Privcap Greatest Hits: 2012

The year 2012 saw Privcap engage with private capital thought leaders from around the world as well as grow an audience of market participants eager to connect with the people and ideas on offer at Privcap.com. We keep track of the visitors to each item of content and have been pleased to discover that the most popular Privcap programs of 2012 represent an diversity of topics and formats – indicating, perhaps, the incredible diversity and far-reaching influence of the private capital market itself. Here are the top ten “greatest hits” of Privcap in 2012, based on visits to each video’s landing page. We promise an equally impressive line-up thought leaders in 2013.

1. KKR’s Forward Strategy

In a wide-ranging interview, Scott Nuttall of KKR sheds new light on KKR’s transformation from private equity-only powerhouse to multi-asset class, global financial services competitor.

2. Deal Flow Dyanmics

The state of middle-market deal flow with TJ Maloney of Lincolnshire Management, Terrence Mullen of Arsenal Capital Partners, and John Coogan of Duane Morris.

3. African Deal Flow

Hurley Doddy of Emerging Capital Partners, Graham Stokoe of EY, and Runa Alam of Development Partners International discuss the robust deal flow in Africa and how investors there are sourcing opportunities.

4. How WhatCounts and Riverside Partnered for Growth

Dave Tiley of The Riverside Company and Allen Nance of WhatCounts, two executives joined in an ambitious effort to build a company called WhatCounts into a dominant provider of email marketing services.

5. African Upside, African Downside

Three veterans of the African private equity market share stories of successful deals and bullets dodged across this continent of opportunity – Hurley Doddy of Emerging Capital Partners, Graham Stokoe of EY, and Runa Alam of Development Partners International.

6. Terrifying Landscape for Distressed

Mark Patterson, Chairman of one of the world’s largest distressed investment firms, MatlinPatterson Global Advisors, shares his candid analysis of the economic crisis gripping the world.

7. Realities of a Mature Market

As Peter von Lehe of Neuberger Berman, Hussein Khalifa of MVision, and Michael Elio of LP Capital Advisors (now at ILPA) attest, limited partners today have matured and adapted, and GPs who fail to recognize this may go home empty handed.

8. Proud of Private Equity

New Mountain Capital founder Steven Klinsky tells Privcap how he tracks job creation in his portfolio.

9. The Swing Towards Separate Accounts

An unmistakable trend has emerged among institutional investors in the private equity asset class – a move toward separate accounts and has the potential to fundamentally alter the private capital investment business, according to Scott Higbee, a Partner in global private investment management firm Partners Group.

10. Culling the GPs

Peter von Lehe of Neuberger Berman, Hussein Khalifa of MVision, and Michael Elio of LP Capital Advisors discuss the reasons behind, and consequences of, the LP desire for fewer GPs in the portfolio.