios. Prior to Zenzic Nadine held roles at F&C Investor and RSM Tenon where she specialised in insolvency.

Prior to joining Nicola in April 2024, Tori was a Partner at Morningside Capital and led the Firm’s single asset secondary strategy. While at Morningside, Tori was involved in over $400 million of GP-led secondary transactions. Prior to joining Morningside at its inception in January 2016, Tori worked in the Funds, Secondaries and Co-Investments team at CPPIB in Toronto and London where she gained extensive experience in private equity, investing $5.3 billion in the asset class including $1 billion in principal secondaries. Her experience spans North America, Europe and Asia in the mid, large and mega markets. Tori also served as a member of the Institutional Limited Partners Association’s Education Committee. In 2023, she was named as a Woman of Influence in Private Markets by Private Equity International. Tori serves on the Board of Urban Squash Toronto, a not-for-profit supporting at-risk youths, and the Finance Committee of the North York Harvest Food Bank. Prior to joining CPPIB, Tori worked at BMO Capital Markets in Investment and Corporate Banking. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Business and Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Nicola Wealth

Nicola Wealth is a Canadian asset manager with over C$16 billion in assets under management and seven offices across the country.

Wendy is the Founder and CEO of Piermont Bank, a fully chartered digital commercial bank, and the first multi-racial MDI (Minority Depository Institution) in the United States. The bank is the engine behind many successful fintechs as well as entrepreneur-led businesses in many leading industry sectors. With over 29 years of executive-level experience managing and leading Fortune 500 companies and startups, Wendy is a subject matter expert in fintech, international finance and banking.

Piermont Bank

Piermont Bank is a fully chartered digital commercial bank. It was the first multi-racial MDI (Minority Depository Institution) in the United States, and the only one with a female CEO, female Board Chair and fifty percent female Board of Directors. Today, Piermont Bank is one of only four multiracial MDIs in the U.S. The bank is the engine behind many successful fintechs as well as entrepreneur-led businesses in many leading industry sectors. Additionally, more than 50 percent of Piermont Bank's loans are extended to businesses located in low to mid-level income communities and women and minority-owned businesses. Under strong regulatory headwind, Piermont Bank is now one of the very few left still committed to pushing innovation in commercial banks and is leading and shaping the next generation of embedded banking.

Gwenola Chambon, CEO and Managing Partner of Vauban Infrastructure Partners, has had a pivotal role in establishing Vauban as a European leader in infrastructure asset management. Under her leadership, Vauban currently oversees more than €9 billion across 8 funds, solidifying its position as a key player in the industry. Over the past 15 years, Gwenola has transformed Vauban into a multibillion-dollar asset manager with international prominence.
Headquartered in Paris, Vauban distinguishes itself with a team of over 76 professionals who have collaborated for over a decade. Specializing in European core infrastructure investments, Vauban predominantly targets brownfield mid-market assets, following a long-term strategy focused on yield and sustainable value creation.

Vauban's recent successes encompass significant transactions in mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure across 16 different geographies. These achievements underscore Vauban's reputation as a prominent player in the European infrastructure market. Particularly noteworthy are recent acquisitions such as the acquisition of Cellnex’s Austrian tower alongside EDF Invest and MEAG, Cellnex being the third largest provider of passive mobile tower infrastructure in Austria, Coriance, a leader of the French district heating sector, and the merger of Aves One and Wascosa into a major European railcar leasing platform.

Gwenola Chambon graduated from ESCP Business School in 1995 (master’s in business). Throughout her 28-year career, Gwenola has developed an extensive knowledge of the European infrastructure sector and has deep experience financing and investing in infrastructure assets. She has worked on numerous landmark transactions, from the first PPP projects in continental Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, France) to the development of strategic acquisitions in the European core infrastructure space (notably in digital infrastructure in France, Spanish PPPs, Coriance, Railcar Platform etc.). Prior to founding Vauban Infrastructure Partners, Gwenola headed the equity infrastructure activities of Natixis IM for 9 years and spent two years at the infrastructure fund Galaxy. Before that, Gwenola was Head of European Infrastructure at CFIG, and previously was a senior member of the project finance team at BNP Paribas.

In addition to her responsibilities as director on the boards of various European infrastructure companies (Proxiserve, Axione, Papre etc.), Gwenola is a member of several industry groups including the European Commission working group of Experts in Infrastructure, PRI advisory board as well as a member of its expert group, EFAMA, and the AFG and AFIC working groups for infrastructure. She is also an active member of the Institut de la Gestion Déléguée in France and of IFA (Institut Français des Administrateurs) and is responsible for project finance courses in ESSEC’s Masters of Complex Financing.

In 2024, Gwenola Chambon was named chairwoman of the Philarmonie de Paris.

Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Vauban Infrastructure Partners is a leading infrastructure asset manager focused on European core infrastructure investments. Headquartered in Paris, Vauban employs c.76 professionals, the majority of whom have been working together for over a decade. Vauban targets predominantly European brownfield mid-market assets, and pursues a long-term, yield-driven strategy matching the underlying nature of the assets and long-term commitment to all stakeholders’ interests through a strong focus on creating sustainable value. Vauban has raised c.€9bn across 8 funds in core infrastructure, and has invested in the mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors spanning 16 different geographies.

Alex Chauvin is a funds and secondaries partner in our global Private Equity practice based in London.

Alex advises both asset managers and institutional investors on all aspects of their business and operations, with a particular emphasis on structuring and executing European and US secondaries transactions in private alternative investment funds. Her experience spans a broad range of private equity-led solutions, including continuation vehicles, fund restructurings, portfolio sales, preferred equity financings and other liquidity solutions. Among the clients Alex advises on the investor side are secondary buyers, sovereign wealth funds and government pension plans based in Europe, Canada and Asia. In addition to advising investors, Alex has broad experience advising private fund managers in the formation and transaction execution of GP-led fund recapitalisations across asset classes.

Alex has been recognised as a Next Gen Leader of Secondaries in 2020 by Private Equity International, an annual list of the most impressive secondaries individuals under 36.

White & Case

White & Case is a leading global law firm with lawyers in 44 offices across 30 countries. Among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence, we provide counsel and representation in virtually every area of law that affects cross-border business. Our clients value both the breadth of our global network and the depth of our US, English and local law capabilities in each of our regions and rely on us for their complex cross-border transactions, as well as their representation in arbitration and litigation proceedings.

Nick is an Associate Director at AustralianSuper and is responsible for ESG integration and stewardship across the Fund’s private and public markets investments. Nick joined AustralianSuper from BHP, a natural resources company, where he led their capital allocation process, its Climate Investment Program and managed the integration of climate change within its investment process.

At the European Investment Fund, Nathalie is heading the unit focusing on fund investments across circular economy and industrial resilience in Europe. She invests in equity and hybrid debt-equity funds, she is actively involved in ESG investment practices at EIF and she represents the EIF in a number of Advisory Boards. Before joining the EIF, Nathalie had worked as a Financial Auditor in the private equity practice at EY.

She holds a Master degree in Corporate Finance from Neoma Business School and is a CFA charterholder.

Adriana is a Partner on the Investment Team at Corbin Capital Partners, a New York-based woman-led independent alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing. Adriana focuses on research and portfolio management. She is the portfolio manager of several multi-strategy custom portfolios and the firm’s sustainability-focused fund and is responsible for sourcing and monitoring investments, mainly in equities and secondarily, in credit. She researches investments across all geographies with an emphasis on Europe and Asia-focused and domiciled managers. She is a member of Corbin’s Multi-Strategy Investment Committee, the Credit Investment Committee, and the Sustainability Committee. Prior to joining Corbin in May 2004, Adriana was with Goldman, Sachs & Co. as an Equities Trader focused on TMT stocks. Adriana also worked at JPMorgan & Co., first as an Analyst in the firm’s Internal Consulting Group, and then as an Equity Research Associate covering Latin American food and beverages. Adriana received her M.B.A. in Finance from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. in Spanish from Dartmouth College. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

Annette has more than 30 years of international Pharma experience in US & Europe with proven Executive
leadership in Strategy, global Business Development and M&A.Annette led GSK's Global Business Development Transaction and Alliance management functions.

She also combines 10+ years of Life Science Venture Capitalist experience in Biotech, Chairing Biotech Boards and securing successful transactions and exits.
Annette is an active member of W.I.T.H. (Women Innovating Together in Healthcare), a global network of 500 women representing the full chain of medical innovation.

Eimear has a diverse practice covering international cross-border M&A, corporate finance and advisory work.
Her experience covers a variety of industries, with a particular focus on the technology and digital infrastructure sectors and she regularly advises on M&A, JVs and growth fundraisings. Her clients include multinational corporates, fast-growth tech companies and private capital investors.

Sabina Comis, Global Managing Partner, advises French and international companies, family offices, private equity funds and investment banks on domestic and international tax structurings that arise from complex transactions, restructurings and refinancings, often involving multiple sponsors. She also has a wealth of experience in creating and structuring private investment funds, including joint ventures and private equity vehicles.

She is one of the few practitioners in France equipped to offer both tax advice and handle the legal and regulatory sides of fund formation. Her ability to address private equity and funds matters as an industry expert as well as a tax practitioner enables her to translate advice into tangible figures and models. By partnering with clients in their most business-critical situations, she has created some notable precedents in the French market, for example in developing innovative structuring in relation to the modeling of cash repatriations, waterfall mechanisms in private equity deals and funds documentation. Over the years, she has been a trusted advisor to many French and global private equity fund managers for the tax structuring of their carried interest rights.

Dechert

Dechert is a global law firm that advises asset managers, financial institutions and corporations on issues critical to managing their business and their capital – from high-stakes litigation to complex transactions and regulatory matters.
Our nearly 1000 lawyers across 20 offices globally focus on the financial services, private equity, private credit, real estate, life sciences and technology sectors.

Dechert has advised private credit clients for over 30 years, helping them to innovate and thrive as the industry has grown into a complex and diverse US$1.7 trillion market. We create value on the full spectrum of strategies and sub-strategies, including asset-based, distressed debt, permanent capital, direct lending, subordinated debt, specialty financing, special situations and venture debt. With more than 80% of Private Debt Investor’s top 100 private credit firms as clients, we offer market-leading fund formation, financing, regulatory, M&A and tax expertise across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Dechert’s global private credit work, with hundreds of private credit funds and transactions each year, enables us to provide exceptional market insight and innovative structuring. We draw on the strengths of Dechert lawyers across disciplines to help private credit clients see around corners and succeed in today’s increasingly competitive environment.

Alexandra Davidson specialises in advising investment managers on the establishment and offering of private funds, together with the legal, regulatory and commercial issues relevant to the funds' operation. Her experience spans a broad range of products and strategies, from large global private equity funds to smaller, bespoke products. Alexandra also represents a number of prestigious institutional investors in connection with proposed private fund commitments.

Alexandra is based in London but has also worked as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the firm's New York office, advising various North American clients on legal and regulatory matters.

Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance is an international law firm with significant depth and range of resources across five continents.

Private Capital Through a Global Lens

We provide our financial investor clients – including established and emerging private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private credit fund managers, distressed credit providers, sovereign wealth funds, investment managers and asset management arms of banks and global insurers – with high quality, practical legal advice on their most complex transactions and their most challenging business matters. Our experience across sectors and jurisdictions means that we advise on the latest deal structures and market practices. Our global, multi-disciplinary teams help financial investors assess the legal, ethical and commercial risks of existing and emerging issues and opportunities – such as regulatory developments, ESG disclosure rules, diversity, equity and inclusion, the energy transition and digital assets – enabling them to confidently make investment decisions and transform their business operations. We advise on transactional, regulatory and contentious matters including fund formation and ongoing operations; acquisition financing and deal execution; restructuring; disputes; tax; and antitrust, helping financial investors to rapidly raise and deploy capital and find creative ways to deliver growth at every stage of the investment lifecycle. We would be delighted to chat with you about your private markets experience and how we can help you grow and protect your business in this ever-changing and uncertain climate.

Kavita Davis is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. Kavita is a member of the Finance Practice Group and focuses on cross-border debt finance matters. She has significant experience in advising on leveraged buyouts representing sponsors, including sponsors focusing on infrastructure transactions.

Kavita received her B.A., LL.B. (Hons) from The W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Gibson Dunn

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. With more than 1,900 lawyers, spanning 21 offices, our exceptional teams operate seamlessly as a unified whole to craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. Our firm maintains a leading project finance and infrastructure practice with experience in over 60 countries and a deep familiarity with the industrial, commercial, financial and political issues that are inherent in the development, financing, construction and operation of major infrastructure projects all over the world, and in particular on the sponsor representation side. Our work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision, with a breadth of experience across all major infrastructure assets and sectors. We forge deep partnerships with our clients—helping them face tough challenges and to thrive in unprecedented times.

Becca Davis is a Senior Investment Director at Cambridge Associates.

Becca joined the firm in 2017 and has over 12 years of investment experience. She works in the European Pension Practice with institutional investors globally to build bespoke private credit portfolios. Her role incorporates manager underwriting and
portfolio construction. She oversees investment portfolios both in an advisory capacity and as an Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). Becca has been a voting member of CA's Credit Research Investment Committee since 2023 and is based in London.

Prior to joining CA, Becca was a member of the discretionary investment services team at Willis Towers Watson where she helped manage total and alternative asset portfolios on behalf of UK defined benefit pension funds.

Becca is a CFA® charterholder and holds an MChem (Hons) from the University of Oxford.

