Kent Landrum and Stephen Bell with Opportune LLP and guest Niall McCarthy with CTRM Cloud share their insights on the technologies changing the energy trading and risk management space.

The valuation of private equity investments has recently garnered greater marketplace attention, and the SEC is updating its guidance on these valuations for the first time in 50 years. These analyses should be reflective of current market conditions, and energy-focused private equity fund managers should develop reliable processes and procedures to ensure transparency to regulators and investors.

On this episode of E2B, James Hanson discusses why fairness and solvency opinions are essential for protecting management teams and board of directors of a company. Though critical in transactions, bankruptcies and restructuring events, fairness and solvency opinions provided by third-party advisory firms are still sometimes misunderstood. Fairness opinions ensure good-faith financial transactions, while solvency opinions protect companies against claims of fraudulent transfer.

On this episode of E2B, John Freeman discusses why energy companies are leveraging the many uses of Salesforce and how the applications are gaining momentum in the upstream and midstream sectors. He also explains the different approaches to implementation and how integrating Salesforce into the work process enhances data analytics.