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	LEAD SPONSORS
	Contact Person: Ms Tong Ka-Pin Investor Relations & Communications Manager CapitaMall Trust Management Limited TEL : (65) 6536 1188 FAX : (65) 6536 3884 Email tong.ka-pin@capitaland.com.sg	CapitaLand Financial Limited (CFL) is a leading provider of financial services for real estate-related investments in the Asian region. We are the real estate fund management and financial advisory services arm of one of the largest listed property companies in Asia, CapitaLand Group. The Group’s core businesses in property, hospitality and real estate financial services are focused in gateway cities in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Its property and hospitality portfolio spans more than 70 cities in 18 countries. CFL acts as a conduit for cross-border fund flows, particularly in countries where the Group possesses in-depth localised domain knowledge and expertise garnered from its multi-local strategy. We also provide customised real estate solutions to property owners and investors, leveraging on the Group’s capabilities across the entire real estate value chain, and across different real estate product sectors and mix. CFL has over S$8.5 billion of assets under management in 2005 comprising eight private equity funds and two listed Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) with retail, residential and office properties spanning key gateway cities in Asia including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo. We have also advised approximately a total of 26 separate transactions, with an aggregate transaction value of S$8.7 billion. One of our most recent transactions includes acting as the joint financial advisor for the creation of the first pan-Asian serviced residence REIT, Ascott Residence Trust. We provide bespoke solutions through an integrated delivery platform for real estate owners, investors, developers and managers. Our comprehensive in-house capabilities range from property fund management to advisory services to structured financing solutions.
		RREEF is the real estate and infrastructure investment management group of Deutsche Asset Management, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank. RREEF acquires and manages investments in commercial and residential property, infrastructure and real estate securities on behalf of its institutional and private clients worldwide. Its product offering is global and comprehensive, including core, value-enhanced and high yield property and infrastructure investments, as well as investments in publicly traded real estate securities. Headquartered in New York, RREEF employs more than 2,000 real estate professionals in 18 offices around the world. RREEF has more than Euro 53 billion in assets under management worldwide as of 31-December-2005. With regional headquarter offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo, and six regional offices, RREEF Asia has been in operation since 1997. It is active throughout the region and invests on behalf of its clients in core, core plus, value added and opportunistic strategies. Deutsche Bank ranks among the global leaders in corporate banking and securities, transaction banking, asset management, and private wealth management.
		UBS is one of the world’s leading financial firms, serving a discerning global client base. As an organisation, it combines financial strength with a global culture that embraces change. It is the world’s leading provider of wealth management services. In the investment banking and securities businesses, it is among the select bracket of major global houses. UBS is also one of the largest asset managers globally. In Switzerland, it is the clear market leader serving corporate and retail clients. As an integrated firm, UBS creates added value for clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all its businesses. UBS’ priority is to provide premium quality services to clients, giving them the best possible choice by supplementing best-in-class solutions developed by the firm with a quality screened selection of products from others. With head offices in Zurich and Basel, and slightly more than 66,000 employees, UBS operates in over 50 countries and in all major financial centers. It offers products and services via a variety of different channels - from the traditional retail bank branch to sophisticated, interactive online tools, helping it deliver services more quickly, widely and cost-effectively than ever before
	PLATINUM & GALA DINNER SPONSOR	Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. It provides a wide range of investing, advisory and financing services to a substantial and diversified client base worldwide, including corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869 in lower Manhattan, Goldman Sachs is one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world. After over a century operating as a private partnership, the firm became a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange in May 1999. The firm’s revenue-generating business is organized around three principal business lines: Investment Banking, Trading and Principal Investments, and Asset Management and Securities Services. Goldman Sachs is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world. At Goldman Sachs, we believe the best ideas come from a wealth of different opinions and experiences. Throughout its history, the firm has always maintained its consistent efforts in building the best team of investment banking and securities professionals. It has more than 20,000 employees worldwide, with over 80 nationalities represented on its professional staff. Asia has been a key strategic market for Goldman Sachs. The firm has been actively providing financial services to clients in Japan since 1974 and in the rest of Asia since 1984, when the firm opened an office in Hong Kong. Over the years, it has opened six more offices (Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai) in Asia and built up a dominant position in the investment banking industry in the region, with more than 2000 professionals and extensive knowledge about the local markets.