Abigail Dean is the Global Head of Strategic Insights for Nuveen Real Assets. In this role she is responsible for the organisation’s global sustainability, proptech and research functions. The team works closely with colleagues across investment, product development, compliance and risk to ensure that our investment strategies in Real Estate, Infrastructure and Natural Capital are underpinned by an understanding of global megatrends and ESG is integrated into fund and asset management.
Since joining Nuveen in 2016, Abigail has overseen the organization setting a target for the Real Estate business to achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2040. This commitment supports the ambitious goals for sustainable real estate established at the 21st annual Conference of Parties. Abigail is a member of both the Nuveen Real Estate and the Nuveen Real Assets Executive Leadership Team and has spearheaded the integration of sustainability considerations into the investment process. She is also leading the organisation to develop investment guidelines related to physical and transition climate change risk. She previously worked at JLL, as a Director in JLL’s sustainability consulting team, Upstream.
Passionate about driving sustainable change, Abigail sits on several industry committees including the GRESB Standards Committee, chairs the INREV ESG committee and is a Better Buildings Partnership Board Member.

Mai-Lan de Marcilly (London) joined KKR in 2013 and is a member of the Real Estate team, in charge of France and hospitality. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. de Marcilly was at PGIM in London where she focused on pan-European opportunistic and value added investments across sectors. Ms. de Marcilly also spent time at LaSalle IM, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, and RBS in Paris and London. Ms. de Marcilly holds an M.B.A. from ESSEC Business School, Paris.

KKR

KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR’s investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries.

With more than two decades of financial industry experience and a diverse international background, Aoifinn Devitt is CIO at London CIV, a pooling vehicle for the pension funds of London's 32 Boroughs as well as Chair of the Investment Committee at Moneta, a US based Registered Investment Advisor. She has extensive experience across asset classes and investment style, and is also the host of The Fiftyfaces Podcast, a podcast focused on showcasing the diversity of the investment industry by focusing on its people and their stories.

Tzvete is the International Investor Relations Lead at PT1, a European venture capital fund investing in transformative technologies for real assets. The fund is backed by institutional and private investors from the real estate, and adjacent industries (JLL Spark, Commerz Real, Besix). Tzvete joined the company in 2021 to support the Managing Partners in fundraising and work on expanding the firm’s international LP footprint, which now counts investors from North, and South Europe, and the Benelux region. Tzvete was part of the oversubscribed final close of PT1 Fund 1(at north of 50M euros) and of the first closes of PT1 Fund 2 (>50M euros).

Before starting her career in venture capital and startups, Tzvete was a TV journalist for bTV Media Group, one of the largest TV networks in her native Bulgaria. Social causes she cares about are supporting the entrepreneurship ecosystem (she is an adviser at leading UK think tanks for entrepreneurs, The Entrepreneurs Network, and a non-exec at Girls in Charge), and tackling extreme poverty in Britain and Bulgaria (she is a donor at SOS Children's Villages Bulgaria).

PT1

PT1 is a fully independent venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed & seed investments in transformative real asset technologies. Real assets (real estate, infrastructure and energy) are undergoing a profound transformation caused by the increasing scarcity of natural resources, carbon budgets, square metres and skilled labour. PT1 invests in #Futurebuilders, startups benefitting from these megatrends by serving the high economic, social and political demand through scalable solutions.

Charlotte D’Souza is EMEA Editor for PERE, overseeing private real estate news and trends for the European market, in addition to curating and editing the monthly global PERE magazine. Based in London, Charlotte joined PEI in 2022, where she spent a year as a Special Projects Editor before transitioning into the PERE reporting team in 2023. Prior to this, she spent more than seven years on the content team at alternative assets data and insights provider Preqin, most recently as Senior Editorial Manager overseeing the editing desk for the global business. Charlotte has a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Exeter.

Hala El Akl is Oxford’s Vice President of Sustainable Investing and Operations. Hala is the global leader of Oxford’s ESG program, and works collaboratively across functions such as Investment, Asset Management, Operations, Development, Finance and Investment Risk to implement the company’s holistic ESG strategy. Hala also is a member of the OMERS Sustainable Investing Committee and Climate Action Plan Implementation Team.

Prior to Oxford, Hala was a Director at PLP Architecture and a Founding Director of PLP Labs. As an architect and urbanist, she led teams to deliver highly sustainable and innovative commercial, life-science, residential, retail and mixed-use projects across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. At PLP Labs, she explored new ideas for future cities, with a focus on environmental and social sustainability. Hala currently serves on the Global Board of Directors of the Urban Land Institute, and on the Cambridge University Land Economy board.

She received her MSc in Urban Policy from the London School of Economics, a Masters in Territorial and Urban Strategies from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), and both a Bachelor of Architecture and a
Bachelor of Social Sciences from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Gillian is a Managing Director in Macquarie Asset Management’s (MAM’s) Client Solutions Group, where she partners with MAM’s clients in the UK and Ireland to match investment opportunities with our clients’ objectives. She works across the breadth of MAM’s investment capabilities, including Private Markets (Infrastructure, Renewables, Agriculture, Private Credit, and Real Estate) as well as Equities and Fixed Income.

She has more than 20 years of client-facing asset management experience in London, which includes 10 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and four years at Insight Investment. Gillian began her career with roles at Permanent Trustee and Macquarie in Sydney.

Gillian is an Executive Board Member for a number of MAM’s UK operating entities.

Gillian earned a Bachelor of Business and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology Sydney.

Nailah Flake is a Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Credit Group. In this role, she is the portfolio manager for a series for real estate debt funds and leads the commercial mortgage loan origination team.

Prior to joining Brookfield in 2017, Ms. Flake was a Managing Director and head of originations for the commercial real estate lending group at Morgan Stanley.
Ms. Flake holds a bachelor’s degree from Spelman College.

Brookfield

Brookfield is a leading global investment firm with approximately $1 trillion of assets under management. We invest on behalf of institutions and individuals around the world with the goal of helping them to create long-term, sustainable wealth.

Our origin as owner/operators of high-quality businesses allows us to leverage our unique operational expertise to grow the businesses we own on behalf of our clients. We put our own capital to work alongside our partners’ in nearly every transaction, ensuring strong alignment of interests.

Sabrina is the Chief Executive Officer for the European Leveraged Finance Association, a buyside-only trade association comprised of European leveraged finance investors from more than 60 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance companies, and pension funds.

ELFA seeks to support the growth and resilience of the leveraged finance market while acting as the voice of its investor community by promoting transparency and facilitating engagement among European leveraged finance market participants.

Sabrina is a recognised expert in the European leveraged finance market focused on increasing transparency, improving disclosure standards, and educating market participants on ESG implementation and the importance of lender protections in documentation.

Most recently, Sabrina was Head of European High Yield Research for Covenant Review. Prior to that, she was Counsel with DLA Piper in London.

For more information about ELFA, including our mission statement and member benefits, visit www.elfainvestors.com.

Irina brings over 25 years of international experience in investment management, project and corporate finance, and corporate governance. Most recently Irina worked at PGGM, the Dutch pension fund investment manager, where she was a long standing member of the investment committee and led asset management of the PGGM Infrastructure Fund. Irina is a recognized expert in private markets, responsible investing and governance with non-executive board roles at Stockholm Exergi - Stockholm’s energy company, GlobalVia - global mobility and concession business and HZPC - global market leader in seed potato trading and breeding. Irina is also independent chair of the Natural Capital Fund investment committee at Climate Asset Management. Irina is CFA charterholder since 2005 and is certified in corporate governance (IDP-C) at INSEAD.

Anne is a Partner and co-founder of Threadmark. She has 30 years’ experience of capital raising and financial markets, and has advised and raised capital for over 70 different fund managers in real estate, credit, infrastructure and private equity since 2002. Previously she worked with Robertson Stephens where she focused on equity private placements, and at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) focusing on debt private placements. Anne started her career at Morgan Stanley where she worked in fixed income derivatives and corporate finance.

Anne has a Masters in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Threadmark

Threadmark is a leading global advisory firm specialised in private markets. We advise clients across real estate, infrastructure, private equity, credit and sustainability, and to date have raised over $40 billion.

We were founded in 2009 and are fully independent, with five offices in the UK, Europe and the US

We provide innovative capital raising solutions for funds, joint ventures, seeded portfolios and single assets. We specialise in highly differentiated offerings that seek to provide investors with tailored solutions. We provide a range of strategic advisory services to complement our capital raising activities. We are experts in preparing managers for marketing. We have helped numerous groups raise their first institutional capital, and helped many others evolve and materially scale their businesses.

Denise is Managing Partner of the UK and a member of the Executive Committee at A＆O Shearman. She specialises in leveraged finance and private credit.

Denise is highly regarded and recognised in the market as one of the leading lender-side leveraged finance lawyers. This is reflected by her Eminent Practitioners Chambers ranking as well as many industry awards and recognitions. She has been named as Banking ＆ Finance Lawyer of the Year at the Women in Business Law Awards Europe 2021 and has been ranked by Financial News including, Most Influential in European Finance 2024 and 100 Women in European Finance 2024

Her clients praise her as “exceptional on every side,” adding that “what is amazing is that she is very good at corralling consensus, taking leadership in transactions and being someone who can bring commercial agreements together with the force of her negotiating skills.” Chambers UK.

A＆O Shearman

A＆O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen ＆ Overy and Shearman ＆ Sterling.
With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets.
This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. A firm that advises at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business and that is unrivalled in its global strength.

Cristina González (London) joined KKR in 2014 and is a Managing Director on the European Infrastructure team. At KKR, Ms. González has been actively involved in a number of investments including Deutsche Glasfaser, Telxius, Hivory, Hyperoptic, Open Dutch Fiber, Vantage Towers as well as the sale of Coriance. Prior to joining KKR, she was a senior vice president with Macquarie Group in their real assets funds division based in London. Ms. González started her career at Goldman Sachs International within their investment banking division based both in London and Madrid where she was involved in a range of mergers, acquisitions and divestments across various industries and geographies. She currently serves as a member of the board at Hyperoptic and Open Dutch Fiber and previously served as board member of Telxius, Hivory, Deutsche Glasfaser, Coriance and Acciona. Ms. González holds a Masters in Management and Finance as well as a Masters in Law both from ICADE (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Madrid).

With 13 years of experience in banking, Shivani has been part of the Investec Real Estate team in the UK since 2015, managing and originating a large portfolio of key clients across multiple real estate sectors, including student accommodation, residential for sale, industrial and logistics. She has been integral in the origination and execution of Investec’s £1bn of lending in the UK PBSA sector. Shivani completed an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2021, which has enabled her to expand her responsibilities into fundraising to capitalise on Investec’s significant real estate debt origination capabilities. Recently Shivani has assumed a leadership position as the Head of Private Client for Investec Real Estate.

Investec Real Estate

Investec Real Estate has 31 years of through-the-cycle lending experience. It is part of Investec Bank Plc – a FTSE 250 listed company and the UK banking subsidiary of Investec, the international financial services group.

Romane joined Augusta in 2019, bringing over 15 years of experience in structured debt and project finance in the natural resources and related infrastructure sector. With a track record of closing over 30 debt transactions, Romane specialized in arranging complex greenfield and cross-border deals with merchant risk or bespoke corporate offtake structures. Previously, Romane spent 13 years at Société Générale and later advised on capital structure and debt raising at Rio Tinto.

At Augusta & Co, Romane heads our debt advisory practice, where she has been instrumental in arranging innovative renewables debt transactions, combining various lender types and pushing structures boundaries. Romane also leads Augusta & Co’s advisory business in France and has successfully closed a number of major M&A transactions for French IPPs and infrastructure funds.

Romane has an MSc in Finance from EDHEC Business School and is a native French speaker.

Jenny Hammarlund is the Executive Vice President for Investments and Head of Europe at Cadillac Fairview, the $40 billion real estate investing business of Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan. As such, she is responsible for the leadership of Cadillac Fairview’s Investments team, with a global investment strategy focused on the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Before joining Cadillac Fairview, Jenny was with HIG Capital where she was Managing Director, sourcing and executing investments in real estate across Europe. Prior to HIG, Jenny held roles with KKR and Värde Partners in London, where she was responsible for real estate investments across Europe. Jenny previously worked in New York with Lehman Brothers in their real estate principal investment team. Jenny completed her MBA, Finance & Real Estate at Columbia Business School and speaks four languages fluently. She was recently recognized as one of PEI's 2022 Global Top 10 Women of Influence in Private Markets in Real Estate.

Cadillac Fairview Europe

Cadillac Fairview (CF) is an owner, operator, investor, and developer of best-in-class real estate across office, residential, logistics, life sciences and mixed-use asset classes. CF invests in communities with like-minded partners, including Stanhope and Boreal in Europe, Lincoln Property Company in the U.S., Hines in Asia and Multiplan in Brazil. CF is owned by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), which has net assets of $247 billion and effective January 1, 2024 OTPP will be welcoming CF's global team of real estate investment professionals to the organization to support further growth of the real estate portfolio and continued value creation.

Valérie Handal focuses on secondary investments, primarily in Europe. She joined HarbourVest in 2006 and has played a lead role in a range of transactions, including multiple GP-led deals. Valérie currently serves on the advisory boards of funds managed by Astorg, CapVest, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, Mandarin Capital, PAI Partners and Pollen Street Capital, among others.

Valérie joined HarbourVest from Merrill Lynch’s Private Equity Group in London, where she was a vice president. Her prior experience includes positions in investment banking and venture capital at Merrill Lynch, Banc of America Securities, and Softbank Europe Ventures.

Valérie received a BSc (honors) degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a native French speaker and also speaks Spanish.

Janine joined Permira Credit in May 2011 and is Head of Portfolio Monitoring for the direct lending funds. She has been a member of the CLO Investment Committee since 2019, and joined the direct lending and structured credit Investment Committees in September 2023.

Janine has 17 years of European credit experience. Prior to joining Permira Credit, Janine spent four years at Morgan Stanley in the Industrial M&A Advisory team. Janine started her career at Lazard in the M&A Advisory team in Frankfurt. Janine holds a master’s degree in Business Studies from the University of Mannheim.

