Thursday, June 12, 2008
9:00AM – 9:15AM
WELCOME
Zhang Weiying
Dean, Guanghua School of Management of Peking University [Host]
William T. Allen
Nusbaum Professor of Law & Business, New York University
Director, NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business
Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management, Cambridge Judge Business School
9:15AM – 9:45AM
OPENING ADDRESS: THE ROAD AHEAD FOR INBOUND AND OUTBOUND CHINESE CROSS-BORDER M&A
Chen Deming
Minister of Commerce, China
9:45AM – 10:00AM
M&A MARKET OVERVIEW – RECENT CROSS-BORDER DEALS, LEVELS OF ACTIVITY, MARKET TRENDS, AND OTHER DATA POINTS
Robin Panovka
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Franny Yao
Partner, Ernst & Young – Beijing
10:00AM – 10:30AM
BREAK
10:30AM – 12:00PM
CROSS-BORDER M&A: STRATEGY, TACTICS AND DEAL STRUCTURE
Advance Preparations and Relationship Building; Understanding the Local Rules of the Road and Developing a Roadmap; Clearing Political, Regulatory, Legal and Financial Hurdles; and Flexible Structuring (Takeover vs. Synthetic Merger vs. JV vs. Stepped Foothold)
Jin-Yong Cai
President of China Investment Banking, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Fu Chengyu
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNOOC Limited
Jiang Jianqing
Chairman, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)
Martin Lipton
Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, New York University [Panel Chair]
Nayan Gregory Parekh
Head of Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, Novartis International AG
Levin Zhu
President & Chief Executive Officer, China International Capital Corporation (CICC)
12:00PM – 2:00PM
LUNCH – LUNCH SPEAKER
John W. Snow
Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Chairman, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
2:00PM – 3:30PM
BALANCING MARKET IMPERATIVES WITH THE NATIONAL INTEREST
Benefits and detriments of incoming and outgoing business expansion through cross-border M&A. When are protectionist regulations legitimate and when are they self-defeating and excessive? Crafting optimal regulations
William T. Allen
Nusbaum Professor of Law & Business, New York University
Director, NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business
Nigel P. G. Boardman
Partner, Slaughter and May
Robert C. A. Hingley
Director General, The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (U.K.)
David P. Loevinger
Minister-Counselor for Financial Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Wang Junfeng
Chairman of the Management Committee, King & Wood
Xiao Yaqing
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO)
Xu Xiaonian
Professor, Guanghua School of Management of Peking University [Panel Chair]
Zhang Weiying
Dean, Guanghua School of Management of Peking University
Jing Zhao
Managing Director, Head of China Investment Banking, Citigroup Global Markets Asia Ltd.
3:30PM – 4:00PM
BREAK
4:00PM – 5:30PM
GLOBAL PLAYERS IN THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET FOR CORPORATE CONTROL
Roles and Implications of Global Multi-national Companies, Global Investment Banks and Financial Intermediaries, Sovereign Investment Funds, State Owned Enterprises, and Multi-national Buyout and Hedge Funds; Integration of Chinese firms into the global M&A markets
Peter Clarke
Group Chief Executive, Man Group plc
Li Ruogu
Chairman and President, The Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank)
Liu Chuanzhi
Founder and Former Chairman, Lenovo Group
Robert C. Partridge, Jr.
Managing Director, Transaction Advisory Services Leader – Far East Asia/Greater China, Ernst & Young
Nick Wiles
Managing Director and Chairman of UK Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers
Peter Williamson
Professor of International Management, Cambridge Judge Business School [Panel Chair]
Zhu Min
Group Executive Vice President, Bank of China
5:30PM – 6:30PM
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
6:30PM
DINNER – DINNER SPEAKER
Shao Ning
Vice Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China (SASAC)
Friday, June 13, 2008
9:00AM – 9:30AM
MORNING ADDRESS
Shang Fulin
Chairman, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)
9:30AM – 11:00AM
GOING GLOBAL: THE ROAD AHEAD FOR CHINESE COMPANIES
Lessons Learned from Recent Deals, Political Considerations, Transaction Structures, Regulatory Hurdles (including Anti-Trust), Tax Considerations, M&A Rules of the Road, Disclosure Issues, Financing the Deal, Post-Merger Integration and Governance, Running a Multi-National
Adam O. Emmerich
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz [Panel Chair]
Gao Xiqing
President and Vice Chairman, China Investment Corporation (CIC)
Cary A. Kochman
Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions for IBD Americas, UBS Investment Bank
Andrew Low
Head of Asia and Chairman of Telecommunications, Media, Entertainment & Technology, Macquarie Group Limited
Alain Maillot
Partner, Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
Idan Ofer
Chairman of the Board, Israel Corporation Ltd
Chang Q. Sun
Managing Director, Warburg Pincus Asia LLC
Wan Feng
Executive Director and President, China Life Insurance Company Limited
Xu Xinzhong
Professor & Associate Dean, Guanghua School of Management of Peking University
11:00AM – 11:30AM
BREAK
11:30AM – 1:00PM
CIRCUMNAVIGATING THE GLOBE: POST-MERGER LESSONS, INTEGRATION AND GOVERNANCE
After the champagne; Making the deal work and governing the enterprise in a multi-national joint company; Lessons learned
Lawrence S. Abeln
Professor and CEO of Cambridge Corporate Education, Cambridge Judge Business School
Charles W. Goodyear
Chief Executive Officer (Ret.), BHP Billiton
Liew Mun Leong
President and Chief Executive Officer, CapitaLand Group
David C. Michael
Senior Partner and Managing Director/Head of Greater China, Boston Consulting Group [Panel Chair]
Barry F. Schwartz
Chief Executive Officer,M & F Worldwide Corp.
Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer, MacAndrews and Forbes Holdings Inc.
Ming Zeng
Executive Vice President, Alibaba Group
James H. Zukin
Chairman of Asia, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
1:00PM – 2:30PM
CLOSING LUNCH
BEIJING HOST COMMITTEE
Zhang Weiying
Dean, Guanghua School of Management of Peking University (Chair)
Xu Xinzhong
Professor & Associate Dean, Guanghua School of Management of Peking University
Franny Yao
Partner, Ernst & Young, Beijing (Co-Chair)
Zhao Bing
Partner, King & Wood
Jack R. Rodman
Senior Advisor, King & Wood
