Natixis

Natixis is a French multinational financial services firm specialized in asset & wealth management, corporate & investment banking, insurance and payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France through its two retail banking networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, Natixis counts nearly 16,000 employees across 38 countries. Its clients include corporations, financial institutions, sovereign and supranational organizations, and the customers of Groupe BPCE’s networks.

www.cib.natixis.com

Vermilion Partners is an investment banking advisory business focused on China. Founded in 2004, it offers cross-border and domestic transaction advice to leading multinational and Chinese companies. Vermilion operates from offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, London and Munich. It became an affiliate of Natixis in 2018 and forms part of a global M&A team of over 250 professionals.

www.vermilion-partners.com

Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)

With the right solutions in moments that matter, Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN) delivers risk and compliance solutions to provide our clients with insights that power their decisions and shape global markets. Our Venue® secure online workspace provides a powerful set of features and an intuitive design that allows you to easily organize, manage, share and track all of your sensitive information. You are able to manage who has access to your data room, which documents they see, and how they can interact with those documents. As part of Donnelley Financial Solutions, the global leader in managing time-sensitive, highly confidential documents, Venue provides the control you need with the security you demand.

Venue® has been named Data Room of the Year at the M&A Atlas Awards for the fourth year in a row.

Baker McKenzie

We are a transactional powerhouse with over 2,500 deal lawyers and expertise in over 46 countries. We excel in cross-border deals - over 60% of our deals are multi-jurisdictional. We are global and local, combining money market sophistication with local excellence.

We lead on major transactions with expertise which spans banking and finance, capital markets, corporate finance, funds, M&A, private equity and projects.

We are much more than an M&A boutique. We provide a full end to end service which incorporates all key specialisms including tax, merger control, employment, pensions, litigation, and intellectual property, and we continue to help clients integrate new businesses after they acquire them. Many of our specialists are best in class in their fields.

Our sector expertise has been developed over decades working with leading multinational corporations and investors in technology, healthcare and life sciences, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, and in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

The combination of our deep sector local expertise, and our ability to work seamlessly across each of the countries and specialisations means we can add unique value in shaping, negotiating and closing the deal.

The results speak for themselves - we lead on and close 3 deals a day.

Davis Polk

Perennially ranked as one of the world’s top advisers on mergers and acquisitions transactions, Davis Polk regularly counsels companies across all major industries throughout Asia, as well as those venturing into the region, on acquisitions, sales, strategic investments and joint ventures.

While we have long been a go-to adviser on large and complex cross-border M&A transactions in Asia, in recent years we have increased the size and scope of our M&A practice in our Asian offices, building upon our local experience and knowledge as well as our substantial global platform. This added capacity has enabled us to work with an even broader array of clients in China, Japan, India and across the Asia Pacific region, ranging from industry-leading multinationals as they expand their regional and global footprint to smaller, emerging companies seeking to position themselves as future market leaders. Our preeminent expertise in specialized areas that are increasingly important to our clients and that bolsters our M&A transaction capabilities, including Antitrust & Competition; FCPA; CFIUS; Privacy; and Enforcement & Investigations.

Our private equity lawyers in Asia assist a diverse group of private equity firms, large sponsors affiliated with financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, leading LP investors, secondary investors and venture capital firms in making acquisitions and dispositions for their own accounts and for the accounts of funds that they sponsor. We have advised a number of clients worldwide on the formation of Asia-focused private equity funds and other investment vehicles, and regularly work with sponsors and portfolio companies on acquisitions and dispositions in China, India, Japan and elsewhere across Asia. Our relationships with some of the biggest and most sophisticated companies across all sectors of the global economy, including telecommunications, food & beverage, fintech, biotechnology, energy and infrastructure and education enable us to understand our client’s needs and the business of our client’s portfolio companies.

Our experience covers the entire private equity spectrum, including fund formation and marketing, structuring and making equity investments, negotiating bridge, high-yield and senior debt financing for portfolio companies, structuring management compensation programs, making follow-on investments, executing recapitalization transactions, disposing of investments through private or public sales, making in-kind distributions and negotiating workouts. Our vast experience advising private equity firms, fund investors and portfolio companies gives us an in-depth understanding of trends and expectations within the marketplace.

Willis Towers Watson

Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW) is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world realize their path for growth. With roots dating to 1828, Willis Towers Watson has 45,000 employees serving more than 140 countries and markets.

We design and deliver solutions that manage risk, optimize benefits, cultivate talent, and expand the power of capital to protect and strengthen institutions and individuals. Our unique perspective allows us to see the critical intersections between talent, assets and ideas — the dynamic formula that drives business performance.

Together, we unlock potential.