Permira Credit

Permira Credit is one of Europe’s leading specialist credit investors, supporting businesses with flexible financing solutions across Direct Lending, CLO Management, Structured Credit and Strategic Opportunities. Its Direct Lending Funds have invested €15bn+ in 170+ European businesses over the last 17 years. The team consists of 27 direct lending investment professionals and the manager has a specialist portfolio monitoring & restructuring team.

Aurélie Hariton-Fardad is a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Portfolio Management for MetLife Investment Management (MIM). She helps insurance companies and pension funds invest in infrastructure and corporate Private Credit strategies. Aurélie is also ESG Team Lead for Private Credit and a member of MIM’s ESG Integration Council.

Aurélie joined MIM’s Private Capital team in 2015 and was initially responsible for origination and executing corporate private placement transactions in the UK, Ireland and continental Europe. She transitioned into Portfolio Management in 2022.

Prior to joining MIM, Aurélie was a Director at rating agency Standard and Poor’s, a Vice President in the Investment Banking division of Macquarie Capital, a Credit Analyst at in the Structured Finance business of GE Capital, and a consultant at economic consultancy Oxera.

Aurélie earned a M.Sc. in Regulation from the London School of Economics, a M.A. in Industrial Organisation from Université Paris Dauphine, and a law degree from Université of Lyon.

MetLife Investment Management

MetLife Investment Management (MIM) is a public fixed income, private debt, and real estate manager providing differentiated investment solutions to institutional investors worldwide. MIM is the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc., one of the world’s leading financial services companies. To support our goal of providing clients with strong risk adjusted returns and tailored solutions across our core competencies, MIM leverages the broader resources of the MetLife enterprise, which has more than 150 years of experience. Our robust fundamental research and risk management capabilities have been time tested across market cycles and support our investment process and deal sourcing. For more information, visit: metlife.com/investmentmanagement

Jennifer Hartviksen joined IMCO in 2020 and is responsible for the global credit asset class, a globally diversified portfolio of public and private credit assets across the risk spectrum.

Previously, Jennifer spent over six years at Invesco Ltd where she held senior positions including Head of Global High Yield, Senior Portfolio Manager, Multi-Sector Credit and, prior to that, Head of Fixed Income, Canada. She has also held senior roles at Fiera Quantum LP, CPPIB and Western Asset Management.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto and is a CFA charterholder.

Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO)

The Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) manages $77.4 billion of assets on behalf of our clients. Designed exclusively to drive better investment outcomes for Ontario's broader public sector, IMCO operates under an independent, not-for-profit, cost recovery structure. We provide leading investment management services, including portfolio construction advice, better access to a diverse range of asset classes and sophisticated risk management capabilities. As one of Canada's largest institutional investors, we invest around the world and execute large transactions efficiently. Our scale gives clients access to a well-diversified global portfolio, including sought-after private and alternative asset classes. Follow us on LinkedIn and X @imcoinvest.

Fiona is the CEO of WB Directors, that runs the Women on Boards UK network. In addition, she advises a number of different boards and organisations. Currently she is an Advisory Panel Member for the FRC (Financial Reporting Council), an Advisory Board Member to Spktral (a technology company that helps organizations simplify the gender pay gap reporting process), advisor to Peel Hunt (mid-cap stockbroker) and Chair of Hanx's Nominations Committee (FMCG start-up). She is an expert in the areas of Governance, Regulation and Talent Management who has sat on both marketing and audit & finance committees. Fiona is also a Patron of Fight for Sight (a medical research charity) and was formerly a director for Hill Samuel Asset Management. She has advised the board of the Thai Euro Fund and is a Judge for the Non-Executive Director Awards, sponsored by The Sunday Times. In 2020 Fiona joined King's College London's 'Global Institute for Women's Leadership' Advisory Board.

Caroline Heinrichs is Head of Investment Solutions at Perpetual Investors GmbH. She is responsible for consulting and advising our investors on their strategic asset allocation and particularly on their allocations to alternative assets. Before joining Perpetual Investors, Caroline held several positions at AQR Capital Management, Natixis Investment Managers and MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re, where she developed her expertise across public and private markets as well as sophisticated investment strategies. Caroline holds a Masters of Finance from London Business School, a Masters of Economics from University of British Columbia and is a CFA charterholder.

Antje joined ICG in 2018 and in 2020, she was appointed to the Board and became Chief People and External Affairs Officer.
Antje is responsible for leading both strategic human capital management with a particular focus on business diversification strategies, as well as communications and external affairs.

She has led a comprehensive drive for excellence in leadership, talent management and diversity & inclusion. She possesses extensive experience in the global asset management industry, with a particular focus on alternative investments. She has been instrumental in delivering new business initiatives and driving diversification into new investment strategies as well as positioning ICG as an employer of choice for high calibre executives across all business lines globally.

Prior to joining ICG, she was Global Co‐Head of the Investment Management Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates, in which role she acted as an advisor to ICG from 2011. Antje graduated from the University of Düsseldorf and holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

ICG

ICG provides flexible capital solutions to help companies develop and grow. We are a leading global alternative asset manager with over 30 years’ history, managing $82.1bn of assets and investing across the capital structure. We operate across four asset classes: Structured and Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Assets, and Credit.

We develop long-term relationships with our business partners to deliver value for shareholders, clients, and employees, and use our position of influence to benefit the environment and society. We are committed to being a net zero asset manager across our operations and relevant investments by 2040.

ICG is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: ICP).

Dame Julia Hoggett joined the London Stock Exchange Group in April 2021 and is CEO of the London Stock Exchange plc and the Head of Digital and Securities Markets for LSEG. Previously, Julia was at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as Director of Market Oversight, overseeing the conduct of market participants. She joined the FCA in 2014 to run the Wholesale Banking Supervision Department. Prior to this, she was a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, running various fixed income origination businesses in EMEA. Julia was previously a Board Member and CEO of DEPFA ACS BANK in Ireland. She began her career at JPMorgan. Julia holds a degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and undertook a research scholarship at Kings College, Cambridge University on public policy in East Africa.

Julia was honoured as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the King's Birthday Honours List 2024 for services to business and finance. Julia was included in Financial News’ 100 Most Influential Women in Europe’s Financial Markets (2010-2012, 2021-2023), and awarded Industry Leader of the year 2023 by City AM.

Julia has been an active speaker on Diversity and Inclusion in the City for two decades.

London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange is proud to set the stage for your success, where ideas meet capital and become reality. We connect companies, countries, and investors in the real world to make measurable and positive differences across the globe. Customers look to us for broad access to capital markets and liquidity across multiple asset classes. We deliver a broad range of international equity, fixed income, exchange-traded funds, investment vehicles and foreign exchange markets. Customers can choose from our capital formation and execution venues, London Stock Exchange, AIM and Turquoise.
Having contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years, London Stock Exchange is proud to be a catalyst for opportunity and sustainable growth.

For more information please visit:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/raise-finance/equity/private-markets

https://www.linkedin.com/company/london-stock-exchange/

Vivienne has over 15 years of experience within the healthcare sector, including advising leading sector operators and significant institutional and private equity investors. She has a detailed understanding of the operation of the healthcare sector in the UK and more recently Europe, including the initial appraisal of, and the detailed structuring of, transactions. She was a senior member of the award-winning Deloitte UK Healthcare M&A team for more than thirteen years and is a well-known and well-regarded figure within the sector. Vivienne graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from the University of Port Elizabeth and is a Chartered Accountant (South Africa).

Lizzie is a partner and Global Co-head of Infrastructure sector at Linklaters. She has extensive experience advising on the structured financing of regulated infrastructure and utilities in the UK and Europe, including traditional utilities, transportation assets, renewables and digital infrastructure, including data centres.

Lizzie is advises on the full spectrum of financing structures - public bonds, bank lending, USPPs, derivatives and ABS-style issuance. She also has a deep understanding in the regulatory systems which underpin the sectors in which she works.

Linklaters

Linklaters is known for its strength in advising on complex, large scale infrastructure projects across the globe. For over 25 years we have been involved in many of the largest, most high-profile and “first of their kind” acquisitions, disposals, refinancings, and securitisations in the sector as well as being involved with major construction and operation projects around the world.

We believe that we are exceptionally well placed to assist both sponsors and financial institutions alike in this market because we have in-depth sector expertise and the capability to harness our leading acquisition practice with the leading finance team.

This unique offering means that our clients can come to us for expert advice across the full life-cycle of an asset, something that the majority of our competitors simply cannot offer.

Erem Kassim-Lakha joined Ontario Teachers' in September 2022 and leads value creation activities globally. Since joining the firm, she has built Ontario Teachers’ in-house value creation capability, in recognition of the fund’s active investment approach, providing hands-on strategic and operational support to enhance the long-term value of private companies.

Erem’s disciplined approach to value creation sees her and her team of 10 work alongside Ontario Teachers’ deal teams and portfolio companies through multiple stages, from initial due diligence, to ‘good to great’ operational improvements, to maximization of value upon exit of ownership.

Erem has previously worked at McKinsey & Company, where she was a Partner in the UK and European Transformation Practice. In addition, she has over 20 years of experience in senior executive roles, leading successful commercial transformations for clients across healthcare, insurance, real estate, agriculture, and consumer sectors.

Olivia is an Investment Manager in the investment team at Moonfare, responsible for diligencing co-investments and primary funds across all private market strategies. Olivia previously worked as an Associate at the Townsend Group, carrying out due diligence on Infrastructure and Private Equity funds, secondaries, and co-investments on behalf of large institutional investors. She started her career as an analyst at Aon, primarily responsible for underwriting closed-ended private market funds and also client coverage of large institutional investors. Olivia holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Statistics from the University of Nottingham and is a CFA charterholder.

Florence Keelson-Anfu is a Senior Manager in Private Markets at London Stock Exchange plc. In this role, she supports high growth companies to achieve their fundraising goals with Floww. Prior to this, she worked as a Programme Manager on large scale transformation programmes in consulting and industry.

London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange is proud to set the stage for your success, where ideas meet capital and become reality. We connect companies, countries, and investors in the real world to make measurable and positive differences across the globe. Customers look to us for broad access to capital markets and liquidity across multiple asset classes. We deliver a broad range of international equity, fixed income, exchange-traded funds, investment vehicles and foreign exchange markets. Customers can choose from our capital formation and execution venues, London Stock Exchange, AIM and Turquoise.
Having contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years, London Stock Exchange is proud to be a catalyst for opportunity and sustainable growth.

For more information please visit:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/raise-finance/equity/private-markets

https://www.linkedin.com/company/london-stock-exchange/

Kashif Khan is a Director in the Private Infrastructure and Project Finance group for MetLife Private Capital Investors and is responsible for the origination and execution of new transactions, as well as the ongoing management of existing investments. Mr. Khan joined MetLife in 2015.

Mr. Khan has over 13 years of experience in advisory and investing in infrastructure debt.

Prior to joining MetLife, Mr. Khan was with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in its Infrastructure Debt Advisory team. During his time at RBS, Mr. Khan also completed placements in Risk Management Advisory and Energy ＆ Resources Corporate Finance.

Mr. Khan is a graduate of King’s College London where he earned a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and is a CFA charterholder.

Dr. Gabriella Kindert is an experienced banking and investment professional with a strong track record across various asset classes and geographies.

Her career began in 1998 at MeesPierson Corporate and Investment Banking, where she built a solid foundation in finance. She has since held several senior roles, including leading European Leveraged Loans at Fortis Investments, serving as Global Head of Loans at BNP Paribas Asset Management, and heading Alternative Credit at NN Investment Partners. From 2019 to 2024, she contributed her expertise as a board member and advisor to several FinTech companies and alternative lenders, focusing on strategic advice, international expansion and scaling operations.

Since early 2024, Dr. Kindert became CEO of Snappi Bank, an innovative digital bank majority-owned by Piraeus Bank. The fully licensed digitial bank specializes in payments and lending services, including BNPL solutions, and is positioned to expand these services across Europe.

She holds an M.A. in History and Economics, an MBA in Accounting and Finance and a Ph.D. in Finance.

Neptune Leasing, a.o.

Neptune Maritime Leasing Ltd is a dynamic maritime leasing platform focused on generating attractive, long-term, risk-adjusted returns for investors. Specializing in highly liquid maritime assets, Neptune supports global trade and economic growth while promoting environmental and social responsibility. With extensive industry experience, Neptune is known for its integrity, transparency, and strategic support, offering stable cash flows and inflation protection. Their mission is to assist management teams in achieving business goals and ensuring efficient decision-making and execution.
For more details, visit Neptune Leasing.

Ruth Knox is Global Co-Chair of the ESG ＆ Sustainable Finance practice at Paul Hastings. Ms. Knox advises some of the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms, corporations, and project sponsors and lenders on complex and evolving legal issues relating to ESG and climate-related regulatory requirements, investor demands, strategic opportunities (including transition strategies), and voluntary reporting frameworks and coalitions.

Ms. Knox’s practice focuses on counseling clients on the management, mitigation, and maximization of ESG risks and opportunities, respectively. She has spent more than a decade advising on ESG regulations and soft law standards, including the EU Sustainable Finance package, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) standard. She provides commercial, solutions-oriented advice in sustainable fund formation, large scale international M＆A, sustainable finance transactions, and ESG-related corporate crises of an international profile, and she has meaningful experience in climate and nature-based finance.

Paul Hastings

With widely recognized elite teams in finance, mergers ＆ acquisitions, private equity, restructuring and special situations, litigation, employment, and real estate, Paul Hastings is a premier law firm providing intellectual capital and superior execution globally to the world’s leading investment banks, asset managers, and corporations.

We help our clients reimagine what’s possible — and navigate new paths to growth

We partner with our clients to understand their business and the challenges ahead of them. In the face of transformative change, we help them reimagine what’s possible — and move forward.

Leading our clients to success

We are focused on the issues our clients care about, and help them find new ways to drive innovation, create value, and manage risk. We spend time with our clients to truly understand their business goals, and the services they need to move forward.

