Partners and Hosts
Asia Series Partner
Partners
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KPMG globally is dedicated to PE. With a network of professionals across the globe, we strive to have PE professionals wherever and whenever you need them.
KPMG in India has a premier market position with PE firms and is amongst the first in India to create a coordinated multi-disciplinary PE Advisory group. Our PE group is well positioned to support PE houses on their India transactions, offering services which include deal organization and support, valuations, financial, tax, integrity, business and commercial due diligence and creating progressive and efficient transaction structures.
Reflecting the needs of the current times, our PE Group is experienced in providing a range of services to nurture portfolio companies to create value. The services include risk and controls assessment, corporate governance, IT advisory, corporate and debt restructuring and cost optimisation service offerings.
In 2008, KPMG served over 75 PE houses and was associated with more than 150 PE transactions.
AIF Capital (www.aifcapital.com) is one of the largest Asia-based independent private equity firms. Since its establishment in 1994, AIF Capital has received investor commitments for its funds in excess of US$1.5 billion and invested in 32 companies in nine countries across Asia.
The firm, with 20 investment professionals across Hong Kong, China and India, oversees a diversified, pan-Asian portfolio of investments, providing capital for expansion, buy-outs and recapitalization. Its portfolio includes investments in sectors ranging from supply chain management, financial services, manufacturing, specialty steels and engineering services, to power generation, telecom and transportation. AIF Capital’s investors in its funds include major corporate and government pension and investment funds, insurance companies and financial institutions from North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East and Europe, as well as multilateral agencies.
Aon Mergers & Acquisitions Group (AMAG) is the leading provider of insurance due diligence advice and transaction liability solutions to the private equity community in the Asia-Pacific region.
For insurance due diligence, our objective is to complement the work of other advisers by identifying insurable risk and cost issues that would otherwise not be considered in depth but which will have an impact on financial modeling, deal price negotiations and acceptance of liabilities by a buyer.
Our transaction liability solutions team structures deal facilitating insurance products including Warranty & Indemnity Insurance, Tax Liability, IPO (Prospectus) Liability and others. These products reduce or remove uncertainty around the cost of potential liabilities and allow buyers and sellers to proceed with deals that may otherwise have failed. In 2008 alone, AMAG Asia Pacific has closed more than 20 Warranty & Indemnity and Tax placements.
ChrysCapital was founded in 1999, as a private equity fund that manages $2.25 billion focused on leveraging India. The fund primarily focuses on growth capital deals, PIPEs and select control investments over an investment horizon of 3 to 7 years. We will look to invest US$30-300 million per investment.
The majority of the portfolio is likely to be invested in six target sectors: Business Services, Financial Services, Pharma/Healthcare, Industrials, Infrastructure and Consumer Products/Services. ChryCapital’s portfolio companies include Spectramind (sold to Wipro), Shriram Transport, Idea Cellular, HCL Technologies, Amtek Auto, MPhasis BFL, Axis Bank, Simplex Infrastructure, Yes Bank, HCL Technologies, IVRCL, Gammon and Suzlon.
Our domain expertise, local presence and deal sourcing capabilities puts us in a differentiated position vis-à-vis other funds. We have our India offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, giving us an excellent geographic presence.
Clearwater Capital Partners provides investors with access to a full spectrum of special-situation investments in public and private debt or equity of local, Asia-region issuers. From its inception in 2001, Clearwater has expanded its activities to eight global locations, including locally staffed offices in New York, Beijing, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Munich, Seoul and Singapore. The breadth of the targeted investment market and Clearwater's established and experienced "on-the-ground" presence makes it possible for the firm to source, develop and capture value in diverse opportunities across capital structures that investments in post-restructured or operationally sound public and private companies that are undervalued or poorly capitalized due to their inaccessibility to capital; financial restructurings; operational turnarounds, and; portfolios, pools and individual non-performing loans.
Guggenheim Partners, LLC is a globally diversified financial services firm and offers expertise within its asset management, investment advisory, capital markets, institutional finance, and merchant banking business lines. Our clients consist of an elite mix of individuals, family offices, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension plans and other institutions that together have entrusted the firm with supervision of more than $100 billion in assets. A global diversified financial services firm, Guggenheim Partners office locations include New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Houston, London, Dublin, Geneva, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai and Dubai.
