Sponsorship / Exhibiting

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has been a pioneer in private equity for over 25 years, crafting innovative solutions for some of the largest and most complex transactions in the industry. As the only firm to couple fund formation capacity in Asia, Europe and the US with an internationally acclaimed private equity transaction practice, we are uniquely qualified to assist our clients in navigating the complex issues surrounding fund formations, downstream investments and exits. We have guided clients through many sophisticated private equity fund formations and investments throughout the Asia-Pacific region, representing sponsors, investors and target companies.

AIF Capital (www.aifcapital.com) is one of Asia’s largest independent private equity firms with an established track record of successfully implementing a pan-Asian, multi-industry strategy for over 15 years. Since its establishment in 1994, AIF Capital has received investor commitments for its funds in excess of US$1.7 billion. The Firm has made 33 investments and 21 realizations in 9 countries across Asia, distributing in excess of US$1.1 billion to its limited partners.

The Firm has a team of 23 investment professionals across its offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and New Delhi, which oversees a diversified pan-Asian portfolio of investments, providing capital for expansion, buy-outs and recapitalization.

12-year mezzanine financing track record covering Asia, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand
AMP Capital Investors is a specialist investment manager with A$92 billion in funds under management as at 31 December 2008. AMP Capital is one of the longest standing participants in Pan Asian mezzanine financing.
The AMP Capital private debt team was established in 1997, and has since been established as a pre-eminent provider of mezzanine capital in the Pan Asian market. Its geographic coverage has grown from Australia into the Pan Asian market and the rest of the world. The team entered international markets by leveraging its strong Australian relationships with equity sponsors to source deals. By identifying and working with reputable and experienced partners, conducting detailed due diligence and applying its well established and proven credit assessment process, the team has successfully invested mezzanine capital in over 11 countries around the world. The team has invested in nearly 60 private debt transactions in Asia, Europe and North America, with no loss of capital in 12 years.
The long-standing reputation of the mezzanine capital team is built on its key capabilities and investment focus. AMP Capital takes an active role in managing investments and adds value through both financial structuring and operational input. The experience of the team spans a diverse range of sectors and geographic regions, and they are actively supported by AMP Capital’s broader resources.
AMP Capital is a wholly owned subsidiary of AMP Limited and has over 45 years of investment experience in Asia Pacific. AMP Capital Investors operates with a pure investment focus, while benefiting from the resources of the parent. Established in 1849, AMP has 160 years of experience providing financial services, and is one of Australia's largest retail and corporate pension managers. AMP is a top 20 Australian company listed on the Australian and New Zealand stock exchanges.
www.ampcapital.com

 Asia Alternatives, founded by in 2005, is a solution platform dedicated to helping institutional investors make investments in private equity across Asia. The Firm is currently investing Asia Alternatives Capital Partners, LP ($515 million) and Asia Alternatives Capital Partners II, LP ($950 million), Asia-dedicated private equity funds-of funds. Asia Alternatives invests with top performing private equity fund managers across Asia primarily in Greater China, Japan, Korea, South East Asia, India and Australia and is diversified across buyout, growth and expansion, venture capital and special situations funds. The firm currently has over 22 professionals and offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and San Francisco.  For more information, go to www.asiaalternatives.com.

Axiom Asia Private Capital is a private equity fund of funds Management Company focused on investing in the Asia Pacific region.  The firm manages Axiom Asia Private Capital Fund I & II and has over US$1.2 billion under management.

Axiom Asia’s investor base comprise endowments, foundations, family offices, pensions, financial institutions from the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia. 

Axiom Asia Private Capital
16 Collyer Quay #11-02
Singapore 049318 Republic of Singapore
Main: +65 63368886 Website: axiomasia.com

Baring Private Equity Asia is the largest regional mid market firm in Asia with $2.5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing out of its US$1.5 billion Fund IV, following on from a successful Fund III which is ranked as the top performing private equity fund in Asia according to Cambridge Associates. Baring Asia specializes in growth equity investments and mid-market buyouts targeting growing businesses with enterprise values between US$100 million and $500 million that require capital for expansion, recapitalization or for M&A. Primary investment markets include China, India, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The firm was established in Asia in 1997 and currently has 58 employees based in offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Mumbai, Singapore and Tokyo. (www.bpeasia.com)

Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 2,700 leading firms, including many of the world’s leading private equity and venture capital firms.  Completely web-based, Capital IQ uniquely combines deep fundamental and market data on public and private companies, investment firms, people, corporate relationships, and transactions with a broad range of easy-to-use tools for financial analyses, screening, targeting, and managing projects.  Capital IQ can help private capital investors evaluate opportunities more efficiently, enhance deal flow, and add value to portfolio companies.  For more information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at www.capitaliq.com.

