Committed Capital

Today’s private equity market is considered to be a broad and highly globalized industry, historically driven by U.S. and U.K. firms expanding into Continental Europe and Asia. Of late, a number of European PE funds have expanded into the U.S. What are some of the key drivers behind this trend?
Dechert’s Dominik Stühler leads a discussion with EQT Partners’ Eric Liu and Hg Capital’s Steve Burn-Murdoch on the primary aspects making the U.S. market an attractive space for European funds, as well as some of the associated challenges and risks.

How did PE investments in life sciences and healthcare fare in 2020, and what do this year and future years have in store for those sectors? In this episode, Dechert's Robert Darwin and senior PE leaders with experience at Blue Ox Healthcare, Mid Europa Partners, TPG and GHO Capital discuss key themes and opportunities affecting private equity investment in life sciences and healthcare and how the market is shaping up in the U.S. and Europe, in 2021 and beyond.

What does it take to get deals done in the current environment? Dechert breaks it down, along with guest speakers from Cerberus Capital Management, First Atlantic Capital, and Blackstone. We discuss what types of deals took place in the early stages of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, what types of deals they are doing now, and how they’re getting the deals done.

Delaware recently reaffirmed its status as a sandbagging state, allowing buyers to bring claims against sellers for breaches of representations and warranties, despite buyers' awareness of these breaches before closing. In this Sidecar episode of Committed Capital, Dechert's Christian Matarese and Daniel Rubin discuss the arguments for and against sandbagging, new guidance from the Delaware Court of Chancery on sandbagging under Delaware law, and market practice on this deal point.

In recent years, the food and agricultural sector has seen growing interest from private equity investment. Driven by an increased demand for food, environmental, social and governance issues, as well as an awareness of climate change, investor interest in sustainable agriculture is set to continue and grow. What are the key drivers behind this trend? In this episode, Dechert’s Nick Marchica leads a discussion with Blue Road Capital’s David Blue and Farmers Gate’s Daniel Fabian on what makes investing in food and agriculture so appealing, how investors can innovate to meet the increasing demand, and the trends and issues likely to shape the sector in years to come.