IDFC Project Equity Company Limited
IDFC has set up IDFC Project Equity Company Limited as an investment management company with an objective to seek structured equity investments in Indian infrastructure project assets which are expected to provide long term, predictable and substainable returns through a blend of cash yield and capital appreciation. IDFC Project Equity Company will invest in greenfield, brownfield and operational assets/projects in core infrastructure sub-sectors including transport (toll roads, rail, ports and airports), energy and utilities (power generation, renewables, pipelines, transmission, distribution and storage), telecommunications infrastructure and urban infrastructure. IDFC Project Equity Company will be actively involved in management and optimization of its portfolio investments.
India Equity Partners (IEP) manages an India-focused, long-term, growth-oriented private equity fund with approximately $350 million of capital and is part of a family of over $2 billion of affiliated funds dedicated to India, including IREO, India’s largest foreign real estate fund. IEP partners with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams in fast growing sectors and is a value-added investor which is committed to assisting its portfolio companies. We accomplish this by leveraging the international relationships of our team members for overseas customer expansion, acquisitions, recruiting senior management, optimizing the capital structure and assistance with strategy. The fund has a flexible investment approach and typically invests $15 to $60 million in a single investment but will invest larger amounts with co-investors and partners. Our fund invests in both private and publicly-listed companies. IEP’s principals have an established track record of investing in India and are founding members of the investment teams covering private equity, public equity and real estate.
IL&FS Investment Managers Limited
IIML, a subsidiary of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), is well-established as one of the largest private equity fund managers in India. Total commitments to IIML’s funds have grown from less than US$ 40 million in 1996 to US$ 2.6 billion today. Current investors in IIML-managed investment vehicles include major U.S. and international pension plans, endowments and foundations
IIML’s team of 43 professionals manage a number of private equity investment funds, which are invested across a variety of sectors including technology, media, retail, consumer services, manufacturing, real estate and infrastructure
During the course of the last 14 years, IIML has raised and managed 9 Funds, of which 3 Funds were fully divested in 2007-08, providing attractive returns to their contributors. This experience across Fund cycles is a unique for any Indian Private Equity Fund Manager
IIML is listed on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange
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J.P. Morgan Treasury Services is a leading global provider of escrow services. We have a dedicated team of experts providing comprehensive solutions and helping our clients to complete escrow arrangements quickly, accurately and securely - in many cases, within 24 to 48 hours.
Our escrow servicing centres in Sydney, Hong Kong and Mumbai offer a full range of escrow services for attorneys, accountants and other financial professionals involved in mergers & acquisitions, capital raising or other transactions that require escrow strategies. Typical uses for escrow include:
- M&A Escrow: Holdbacks, good faith deposits, and other monies held to facilitate an M&A transaction and to ensure compliance with representations and warranties, or performance covenants;
- Subscription Escrow: Funds held pending successful IPO or other forms of capital raising;
- Split Fee Escrow: A revenue stream passes through the escrow agent for subsequent disbursement.
For further information, please visit jpmorgan.com/escrow
Lexygen is a pan-Indian law firm, with offices in Bangalore and Singapore, focused on providing premium legal representation to a global clientele in the areas of private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure privatization, and general corporate transactional services.
While the global downturn has made for a challenging environment, we at Lexygen have been fortunate to continue to work closely with our reputable and loyal clientele comprising of blue chip private equity/venture capital funds, high growth corporations, investment banks, high networth individuals, premium government controlled corporations, and infrastructure developers and operators, providing them business-centric advice on a number of their interesting and significant Indian deals.
Our clients immensely value our pro-active and hands-on approach to transactional lawyering and treat us as an inherent part of their deal teams. Our key distinguishing factors are: (i) our domain knowledge, (ii) deal facilitative advice, (iii) senior level attention to clients, (iv) a strong culture of creativity and (v) our commitment to corporate governance.
Protiviti is a global business consulting and internal audit firm composed of experts specializing in risk, advisory and transaction services. The firm helps solve problems in finance and transactions, operations, technology, litigation, governance, risk and compliance. Protiviti’s highly trained, results oriented professionals provide a unique perspective on a wide range of critical business issues for clients.
Protiviti, serves more than 1,100 clients, employs over 3,000 professionals in more than 60 offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Protiviti fills a unique and valuable position in the market, and brings a unique blend of knowledge & experience to the table combining focus, dedication and independence of a boutique firm with methodologies & tools and global presence of one of the largest consulting firms and traces its culture & deep knowledge to Andersen.
Protiviti’s M&A Risk Advisors blend practical business, financial & commercial expertise to assist on complex mergers, acquisitions & other corporate reorganizations, both domestic & cross border. They partner with you through the entire deal continuum from pre investment, investment, asset/portfolio management through to assisting in exit strategy.
