Business Development

Deborah Botwood Smith
Business Development Director
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Our Listed Private Capital and Infrastructure Roundtables are achieving observable and meaningful results for our members in those sectors.
Listed Private Capital Roundtable
Highlights 2025
This Roundtable, open to members who are listed managers or have listed funds, completed its third year under Chair David Till, Senior Partner and Co-Founder of Oakley Capital.
Held live editorial discussion event with media outlet CityWire, hosted by contributing editor Selin Bucak and featuring four LPCR members. Subsequently published both through both Citywire portals and Invest Europe social media channels, getting content in front of hard-to-reach wealth management and investor audiences
Dedicated listed private equity communications campaign week in June to increase awareness and explain listed private capital. Encompassed updated web content, 4 Leader Interviews with LPCR members and dedicated social media activity, achieving significant engagement above financial industry benchmarks
Published second Listed Private Equity Insights report, designed to address concerns about robustness of valuations methodology, in December. Aggregate data from 15 LPCR members continued to demonstrate that listed private equity firms typically exit investments at, or above, the carrying value at which they are reported in their financial statements, confirming that asset valuations are prudent
Breakout session Listed private equity: reaching further was held at the 2025 Investors Forum
2026 priorities
The LPCR will evolve in 2026 into the Evergreen Products Roundtable (EPR), now representing members that manage and market both listed and/or semi-liquid evergreen funds or products. This move, strongly supported by LPCR members, recognises the ever-increasing number of firms now marketing evergreen, semi-liquid products and the strong correlation and synergies between firms with listed funds and those with semi-liquid products.
Deliver programme of activity that is similar in terms of research and communications initiatives to 2025, but much broader in focus – explaining and promoting the role of all evergreen products in providing the opportunities of exposure to private markets to a wider investor base, covering high-net with individuals, family offices, wealth or retail investors
Infrastructure Roundtable
Highlights 2025
This Roundtable, open to members active in infrastructure investment, finished a successful second year under Chair Jonathan Kelly, Senior Managing Director in the infrastructure team at Blackstone, and Vice Chair Frank Amberg, Managing Director at AltamarCAM. Frank Amberg takes over as Chair in 2026 with Thierry Déau, Chairman and CEO of Meridian, becoming Vice Chair.
Our Investing into Europe’s Infrastructure event in Brussels in December built on appetite in EU policy circles for a robust conversation about the investment environment for infrastructure critical to Europe’s future. It attracted leading European policymakers, EU speakers, CEOs, Infrastructure Roundtable members and regulatory experts, both as speakers and attendees, with a closing keynote from the Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union
Published first Building Europe’s Foundations: The Role of Private Capital in Infrastructure report in December, providing insightful commentary and analysis on the evolving dynamics of the European infrastructure investment landscape
Dedicated Infrastructure communications campaign week in October, encompassing updated web content and social media posting, including 3 Infrastructure Voice articles and 5 Leader Interviews, all achieving strong engagement rates well above benchmarks
Members continued to receive a monthly report on infrastructure policy trends plus a presentation at each quarterly meeting
The Infrastructure Roundtable fully integrated the members of the Longterm Infrastructure Investors Association (LTIIA) and broadened representation of infrastructure investing
2026 priorities
Deliver infrastructure live editorial event and broadcast in partnership with a third-party media organisation that can deliver strong relevant private markets investor attendance
Thought leadership event as part of Paris Infra Week
Publish second The Role of Private Capital in Infrastructure report with increased coverage and depth to provide an evidence base for advocacy
Deliver dedicated infrastructure communications campaign week, leveraging the voice of the infrastructure sector through success stories and case studies, thought leadership articles, and highlighting performance and activity data