Logistic/Marketing contact: Dina Xu, dxu@capitaliq.com, +86 158 0147 5363

Capital IQ Contact: www.capitaliq.com, HK Sales +852.2533.3588

Clarity China is a private equity firm focused on investment opportunities in the greater China region, primarily in businesses that capitalize on the rapidly growing domestic consumer market in China. The Fund seeks growth-stage to mature companies with proven business models, a stable revenue base and defensible market positions. With offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Los Angeles, Clarity China has assembled a unique team of principals, advisors and professionals who have a wide range of financing and operating experience, and extensive relationships with government and industry leaders across China.

Denning & Company, LLC, a FINRA registered firm, headquartered in San Francisco was formed in 2001 to serve the private equity fundraising needs of both veteran General Partners seeking only to broaden their L.P. base, as well as the next generation of Private Equity Managers.

With over 70 years of combined industry experience along with foreign language abilities, the D&Co team has raised capital in excess of USD 8 billion for general partners based in the US, Japan/Asia, UK/Europe, Russia, and Israel from a limited partner base similarly diversified.

Founded in late 2007, FountainVest Partners is one of the largest private equity funds dedicated to China with US$1 billion capital under management. Our investors are all globally renowned institutional investors such as Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Temasek Holdings.

FountainVest seeks emerging leaders with a proven track record in delivering high growth, and intends to complete 15-20 investments in China in the next 4-5 years with minimum investment size of US$50 million. We provide growth capital to business that drive and benefit from the consumption transformation, continuing urbanization and sustainable development in China.

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

MBK Partners is one of the leading independent private equity firms in the Asia-Pacific region, with US$3.7 billion in capital under management.  With a dedicated focus on North Asia - Korea, Japan and Greater China (China, Taiwan and Hong Kong) – MBK Partners’ strategy is to do buyouts or control acquisitions.  Our investment teams are located in Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and are composed of local professionals with strong local relationships and market knowledge.

Mekong Capital is a Vietnam-focused Private Equity firm, founded in 2001, and which focuses on growth equity in Vietnamese companies. Mekong Capital has 3 existing funds under management, a team of around 35 full time people in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, more than 20 completed Private Equity investments, and a track record of strong growth at its investee companies.

Mekong Capital creates shareholder value by investing in well-managed companies, and working closely with them to continuously build their management, leadership and corporate culture in a way that leads to long-term net profit growth, value creation and successful exits.

Many of Mekong Capital’s investee companies are the fastest growing and market leading companies in their fields in Vietnam. 

Shoreline Capital is a private fund manager founded in 2004 to specialize in finding and creating
value in distressed assets and special situations in China. The firm currently manages over $200
million of capital in several billion dollars of assets. Shoreline has over 25 professionals in China
with deep local experience navigating China’s financial and legal environments. Over the years
Shoreline has developed a unique internal platform for acquiring and exiting non-performing
loans and other distressed assets. The team is heavily engaged in distressed asset sourcing,
due-diligence, pricing, acquisitions, as well as various exit strategies, including third-party sales,
restructurings, workouts, public listings and liquidations.

Prior to 2008, Shoreline cut its teeth on distressed investments by sourcing and servicing over
US$ 1.6 billion of Chinese non-performing loans (outstanding principal). It closed its first
discretionary fund at US$178.2 million in June 2008 with an investor base of primarily
endowments, fund-of-funds, pensions and foundations. By the third quarter of 2009, it has
deployed half of the fund’s committed capital.

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.