	PLATINUM & COCKTAIL SPONSOR	Credit Suisse Group is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich.Credit Suisse, the banking business of Credit Suisse Group, provides its clients with investment banking, private 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. Credit Suisse Group also includes Winterthur, a Swiss general insurer with a focus on international business activities. Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 60,000 people. Credit Suisse Group’s registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CSR), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse Group and Credit Suisse can be found at www.credit-suisse.com. 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 69 locations across 33 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.
	PLATINUM SPONSOR	Emaar MGF Land Private Limited is a joint venture company formed by MGF Developments Limited from India and Emaar Properties PJSC Dubai (a Government of Dubai promoted Company) - the world’s leading Real Estate Company. Headquartered in New Delhi, Emaar MGF has brought in the largest FDI in real estate in India. Emaar-MGF is engaged in pan-India projects in the residential, commercial and hospitality sectors. Work on the projects is underway in 30 cities in Punjab, Delhi NCR, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The new age integrated townships and homes planned by Emaar MGF will include residential plots, town houses and villas along with convenient shopping, landscape gardens, civic facilities & amenities. Further, these townships would also include institutional facilities of medical care, education, recreation, hospitals, schools, and colleges and will provide for opening for international standard office and large operational spaces for the ITES industry. Emaar MGF will redefine ‘world class hospitality’ with several luxury and business Hotels across the country. Emaar-MGF aims to develop and operate unique hotel branded products in both luxury and business categories that are internationally recognized as the finest “lifestyle” oriented hotel or resort. Emaar-MGF brings in technology, expertise and scale that will endeavor to put Indian real estate on par with the best in the world. Designed and constructed by architects and contractors of international standing, the real estate development will be supported by experts in planning, construction, transportation, utility and environment.
		Hypo Real Estate International is one of the leading international real estate lending institutions and has a network presence in all major markets including London, Paris, Munich, New York, Hong Kong (Hypo Real Estate Capital Hong Kong Corporation) and Tokyo (Hypo Real Estate Capital Japan Corporation). We are a provider of debt financing solutions ranging from senior investment and development loans to structured finance, Mezzanine and Bridge loans. We offer a wide range of capabilities including syndication and securitisation and dedicated real estate investment banking expertise. We endeavour to support our customers through the arrangement, origination and provision of debt finance for property, portfolio or corporate acquisitions of companies rich in property assets, including public-to-private takeovers, sale and leaseback arrangements and PropCo/OpCo structures. Hypo Real Estate International is breaking new ground in international financing with our strong focus on cross border business development of new and innovative financing solutions and expansion into new geographical markets. With an extensive global network across three business platforms, Europe, US and Asia, we are in a position to impart valuable experience and knowledge of different markets to our clients. In addition to a more extensive penetration of our core markets in Europe and North America, we are continuously striving to develop new markets and are focusing mainly on Asia. Hypo Real Estate International is now preparing to enter the market in India. Singapore, South Korea and Australia are also countries in which we have identified good conditions and prospects for our core business, namely that of comprehensive structured commercial real estate lending. Contact: Dr. Leonard Meyer zu Brickwedde, CEO Asia, Tel: +81 3528 85861,  Email: leonard.meyerzubrickwedde@hypointernational.com
	GOLD SPONSORS
		Citigroup Property Investors is a global real estate investment manager providing focused real estate strategies including public and private equity investments and commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS). With more than 75 professionals, Citigroup Property Investors manages $7 billion in real estate investments through its New York, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong offices. Our senior management averages over 20 years of real estate experience and combines best-in-class practices with strong industry relationships. Our strategies are designed for institutional and private investors and our group is well versed in client reporting, operations and investor communication.
