In his 20s, Luke Johnson led the acquisition of Pizza Express and as chairman, helped it become the UK’s leading pizza brand. He has since established and helped develop household names, Strada, Giraffe, the Ivy, Zoggs and Integrated Dental Holdings, as part of his family office vehicle, Risk Capital Partners. He is a successful newspaper columnist, […]

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#29 Luke Johnson, entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist

Fabian Chrobog is founder of North Wall Capital, a Western European special situations investor

#28 Fabian Chrobog, North Wall Capital on European special situations

Alistair Lester is CEO of Aon’s M&A and transactions services business in EMEA. This is not the conversation you think. Aon has spent recent years building out its capabilities across the risk spectrum. Or watch the video version here.   Transcript Ross Butler: Alistair, you are the CEO of Aon’s M&A business in EMEA, but […]

#27 Alistair Lester, CEO of Aon M&A on protecting and enhancing returns

Dan Aylott is Head of European Private Investments at Cambridge Associates. This is a Fund Shack ‘private chat’ about the large opportunity set in the European private equity market, from buyouts through to venture capital, with a focus on growth strategies in all these markets. Alternatively, you can listen to the filmed version here. Transcript: […]

#26 Dan Aylott, Cambridge Associates

Cyril Demaria is a leading private equity thinker, fund investor, and affiliate professor at EDHEC. He is the author of numerous books on alternative investment, most recently co-authoring Asset Allocation and Private Markets (March 2021). This is a Fund Shack ‘private chat’ about the difficulties of reconciling a liquid with an illiquid investment programme, and […]

#25 Cyril Demaria on Asset allocation and private markets

You can watch the video version of this private chat with Bob Long (with speed controls here.)   [Transcript] Today I’m speaking with Bob Long CEO of Conversus. Bob originally listed Conversus Capital in Europe in 2007, and it was the largest listed private equity vehicle of its day. He recently relaunched the Conversus brand […]

#24 Bob Long, Conversus, on making private equity accessible

Simon Witney on sustainability and corporate governance. In this episode, I’m speaking with Simon Witney, who’s probably the best known private equity lawyer in Europe. He’s currently a senior consultant at Travis Smith where he spends much of his time advising clients on sustainability. He’s been chairman of the BVCA’s Legal and accounting committee and Invest Europe’s Tax […]

#23 Simon Witney on sustainability rules and corporate governance

Carl Bradshaw is a partner in the law firm Goodwin’s private equity group. He has advised European, American and Asian private equity sponsors on cross border LBOs, public to privates, co-investments and special situations. We talked in late March 2021 about deal appetite going into the second quarter of 2021 new deal-making processes and the […]

#22 Carl Bradshaw, Goodwins

Patrick Sheehan of ETF Partners talks to Fund Shack's Ross Butler about creating sustainable prosperity with venture capital.

#19 Patrick Sheehan on sustainable prosperity and venture capital

Private Equity Demystified is on the reading list of business schools from Boston to Singapore. It is now in its fourth edition, and in this podcast we speak with John Gilligan of Oxford Said Business School and David Petrie, Head of the Corporate Finance Faculty at the ICAEW.  

#18 Private equity demystified

Hendrik Brandis is co-founder and partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, a leading early-stage investor operating across Western and Eastern Europe. Hendrik just led the first all-European round of financing for a space rocket company, Isar Aerospace. We discuss the European venture opportunity, innovation, Earlybird’s development (2020 was ‘the best year’ in their history), fund structures […]

#17 Hendrik Brandis, Earlybird Venture Capital

Vania Schlogel is managing partner and founder of Atwater Capital, a Los Angeles based international private equity firm specialising in media and entertainment. Vania is a Goldman Sachs and KKR alumna, she was CIO of Jay-Z’s entertainment agency Roc Nation, and she now sits on the boards of media & entertainment companies across the US, […]

#16 Vania Schlogel, Atwater Capital

Four of the world’s leading thinkers joined Fund Shack for this 50th anniversary debate on Milton Friedman’s controversial article entitled The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits.

The Milton Friedman New York Times CSR Debate

Avi Turetsky leads Landmark Partners’ Quantitative Research team, which just co-authored a new way to measure private equity performance, called the Excess Value Method.

#14 Avi Turetsky

Wol Kolade is the managing partner of Livingbridge, a mid-market private equity firm with offices in the UK, Melbourne and Boston.  

#13 Wol Kolade

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