Sponsors
Host Sponsors
Torys LLP is an international business law firm with offices in New York and Toronto, and is the only Canadian-based law firm with a full-service U.S. practice. Our cross-border transactional work, including our leading tax structuring practice, is a specialty, and we are privileged to act for large and mid-sized businesses, financial institutions and private equity investors on their most challenging matters. In the North American power industry, we are active in representing a broad range of regulated and non-regulated companies in Canada and the U.S. in all aspects of their businesses, from project development, project finance, capital markets and public offerings, to renewable energy, ethanol and other alternative fuels, to large construction projects at Niagara Falls and nuclear generating stations, to regulatory compliance and dispute resolution. With a reputation for quality and creativity, our New York and Toronto lawyers work together to provide seamless talent, experience and service to clients on both sides of the U.S-Canada border and around the world.
For more information, visit www.torys.com.
Gold Sponsors
Thorndike Landing, LLC is a management consulting firm specializing in financial, market and transaction-related services for the energy industry. Our senior professionals have significant expertise throughout each sector of the electric, natural gas and biofuels industries. We specialize in divestitures of businesses and assets, acquisitions, due diligence, financial valuation, analyses and modeling of power and commodities markets, resource planning and portfolio management, and business strategy.
Our team has been involved in M&A transactions, both domestically and internationally, valued in excess of US$30 billion. During the past year alone, Thorndike Landing has advised clients with transactions across the energy industry valued at nearly US$7 billion.
Additionally, our team has supported our clients with financing, asset transfer and various types of investment processes valued in excess of US$8 billion. Our efforts on behalf of clients in this area have resulted in Thorndike Landing opinions and related documents being utilized before boards of directors, state regulatory commissions, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other management and regulatory bodies in support of our clients endeavors.
Our commodities and power markets expertise spans the natural gas, power and biofuels sectors across North America. Our clients include private equity concerns, infrastructure funds, electric and natural gas utilities, generation entities, electric transmission and distribution companies, gas pipeline companies, and retail energy providers.
For more information, visit www.thorndikelanding.com/.
Luncheon Sponsors
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF), is a leading provider of title insurance, mortgage services, spe¬cialty insurance and information
services. FNF is the nation’s largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters that collectively issue more title insurance
policies than any other title company in the United States. Robert Simon, Andrea Kremen and Fred Glassman specialize in the energy and project
finance title insurance sector. They are resident in Fidelity National Title Insurance Company’s New York City office. This team has worked on
hundreds of energy and project finance transactions, ranging from financings (private and government-backed) to acquisitions and dispositions,
ground-up constructions and various other types of transactions.
For more information, visit www.fntic.com/.
Breakfast Sponsors
R. W. Beck, an SAIC company, is a technically based business consultancy serving public and private organizations, energy companies, and financiers worldwide. We draw on our core competencies in the engineering, environmental, regulatory, economic, program development, planning, contracting, construction, and finance arenas to provide strategic insight into the risks and opportunities of their business. Our clients look to us as their trusted advisor based on our depth and breadth of experience and strategic insight into the energy industry, including the natural gas midstream, refining, petrochemical, and alternative fuels sectors. The firm also serves the water, wastewater, and solid waste industries.
For more information, visit www.rwbeck.com.
CIBC World Markets is the wholesale and corporate banking arm of (CIBC) (TSX, NYSE: CM), a leading North American financial institution. CIBC World Markets provides a broad range of integrated credit and capital markets products, investment banking and merchant banking to markets in key financial centres around the world.
For more information, visit www.cibcwm.com/wm/.
As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse 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 is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 40,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York.
For more information, visit www.credit-suisse.com/.
Merrill Lynch is one of the world’s leading investment banking, capital markets and wealth management companies, with market capitalization of approximately $45 billion. Merrill Lynch’s Global Investment Banking Energy and Power Group deliver strategic merger, acquisition, divestiture and capital raising advisory services. As a leader in natural gas, crude oil, electricity and weather-related trading, Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc. (“MLCI”) can provide a variety of risk management and structured products designed for the oil and gas industry. For more information on Merrill Lynch, please visit www.ml.com.
For more information, visit www.ml.com/index.asp?id=7695_15125.
New Harbor Incorporated is an investment bank that specializes in financial advisory services for the electric, gas and water industries. The firm was founded in 1993 and includes experienced investment bankers from Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Its senior professionals have accumulated over 50 years of experience as investment bankers, financial advisors and commercial bankers, and they have worked with most of the major electric and gas companies in the United States. Their collective work experience includes a broad range of assignments, from strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy and out-of-court restructurings to project finance and debt and equity financings.
For more information, visit www.newharbor.com/.
RBC Capital Markets is A Premier Investment Bank that provides a focused set of products and services to institutions, corporations, governments and high net worth clients in 160 countries. With nearly 3,300 professional and support staff, we operate out of 75 offices in 15 countries and deliver our products and services through operations in Asia and Australasia, the UK and Europe and in every major North American city. According to Bloomberg, we are consistently ranked among the top 15 global investment banks.
For more information, visit www.rbccm.com/.
Scotia Capital's history dates back to 1832 - the year when its parent company, The Bank of Nova Scotia, was founded. For the duration of the 19th century, and throughout the next, bank branches expanded across Canada, into the U.S. and overseas. In addition to its growing retail services, The Bank of Nova Scotia began providing corporate banking services from its New York offices in the early 80's. By 1983, in response to increasing client demand, corporate banking services were offered in other U.S. cities and Canada.
For more information, visit www.scotiacapital.com/.
UBS is the leading global wealth manager, a top tier investment banking and securities firm, and one of the largest global asset managers.
For more information, visit www.ubs.com/.