KPMG China

KPMG China operates in 16 cities across China, with around 12,000 partners and staff in Beijing, Beijing Zhongguancun, Chengdu, Chongqing, Foshan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Xiamen, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR. With a single management structure across all these offices, KPMG China can deploy experienced professionals efficiently, wherever our client is located.

KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 154 countries and territories and have 200,000 people working in member firms around the world. The independent member firms of the KPMG network are affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such.

In 1992, KPMG became the first international accounting network to be granted a joint venture licence in mainland China. KPMG China was also the first among the Big Four in mainland China to convert from a joint venture to a special general partnership, as of 1 August 2012. Additionally, the Hong Kong office can trace its origins to 1945. This early commitment to the China market, together with an unwavering focus on quality, has been the foundation for accumulated industry experience, and is reflected in the Chinese member firm’s appointment by some of China’s most prestigious companies.

2048 Capital

2048 Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech firms in AI, blockchain,  biotech and other technology-driven sectors. Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, we are one of the subsidiaries of Huaxi Holdings (SSE: 000936), a listed Chinese holding company under conglomerate Jiangsu Huaxi Goup, which is ranked 207th in China Top 500 Enterprises. 

We invest and operate globally. Our offices and investments sprawl across China, the United States, France and other countries and regions. Our mission is to empower the boldest entrepreneurs with a vision and ambition to shape the future life of human beings!

Adams Street Partners

Founded in 1972, Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager, operating in more than thirty countries across five continents. Adams Street prides itself on the depth and breadth of its global investment capabilities, and its long-standing reputation as an innovator within the private markets space. Adams Street is consistently recognized for its steadfast commitment to providing clients with high quality investment opportunities, and its deep understanding of the broader private markets industry.

With 170+ staff in ten offices located in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo, Adams Street’s deep industry experience and global outlook provides clients with customized access to the spectrum of private markets strategies. Adams Street is 100% employee-owned and independent, and manages over $32 billion in assets for more than 370 institutional investors, including corporate and public pensions, foundations, family offices and endowments.

BDA Partners

BDA Partners is an investment banking firm that advises on international mergers and acquisitions, distressed situations, private placements, capital raisings, valuations and financial restructurings. We specialize in cross-border transactions involving Asia with enterprise values up to US$1bn, where we have a strong track record advising North American, European, and Asian corporates and financial sponsors. We have over 80 professional staff throughout 10 offices located in Asia, the US, and Europe.

China Renaissance

Huaxing Growth Capital, China Renaissance

Huaxing Growth Capital is the flagship of China Renaissance’s investment management platform, and makes growth-stage equity investments in innovation-driven ‘new economy’ entrepreneurial ventures in China’s burgeoning technology, media and entertainment industries. It pursues a thematic investing approach to uncover business models that will benefit from long-term trends in technology innovation, industry transformation through automation and other advancements, and rising standards of consumption and lifestyle amenities in China.

Since its founding in 2013, Huaxing Growth Capital has demonstrated a solid deal track record and differentiated itself thanks to the resources of the China Renaissance platform, which includes private placement and M&A advisory services, securities underwriting, research and trading in Hong Kong, mainland China and the United States. Today, Huaxing Growth Capital has nearly $3 billion in assets under management and investments in China’s most valuable new economy companies.

Recent investments include: Ziroom, China’s largest decentralized apartment rental service provider and internet platform; Lianjia, an online platform for real estate transactions; Zhaogang, an online exchange for commercial steel trading; and JD Finance, the internet-based financial services unit spun off from the e-commerce company JD.com.

Coller Capital

Coller Capital is one of the world's leading investors in private equity's secondary market. The firm acquires interests in private equity funds and portfolios of private companies from their original owners.

Founded in 1990, the firm is headquartered in London, and has offices in New York and Hong Kong. Coller’s multinational investment team – the world’s largest dedicated to secondaries – has a truly global reach.

In December 2015, the firm closed Coller International Partners VII, with capital commitments of $7.15 billion and backing from approximately 170 of the world’s leading institutional investors.

Lunar

Lunar invests in companies where the Chinese consumer is driving explosive growth through a control-oriented, operationally involved, platform-building investment strategy. The Firm takes an industry-insider approach to sourcing, professionalizing management, and driving innovation in products, services, marketing and distribution by leveraging its team of investment professionals and over 5,000 team members in the businesses that Lunar presently controls. Lunar is widely recognized as a pioneer in China, with a successful track record that includes founding companies and taking controlling positions in over 20 businesses. Lunar’s investments have included Linktone (Listed on NASDAQ), SmartPay (Acquired by Ping An), Yeehoo (Partially sold to Heilan), BPG (Acquired by Asian Citrus), WH Group (Listed on HKSE), Lao Henghe (Listed on HKSE), and many others.

