Toby Mitchenall
Toby Mitchenall is the Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability, at PEI Media. He is responsible for New Private Markets, a dedicated intelligence source on impact investing, sustainability and ESG in private markets, and is based in PEI’s London office. Toby was previously a consultant advising private equity firms on marketing and public relations.
The nonprofit organisation now has 12 international committees operating across DACH, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Spain and the UK.
ILPA has 'adopted in full' the PRI's approach in the latest update to its template due diligence questionnaire,
Frustration or bemusement aside, the pioneers of the impact scene should not be put out by the new arrivals.
Lessons from its debut 'impact-driven' long hold fund 'will trickle in' to the rest of the firm's platform, says EQT's Anders Misund.
The credit facility is notable for its size and because it is the first of its kind in Asia.
The weight of the institutions involved and the clarity of the approach suggest that the ESG Data Convergence Project could herald the standardisation of ESG data in private equity.
Document helps investors gauge ESG maturity across 21 different areas of activity and provides 'a rubric against which they can assess and benchmark a manager'.
Sophisticated LPs have been aligning themselves with sector-specialist GPs in recent years, and this pair's $500m partnership is a milestone deal.
The simple idea of giving all portfolio company employees an ownership stake in their firm could give GPs a competitive advantage.
Our Game Changer of the Year award goes to Pete Stavros, partner and co-head of Americas private equity at KKR, who is honing an investment approach that could reframe the whole conversation.