Webinar Summary: Is AI the next great value creator or biggest risk in your deal?

In our recent webinar, we explored where private equity operating partners are seeing tangible gains from AI in portfolio companies. The session was hosted in partnership with Singulier. Here are the key talking points: 

This session was hosted by IPEM in partnership with Singulier and examined two central questions facing private equity today, namely how investors should assess whether a target company is genuinely AI ready before acquisition; and how AI can be used to create value, or avoid destroying it, once a deal has been completed. The webinar was moderated by Denise Ko Genovese, LP Community Manager at IPEM.

This webinar covers:

• How private equity houses structure AI due diligence and what frameworks they use;
• The questions that distinguish genuine AI capability from surface-level preparation;
• Examples of companies that appeared AI ready but revealed material gaps on closer examination;
• Case studies of AI-driven value creation across portfolio companies in education, financial services, sports management and professional services;
• How panellists quantify the EBITDA impact of AI transformation;
• The cost and pricing risks of AI deployment and how sponsors are managing them;
• The AI-specific risks most commonly underestimated in deals.

Contributors:

• Adam Nahari, Partner, Apollo
• Prerak Vohra, Partner, Goldman Sachs
• Marco Ferrigo, Partner, Fondi FSI
• Clement Marty, Managing Director, Ardian
• Sam (Yu-Hsuan) Lin, Partner, Singulier