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Asia-Pacific
Forum
6 October - Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong & Online
LEAD SPONSOR CO-SPONSORS COCKTAIL SPONSOR
Welcome RECONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY Network safely and efficiently at this year’s Debtwire Asia-Pacific Forum. Strategically scheduled for 6 October in Hong Kong, The 6th Annual Debtwire Asia-Pacific Forum will provide a highly productive opportunity for the private credit and distressed debt community to meet, interact and conduct business both in-person and online. The DW Forum will bring key members of the industry together in a controlled environment that allows safe and productive networking while also providing multiple opportunities to interact with fund managers, banks and advisors from across the globe via our best-in-class virtual platform. GET INSPIRED BY THE BEST CONTENT This year’s conference, as always, will feature an editorially driven program developed from months of research with key market participants, covering the most important topics for the community to evaluate the investment playbook for 2021 and look forwards to 2022. • What are the key macroeconomic factors affecting the outlook for Asian credit? • Will China see a further uptick in distressed debt situations and high-profile defaults? • Where do the pockets of opportunities lie for direct lending in Asia-Pacific? • Which markets and segments within the real estate sector offer the most potential for returns? • How will major bankruptcies and withdrawal of banks affect the trade financing landscape?
Mamimize the ROI on your time Meet, mingle and catch up with your industry peers, business partners and other like-minded professionals at an event that brings the key professionals from the industry together. We expect a diverse audience of senior level delegates including: • Investors – Fixed income traders, Hedge fund investors, International and Asian LPs and Family offices • Banks – Investment bankers • Legal - Lawyers • Corporates – Corporate executives • Advisors – Financial advisors and Management consultants A snapshot of the investors that have participated: • ACRE • CICC • Muzinich & Co • AllianceBernstein • CLSA • Nikko AM • Alternative Investments Global • Credit Suisse • Nomura • Anchorage Capital Group • Davidson Kempner • Oaktree Capital • ANZ • Deutsche Bank • Oasis Management • Apollo Global Management • Dignari Capital Partners • OCP Asia • Ares SSG • Double Haven • Olympus Capital Asia • Argyle Street Management • Eastspring • Pacific Equity Partners • Arkkan Capital • Edelweiss • PAG • Asia Alternatives • Farallon Capital Asia • Partners Group • Asia Research & Capital Management • Fidelity • Phoenix Property Investors • Asian Development Bank • GF Global Capital • PICC Asset Management • Aspen Hill Partners • Global Alternative Funds • PIMCO • Avenue Capital • Goldman Sachs • Ping An • Bain Capital • Harvest Global Investments • SC Lowy • Bank of America Merrill Lynch • HPS Partners • Sixth Street Partners • Baring Private Equity Asia • HSBC • SSG Advisors • BFAM Partners • Huatai International • Standard Chartered • BlackRock • ICBC International • SMBC • Blackstone • J.P. Morgan • Sunsuper • Cantor Fitzgerald • KKR • Temasek • CarVal Investors • Kotak Special Situations Fund • Tor Investment Management • CDH Investments • LIM Advisors • UBS Asset Management • Cerberus • Lone Star Funds • Varde Partners • China Cinda (HK) Asset Management • Macquarie • Vontobel Asset Management • China Everbright Asset Management • Manulife Asset Management • Wu Capital • China Great Wall Asset Management • MBK Partners • China Life Franklin Asset Management • Metrics Credit Partners and many more... • China Orient Asset Management • Morgan Stanley SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS
Debtwire Asia-Pacific Forum GOES HYBRID
ONE COMMUNITY, TWO WAYS TO BE PART OF IT
ALL DELEGATES WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE VIRTUAL PLATFORM
Debtwire Asia-Pacific Forum is a hybrid experience connecting our in-person and virtual attendees
from across the globe on one community platform.
Your virtual pass allows you to access cutting-edge interactive panel discussions, briefings, case
studies and live Q&A sessions. For our attendees in Hong Kong, you will have a front row seat to all the
content, access to the networking functions along with the feeling of being back with your peers to
meet face-to-face. All attendees will be live on the networking platform so you can connect with the
whole community from the comfort and convenience of your device wherever you are in the world.
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the content and experts that are market. If you’ve missed face-to-face and products. Access educational
key to your business. engagement with the industry this resources and videos and chat with
year, don’t miss this opportunity to the team face-to-face or online.
connect and be part of interactive
discussions with your peers.
