Listen "The ESG Challenge and Opportunity for Private Equity Firms"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode of Private Equity 360, FD’s National Practice Leader Bob Woosley joins Paul Yett, Director of ESG and Sustainability at Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) and Scott Kennedy President of Novata (www.novata.com), a public benefit corporation formed as a partnership of the Ford Foundation, S&P Global, Hamilton Lane and the Omidyar Network, to discuss how private equity firms are investor demands and portfolio company requirements related to ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance). Topics covered in this episode: How mid-market focused General Partners are addressing ESG How the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA)’s ESG Data Convergence Framework has created clarity How leading General Partners have recognized the importance of ESG in portfolio company value creation and vendor qualifications How FD and Novata have partnered to create a credentialed and practical ESG Support Program for Private Equity
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