Big Picture: Private Equity: The glory days are over. Or are they?

  • Kenneth Cheong, Partner, BPEA EQT
  • Sandeep Naik, Managing Director, Head of India & SE Asia, General Atlantic
  • Manish Kejriwal, Founder & Managing Partner, Kedaara Capital
  • Michael Woo, Managing Director, Primavera Capital Group
  • Nainesh Jaisingh, Founding Partner & CEO, Affirma Capital
  • Deepshikha Monga, Senior Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

Top executives at private equity giants have recently warned that the industry’s golden era is over. Faced with market volatility, higher interest rates, and continued geopolitical risks, and with no respite in sight, do PE players need to change their playbook? Is this pessimistic prognosis an admission that the industry may have strayed from the basics in a heady environment of excess liquidity? Or are these dire pronouncements no different from what GPs have heard and what the industry has weathered before? What stands to change, and what likely won’t? We will pose all these questions and more to a panel comprising top PE executives in the region.