Sponsorship / Exhibiting

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is an airport management company with more than 3,200 employees and a turnover of €631 million in 2008. Headquartered at Dublin Airport, the DAA's principal activities include airport management, operation and development, domestic and international airport retail management, and airport investment. The company's domestic operations include the running of Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports. The DAA is currently investing €1.2 billion to transform the passenger experience at Dublin Airport by improving, expanding and modernising its facilities. The centrepiece of the investment programme, a new passenger terminal, will open fully in November 2010.

A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm that uses strategic insight, tailored solutions and a collaborative working style to help clients achieve sustainable results. Since 1926, we have been trusted advisors on CEO-agenda issues to the world’s leading corporations across all industries. Our offices are located in major business centers in 36 countries.
A.T. Kearney was the first major consulting firm to establish a dedicated transportation practice and today we work with transportation and logistics services companies in every mode, market segment and geographic area. With a primary focus on corporate strategy, we also assist our clients with operational, marketing, organizational and information technology issues. We provide consulting to carriers as well as their customers, providing a unique perspective on shipper logistics and carrier strategy, and their relationship to traffic control, carrier selection and pricing decisions. Through our work with carriers, equipment manufacturers, government agencies, third-party service providers and other stakeholders, we have considerable understanding of the transportation industry infrastructure, economics and success requirements to help our clients compete domestically and internationally.
For more information, please visit http://www.atkearney.com/

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with private banking, investment banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. In its Investment Banking business, Credit Suisse offers securities products and financial advisory services to users and suppliers of capital around the world. Operating in 57 locations across 30 countries, Credit Suisse is active across the full spectrum of financial services products including debt and equity underwriting, sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and correspondent and prime brokerage services.

Booz & Company, a strategy and transformation consulting firm, has been serving clients since 1914. Our purpose is to serve the senior agenda of the world’s leading institutions, public and private. We are recognised for the relevance of our ideas, the practical impact of our contributions, the collaborative spirit of our people, and the intrinsically global nature of our firm. Since its first aviation assignment for United Airlines in 1930, Booz & Company has worked with clients across the aviation industry providing both technical and management consulting expertise. We have completed more than 1,000 successful engagements for clients in the airport, airline, aerospace, and travel industries, as well as air navigation service providers and government and regulatory agencies worldwide. This experience has provided us with in-depth knowledge of the entire aviation infrastructure value chain. For more information on Booz & Company’s capabilities in air transport and aviation infrastructure, please see www.booz.com

HSBC Global Banking is one of the five main businesses within HSBC's Global Banking and Markets division. It operates in over 60 countries and territories, servicing 4,000 clients around the world. Global Banking is responsible for the overall management of relationships with major corporate and institutional clients across a broad range of geographies. This involves working closely with a variety of product specialists to deliver a comprehensive range of services such as treasury and capital markets, transaction banking, strategic advisory and investment management and the origination and ongoing management of the credit and lending product.
Global expertise is at the heart of the Global Banking business. Global Banking advisers' collective knowledge of global economies, sector, industries and institutions, coupled with the understanding of local markets and cultures worldwide, help to deliver innovative, integrated financial solutions to our clients.

For over 60 years, LeighFisher (formerly Jacobs Consultancy) has provided a full range of industry-leading business and planning advisory services to meet the evolving needs of the aviation industry. We have built our practice around the concept of combining demand-based facility planning with creative business and financial planning to deliver technically superior, financially viable results. Our range of services includes financial, business, commercial, and strategic planning, as well as airfield and airspace planning, terminal and landside planning, and environmental management and planning.
Our clients include the sponsors and owners of many of the industry leading airports worldwide. Jacobs Consultancy also works with leading private airport managers and developers, financial institutions, national governments, and the airlines to help deliver solutions to the airport industry that can be implemented effectively and efficiently. Recent or ongoing assignments include advisory work at some of the busiest and fastest growing airports around the world—Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Bahrain, Bangalore, Chicago O’Hare, Denver, Incheon, London Heathrow and Gatwick, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and New Delhi. LeighFisher operates from offices in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and India.
For further information, please visit our website at www.leighfisher.com or contact us by phone +44 (20) 7087 8700.

The IPFA is the largest and the only international, independent, not-for-profit Association dedicated to promoting and representing the interests of private companies and public sector organisations in Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships throughout the World.

The IPFA was established in 1998 to create a membership forum to represent the interests of both the public and private sector in the project finance industry.  Established as a not-for-profit Association headquartered in London, IPFA now has branches across the globe represented by Council Members in each region.  Today the IPFA is at the heart of best practice, transferring knowledge across country boundaries and between sectors, educating and training the industry and encouraging innovation.

Our aim is to raise awareness and understanding about project finance and PPPs and their crucial role in infrastructure and economic development.  The Principle objectives of the IPFA are to encourage networking and dialogue between the public and private sector, to provide up to date information on best practice, industry trends and new developments that can be immediately applied to projects. 

The IPFA has attracted 400 worldwide members including government and multilateral agencies (honorary members) and international private sector companies from a variety of fields within the project finance industry including firms with financial, legal, sponsor, engineering, architecture, consulting, construction and insurance backgrounds.
www.ipfa.org

Worldwide Airports Lawyers Association (WALA) is a nonprofit association and its purposes are:

To promote the mutual cooperation and assistance among the legal affairs departments, the legal advisors and, in general, the airports operator’s lawyers, and the airports organizations and among all the legal entities and natural person related to the civil aviation around the world.
To analyze and debate all the legal affairs that involve, in any of its aspects, the airports services and the airports operators, whatever may be its property and nature (public, private or mixed).
To promote airport law before the government competent authorities, the airlines, the manufacturers, the insurers and other interested parties.
To promote the permanent contact about airports law and relationships with Universities, Institutes, Associations (ICAO, ACI, IATA, ATC, IFALPA), Insurance companies and juridical forums related to the world aeronautical industry.