One of the largest and fastest growing integrated financial services group with a pan-India presence and presence in multiple international locations, Religare Enterprises Limited (REL) offers a comprehensive suite of customer-focused financial products and services targeted at retail investors, high net worth individuals and corporate and institutional clients.
With a view to expand and diversify, REL operates in the life insurance space under ‘Aegon Religare Life Insurance Company Limited’ and has launched India’s first wealth management joint venture under the brand name ‘Religare Macquarie Private Wealth’.
REL, through its subsidiaries, has launched India’s first holistic arts initiative – with a gallery -- as well as the first SEBI approved film fund, which is an initiative towards innovation and spotting new opportunities for creation and maximization of wealth for investors.
Apart from financial services, Religare as a brand is extended to diagnostics through Super Religare Laboratories which is South and South-east Asia’s largest diagnostics network; in wellness retail through Religare Wellness; as well as air charter and travel solutions via Religare Voyages.
REL has a presence in over 500 cities and towns controlling 1,837 business locations all over India.
Cocktail Reception Hosts
Alea International Consulting provides risk mitigation consulting services to private equity funds, law firms and the International financial community. Alea helps clients make informed decisions to minimize risks to their reputation. The key services include reputational due diligence, fraud investigations, senior employee background checks etc. The company has two offices in New Delhi/NCR with associates in most major cities of India.
Alea International Consulting combines formal research processes, including subscriber databases, with an extensive intelligence gathering network across a broad base of industry. Assignments are conducted discreetly and confidentially.
Established in 1995 as a full service Investment Bank, Centrum Group has established itself as a leading, financial services player in the country and through its customized solution-oriented approach, has demonstrated its intent of becoming a dominant player providing the best offerings in the market. The highly experienced and competent management team comprise of experts in investment banking, corporate finance, debt, realty and infrastructure, wealth management and foreign exchange. Centrum’s foremost endeavor is to ensure that the client’s investment goals are holistically addressed, without barriers of departments, responsibilities or geography.
Gala Dinner Host
IDFC Project Equity Company Limited
IDFC has set up IDFC Project Equity Company Limited as an investment management company with an objective to seek structured equity investments in Indian infrastructure project assets which are expected to provide long term, predictable and substainable returns through a blend of cash yield and capital appreciation. IDFC Project Equity Company will invest in greenfield, brownfield and operational assets/projects in core infrastructure sub-sectors including transport (toll roads, rail, ports and airports), energy and utilities (power generation, renewables, pipelines, transmission, distribution and storage), telecommunications infrastructure and urban infrastructure. IDFC Project Equity Company will be actively involved in management and optimization of its portfolio investments.
Lunch Hosts
Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Limited ('Arcil') is the largest distressed debt securitisation and reconstruction company (SC/RC) in India. With an 80% market share of the Indian distressed debt market and presence across all distressed asset classes - corporate, SME and retail, Arcil is the premier ARC in India. Arcil's AuM is currently at around USD 2.0 billon which represents around USD 9.6 billion of NPAs (non-performing assets) of the banking system. It is sponsored by the biggest domestic banks in India viz. State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank and Punjab National Bank. Since its inception it has transacted business with 56 banks and financial institutions in India.
Arcil has raised and fully invested India's first fund in this asset class 'AARF-I'. It has now launched its second fund 'AARF-II', a USD 600 million fund which would focus on real estate, SME and retail segments in addition to corporate NPAs in India.
Arcil's main business activity is the acquisition of NPAs from banks and financial institutions in India with an objective of focused management thereof for optimal recovery, by acting as trustee and asset manager.
Showcase partner
IntraLinks®, the world’s leading provider of critical information exchange solutions, connect business communities and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime, using a web browser.
IntraLinks has 750,000 active users representing 90,000 organizations worldwide and 3,500 industry-leading clients. Since IntraLinks’ inception, 55,000 transactions have been facilitated. IntraLinks does business with 800 of the fortune 1000. IntraLinks has been adopted widely in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, where its clients include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB, among hundreds of others. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices around the world. For more information, please visit our website www.intralinks.com.
Supporting organisation
The Institutional Limited Partners Association is a not-for-profit association committed to serving limited partner investors in the global private equity industry by providing a forum for:
- Facilitating value-added communication
- Enhancing education in the asset class
- Promoting research and standards in the private equity industry
Official newspaper
Knowledge Partner
Based out of London, New York, and Hong Kong, IE Consulting is a strategy consulting team, focusing on the needs of General Partners and other practitioners in the global private equity and venture capital markets, as well as hedge fund managers and institutional asset managers.
