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28 May 20150900-1800 hours

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APECS PRIVATE EQUITY CONFERENCE 2015 SINGAPORE

Programme28 May 2015

0900-1800 hours

TIME (hrs) EVENT

0815 Registration0915 Keynote speech (keynote speaker TBA)0930 Panel Discussion: Singapore’s Position as a Private Equity Hub1030 Tea Break1100 Panel Discussion: Riding the Wave of a Rising Middle Class in ASEAN

1200 Lunch

1330 Asia Private Equity Institute’s LBO Case Competition1530 Tea Break1600 Panel Discussion: Asian Snapshot: LP-GP Dynamics1700 Panel Discussion: Evolving Role of Service Providers to PE firms1800 Cocktail and Networking Session

MODERATORDr Kevin LuHead of Singapore OfficePartners Group

Dr Kevin Lu is Partners Group’s Head of Singapore Office and a Member of the Global Executive Board.

Prior to joining Partners Group, a global private equity firm with $46 billion AUM, Kevin held various senior management positions at the World Bank Group (WBG), based in Washington DC, Hong Kong and Singapore. Most recently, as a member of its Senior Management Team, he was the CFO and Asia Pacific Regional Director of WBG’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. He acted as an adviser to the WBG’s sovereign wealth fund clients, was responsible for investment portfolios totaling $16 billion, and participated in complex multilateral funding packages in excess of $25 billion for WBG’s concessional finance business. He also co-chaired Bank Group’s Infrastructure Finance Hub in Singapore, and served on various Bank Group committees, including Emergency Management Team, Business Continuity Management Committee, and Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group. Kevin was previously associated with Credit Suisse First Boston and Global Risk Advisors LLC, both in New York.

Kevin is also a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD, associated

Private equity and venture capital (“PEVC”) firms play an important role in Singapore’s financial services sector. The PEVC sector in Singapore currently has over US$20 billion worth of assets under management, and is well-positioned to ride the growth of increased PEVC activity in the surrounding Southeast Asia region.

While Singapore is becoming a top choice for PEVC

with INSEAD Global Private Equity Initiative where he focuses his research and lecturing on infrastructure investing. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, including the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meetings in Davos, on topics such as emerging markets and infrastructure finance. He co-authored a book Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management in the 21st Century (Washington DC, 2009). Kevin serves on a number of advisory committees for global organizations, including WEF’s Global Agenda Council on China (2012 – 2016), WEF’s Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative Advisory Committee (2014 - 2015), Institute of International Finance’s Emerging Markets Advisory Council (2011 – 2014) and Nanyang Technology University MBA Business Advisory Council (2012-2014). He was named a Young Global Leader by WEF in 2010, and a Future Leader by the Institute of International Finance in 2014. Kevin has published op-eds in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate and Huffington World Post and wrote a bilingual (English and Mandarin) column for the Wall Street Journal.

Topics for Panel Discussions

firms with an interests in South East Asia, it faces many challenges such as the continued dominance of Hong Kong as a preferred choice for PEVC in Asia and the ambition of regional competitors such as Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta as alternative PEVC hubs.

Under this backdrop, what are the advantages Singapore has that will sustain its attractiveness as a PEVC hub?

Panel Discussion 1: Singapore’s Position as a Private Equity Hub (9.30 – 10.30 hrs)

PANELLISTS Chik Wai ChiewHonorary TreasurerSVCA 2013-5

Wai Chiew has ~20 years of experience in private and public equity investments, strategy and business development with global companies and organizations based in New York, Geneva, Shanghai and Singapore. His investment experience spans multiple industries and geographies, including Alibaba (China, e- commerce), Tudou (China, media), Visa Inc (US, technology), BR Properties (Brazil, real estate), Param Mitra Coal Resources (Indonesia, resources), Ednovation (Singapore, education), Healthway Medical Enterprises (Singapore, healthcare) and many other growth companies and ventures.

Wai Chiew currently advises growth companies on value creation strategies, M&A and fund raising. He was most recently Partner at Tembusu Partners, a Singapore-based private equity fund manager with S$300m AUM investing in venture capital / private equity deals across Asia, where he led and completed more than 10 investments over 2 years and also oversaw the fund raising and corporate development functions.

