Nordic Private Equity Forum 2024

13 November, 6:00pm - 10:00pm

White & Case LLP, 5 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1DW

The Nordic Private Equity Forum unites key stakeholders from the Nordic and UK-based assets management communities including fund managers, institutional investors, banks, and advisory firms. The forum is designed for you to engage within the Nordic Private Equity ecosystem and is a platform were contributors of capital meet users of capital.

About the Forum

At the Nordic Private Equity Forum 2024 you will get an overview of the whole spectrum of the current Nordic Private Equity market. Gain insights from our prominent keynote speaker who will give you a review of present-day activity, followed by a fireside chat on the key strategies and achievements for Swedish private equity over the years.

With panels featuring topical themes such as key factors behind building a successful Private Equity firm, LP allocations, Impact Investing, and Growth Equity – this action-packed agenda promises to enrich your understanding and expand your network, all in an engaging atmosphere with drinks and nibbles. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your Private Equity expertise and connect with industry leaders. Secure your spot today!

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Booking options

SCC member price: £55
YP member price: £55
Non-member price: £165

 

Terms & Conditions

Bookings are non-refundable, but at the discretion of the organiser, you can change the name of the person attending. For this, please contact events@scc.org.uk.

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Arrival and Registration

6:00pm

Welcome and Introduction

6:30pm

Gabriel Mellqvist, Swedish finance broadcaster EFN

Fredrik Warneryd, Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK

The State of the Nordic Private Equity Markets

6:40pm

Nicolas Moura, PitchBook

Fireside chat on the Swedish Private Equity Success-story and Vision

6:50pm

Jan Ståhlberg, Trill Impact

Gabriel Mellqvist, Swedish finance broadcaster EFN

Business of PE

7:15pm

David Samuelson, Nordic Capital

Tanja Lukas, Schroders Capital

Cecilia Amyot, Neuberger Berman

Gabriel Mellqvist, Swedish finance broadcaster EFN

Impact Investing

7:45pm

Jen Braswell, EQT Partners

Niclas Düring, Trill Impact

Arnaud de Cremiers, Allianz Global Investors

Gabriel Mellqvist, Swedish finance broadcaster EFN

Growth Equity

8:10pm

Emmie Jones, White & Case

Michelle Capiod, Blume Equity

Johan Olsson, GRO Capital

Carl Melbye Eide, TA Associates

Closing Remarks

8:35pm

Gabriel Mellqvist, Swedish finance broadcaster EFN

Fredrik Warneryd, Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK

Networking with drinks and canapés

8:40pm

End of Programme

10:00pm

Master of Ceremonies

Gabriel Mellqvist

Gabriel Mellqvist

Anchor

Swedish finance broadcaster EFN

Gabriel Mellqvist is an anchor at Swedish finance broadcaster EFN, Ekonomi- och Finansnyheterna. He is the host of stock market show Börslunch, and is also a contributing writer and a frequent commentator on markets and economy in other media. Before returning to EFN, he was a journalist working for Dagens Industri. During his sixteen year long career at the financial newspaper, he has for instance covered American business and politics as a New York correspondent, as well as worked as a UK Correspondent in London. He has also worked for Reuters and has also co-authored the book United Stockholms of America.

Speakers

Jan Ståhlberg

Jan Ståhlberg

Founder & Managing Partner

Trill Impact

Jan Ståhlberg founded Trill Impact in 2019 with the ambition to be a force for positive change through impact private investments, in large and small scale. The firm’s mission is to create ‘Real Returns and Lasting Impact’ for the benefit of investors, businesses and society at large. Jan Ståhlberg has a long-standing career in private markets investment and has been holding senior investing – and leadership positions in Europe, US and Asia since 1985. For ~25 years, he was an Institutional Partner at EQT Partners, today a global investment organisation.

Emmie Jones

Emmie Jones

Partner

White & Case

Emmie is a partner at White & Case’s London private equity team and co-head of the Firm's fast-growth practice. She advises clients on the structuring, negotiation and execution of highly complex, cross-border transactions across multiple sectors but with a particular focus on technology and fast-growth companies.

Emmie has extensive experience advising founders, growth investors, private equity houses and corporate venture capital providers on their investments as well as on acquisitions, disposals and management equity deals.

David Samuelson

David Samuelson

Partner

Nordic Capital

Joined in January 2010. David is a senior member of the Nordic Capital Evolution advisory team where he specialises in Financial Services and Financial Markets Software in the mid-market segment. He has served on the boards of ten Nordic Capital portfolio companies. Before joining, he worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company in Stockholm (2006-2009).  David holds an MSc in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and ESADE in Barcelona, Spain.

Jen Braswell

Jen Braswell

Managing Director and Head of Impact, Private Capital

EQT Partners

Jen Braswell joined EQT Partners in September 2022 as Head of Impact for Private Capital based in London, UK.

Prior to joining EQT Partners, Jen was Head of Value Creation in the Impact Group at British International Investment (formerly CDC Group), where she was part of building the impact management framework for the business, including overseeing expert teams on climate change, gender & diversity finance and job quality to drive value creation through an impact lens across the portfolio.

Jen is a licensed attorney in New York and started her career in management consulting, focusing on private sector growth, business enabling regulatory reform and sustainability integration in emerging markets with a variety of advisory roles over 15+ years, including an extended role at Booz Allen Hamilton as Head of the International Development & Cooperation business line with oversight of P&L and operations across Eurasia, Africa and SE Asia.

Tanja Lukas

Tanja Lukas

Investment Director

Schroders Capital

Tanja covers Schroders Capital’s investment activities in Europe. Tanja leads the primary and co-investment activities in the UK and the Nordics, sourcing investment opportunities, developing the investment case and driving investment execution. Tanja manages a number of Schroder Capital’s first time funds and emerging managers.

