European Private Equity & Venture Capital Forum 2020, San Francisco
Overview
On 5th – 6th March the BVCA will be hosting a range of activities for institutional investors, family offices and investment consultants in San Francisco, including:
Thursday 05 March
8.30 - 13.10: European Private Equity and Venture Capital Forum
8.30 - 17.00: Meetings with European fund managers
18.30 - 20.30: LP-GP Reception
Friday 06 March (SECOND DAY ADDED)
8.30 - 12.00: Hot topic roundtables
Meetings with European fund managers
To register your place please complete our registration form.
Why attend?
- Get the latest updates on European PE/VC
- Hear from leading European fund managers
- Arrange meetings with fund managers
- Connect with your peers and expand your network
- Hot topics: learn the latest on how fellow LPs, and GPs, are approaching current issues in the industry
Day 1
European Private Equity and Venture Capital Forum
The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Forum will take place from 8.30 and includes lunch from 13.30.
View the full agenda.
Topics include
- Europe’s political and investment environment
- Benchmarking European PE/VC returns
- Balancing fund investing, co-investing and direct investing
- Driving operating improvements in niche B2B leaders to create alpha returns
- Emerging sub-sector focus: location-based entertainment
- What next for global financial services
- The Nordic private equity opportunity
- European venture – why look beyond your doorstep?
- Deeptech and fintech across Europe
- B2B in Germany
- The consumer sector in the Nordics
- Energy transition: the reduction of the carbon footprint in the energy markets
- Differentiated strategies across Europe: the Greece example
Venue: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati, 1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Meetings with European fund managers
LPs can arrange one-on-one meetings with European fund managers in the afternoon. If there is lots of demand for meetings some of these meetings could take place in the morning, or, if you are joining us on 6th March too they could take place then.
Please advise the BVCA who you would like to meet with when you register.
Venue: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati, 1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
LP-GP Reception
An exclusive evening of drinks and canapés for institutional investors, family offices and investment consultants with European fund managers will take place from 18.30.
This is an excellent opportunity to expand your network, both with local LPs and with European fund managers.
Venue: To be confirmed soon
Day 2
Hot Topic Roundtables
The second morning of activities will provide an opportunity for LPs and GPs to deepen discussions around pertinent issues that are hot topics, whether from a global perspective or from a European perspective. A complete range of topics will be discussed to ensure that everyone involved can fully benefit.
Topics include
- Brexit and beyond
What are the implications for investing in the UK and the EU? What does it all actually mean in terms of capital flows and investment opportunity? Has the pace of investment slowed? What are the future options on the table?
- What next for ESG?
What processes are LPs and GPs putting in place, what benefits are they seeing, and how will ESG be measured and managed going forwards?
How can investors invest in the energy sector while maintaining a focus on carbon reduction?
- Diversity:
How important is it? What do LPs expect to see from GPs and why? What are GPs doing about it?
- LPACs:
Are lines of responsibility and conflicts of interest becoming increasingly complex? How should decision-making processes evolve to respond to this?
- Terms and alignment:
What has changed in terms of alignment in the past few years? With an abundance of co-investment activity, and with a market at the top of the cycle, what does the future hold for terms and alignment?
- Small cap:
If small-cap opportunities can generate greater returns, what can LPs do to maximise opportunities internationally with limited time and resource?
- European venture – should American investors care?
European venture has seen a revolution in recent years, not just in terms of investment activity, but the returns are coming through to. This roundtable will ask if North American LPs believe they have enough opportunity on their doorstep or if there are now compelling reasons to look across the Atlantic.
- Impact:
According to Sir Ronald Cohen, social impact investing is the new venture capital. How are LPs and GPs responding to this? Are we at the cusp of a tipping point in terms of recognising the opportunity in impact investing? What experiences have LPs had so far?
- Emerging managers
What defines an emerging manager, what should change from fund 1 to 3, and are LPs changing their programmes to access emerging managers? In the venture space, to access new technologies will new managers have better, more differentiated knowledge by definition?
Please note the topics are subject to change so that we can ensure we fully cater to attendees based on their wishes.
Venue: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati, 1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Meetings with European fund managers
LPs can arrange one-on-one meetings with European fund managers.
Please advise the BVCA who you would like to meet with when you register.
The event will close at midday.
Venue: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati, 1 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
European fund managers involved:
- Balderton
- Blazar Capital
- Brookstreet Equity Partners
- Copper Street
- Cubera
- Isomer Capital
- IQ Capital
- Luminous Ventures
- Permira
- Promethean
- Shorelight
- Unternehmertum Venture Capital
- WestBridge
North America LP Advisory Group
- Abigail Kahn Archibald, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
- Michael Dymond, APG
- J. David Enriquez, New York City Retirement Systems
- Caitlin Gubbels, CPPIB
- David Hartford, Calibrium
- Scott Ramsower, Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Forum/one-on-one meetings location
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati
1 Market Street
San Francisco
CA 94105, US
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Price
Attendance is complimentary for LPs and investment consultants.
GPs pay a fee to the BVCA.
BVCA members that pay an annual membership fee of £52,740 p.a. can join the roadshow with no additional fee required, subject to limited availability.
Book now
North American LPs and investment consultants - please book here.
European GPs - please contact Leon de Bono at ldebono@bvca.co.uk.
For further information and queries please email Leon de Bono at ldebono@bvca.co.uk.