Wai Chiew has also served as Chief Representative and General Manager of Temasek’s Shanghai office leading investments, portfolio management and strategic relations in China. Before his stint in Shanghai, he helped build up Temasek’s billion dollar investment portfolio in Latin America within 2 years. Over the last 10 years, Wai Chiew has also served extensively on boards of funds, growth companies and new ventures to guide business transformation and fund raising strategies.

Wai Chiew began his career with Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) where he held various positions in strategic planning, industry development, and international operations at EDB’s New York office. He has also served at the non-profit World Economic Forum, undertaking India and China research and scenario planning projects which were presented at the Annual Event at Davos.

Wai Chiew was awarded the Glaxo-EDB scholarship and holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, MA from Yale University, and EMBA (conducted in Mandarin) from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business based in China.

Nitin JaiswalHead of Sales for ASEAN and South AsiaBloomberg LP

Nitin Jaiswal is the head of sales for ASEAN and South Asia at Bloomberg LP. Based in Singapore, Mr. Jaiswal oversees business and product development of the Bloomberg Professional service and key customer relationships across the South Asia and the ASEAN region.

Mr Jaiswal is a regular speaker at industry and government forums across Asia Pacific, and works closely with regulators and market associations to facilitate product development for local markets.

Mr Jaiswal has held various roles with Bloomberg since joining the company in 1997. Previously, Mr Jaiswal worked as a senior writer for Business Standard, India’s largest financial publication. He started his career as an investment banker.

Beyond his work, Mr Jaiswal share keen passion for exploring the culinary history, Black & White Photography and demystifying mathematics for children.

David SinChief Executive OfficerSIN Capital Group

David is the Founder and CEO of SIN Capital Group, a multi-strategy investment firm focused on real estate, private and public investments in Asia Pacific. The Firm partners with sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors and private family offices on fundamental long-term strategic investments across a range of sectors and geographies. The Firm’s Senior International Advisory Board includes prominent individuals from business, investment and academia such as Professor Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School).

Prior to SIN Capital, David has worked at Goldman Sachs and AIG in London and Hong Kong, and has lived in the US, UK and Hong Kong for over a decade. His work experience includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate, distressed and special situations investing.

David’s appointments include Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Fullerton Healthcare Corporation (Singapore), and Non-Executive Director of Jobfit Health Group (Australia). He also serves on a number of not-for-profit and social enterprise organisations, including as a member of the Boards of Directors of Hwa Chong Institution and Hwa Chong International School.

David holds a MBA from Harvard Business School (Class of 2007) and a BA (Econs) in Accounting and Finance from Manchester University.

Thierry de PanafieuManaging DirectorHera Capital

Thierry is co-founder and Managing Director of Hera Capital. He has over 15 years of investment experience across a range of industries, having invested over USD300 million in Asia and Europe.

Before starting Hera Capital Partners in 2009, he was a partner with Vision Capital, a private equity fund with €1.8 billion under management. At Vision Capital, he completed a number of investments in food manufacturing and in oil & gas equipment.

Before joining Vision Capital in 2005, he was with Lion Capital (previously known as Hicks Muse Tate & Furst), a €800 million private equity specialist in consumer businesses.

Between 1998 and 2003, he was with GMT Communications Partners, a €365 million pan-European fund dedicated to media and telecom services.

He started his career with Banque Indosuez, Singapore, in 1995 and holds a postgraduate diploma (with honors) from Essec Business School. He currently resides in Singapore.

The ASEAN countries – Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Brunei – have a collective population of more than 600 million people, nearly twice that of the U.S. and roughly half of that of China. The ASEAN ten’s collective annual GDP exceeds $2 trillion and accounts for slightly more than 4% of global GDP. In 2011, total ASEAN GDP grew 4.7%.

PANELLISTSCarl HerrisManaging DirectorEverstone Capital

Mr Harris is a Managing Director with Everstone Capital based in Singapore. His role includes co-leadership of new investments across international markets as well as operating improvement of portfolio companies. Carl currently serves on the Board of Domino’s Indonesia and Burger King Indonesia, investments made by Everstone’s Food & Beverage platform. Mr Harris also serves on the Board of Excelity, formerly the Asian payroll processing business of AON-Hewitt acquired by Everstone in a successful carve out.

Mr Harris has over 17 years of investment advisory and operating experience. As a Partner with The Boston Consulting Group’s South East Asia office, Mr Harris led the Private Equity and Corporate Finance Practice. He previously worked for over a decade with McKinsey & Company in Singapore, Greater China and the UK and as a quant at Goldman Sachs. Mr Harris started his career at the GEC Hirst Research Centre, UK.

