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.

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

Eurekahedge is world’s largest independent data provider and research house dedicated to alternative investments. Maintaining coverage of over 20,800 funds across all strategies and asset classes, Eurekahedge is the most widely used and quoted alternative research house worldwide.
Eurekahedge has produced a market-leading research data suite from which our hedge fund and Islamic fund indices are derived; an array of region-specific hedge fund, private equity fund, Islamic fund, real estate fund, enhanced equity fund (SRI) and socially responsible investment fund (SRI) databases; as well as a collection of educational guides for both funds and investors.
Founded in 2001, Eurekahedge has offices in London, New York and Singapore.
For more information, please contact Agnes Yea, Director of Marketing and Communications at agnes@eurekahedge.com or +65 6212 0900.
US toll free: 1866 3451 124, UK toll free: 0808 2343 386.

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