9:00 - 9:15 OPENING NOTE :


9:00 - 9:15

OPENING NOTE :

Message from Charlie McCreevy - European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (video)

9:15 - 10:05
Panel 1: Overview - LBO post Lehman Brothers, the New Rules of the Game 

 

 Time for LBO reinvention - Adjusting to a different paradigm

 New opportunities arising from the crisis: Turnaround, Small & Mid Caps, Listed Market,  Distressed Debt;

 New Regulatory decisions: the panacea or pandora's box? 

 Embracing changes, the KKR model: from buy-out shops to business diversification

 What is more important: selling the team, selling the fund or selling the opportunity?

 Local Private Equity VS Global Private Equity Funds

 

Benoît Métais - Member of the Management Board of Sigefi, Siparex Group, & Co-Head of Growth Capital and LBO Financing

Gérard MOHR - 


Xavier Moreno – Managing Partner, Astorg Partners


Pierre Netter, Senior Journalist and Manager, Magazine Decideurs 

10:05 - 10:55


Panel 2: Addressing Underperformance and Refinancing Issues  

 Tackling an overleveraged business  

 Capital cost components: Risk Perception, Taxes associated with risk, Regulatory cost

 What are the criteria that matter most for banks when chosing a GP

 Best practices and lessons learnt in the past 12 months

 How do financial and operational turnaround work together? 

 

Thomas Costa - Chief Executive Officer, Coventya

Torsten Becker - Chief Financial Officer, Coventya

Denis Vidalinc – Head of Acquisitions Finance, CIC

Axel Rebaudières - Partner, KPMG

Arnaud Mourier - Partner, Taj

Alexis Valero, Senior Journalist, Magazine Decideurs     

10:55 - 11:15 Networking Break
11:15 - 12:05
Panel 3: Addressing Operational Underperformance


 Juggling at the same time: debt size, need for refinance, subsidiaries position, changes in  the shareholders bases

 

 How to deal with the lack of visibility and commit shareholders

 The creation of value through restructuring

 Restructuring and Recovery: the experience to date

 The key recovery drivers: jurisdiction, seniority, industry, ownership

Bertrand Talabard – Partner, SISU Capital

Flavien Kulawik - CEO and Co-Founder, KLB Group 


Claire Toumieux
- Partner, Flichy Grange     

Vincent Paes, Journalist, Magazine Decideurs                     

12:05 - 14:00    Networking Lunch 

KEY NOTE: 

Message from Jean-Paul Gauzès -  Rapporteur for the European Commission for Private Equity Firms and Member of the European Parliament (video)
14:00 - 14:50

Panel 4: Management Package - Restructuring the Deal and Rebuilding Trust 

 

 How to conciliate the interests of the top management and PE funds?

 Financing the deal: innovative techniques, for the cash-strapped and others 

 Managing the existing resources: management, motivation, incentives

 How to reset expectations, BP & management package

 Roles of managers in debt restructurings

 How to place the underperformance balance 

 

Marc Granger - Chief Executive Officer, Compin Group 

Lionel Scotto - Partner, Wilinski Scotto

Michel David – Partner, Creative Value

Alexis Valero, Senior Journalist, Magazine Decideurs     

14:50 - 15:40
Panel 5: Deals Structure 2009/2010 - The Do's and Don'ts
 

 

 Build up strategies: how to manage and finance expansion

 When something goes wrong: how the banks react? 

 What are the strategies left to the management and funds?

 The “Golden PE Era” becomes “The Resposable PE era” 

 Debt-for-equity deals 

 M&A and Distressed M&A

Philippe Nataf –  Managing Director, Duff & Phelps

Géry-Edouard Lanthier - Managing Partner, Mazars

Pierre Netter, Senior Journalist and Manager, Magazine Decideurs 

15:40 - 15:55 Networking Break 

15:55 - 16:45

 

 

 


Panel 6: LBO Exits - When and How ?
 

 

 Which door to take: what are today's real opportunities?

 New exit strategies and  horizons 

 Case study

 When do exits come back?

 Carve Outs 

Pierre Bordeaux-Montrieux – Managing Director, Siparex Group

Celine Mechain – Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Gad Azuelos  - Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Lionel Saint Georges Chaumet -
General Manager, Aforge

Anne-Valérie Attias-Assouline
- Partner, Landwell & Associés

Vincent Paes, Journalist, Magazine Decideurs           


CLOSING NOTE:
 
Gonzague de Blignières – Co - Chief Executive Officer, Barclays Private Equity Europe