Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Founded in 1972, Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados is one of the largest and most reputable law firms in Brazil. It provides a wide range of legal services to national and foreign clients, representing a broad spectrum of industrial, service, financial and governmental entities.
For more information, visit www.mmso.com.br.
For more information, visit www.bcgbrasil.com.br.
Our Global Investment Banking unit provides comprehensive financial advisory and capital raising services to top corporations, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Clients receive tailored financial solutions and strategic advisory services on a wide range of M&A transactions and capital-raising activities including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financial restructurings, underwriting and distributing equity, debt, and derivative securities.
For more information, visit www.citigroup.com/citigroup/homepage/.
Serving clients in every major international financial center, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates is one of the leading
law firms in the world, with 23 offices and approximately 2,000 attorneys. Our diversified practice enables us to offer solutions to the most
challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the specific legal advice clients need to compete most effectively in a
global business environment. We represent approximately 50 percent of the Fortune 250 industrial and service corporations, as well as financial
and governmental entities, high-technology startup companies, and cultural, educational and charitable institutions, advising on a wide variety of
high-profile transactions, regulatory matters, and litigation and controversy issues.
For more information, visit www.skadden.com/.
A Softplan/Poligraph é uma das maiores empresas de sistemas de gestão do país. Atua em cinco áreas de negócio tendo como grande diferencial o altíssimo grau de conhecimento do negócio do cliente.
Com 20 anos de atuação, suas soluções são específicas para os segmentos da indústria da construção, departamentos de infraestrutura, transportes e obras, administração pública, justiça, e projetos cofinanciados por organismos internacionais.
São mais de 1000 clientes em todo o Brasil e no exterior utilizando suas soluções que prestam agilidade aos processos, otimizam tempo e economizam recursos por meio da automação, integração e padronização das rotinas de trabalho.
For more information, visit www.softplan.com.br.
Supporting Sponsors
Asian Capital Enterprises Ltd. is a Hong Kong based company established since 1997. Our goal is to motivate Chinese and International enterprises to develop extensively through convention and exhibition. We devote ourselves to being a bridge for the promotion of foreign and domestic exchanges of trade and technology and provide comprehensive professional services for conventions, exhibitions, business delegations and market development. In particular, our business scope encompasses the organization and hosting of international exhibitions, conducting business and government study tours, and the promotion of business activities both in China and Overseas. In recent years, we have expanded to include the entertainment business, with clients such as Mammoth China Tour, Gulliver Body Show and Exhibition of Arts and Crafts of national Palace.
The BNP Paribas Group is one of the world’s largest financial conglomerates, with over 200,000 employees serving clients in over 85 countries on all five continents, holding key positions in corporate and investment banking, asset management, wealth management and retail banking. With a strong European base and a robust and a balanced business model, it is one of 6 best rated global banks, “AA” by Standard & Poors, and the number 1 bank in the Euro zone in terms of deposits. Awarded Best Global Bank in 2008 by The Banker. In 2009 it was ranked number 1 advisor for Project Finance in the Americas by Project Finance International. BNP Paribas, the bank for a changing world.
For more information, visit www.bnpparibas.com.br.
Capital Innovations Infrastructure Partners, LLC investment professionals have been investing globally since the 1990s, and our firm has established itself as one of the leading investors in infrastructure investing across listed and unlisted (private markets) securities. Capital Innovations believes that infrastructure has the capability of delivering enhanced risk-adjusted returns to investors. This can only be achieved through an experienced team with a global footprint, insight and a systematic, well engineered approach. Michael Underhill, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, developed Capital Innovations’ proprietary Global Growth Dynamics Principles of Investing™ that are the foundation for evaluating every security. Over the years Michael has built strong relationships with institutional investors worldwide due to his candor and experience with large government pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and global financial institutions. His best selling guide, “The Handbook of Infrastructure Investing” published by John Wiley and Sons is the authoritative blueprint for institutional investors looking to build an infrastructure investment program.
For more information, visit www.capinnovations.com/.
Crédit Agricole is the world's #9, Europe's #3 and France's #1 bank in Tier 1 capital, present in 70 countries with 162,000 employees. CA-CIB is the Corporate & Investment Bank arm, with assets of €320 bi and capital of €10 bi. In Project Finance, CA-CIB is the worlds’ #2 and America’s #1. In 2009, CA-CIB was awarded the “Project Finance Bank of the Year” by PFI and the “Infrastructure House of the Year” by Latin Finance. CA-CIB is a major player in infrastructure since the 80’s, with in-depth knowledge of the industry and a global infrastructure portfolio of €4.0 bi.
For more information, visit www.ca-cib.com/business-lines/credit-agricole-cib-a-european-leader-for-natural-resources-infrastructure-and-power.htm.
Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. With 78.896 employees in 72 countries*, Deutsche Bank provides unparalleled financial services throughout the world
and is a leader in Germany and Europe. The bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets.
