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List of sponsors 
If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at this event then please contact:
Nicola Mackay, Project Manager
Email: nicola.mackay@terrapinn.com
Tel: 0044 (0) 207 092 1322
Fax: 0044 (0) 207 242 1508
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Event Partner
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Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)
The DIFC is the world's newest international financial centre. It aims to develop the same stature as New York, London and Hong Kong. It primarily serves the vast region between Western Europe and East Asia.
Since it opened in September 2004, the DIFC has attracted high calibre firms from around the globe as well as its region. A world-class stock exchange, the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX), opened in the DIFC in September 2005.
Sector Focus
The DIFC focuses on several sectors of financial activity: Banking and Brokerage Services; Financial Markets; Wealth Management; Re-insurance and Captives; Islamic Finance; and Professional Service Providers.
Financial institutions may apply for licences in the above sectors. Firms operating in the DIFC are eligible for benefits such as a zero tax rate on profits, 100 per cent foreign ownership, no restrictions on foreign exchange or repatriation of capital, operational support and business continuity facilities.
Financial services in the DIFC are regulated to international standards by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). For further information, please visit www.difc.ae
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Platinum sponsor
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Gold sponsor
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Silver sponsors
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BNP Paribas is one of the world’s ten largest banks, with assets of $1.9 trillion and over 140,000 employees in 88 countries on six continents. In the US, BNP Paribas employs 15,000. An equity derivatives pioneer and industry leader, BNP Paribas engineers many of the most sophisticated equity- and fund-linked derivative products in the market today. BNP Paribas has been recognized for its leadership and innovation in equity derivatives and has won some of the most prestigious industry awards. The Bank was named the “Equity Derivative House of the Year 2007” by Risk magazine and won “Structurer of the Year, North America” in 2007 from Structured Products magazine and “Structured Products House of the Year 2007” from Euromoney magazine.
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Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC which has an AA long-term credit rating and a balance sheet of over $1.9 trillion. With a distinctive business model, Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with solutions to their financing and risk management needs. Barclays Capital has offices in 26 countries, employs over 13,200 people and has the global reach and distribution power to meet the needs of issuers and investors worldwide. For further information about Barclays Capital, please visit our website www.barclayscapital.com.
Barclays Capital’s Investor Solutions provides bespoke structured products based on a wide range of underlying assets including equities, commodities, foreign exchange, inflation, fixed income, hedge funds and hybrids to both financial intermediaries and institutional clients in the Americas.
Investor Solutions is a global platform with dedicated teams in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. We offer a global portfolio approach and are client centric and solution oriented.
In North America, we are recognized as a market leader and innovator in structured products. Most recently, Risk named Barclays Capital as Structured Products House of the Year for 2007 and Derivatives Week awarded US Equity Derivatives House of the Year & Fund-Linked House of the Year for 2006.
For further information about Barclays Capital’s Investor Solutions, please visit our website www.barclaysinvestors.com
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Citco Bank is the recognized world leader in providing specialized trading and custody for the international fund holdings. For institutional clients (primarily Banks), Citco Bank offers a unique custody service to alleviate these institutions from the administrative burden of locating, subscribing in and keeping track of investments in international funds for their private banking customers. These services allow clients to deal in mutual funds and alternative investments in a fully automated environment. Citco’s clients benefit from real-time access to electronic statements including portfolio holdings, pending transactions and access to historical transactions data including corporate actions. Citco Bank’s online trading and custody platform, specifically designed for high volume transactions, allows Internet access through a single point to all trading and custody functions.
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Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) is a division of Société Générale, one of the world's largest banks with EUR 422 billion assets under management (December 2006) and offices in over 45 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
SG CIB's Equity Derivatives and Structured Products division has been active in the U.S. since the early-1990s. In connection with Lyxor AM, its dedicated asset management company, the department runs the largest structured alternative investment business in the world with over USD 95 billion in assets under management.
Through the use of derivatives combined to a dedicated approach, the division works closely with institutional investors, family offices and funds of hedge funds to tailor solutions that reflect their own risk/reward appetite. The department offers a full range of financial solutions including principal protected products, leveraged / credit facilities, portable alpha structures, hidden assets and hedge funds exposures.
Société Générale was named ‘Equity Derivatives House of the Year’ in 2004 and 2005 by IFR, Risk and The Banker. In 2006 the bank was again recognized as ‘Equity Derivatives House of the Year’ by IFR and The Banker and won most major ‘Equity Derivatives House of the Year’ awards across the world.
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Goldman Sachs is a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. We provide a wide range of services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments, non-profit organizations and individuals. Our headquarters is in New York and we maintain significant offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other financial centers around the world.
Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has long sustained a commitment to hiring and training outstanding leaders. Our business principles are rooted in integrity, a commitment to excellence, innovation and teamwork. These values enable us to execute successfully a business strategy that is focused on extraordinary client service and superior long-term financial performance for our shareholders.
We conduct our business in increasingly complex markets. Our people must continually find new ways to provide access to capital, manage risk and provide investment opportunities for our clients to enable them to realize their goals. We judge ourselves on our ability to help clients anticipate and respond to changing market conditions and to create opportunities that merit the trust they place in us.
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Bronze sponsor
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Awards host
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Technology sponsor
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Strategic event partner
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Eurekahedge is the world’s largest independent alternative research company, dedicated to the collation of alternative investment data, and the development and continuous improvement of our research data banks. We have evolved into a market leader in less than four years: from our first single manager directory covering 162 funds, we have aggressively grown our research data to now maintaining coverage on over 13,500 alternative funds globally and disseminate data on 11,000 alternative funds, covering US$1.8 trillion in assets.
We have also launched a global suite of five regional private equity databases on private equity funds and venture capital funds, a global funds of private equity fund database, a global Islamic fund database on Shariah-compliant funds and global real estate fund database.
Eurekahedge has offices in New York, London, Singapore and Hong Kong. Eurekahedge also provides consultancy and marketing services, a hedge fund hotel in Singapore and has recently launched three investible hedge fund indices with our partner, Maxam Capital.
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