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While global financial markets are going through hard times there are still plenty of opportunities in CEE to make investments into growing
businesses with great potential. Following record flows last year, Central and Eastern Europe is continuing to attract private equity
investments. Investors are more optimistic of making good returns in this market than in Western Europe. The region’s high rate of
economic growth and solid returns for existing private equity investors leave plenty of room and lots of incentives for growth.
Based on the phenomenal success of our previous events and huge market demand, C5 is pleased to announce a spring edition
of CEE Private Equity Forum. This is undoubtedly the PREMIER EVENT for professionals interested in the region. In 2 days of highly
topical, specialist, industry discussions, expert analysis and practical strategies you will learn everything you need to know about
the impact of the macroeconomic performance and outlook for the region on investments (both portfolio and prospective), valuation
expectations by buyers and sellers, the fundraising environment, and in general the trends in PE competition for the region.
Find out about:
• Practical implications of the global credit crunch on the CEE LBO market
• LMM deals vs. larger deals: what size, conditions, etc. will see a better performance?
• GP investment strategies at the times of rising competition
• Post credit crunch availability and sources of leverage for PE sponsored buy-outs
• Which geographic markets are better positioned for new deals?
• Exit outlook for small and mid-cap investments
Examine the risk-return profile of private equity investments in the CEE market and define your strategy for the future. Engage in in-depth
case studies and discussions with leading practitioners to help you minimize the risk of investing in CEE. Find the best fund managers
and develop successful exit strategies.
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Why you should attend
Hear from industry experts, including:
Phillip Dubsky
Partner
DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach
Chris Rose
Partner
Head of European Private Equity,
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
Aleksander Ferenc
CEE Mezzanine investments
ICG
Chris Buckle
Managing Director
Mezzanine Management
Daniel Lynch
Managing Director
3TS Capital Partners
Henry Potter
Partner
Alpha Associates
Beata Gessel-Kalinowska
vel Kalisz
Managing Partner, GESSEL
Joanna James
Managing Director
Advent International
Marcin Hejka
Strategic Investment Director
Intel Capital
Michał Popiołek
Head of Mezzanine Finance
BRE Bank
Tomasz Czechowicz
Managing Partner
MCI Group
Ulrich Grabenwarter
Head of Equity Fund Investments
EIF
Vinarom Vilaihongs
Partner
SGAM Alternative Investments
Garret Byrne
Partner, M&A Transaction Services
Leader, Deloitte
Jan Dewijngaert
Investm ent Director
Gimv

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DAY ONE | MONDAY, 23 MARCH 2009
08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
08:50 CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION
09:00 THE FUTURE OF CAPITAL MARKETS IN CEE
Nikolaus Bethlen
Associate Director, Mid Europa Partners
• To what extent do CEE markets feel the consequences
of the sub-prime crisis?
• Developing investment strategies for CEE in the post-Lehman era
• Where are the current opportunities for great returns?
• Will there be any fundamental shifts in country and sector
focus of private equity deals in the region?
9:30 ASSESSING FUTURE CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE CEE PRIVATE EQUITY AND VENTURE
CAPITAL INDUSTRY
Michael Tojner
CEO, Global Equity Partners Beteiligungs-Management AG
Alessandra Pasian
Senior Banker, EBRD
Pierre Mellinger
Managing Director, Head of CEE PE, AIG Capital Partners
Robert Manz
Managing Partner, Enterprise Investors
Jaroslav Hascak
Managing Partner, Penta Investments
• How has the risk-reward perception of investing into CEE
changed over the last 6 months.
• How the serious debt crisis jeopardizes private equity deals
in the region
• Addressing dramatic downturn in deal activity and lack of
leverage caused by the turmoil in the financial markets
• Can one expect further fund manager formation and fund
size growth?
• View on deal sizes and evaluations in shifting economic conditions
• What are the key elements making western investors
pour into CEE market in the present conditions?
• Types of deals being done currently in the region:
what are the priority and main interests of investors?
10:15 THE PROFITS OF DOOM - INVESTING
IN THE DOWNTURN
Joanna James
Managing Director, Central Europe, Advent International
• Opportunities and challenges for the regional private equity industry
• Do the new times, with less money, inevitably mean less profits?
• How to deliver exceptional returns during a global
economic downturn
• What asset classes are more suited to generating investment
gains through the trough of the cycle than others?
