Chinese Investment into Australia: Navigating M&A Opportunities
30 March 2010, Westin Financial Centre, Beijing

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This lunchtime event offers first-hand perspectives from Chinese and Australian banking, legal and regulatory participants. The discussion will focus on likely M&A opportunities across a number of sectors and it will also consider dealmaking between the two countries from a political and regulatory standpoint.

Discussion highlights include:

• Reflections on the 2009 Sino-Australian investment environment as well as M&A trends in sectors such as Resources, Industrials, Consumer and Agribusiness – what are the lessons learned over the past year?
• Deal drivers for 2010 from both the buy- and sell-side perspective – forecasts for Chinese investment into Australia.
• How has the investment environment changed between the two countries from an economic and political perspective? Will there be a reset of their political relationship going forward?
• Regulatory issues: Is the FIRB’s attitude to the Chinese more bark than bite? And what are the best practices for gaining approval from either side’s regulatory agencies?

Speakers include:

• Trevor C Rowe AM, Executive Chairman, Rothschild (moderator)
• Henry  Wang, Senior Investment Commissioner China Austrade
• Fanglu Wang, Senior Managing Director, CITIC
• Vincent Dwyer, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin
• Marshall Baillieu, Managing Director & Head of Resources & Mining, Rothschild
• Jennifer Yu, Director & Head of Investment Banking, Greater China, Rothschild
• Tom Cane, Editor Asia-Pacific, dealReporter

Agenda:
9:30AM Registration
10:00AM Setting the Scene: Introduction by dealReporter
10:15AM Keynote speech
10:40AM Panel discussion moderated by Trevor Rowe, Executive Chairman, Rothschild
11:45AM Q&A with audience
12:00PM Lunch and networking session
1:30PM End

For more information please contact Rosemary Torrance:+ 852 2158 9707; events@mergermarket.com

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