* As of June 30, 2009
For more information, visit www.db.com.
Genetec is a pioneer in the physical security and public safety industry and a global provider of world-class IP video surveillance, access control and license plate recognition (LPR) solutions to markets such as transportation, education, retail, gaming, government and more. With sales offices and partnerships around the world, Genetec has established itself as the leader in innovative networked solutions by employing a high level of flexibility and forward-thinking principles into the development of its core technology and business solutions. Genetec’s corporate culture is an extension of these very same principles, encouraging a dynamic and innovative workforce that is dedicated to the development of cutting-edge solutions and to exceptional customer care.
For more information, visit www.genetec.com.
Gerdau is the leading company in the production of long steels in the Americas and one of the major suppliers of specialty long steel in the world. It started to expand its operations more than a century ago and now has an industrial presence in 14 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. The company has operations in nearly all Brazilian states, producing long and specialty steel. The products, marketed and sold across five continents, supply the civil construction, industry and the farming and livestock sectors. These products are present in our everyday lives in a variety of different formats: they serve as the structural basis of houses, shopping centers, hospitals, bridges and hydroelectric plants; they make up part of power and telephone transmission towers, are used as raw materials in car parts and are also utilized in farming activities.
For more information, visit www.gerdau.com.br.
ING is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking, investments, life insurance and retirement services. As of 30 September 2009, ING served more than 85 million private, corporate and institutional clients in more than 40 countries. With a diverse workforce of about 107,000 people, ING is dedicated to setting the standard in helping our clients manage their financial future.
For more information, visit www.ing.com.
Macquarie Group (Macquarie) is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. Macquarie’s main business focus is making returns by providing a diversified range of services to clients. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world. Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs approximately 14,400 people in more than 70 office locations in 28 countries. Including the recent acquisition of Delaware Investments, Macquarie had assets under management of $307 billion at 31 December 2009.
For more information, visit www.macquarie.com/forwardthinking.
Rio Bravo Infraestrutura, a Rio Bravo company, specializes in world class financial advisory services for infrastructure projects and companies. Established in May 2005 by former heads of project finance units of the three most active international banks in the Brazilian project finance market, Rio Bravo Infraestrutura has established itself over the last 5 years as a leading provider of financial advisory services relating to concession auctions (ranked Number One in the last national ranking issued by ANBIMA per number of concessions successfully advised – total investment volume of R$ 4.1 billion), project financings and mergers& acquisitions in the infrastructure sector.
For more information, visit www.riobravo.com.br.
Taylor-DeJongh (TDJ) is an energy investment banking firm with over 29 years of experience in structuring, negotiating and closing power projects globally. The firm has advised sponsors and developers on over 240 power projects and has provided expertise on project development, capital structuring, and financing. TDJ has successfully advised on the structuring and financing of US$70 billion worth of investments in more than 100 countries. The firm also advises clients on corporate finance, capital raising and M&A transactions. TDJ is currently advising project sponsors on several power projects (conventional and renewable) domestically and internationally, and is a financial advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program.
For more information, visit www.taylor-dejongh.com/.
Telefinance was founded by J. Paul Groom in 1992 and has become the leading financial consulting firm specialized in the telecommunications, media, subscription TV and technology sectors in Brazil. Telefinance´s products include: Advising clients on the structuring, re-structuring and arranging of limited recourse project finance; Risk analysis of companies, sectors and markets; Providing advice on M&A, capital raising and business plan development; Providing advice on corporate capital raising and strategic analysis relating to the maximization of value for companies preparing for IPO´s or other capital influxes, balance sheet restructuring and support related to the opening of the telecommunications market to greater competition and the media sector to foreign investors.
J. Paul Groom, José Luiz Pinto, Steven Mazzetti, James Lewis and Andy Castonguay have many years experience providing services in the telecommunications and financial areas, including:
- Economic and sectorial surveys, credit analyses, share performance evaluations.
- Financial re-structuring for Telecommunications companies.
- Structuring the first securitization of Brazilian telecommunications receivables.
- Providing value-added consulting and investment banking support throughout the Brazilian “B” band and other mobile concession auctions.
- The Telebrás privatization,
- Plus the issuance and financing of Limited Service authorizations including data transmission networks.
For more information, visit www.telefinance.com.br/.
WestLB AG is a European commercial bank with firm roots in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany´s largest federal state. With total assets of € 286.5 billion as at December 31, 2007, it is one of Germany´s leading financial services providers. It is the central institution for the savings banks in North Rhine-Westphalia and Brandenburg, and as an internationally operating commercial bank it acts as their link to the global financial markets. Working in close partnership with the savings banks, WestLB offers the full range of products and services of a universal bank, focusing on lending, structured finance, capital market and private equity products, asset management, transaction services and real estate finance. WestLB employs 6,147 staff (as of December 31, 2007).
For more information, visit www.westlb.de/cms/sitecontent/westlb/westlb_de/en.html/.