Fundraising

General Counsel & Compliance OfficerDuke Street CapitalLondon, UK

Crossbow Ventures presents a uniquely global recipe for VC success, with partners from Zurich, Mumbai and New York, backed by Swiss institutional LPs. The firm is focused on sourcing deals in what is widely viewed as an innovation hotspot: the Southeast US.

A good relationship with your LP base begins with keeping people's names straight, which can be challenging in a market with massive turnover.

While most emerging markets private equity firms pride themselves on a local presence, quite a few maintain offices based in the West to foster relationships with investors and coordinate funds in multiple geographies.

In the October 2006 issue of Private Equity International, we produced a selection of the 30 most influential lawyers in global private equity. Here, we remind our readers of some of the legal world's most valued practitioners.

Hela Fourati joined the Tunis, Tunisia office of corporate advisory and private equity firm Swicorp in July 2004 as group finance manager. Prior to joining Swicorp, she spent several years as a senior manager in the audit, consultancy and organisation practice of KPMG Tunis. Fourati, who speaks English, French and Arabic, is part of a five-strong senior administrative team at Swicorp. Swicorp provides intellectual and financial capital to businesses in the Middle East and North Africa out of its offices in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Iran. The firm's private equity division focuses on a range of investments including start-ups, development capital and buyouts.

What is the right background for a private equity marketing and communications professional? Meet private equity's professional communicators, who say their jobs require a broad mix of skills.

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Kenneth Hersh's NGP Energy Capital Managment is primed for growth thanks to demand for energy investment skills, as well as NGP's carefully designed incentives structure.

A new index shows private equity firms paying more for businesses than private and public company counterparts.