Longstanding commitment to diversity

We have a longstanding commitment to making a difference by actively supporting the advancement of equality, justice, and sustainability within our organization and the communities we serve.

Based in London, Anne Koeman-Sharapova is the Head of European Real Estate Investment at Mercer. She joined Mercer in 2019 and has been working in the financial services industry, with a focus on real estate, since 2006.

As part of the Global Real Assets Team, Anne leads Mercer’s research coverage on real estate investment products, both primaries and co-investments, in the UK and Europe. The team delivers real estate investment advice to Mercer’s broad advisory client base and is responsible for the investment recommendations for Mercer’s discretionary accounts.

Before joining Mercer, Anne spent most of her career in the Strategy & Research team of two well-known real estate investment management firms, LaSalle Investment Management and M&G Investments. She started her career at a large property agency, today part of Cushman & Wakefield. Throughout her career she participated with relevant industry bodies, such as the UK Investment Property Forum (IPF), the Society of Property Researchers (SPR) and the European Association of Non-Listed Real Estate Funds (INREV).

She holds the FCA’s Investment Management Certificate and a professional certification in Data Analysis from the LSE. Her academic achievements have been in Geography and Urban Planning, wherein she holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Amsterdam and a Master of Science from the LSE.

Anne is a native Dutch speaker, fluent in English and has proficient working knowledge of German.

Mercer

As one of three business lines, Mercer offers investment consulting and fiduciary management for pension funds, endowments, foundations and other investors. Mercer Investments manages a number of commingled discretionary accounts across Public and Private Markets. Mercer Private Investment Partners (“PIP”) is Mercer’s flagship solution in Private Markets, designed to offer investors flexible access to a wide spectrum of global private markets across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real estate, natural capital and sustainable opportunities. PIP invests across primaries, co-investments, secondaries, and other specialized offerings.

Mercer has more than 25,000 employees are based in 44 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a business of Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with 76,000 colleagues and annual revenue of $17 billion. Through its market-leading businesses including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment.

Ami is Co-Founder & Group President at Amro Partners, a specialist, GP focussed on investing in the living sector in the UK and in Europe. Through her early vision for achieving carbon neutrality and for driving value through the application of data science, Amro has achieved market-leading credentials as a responsible investor in the living sector.

Ami is also an advisor to several Proptech and AI- start ups and is Chair of the UK Proptech Association. She is a Board member at the British Property Fedaration where she engages in thought leadership to support innovation and digital transformation in the built environment.

Ami is passionate about developing the industry’s capacity to respond to key megatrends including demographic change, climate crisis and the future of work. She is a regular speaker at industry, climate and real estate technology events. As part of her broader contribution to addressing societal issues, she is an active Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, President of Cambridge University Land Society (2024), board member of the London School of Economics Venture Capital Advisory Board and member of ULI and INREV.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amikotechaamro/

Amro Partners

Amro Partners is a pan-European, specialist asset manager focussed on PBSA, BTR and Co-Living sectors, with c.£1.9 bn GDV completed or under development.

Our senior leadership team has over 100 years of combined experience with a consistent track record of achieving high, double-digit equity IRRs. Our team consists of individuals from diverse backgrounds with expertise in real estate, financial services, sustainability and data science, spanning several geographic regions.

Our unique capabilities in data science and tech-driven process efficiencies are at the core of our investment decisions and drive value from acquisitions and deal execution through to active asset management .

Amro Partners’ full lifecycle approach to driving value for our stakeholders includes deeply embedded sustainability outcomes that focus on delivering resilient, future-proofed returns.

www.amropartners.com

Laurie Lagarde is Head of EMEA Logistics Operator Division and leads a sector-specialized team to support all elements of execution and operations for CBRE Investment Management EMEA Logistics investments.

With a logistics platform reaching almost EUR12 billion AUM and approximately 7 million square meters, she is directly responsible for the entire EMEA Logistics value chain for investors from transaction management and operations to the enhancement of customer experience.

Laurie was previously Fund Manager for CBRE Investment Management Pan-European Logistics series, responsible for the overall performance of the funds and day-to-day management, as well as the transactions and portfolio management.

Laurie joined CBRE Investment Management in 2017 as Portfolio Manager for the Pan-European Logistics funds and was responsible for the portfolio strategy and performance of pooled funds dedicated to logistics. Prior to this Laurie worked at Prologis as Vice President Transactions Officer, where she was in charge of all acquisitions and dispositions of logistics assets for Southern Europe.

CBRE Investment Management

CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm with $142.5 billion in assets under management* as of June 30, 2024, operating in more than 30 offices and 20 countries around the world. Through its investor-operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, people and communities thrive.

CBRE Investment Management is an independently operated affiliate of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2023 revenue). The company has more than 130,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE Investment Management harnesses CBRE’s data and market insights, investment sourcing and other resources for the benefit of its clients. For more information, please visit www.cbreim.com.

Edith Lassiat is a distinguished Mentor, International Expert in Women Empowerment, author, and global speaker.

With a background in luxury marketing and art criticism, she is a recognized contributor to the development of female leadership worldwide.

As a "Soul Shaman" and mentor, she helps individuals identify their Zone of Genius and inner power.

Edith is the creator of Masterminds for Influential Women and has developed a community of over 20,000 women committed to a more open and feminine world.

An award-winning author, her work provides readers with keys to unlocking their talents. As an international speaker, she has spoken at prestigious events and her talks are considered highly inspiring.

Edith's clientele includes leaders from various industries, and she provides valuable advice and tools to help individuals discover their strengths and become accomplished leaders.

She was honored with the "Influential Women in the World" award by IFIC in 2024.

Edith Lassiat is a renowned mentor and leadership strategist with extensive experience in high finance, luxury, and global business. She helps senior leaders, particularly women, overcome challenges and realise their full potential.

Combining psychological insights, leadership frameworks, and holistic methods, she guides clients to lead with confidence and focus.

Drawing on her own journey in male-dominated industries and a legacy of strong women, Edith is committed to empowering female leaders to embrace their strength and lead with purpose, authenticity, and impact.

Website https://edithlassiat.com/en/home/

Shimin Lee specialises in advising private equity sponsors on domestic and cross-border M&A. Shimin has extensive experience advising on all stages of the investment cycle, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and minority investments, management incentive arrangements, refinancings and corporate restructurings.

Shimin was listed as a Private Equity Rising Star in Europe by Law.com in 2021 and 2023, and awarded the Rising Star (international practice) award by IFLR Europe in 2024. She is also ranked by Legal500 as a Next Generation Partner.

Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance is an international law firm with significant depth and range of resources across five continents.

Private Capital Through a Global Lens

We provide our financial investor clients – including established and emerging private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private credit fund managers, distressed credit providers, sovereign wealth funds, investment managers and asset management arms of banks and global insurers – with high quality, practical legal advice on their most complex transactions and their most challenging business matters. Our experience across sectors and jurisdictions means that we advise on the latest deal structures and market practices. Our global, multi-disciplinary teams help financial investors assess the legal, ethical and commercial risks of existing and emerging issues and opportunities – such as regulatory developments, ESG disclosure rules, diversity, equity and inclusion, the energy transition and digital assets – enabling them to confidently make investment decisions and transform their business operations. We advise on transactional, regulatory and contentious matters including fund formation and ongoing operations; acquisition financing and deal execution; restructuring; disputes; tax; and antitrust, helping financial investors to rapidly raise and deploy capital and find creative ways to deliver growth at every stage of the investment lifecycle. We would be delighted to chat with you about your private markets experience and how we can help you grow and protect your business in this ever-changing and uncertain climate.

Mirja Lehmler-Brown Mirja joined Hayfin in 2018 and is a Managing Director and Head of the Private Equity Solutions investment team. She joined from Standard Life Aberdeen where since 2006 she was a Senior Investment Portfolio Manager and Investment Committee member of the European Private Equity business focusing on making primary, secondary and co-investments predominantly in the European Private Equity mid-market. Prior to Aberdeen Asset Management, Mirja was an Executive Director within the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. Before Goldman Sachs, she worked as an analyst with Morgan Stanley. Mirja holds an MSc in Economics and Business from Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Hochschule St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Hayfin Capital Management (“Hayfin”) is the leading alternative asset management firm with c. €31 billion in assets under management. Hayfin focuses on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns for its investors across its private debt, liquid credit and private equity solutions businesses.

Hayfin has a diverse international team of over 200 experienced industry professionals with offices globally, including headquarters in London and offices in Dubai, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Stockholm, San Diego, Singapore and Tokyo.

Further information can be found at hayfin.com.

Evelyn Lee is Editor for PEI’s real estate-focused publication, PERE, overseeing global news and analysis coverage. Based in London, she works closely with PERE colleagues across PEI’s offices in New York, London and Hong Kong and also writes about European and global news for the publication. Prior to joining PEI in 2011, she covered commercial real estate, economic development and the environment at NJBIZ, a New Jersey-focused business newspaper and website.

Daria Litvinova is Head of Investor Relations and Partner at Vauban Infrastructure Partners. She holds substantial experience in Finance, Asset Management & Client Relationship Management across several markets in Europe.

Daria joined Vauban Infrastructure Partners in 2019 to establish its Investor Relations function. She is responsible for the end-to-end fundraising process and is a primary point of contact for investors. She is also in charge of numerous missions dedicated marketing, communications and reporting of the funds.

Prior to joining Vauban Infrastructure Partners, Daria held several positions at Idinvest Partners (Eurazeo), Société Générale, and Honeywell International, where she was involved in numerous projects and developed an expertise dedicated to the perimeters of corporate investment banking, asset management, and private equity.

Daria holds an MBA degree from the University of New York in Prague & IUKB in Switzerland. Daria is fluent in 4 languages (English, French, Russian, and Czech).

Vauban Infrastructure Partners

Vauban Infrastructure Partners is a leading infrastructure asset manager focused on European core infrastructure investments. Headquartered in Paris, Vauban employs c.70 professionals, the majority of whom have been working together for over a decade. Vauban targets predominantly European brownfield mid-market assets, and pursues a long-term, yield-driven strategy matching the underlying nature of the assets and long-term commitment to all stakeholders’ interests through a strong focus on creating sustainable value. Vauban has raised over €8bn across 7 funds in core infrastructure, and has invested in the mobility, energy transition, social infrastructure, and digital infrastructure sectors spanning 12 different geographies.

Cari Lodge is Head of Secondaries, a member of the CF Private Equity Investment Committee, Board of Directors, and Senior Executive Group. She oversees the origination, evaluation, structuring and negotiation of secondaries transactions as well as the portfolio construction, monitoring and fundraising of the firm’s secondary funds. Additionally, Cari contributes to the firm’s buyout, growth equity, venture capital, and real assets and sustainability strategies. Cari has over 23 years of secondaries experience and has closed over 425 secondary transactions for approximately $3.3 billion in total exposure. She began her career at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette (which merged with Credit Suisse in 2000) as an Associate in Investment Banking. She spent 12 years with Credit Suisse’s Secondary Team, Strategic Partners, since its founding in 2000, and served as a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining CF Private Equity, Cari was at Tulane University’s Investment Management Office where she was responsible for overseeing the private equity and private real assets investments for the endowment. She is presently a member of the advisory board of several private equity limited partnerships. Cari is also a member of the Investment Committee of her alma mater, The Hotchkiss School. In 2022, she was recognized by PEI as one of the top ten women of influence in private markets. Cari received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in both Economics and Government and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

CF Private Equity

CF Private Equity Secondaries is one of the top secondary private equity firms in the world. With a team of 14 investment professionals and ~$3 billion in AUM, CF Private Equity Secondaries provides a range of liquidity solutions for investors in both LP liquidity solutions and GP-led liquidity solutions. The dedicated secondary team was established in 2013 and has since completed over 370 transactions across more than 800 underlying fund interests managed by over 400 managers.

Diana Louis leads a team responsible for integrating ESG across alternative investments at MEAG, including private equity, infrastructure, natural capital and real estate. With a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Dortmund, she brings a technical perspective to sustainable finance. Diana co-founded the Munich regional group of RICS Matrics and is active in industry committees, staying at the forefront of ESG trends in alternative assets.

Claire is the Founder ＆ Managing Partner of Connection Capital, a private client investment business specialising in alternative investments. Claire’s career began as a private equity investor at 3i having graduated in Banking & International Finance from Loughborough University. Connection Capital was established in 2010 by a team who share the same aim: to give its private and family office clients access to alternative investments which are available to the institutional market but often closed to private investors. The firm’s innovative syndicated model pools its clients’ capital on a deal by deal or fund by fund basis meaning investors can access opportunities which would usually be out of reach due to minimum investment size. The investment opportunities can broadly be classified as either direct private equity, private debt and commercial property investments or pooled allocations to alternative asset funds. Connection Capital’s team manages over £527m across these products.

Connection Capital

Connection Capital was established in 2010 with the mission of providing private investors with access to private equity investments. The founders share the same aim: to give its private and family office clients access to alternative investments which are available to the institutional market but often closed to private investors. The firm’s innovative syndicated model pools its clients’ capital on a deal by deal or fund by fund basis meaning investors can access opportunities which would usually be out of reach due to minimum investment size. Connection Capital clients can invest on a self-select basis so a bespoke portfolio can be built up over time. Opportunities can broadly be classified as either direct private equity, private debt and commercial property investments or pooled allocations to alternative asset funds. Connection Capital’s team manages over £537m across these products.

Based in London, Amy Mahon is Co-Head of the Firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice and advises a range of clients through all stages of the investment cycle within the energy and infrastructure industry. She counsels infrastructure funds and corporate clients on a wide range of complex domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and consortium transactions and restructurings across the infrastructure sector. She was recently honored in Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Europe Awards 2021 as “Private Equity Lawyer of the Year,” and was named to The Lawyer’s “Hot 100” list.

