LPeC Review 2021: Resilience and opportunity

From the early days of the Covid crisis, and often behind the scenes, private capital stepped up to support companies and communities providing financial assistance or by lending industry and management expertise. And private capital will likely continue to play an important role in the economic recovery.

As our 2021 Review explains, the crisis has also proved an opportunity to test the resilience of our industry and to demonstrate how much has changed since 2008-9. Listed private capital funds and companies have been reassuring investors in recent years that they are well managed with extremely robust governance and that dislocation on the scale seen a decade ago could not be repeated. And now they have the evidence.