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Only the top speakers: Over 220 of the world's most influential private equity leaders came together for discussion and, at times, heated debate on the current position of the industry and future opportunties and challenges.

John Mickelthwait, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist got the show going with entertaining and, at times very controversial comments about the global economic and political outlook for the coming decade.

The innovative e-networker, My SuperReturn International enabled attendees to view the full delegate list in advance of the event and allowed delegates to load their profiles, make introductions and set up meetings ahead of the conference. Delegates arranged a diary of meetings around the event to do business and maximise the value of every minute spent in Berlin.

16 funds put themselves forward for the delegate QuickFire Showcase, in which each had 90 seconds to pitch their fund, without the use of financial and performance data, to the SuperReturn audience and the expert LP panel who gave informal feedback and picked the winners. A variety of methods methods were used to attract attention, including free handouts to the judges and audience. This year fo the first time, the showcase volunteers were grouped into Emerging Managers, and Specialist Funds.

The audience interactive polling session was a sell-out. The audience response was compared with that for similar questions asked at SuperInvestor in November, and demonstrated that industry sentiment had noticeably improved over those three months.

The ever popular German Summit and Mid Market Summit brought together hundreds involved in these markets, and the new Secondaries Summit provided a single day bringing together the leading players who debated the challenges and reality of opportunities in the red hot market.

	Leon Black Founding Partner APOLLO MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL

	David Rubenstein Founder & Managing Director THE CARLYLE GROUP

	Jon Moulton Chairman BETTER CAPITAL

	George Anson Managing Director HARBOURVEST PARTNERS (UK)

	Jonny Maxwell Industry Veteran

	Guy Hands CEO TERRA FIRMA CAPITAL PARTNERS

	Scott Sperling Co President THOMAS H LEE PARTNERS

	Thomas Pütter Chief Executive ALLIANZ CAPITAL PARTNERS

	Helen Steers Partner PANTHEON VENTURES

	Olivier Sarkozy Managing Director & Head of Global Financial Services Group THE CARLYLE GROUP

	Wim Borgdorff Managing Partner & Head of Fund Investments ALPINVEST

	Richard A. Friedman Head of Merchant Banking GOLDMAN SACHS

	Erol Uzumeri SVP, Head of Private Equity TEACHERS' PRIVATE CAPITAL

	Greg Brenneman Chairman CCMP CAPITAL ADVISORS

	Jos van Gisbergen Senior Fund Manager, Private Equity & Infrastructure MN SERVICES

	John P. Grayken Managing Partner LONE STAR

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Highlights from SuperReturn 2010

February 10

(updated 1 September 2010)

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"The SuperReturn conference in Europe has clearly become the most important annual gathering in the private equity world. I am not even sure what is the second."

David Rubenstein

Founder & Managing Director

THE CARLYLE GROUP

"In times of uncertainty the need to exchange views and ideas amongst industry colleagues is greatest. SuperReturn provides the largest private equity forum to do that."

John Singer

Chairman

ADVENT INTERNATIONAL, EUROPE

"STILL the best event in Private Equity"

Jonny Maxwell

Global Head, Private Equity Fund of Funds

ALLIANZ PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNERS