BeBeez will be the media partner of Milan fourth edition of Zero One Hundred Conference, an European leading event for the private capital sector that will take place in on 27 – 29 October, to , at Palazzo Castiglioni (press release). BeBeez acted as media partner for the first event of 2023 in Rome, the second and the third edition in Milan (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
Zero One Hundred Conferences organised the event once again in collaboration with Milan Municipality Council of Economic Development and Milano&Partners, the agency for the city’s promotion.
Milan is attracting top private capital firms, 0100 noted. In May 2026, NYSE-listed KKR opened an office in the city after having invested above 10 billion euros in Italy since 2005 (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In November 2025, Paris-listed Tikehau Capital appointed as Italy’s co-head and closed its first real estate credit deal in the country (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In May 2025, Paris-listed Eurazeo expanded its presence in Milan with the aim of allocating 500 million in Italy (see here a previous post by BeBeez). In 2024, Dublin’s Seroba Life Sciences opened a bureau in Milan after Paris and attracted 123 million euros from anchor investor CDP Venture Capital and others (see here a previous post by BeBeez).
In 2024, venture capital giant Sequoia carried on its first investment in Italy while Localglobe, ETF Partners and Durable Capital set a foothold in the country. In 2023, Partech opened a bureau in Milan and appointed a manager for handling the Italian deal flow while closing its new fund that attracted the resources of CDP Venture Capital and others (press release).
Ropes & Gray, Fieldfisher, Bird & Bird, Greenberg Traurig, and 16 of top 100 US global Law Firms are also expanding their presence.
The conference will bring together GPs, LPs, private credit managers, secondary market operators, infrastructure investors and advisers active in the Italian and European private markets ecosystem. Key topics on the agenda include: the structural rise of private credit and its gradual replacement of bank financing in M&A transactions; the wave of liquidity in the secondary market and GP-led transactions; capital for the energy transition and infrastructure investments; the democratisation of private markets for high-net-worth clients; and Italy’s emergence as the fastest-growing European market for PE and VC.
