2013 Sponsors

Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO) is a leading global alternative investment manager with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, London, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Singapore, Mumbai and Hong Kong. Apollo had assets under management of approximately $110 billion as of September 30, 2012 in private equity, credit and real estate funds invested across a core group of nine industries where Apollo has considerable knowledge and resources. For more information about Apollo, please visit www.agm.com.

Founded in 1976 and led by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, KKR is a leading global investment firm with $66.3 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2012. With offices around the world, KKR manages assets through a variety of investment funds and accounts covering multiple asset classes. KKR seeks to create value by bringing operational expertise to its portfolio companies and through active oversight and monitoring of its investments. KKR complements its investment expertise and strengthens interactions with investors through its client relationships and capital markets platform. For additional information, please visit KKR's website at www.kkr.com.

Lehmann, Warde Advogados is a law firm whose practice is dedicated to highly complex corporate law issues.
The law firm was established by its partners Walfrido Jorge Warde Júnior and Rudi Alberto Lehmann Jr. in 1996, and has been involved in substantial cases for Brazil’s economic development and the consolidation of its institutions.
The law firm has also become a ‘think tank’ on issue of business law, especially of corporate law, having paralleled the production of legal content to its practice in law.
The law firm’s academic orientation is not dissociated from its corporate practice,and in fact summarize a professional activity based on the coherence between ideas and actions.

Founded in 1968 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., Merrill Corporationwww.merrillcorp.com is a leading provider of outsourced solutions for complex business communication and information management. Merrill’s services include document and data management, litigation support, language translation services, fulfillment, imaging and printing.Merrill serves the corporate, legal, financial services, insurance and real estate markets. With more than 5,000 people in over 40 domestic and 22 international locations, Merrill empowers the communications of the world’s leading organizations.

O Merrill DataSite é uma solução de dataroom virtual. (VDR) segura para otimizar o processo de auditoria (due dilligence), através do fornecimento de um método altamente eficiente e seguro para o compartilhamento de informações críticas ao negócio entre várias partes. O Merrill DataSite oferece acesso ilimitado aos usuários em todo o mundo, bem como relatórios de atividade em tempo real, recursos de pesquisa em todo o site ao nível do documento, comunicações aprimoradas com o recurso de P&R e serviços superiores de gerenciamento de projeto – tudo para ajudar a reduzir o tempo e as despesas com as transações. 

Neuberger Berman is an independent, employee-controlled global asset management company.  Founded in 1939 by renowned investor Roy Neuberger, the company today manages $194 billion in assets (as at 30 June 2012).  We serve the financial needs of institutions and intermediaries, providing a broad range of investment solutions through customised separately managed accounts and UCITS funds.  The company’s investment capabilities include equities, fixed income, emerging markets and alternative investment strategies.

We are a global business with 27 offices in 14 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia.  Our group headquarters are located in New York, with regional offices in London and Tokyo.  With more than 1700 professionals, Neuberger Berman is dedicated to original and fundamental research with an investment culture of independent thinking.

NSG Capital is an asset manager specialized in providing financial solutions to its clients to improve its performance either via equity transactions, issuance of debt or hybrid instruments of debt and equity.  The company provides its clients with a broad range of innovative advisory services to identify the best local investment opportunities and solutions to their businesses. The services provided aim to enhance transparency, facilitate liquidity and help the clients to achieve their goals in a sustainable manner with an appropriate risk control.

With approximately R$ 1 billion in assets under management and administration, NSG Capital is one of the fastest growing portfolio managers in the local market (according to ANBIMA is the 3rd higher annual growth in the latest 12 month of AUM – Up 40,2%).

To assist the several lines of business of the company, the group consists of six companies, two of which are financial institutions regulated by the central bank and one is a public company regulated by the CVM (Brazilian securities regulatory commission). All the companies follow the best governance practices and transparency for investors and are audited by Ernst & Young.

PROEXPORT COLOMBIA is the organization in charge of promoting Colombia as an international tourist destination, attracting direct foreign investment and fostering non-traditional exports. Through our national and international office network, we provide support and comprehensive assistance to national entrepeneurs, through offer services with the aim of facilitating the design and execution of its internationalization strategy, seeking the generation and tracking of business opportunities.

We foster international business through the identification of market opportunities , the design of penetration strategies, the internationalization of companies, assistance in the design of action plans, contact between entrepeneurs in sales promotions, investment and international tourism activities; the specialized services offered to foreign entrepreneurs who are interested in acquiring Colombian goods and services or investing in Colombia, and the creation of alliances with private and public, national and international entities, enabling us to broaden the availability of resources in order to support the various corporate initiatives promoted by the organization for the development and improvement of its service portfolio.

RB Capital is a full-fledged capital markets platform specialized in Structured Credit, Real Estate Investments and Fund Management, that makes use of capital markets instruments to channel resources from investors towards the real economy, aiming specifically at the real estate and infrastructure sectors.
Founded in 1999, the Company was one of the first dedicated real estate investment managers in Brazil and, since inception, it has grown to become a widely recognized and highly respected real estate market player in Brazil, being one of Brazil’s most influential real estate asset managers and market leader in the Brazilian securitization market.

Warburg Pincus is a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing. The firm has more than $30 billion in assets under management. Its active portfolio of more than 125 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector and geography. Warburg Pincus is an experienced partner to management teams seeking to build durable companies with sustainable value. Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 13 private equity funds which have invested more than $40 billion in over 650 companies in more than 30 countries.

The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Mumbai, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Shanghai. For more information, please visit www.warburgpincus.com

The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)

is the representative body of the Luxembourg investment fund community. Created in 1988, the Association today represents over one thousand Luxembourg domiciled investment funds, asset management companies and a wide range of service providers such as custodian banks, fund administrators, transfer agents, distributors, legal firms, consultants, tax experts, auditors and accountants, specialist IT providers and communication companies. The Luxembourg Fund industry is the largest fund domicile in Europe and a worldwide leader in crossborder distribution of funds. Luxembourg-domiciled investment structures are distributed on a global basis in more than 50 countries with a particular focus on Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. For further information, do not hesitate to consult our website at www.alfi.lu

The Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting the growth of private equity and venture capital in Latin America and the Caribbean. LAVCA’s membership is comprised of over 80 firms, from leading global investment firms active in the region to local fund managers from Mexico to Argentina. Member firms control assets in excess of US$25 billion, directed at capitalizing and growing Latin American businesses.

LAVCA’s mission – to spur regional economic growth by advancing venture capital and private equity investment – is accomplished through programs of research, networking forums, education and advocacy of sound public policy.

Eurekahedge is world’s largest independent data provider and research house dedicated to alternative investments. Maintaining coverage of over 22,000 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 (130/30) 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 Ivy Keh, at ivy.keh@eurekahedge.com or +65 6212 0900. US Office Line: +1 212 308 4272, UK toll free: 0808 2343 386

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Internet Securities, Inc. (trading as ISI Emerging Markets), was founded in 1994 and acquired by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in 1999. It delivers hard-to-get information on more than 80 emerging markets through its award-winning online Emerging Markets Information Service. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 16,000 local and global publications.

MERGERMARKET
mergermarket is an independent Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) intelligence service with an unrivalled network of dedicated M&A journalists based in 56 locations across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and Africa. Unlike any other service of its kind, mergermarket specializes in providing forward-looking origination and deal flow opportunities integrated with a comprehensive deals database - resulting in real revenues for clients.  Visit www.mergermarket.com