PEP Funds take control positions in a select group of Australian and New Zealand companies with enterprise values in the range A$250M~A$1B+. Operating company management are provided with capital and resources as necessary to deliver full potential. Established in 1998, the firm has made 22 operating company investments, over 30 add-on acquisitions at the company level and manages over A$6B of equity funds. The 13 current  PEP group operating companies have some A$3.9B combined revenues per annum, spanning industrial, retail, energy, consumer products, entertainment/media and the financial services industries; employ over 22,000 people and generate over A$900M dollars in profits. PEP has been the recipient of a number of awards in recent years, including Firm of the Year, Best LBO Deal of the Year and Australian Private Equity Firm of the Year. 

Stanwich Advisors, LLC is a boutique investment bank focused exclusively on providing advisory and fundraising services to private equity and venture capital partnerships globally. Stanwich Advisors utilizes its seasoned investment banking and private placement team to provide senior hands-on execution for a select number of clients each year. Stanwich Advisors offers its clients an extensive range of services in preparing, structuring, and placing alternative investment funds, as well as assisting in document negotiation and post-closing support.
Stanwich Advisors focuses its placement efforts on a broad range of institutional investors including: endowments, foundations, public and corporate pensions, consultants, fund-of-funds, financial institutions, insurance companies and family offices.
Since 1996, the Stanwich Advisors team has raised in excess of $16 billion for more than 40 funds from institutional investors based in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

TMX Group is a dynamic marketplace to access capital and liquidity that drives the growth of domestic and international companies. As a world class equity market that finances companies from $1 million to $1 billion, TMX equity exchanges, Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange, are the ideal destination for small- to mid-cap Chinese companies.  TMX equity exchanges had a record breaking year in 2009 with more than 2,100 transactions, totaling more than $64 billion in financings, with $950.6 million raised by Chinese companies. Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange currently list 53 Chinese companies.

Everstone Capital is one of the premier investment managers focused on investing in India with $1.1 billion under management in private equity and real estate. The firm was started in 2006 by two senior ex-Goldman Sachs Managing Directors Atul Kapur and Sameer Sain.

Atul spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, Singapore and London focusing on private equity investments first with the Principal Investments Area (PIA) and then in the firm's proprietary investment group.

Sameer spent 11 years in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division in New York and London. Everstone Capital has five offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Singapore and Mauritius.

The firm has a very active investing and management style with a heavy operational involvement in companies it invests in. The private equity investments span growth equity, platform and control turnaround transactions with control exercised through a variety of means such as, operational involvement, significant rights, majority stakes and investor coalitions.

Company Profile

Squadron Capital is a Hong Kong-based private equity investment firm that, on behalf of its clients, constructs and manages portfolios of private equity funds and co-investments.  The firm is focused in particular on investment in the Asia Pacific region.

With aggregate assets under management currently well in excess of $1 billion, Squadron Capital is widely recognized as an industry leader.  The firm has twice been voted “Best fund of funds in Asia,” most recently in 2008, by the readers of Private Equity International.

Squadron Capital is an affiliate of Search Investment Group, a private investment firm established by one of the co-founders of Duty Free Shoppers, the world’s leading retailer to the traveling public.  Search Investment Group has been actively investing in alternative assets globally for more than three decades.

For more information, see www.squadroncapital.com

Westlaw Business is the foremost provider of business law information and services to corporations and accounting and law firms around the world. Westlaw Business offers innovative research and drafting tools, industry-leading conversion and filing software applications, and one of the largest short-run and full-service print facilities in the U.S. Westlaw Business is a part of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading provider of information and services to professionals in the legal, tax and accounting, financial, scientific, and healthcare industries. With this backing and expertise, Westlaw Business is capable of providing complete service, year in and year out, to meet all of its customers’ compliance needs.

eFront provides business software solutions dedicated to the financial industries, with a recognized expertise in the areas of Private Equity, Alternative Investments, and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) management. eFront solutions serve over 200 clients in more than 30 countries, including well known clients in Private Equity, Real Estate Investment, Banking, and Insurance industries.

Founded in 1999, eFront has offices in Paris, New York, London, Dubai, Bonn, Jersey, Montreal and Hong Kong.

BPEA provides services for members and relevant industrial individuals:
professional consultation and guidance, fund registration and recording, business conference, training and so on.

BPEA committed to:
 Promote the issuance of preferential policies for PE industry
 Build the self-regulatory discipline of PE industry
 Safeguard the legitimate rights of members
 Research development trends of PE industry
 Train relevant professional individuals
 Cooperate with domestic and overseas institutions

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

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