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Latham & Watkins and Evercore are hosting an exclusive evening reception bringing together senior leaders from across the life sciences industry during the CPHI Milan conference. This networking event offers an opportunity to connect with executives, investors, advisers, and business development professionals during one of the sector's leading global gatherings. Register your interest to attend: https://cvent.me/AoZ4oa

Europe’s infrastructure agenda is creating one of the most significant deployment opportunities in private capital today. In Private Capital Insights, our lawyers examine how the continent’s energy transition, digital build-out, and defense-related investment needs are widening the opportunity set for private capital, at a time when public capital alone is unlikely to close the funding gap. The article also looks at the scale of infrastructure AUM growth, rising fundraising activity, and the increasing role of insurers, sovereigns, and other long-duration capital providers in the market.

The secondaries market continues to expand in both scale and sophistication. In the secondaries chapter of Private Capital Insights, our lawyers examine the market’s record growth, the broadening buyer universe, and the continued momentum behind continuation vehicles, evergreen capital, and structured secondaries. The piece also highlights the persistence of liquidity needs across the ecosystem, even as record levels of capital have flowed into the strategy.

Structured finance is becoming more central to how sponsors and capital providers think about funding, risk allocation, and investor access. In the structured finance chapter of Private Capital Insights, our lawyers examine why structured solutions are moving from a secondary consideration to a foundational design question, particularly across asset-backed finance, digital infrastructure, fund finance, and other capital-intensive strategies. The piece also looks at how sponsors are using structure to broaden the investor base, lower financing costs, and create more tailored liquidity solutions.

The Latham & Watkins x FT Live Private Capital Summit 2026 brings together senior decision-makers from across the private capital ecosystem. Leading investors, fund managers, lenders, advisers, institutional investors, and capital allocators will gather for a day of discussion, insight, and networking focused on the opportunities shaping private markets. Apply to attend: https://lw.link/toW37f #FTDueDiligence #PrivateCapital

In Private Capital Insights we look at the forces defining private markets this year including improving M&A conditions in some areas, continued liquidity constraints in others, and a broader opportunity set driven by new investor bases, bespoke financing, and innovation across fund strategies. The report also frames why European infrastructure, structured finance, and secondaries stand out as core areas of focus for sponsors and investors right now.