2023 Headline Sponsors
Clearwater International
Clearwater International has a proven track record of excellent client outcomes. With 18 international offices and more than 275 employees, the business has completed over 2,000 transactions worth an aggregate value in excess of €105bn.
Control Risks
Control Risks supports private market investors and corporates through the entire deal cycle – from investment strategy to due diligence and intelligence to post-close deal integration and value creation. We publish timely invaluable insights from our experts and thought leaders across the globe, keeping you well-informed to make bold decisions.
Key ESG
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics are becoming increasingly important for businesses. As companies and investors work towards more ambitious targets and ever- changing regulations, they are looking for solutions to track ESG processes more effectively.
2023 Sponsors
Addleshaw Goddard
Addleshaw Goddard is an international law firm with offices in Europe, Middle East and Asia. We operate in six core sectors: Financial Services, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Utilities, Real Estate, Transport and Healthcare.
Charles River Associates
Charles River Associates (CRA) is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and strategic expertise to major law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments around the world. Our experts bring a unique combination of cutting-edge research, state-of-the-art methods, and proven experience to bear on our clients’ most complex challenges.
Ecovadis
EcoVadis is a purpose-led company whose mission is to provide the world’s most trusted business sustainability ratings. Businesses of all sizes rely on EcoVadis’ expert intelligence and evidence-based ratings to monitor and improve the sustainability performance of their business and trading partners. Its actionable scorecards, benchmarks, carbon action tools, and insights guide an improvement journey for environmental, social and ethical practices across 200 industry categories and 175 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Unilever, LVMH, Bridgestone, BASF and JPMorgan are among the 100,000 businesses that collaborate with EcoVadis to drive resilience, sustainable growth and positive impact worldwide. Learn more on ecovadis.com, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Integrum ESG
Integrum ESG is a SaaS company that caters to buy-side and professional investors providing completely transparent, objective and useable ESG data.
JTC
JTC is a publicly listed, global professional services business with deep expertise in fund, corporate and private client services. Every JTC person is an owner of the business and this fundamental part of our culture aligns us with the best interests of all our stakeholders. Our purpose is to maximise potential and our success is built on service excellence, long-term relationships and technology capabilities that drive efficiency and add value.
Novata
Designed to be a trusted, neutral intermediary for the private markets, Novata’s ESG software empowers general partners and private companies to collect, analyze, benchmark, and report on relevant ESG data.
PER
PER are the leading retained search and recruitment specialists for private markets professionals. We work across investment strategies, in-house functions and geographies. Whether you are building your team or seeking a vital strategic hire, we go to extraordinary lengths to identify and attract exceptional professionals for private equity, venture capital, private credit, secondaries and real assets. Every day we bring people together who will shape the future of this dynamic, international industry.
2023 Media partners
Eurosif
Eurosif is the leading pan-European sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) membership organisation. Based in Brussels, its mission is to promote sustainability through European financial markets. Eurosif works as a partnership of Europe-based national Sustainable Investment Fora (SIFs) Each of the SIFs has a broad and diverse membership including asset managers, institutional investors, index providers and ESG research & analytics providers with aggregate assets under management (AuM) amounting to over over €20 trillion in total assets.
Eurosif’s activities involve contributing substantively to public policy and conducting research that enables a better understanding of sustainable investment and the obstacles encountered by sustainability-oriented investors. Eurosif and its members are committed to the growth and integrity of meaningful sustainable investment flows and support the ambition of European policymakers in enabling a fully transparent sustainable investment market through appropriate and well-designed regulation and industry practice.
NVP
The Nederlandse Vereniging van Participatiemaatschappijen (Dutch Private Equity and Venture Capital Association) is the industry body and public policy advocate for the private equity and venture capital industry in the Netherlands. The NVP is the point of contact for anyone who wants to get to know more about these investors.
The NVP was founded in 1984 and represents 90% of the capital under management in the Netherlands. Members are both national and international private equity and venture capital firms. Associated members are professionally or commercially involved in the investments. This includes law firms, consultants, tax specialists, accountants and other advisers.
The NVP is member of VNO-NCW and Invest Europe, the European sister organisation.
UKSIF
UKSIF exists to bring together the UK’s sustainable finance and investment community and support our members to expand, enhance and promote this key sector. Our work drives growth and new opportunities for our members as global leaders in the sustainable finance industry.
UKSIF represents a diverse range of financial services firms committed to these aims, and our 300 members, managing over £19trn in global assets under management (AUM), include investment managers, pension funds, banks, financial advisers, research providers, NGOs, among others.
UKSIF and our members have been hugely active in, and supportive of, efforts to promote the sustainable finance agenda and worked closely with policymakers and others to find new ways to overcome the barriers to the growth of sustainability and deliver progress towards decarbonisation of the economy.
We work to a powerful mission:
- Supporting our members to move further and faster on sustainability
- Achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement and SDGs
- Transforming the UK into the world’s leading sustainable finance hub
2023 Climate Action Partner
More Trees
Our goal is to help businesses and individuals take impactful climate action to secure the future of our planet now and for generations to come.
Our ESG conference, co-hosted by Real Deals and The Drawdown brought together leading fund managers, institutional investors and expert advisers for an in-depth exploration of the latest ESG trends in European private equity.
As ESG continues to move up the agenda, private equity firms and their portfolio companies must learn to navigate an increasingly complex path to demonstrate their ESG credentials.
This year’s agenda covered all the key themes for 2023 including the latest updates on regulatory changes, the challenges of ensuring data integrity and consistency of reporting, the importance of DEI within both GPs and their portfolio companies and the role of ESG throughout the whole deal cycle – from valuation through to exit.
Over 190 leading ESG professionals from across the industry join us in London on 31 January and 1 February for two days packed with discussion and debate.
Topics covered included
- Macro environment: how have rising global geopolitical tensions impacted ESG investment strategies
- Getting started with ESG: how do you arrive at the right ESG measures for an ever-evolving market?
- Integrating ESG into every level of organisational strategy
- Regulation, disclosure and reporting: how can ESG be measured in a way that keeps all parties happy?
- How have SFDR and other regulatory initiatives re-shaped the fund landscape?
- Preserving biodiversity: what does it mean for investors and asset managers?
- Sustainability, governance and impact: what is the difference?
- Best strategies for decarbonising your portfolio companies
Leading GPs, LPs and expert advisers joined us to:
- Network with like-minded professionals
- Connect with the leading experts in ESG and benchmark your strategies with your peers
- Gain actionable insights from private equity firms at the forefront of ESG adoption and implementation
- Learn invaluable knowledge on the latest trends in ESG from global experts
Who attended
The Real Deals and The Drawdown's ESG: Explore, Strategise & Grow Conference builds on Real Deals’ 20+ years of experience in the European private equity market. The event provided an exclusive platform for fund managers, investors and expert solution providers to tackle one of the most rapidly evolving and topical issues facing the industry.
The two-day conference attracted over 190 private equity professionals and industry experts who joined us to hear from over 40 influential industry leading experts, and to interact in-person with thought leaders from across the PE community. Attendees heard how best to stay ahead of the ESG curve by learning about current trends and insights, and keeping up to date with technology and requirements by accessing invaluable content and experts.