Tanja is part of Schroders Capital’s Sustainability and Impact Committee involved in developing products which promote ESG characteristics in line with the EU’s SFDR Article 8 & 9 guidelines, adhering to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and creating an impact in green transition.

Tanja is also part of Schroders Capital technology and software specialization industry group, where she takes a leading role preparing market analysis and research in the sector, including participating in conferences. Tanja is responsible for several of the firm’s investments and relationships in that sector.

Before joining Schroders Capital beginning of 2018, Tanja worked at Deloitte Corporate Finance in Denmark for 6 years. In her role as Investment Director she was leading sell- and buyside projects for large and mid-sized corporations and private equity clients in the Nordics. Tanja holds a Master degree in Economics from Aarhus University, Denmark.

Niclas Düring

Niclas Düring

Senior Impact Director

Trill Impact

Niclas is a Senior Impact Director focusing on private equity. He has more than 20 years of industry experience within impact and ESG investing, private equity and strategy consulting. Before joining Trill Impact, he was an Associate Partner specialising in Impact and ESG at Steward Requeen. He has further professional experience as Portfolio Director at Swedfund, Head of ESG and Fund Evaluations at the CDC Group plc, Senior Associate at McKinsey & Co., Senior Consultant at Hitachi/Celerant Consulting and as Consultant to the World Bank Group. Niclas holds a M.A. in International economics & International relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

Arnaud de Cremiers

Arnaud de Cremiers

Head of Impact Private Equity

Allianz Global Investors

Arnaud is a Managing Director leading the Impact Private Equity investment team, based in London. Over the past 20 years, Arnaud has worked on a significant number of transactions across Europe with a particular focus on Venture Capital, Growth Capital and Buyout. Arnaud joined AllianzGI most recently from Oakley Capital. At Oakley, he expanded the firm’s investment activities into impact investing, extending Oakley’s origination efforts into climate technology, circularity economy and energy transition. Previously, Arnaud was a partner at Adams Street Partners, a leading private markets specialist with around $70 billion under management, where he spent 15 years.  Arnaud holds an MSc from the Neoma Business School (fka ESC Reims) and a Master Degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Paris X Nanterre.​

Michelle Capiod

Michelle Capiod

Co-Founding Partner

Blume Equity

Michelle has spent 20+ years as a venture capital and private equity investor, partnering with founders and management teams to accelerate value creation. Michelle cares deeply about climate action and thrives on sharing her deep experience scaling companies.

Before co-founding Blume Equity, Michelle was an early-stage climate tech and sustainability investor. She was previously a Partner and Investment Committee member at Mid Europa Partners, investing in high-growth companies in TMT, cleantech and other sectors. She started her career at Merrill Lynch in energy and power investment banking, having graduated from Wharton in the US.

Born and raised in rural Sweden with a stint in Jamaica, Michelle is long-time London-based, where she lives with her French husband and teenage children. Often found in the Nordics, scouting for new investment opportunities and supporting the existing Blume portfolio, Michelle loves skiing, the freedom of being on the sea and spending time in the family’s sustainably managed forest. She is always up for a game of tennis.

Cecilia Amyot

Cecilia Amyot

Vice President

Neuberger Berman

Cecilia Amyot is a Vice President of Neuberger Berman. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman Private Equity in 2019, Cecilia worked for four years in the direct private equity group of CDPQ (Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec), where she focused on due diligence and execution of direct equity investments in private companies, in connection with new buyouts and/or minority equity investments into existing sponsor-owned companies. Prior to CDPQ, Cecilia worked three years in the corporate development team at AECOM in both Hong Kong and Singapore, and prior to that she was a business analyst at the OECD, based in Paris, where she focused on macro-economic trends analysis. Cecilia has a BBA from McGill University, Desautels School of Business in Montreal, Canada.

Nicolas Moura

Nicolas Moura

CFA, Research Analyst, EMEA Private Capital

PitchBook

Nicolas Moura is an EMEA private capital research analyst at PitchBook, where he covers the PE and VC markets in Europe. He contributes to quarterly core reports as well as analyst notes on various topics. Prior to PitchBook, Moura worked as an equity research analyst first at Berenberg and then at Mirabaud, transitioning from being a sector analyst into a generalist.

Moura received a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from University College of London (UCL), a master’s degree in finance from Imperial College Business School and is also a CFA charterholder. He is based in PitchBook’s London office.

Johan Olsson

Johan Olsson

Investment Director

GRO Capital

Johan Olsson is an Investment Director based in GRO's London office. Before joining GRO, Johan was CEO of a consumer internet business and a technology growth investor at Summit Partners. He began his career in technology investment banking at JP Morgan in London and at Google in Dublin. He is a Swedish national and holds a BSc in Economics & Finance from the University of Gothenburg and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Carl Melbye Eide

Carl Melbye Eide

Growth Equity Investor

TA Associates

Carl is part of TA Associates’ EMEA technology investment team with a specific focus on the Nordics. Before joining TA, Carl worked at Morgan Stanley where he worked in the Nordic Investment Banking team out of Stockholm and, later on, the Technology investment banking team out of London. He is a Norwegian national and holds BSc in Economics and Business Administration from Norwegian School of Economics and MSc in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics.

Fredrik Warneryd

Fredrik Warneryd

Chief Executive

Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK

Fredrik Warneryd is the Chief Executive for the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the UK, one of the largest and most active foreign chambers in the UK. Prior to joining the Chamber, Fredrik held many leading positions in the City of London. With more than 25 years of experience within the Nordic teams of French Banque Paribas, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, UBS and Credit Suisse, he has earned extensive knowledge and expertise in both the UK and Nordic markets.

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