Simpson Thacher

Simpson Thacher is widely recognized as one of the preeminent law firms in the world. The firm devotes to its clients the legal talent and skill of over 900 lawyers with a commitment to hard work, excellence and integrity. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability in all of the world’s principal financial centers. Clients in a wide array of industries turn to Simpson Thacher for advice on their largest and most complex transactions and their most challenging legal disputes. The firm offers straightforward, pragmatic advice that recognizes the business needs of clients in light of prevailing commercial and legal realities and has played a substantial role in many of the most complex and noteworthy transactions and matters of the last decade.

Laurene Bielski Mahon is an experienced board member and an accomplished business executive with over 40 years’ experience in the infrastructure arena as an investment banker, management consultant, transportation and construction executive and project developer. She retired as Vice Chair of CIBC's global investment banking business in May 2023. She was recently named as an Executive Advisor to Bechtel (NEC and Canada) and continues to be a member of the North American Advisory Board of Transurban Inc., one of the largest toll road operators in the world.

Ms. Mahon served as a member of the Board of Directors of IEA, a specialized infrastructure construction company in the renewables and rail space, from November 2020 until its sale in October 2022, and sat on its audit and compensation committees. She also spent five years as a Trustee for Public Media NJ, a not-for-profit public affairs company also known as NJPBS, which is a subsidiary of WNET.

Ms. Mahon joined CIBC in 2013 to establish its global infrastructure platform, growing it from a small P3 execution team to a well-regarded financing and advisory practice encompassing the US, UK, Latin American and Australian markets across a broad array of products including balance sheet debt, M+A, ECM, DCM, rates and foreign exchange. From 1999 until 2011, she ran her own independent advisory practice, serving project owners around the world. She previously served as managing director, North America/ Infrastructure, in the Global Project Finance and Advisory Group for Chase Securities Inc. and as a director of CS First Boston’s international infrastructure practice. She began her investment banking career began at Bear Stearns in municipal finance and held positions at Kidder Peabody, in both the municipal and Latin American groups. During a 2-year hiatus from investment banking, she was chief financial officer for Labov, Inc., a Mid-Atlantic developer of specialized waste to energy projects.

Ms. Mahon’s roster of projects and clients spans the globe. Two notable transactions include directing the consultant team advising the Panama Canal Authority on its Third Lane Locks expansion project, an assignment that involved all aspects of the Canal’s operation, finances, and management. Additionally, for two years she served as the principal advisor to the Government of Puerto Rico for the establishment and initial implementation of its P3 program, including highways, maritime, airport and lottery assets.

Early in her career, Ms. Mahon spent five years at New Jersey Transit Corporation, where she held several executive positions including deputy Chief Financial Officer. She negotiated and closed the first safe-harbor leasing transaction done in the US and went on to close more than $1.2 billion in tax-driven real estate and equipment lease transactions. Ms. Mahon began her career as a transportation planner at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where she was involved in various regional studies. She has also been a working journalist, at both The Boston Globe and the (Bergen) Record.

Ms. Mahon graduated from Boston University, summa cum laude, and received her MCP (Master’s in City Planning) from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is a frequent speaker at industry events, delivering one of the first keynote addresses on climate change to the IFC/World Bank’s Climate Change conference in Hong Kong in September 2016. She participated in the White House Council of Economic Advisors roundtables on transportation finance three times during the Obama administration. She has twice chaired a two-day global event in London for 600 of the most senior women in private equity, infrastructure, and real estate, and will reprise that role this year as well in both New York and London.

Holly is a Relationship Manager at the Institutional Limited Partners Association. She is responsible for establishing strong and authentic relationships with ILPA members to drive engagement with ILPA resources, and gain a thorough understanding of member interests, needs, and challenges to help hone and adapt ILPA’s offerings. Holly holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours from Queen’s University where she specialized in health and economics.

Institutional Limited Partners Association

ILPA connects limited partners around the globe and empowers them to maximize performance in their private market investments. With over 7,000 professionals in 50+ countries managing 50% of global institutional private market assets, we’re dedicated to advancing LP interests through education, research, advocacy, and events. Join us to thrive in the world of financial stewardship and impactful investments.

Martina Malone and her team are responsible for client relations, capital raising and communication with Prologis’ global private investor base. Her focus is to develop and grow relationships with institutional investors and consultants and to raise capital for all of Prologis’ funds and ventures globally. During her time at Prologis, the team has raised $22 billion of capital for funds and ventures in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Prior to joining the company in 2010, Martina was head of European client relations and capital raising for JER Partners. She was also a vice president in Deutsche Bank’s European Securitization group; a vice president in Credit Suisse First Boston’s Asset Finance group; and she served in various real estate-related roles at Hypo-Bank in Munich and London.
Martina holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Arts degree from LMU in Munich and spent one year at Ecole de Management in Strasbourg, France.

Appointed Level 20 CEO in December 2022, Gurpreet spent 10 years at the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) as Deputy Director General and Director of Policy leading the BVCA's response to a wide range of issues from a legal and regulatory perspective, both in the UK and Europe. Furthermore, as executive liaison to the Private Equity Reporting Group, she has played a key role in supporting the industry to implement the Walker Guidelines on greater transparency and disclosure.

Before joining the BVCA she worked at Deloitte LLP and specialised in advising private equity funds and their managers. Gurpreet studied at the London School of Economics and is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England ＆ Wales.

Prabby is Head of Real Estate at Phoenix Group, where she is responsible for originating and managing a portfolio of real estate debt investments for the firm’s Asset Management division. Her team invests in senior debt opportunities across a broad range of sectors, including office, logistics, hospitality, care homes, social housing and residential property, with growing specialism in sustainability linked investment. Prior to joining Phoenix in 2019, Prabby was the lead subject matter expert for European Commercial Real Estate Debt in BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory team. She previously worked at Bank of America, ABN AMRO and Brookland Partners, and has 20 years of experience in real estate lending, investment, valuation and workout.

Ms. Mariotti is the Head of ESG Stewardship and a Managing Director for Cerberus. Ms. Mariotti joined Cerberus in 2022 and works across our portfolio companies, desks, and investments to help implement evolving ESG and sustainability initiatives. Ms. Mariotti was most recently a Managing Director in the Portfolio Operations Group at Blackstone, where she helped develop the Firm’s global emissions reduction program.

Prior to Blackstone, Ms. Mariotti held leadership roles in management consulting at Accenture and IBM Business Services, where she sold and delivered performance improvement programs for industrial clients across North and South America, Continental Europe, and the United Kingdom. Earlier in her career, Ms. Mariotti worked as an engineer in several technical and hands-on operational roles and gained experience working in diligence at DNV GL. Ms. Mariotti has previously served on the boards and in leadership roles for numerous energy organizations, including the World Energy Council and the Energy Institute.

Ms. Mariotti received a bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with specialization in Sustainability and Safety Management Systems, and a Master of Engineering, with a focus in Solar Technology, from La Sapienza University in Rome. She also earned a Master of Engineering, with a focus in Operational and Business Risk Management, from the University of Bologna and an Executive M.B.A., with distinction, from the University of Oxford Said Business School.

Cerberus Capital Management

Cerberus is a trusted partner to respected investors worldwide in credit, private equity, and real estate. For more than three decades, we have provided capital solutions and operating experience to help companies and properties around the world improve performance and drive value creation.

We believe attractive risk-adjusted returns can be generated in most market environments with the right teams, strategies, and operating capabilities. With the flexibility and synergies of our integrated investment platforms, as well as our proprietary operating capabilities, we seek to create value for our investors and business partners.

Isabella specialises in fund finance, advising sponsors and lenders on transactions from subscription facilities to NAV facilities, preferred interests, GP/Manager lines and hybrid facilities. She has experience across the range of asset classes and fund types and also advises LPs on financing options for the monetisation of their LP interests, including exploration of NAV, securitisation and perpetual loan structures.

Isabella is based in London but also spent three years in our Singapore office. She is a Partner in Clifford Chance’s global Banking Group, which is tier one ranked for Fund Finance in Legal500, where editorial praises her expertise in technical cross-border matters and emerging market transactions.

Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance is an international law firm with significant depth and range of resources across five continents.

Private Capital Through a Global Lens

We provide our financial investor clients – including established and emerging private equity, real estate, infrastructure and private credit fund managers, distressed credit providers, sovereign wealth funds, investment managers and asset management arms of banks and global insurers – with high quality, practical legal advice on their most complex transactions and their most challenging business matters. Our experience across sectors and jurisdictions means that we advise on the latest deal structures and market practices. Our global, multi-disciplinary teams help financial investors assess the legal, ethical and commercial risks of existing and emerging issues and opportunities – such as regulatory developments, ESG disclosure rules, diversity, equity and inclusion, the energy transition and digital assets – enabling them to confidently make investment decisions and transform their business operations. We advise on transactional, regulatory and contentious matters including fund formation and ongoing operations; acquisition financing and deal execution; restructuring; disputes; tax; and antitrust, helping financial investors to rapidly raise and deploy capital and find creative ways to deliver growth at every stage of the investment lifecycle. We would be delighted to chat with you about your private markets experience and how we can help you grow and protect your business in this ever-changing and uncertain climate.

Kristina Matthews is a Partner, heading up Investor Relations and Fund Raising at Falcon Investment Advisors, a leading private credit provider focused on junior capital solutions. She joined the Falcon Team in May 2023 from Brightwood Capital Advisors where she was a Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations and ESG. While she led investor relations, Kristina primarily focused on business development and fundraising strategy along with oversight and implementation of the firm’s ESG policy. Her engagement commenced in February 2014 in a Consulting role which led to her joining Brightwood full time in May 2018. In 2012 she founded and was the Managing Partner of, Rising Tide Fund Advisors LLC, an entity providing consulting services to private credit and private equity firms. The prior 6 years she was a Managing Director at PineBridge Investments/AIG Investments and Head of Investor Relations for all Emerging Markets Private Equity. She was also part of the Central and Eastern European Private Equity Investment Team and was integrally involved in strategy, deal sourcing, and working with portfolio companies. She spent 6 years at Merrill Lynch as a Regional Sales Manager for Alternative Investments. She was a high-yield bond and distressed securities trader with BNP-Paribas, though most of her early career was as the Head of Sales for Currencies and Currency Derivatives. She holds an MBA in Economics and International Finance from New York University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Business Administration from Northeastern University with a dual Major in Finance and International Business and a Minor in Economics.

Karen is Chief Investment Officer at Beringea, a transatlantic venture capital firm with more than $900m under management. Karen leads investment strategy for the firm, working closely with its U.S. and European portfolio of more than 60 early-stage companies and sitting on the boards of Luxury Promise, Moonshot, Fnatic, and EDITED.

Karen has been recognised as one of the leading women in venture capital in Europe. She also chairs ESG_VC, an industry-wide initiative to improve ESG performance in venture-backed businesses involving more than 250 funds in the U.K. and Europe, and she leads INSEAD Venture and Entrepreneurship, a network of alumni of INSEAD who are now the foremost investors and entrepreneurs in Europe.

Karen was previously with the Boston Consulting Group and ran the Watch division of Swiss Army/Wenger. She also has experience with start-ups as both a founder and advisor. Karen has lived and worked in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and has an MBA from INSEAD and a BSBA from Boston University.

Catherine is a past Chair of the City of London’s Policy & Resources Committee, where she served a five-year term from 2017 – 2022. As Policy Chair she played a leading role in the City’s work with the financial and related professional services sector, was deputy chair of The CityUK, and a member of the Professional & Business Services Council. As one of London’s leaders she was also an active participant in London Councils, sitting on the Leaders’ Committee and Executive Committee.

She now holds a portfolio of roles, including as a non-executive director of Connected Places Catapult and on the advisory board of 3Ci, the Cities Climate Investment Commission, for whom she has been leading a finance sector taskforce on a model of financing net zero neighbourhoods.

Catherine has a track record of working on social mobility and education and chaired a government-commissioned taskforce aimed at boosting socio-economic diversity at senior levels in UK financial and professional services.

She has been closely involved in a number of green finance initiatives, was a director of the Green Finance Institute, and is a member of the UK Voluntary Carbon Markets Forum, the Distinguished Advisory Group of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, and the Scottish Taskforce for Green and Sustainable Financial Services.

A solicitor by training, she practised in financial services law for several years.

Mina Melİk Şentürk brings more than fifteen years of experience in direct infrastructure investments, portfolio level management and finance oversight across emerging markets. She aspires to help crowd-in private finance in emerging markets by supporting LPs and GPs in fundraising, capital solutions, investor relations and transaction structuring. Mina has held various leadership position the recent on being a Board Member at CCN Holding for the last 2 years overseeing a portfolio of € 2 billion comprising of two signatory social infrastructure projects, one of them being Europe’s biggest hospital. During her tenure at CCN Holding, she held various responsibilities in corporate and project finance positions focusing mostly on BOTs and PPPs and led key social infrastructure transactions. Mina started her infrastructure career in the consulting industry as a tax advisor at PWC where she worked on a number of complex transactions. She graduated from Bilkent University and was enrolled at the University of Westminster Master of Laws (LLM) program focusing on International Law and Legal Studies. She has been actively advocating for quality infrastructure investment and financing principles in emerging markets with NGOs, business associations and global events.

CCN Holding

CCN Holding is a forefront developer, institutional real asset investor, and long-term manager of sustainable assets across G-20 countries and emerging markets. The Group developed and financed some landmark projects such as Baku Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, primary building for cultural programs designed by Zaha Hadid, and Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Europe's biggest hospital. CCN employs over 6500 people serving the needs of clients globally.

Roxana is an international investor and strategic advisor, with a career encompassing senior roles in banking, commodities, geopolitics and tech across the UK, Europe, and MENA.

Based in London, Roxana is a Chief Strategy Officer of real estate lending platform Blend, which is backed by high-profile family omffices and institutional investors.

