Private Equity: Down But Not Out, Waiting for the Next Opportunity

 

 

* Changed Regulatory Environment and Market Landscape

* Distressed Assets: Taking a Plunge in Murky Waters

* Making Deals Work with Less Leverage & Making Old Deals Work in a New Environment

* Why Are You Buying?  Strategic versus Financial Acquisitions

 

 

The game may have changed - the public markets are in turmoil, the economy is slowing and credit is not available or is too expensive - but private equity opportunities and deals are not dead. Only now, they come in a different form, using more equity or other financing techniques. Also, many opportunities have opened up in distressed assets and debt. Led by private equity executives, investment bankers and experienced private equity attorneys, this program will discuss the changed landscape of private equity deals, new players, new opportunities, new structures - and how to cope with deals done in an earlier, headier environment and what to do with them now.

 

 

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

 

8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

 

With the biggest investment banks now either gone or converting to "bank holding company" status, what opportunities are there for private equity funds to step into the traditional merchant bank role of investment banks? 

 

* How will the changing landscape affect mid-tier investment banks and funds?

 

* What impact will recent events have on the carried interest debate?

 

 

 

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

 

10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

 

* What asset classes look best for a turnaround?

* What lessons do the S&L Crisis and the Resolution Trust Corporation have for funds buying from TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)?

* Will commercial real estate suffer like residential?

* Opportunities in distressed debt?

 

 

 

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

 

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

 

* With access to debt financing either non-existent or prohibitively expensive, how do you  make deals work? 

* How do you achieve above average returns with little or no leverage?

* Although the credit markets have changed dramatically in mere months, hundreds of deals were done in heady times. Now what? 

* Do you keep funding troubled portfolio companies, cut your losses?

 

 

 

 

2:30 – 2:45 p.m.

 

2:45 – 4:15 p.m.

 

 

 

4:15 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

WebCredenza, Inc.

Westminster, Colorado

 

Kamlet, Shepherd & Reichert LLP

Denver, Colorado

 

 

Houlihan Lokey

Minneapolis, MN

 

Davis, Graham & Stubbs, LLP

Denver, Colorado

 

Green, Manning & Bunch, Ltd.

Denver, Colorado

 

KRG Capital Partners, LLC

Denver, Colorado

 

Sweetwater Ventures⁄Echo Satellite Communications, Inc.

Houston, Texas

 

Platte River Ventures

Denver, Colorado

 

Cheyenne Capital Fund, LP

Denver, Colorado

 

Faegre & Benson, LLP

Denver, Colorado

 

Excellere Partners

Denver, Colorado

 

St. Charles Capital

Denver, Colorado

 

Republic Financial Corporation

Aurora, Colorado

  

Green, Manning & Bunch, Ltd.

Denver, Colorado

 

Cheyenne Capital Fund, LP

Denver, Colorado

 

Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP

Broomfield, Colorado

 

Q Advisers

Denver, CO

 

Kamlet, Shepherd & Reichert, LLP

Denver, Colorado

 

LJS Holdings, LLC

Boulder, Colorado

 

Tomkins PLC

Denver, CO

 

 

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