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LPEA Insights Fundraising 2022

This year’s LPEA Insights conference will focus on Fundraising and how Luxembourg is shaping its way into a European hub for Investor Relations. Join this event designed by and for GPs and LPs, a gathering that is at the same time the perfect meeting point for all Private Equity and Venture Capital practitioners.

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LPEA Insights 2022: Gilles Dusemon - Setting the scene: Investor Relations, the challenge ahead

LPEA Insights 2022: Gilles Dusemon - Setting the scene: Investor Relations, the challenge ahead

LPEA Insights 2022: Fundraising - Mathieu Perfetti

LPEA Insights 2022: Fundraising - Mathieu Perfetti

LPEA Insights 2022: Fundraising - Helene Noublanche

LPEA Insights 2022: Fundraising - Helene Noublanche

LPEA Insights 2022: Fundraising - Gregory Fayolle (Oraxys)

LPEA Insights 2022: Fundraising - Gregory Fayolle (Oraxys)

LPEA Insights 2022 Coverage with Franz Gaul, Katalin Gallyas and Joaquín Alexandre Ruiz Tarré

LPEA Insights 2022 Coverage with Franz Gaul, Katalin Gallyas and Joaquín Alexandre Ruiz Tarré

LPEA Insights 2022 Coverage with Olivier Gerard, Mathieu Perfetti and Martine Kerschenmeyer

LPEA Insights 2022 Coverage with Olivier Gerard, Mathieu Perfetti and Martine Kerschenmeyer

PHOTO COVERAGE

SPEAKERS

Claus Mansfeldt, President of LPEA and Chairman & Managing Director of SwanCap Investment Management S.A.

Claus Mansfeldt is the executive Chairman of SwanCap’s regulated AIFM management company in Luxembourg. SwanCap is a specialised private equity funds and co-investments manager. Prior to co-founding SwanCap in 2013, Claus worked for 25 years in a wide range of investment banking and private equity related functions at UniCredit and Nomura in London, most recently heading UniCredit’s Principal Investments unit there. He is also the President of the LPEA since 2018. Claus holds a B.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).

Gilles Dusemon, Member of LPEA’s Executive Committee

Gilles Dusemon is a Partner in the Private Equity & Real Estate practice of Arendt & Medernach. He specialises in the formation of alternative investment funds (AIF). He is qualified in corporate and tax law matters with a special interest in private equity, venture capital, private debt, infrastructure, real estate funds and related acquisition structures. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1997. Gilles Dusemon is actively involved with the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI). He serves as co-chairman of ALFI's Private Equity and Venture Capital Working Group. He is also a founding member of LPEA, the Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and is sitting on its Executive Board. He is also a member of the Legal & Regulatory Committee of Invest Europe (Brussels) and former chair (2019-2020).

Laurent Hengesch, Founding Partner of Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital

Laurent Hengesch is a Luxembourgish investor and founding partner of Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital (IVC), which he founded in 2019. Within three years IVC developed into one of the leading Luxembourg-founded private equity firms and one of the fastest-growing FinTech investors in Europe. During his career, Laurent focused on acting as an advisor to European UHNWI, as well as corporations and governments, while working as Head of Business Development at M.M. Warburg & CO Bank and family offices in Europe. He studied economics in Berlin and the US.

Martine Kerschenmeyer, Director of Advent International Fund Manager

Martine joined Advent in 2021 to support fundraising and investor relations activities in Continental Europe. Martine joins from Korn Ferry where she set up the Luxembourg office in 2018 as a Senior Client Partner. Prior to Korn Ferry, Martine spent 18 years in the financial services industry in London focusing on private equity and alternative assets fundraising, most recently as a Director at BlackRock, in charge of business development for the private equity group in EMEA. Prior to this, she was an Investment Director at SL Capital Partners, responsible for private equity business development in Continental Europe. Before her role at SL Capital, Martine was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, responsible for business development in EMEA and APAC for private equity and hedge funds. She started her career as an Associate at JP Morgan in the Equity Derivatives business. Martine holds an LLM in International Commercial and Comparative Law from King’s College London and a D.E.A (Diplôme d’Etudes Appliquées) in International Business Law from the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in France. Martine has also completed the Harvard Business School Executive Program for Private Equity and Venture Capital and is a CFA Charterholder.

