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Cecila Reis, Matthew Weiser, Michael Pizzani, Jarod Riedl and Trysha Daskam-Smith at Silver Regulatory Associates assess the regulatory and legal landscape surrounding efforts to combat greenwashing and ensure that sustainability efforts are credible and impactful.

Hannah Netherton, Oyin Olukotun, Ben Booker-Moore and Narinder Jugpal at CMS outline what upcoming changes under the Employment Rights Act will mean for private equity firms. They examine the potential implications for management changes, deal-making and equity arrangements, and set out the steps firms can take ahead of the changes coming into effect in January 2027.

Senior Venture Capital Executive, Gilma Da Gama, reflects on the highlights from Summit 2026 for VC members. The article covers sessions featuring journalist and broadcaster Amol Rajan and UKRI CEO Prof Sir Ian Chapman, before providing a deep dive of the sessions on this year’s VC stage.

Micka Matitia, Head of EMEA Sales at SS&C discusses how leading LPs and GPs are using AI to gain an edge — and where they see the technology going next, highlighting findings from a new report produced by SS&C.

AI is perhaps the largest disruptor ever in changing how businesses work, with its impact felt in every industry across the globe. In a very short space of time, every business has had to understand and decide how it can and will be implementing AI into its own business models.

Mads Jensen, Managing Partner at Superseed, highlights the need to move away from an overly risk-averse culture across the economy in order to support economic growth. Mads calls on the new Burnham Government to embrace a “return to risk” across pension schemes and the broader financial services industry, in order to deliver greater returns and unleash the UK’s full economic potential.

Trysha Daskam Smith, Managing Director & Head of Sustainability Risk & Strategy and Jarod Riedl, Associate Director, Silver Regulatory Associates outline recent changes to the Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) 2026 framework, providing firms with essential guidance in advance of the reporting window deadline. 

On Wednesday 1 July 2026, more than 200 investors, policymakers and regulators gathered for UK Private Capital’s Investment Policy Forum. We stepped back from the day-to-day rhythm of British politics to ask how private investment can help meet the country’s most urgent priorities.

Henry Philipson, Director of Marketing and Communications at Beringea, provides his insights from SuperReturn Venture. While AI was clearly still centre stage, Phillipson challenges the idea that sustainability took a back seat.

UK Private Capital’s Senior Policy Manager for Pensions, Karen Hurst, provides her insights on the passage of the Pensions Schemes Bill, following a long period of ‘ping-pong’ between the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Karen discusses compromises made to the mandation power, and positive changes to scale requirements and a value for money framework that UK Private Capital has long called for.

Laura Callaghan, Head of Advisory, EMEA at Novata outlines the importance of using the sustainability data firms collect to quantify impact and demonstrate value across their portfolios. Laura highlights the need to integrate sustainability insights into value creation plans and outlines the pitfalls firms often encounter when attempting to communicate their value.

Harry Raikes, Head of UK Venture Investments at Schroders discusses the building momentum for UK pension reform over the last decade. Harry describes how the UK’s push to channel pension capital into high-growth companies is gaining traction, with early allocations to venture capital signalling a shift from policy ambition to practical implementation.

James Thompson, Managing Director, Sustainability and ESG Advisory at CFGI discusses the difficulties in demonstrating the value in Sustainability and provides insight into the underlying reasons for this challenge. 

Leandros Kalisperas, Chief Investment Officer at the British Business Bank, sets out how the Bank is evolving its investment approach to support the next phase of growth in the UK venture and growth ecosystem.

Amber Heuvelmans, Associate Director, ESG Advisory at ACA Group provides practical guidance for how Private Market Managers can explore how artificial intelligence can support ESG analysis, reporting, and portfolio oversight.

On 4 March, ICG hosted and sponsored an International Women’s Day reception in their London office, as part of UK Private Capital’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) series. Suzi Gillespie, UK Private Capital’s Head of Research, reflects on the conversation and how private capital businesses can build inclusive workplaces.

UK Private Capital’s Head of Legal & Regulatory Policy, Tom Taylor and Research Manager, Ewa Skornas share their insights on the hot topic of evergreen funds. Insights taken from a recent LP-GP forum discussion featuring a panel of Luke Finch, Hg; Katie Lee, Franklin Templeton; Emily Pollock, KKR; and Shaha Miah, Pantheon; as well as wider conversations across the market.

UK Private Capital brought together industry leaders to discuss the barriers to scaling capital flows into impact investing. The discussion, emphasised the importance of building a shared language between GPs and LPs in order to increase understanding required to fuel growth of this important part of the private capital ecosystem.

Chris Elphick provides his reflections on VC fundraising data in 2025 and the decline in the UK total overall. He highlights that this is a narrow snapshot, drawing attention to the strengths of the ecosystem including how the UK continues to lead Europe in total VC investment, the strong track record of exits and returns, and the UK’s strengths in important and emerging sectors including AI, health tech and life sciences.

The BVCA’s Sustainability Policy Executive, Breeze Haywood, reflects on the outcome of the most recent COP30 negotiations. Breeze highlights the UK’s role in advancing global nature finance and how private capital is well-positioned to help develop innovative finance mechanisms to further mobilise capital at scale.