She is a member of the Advisory Board of Women In Finance and has been recognized as a senior leader in the Innovate Finance Women In FinTech powerlist.

Prior to her current roles, Roxana was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley and Barclays, where she held various senior roles across commodities trading, strategy and research.

Blend

Blend is a specialist residential real estate development finance lender backed by high-profile family offices and institutional investors. Blend lends to mid-size experienced property developers in the UK.

Jenny Newmarch is the Global Head of Private Equity at Aware Super, the third largest profit for-member Superannuation Fund in Australia with over AUD $150 billion in funds under management. Aware Super’s private equity portfolio is over AUD 9 billion as at 31 March 2032 and is invested globally in a concentrated portfolio of funds and co-investments in strategies ranging from venture capital to buyouts. Jenny recently relocated from Sydney to London to support the establishment of Aware Super’s first European office and will be looking to build a local team and to deepen the European private equity investment strategy.

Jenny has over 15 years experience in private equity as an asset allocator and adviser and has over 20 years experience in the investment field having started her career as an investment consultant and actuary in the UK.

Jenny is a graduate of Imperial College London, a Fellow of the UK Institute of Actuaries and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Aware Super

Aware Super is one of Australia’s top-performing and largest industry super funds with A$160 billion FUM. We invest to achieve strong risk-adjusted returns over the long term for more than 1 million members, who are predominantly public sector workers.
We typically take an active management approach across alternative assets, including infrastructure, real estate and private equity, and additionally allocate to liquid markets. Our first European office in London was established in 2023 to enable a build out of our international investment capabilities for unlisted assets.

Agata is an exited serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and Managing Partner of Visionaries—an AI incubator in partnership with Google Cloud and the first female-focused incubator accelerating the growth of the most ambitious female entrepreneurs globally using AI. With 12 years of experience as a VC investor and founder across the UK and the US, Agata also founded Female Foundry, a network of 6,000+ VC investors and founders with a mission to shape the future of venture capital in Europe. She is also the author of the Female Innovation Index—Europe's largest report mapping the funnel of innovation driven by female entrepreneurs.

Following an institutional career with Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Wachovia, Dalit founded WestValley Capital in 2007 to connect preferred solution providers with European pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers in ways that address the investors’ market views and required considerations. Dalit has over 20 years’ experience working across asset classes within private markets and is a Committee Member of Women in Private Debt. Within the world of philanthropy Dalit is Co-Chair of Films Without Borders, and she sits on the Capital Committee of London’s South Bank Centre.

Christy O’Connell’s practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors, financial investors, portfolio companies and other corporate clients on their investments. Christy has over a decade of experience in advising clients on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, co-investments, joint ventures, exits, and other commercial transactions.

Christy joined Cleary Gottlieb’s London office as a counsel in 2022 and in 2023 was named a Private Equity Rising Star in the UK and Europe by Law.com International.

Evelina Olago is Managing Director of Client and Strategy at Just Climate. Previously, Evelina spent three years as investor relations senior manager at Helios Investment Partners in London. Her role covered fundraising, client engagement as well as development of the firm’s impact and climate strategies. Prior to that, she spent four years as part of the firm’s value creation team working with management teams in Africa and the UK in sectors including energy, real estate, telecommunications and financial services to drive growth, develop robust ESG systems and prepare the businesses for exit. Evelina also worked at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant and started her career at Ernst & Young in the energy and resources group in London. Evelina received a BSc in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Warwick.

Just Climate

Just Climate is an investment business dedicated to climate-led investing to address the net-zero challenge at scale. Our ambition is to identify and invest in high-impact solutions for climate mitigation, as well as to catalyse and multiply capital to scale them. We seek to harness the power of institutional capital to accelerate, and to set a new standard for, climate-led investing.
Just Climate LLP is an appointed representative of Generation Investment Management LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Eimear is a Partner and Global Head of ESG, with responsibility for overseeing and developing Pantheon’s established ESG strategy and range of initiatives. Prior to joining the firm, Eimear worked for 14 years in private equity-focused ESG roles, including most recently as Managing Director and Head of Responsible Investment at Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). Before that she worked at the Carlyle Group, where she implemented an enhanced ESG framework for Carlyle Europe Partners. Eimear is recognized across the industry for engagement with key industry stakeholders and previously co-founded the UK network of Initiative Climat International, an investor-led platform focused on climate action among leading global private market organizations, of which Pantheon is a signatory.

Sabrina Pervez is Director of Alternative Assets at Robin AI, helping clients at the intersection of law and technology, having begun her career as a lawyer at Linklaters before pivoting into the legal AI world in 2022.

She recently founded Women in Legal AI - a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and connecting women within this rapidly evolving sector. Throughout her career, she has been a vocal advocate for diversity initiatives, including launching the podcast "All Rise?", which highlights the experiences of lawyers from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Her efforts were acknowledged when she was shortlisted for Under 35 Lawyer of the Year at the 2022 Women in Law Awards.

Sophie joined WTW in 2018 and works within the Credit Manager Research team. She leads on Emerging Market Debt research, as well as working across private debt and liquid traditional credit strategies. Sophie is a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree holder and graduated from Newcastle University in 2017 with first class honours. She also holds a master's degree in Banking and Finance from Newcastle University and graduated with Distinction. She is a CFA Charter holder.

Omega is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Propela Ventures, which backs early stage operators in Europe with a focus on the living and hospitality sectors. She was previously Head of Funds Management at LendInvest, with a focus on alternative, beds-led and credit strategies and prior to that she was Head of Capital Raising.

Prior to LendInvest, she was a partner at Mishcon de Reya and before that a partner at Brown Rudnick, and a member of the European Debt Advisory practice, a pioneering hybrid legal/commercial model with a particular focus on portfolio and hospitality transactions. Previously she held various roles at CBRE, a property developer and a real estate bank having originally trained and practiced as a corporate tax lawyer at Herbert Smith LLP (now Herbert Smith Freehills).

Omega is a regular speaker at industry events and she co-chaired the INSEAD Real Estate Group in London for over 12 years.

Pravi Prakash is an Investment Manager in the Private Markets team at Railpen, the UK Railways Pension scheme. Pravi’s role is focused on making and monitoring investments in private credit and private equity across a range of sectors and sub-strategies. Prior to joining Railpen, Pravi was an Investment Associate at the National Grid Pension fund where she focused on investments in both public and private assets including infrastructure, credit, equity and property. Previously, Pravi has worked at Lloyds Banking Group and M&G Investments. Pravi is a CFA Charterholder and holds a First Class Honours in BSc Economics from Birmingham University.
Within Private Credit, Pravi has looked at a range of sub-strategies across her roles, ranging from direct lending and risk-sharing transactions to distressed debt and mezzanine financing.

Railpen

Railpen is one of the UK’s largest and longest established pension funds. Railpen is responsible for the safekeeping and investment of circa £35 billion on behalf of the scheme’s 350,000 members who are connected to the railway industry. Railpen has an in-house investment team with expertise in the infrastructure debt and equity markets and has invested over £1.9bn in infrastructure to date. Railpen is increasingly focussed on energy infrastructure investments and has invested c. £500m in energy transition to date. Railpen’s most recent investments include Tralorg Wind Farm, Carraig Gheal Wind Farm, Sleaford and Margam Biomass Plants, Bracks Solar Park and Constantine Energy Storage.

Daniela is a senior associate at Realterm, where she leads pan-European valuations within the fund management team. She also focuses on executing ESG strategies and overseeing portfolio performance for both open- and closed-ended funds. Prior to Realterm, Daniela was part of the portfolio management team at Mapletree, working on operational performance and valuations. Overall, she has more than 7 years of experience in the real estate industry.

Daniela holds an architecture degree from Universidad de Los Andes and an MScBA from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Realterm

Realterm is an independent global investment manager focused on the transportation industry. We acquire, develop, finance and manage differentiated real estate and infrastructure assets serving land, air, sea and rail networks across the world. Our investments are critical to national, regional and local trucking and logistics users alike, including retailers and wholesalers, bulk and regional warehouse operators, manufacturers and e-commerce fulfillment providers. Realterm currently manages over $11 billion in assets.

Joanna Reiss is Partner and Co-Head of Impact at Apollo, where she launched and manages a midmarket buyout strategy focused on driving measurable impact alongside financial returns. Prior to joining Apollo in 2020, she was Partner at Cornell Capital from its founding in 2013. Previously, she was an analyst at Merchants’ Gate Capital, and began her career at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking division before moving to the Merchant Banking Division. Joanna currently serves on the boards of Accent, Heritage Grocers Group, Smart Start and United Living.

Joanna graduated with highest distinction from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan with a BBA degree. She resides in New York City with her husband and sons.

Apollo

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of June 30, 2024, Apollo had approximately $696 billion of assets under management.

Candice Richards is a trailblazing leader and fierce advocate for women’s empowerment in the asset management sector. As the founder of Moxie Platforms, she tackles the retention crisis head-on, creating customized, dynamic environments where women can not only survive but thrive in their careers.

Candice also launched the Women’s Awareness Initiative, a groundbreaking movement backed by asset managers overseeing $5 trillion in assets. This initiative is dedicated to inspiring and attracting women to pursue careers in asset management, reshaping the industry’s landscape for future generations.

Her innovative approach has transformed how organizations attract and retain female talent, while cultivating a robust community that supports women’s professional development. A recognized thought leader, Candice frequently speaks at industry conferences, sharing her powerful insights on innovation and leadership that challenge conventional thinking and drive real change.

With a commitment to fostering an inclusive environment, Candice is not just making waves—she's creating a tidal shift in the industry.

Mrs. Ritchie is a member of the real estate team.

Prior to joining StepStone, Mrs Ritchie worked at Cara Investment GmbH, a Germany-based Family Office, where she was responsible for the firm's Private Equity and Real Estate fund selection. Prior to that, she was a senior analyst alternative investments at Bank of Oklahoma after starting her career at ClearRidge, a boutique corporate advisory firm in the United States.

Mrs. Ritchie holds a master's degree in Management from HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management and a bachelor's degree in International Business Administration from the European University Viadrina. She is also CAIA charterholder.

StepStone Group

StepStone Group is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions to investors globally. The firm oversees US$701 billion of total capital responsibility, including over US$184 billion in real estate. StepStone Real Estate (“SRE”) has a significant information advantage in the market: in 2023, SRE’s 62 investment professionals held 970+ manager meetings and approved more than $11 billion of real estate capital commitments to 56 funds, making SRE one of the largest real estate investors globally. The SRE Partners have significant experience as real estate investment professionals through multiple market cycles and average 26+ years’ experience in real estate investment and advisory services. In April 2018, SRE acquired Courtland Partners, a large US advisory firm with over $90 billion in assets under advisement and a 19-year history of providing real estate advisory services to institutional clients.

Gemma Roberts is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group and co-chair of the London office. Gemma specializes in representing private equity sponsors and private companies in leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and joint ventures. She has extensive experience with cross-border transactions, complex carve-outs and representing senior executives in corporate transactions as well as undertaking corporate and commercial advisory work for a broad range of corporate clients and private equity portfolio companies. Gemma works with clients in industries ranging from software, technology, financial and business services, to food and consumer products.

Goodwin

With the breakneck pace of technology disrupting industries around the world, the firm’s London-based team of 220+ lawyers is embracing change to help clients make a lasting and meaningful impact. As part of what is widely recognised as one of the fastest growing international firms in London, Goodwin’s lawyers are deeply experienced in the private equity, life sciences, technology and real estate sectors and are supported by significant on-the-ground capabilities in debt financing, fund finance, intellectual property, privacy and cybersecurity, regulatory, restructuring, tax, employment and litigation and dispute resolution. In 2023, Goodwin was named the Editor’s Choice Law Firm of the Year at the 2023 British Legal Awards, having previously been named International Law Firm of the Year by The British Legal Awards in 2022. In 2019 the firm also launched its Cambridge office in the heart of the high-technology Silicon Fen, and home to one of the world’s largest and most innovative life sciences clusters, as well as some of the most disruptive technology and life sciences companies. The firm’s on-the-ground presence in Cambridge further expands its lawyers’ ability to support clients in these sectors through its unique capital-meets-innovation platform in Europe, and solidifies Goodwin’s position as the leading firm in the UK and European life sciences and technology markets.

Joanna Roberts’ practice focuses on pan-European and international private equity and M&A transactions. With over a decade of experience in private equity, Joanna has in-depth experience advising on a full range of transactions including leveraged buyouts, consortium deals, bolt-on acquisitions, carve-outs, co-investments, minority deals, divestments, joint ventures, reorganizations, and restructurings together with advising on general corporate matters.

Joanna joined Cleary Gottlieb’s London office as a counsel in 2024 from a leading UK law firm. She also spent 12 months on secondment serving as Assistant General Counsel at a leading pan-European private equity sponsor.

Patricia is an experienced Board Non-Executive Director and Committee Chair, a purposeful leader with over two decades institutional investment and governance experience across real assets, energy transition and private equity, structuring $10Bn+ transactions including at Macquarie and Townsend.

Well-known as an accomplished networker and in demand trusted thought partner, she has a breadth of leadership and sustainability experience, including as co-founder of UK Government’s Green Investment Bank.

Patricia currently serves on the Boards of Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd and Aquila European Renewables PLC. In addition, she is an Independent Investment Committee Member at UK pension plans’ infrastructure investing platform GLIL and Old Mutual’s African Infrastructure Investment Fund 4.

Patricia is the co-founder of InfraNEDs (leading women NEDs in infrastructure and real assets Boards), a Fellow of Chapter Zero UK, 2023 “NED to watch” finalist, Leading Women of Influence in Private Markets and mentor to Nordic VC Katapult Ocean CEOs (deep clean tech).