Mr Harris holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated first in the class as the Henry Ford II scholar, the Thomas & Edna Wolfe and a Siebel Scholar. He also holds

MODERATOR Ee-Ping KhooManagerBain & Company

Ee-Ping Khoo is a Manager in Bain & Company’s Singapore office, having joined the firm in 2008 after serving in the Singapore Ministry of Defence.

As a leader in Bain’s Private Equity and Financial Investors practice, Ee-Ping works with private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds on investment strategy, commercial due diligence, and portfolio company value creation. His experiences include:

• Strategy development for sector-focused platforms and opportunities for financial investors including in healthcare, leisure/tourism, and foreign direct investment

• Commercial due diligence for mid-to-large cap transactions across various industries including consumer F&B, energy services, healthcare, hospitality, and e-commerce related sectors

• Value creation planning/blueprinting for PE portfolio companies in areas such as international expansion, growth adjacencies and performance improvement

Panel Discussion 2: Riding the Wave of a Rising Middle Class in ASEAN (11.00 – 12.00 p.m.)

The rise of the middle class in these economies is fuelling consumption and is expected to turbocharge ASEAN’s contribution to the global GDP in the near future. What are the some of the hottest and some of the most under-invested sectors that will benefit from this growth? How can Private Equity firms ride on the wave of a rising middle class in ASEAN?

Ee-Ping is also experienced in corporate M&A having advised on corporate acquisitions and post-merger integrations including:

• Sector opportunity scans for corporate clients; industries include outsourced services, healthcare and hospitality

• M&A target screening and commercial due diligence for large Singapore-based corporates

• Cross border merger integration for large corporates spanning multiple markets and product categories

During his time at the Ministry of Defence, Ee-Ping was an advisor on bilateral and multilateral defence policy issues that shaped strategic relationships with foreign defence establishments and armed forces. Prior to that, Ee-Ping read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University.

a masters degree in Experimental & Theoretical Physics from St. John’s College, Cambridge.

His publications include co-authorship of a book ‘The Granularity of Growth in Asia’ (Wiley 2008) and perspectives on the investment industry in Asia, e.g. ‘Private Equity in SEA Rising Success Rising Competition’ (2012). Carl has served as a keynote speaker at the ASEAN Business Forum and The Asian Business Leaders’ Forum and a panelist at SuperReturns. He is a member of the Milken Institute Leaders Circle and is a Singapore Permanent Resident.

Alvin LimManaging Director, Head of Banking Advisory, Southeast Asia HSBC

Alvin Lim joined HSBC in 2004. Prior to that, he worked for over 7 years with Citigroup / Schroders in Asia and Europe.

In Asia-Pacific, Alvin has led a number of M&A transactions

including TCC’s acquisition of Fraser & Neave (US$11.2bn), SHV’s sale of Siam Makro (US$6.6bn), sale of 51% stake of Waltermart to the SM Group in the Philippines, BAT plc’s acquisition of Rothmans Industries (S$1.6bn) and BAT Singapore (S$0.6bn), Inchcape plc’s disposal of Inchcape Marketing Asia-Pacific to Li & Fung (S$400m), Merger of MTC and Rothmans of Pall Mall Malaysia (RM9.2bn), CGU’s bancassurance joint venture with ICS, Danone’s acquisition of Yeo Hiap Seng (S$100m), Jinro’s sale of Imperial Whiskey (KRW160bn), Danone’s acquisition of Robust, Sale of Makro Malaysia to Tesco (US$160m), SingTel’s acquisition of Warid Telecom (US$760m), Carrefour’s acquisition of PT Alfa Retailindo (US$71m), Sale of PT Makro Indonesia to Lotte (US$300m), Sale of BMS Asia OTC business (US$310m), Sale of DMX to KDDI (S$188m), Shanghai Industrial acquisition of Asia Water Technology, First Pacific on PLDT’s acquisition of Digitel (US$2.3bn), Godrej’s acquisition of Megasari, Parkson’s acquisition of Centro department store, sale of Sats UK business to Hain Celestial and LVMH’s acquisition of Heng Long International.