Ocean Link

Ocean Link is a private equity firm with a focus on China’s travel and leisure sectors. Through a USD fund and an RMB Fund, and teams in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, Ocean Link invests across the value chain and sub-verticals of the travel and leisure sectors, including online & offline travel services, hotels and resorts, destination services and entertainment, sector-related technology and business solutions providers.

Ocean Link’s strategic partners and shareholders include Ctrip - the largest online travel agency in China, and General Atlantic - a leading global growth equity firm. The funds’ LPs include Chinese and global corporates, financial institutions, and sovereign wealth funds.

Panda Capital

Founded by four rising star investors, Panda capital is a next generation venture capital firm in China focused on early stage investment opportunities. The founding team, comprising Adam Li, Tony Liang, Ryan Li and Peter Mao, together bring the best DNAs from their prior institutions respectively. The four of them have a strong track record of identifying and investing in unique investment opportunities, and also possess extensive entrepreneurial experience, having founded and run several successful start-ups.

Panda Capital focus on fast-growing TMT startups in areas including Consumption Upgrade, Automobile and Transportation, Fintech, Entertainment, Supply chain and New Technology etc. We target businesses and industries where mobile internet technology could potentially disrupt traditional business models. We also target trade and service platforms created through the mobile Internet driven sharing and novel experience economies.

Panda Capital has been backed by institutional and reputable investors since its inception. The firm now manages one RMB Fund and one USD Fund.

Companies invested by Panda include: Mobike, Atzuche, MemeDai, YiZiton, Kaiyun Motors, Coterie etc.

SGG

SGG Group is a leading fund and investor services firm providing a comprehensive range of compliance, administration and asset services to alternative investment funds, international companies, HNW families and entrepreneurs.

From our early beginnings in the Private Clients space, we have evolved and grown, and this has shaped the way we do business. SGG is among the most flexible providers in the sector and our entrepreneurial spirit drives us to find the best solutions for our clients.

Asia remains an important destination for global capital. Hong Kong and Singapore have emerged as respected jurisdictions for fund management activities.

SGG has recently strengthened its operations in Asia through the acquisition of Cim Global Business Singapore and the opening of a representative office in India. With this, SGG has an office in each of the three primary jurisdictions driving growth in Asia.

Vickers Venture Partners

Vickers Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on venture capital investments in Asia and beyond. Founded in 2005 by Dr. Finian Tan and his partners, Drs. Khalil Binebine, Jeffrey Chi and Ms. Linda Li, Vickers manages 5 funds and proprietary capital to date, with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore and a presence in California and New York. The portfolio covers technology, media, and telecommunications as well as consumer, life sciences and financial services.

Track Record:

Vickers has invested in and led co-investments for a total of $547 million in 46 early stage companies across five funds. The total value as of Q4’17 is $2.44 billion, a gross multiple of 5.56x over invested capital and a net multiple of 4.54x. Three out of five funds are currently in the top quartile when compared to Preqin’s database and Vickers Fund IV is currently the second best performing fund since vintage 2012.

Highly Experienced Team with Local Markets Presence:

The Vickers team brings significant expertise and experience growing emerging companies. Founded in 2005 by Dr. Finian Tan and his three partners, Vickers has offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore and a presence in California and New York. The four partners are supported by five Managing Directors.

Proprietary Sourcing:

Highly differentiated network of prospective investments. Network built over 13 years from a combination of market recognition of high profile past successes, a growing prior investment pipeline and active out-reach by the firm’s principals. Vickers consistently reviews over 6,000 deals a year with, on average, ten investments coming to fruition.

Proven Investment Process:

The firm’s Investment Committee operates a proprietary risk allocation model and deal filtering process. This is an iterative process that is continuously reviewed and honed to maximize the best risk reward in portfolio. This process has led to 66% success rate for early stage investments; approximately 51% of successful transactions have generated at least a 5x MOIC or 25% IRR.

Cooley

Cooley LLP is an international law firm representing clients in a wide range of industries from our offices in China, Europe and the United States. With more than 900 lawyers, Cooley has the range and expertise to serve clients of all sizes to seize opportunities in today's global marketplace.

