11/7/2011

Private Equity and Venture Capital in Brazil Forum - Stirling Square, London

Building upon the success of last year's inaugural Brazil forum, this event seeks to facilitate international networks for ABVCAP and BVCA members and to provide the building blocks to assist fundraising, transactions, responsible investing and other areas important to investors and fund managers. This year's forum will also include presentation of the results of a recent survey of limited partners' views of investing in Brazil.

Driven by its continued growth despite the financial crisis and global economic downturn and strengthened by an emerging middle class, robust domestic market, vast natural resources, sound government policies and maturing capital markets, Brazil is one of the most attractive and rapidly-growing global markets for private equity and venture capital investment.

Join us to access essential intelligence, trends and forecasts from leading local and global general partners and institutional investors in Brazilian private equity funds.

Free places are available for qualified:

• LPs
• GPs
• Governmental, NGO and journalists

Individual Meetings

An exclusive room will be available for individual meetings between interested investors and Brazilian fund managers. Our team will be coordinating the meetings, which will be held for approximately 60 minutes.

Agenda

08.30 am
Registration and coffee

09.00 am
Opening remarks Mark Florman, Chairman of the Forum

09.05 am
Welcome remarks Sidney Chameh, President, Brazilian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association

09.10 am
Keynote address: Secular trends and foreign shocks: assessing their impact on investments in Brazil
Luis Fernando Lopes, Chief Economist, Patria

09.40 am
Panel 1: Advantage and Challenges of a Favourite
As one of the most attractive destinations for PE/VC investments, how has the local scenario changed? How has the entrance of new investors impacted on the competition of deals, valuations, deal terms and co-investments?
Alvaro Goncalves, CEO, Grupo Stratus
Gustavo Peixoto, Investment Manager Private Equity Team, Grupo Santander

10.30 am
Presentation on the Private Equity and Venture Capital Brazil Atlas
Christiane Nascimento, ABVCAP

10.30 am
Networking break and refreshment

11.00 am
Panel 2: The Regulatory Landscape for Private Equity in Brazil – How to tap opportunities via international or local structures.
Moderator : Citi Group Executive
Martin Pose, Partner TozziniFreire
Peter Furci, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

11.30 am
Presentation of Research:
What are European LPs looking for when choosing to invest in Brazil, what are the main drivers and what are the deterrents?
Colin Ellis, Chief Economist, BVCA

12.00 pm
Panel 3: The LP Perspective on Investing in Brazil
What to look for when selecting fund managers? Do first time funds get into the mix? How?
Moderator: Philippe Munch, Investment Director, Greenpark Capital
Anselm Adams, Director - Senior PE Portfolio Manager, PECA Ltd
Elvire Perrin, Partner and Head of Research, Altius Associates
Guy Eastman, Partner, Head of European Investment and Member of Global Investment Committee, SVG Capital

12.50 pm
Closing Remarks
Kamran Anwar, EMEA Head of Private Equity Services, Citi

13.00 pm
Networking luncheon

13.45 pm
End of Forum

For more information, please contact:

Brazil

Cristiane Nascimento

cnascimento@abvcap.com.br

UK

Leon de Bono

ldebono@bvca.co.uk