Alvin also led a number of equity markets transactions including the Follow-on offering for Fortune REIT (HK$2bn), Leighton Holdings HY Bond issue (US$110m), Convertible Bond issue by Resorts World (RM1.1bn), Convertible Bond issue by Genting International (S$425m), Placement by China Fishery (US$75m), Convertible Bond issue by Pacific Andes (US$93m), Rights issue by Pacific Andes (US$233m), Secondary Share Placement of Kingsoft Corporation Ltd (US$56m), Rights issue by Genting Singapore (S$1.5bn), fund raising by Banyan Tree (US$283m), IPO of Maxis (RM11.2bn), Olam’s equity fund raising (S$600m), Osim’s Convertible bond issue (S$120m), IPO of Puregold on the Philippine Stock Exchange (US$183m), IPO of Parkson Retail Asia on the SGX (US$126m), IPO of Bumitama Agri on the SGX (US$194m), IPO of Courts on the SGX (US$111m), share placement of Tempo Scan (US$229m), IPO of SSI on the PSE, Osim’s S$170m zero coupon convertible bond and Olam’s US$750m bond cum warrant rights issue.

In Europe, he worked on a wide range of corporate finance transactions including the restructuring of TEKEL (US$2bn), IPO of CCBT (US$500m), Sale of Cereol to Bunge (EUR1.7bn), IPO of C&C (US$600m), Sale of Carapelli to B&S Partners (EUR100m), Sale of Koipe to Sos Cuetera (EUR400m), Sale of Kent Gida to

Cadbury (US$200m), CCHBC Bond Issue (EUR625m), Greencore’s acquisition of Hazlewoods (GBP260m).

Prior to joining Citigroup / Schroders, Alvin was with the corporate finance division of Coopers & Lybrand. He graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc (Economics) degree specializing in accounting and finance. He is also a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst.

Supriya SenPrivate Consultant

Supriya Sen is a former banker with 24+ years of experience in project and structured finance in South and South East Asia, East Asia and the Middle East. She is currently an independent consultant, and serves on the boards of some non-profit and for-profit firms in Singapore.

In the past, Ms Sen held senior roles in commercial and investment banks as well as multilateral banks. Till recently she was a Director at Red Fort Capital. Prior to this she was Senior Advisor, Global Banking at Citigroup; Principal Private Sector Specialist at Asian Development Bank; and Chief Investment Officer and member of the board of a sovereign fund. Before that she worked at the World Bank Group, GE Capital and ICICI.

Ms Sen has significant expertise in structuring and financing energy, infrastructure and urban development projects in Asia, China and the Middle East; with a focus on public private partnerships as well as in private equity and venture capital. She is a regular speaker in regional conferences and guest lecturer / visiting faculty at leading management schools in the region. She also serves as director on the boards of private organizations and works with non-profit organizations in strategic advisory and mentorship roles.

Ms Sen holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor’s in Engineering with Gold Medal from Bangalore University. She has completed advanced leadership programs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, the World Bank Institute, Florida University and at GE’s Crotonville Institute at Stamford, CT in USA.

She is currently based with her family in Singapore.

The trend of LPs taking on direct private equity investments led many to speculate that the GPs would increasingly be sidelined. This includes the rise of direct sovereign wealth fund investments and family offices conducting their own private equity deals.

The economic potential of Asia led to the growth of many

MODERATORDoris YeeDirector Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association Adjunct Associate Professor National University of Singapore

Doris has over 20 years of experience in engineering, research commercialisation and venture investment. She currently serves as a Director at the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) heading its Secretariat and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore.

She was a General Partner at both iGlobe Partners and iGlobe Treasury where she worked alongside many entrepreneurs serving on the Boards of companies in US, New Zealand and China.

PANELLISTSChris LohPartner Axiom Asia

Chris Loh joined Axiom Asia in 2009. He is responsible for venture capital fund investments in Asia and all fund investments in India. He also participates in co-investments and secondary investments.

Prior to that, he had nine years of private equity experience with GIC Special Investments, having worked in their California and Singapore offices. Chris led due diligence and investments in venture capital, growth capital, buyout and secondary funds in the U.S. and Asia. He was also involved in four direct investments in high-tech startups — two went public and two were acquired.

Chris worked for seven years as an engineer at DSO National Laboratories, the largest R&D organization in Singapore serving the country’s defense force. He led a team of engineers in the development of secured, wireless communication systems. His research was published in international conferences like Milcom in the U.S.

