Malcolm Coffin is used to investing through economic shocks. He has worked through the global financial crisis, Brexit, and the Covid-19 pandemic in his 17-year stint at British private equity firm Inflexion Private Equity and, during these periods of uncertainty, he chooses to look for the “constants rather than the change”. “If I look throughout different economic cycles or different changes within the broader landscape, one consistency has been that there are market-leading businesses out there looking for private equity support, and that hasn’t changed over the last 15 to 20 years, whatever the issue on the horizon may be,”…