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Private equity legal teams are under pressure to optimise essential, but costly, external counsel budgets. Nicholas d’Adhemar, founder and CEO of Apperio, examines which PE firms are ahead, and whether fund size matters.

The challenges of 2020 caused fund managers to focus on workflows and collaboration tools in a new way. Howard Eisen and Donovin Pombo of TMF Group explain where investment is going.

ESG has come a long way and it’s starting to show in financial performance, say NSSK’s CEO Jun Tsusaka, chief administrative officer Shohei Akiyama and ESG leader Kiyomi Matsuda.

Regulatory complexity, ESG challenges and increasingly demanding investors mean it is time for private markets to finally move beyond Excel, says State Street senior managing director Cesar Estrada.

Sexism, bias, an entrenched power structure and the 'mommy track' are among the reasons why more women have not been promoted into deal leadership roles, according to our readers.

Digitalisation provided an operational advantage during the pandemic, and can be further harnessed to advance ESG, say Triton managing partners Peder Prahl and Martin Huth.

Managers need to develop a clear long-term value narrative and embed it throughout their portfolio, say EY's Andres Saenz and Simon Abrams.

Technology is opening up new opportunities for emerging markets investors in sectors such as healthcare, say Gulf Capital’s Dr Karim El Solh, Hazem Abu Khalaf and Alvaro Abella.

GPs are no longer spectators in secondaries transactions, which provides opportunities for investors, says Christiaan van der Kam, head of secondaries at the firm.