Our dedication to China's fund industry is unparalleled and unrivaled by any other law firm. Cooley has been advising on China-related matters over three decades, dating back to 1989, when the firm advised on the formation of the first institutional venture capital fund investing in China. Today, we are counsel to more than 450 private investment fund organizations worldwide, including more than 55 fund managers with their primary operations in China and numerous other managers outside of the PRC making investments in portfolio companies in China. We form considerably more dollar-denominated China venture capital and growth equity funds in dollar terms than any other law firm worldwide. We have advised on well over US$1 billion in venture financings across more than 250 financing transactions in the last few years. We have a team of more than 35 specialist fund formation lawyers and dozens of other practitioners dedicated to serving our clients headquartered and doing business in China. Multiple members of our team are Mandarin-speaking, Chinese native fund formation specialists who assist our China funds clients and their investors in both USD and RMB fund formation matters. We are expanding our Asia-Pacific presence with the launch of our Beijing office - the second in China, having opened in Shanghai seven years ago.

As a full service global law firm, we regularly assist our China fund clients and their portfolio companies with complex mergers, acquisitions and disposition transactions, a wide variety of private financing and capital markets transactions, public company disclosure issues, share distributions, local and cross-border intellectual property issues, licensing transactions, joint ventures, as well as supply and distribution arrangements, among other matters.

Intralinks

Intralinks is a leading financial technology provider for the global banking, dealmaking and capital markets communities. As pioneers of the virtual data room, our technology enables and secures the flow of information, empowering our customers to work more productively and with complete confidence. Intralinks facilitates strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and investor reporting. Our solutions enhance these activities by streamlining operations, reducing risk, improving client experiences and increasing visibility. We’ve earned the trust and business of more than 99 percent of the Fortune 1000 and have executed over $34.7 trillion worth of financial transactions on our platform.

Hengdu Law Firm

Focusing on capital market, intellectual property rights and commercial litigation , Hengdu Law Firm devotes to offering legal service of best quality both at home and abroad. The headquarter locates in China World Trade Center, Beijing. It has already set up branches in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Quanzhou. Meanwhile, the Guangzhou Office is currently under preparation. By virtue of its outstanding performances in its past legal services, Hengdu has been granted more than 80 awards from social groups, industry organization and awards committee, winning widely critical acclaim in and outside the industry.

Hengdu has always been upholding the culture of “Clients First and Dedication”. By virtue of professional theoretical knowledge, profound legal accomplishment, skilful negotiation strategy, it has assisted large and medium-sized enterprises both at home and abroad to deal with major and intricate cases or projects of which the total accumulated amounts have reached over 10000, more than one hundred influential large-scale typical programs or cases included. Nowadays, Hengdu has extensive and solid foundation of clients. It had served over 6000 clients, including fortune global 500, China’s top 500 enterprises, over 2000 large and medium-sized enterprises at home and abroad.

Imigize

Imigize is the first 3D contactless (virtual) fitting service in the world that will make revolutionary changes in the clothes and footwear online market.

Imigize solves the most important problem of selling shoes and clothes online - selecting the exact size based on individual anthropometric data of the buyer.

Imigize invented (WIPO/PCT patents USA/EU/China/Russia/Japan) 3D measurement technology for internal volumes of footwear (clothes) and feet (body) of users.

To take advantage of the technology, the user will only need to use the mobile application imiscan. It allows customers to make 3D anthropometric feet scanning (body soon) on their own. Choosing algorithm based on AI matches the inner volume of shoes and clothes with customer's anthropometric data and gives recommendations on size.

Imigize service is launched on the Russian market. Scaling on the global markets will lead to the transformation of clothes and footwear trade by transferring most of it online. It is expected that 80-90% of clothes and footwear will be sold online by 2030.

High-tech industrial measurement centers for 3D scanning of internal volumes of clothing and footwear are the basis of the Imigize service. The first center located in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, has a capacity up to 1 million pairs of shoes per year.

We are planning to scale the Imigize service to the global markets in China.

This includes designing of 10-15 industrial measurement centers for clothes and footwear inner volumes 3D measurements in locations of global brands of clothes and shoe production (Guangzhou, Dongguan, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Quanzhou, Jinjiang).

This will reduce costs of logistics and allow to cover the maximum number of global online stores because produced clothes and footwear will have a digital profile. We are engaged in negotiations on the integration with the Imigize service with several global online retailers.

Join our project. Visit our stand on AVCJ China Forum, where we will demonstrate the service in action.

www.imigize.com

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