Makram Azar

ENAR

E   Where do you think the next economic bubble is? It’s the broadly defined technology sector, in which you need to differentiate how you approach and analyze each one of these ventures because some of them will be very successful – as the 90s showed us with Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. – yet, many of them will not be successful. So with experience you learn how to do due diligence on companies, but I think there are certain aspects or segments of the technology and media sector that people are excited about today that you have to analyze very carefully. E   What are the big changes you have noticed since the crisis in the banking industry? There have been many changes in the banking industry … [it] is in a much better place now, from a regulatory and compliance standpoint. I think, from a deal-making standpoint, there was obviously