Patricia began her career in Corporate Finance at Morgan Stanley. She holds an Engineering Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Katya is an experienced investment professional who has been successfully originating, leading and managing equity investments across various infrastructure sectors for over 19 years. She is currently a Portfolio Manager at Aware Super, the third largest superannuation fund in Australia. Based in London, she is helping develop and grow Aware Super’s infrastructure investment platform in the UK and Europe. Prior to joining Aware Super, she served as an Investment Director at one of the UK’s Local Government Pension Schemes, LPPI, overseeing its £3.0 billion portfolio of infrastructure fund, co-investments and direct investments. She was responsible for the origination, execution and management of the infrastructure portfolio and is tasked with leading deal teams through all stages of the investment process.

Prior to joining LPPI, Katya spent over 10 years working for Balfour Beatty Investments, the international infrastructure development and investment company. She has also worked at Bank of America Investment Bank in London and a boutique infrastructure advisory firm in the US.

Aware Super

Aware Super is one of Australia’s top-performing and largest industry super funds with a core objective of delivering the strongest risk-adjusted returns for the 1.1 million members of our Fund. Our Australian and London-based investment teams currently manage A$160 billion AUM on behalf of our members with a projected growth target of A$250 billion AUM.

As one of the top 50 institutional investors globally, we typically take an active management approach across alternative assets, including infrastructure, real estate and private equity, and additionally allocate to liquid markets.

Returns for our A$17.5 billion infrastructure portfolio are driven by a globally-diversified program which captures global trends in demography, sustainability and technology. It also has an execution focus on direct investments and ongoing active asset management.

Jan is a Partner at European technology growth equity investor, SEP, and sits on the investment committee. With over twenty years’ investment experience, she began her private equity career in Dresdner Kleinwort Capital’s global life sciences team and prior to that held operational and commercial roles in the pharmaceutical industry.

In addition to retaining a focus on healthcare and life sciences software investment, Jan also works closely with SEP’s Limited Partners and sits on the responsible investment committee. She is also a co-founder of SEP’s Women in Tech Leadership network which aims to increase female representation at board level in technology companies. Outside SEP, Jan is a Trustee of the National Deaf Children’s Society.

Rhonda Ryan is Partner, Head of European Private Equity at Mercer Alternatives based in London. Rhonda Ryan joined Pavilion Alternatives Group in 2013, which was acquired by Mercer in 2018.

Rhonda Ryan leads the European Private Equity investment team based in London and Zurich and oversees all manager research in Europe. She also acts as relationship manager for a number of Mercer’s international clients.
Rhonda Ryan has been working in the international investment industry since 1992, focusing on private equity and private markets since 1997.

Previously, Rhonda Ryan was Managing Director, Head of Private Funds Group Europe at PineBridge Investments (AIG Investments) where she oversaw a team based in London and Zurich. She invested and managed portfolios in private equity and private debt for both separate account clients and the firm’s fund of funds.

Prior to that, Rhonda Ryan was Head of Alternative Investments at Insight Investment where she had overall responsibility for the Alternative Investments team and portfolios. Prior to this, she spent a number of years working in Japanese organizations both in the UK and Australia.

Rhonda Ryan holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia and BEcon and BA in Asian Studies from The Australian National University. She also holds an Investment Management Certificate (IMC). Rhonda Ryan also speaks Japanese.

Awarded Global Leader under 40 for championing $100B+ combined capital in DEI advocacy through She-VC. Former Federal Reserve Bank Manager- managed US Treasury’s assets for the US Military/ Navy, including managing big banks like JPM, PNC, G, G&D, and VISA. Founder of a consulting firm and grew company to $50M AUM. Founder of tech startup CareerCarma, built at Harvard i-lab when Gayatri was a Harvard graduate student. Started career as a data architect at HP, IBM, and later at Goldman Sachs in the financial tech division. Was a Venture Partner at Nexgen Ventures acquired by Brown Advisory and worked at a large Boston-based VC firm as a scout. Former GP of a TMT fund (acquired). Physics Honors, Math minor. Economics and Finance Major at Harvard. Board of Directors of Harvard Kennedy School Alumni NEA.

Advaita Capital is a 100% POC-women-owned growth equity (Boston-based) investing in decarbonization technology and mainstream deep tech that is advancing the human race (generative AI, neural implants, etc). We also invest in large sustainable infrastructure projects and senior venture debts. We are in Mercer, Albourne, Meketa and Aksia's platform.

Erin Sarret is an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford teaching private equity and ESG. An active voice in sustainable private markets advocating for best practices, she worked with investors to match managers which best suited their return objectives over the last two decades. A graduate of UC Berkeley (double B.A) and McGeorge School of Law (J.D.), she is a member of the State Bar of California since admission in 1994. Her experience as a lawyer and in investor relations brings practical experience to the classroom. Both French and American, she lives in Paris and London.

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford blends the best of new and old. We are a young, vibrant and entrepreneurial business school deeply embedded in the world’s most prestigious university. We deliver cutting-edge education and ground-breaking research that transform individuals, organisations, business practice and society. We educate people for successful business careers and, as a community, we seek to harness our collective expertise and knowledge to help solve pressing global issues such as demographic change, natural resource scarcity and technological challenges.

Helene Schutrumpf leads fundraising and investor relations for the AURELIUS Group.

AURELIUS

AURELIUS is a globally active alternative investor, distinguished and widely recognised for its operational approach. It focuses on Private Equity, Private Debt and Real Estate. Its key investment platforms include AURELIUS European Opportunities IV, AURELIUS Equity Opportunities and AURELIUS Wachstumskapital (Growth Capital). AURELIUS has been growing significantly in recent years, particularly expanding its global footprint, and today employs more than 370 professionals in 10 offices spanning Europe and North America.

AURELIUS is a renowned specialist for complex investments with operational improvement potential such as carve-outs, platform build-ups or succession solutions as well as bespoke financing solutions. To date, AURELIUS has completed more than 300 transactions, and has built a strong track record ofdelivering attractive returns to its investors. Its approach is characterised by its uncompromising focus on operational excellence and an unrivalled ability to efficiently execute highly complex transactions.

Nemashe Sivayogan is the Head of Treasury and Pension at the London Borough of Merton. Nemashe is responsible for looking after the £900m Pension Fund and the Treasury balance of £300m. In addition to Treasury and Pensions Nemashe also head the Council’s banking, insurance services and responsible for the year and accounting and auditing of the main Council. Also, she works on a number of projects across the council services.

Nemashe is a qualified Chartered Institute of Management Accountant, holding an associate membership.

Nemashe has more 25 years of experience in accounting and investment management and for the last twenty years she has been working in the local government where she specialises in pension fund investment management, accounting, and governance.

Nemashe also takes part in the Scheme Advisory Board’s Reporting and Compliance committee where she is helping with the accounting and audit issues facing the Local Government Pension Funds.

Phoebe Smith is a Managing Director in the Infrastructure Equity Team of PATRIZIA. She originates and executes infrastructure transactions as well as managing assets in the existing portfolio. Smith has experience across a wide range of infrastructure sectors and serves on the Boards of a number of PATRIZIA’s investee companies. Her key areas of focus are PATRIZIA’s European Infrastructure Fund series, targeting mid-market infrastructure and the Smart City Infrastructure Fund (SCIF), a dedicated digital infrastructure fund which invests in city-wide networks to support Smart City applications. Phoebe sits on the Board of Connexin, a broadband and IoT business in Hull, the Board of SiFi Networks America, a fibre developer, and is Chair of the Boards of 5 citywide FTTP projects in the US.

PATRIZIA

With operations around the world, PATRIZIA has been offering investment opportunities in real estate and infrastructure assets for institutional, semi-professional and private investors for 40 years. PATRIZIA manages approx. EUR 58 billion in assets and employs around 1,000 professionals at 28 locations worldwide. PATRIZIA has been making an impact since 1984 by helping children in need, since 1992 in close collaboration with Bunter Kreis (“colourful circle”) in Germany for aftercare of children with severe diseases and since 1999 through its support for the PATRIZIA Foundation. The PATRIZIA Foundation has given more than 600,000 children and young people worldwide access to education, healthcare, and a safe home to get the chance to live a better self-determined life over the last 24 years.

You can find further information at www.patrizia.ag and www.patrizia.foundation.

Ferdisha Snagg’s practice focuses on financial services law and regulation.

Ferdisha has a wide range of non-contentious experience advising banks, investment banks, asset managers, and market infrastructures. She regularly advises on a variety of financial services and regulatory issues including financial markets regulation, financial collateral and financial market infrastructure regulation, and banking regulation.

She has written and presented extensively on legal and regulatory issues surrounding distributed ledger technology and cryptoassets.

Prior to joining Cleary, Ferdisha was an associate at another major London law firm. She has also spent time on secondment at three global investment banks and a central bank.

Magdalena Śniegocka is an experienced investment and finance professional with 14 years of international, cross-sector track record. In her professional career, she executed over USD 13 billion worth of investments and capital raising transactions and supervised multiple portfolio companies.

Currently, she holds a position of Principal and a Member of Investment Committee at CVI, being responsible for origination, execution and monitoring of private debt investments. Prior to joining CVI, she gained experience in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers and Nomura in London, where she advised international corporate clients and financial sponsors on Acquisition and Leveraged Finance, Equity and Debt Capital Markets. Later, she led Corporate Finance department for Kulczyk Investments, a Polish private investment company with over USD 4 billion in AUM in public and private equity investments in consumer, chemical, technology, infrastructure and energy projects.

Magdalena earned her MSc in Finance from ESCP Europe, studying in London, Madrid and Paris. She also has MA in Investment and Corporate Finance Strategy from Poznan University of Economics and is an Alumna of Harvard Business School in Boston (PLD). In addition to native Polish, she speaks English, Spanish and French.

Cecilie Søndergaard Nielsen is the Founder and Managing Director of CN8, a London-based leadership performance consultancy specialising in coaching, assessment, and advisory services for senior leaders in high-pressure industries. With nearly two decades of international experience in HR, and leadership roles across energy and financial services - including private equity - Cecilie has worked in diverse environments from oil rigs to trading floors, supporting leaders across the globe. Cecilie is a multi-certified executive coach, and holds a BSc in Economics as well as a Master's in Leadership, in addition to advanced training in subconscious bias and the neuroscience behind it. She is particularly passionate about advancing female leadership, and her coaching work focuses on providing her clients with the tools to facilitate transformative, permanent change.

Catalina is a Principal at Park Square Capital, LLP. Prior to joining Park Square in 2021, Catalina was an Executive Director at JP Morgan covering acquisition and leveraged finance. Catalina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Economics from Williams College.

Park Square Capital

Park Square Capital is a leading private credit manager, providing senior debt, mid-market direct loans, junior debt, and structured equity to private equity-backed companies in Europe and the US. Park Square has invested more than $26 billion since 2004, and currently manages c.$16 billion of capital on behalf of its investors. Park Square has more than 130 staff, with ten offices including London, New York, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Seoul and Tokyo. Park Square was recently recognised as “Best Performing Direct Lender in Europe” by Preqin and “Lender of the Decade in Europe” by PDI. For more information, please visit www.parksquarecapital.com.

Marta Stojanova is a Director in the Leveraged Finance team within S&P Corporate Ratings. She joined S&P Global Ratings' London office in 2019 and is responsible for leveraged transactions involving private equity sponsors, complex transactions and restructurings, private credit estimates, structured finance (CLOs) and speculative-grade recovery analysis. She publishes regularly on themes covering European leveraged finance, recovery and European CLOs.

Prior to joining S&P, Marta spent nearly two decades in various investment banking and debt capital markets roles prior to joining S&P. She has vast transactional experience in originating and structuring debt-financed acquisitions for corporates and private equity sponsors. In addition, Marta was an investment manager at Citi Private Equity deploying over $11 billion in private company equity co-investments, mezzanine and fund-of-funds investments, across Europe and North America. She also has experience in buy-side structuring and negotiating rescue finance for challenged credits.

Marta holds a MSc degree from Reading University and a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Management from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Işıl Tanrıverdi-Versmissen is an accomplished infrastructure finance professional and is currently serving as the Head of Infrastructure Debt Transactions at MEAG in Munich. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the from origination to execution activities of a senior team of investment experts across all infrastructure sectors, who are ensuring best asset selection for MEAG´s investors. With a passion for infrastructure industry, she is stays engaged in origination and execution in her role, while contributing into strategic direction, fundraising activities and close communication with investors.
With extensive experience in structured infrastructure finance, she has held roles at institutions like Nomura, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Moody's Investors Service and UniCredit in the past.
She values relationships across her professional network and takes pleasure out of broadening her horizon with new contacts and their ideas.

MEAG

MEAG manages the assets of the Munich Re Group, leveraging over 140 years of experience and more than 100 investment professionals. With €347 billion in assets under management (as of June 30, 2024), including around €36 billion in alternative investments, MEAG provides comprehensive management across core asset classes such as fixed income, equities, real estate, and investments in renewable energy and infrastructure. MEAG emphasizes the importance of integrating sustainability factors across investment processes and internal operations, aligning with the belief that sustainable practices will remain essential for long-term value.

Wee Kii Teh is a Portfolio Manager in Allianz Global Investors’ Development Finance & Impact Credit team. Since joining the team in 2021, Wee Kii has focused on the Blended Finance partnership between Allianz and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) (completing the vehicle upsize in 2022), as well as supporting the build-out of the Impact Private Credit strategy and executing transactions across impact and credit-enhanced debt strategies.

Prior to AllianzGI, Wee Kii was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for 6 years, where she worked on the Emerging Markets bond origination & structuring desk and subsequently the syndicated Loan Capital Markets desk, focusing on acquisition financings and general corporate refinancings for large European and Emerging Markets financial institutions and corporate clients. In this role she gained experience in structuring sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), having been involved in the early wave of SLL issuances in Emerging Markets.

Wee Kii Teh holds a Bachelor's of Science (BSc) degree in Biotechnology from Imperial College London, where she graduated with First Class Honours.