• Adapting to the longer term holding periods
• Industry returns and valuations
10:45 MORNING REFRESHMENTS
11:00 PANEL: Q&A WITH SQUIRE SANDERS’
DISTRESSED INVESTMENT AND
RESTRUCTURING TEAM
Moderator
Christopher Rose
Head of European Private Equity, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
Thomas Salerno
Head of International Financial Restructuring Practice
Kevin Connor
Partner, Bratislava
Akos Mester
Partner, Budapest
Jeffrey McGehee
Partner, Prague
Tomasz Ujejsky
Partner, Warsaw
11:40 REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES OF ADAPTING TO
CENTRAL EUROPE PE: WHAT REALLY MAKES
CE DIFFERENT?
Vinarom Vilaihongs
Partner, Eastern Europe Private Equity
SGAM Alternative Investments S.A.
• How CEE private equity is adapting to the changing
economic environment
• Which sectors and countries offer most opportunities
in the current market climate?
• Is doing successful PE deals getting easier?
• How it will evolve in the near future
12:10 FINANCING A TRANSACTION IN
THE NEW CREDIT ENVIRONMENT
Moderator
Garret Byrne
Partner, M&A Transaction Services Leader, Deloitte
Nikolaus Bethlen
Associate Director, Mid Europa Partners
Chris Buckle
Managing Director, Mezzanine Management GmbH
Thomas Wilfling
Managing Director, AXA Private Equity Eastern Europe GmbH
Dr. Matthias Unser
CFA/Managing Director, VCM Capit al Management GmbH
Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz
Managing Partner, GESSEL
• Overview of deal activity across the private equity industry
• Existing pools of liquidity in the CEE market
• Checking the availability of mezzanine liquidity
• How the major players will adapt their strategies under
current conditions?
• Role of leverage in the success of a PE fund
• Actingasboththeequityanddebtfinanciertocompletetransactions
• Market sentiment and outlook
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13:00 LUNCH
14:00 INVESTOR VIEWS ON CEE PRIVATE EQUITY:
PARTY OVER OR TIME TO BUY?
Presenter/Moderator:
Richard Seewald
Partner, Alpha Associates
Leon Hadass
Principal, Pantheon Ventures
Armando D’Amico
Managing Partner, Acanthus Advisors
Roy Baumann
Assistant Vice President, Partners Group
Brian Gimotty
Paul Capital Partners
Peeter Piho
Fund Manager, Hansa Investment Funds
Martin Lang
Private Equity Director, Raiffeisen Zentralbank AG
Paul Thorsten
Member of the Board, Investkredit Bank AG
• What do historic performance patterns in CEE private equity
tell us about today’s situation?
• Do investors have money to invest in CEE private equity?
• Is there a private equity overhang in CEE?
• First reactions to “post credit crisis deals” being done
15:00 MID-MARKET IN TODAY’S PRIVATE EQUITY
INDUSTRY IN CEE
Daniel Lynch
Managing Director, 3TS Capital Partners
• What opportunities does the mid-market offer?
• Addressing key challenges to the industry in order
to respond to today’s contracted markets
• Have CEE mid-market deals remained unaffected in
post-crisis times?
• Which sectors turned out to be the most vulnerable? When
can export markets can be expected to come out of recession?
• With low prices now, are higher returns promised? Is it the
right time to work on buying strategies?
15:30 STRUCTURING CHALLENGES IN DISTRESSED
ASSET INVESTMENTS: NO PAIN, NO GAIN;
GAIN, NO PAIN?
Marc van Campen
Partner, Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam
16:00 AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS
16:30 STATUS OF THE PRIVATE EQUITY MARKET
IN THE CEE COUNTRIES
David Bernard
Vice-President – Investment Banking & Private Equity
Thomson Reuters
PanelDiscussion
• TrendsinprivateequityinCEE–dealvolume,dealstructures,drivers
• Trends in loans, M&A and IPO markets in the region – how do
they affect private equity
17:00 PERSPECTIVES ON INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
OUTSIDE TRADITIONAL MARKETS
Jan Dewijngaert
Investment Director, Gimv
• Comparing private equity markets in Russia and CEE and
performance results in downturn times
• Broadening investment criteria and geographical horizons
in shifting economic conditions
• Why were investors coming to the region and will their plans
be changed/affected by current crisis in financial markets?
• What investment strategies work best in the Russian market?
