This award is separated into categories that cover Revenue & Growth; People and organisational strategy; Digital transformation; Operational Process Improvements; and ESG. Submissions will be made by advisors in each category. Judges will evaluate submissions that highlight work that has been undertaken across portfolio companies in each respective category. Submissions should demonstrate the achievements that have been made during value creation projects and the success they have since earned for the company.

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This will be awarded to a software company in the private equity sector that excels in fostering value creation through innovation, efficiency, and significant impacts on operational and financial outcomes. The judging process will center on evaluating the software's effectiveness in strategic alignment, enhancing investor and company transparency, and its novel development approaches. Key areas of focus are streamlining data management, embedding ESG metrics, and promoting technology and innovation, all aimed at underlining the software's role in driving revenue growth, operational improvements, sustainable practices, and overall value creation.

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This award celebrates LPs in the private equity sector for their outstanding role in driving value creation. The judging criteria include strategic involvement in promoting growth, innovation, operational improvements, and ESG practices, the introduction of innovative and value-adding initiatives, impactful collaboration with General Partners (GPs), and the LP's overall influence in setting industry standards and enhancing the private equity ecosystem.

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This award honours Limited Partners (LPs) who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles, driving tangible value creation across the key three elements. The judging criteria include the integration of ESG principles into investment strategies and decision-making, the selection of new General Partners (GPs) based on ESG criteria, the promotion of ESG efforts and best practices among their current private equity managers, and the adoption of policies that demonstrate a long-term commitment to responsible investing.

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This award will be judged on investments realised in 2023 that have created the most value measured by the % increase in EBITDA between acquisition and exit, coupled with value creation metrics delivered. This award is divided into four main categories: large, upper-mid, lower-mid, and growth.

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Here the judges are looking at how private equity firms have deployed technology to identify, develop or execute value creation levers. This could include the use of data or software in ways that had not previously been considered or applied by the portfolio company.

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In this category, the judges are looking for a case study that demonstrates a high degree of collaboration and teamwork between sponsor, executive management and third-party consultant to successfully deliver a specific value creation goal over the last 12 months.

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In this category the judges are looking for a standout initiative implemented in the last 24 months that have had a material impact on the operations of a business. This could include, among other things, a complementary or transformative bolt-on acquisition; new product launches; new pricing models; digital enhancements or implementation; internationalising a company. The award covers initiatives made in the last two years to allow them to demonstrate value.   

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Judges will award this to a private equity house that has introduced novel ways of growing a company or applied new or revolutionary value creation strategies or levers that have led to material improvements to a particular business or sector. Judges will also take into account innovative R&D within companies that has resulted in new, cutting edge product development or launches that have made a significant impact and impression on its specific sector.

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This will be awarded to a private equity firm that has demonstrated excellence across all three areas of ESG and the impact this sponsor has made upon its portfolio companies. Judges will take into account Environmental initiatives that have been introduced to a business such as making a company carbon neutral, reducing the use of travel across the company and making workspaces greener. Governance initiatives will take into account how a sponsor has ‘professionalised’ a company by installing best practise procedures, creating relevant reporting lines or establishing a Board and ensuring the company meets all of its sector-specific regulatory requirements. The Social element of this category will be judged on how pro-active a sponsor encourages diversity and inclusion across a company’s workforce and management. It will additionally look at the work companies do for its community and charitable initiatives it may champion.  

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This award will be presented to a private equity firm that has successfully guided a portfolio company in expanding into new countries, product lines, or service offerings. The judges will consider the scope of the expansion, its financial impact on the company's balance sheet, the number of new jobs created, the speed and efficiency of the expansion, and how the expansion has improved the overall business.   

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The Judges are looking for examples of sponsors that use high levels of knowledge-sharing and cross-pollination of ideas throughout its various portfolio companies. This could include annual or quarterly events attended by respective CEOs of companies or centralised online portals where management teams can make business enquiries or get in touch with investment managers or fellow management teams for advice. 

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This is awarded to an individual who has worked in the private equity sector for no longer than two years and demonstrated an outstanding talent in identifying and executing value creation and growth strategies, which have proven to deliver exceptional results across one or more investments during their short time in the industry.  

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