Clifford Chance LLP Announced As Gold Sponsor Of TMT Asia Finance Conference

Tuesday, 06 October 2009 03:54

Clifford Chance LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, has been announced as Gold Sponsor of the TMT Finance and Investment Asia conference - telecom strategies for growth in emerging and mature markets (www.tmtfinance.com/asia).
The inaugural event, which takes place at the Grand Hyatt Singapore, November 5-6, 2009 is the premier networking event for telecom, media and technology executives, investment bankers and advisers in the region built on the success of regional events in the Middle East and Europe.

Clifford Chance LLP will host the M&A Advisers Panel, a prestigious panel focused on mergers and acquisitions in the telecoms sector. The panel, which opens day two of the conference on November 6, will feature leading global advisers debating the opportunities and challenges for consolidators in the TMT sector in the Asia Pacific region in 2010. "Asia will become an increasingly important region for the telecoms sector," commented Joachim Fleury, Global Head of the Telecoms, Media and Technology Group at Clifford Chance, "Opportunities in both its emerging and mature markets continue to be a factor in strategies for global as well as regional operators. And as we work with those organisations, our expertise in the region is becoming an increasingly vital element of our global telecoms capability.”

Leading advisers from other international institutions will also feature on the panel including Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and HSBC.

“Merger and acquisition strategy and procedure will be absolutely critical to the success of the leading telecom operators globally in 2009, and we have gathered together some of the best advisers in the business to join the M&A Advisers panel,” said Dominic Lowndes, Director, TMT Group at BroadGroup. “We believe that there are some outstanding opportunities to expand and consolidate in the Asia Pacific region.”

Further highlights of this year’s event will include a keynote address by Dato Yusof Annuar Yaacob, Group Chief Financial Officer, Axiata Group, and Sanjay Baweja, Chief Financial Officer,Tata Communications Ltd. The Telecom Leadership Panel chaired by Karim Sabbagh, Partner, Booz & Co, features CxOs from leading telecom operators globally including Bharti Airtel, BT, and Batelco. The executives will discuss the changing structure of the telecom industry and their strategies for regional and global expansion in emerging and developed markets.

TMT Finance and Investment Asia 2009 is organised by the TMT Group of BroadGroup. Axiata and Clifford Chance LLP are Gold Sponsors, Booz&Co is Conference Partner, and KPMG is hosting the National Broadband Network session. Media partners for the event include Telecom Deal Alert, Telecom Asia, Wireless Asia, IT One, Emerging Markets Monitor, Telecommunications Insight and Budde & Co.

Designed as a unique networking hub, the event facilitates personal interaction and access for senior executives in telecom operator, service provider and supplier organisations, private equity and investor firms, investment banks, legal advisers, and other financiers and professional intermediaries focused on the TMT sector.

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