Ross Butler

Foresight Group was a pioneer in renewable energy investment back in the 1990s. Today, it is a diversified investment group listed in London.

Mid Europa Partners pioneered private equity buyout investing in Central Europe, launching in 1999. Robert Knorr has been a partner since 2007.

In this Fund Shack podcast with Ross Butler, Etienne Deshormes, founder of Elm Capital, reveals where the market for private equity secondaries is headed.

With a deal drought across the global private equity industry, we talk to Chris Field of global law firm Dechert about what’s next for M&A and buyout deal flow for 2024. We discuss valuations and defensive deal structures as vendors and buyers find ways to come together. Top quote: “I have never worked on an […]

Private equity is a great way of investing in uncertain, high growth environments. Strange then, that the African private equity industry is so small. In fact, Stephane Bacquaert of Adenia Partners argues that the Western, established private capital industry has systematically misunderstood the African opportunity, and in particular its risk profile. In this Fund Shack […]

Private equity fund managers are racing to find structures that will allow small private investors to invest with them. Meanwhile governments are introducing ELTFI and LTAF structures to encourage retailisation. Henry Freeman has been working at the nexus of public and private equity for two decades. And he has concerns. Henry is founder of the […]

Daniel Zwirn is CEO of Arena Investors LP. In this episode of the Fund Shack private equity podcast, he talks to Ross Butler about the opportunities in private markets, and how to prosecute them in a way that truly aligns incentives with underlying investors. [00:00:16] Ross Butler: You’re listening to fund Shack. I’m Ross Butler, […]

Hans Lovrek stumbled on Medieval Florentine documents that showed structures were being used to align interests in ventures with high information asymmetry that were uncannily similar to today’s limited partnerships. Through a method of historical institutionalism, Hans demonstrates how the same techniques have been used to solve similar problems, down the ages, and that today’s […]

Yaron Valler is a founder of venture capital firm Target Global and was part of the team that invented Intel’s Pentium Processor.

Sanjay Panchal is a partner at Livingbridge, a leading international growth capital investor, where he specialises in healthcare.