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THE GLOBAL REPORT ISSUE TWO
Reviewing M&A, IPO, PE and VC activities from H1. Inviting insights and thought leadership from investors, founders and across the investment ecosystem
DISCOVER
ISSUE TWO
The second issue of The Global Report explores complexities during ‘Carve-Outs’, Successful SaaS Scaling, ‘value destruction’ and Risk Transfer in insurance, growing international finance functions, private equity’s influence on the accountancy practice sector, introduces thought points on AI security.
The Guest Editor
'FEELING THE EFFECT OF A
MERCURIAL GEO-POLITICAL CLIMATE'
Financial Journalist Dan McEvoy looks back on PE, VC, IPO and M&A activities from H1 of 2024.
Exploring
VALUE CREATION
Considering what leads to success when scalling SaaS businesses and diverstiture of new business units during a carve-out process.
SUCCESSFUL
SAAS
SCALING
With five exits under his belt, CFO Gary Ito of Warburg Pincus-backed defi SOLUTIONS, outlines what to consider when preparing to scale and sell SaaS businesses.
CARVE
OUT
COMPLEXITIES
Camino Search Director of Interim Practice Tom Garratt chats with CFO Jerome Arnaud and Senior Operating Partner James Hayward of HIG, Europe, around critical considerations during the carve-out process.
Exploring
LEADERSHIP
JOURNEYS
CFO Benyam Hagos [Form3], explores his lessons learnt scaling international finance functions and CFO Amit Lakhani [Omaze] outlines his ‘unconventional’ journey to becoming a finance leader.
The goal is to move through the M&A activity and focus on what could happen in the future.
-Benyam Hagos, CFO, Form3
FEATURED DATA
'INSPIRING
TRUST
IN AI'
With the advent of AI becoming more embedded into the business system landscape, Managing Partners from New York based Lytical Ventures, Steve Berg and Lucas Nelson, introduce the concepts of what businesses should consider to safely embed AI into their tech stacks.
RE-IMAGINING THE RISK TRANSFER
In the wake of growing risks from cyber attacks and an increasing volume of natural disasters, guest contributors Dr Henri Winand and Dennis Mahoney from risk transfer platform serving high-quality multinationals, AkinovA, rethink the approach in which private equity portfolio companies can insure against value destruction.
The Acountancy
Revolution
LONG
OVERDUE
DISRUPTION
Blick Rothenberg’s Chief Executive Officer, Nimesh Shah, on how the private equity cash injection is evolving the accountancy practice sector.
The accountancy profession is going through its greatest revolution.
-Nimesh Shah, CEO, Blick Rothenberg