		Colliers International is one of North America’s largest full service real estate companies. Our expertise encompass general agency services in commercial, industrial, retail and residential sectors to specialized support, such as hotels and leisure property brokerage and consultancy to facilities management. We have 249 offices in 51 countries on six continents and is supported by over 9,000 property professionals. In Asia Pacific, we have 43 majority owned subsidiaries spanned across 11 countries. A key to the Company’s success is the Firm’s policy of instilling in all its employees a culture of Know How – knowledge of the property services industry, knowledge of the market, and knowledge and understanding of clients’ needs.
		The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is the largest incorporated bank in Hong Kong, and one of the territory’s three note-issuing banks. The bank and its subsidiaries have 570 branches and offices in 20 countries and territories in Asia-Pacific. It is the founding and a principal member of the HSBC Group, which has over 9,500 offices in 76 countries and territories and assets of US$1,502 billion as at 31 December 2005. HSBC’s Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets (CIBM) customer group provides tailored financial products and services to major government, corporate and institutional clients across Asia. Capabilities include foreign exchange, fixed income, derivatives, risk advisory, investment banking financing, investment banking advisory, payments and cash management, trade services, and securities services.
		Realm is the creator of industry standard asset and portfolio management tools (ARGUS, DYNA, BUDGET and INSIGHT). Leveraging more than 30 years as a strategic partner to the industry’s most respected companies, we have developed unmatched expertise in the processes and best practices that are unique to real estate. Today, more than 6,000 of the industry’s leading owners, managers, financial institutions and REITs trust Realm solutions to improve the visibility and flow of information throughout their critical business processes.
	SILVER SPONSORS
		GE Real Estate (www.gerealestate.com) is a world leader in real estate capital. Formed in 1972, the business has more than $35 billion in core assets with 34 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. GE Real Estate, backed by its parent company’s AAA rating, offers a broad range of financing, equity and servicing solutions and asset management.
		FTSE Group is a world-leader in the creation and management of indexes. With offices in 9 cities it services clients in 77 countries worldwide. It calculates and manages the FTSE Global Equity Index Series, which includes world-recognized indexes ranging from the FTSE All-World Index to FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Real Estate Index, as well as domestic indexes such as the prestigious FTSE 100.
		LaSalle Investment Management has over $30bn in Funds under Management, and offers Real Estate investors a complete suite of investment opportunities. These include Global Real Estate Securities, Separate Mandates, Direct Open and Closed Ended Funds across the spectrum of risk from Core to Opportunistic, in all sectors throughout the US, Europe, the UK and Asia.
		Lehman Brothers (ticker symbol: LEH), an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private investment management, asset management and private equity. The Firm is headquartered in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Tokyo, and operates in a network of offices around the world. For further information about Lehman Brothers’ services, products and recruitment opportunities, visit the Firm’s Web site at www.lehman.com.
		RBC Dexia Investor Services offers a complete range of investor services to institutions worldwide. Established in January 2006, and equally owned by Royal Bank of Canada and Dexia, we rank among the world’s top 10 global custodians, with approximately US$2.0 trillion in client assets under custody. RBC Dexia has unrivalled experience and market share servicing REIFs, with gross assets, once fully invested, of over USD 14bn. Our clients include among others Prologis, LendLease, LaSalle, Henderson, UBS, Aberdeen and TMW Pramerica.
		Founded in 1973, W. P. Carey & Co. LLC is a leading global real estate investment firm. The Company provides asset management services to its CPA® series of income generating real estate funds. With $4.5 billion in equity capital, the W. P. Carey Group is one of the largest providers of net lease financing for corporations worldwide. The Group owns more than 675 commercial and industrial properties in 14 countries, representing over 95 million square feet, valued at more than $7.4 billion.
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