Real Deals speaks to IPEM CEO Antoine Colson and O2B Films founder Olivier de Bannes on IPEM's upcoming documentary that focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic and our industry’s response to it.

A panel of senior ABL lenders, advisers, and GPs discuss how ABL providers are positioning their offerings in post-Covid M&A processes and how ABLs and their clients have steered through an uncertain and volatile market.

In today’s programme we are going to have an in-depth discussion on the trend of sector specialisation.

Sector specialism has become a decisive differentiator for managers when executing deals and LPs appear to be pivoting towards sector specialists in greater numbers.

But why is this? Do sector specialists deliver superior returns? How do LPs allocate capital by sector, on what criteria are sector specialists assessed, and what happens when there are long-term shifts in sector performance?

The current environment is nothing new for special situations investors and their advisors; but the macro-economic crisis has given special situations investors a lot to consider. In a recent roundtable, a group of experts discussed the current deal environment, CVAs, corporate carve-outs, and how government support slowdowns will impact the special sits market going forward.

Alice Murray talks to Troy Pospisil, founder and CEO of InCloudCounsel about the future - specifically how the regulatory landscape for private capital funds is evolving, how investor demands are changing and how InCloudCounsel’s offerings aim to support these developments.

The evolution of due diligence, the shift in manager focus on DD pre-deal in a post-COVID era and what will be the new normal DD agenda.

Alice Murray talks to Troy Pospisil, founder and CEO of InCloudCounsel  about what it is, how it works and how it supports private equity legal  teams, as well as the wider organization.

Alice Murray talks to Troy Pospisil, founder and CEO of InCloudCounsel about the company's origins: what drove him to set up the firm and how it has developed over the past seven years.

In today’s third instalment of the series, we are going to take an in-depth look at the evolution of the European LP base and what this means for managers.

The European investor base has evolved from local pockets of LPs supporting domestic managers into a diverse mix of investors with different objectives, priorities, and manager selection criteria.

Here to guide us through to explain how and why the investors base has changed I am joined by two guests – podcast regular and MVision founder Mounir Guen and Jim Strang who, who chairs the EMEA investment committee for global private markets investor Hamilton Lane.