Chris was awarded the Monbusho Scholarship jointly by the Singapore Government and the Japanese Ministry of Education. Chris earned his Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from University of Tokyo and completed two master programs (MBA, M.S. in Electrical Engineering) at the National University of Singapore. He has passed CFA Level III. Chris is fluent in English, Mandarin and Japanese.

Mathieu PerfettiPrivate Equity Portfolio Manager for AsiaCrédit Agricole (Suisse) SA

Based in Singapore, Mathieu is a Director at Crédit Agricole (Suisse) SA. Within the Private Equity team, he is focusing on the investment activity in Asia. Mathieu is responsible for the sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of private equity funds and co-investments. Previously, he spent four years within the European team as an Investment Manager. Prior to join the group, Mathieu worked within the Fund of Fund team of AXA Private Equity and for Alto Invest.

local GPs with excellent track record. At the same time, rising wealth of Asia led to the growth and development of powerful Asian LPs that are making huge investments around the world.

With the trend of more direct LP investments, how would the LP-GP dynamic evolve? And what can the GPs do to remain relevant to the LPs?

Panel Discussion 3: Asia Snapshot: LP-GP Dynamics (4.00 – 5.00 p.m.)

Rebekah WooDirector Asia, Growth marketsCDPQ Asie-Pacifique PTE LTD

Rebekah Woo, CFA-CAIA is the Director, Asia at CDPQ, one of Canada’s largest pension plans with its Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.

Rebekah has more than 15 years of investing and finance experience, starting her career with the government of Singapore before joining an ultra high net worth family office in New York, investing across asset classes and strategies, followed by a career at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Rebekah graduated from Yale University and the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.

Chauwei Yak CAIAManaging DirectorGao Capital Pte Ltd

Chauwei is the Managing Director of GAO Group, which includes GAO Capital for Fund Management, GAO Advisors for Research and Advisory, GAO Ventures for Direct Investments, and our latest addition to the group GAO Lab which incubates new business ideas and collaborations that are not related to finance or asset management. GAO started life as the investment arm of Chauwei’s family, and the GAO Group continues to focus on family businesses and wealth, with a distinct advantage of understanding first-hand the needs of families.

Prior to establishing GAO, Chauwei was director of research for a single family office based in New York for with significant businesses in Asia. She was responsible for building the firm’s research and portfolio management systems. Prior to that, she was in the strategic business development group (Internal M&A) at JP Morgan Chase and also at the financial institutions group of UBS Investment Bank, both in New York and Tokyo.

Chauwei graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics from The Wharton School and a BA in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and a minor in Mathematics from the College of Arts & Sciences. She sits on the Board of Advisors for the Family Office Association based in Greenwich, CT, and is on the NYU Stern Family Office Council.

She has taken an active role in mentoring CEOs, recruiting key management, advising on strategic initiatives and assisted in fundraising, acquisitions and exit opportunities. She held senior management positions at the Singapore National Science & Technology Board where she was instrumental in developing and promoting R&D grants and venture investments.

Doris is a Certified Trainer / Facilitator and Assessor and has shared her experiences through speaking engagements, training programmes and judging panels both locally and overseas.

Doris holds an MBA and a Bachelor Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with Honours, both from the National University of Singapore. She is a Full Member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Increasingly many PE firms are looking at developing their internal capabilities to replace traditional services that management consultants and lawyers provide. Service providers to PE firms must evolve in the way they value-add to the Private Equity firms or may face the situation where

MODERATOR

Peter Douglas CAIAPrincipalCAIA Singapore

Peter served on the CAIA Board of Directors from 2006 to 2014. He is an inaugural-cohort CAIA Charter holder, and was the first Charter holder in Singapore. He is the principal and founder of Singapore-based GFIA pte ltd., established in 1998 as a hedge fund consulting firm. Peter was the inaugural Council Member for Singapore and then Asia Pacific, for the Alternative Investment Management Association, and was one of the founders of the Financial Planning Association of Singapore. Prior to founding GFIA, Peter worked for Aberdeen Asset Management Asia in

Singapore, after 10 years at the F&C group of asset management companies, in London and Tokyo, latterly in Foreign and Colonial Emerging Markets Limited. Peter holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Exeter and an MBA from INSEAD and has sat on the MBA admissions committee of that school as well as having been secretary of the Singapore alumni association. He is a Singapore Distinguished Fellow in Fund Management, and was voted by aiCIO magazine one of the 25 most influential asset consultants of 2013.

