Telecom Executives and Dealmakers Gather in Singapore to Assess Investment Growth and Opportunities

SINGAPORE and LONDON - Telecom executives, investment bankers, law firms and professional intermediaries are gathering in Singapore on November 5-6 at TMT Finance and Investment Asia (www.tmtfinance.com/asia), the global content and networking rich forum.

The forum features the Telecom Leadership Round Table chaired by Booz & Co with CEOs and CFOs from the leading international telecom operators; M&A Advisers Panel with Clifford Chance LLP, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and HSBC and National Broadband Networks, hosted by KPMG. Topics also cover Raising Finance, Wireless Technology Asia, Investing in Emerging Markets, Mobilising Content, High Speed Networks, Mobile Payments and Banking and Cloud Computing.

“The event is highly opportune as acquisitive Asian telcos lead the surge in telecom dealflow following the US$23bn Bharti MTN merger and US$13bn investment in Zain,” said Dominic Lowndes, managing director of the TMT Group at BroadGroup and editor of Telecom Deal Alert. “The pace is gathering speed to seize market share and expansion opportunities globally.”

Confirmed speakers include:

Yusof Annuar Yaacob, Group Chief Financial Officer, Axiata Group; Boudewijn Pesch, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Acision; Jastiro Abi, Director of Finance, Bakrie Telecom; David Nataf, Head of M&A Advisory, MENA, Barclays Capital; Germon Knoop, CFO APAC, BT Group; Karim Sabbagh, Partner, Booz&Co; Joachim Fleury, Partner and Head of Global Communications, Media and Technology Group, Clifford Chance LLP; Stephen Ho, Head of TMT Asia, DBS; Peter Chu, TMT, Goldman Sachs; Tri; Pham, Director, Telecoms, Media and Technology, Global Banking Advisory, HSBC; Torsten Thiele, Head of Telecoms, Project & Infrastructure Finance, Investec; Satyanarayan Ramamurthy, Executive Director, Head of Corporate Finance, KPMG; Arjun Soota, Managing Director, Telecoms Group, Standard Chartered; Tom Fuller, Head of Telecom and Media, Asia Pacific, Standard Merchant Bank; Bien Nguyen, Director of International Relations, Saigon Postel Corp (SPT); Barrie D. Sheers, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Asia Pacific Operations, Sybase; Dr Peter Lovelock , Director, TRPC, University of Hong Kong; Zarif Imam, Global Financing Director, ZTE Corporation;

TMT Finance and Investment Asia (www.tmtfinance.com/asia) takes place at the Grand Hyatt, Singapore and will be the biggest gathering of senior dealmakers and advisers in telecoms, finance, technology and law from across the Asia Pacific in 2009.

International and regional media, along with financial and industry press and analysts will be in attendance.

Source: TMT Group at BroadGroup

For more information contact Dominic Lowndes: +44(0)20-8425-1336/ dominic.lowndes at tmtfinance.com