2025 EMERGING
MANAGER SUMMIT
About
BEMI’s inaugural Emerging Manager Summit is a free-for-GP comprehensive accelerator for new and growing firms located and investing in the UK.
If you are an existing British Emerging Manager Institute Member, you are entitled to complimentary tickets to the Annual Summit.
If you are not yet a member, you can apply to the Institute, and then register for the Annual Summit. If you do not wish to register, or are inligible for BEMI membership due to your firm type, please complete your registration using the Non-Member Registration button below.
When and Where
When: 22 May 2025
Location: Simmons & Simmons, London, United Kingdom
CityPoint, 1 Ropemaker St, City of London, London EC2Y 9SS
Agenda
8.30 – 9.00
Registration and breakfast
Second room
9.00 – 9.10
Opening remarks
Main auditorium
Speaker:
Ed Stubbings (Advisory Board Member, BEMI)
9.10 - 9.25
Keynote: British business needs new private capital firms
Main Auditorium
Speaker:
Lord Dominic Johnson (former British Minister for Investment)
9.30 - 9.55
Fireside: What it takes as an emerging manager or independent sponsor in the current market
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Bob Brown (Founding Partner, Motive Partners)
Alice Murray (THE LINE)
10.00 - 10.30
Panel: Legal matters: measure twice, cut once
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Ed Stubbings (Advisory Board Member, BEMI)
Sophie Smith (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP)
Daniel Faundez (Partner, Simmons & Simmons)
Eddie Carter (Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing)
10.35 - 11.00
Panel: Putting down roots – where should your firm and fund be based?
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Mirek Gruna (Regional CCO, UK, Ireland and Crown Dependencies, IQ-EQ)
Richard Bennett (Partner, Ogier)
Rhys Owen (Managing Director, A&M)
11.00 - 11.30
Coffee and GP-LP Networking – sponsored by Couno IT solutions
Lower foyer
11.30 - 12.00
Panel: Firm operations and fund administration
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Ed Stubbings (Advisory Board Member, BEMI, chair)
Joe Woodbury (Director, Funds, IQ-EQ)
Chloe Brown (Carta)
Mei Lim (Anthemis)
12.05 - 12.30
Panel: Outsource or insource as an emerging manager and or independent sponsor
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Adam Palmer (Judd Advisory)
Richard Hinton (Blick Rothenberg)
Charles Laurence (Cambrium Partners)
12.35 - 13.00
Insurance – armour for founders
Main auditorium
Speaker:
Richard Austwick (Divisional Director, BMS Group, insurance broking)
Marcus Christie (BMS Group)
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
Lower foyer
14.00 - 14.30
Fireside: Banking and FX
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Alice Murray (THE LINE) – chair
Callum Tusler (Alpha Group)
14.35 - 15.00
Independent sponsor and fund capital raising
Main Auditorium
Speaker:
Ed Stubbings (Founder, Ternion)
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee and GP-LP networking
Lower foyer
15.30 - 16.00
Panel: Audit, tax and deal structuring
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Ed Stubbings (Advisory Board Member, BEMI)
Joe Macklin-Gray (Partner, Alvarez & Marsal)
Richard Hinton (Partner, Blick Rothenberg)
16.05 - 16.45
Panel: Ask the LP (questions submitted throughout the day)
Main Auditorium
Speakers:
Zoe Yeo (Partner, Headway Capital) – chair
Teddy Mouawad (Keyhaven)
Joanne Maure (Director, M&G)
Frederic Evain (Access Capital)
Andrea Cutrignelli (Syz Capital)
16.45 - 18.30
Drinks and networking
Lower foyer