Sponsorship / Exhibiting

O'Melveny & Myers LLP is a leading global law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in 14 offices across Asia, North America and Europe. O’Melveny is well known for its strength of advice in private equity ranging from fund formation to structuring, financing and executing acquisitions and disposals to negotiating and implementing complex equity holder arrangements. We have one of the largest private equity practices in the world and represent both investors and fund managers. With the largest China practice of any US-based law firm and offices across Asia, we provide a seamless global platform to clients including those who are prominent in the emerging markets across Africa, Asia, India and Latin America. In particular, recently we advised Actis on its successful fund raise for Actis Emerging Markets 3, one of the largest private equity funds raised for the emerging markets.

We are a values-driven law firm, guided by the principles of excellence, leadership, and citizenship. Our offices are in California, Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit www.omm.com.  

Citadel Capital is the leading private equity firm focusing on building regional platform investments throughout the Middle East and Africa in select industries through acquisitions, turnarounds, and greenfields executed via Opportunity Specific Funds. Citadel Capital's 18 OSFs now control Platform Companies with investments worth more than US$ 8.3 billion in 15 industries, including mining, cement, transportation, food and energy. Since 2004, the firm has returned more than US$ 2.4 billion in cash to investors, more than any other private equity firm in the region. Citadel Capital is the largest private equity firm in Africa by PE assets under management (2004-2009, as ranked by Private Equity International). For more information, visit www.citadelcapital.com.

For more information, please contact:

Ms. Ghada Hammouda
Head of Corporate Communications,
Citadel Capital (S.A.E.)

ghammouda@citadelcapital.com

Tel: +20 2 2791-4440 • Fax: +20 22 791-4448
Mobile: +20 16 662-0002

NRG is a leading independent alternative investment manager with a focus on Russia & CIS:  

1. •      The private equity fund Volga River One focuses on providing growth capital to mid-market companies and has made six portfolio investments to date (telecoms, retail, food production). Size - $177m, first closing - 2006; number of LPs – 20.
2. •      The credit and mezzanine focused fund, Volga River Credit Opportunity L.P. focuses on providing growth capital to mid-market companies and has made six portfolio investments to date (telecoms, retail, food production). Target size - $250m, first closing – 2Q2010E, 2 warehoused investments (retail).

Baring Private Equity Asia provides MBO financing and growth capital for companies in the mid-market sector in Asia Pacific. The firm invests in growing businesses with enterprise values between US$50 million and $250 million that require capital for expansion, recapitalization or for M&A.  Primary investment markets include China, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan.

VinaCapital Group is the leading asset management, investment banking and real estate development firm in Vietnam. The Group has unrivalled experience in the Vietnamese market, with a team of managing directors who bring over 60 years of combined local experience to the firm. VinaCapital Group was founded in 2003 and has grown from a single USD10 million fund to a diversified investment firm with over USD1.7 billion in assets under management.

VinaCapital manages three closed-end funds trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. These are the VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF), VinaLand Limited (VNL), and Vietnam Infrastructure Limited (VNI). VinaCapital also co-manages the DFJ VinaCapital LP technology fund, and holds a dominant stake in VinaSecurities, a brokerage house.

OrbiMed is a preeminent investment firm dedicated exclusively to the healthcare sector, with over $5 billion in assets under management. OrbiMed invests across the entire spectrum of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies on a worldwide basis. Investments are made through venture capital funds, hedge funds, and other investment vehicles.

Since inception of its venture capital activities in 1993, OrbiMed has invested in over 100 companies across a wide range of therapeutic categories and stages of development. OrbiMed’s investment team includes approximately 40 experienced professionals with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Shanghai, Mumbai and Israel. As the largest investment firm dedicated to the healthcare sector, OrbiMed is a capital provider of choice, bringing the global resources required to be an exceptional long term partner for building world-class biopharmaceutical and medical technology companies. www.OrbiMed.com.

Lunar Capital is a private equity firm providing growth capital to Chinese companies positioned for inward and inland development. Lunar takes minority or majority stakes in portfolio companies where it can build trust, engage management and leverage its entrepreneurial approach to drive value creation. Lunar’s inward/inland focus has driven investments in agriculture, forestry, infrastructure-related materials, resources and basic consumer necessities, mostly located in central and western China. Lunar proactively sources deals that meet its inward/inland focus and clear target benchmarks, leveraging a network built over 11 years in China and a team of 24 professionals based in Shanghai, Chengdu and Hong Kong. Lunar has seconded management into over 2/3rds of its portfolio companies, driven corporate expansion, mergers and acquisitions and has generated strong realizations through trade sales and initial public offerings.

Lunar is currently raising Lunar Capital Partners III LP, which held its first closing in the first quarter of 2010 and has committed capital to two portfolio companies.  Lunar Capital Partners II LP, which was raised in 2007, is now fully committed in six portfolio companies and has begun realizing returns for limited partners. Lunar Capital Partners I commenced in 1999 and oversaw the development of three portfolio companies into leaders in their respective fields and successful exits.

Contact Information

Plaza 66, Tower 1, Rm 2207B

1266 West Nanjing Road

Shanghai

Tel: (+86) 21 6120 2080

Fax: (+86) 21 6120 2060

Preqin is the leading source of information for the alternative assets industry, providing data and analysis via online databases, publications and bespoke data requests. Preqin also works with fund managers to identify and approach institutional investors for new vehicles via its flagship Fundraising Support Service.

Preqin has built a reputation in the alternative assets industry for providing the most comprehensive and extensive information possible. Leading alternative assets professionals from around the world rely on Preqin’s services daily, and its data and statistics are regularly quoted by the financial press.

More information available at:           www.preqin.com

emeafinance is fast becoming the integrated publication of choice for financial and business professionals active across the emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa region, and read by a broad and relevant executive and senior level audience consisting of leading public and private decision makers. emeafinance has created a platform where you can gain a more complete and thorough understanding of progress made by your peers, receive relevant industry news and communicate your own individual efforts and results. It is the only periodical dedicated exclusively to reporting financial events, happenings and triumphs initiated and influenced by the international financial industry across EMEA. For further information please contact info@exportagroup.com, call us on +44 208 673 9666, or alternatively visit www.emeafinance.com

AllEquityFunds (AEF - http://www.allequityfunds.com/) – group of companies, its media business line includes:
- AllEquityFunds (mass media, №FS77-38766), owner of the largest private equity Web portal in the region – AllEquityFunds.com, the largest community of private equity funds and professionals in Russia and the CIS;
- the only English-language private equity journal in the CIS - Private Equity Russia&CIS Journal (PERCIS) (http://www.percis.ru/).

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