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Simon Francis Speaking at McKinsey & Co Private Equity Offsite

ajulicher — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:41:35 +0000

Simon Francis is speaking at McKinsey & Company’s Private Equity Practice’s offsite in Miami, Florida, February 2012. Simon, a Partner at Lancor, will discuss trends in Private Equity and human capital, executive compensation, and best practices from leading Private Equity sponsors.

Christopher Conti Spoke at Capital Roundtable Conference

Lancor — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:00:55 +0000

Christopher Conti spoke at Capital Roundtable Conference. Addressing the topic of “Building Top Teams – How Do You Assess, Motivate & Keep Great People,” Christopher Conti, Partner at Lancor, spoke at Capital Roundtable’s Conference on “Overseeing PE Portfolio Companies When Markets Are Volatile: Tools, Techniques, & Talents for Finding Silver Linings in Today’s Cloudy Outlook.”

For additional information, please visit http://www.capitalroundtable.com/masterclass/Capital-Roundtable-Overseeing-Portfolio-Companies-Conference-2011.html.

Jamie Carter Joins Lancor

Lancor — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:18:02 +0000

Jamie Carter joins Lancor. As a Partner at Lancor, Jamie focuses on the firm’s North American Technology practice.

Lancor has partnered with HEC Paris Professor Oliver Gottschalg

Lancor — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:21:02 +0000

Lancor has partnered with HEC Paris Professor Oliver Gottschalg to create a thought piece on drivers of LBO success. The article will be published in the upcoming Harvard Business Review.

White Paper: Talent Blueprint for Private Equity Portfolio Operations

Lancor — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:00:41 +0000

“Talent Blueprint for Private Equity Portfolio Operations” – Lancor’s white paper discusses the Operating Partner role within Private Equity Funds.

During the upswing of the last economic cycle, which saw global funds under management soar to $2.5 trillion, “best practice” in private equity embraced the concept of bolstering investment teams by hiring senior executives from the business world into portfolio operations groups. What began as a novel, sporadically deployed idea a decade ago has evolved to be an accepted feature of a contemporary firm’s toolkit. The thesis is that financial engineering alone does not maximize return, and that operational transformation across a fund’s portfolio companies is essential to success. One managing director at a well-known pension told us, “We don’t have religion about what type of PortOps philosophy works best, but we do expect funds to have a story.”

Click here to receive a complimentary PDF copy.