Meet our sponsors...
Babcock & Brown is a global investment and advisory firm with longstanding capabilities in structured finance and the creation, syndication and management of asset and cash flow-based investments.
Babcock & Brown was founded in 1977 and is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Babcock & Brown operates from 29 offices across Australia, North America, Europe, Asia, United Arab Emirates and Africa and has in excess of 1250 employees worldwide. Babcock & Brown has five operating divisions including real estate, infrastructure and project finance, operating leasing, structured finance and corporate finance. The company has established a funds management platform across the operating divisions that has resulted in the creation of a number of focused investment vehicles in areas including real estate, renewable energy and infrastructure. For more information please visit: www.babcockbrown.com/
Platinum sponsors
AMP Capital Investors is a specialist investment manager with over A$111* billion in funds under management. As a wholly owned subsidiary of AMP, we operate with a pure investment focus, whilst benefiting from the resources of our parent. With a team of almost 250 in-house investment professionals and a carefully selected network of investment partners, we offer significant depth and breadth of investment expertise.
In addition to our well established reputation in Australia and New Zealand, AMP Capital has a strong and growing international presence. Our proven track record and brand, as well as our relationships with business, governments and financial institutions in many countries, gives us a competitive edge in deal sourcing and origination.
With offices in China, India, Japan, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, we can source competitive offshore investment opportunities, strengthening our position as a preferred Asia Pacific partner for other international investment managers. The combination of our scale, breadth and capability provides access to superior investment opportunities. Reliably, consistently, repeatedly. For more information please visit: www.ampcapital.com/
*As at 31 December 2007
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Gold sponsor
SJ Berwin LLP is a leading full-service corporate and commercial law firm with over 150 partners and 600 lawyers across Europe.
Established in 1982, the firm was created and thrives as a leading-edge legal services business, focusing on the international market place. Our clients are sophisticated buyers of legal services whom we advise on a comprehensive range of services including Banking, Commercial, Corporate Finance, Employment & Pensions, EU & Competition, Intellectual Property, Financial Services, Litigation, Real Estate, Reconstruction & Insolvency and Tax.
Our aim is to be recognised as a dynamic, versatile and successful business which sets the standards to which others aspire. We take pride in our ability to devise innovative and commercially viable solutions to complex problems. We try to understand our clients’ businesses and are always willing to challenge orthodox views on their behalf. SJ Berwin LLP was named ‘UK Law Firm of the Year’ 2005 by Legal Week. For more information please visit
www.sjberwin.com/
Silver sponsors
JPMorgan Asset Management is one of the six largest active investment managers in the world on the basis of assets under management (Source: Pensions & Investments, December 2005). As of 30 June 2007, assets under management stand at US$1,108.6 billion - a reflection of the high regard in which we are held by investors across the world.
We are a truly global investment manager, with over 5,700 employees in 40 cities around the world. We employ over 670 investment professionals (portfolio managers, analysts, investment team heads etc) who are based in investment centres across Europe, Asia, Japan and the Americas, connected by four investment hubs in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
We manage assets on behalf of a broad range of private and institutional investors. Private investors primarily access our expertise through pooled funds, including a range of Luxembourg-domiciled SICAVs, UK-domiciled OEICs and investment trusts and our Hong Kong-registered JF funds.
Institutional investors can choose to invest through pooled funds or segregated portfolios, and the same highly-regarded investment teams are used in both cases. Institutional clients include pension funds, charities & foundations, corporates and central banks. For more information please visit:
www.jpmorganmf.com/
Highstar Capital is a dedicated team of professionals specializing in the acquisition of infrastructure assets and related businesses with historically stable, contracted and/or regulated cash flows. To date, Highstar’s principal investment activity has focused on opportunities in the energy, water/wastewater and waste management sectors.
The Highstar team has a proven track record of operating and investing in infrastructure assets and businesses leading transactions in the last five years with an aggregate enterprise value in excess of $9 billion USD. In addition, the team maintains long-standing relationships with operators, financiers, strategic buyers, potential sellers of assets and businesses in Highstar’s targeted investment sectors. As a result, Highstar is a uniquely positioned investor with the resources and the expertise to:
- identify attractive opportunities for investment
- perform comprehensive due diligence quickly
- navigate complex regulatory processes that
- can stifle inexperienced investors
- develop an optimal and efficient capital structure
- close complex transactions expeditiously
For more information please visit: www.aiggig.com/AIG/Private+Equity/Sponsored+Funds/AIG+Highstar/
3i Investments plc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3i Group plc acts as an investment adviser and holds a significant minority investment in 3i Infrastructure Limited, a FTSE-250 listed infrastructure fund. The fund is dedicated to investing in a mix of infrastructure assets diversified by geographies, industry sectors and stages of business. 3i Infrastructure Limited and 3i Group plc have also invested in the 3i India Infrastructure Fund, a $1.2bn fund dedicated to investing in transport and utilities assets in India. To find out more: www.3i.com and www.3i-infrastructure.com
Lunch sponsors
The Capital & Marketing Group is Europe's largest independent alternative investments placement agent with offices in London, New York, Hamburg and Guernsey. CMG provides assets capital raising services targeting institutional investors in Continental Europe, N-America, U.K and the Middle East.
Team has collectively placed and advised on over €7.5 billion of equity for alternative investment vehicles in the past 7 years.
CMG closed Europe's largest real estate fund in 2004 with €769M of total equity for EPI (European Property Investors). Other previous clients include: Colony Capital, Grosvenor, Logistis, CBRE Investors and Paramount.
Current clients include Deutsche Bank RREEF Pan European Infrastructure Fund, Pan-European Value Added Fund and Global Listed Real Estate Securities Fund as well as Jargonnant Partner's German Residential Fund. For more information please visit:
www.capitalandmarketing.com
Associate
- more effectively work with specialist infrastructure investors and funds;
- with the Public Sector Group, work with client governments to help them take advantage of new infrastructure financing techniques and sources; and
- better focus the firm's efforts on the largest and most complex deals in infrastructure.
The team comprises six senior bankers, based in Europe and North America, together with a dedicated support team, and works in a complementary way with Citigroup's investment banking coverage and financing product teams. It is engaged in a wide range of large and complex M&A and fundraising activity relating to infrastructure. For further information visit
www.citibank.com
Exhibitor
First State Investments provide a range of specialist investment management services. Our core areas of focus include, Asia Pacific and global emerging market equities, property securities, infrastructure and global resources investment. The business manages investments through pooled vehicles and segregated mandates. For more information visit
www.firststate.co.uk/
CVC Infrastructure seeks to make equity investments in European infrastructure businesses and related services which characteristically exploit capital intensive assets providing long term stable cash flows and a relatively low risk profile.
CVC has a track record in the infrastructure sector in Europe having successfully invested over ?550 million in five companies. CVC is a leading global private equity and investment advisory firm founded in 1981, with a network of 19 Offices and 196 employees throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, with a 27-year proven track record of investment success. CVC Funds own 53 companies worldwide employing approximately 418,000 people and combined annual sales of $97.5 billion. For further information visit
www.cvc.com