Katalin Gallyas, Managing Director of c*funds

Katalin is the Managing Director of c*funds, a boutique fund placement agency in Amsterdam, focussing on raising funds for VCs, growth, RE, and credit funds from 100 M - 2 B EUR. 15 years of institutional fundraising background (EIF/EC). Raised capital for seed, SeriesA for high-growth scaleups in Amsterdam (29 M in total). Currently leading a strong PE fundraising /transaction team in Amsterdam with 14 investment professionals and with a strong global footprint. Rich network in Private Equity (VC’s, growth, debt venture funds and LP’s, HNWI’s, FoF’s, Family offices) and with GPs and LPs worldwide.

Stephane Pesch, CEO of LPEA

Stéphane Pesch is the CEO of the LPEA since September 2020, which he actively joined in October 2019 as "Strategy Director" after 14 years of activity in the field of financial services and more particularly in investment funds. Initially focusing on UCITS, Stephane gradually moved to alternative funds within various custodian banks and PSFs of the place such as Apex, Ipes, KBL European Private Bankers, BNP Paribas, among others. Stephane holds a Master in Economics and Finance from the University of Nancy 2.

Hélène Noublanche, Investor Relations Manager, Coller Capital

Hélène is a Manager in the Investor Relations team, currently seconded to Sanne LIS in Luxembourg. Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2021, Hélène worked as a Finance Manager in H.I.G. Capital's Finance team in Luxembourg. Hélène has an MSc in Finance from IESEG, School of Management.

Gregory Fayolle, Founder and Managing Director of Oraxys

Gregory is the founder and Managing Director of ORAXYS, a leading Luxembourg-based Private Equity firm that is an expert in European growth capital and environmental impact investment. Previously Gregory worked in Private Equity at Societe Generale Asset Management and in Mergers & Acquisitions at Andersen Corporate Finance. He has a 15 years background of deals in France, Benelux, Switzerland, England and in the United States. Moreover, Gregory has been responsible for 2 years of the Environment sector at the French Ministry of Economy in Thailand.

Mathieu Perfetti, Head of Private Equity, Threestones Capital

Over 13 years of experience within the private equity industry. Prior to joining Threestones Capital in 2021, Mathieu Perfetti was Conducting officer & Head of Private Markets & Alternatives at CA Indosuez Wealth (Asset Management) in Luxembourg. From 2012 to 2018, Mathieu was heading Indosuez Wealth Management’s Private Equity platform in Asia from Singapore. Previously, he was Investment Manager at Indosuez based in Switzerland. Mathieu started his career in France as an Investment Analyst with the fund team of Ardian (fka AXA Private Equity) and then with the VC fund manager Alto Invest. Mathieu holds a post-graduate Master’s Degree in Corporate Finance from EMLYON Business School and a Master’s Degree in Finance from Paris Nanterre University.

Joaquín Alexandre Ruiz Tarrém, Head of Secondaries at European Investment Fund

Joaquín has been with the EIF since 2008, and has invested over EUR 1.3bn in VC, buyouts, growth and credit funds, through primaries, co-investments and secondaries. As an intrapreneur, Joaquin has been instrument in the design, implementation and deployment of several investment programmes: in 2014-15 he co-developed and deployed a EUR 100m pilot co-investment programme named the Mezzanine Co-investment Facility, under which 16 co-investments were closed alongside hybrid debt equity funds in the EIF portfolio; in 2016, Joaquin developed the first pilot secondaries buy-side programme at EIF, committing EUR 133m from EIF’s balance sheet in different GP-led and LP-led transactions; and in late 2021, achieved the first close of the European Secondaries Compartment, a EUR 100m Secondaries Fund (which is part of EIF’s private institutional offering – AMUF – and still open to fundraise) targeting mostly different types of GP-led solutions. Since 2019, his team is also in charge of running EIF’s annual portfolio sales of LP interests, focusing on NAV EUR 200m+ transactions. Regular speaker at SuperReturn, Super-Investor conferences. Fluent in Spanish, French and English. Prior experience at PwC and Levy Gee.

Julien Marencic Founding, Partner of Jera Capital

Julien is a Founding Partner of Jera Capital and has 20 years of private equity experience, having worked as an adviser, secondary buyer and portfolio manager in London, Zug (Switzerland) and Copenhagen.