• Global liquidity crisis as a positive development for private
equity activity in Russia
• Growth factors for private equity in Russia
• Exit environment
17:30 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:45 END OF DAY 1
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08:30 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00 CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
09:10 LOOKING BEYOND THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE
Ulrich Grabenwarter
Head of Equity Fund Investments, EIF
• What is going to happen to PE in CEE?
• What are the likely impacts on CEE in short term?
• How the crisis is dealt with in the western market?
• How will the CEE PE funds perform in downturn times?
• Are regional managers ready to steer their funds through
tough times?
09:40 PRIVATE EQUITY MANAGER SELECTION
IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Hannes S. Ambacher
Managing Director, Private Equity, Bank Gutmann Group
Henry J. Owainati, CFA
Managing Director, Private Equity, Bank Gutmann Group
• Manager selection is critically important in this environment
• Only 30% of private equity managers will survive current shakeout
• Which managers are likely to survive the economic crisis
• Manager evaluation criteria in Eastern Europe
• What does it take to pick top managers in Eastern Europe

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10:10 SURVIVAL STRATEGIES AND TRENDS
IN TIMES OF CRISIS
Phillip Dubsky
Partner, DLA Piper
• Enforcement Actions by Creditors
• New Deal Structures
• The Return of Conditionality
10:40 MORNING REFRESHMENTS
11:10 THE GROWING ROLE OF MEZZANINE
IN CEE: NEW STATUS IN NEW TIMES
Aleksander Ferenc
Mezzanine Investments, CEE,
Intermediate Capital Group PLC
• Analysing effects of credit crunch on CEE PE industry
• Can one expect an industry reshape in order to adapt
to the new order?
• Is the growth of CEE economies still there?
• Is the timing for mezzanine right?
• Comparing mezzanine perfomance in WE and CEE markets
11:40 WORLD WIDE LIQUIDITY SQUEEZE AND
ITS IMPACT ON CEE DEBT MARKETS
Michał Popiołek
Head of Mezzanine Finance, BRE Bank
Ryan T. McGovern
Investment Director, Nomura Mezzanine
Aleksander Ferenc
Mezzanine investments, CEE
Intermediate Capital Group PLC
Johan Bastin
Managing Director, Darby Private Equity
Brian Wardrop
Co-managing Partner, ARX Equity Partners
Phillip Dubsky
Partner, DLA Piper
• The current status and future of LBOs in the market
• Which type of mezzanine-financed deals will be done
in the coming year?
• Which geographic markets are better positioned?
• Performance of mezzanine lenders’ portfolios
12:20 BUILDING EUROCHAMPIONS AND GLOBAL
LEADERS IN CEE
Tomasz Czechowicz
Managing Partner, MCI Management SA
• Diversifying investment strategies and seeking to
differentiate businesses during this time of change
• Is there technology growth capital?
• How to source and develop it in current conditions?
• Is it a buyer’s market?
• Why CEE?
14:00 IS CEE THE RIGHT PLACE FOR CONSUMER
INTERNET INVESTMENTS?
Marcin Hejka
Senior Director, Strategic Investments CEER, Intel Capita
• Highlighting difference of Internet investments from those
in other technology areas
• Consumer-oriented Internet businesses models for CEE
• What are the advantages of investing in CEE Internet
companies rather than in their US counterparts?
• Can CEE market produce billion dollar companies?
14.30 ANALYSING THE GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITIES
IN PRIVATE EQUITY SECONDARIES
Brian Gimotty
Paul Capital Partners
• Impact of the credit crisis on funding for buyouts
• Examining the drivers behind the recent growth in secondaries
• Whenisthesecondarymarketthebestoptionforyourinvestment?
• Impact on GPs and LPs
• The opportunities for secondary funds
15.00 COMPANY VALUATIONS IN TIMES
OF UNCERTAINTY
• Are the best investments done during a recession?
• Lower company valuations and decreased competition
for new deals: new bonanza for PE?
• Will 2009 become the best vintage year for private equity?
• Should investors expect a denominator effect?
15.30 SEARCHING FOR AVAILABLE EXIT OPTIONS
• Shifting exit preferences away from listing market towards
partnerships with strategic investors
• What happened to private equity backed IPOs?
• What opportunities does the trade market offer?
• What are the exit strategies adopted by growth capital
investors?
• Outlook for secondary buyouts: with liquidity left only
in PE: will that lead to revival of secondaries market?
16:00 CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS
16:15 END OF THE CONFERENCE
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