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Conference:
Day 1
23rd Nov 8.50am - 5:30pm
Day 2
24th Nov 8.50am - 5:30pm
Master Classes:
Sunday 22nd Nov
KMPG - Making your investments sweat - driving value from portfolio companies
Wednesday 24 Nov
BDO Corporate Finance & Lawrence Graham - The challenges of restructuring & re-financing in the current market
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Private Equity World Awards, MENA 2009
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Important dates
Submit all nominations: 30th September 2009
Shortlists announced:
October 2009
Gala awards evening:
23rd November 2009
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Nominations can be put forward for a series of categories depending on the meeting of category criteria.
Categories
- Deal of the year
- Professional services firm of the year
- Best fund raising of the year
- Best new private equity fund
- Best private equity house
- Best venture capital fund
- Special merit award
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The awards evening will be one of spectacular entertainment, food, networking and a whole lot of fun. You will not want to miss it!
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Mr Simon Littlewood,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Golden Bridge Merchant Bank Simon is founder and Chief Executive of GBMB, a merchant bank focused on Greater China, with particular expertise in the clean technology, natural resources and agriculture/food sectors. GBMB leverages on its international network of contacts, staff, investments and the experience of its management team, built up over the last two decades. He has 20 years experience of investing in and working on quoted and private company transactions and fund raisings in the UK, Europe, North America, Greater China, the Middle East and S.E Asia. He was one of the first to realize the potential from the clean technology sector, investing and advising in the sector since the mid 1990’s. He is a recognized expert both in the clean technology sector and investment in China, regularly speaking at conferences and being interviewed for TV and publications. Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, specialising in Growing Businesses, before joining the HSBC Group’s Specialised and Corporate Finance division, where he was involved in acquisitions for the Group, project and structured finance and tax based financing for international blue chip companies. He joined BDO Stoy Hayward’s corporate finance team in 1995, advising on some of the first AiM flotations, as well as mergers, acquisitions and fund raisings. At Impax Capital, the clean technology investment bank, he led a number of corporate finance transactions in the clean technology field, leaving to set up GBMB. Based in Hong Kong, Simon graduated from Oxford University with a Master of Arts in Jurisprudence (law).
Appearing: Conference day two - Tuesday 24 November 2009 4.30pm CHINA and ASIA panel: can China and Asian emerging markets maintain growth?
- Myths and reality about investing in China
- The growth of the private sector in China
- Sustainability of existing and new market opportunities
- Key issues: management bench strength, corporate governance and transparency, liquidity, risk management
- How private equity investors are adding value
Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
Golden Bridge Merchant Bank Founder and Executive Chairman,
New Asia Assets Founder and Chief Executive,
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The Awards ceremony brings together top executives from private equity institutions from across the region.
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