Caroline Kragerud, Head Of Investor Relations at Cube Infrastructure Managers

Caroline has more than 15 years of experience within the infrastructure space. She joined Cube Infrastructure Managers in 2010 where she worked in the investment team and since 2015 Caroline Head of Investor Relations. In that role, she leads and coordinates the firm’s investor relations efforts as well as the firm’s global fundraising activities. Cube IM’s AUM has in the last 4 years increased from €1.1 billion to €4 billion with three additional funds being raised – Cube Infrastructure Fund II, Cube Infrastructure Fund III, and Connecting Europe Broadband Fund. Before joining Cube IM, Caroline spent 8 years in different infrastructure companies on the “operational side” with an experience as a senior financial business controller supervising activities in Scandinavia, Germany, and eastern Europe. Caroline holds an M.Sc. in Financial Management from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Franz Gaul, Max Planck Foundation

Franz served as the Chief Investment Officer of the Max Planck Foundation in Munich from 2008 to 2021. He was the first employee at the foundation and built a broadly diversified, global portfolio across traditional and alternative asset classes. Franz previously worked for a private corporation managing the financial department and was a portfolio manager with BTV, a Munich based family office. He has carried out investment and operational due diligence on more than 200 funds since 1999.

Debbie Eidelman, Head of Investor Relations and Fundraising at PER

Debbie has 13 years of experience placing Investor Relations professionals within private markets funds. She started her career at PER as a generalist private markets consultant and through her tenure, she has made hundreds of placements within investor relations and investment teams at private equity funds, secondaries, direct investment, and co-investment teams. Prior to PER, Debbie was within the wealth management business at Citi.

Olivier Gerard, Managing Director, Societe Generale Private Banking (SGPB)

Olivier has over 20 years of experience in Private Banking. After a few years as Investment Advisor at Indosuez Wealth, he joined SG Luxembourg where he developed “Prime Market Access”, an innovative trading platform for private bank key professional clients. He then ran several management positions on the commercial and offer side: Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management for the whole private banking network, Head of the Luxembourg Key Clients desk, and Luxembourg Commercial Director. Since 2019 Olivier is in charge of the Wealth Management offer of SGPB Europe (Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland).

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Welcome Coffee in the exhibition area

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What are the foundations to create a fundraising hub?

Luxembourg is a big office for Advent in Europe with over 60 people in Finance, Operations as well as an investment team already on the ground. Distribution was a natural addition especially in light of Brexit and the change in distribution rules to EEA investors. Our distribution team is global with offices in the US, UK and Europe, including Luxembourg.

Martine Kerschenmeyer

Director, Advent International Fund Manager

Thursday, August 31, 2017

The foundations to create a fundraising hub are first having the right team in place. A team that is, able to represent the Fund and to market it to the appropriate investors. To me, it is essential to develop the expertise of the internal Investor Relations team. These persons should be part of a in-house global team, which co-operates daily with other key functions of a GP, ie Compliance, Legal, Finance, Marketing and of course with the investment team . The other fundamental is the regulatory part. This is the main starting point to be able to fundraise and this should be taken into considerations from before the beginning until the end of the fundraising. In the past years, Luxembourg entities focused on Risks, Compliance and Finance. This is now time to further develop an IR focus and Luxembourg will become a significant fundraising hub.

Hélène Noublanche

Investor Relation Manager, Coller Capital

Thursday, August 31, 2017

To keep the competitive advantage with the robust and international legal and tax framework To be ahead in terms of expertise and track record in ESG To increase links between the different communities of funds (private equity, hedge, listed companies, etc)

Gregory Fayolle

Founder and Managing Director, Oraxys

Fundraising Showcase

The Insights conference is the meeting point of LPs and GPs in Luxembourg. As we highlight in this edition the changing landscape of Fundraising and Investor Relations, we take the opportunity to give the floor to Luxembourg-based managers willing to present their upcoming funds.

For more information contact events@lpea.lu.
This initiative is exclusive to LPEA members.

What can we expect from the PE sector until year end

It’s been the busiest fundraising year in history. With funds coming back to market quicker than ever, it has become very crowded. We’d expect a slow down in fundraising with even the most successful GPs taking longer to raise their funds. With typical investors’ high performing portfolios maxing out, they are increasingly moving towards identifying new types of investors for developing a whole new supporter base.

Martine Kerschenmeyer

Director, Advent International Fund Manager

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Private equity is at near-record levels in term of number and volume of transactions, but also in term of returns. However, there are challenges ahead. The world is faced with inflation at levels not seen in recent decades, central banks have begun to steadily increase interest rates and geopolitics introduces more fragility to the global economy. As private equity investors navigate the new economic reality, reshaping investment portfolios will be a priority. The private capital secondary market will be a key mechanism to facilitate these changes and we expect the secondary market to continue to grow rapidly.

Hélène Noublanche

Investor Relation Manager, Coller Capital

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Resilience of the assets since PE invests in real economy with a perspective to build and create value in several years Increasing concentration of the actors in the sector with synergies.

Gregory Fayolle

Founder and Managing Director, Oraxys

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