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09:05Keynote: Swiss macro-economic outlookKlaus Wellershoff Founding Partner, Wellershoff Partners
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09:25Live virtual panel: Financing and funding the new deal environment
In light of the coronavirus pandemic and changes to global dealmaking. This panel will explore financing options from debt financing and the evolution of the covenant reset discussion.
- Covenant reset discussion
- Funding sources
- Implications for deal opportunities
- Resulting opportunities – do we see a lot of companies seeing pressure from the banks due to covenant terms?
Björn Lauschke Investment Director, Capvis Equity Partners -
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Networking break
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10:15Live virtual panel: The new reality of deal-making
European tech M&A has accounted for 17.7% of deal count so far this year. The sector is likely to see continued activity as social distancing measures change the reality of doing business. This panel will explore:
- What new technologies have disrupted the M&A advisory community?
- Which innovations are here to stay in a post-Covid world?
- How can cloud adoption help with the M&A process?
Philipp Schaelli Principal, Private Equity, KKR -
11:00
Networking break
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11:15Live virtual panel: A closer look at a recent carve-out – A new listing trend?
The coronavirus pandemic slowed IPO activity during H1 2020 globally. However, for some companies, carve-outs with subsequent listing provided the right solution during these challenging markets. This panel will explore the listing decisions in Switzerland including V-ZUG and Ina Invest.
- How has the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing measures impacted the carve-out and listing process?
- What was the most challenging about managing a carve-out/listing project during this time? Which elements have been underestimated and what would you do different now?
- How have you managed the investor roadshows? Was it fully digital or a mix between digital and physical meetings? How have investors reacted and has it had an impact to investor demand? How will the future of investor roadshows look like?
Daniel Baumann Business Partner Finance – Division Development & Ina Invest, ImpleniaARAmanda Robinson Director, Credit Suisse -
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Julie-Annais an accomplished journalist who has worked for BBC radio and television, SkyNews, Mergermarket and Dealreporter.
She has recently established her own podcast production consultancy, producing and presenting branded podcasts for corporate clients, including npower. Alongside her podcast work, she is a regular conference chair and panel moderator.
Sofia is the ECM Deputy Editor at Dealreporter/Mergermarket, where she covers all types of capital markets issuance across major European markets. Her responsibilities include reporting on IPOs, block trades, rights issues and convertible bonds, as well as editing and training other journalists. Sofia was previously a TMT M&A reporter at Mergermarket.

Qualifications:
Jens holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt and has an MSc from the University of Durham in International and Corporate Finance.
Biography:
Jens joined Permira Debt Mangers in March 2015. His primary focus is on investment opportunities across sectors within Permira Debt Managers.
Previously, Jens worked for Citigroup in the Leveraged Finance team for 2 years. Prior to that he spend 3 years within Citigroup’s Swiss country coverage team focusing on High Yield and IPO opportunities.

Ralph is a Managing Director within Bridgepoint Credit and joined the Firm in 2020 from EQT Credit which was acquired by Bridgepoint in 2020.
Prior to joining EQT in 2014, he was Head of Acquisition in Germany at GE Corporate Finance Bank and Bank of Ireland. He has a wide range of transactional experience in European Leveraged Finance across a large expanse of industries sectors.
Ralph has a degree in Business & Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Ilya Gertsberg is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Apolis S.A.M. Based in Monaco, Apolis is a single family office whose main focus is private credit. Ilya was previously Director at Millennium Group AG (a family office with over $10bn at its peak), where he was responsible for public, private and fund investments globally, with a particular emphasis on yield generation. Ilya also held investment positions at the Russian sovereign wealth fund (RDIF), Moon Capital Management, Paladin Capital Group and D.E. Shaw. He started his career as an investment banking analyst at Lazard in New York. Ilya studied Economics and Mathematics at Columbia College, Columbia University and Finance at the MBA Program of University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School.

Catherine Ford is the Editor-at-Large for the events division of Acuris. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Acuris since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Dr. Marco Superina is head of M&A Switzerland and deputy head of Investment Banking Switzerland at Credit Suisse. He joined Credit Suisse in 1997.

Raffael Rupprechter is a partner and the CFO at Cross Equity Partners. He has more than 8 years experience in private equity. In his role as Chief Financial Officer, Raffael has overall responsibility for all matters relating to accounting, tax, reporting and regulatory compliance for the Cross group entities. Furthermore, Raffael was involved in several transactions such as the investments in WDM, punker, Rademacher and Micro-Macinazione as well as the divestments of Schwab Verkehrstechnik and spirella. Raffael studied at the universities of St. Gallen (Switzerland), ESADE Barcelona (Spain) and EGADE Monterrey (Mexico) where he obtained a master’s degree in banking and finance as well as a CEMS Master’s in International Management.

Liana is former Global Head of M&A at Syngenta International AG, having joined in 2010. Prior to that she worked for 14 years in investment banking (i.e. M&A, corporate defence, capital raisings, private equity, project finance) in London, Tokyo, Zürich and New York, primarily with UBS and Nomura, covering a variety of sectors (e.g. chemicals, healthcare, technology, electronics, industrials, materials and transportation). She started her career with a 2-year spell in management consulting / strategic planning. Liana holds an MBA from IMD (Switzerland) and an MSc in Business Administration from Bocconi University (Italy).

Benedict F. Christ, Ph.D., LL.M. is a partner at VISCHER attorneys at law and co-head of VISCHER's corporate/M&A practice group. He joined VISCHER in 2002 and specializes in mergers & acquisitions, banking, finance, contracts and corporate law. Benedict has a wealth of transactional experience and advises regularly on real estate, private equity, structured finance and capital market matters across a broad range of industries.

Catherine Ford is the Editor-at-Large for the events division of Acuris. She is a consultant editor to event programmes, and engaged in the development of timely editorial content for global corporate finance, M&A and capital markets related conferences and events. She routinely moderates discussion panels at conferences across the region. She has worked for Acuris since early 2002, holding a number of senior editorial roles in the company’s European, US and Asia-Pacific head offices.

Valeria Ceccarelli is Head of Primary Markets at SIX, in the Securities and Exchanges business unit. In this function, she is responsible for the origination of new listings (initial public offerings and bonds) as well as for the relationship management with the listed companies. Valeria has over twenty years of experience in the financial sector. Before joining SIX, she worked for about twelve years in the Investment Banking division of Morgan Stanley in London and Milan where she was an executive director. She worked in all areas of Corporate Finance (M&A, IPOs, bond issues and financing) in different countries and different industries. Subsequently she worked for about three years as Investment Manager at private equity firm Ambienta SGR. She holds a master degree in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

Julie-Annais an accomplished journalist who has worked for BBC radio and television, SkyNews, Mergermarket and Dealreporter.
She has recently established her own podcast production consultancy, producing and presenting branded podcasts for corporate clients, including npower. Alongside her podcast work, she is a regular conference chair and panel moderator.
Sofia is the ECM Deputy Editor at Dealreporter/Mergermarket, where she covers all types of capital markets issuance across major European markets. Her responsibilities include reporting on IPOs, block trades, rights issues and convertible bonds, as well as editing and training other journalists. Sofia was previously a TMT M&A reporter at Mergermarket.