PANELLISTS

Dean CollinsManaging PartnerDechert LLP

The Managing Partner of Dechert’s Singapore office, Dean Collins is recognized as one of the foremost private equity lawyers in Asia and worldwide, being named in the most recent “The Legal Power 30,” Private Equity International’s list of the thirty most influential private equity lawyers in the world. He is the only lawyer based in Southeast Asia and one of only two fund formation experts in Asia named to the list.

Chambers Asia Pacific has recognized Mr Collins with a Band 1 ranking for fund formation work for each of the past five years, noting that he is “an absolutely exceptional private equity practitioner.” Chambers also notes that clients praise his “very unique commercial perspective on legal fund formation work” and his “very measured and thoughtful advice”. He is also ranked as a leading individual for fund formation work in IFLR1000 2013 and The International Who’s Who of Private Fund Lawyers.

Mr Collins counsels clients on the structuring and establishment of private equity investment funds, secondary transactions, carried interest and co-investment plans, team spin-outs, co-investments and other private equity related transactions. Mr Collins also acts on the establishment of other types of alternative investment funds, such as real estate, venture capital, infrastructure and hedge funds, as well as providing advice to major institutional investors on their investments into funds both in Asia and elsewhere.

Mr Collins clients have included 3W, Adamas, Adams Street, Asia Growth, Axiom, Gaja Capital, GIC, Hillhouse, KV Asia, Lok Capital, Primavera, SilkRoad Property Partners and Shenzhen Fortune.*

Prior to joining Dechert, Mr Collins was based in the Singapore office of another international law firm, serving as a partner in the fund formation practice. He previously worked at Actis, the leading pan-emerging markets private equity firm, as an in-house lawyer (where he oversaw the complex spin-out of Actis from CDC Capital Partners as well as established a number of emerging markets funds), and then as a Director in its highly regarded fundraising team (where he played a major role in the successful US$2.9 billion fundraising for Actis Emerging Markets 3).

Mr Collins previous experience also includes working for a leading European law firm where he advised institutions and management teams on fundraising efforts and other corporate finance matters, including the structuring and execution of a number of milestone transactions in what was at the time a nascent fund secondaries market. Mr Collins has also served as a consultant for UBS Capital, Merrill Lynch International and a number of private equity backed businesses.

*Matters handled prior to joining Dechert.

Amit DhumeSenior AssociateColin Ng & Partners LLP

Amit Dhume’s practice focuses on funds and financial services, corporate finance, M&A and other regulatory and compliance matters. Amit has advised on Initial Public Offerings of companies and business trusts as well as on issues relating to regulatory approvals for investments. He works closely with fund managers to assist them to establish funds and fund management companies and offer the funds in various jurisdictions by working with local counsel.

Sunil MishraPartnerAdams Street Partners Singapore

Sunil is a Partner who primarily specializes in the sourcing and execution of Asian investments specifically in India, Australia, Vietnam and Southeast Asia. He actively participates in all fund investment decisions at Adams Street.

Prior to joining our organization in 2007, Sunil worked for Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore performing financial and business analyses of local and regional companies and advising them. Prior to this, Sunil worked in India as an Investment and Strategy Associate in Tacogroup,  the automotive technology and engineering investment arm of the Tata Group of India.

Sunil is a native Indian with permanent residency in Singapore. He is fluent in Hindi and has basic working knowledge of several Indian languages.

Mathieu PerfettiPrivate Equity Portfolio Manager for AsiaCrédit Agricole (Suisse) SA

Based in Singapore, Mathieu is a Director at Crédit Agricole (Suisse) SA. Within the Private Equity team, he is focusing on the investment activity in Asia. Mathieu is responsible for the sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of private equity funds and co-investments. Previously, he spent four years within the European team as an Investment Manager. Prior to join the group, Mathieu worked within the Fund of Fund team of AXA Private Equity and for Alto Invest.

Panel Discussion 4: Evolving Role of Service Providers to PE Firms (5.00 – 6.00 p.m.)

they are eventually sidelined. How are the service providers adapting to the trend of PE firms adopting their own internal capabilities and how can these service providers reposition themselves to stay relevant and play integral roles in the PE industry?