Helena Threlfall is a Portfolio Manager of Environmental Opportunities at Local Pensions Partnership Investments. Prior roles include overseeing the Private Equity, Real Estate and Natural Resources portfolio and as an investment committee member at Hasma Capital, multi-asset class analysis at Citi Private Bank, a quantitative hedge fund manager at Barclays Global Investors and several years in Financial Regulation at the FSA. She also sits on the Finance and Investment Committee at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge as an external advisor and is a CFA Charterholder. Helena received a BA from the University of Leeds in Management Studies.

Emma Tinker is Chief Investment Officer of Asper Investment Management, which she co-founded in 2016, as the spin-out of HgCapital's renewable energy business.

Emma has worked in investment since 1999 and in the energy sector since 2002. During her tenure at Hg she started the renewable energy business that eventually led to the raising of Hg's first renewable energy fund in 2003.

Emma is responsible for Asper's investment strategy, is Chair of the Investment Committee and sits on the Sustainability and Platform Management Commitees. She leads the origination and strategic business planning on existing platforms and new investments. Over the years she has led and managed investments, financings and exits in different markets and technologies across Europe, including invis Energy, Ireland's largest renewables company.

Emma is also a non-executive director of Good Energy Group plc.

Asper Investment Management

Asper Investment Management is a leading specialist investment management firm, focussed on building the sustainable infrastructure businesses of tomorrow. Managing over €1.4 billion in assets on behalf of major institutional investors, Asper is at the forefront of energy transition across Europe.
For over a decade, we have been supporting exceptionally talented management teams in building large-scale sustainable energy businesses across Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Our success lies in bridging the gap between capital and sustainable infrastructure opportunities, enabling our clients to realise attractive returns while making societal and environmental impact. With our specialist investment team, we partner with early-stage developers, offering technical insight and robust risk management to deliver high-performing greenfield projects that contribute to decarbonisation. Together, we invested €1.9bn to develop and build over 1,300MW of new sustainable energy assets. Building these projects has already created more than 10,000 high quality jobs and are projected to avoid over 23,000kt of CO2 emissions throughout their lifetimes.

Amanda Tonsgaard, Partner & Head of Investor Relations Amanda joined AIP in 2024 and is responsible for investor relations, capital raising and communications, and part of shaping AIP’s strategic direction. She has worked in the private markets for over 20 years in various roles. Her most recent role was at Triton Partners, where she built and oversaw Investor Services, Communication, and Co-Investments. Prior to that, she was Managing Partner at the law firm Hannes Snellman Copenhagen. She has also been a Director at Capital Dynamics, a global asset manager and a Principal at Langholm Capital, a small-cap buyout fund. She began her career at Bech Bruun Law Firm in Copenhagen, before moving to London in 2001.

She holds an MBA from London Business School and a Master of Laws (Cand.Jur.) from University of Copenhagen. She is a mentor with Level 20, an organisation that promotes gender diversity in finance and the PEI Mentorship Scheme.

Joe Topley joined GBL in 2023 to lead GBL Capital, the group’s €3bn indirect private equity business. Joe has over 20 years’ experience in private equity investing, having previously worked at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the StepStone Group and Nomura. Joe started his career in management consulting and investment banking. Joe has an MBA from INSEAD, a degree in Molecular Biology from Imperial College, London and a post-graduate Diploma in Economics from University College, London. Joe served on the board of ILPA from 2019 to 2023 and is a member of the ILPA faculty team. He also teaches private equity at London Business School.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL)

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) is a listed, family-backed European investment holding company with assets of c.€16bn. The asset base consists of the following: 1) a small number of meaningful stakes in public companies, including Adidas, Pernod Ricard and SGS; 2) several control positions in private companies, including Sanoptis, Affidea and Canyon; and 3) GBL Capital, which invests in funds and co-invests managed by 3rd party private equity managers. GBL is headquartered in Brussels, with offices in London, Paris, Milan and Luxemburg.

Fiona joined AIMA in April 2013 after a long association with AIMA that included contributing as an editor to AIMA’s Guides to Sound Practices. As well as heading membership, she leads the UK Business Development ＆ Investor Relations and Next Generation Manager groups at AIMA.

She has worked within the alternatives investment industry since 1998, and is an investor relations and marketing specialist experienced in both single manager hedge funds and funds of hedge funds. Her career within the hedge fund industry started in the late 1990s when she joined Park Place Capital, one of the first European long/short European equity hedge funds. Since then she has worked in marketing and investor relations roles at Beaumont Capital, Schroders, Kazimir Partners and Wadhwani Asset Management. She has a degree in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Bristol.

Anaïs is part of DC Advisory’s UK infrastructure team and has over eight years of investment banking experience with a focus on telecoms and digital infrastructure. Since joining the team in 2021, Anaïs has advised multiple infrastructure clients across a range of refinancing, acquisition financing transactions and capital structure optimisations.

Prior to joining DC Advisory, Anaïs was part of the TMT finance team at SocGen, working across lending and debt advisory mandates for key infrastructure clients.

DC Advisory

DC Advisory is an international investment bank committed to making a difference. As part of an established global business, we offer access to over 750 professionals in 24 locations throughout Asia, Europe, and the US. Across 11 industry focused teams, we offer tailored, independent advice on M&A, debt raisings and restructurings, private capital markets, secondary advisory and access to unrivalled Asia investment knowledge.

For more information, visit http://www.dcadvisory.com/aboutus

Alice Usanase is an accomplished investment executive with over a decade of expertise in identifying and developing over $1 billion in investment opportunities in frontier markets.

At AFC, she directs efforts in government affairs, capital raising, business development, partnerships and investor relations in the EMEA region. Her work has been instrumental in broadening AFC's shareholder and Member States base, expanding operations footprint in North, East and Southern Africa, as well as in enriching its product range, crucial for the Corporation's strategic evolution.

Prior to AFC, Alice managed an $88 million investment climate program at the IFC, enhancing energy and mining sectors in Africa. At the World Bank Group, she implemented regional industrialization and export policy programs in East Africa. Alice is a 2024 WEF Young Global Leader and co-authored a pivotal publication titled "Infrastructure Financing in SSA: Best Practices from 10 Years in the Field.

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is a pan-African Multilateral Development Financial Institution established in 2007 by sovereign African states to provide pragmatic solutions to Africa's infrastructure deficit and challenging operating environment. The Corporation bridges the infrastructure investment gap through the provision of debt and equity finance, project development, technical and financial advisory services.

Ms. Vanden Beukel is a Managing Director of Crescent Credit Europe LLP and Head of European Credit Markets, Head of ESG Strategy and Policy Development, and a member of Crescent’s Management Committee. She has worked extensively in the European sub-investment grade market, with experience in senior loans, second lien, mezzanine, high yield bonds, preferred/hybrid securities, and stressed/special situations. Prior to joining the team in 2011, she was a Senior Managing Director in the London office of Clayton, Dubilier ＆ Rice, a private equity investment firm. Prior to that, Ms. Vanden Beukel was Senior Managing Director at GSC Group, a credit-focused alternative asset manager. She joined GSC’s predecessor in 1994 and led the firm’s European mezzanine lending and corporate debt activities. Prior to GSC, she worked at Salomon Smith Barney in their restructuring and M＆A advisory group. Ms. Vanden Beukel has a B.A. from Dartmouth College.

Crescent Capital Group

Established in 1991, Crescent Capital Group is a leading specialist focused exclusively on corporate credit. Crescent managed approximately $43 billion of assets and commitments as of 30 June 2024 across a number of credit strategies including capital markets, direct lending, European specialty lending, and mezzanine securities.

Nadine Wagner is Investment Manager for Infrastructure Debt in MEAG’s Illiquid Assets Team. She holds portfolio management responsibilities of both internal and group-external funds, including business development and ESG. Nadine also manages several assets of MEAG’s infrastructure debt portfolio.
Nadine’s professional interest include sustainability, project finance, as well as inclusion and diversity.
Before joining MEAG, Nadine was Senior Vice President for Infrastructure Debt at Assenagon Asset Management and worked as Banker at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where she focused on transport infrastructure.
Nadine studied mathematics (MSc) at the universities of Erlangen/Germany and Valparaiso/Chile.

Charlie is Deputy CEO of the London Stock Exchange plc having joined in 2018 to lead the Equity and Fixed Income Primary Markets businesses.

Charlie is a capital markets specialist and previously worked within J.P. Morgan Cazenove’s Equity Capital Markets team responsible for originating and executing equity transactions. He has assisted in raising over £45bn of equity capital across five continents on behalf of clients.

During his time at JPMC, Charlie also worked in Sydney raising capital for companies on the Australian Stock Exchange as well as taking primary responsibility for the South African equity capital markets practice.

London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange is proud to set the stage for your success, where ideas meet capital and become reality. We connect companies, countries, and investors in the real world to make measurable and positive differences across the globe. Customers look to us for broad access to capital markets and liquidity across multiple asset classes. We deliver a broad range of international equity, fixed income, exchange-traded funds, investment vehicles and foreign exchange markets. Customers can choose from our capital formation and execution venues, London Stock Exchange, AIM and Turquoise.
Having contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years, London Stock Exchange is proud to be a catalyst for opportunity and sustainable growth.

For more information please visit:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/raise-finance/equity/private-markets

https://www.linkedin.com/company/london-stock-exchange/

Lisa is a published author on AI, specialising in advising private equity firms on due diligence and value creation. She serves on the Advisory Board of Lumenalta, a PE-backed custom software development company. With experience at Microsoft, Accenture and private equity, growth and infrastructure firms, she has a proven track record of partnering with businesses to develop operational improvement with data and AI strategies and drive value across various sectors. In addition, she has held executive line management positions working with some of the world’s best-known brands and served on various boards, earning her recognition as a leading woman in technology. Recognising the transformative potential of AI, Lisa’s mission is to equip non-technical leaders with the knowledge and confidence to leverage AI for their organisations. Her recent book, "The AI Value Playbook," provides an essential handbook for non-technical business leaders to quickly formulate a perspective on how to leverage AI.

Elizabeth Weymouth is the Founder and Managing Partner of Grafine Partners. Grafine is a boutique alternative asset management firm that partners with veteran industry management teams and patient, creative and sophisticated capital to collectively build profitable and scalable businesses across selected industry verticals.

Prior to starting Grafine Partners, Elizabeth spent 10 years as a Partner at Riverstone Holdings, where she helped to institutionalize the firm, sat on the boards of portfolio companies, and secured $27 billion of capital from global sources.

Before joining Riverstone, Elizabeth was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank and Head of Investments for the U.S. Northeast region, the largest investment business within the Private Bank. In this role, she was responsible for over $80 billion in client assets and 70 investment professionals focused exclusively on making strategic and tactical investments across all financial markets.

Elizabeth earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and her M.B.A. from the Darden Graduate School of Business, where she served on the Board of Trustees for 15 years and was the first female Chairperson of the board from 2016 through 2019. Elizabeth currently serves on the Board of Directors for UVIMCO and Chilton Trust and is a member of the Board of Trustees at Deerfield Academy. She is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Elizabeth has been recognized as one of ten “Women of Influence” within Private Equity by Private Equity International.

Grafine Partners

Grafine Partners is a boutique private investment firm founded by Elizabeth Weymouth in 2019 that invests in and scales emerging investment platforms launched by experienced dealmakers to uncover sources of private markets alpha. To find unique sources of alpha, Grafine is capitalizing on a trend resulting from the explosive growth of the mega firms: highly talented, entrepreneurial and senior deal makers are spinning out of these firms to go out on their own. Grafine seeds these emerging managers and de-risks their investment platforms in order to source their deal flow exclusively for Grafine investors through economically aligned structures. In recent news, Grafine raised ~$600 million for their inaugural strategy, Grafine Capital I – exceeding their $500mm target. They are now launching the Grafine Co-Investment Fund vehicle as a creative way for capital partners to have access to and co-invest alongside the high-quality emerging managers and independent sponsors in their ecosystem.

Claire Williams is a Partner in the Firm’s Credit Practice, based in the London office and concentrating on infrastructure debt finance matters. She represents financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on complex cross-border financings across a wide range of infrastructure asset classes (including energy and energy transition, regulated utilities, transport and digital infrastructure). Claire has extensive experience on senior and subordinated financing structures for acquisition (including public-to-private), capex roll-out and refinancing transactions and regularly advises clients on multi-source and rated debt raisings.

Miriam Wrobel leads FTI Consulting’s global Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practice. Ms. Wrobel advises public and private companies and a wide range of investors on ESG evaluation, strategy, and implementation efforts, leveraging her 20 years of transactional and strategic experience and deep background in the energy transition to support the development and execution of multi-pronged ESG and sustainability programs. Ms. Wrobel has advised public and private companies, as well as universities and local and state governments on ESG and energy transition matters. She specializes in the strategic evaluation of ESG initiatives utilizing a financial lens, incorporating rigorous financial analysis to help clients execute ESG initiatives that drive revenue growth, cost savings, and cost-effective risk mitigation. Ms. Wrobel has extensive experience in clean energy and sustainability finance, having led, advised, or participated in hundreds of transactions in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Ms. Wrobel has extensive experience in clean energy and sustainability finance, having led, advised, or participated in hundreds of transactions in renewable energy and energy efficiency. She has experience in novel financial structures including municipal pre-pay power purchase agreements, energy services agreements for energy efficiency, green bank loans, and green bonds.

FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. With more than 8,000 employees located in 33 countries and territories, our professionals work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and make the most of opportunities. We strive to create sustainable, profitable growth while continuing to build on shareholder value. Our ESG & Sustainability consultants provide extensive support to companies and advisors navigating today’s evolving, and rapidly shifting, ESG-driven demands. From materiality assessments and environmental sustainability reporting, to net zero strategies, supply chain audits, and ESG-related internal investigations, among many other offerings, our diverse group of experts guides you throughout your ESG journey to support a more sustainable and inclusive future for your organization and the world more broadly.