Speakers
Meet the speakers
Nitish Agarwal Robert Ciemniak
CEO and CIO Founder and Chief Analyst
ORION CAPITAL ASIA REAL ESTATE FORESIGHT LTD
Daniel Anderson Tony Dai
Partner Managing Director
ROPES & GRAY DCL INVESTMENTS
Dhiraj Bajaj Omar Dapul
Head of Asia Credit International Head of Solutions
LOMBARD ODIER Engineering
ALLVUE SYSTEMS
Angelina Bopp Soumendra Ghosh
Head of Credit Managed Assets Chief Investment Officer
MUFG BANK, LTD. VIVRITI ASSET MANAGEMENT
Vaibhav Chadha Bharat Gupta
Managing Director, Head of Asia Senior VP & Regional Head TSF – Asia
Distressed Debt & Special Situations and EMEA
CANTOR FITZGERALD OLAM INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Dr. Sean Chang Nitin Jain
Head of Fixed Income and Cash Head of Treasury and Capital Markets
Management AGROCORP INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD.
PING AN OF CHINA ASSET
MANAGEMENT (HONG KONG)
Grant Chien Edwin Kam
Managing Director Deputy Chief Investment Officer
BENTALLGREENOAK VALUE PARTNERS LIMITED
Kenneth Chiu Howard Lam
Chief Financial Officer Partner
GAW CAPITAL LATHAM & WATKINS
Speakers
Meet the speakers
Jintao Liu Kurkye Wong
Head of Credit Investment Executive Director
ARTE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT ARGYLE STREET MANAGEMENT
LIMITED
Sabita Prakash Alex Wu
Managing Director Executive Director, Mezzanine and
ADM CAPITAL Credit
CDH INVESTMENTS
Neeraj Seth Lucy Wu
Managing Director, Head of Asian Credit Counsel
BLACKROCK ROPES & GRAY
Ron Thompson
Managing Director
ALVAREZ & MARSAL
Programme
08:30 Registration 11:00 All eyes on China
The Chinese distressed debt market has taken
centre stage. The government’s deleveraging push,
08:55 Welcome remarks coupled with the pandemic, has resulted in a wave
of distressed debt situations, including several
high-profile defaults this past year, and this upward
09:00 Keynote address trend is expected to continue. Nevertheless, despite
the promising outlook, foreign involvement has yet
to reach a significant level, as few managers have
09:30 What is next for Asian credit? the capacity or experience to efficiently navigate
Most Asian economies have begun the journey the fragmented market. Our panel of experienced
towards recovery, albeit at a different pace, thanks investors and advisors discuss the outlook for
to slowing infection rates and the roll out of mass distressed debt in China.
vaccination programmes. Fiscal and monetary • Will the market see a further uptick in high-profile
policies remain accommodative, as governments defaults, and what can be learnt from last year’s
continue to ensure sufficient support for the activity?
economy. However, a gradual withdrawal of relief • How do investors view the ongoing situation
measures may be on the horizon, which could lead regarding China Huarong?
to asset deterioration in certain sectors and a rise in • What are the opportunities and challenges for
defaults. Our panellists look ahead and discuss what foreign managers looking to invest in China NPLs?
to expect for Asian credit. • To what extent will the further opening of the
• What are the key macroeconomic factors affecting onshore bond market appeal to foreign investors?
the outlook for Asian credit?
• What makes Asian credit stand out, and how does
it compare with U.S. and European markets?
• To what extent has risk appetite increased from 11:45 Direct lending: Taking off in Asia-Pacific
investors? Compared to the saturated landscapes of the U.S.
• How will recovery play out in various markets and Europe, direct lending in Asia-Pacific represents
across Asia, and what are the opportunities and a developing market with plenty of potential. Despite
challenges ahead for credit investors? the traditional dominance of banks in the region,
more opportunities have emerged, especially in the
mid-market space, for private lenders to step in and
provide funding where banks may not be positioned
10:30 Networking break to do so. While returns are promising, managers
must tread carefully, as the fragmented nature of
Asia-Pacific requires sophisticated planning in
different markets and navigating a variety of complex
regulations. Our panellists take a deep dive into
direct lending in Asia-Pacific.
• Where do the pockets of opportunities lie for
direct lending in Asia-Pacific?
• Will there be an influx of foreign players looking to
enter, and how will this shape the outlook for direct
lending?
• What is unique about the structures used by
private lenders in the region?
• What are the top risks and challenges to direct
lending in this fragmented market?
12:30 Networking lunch
Programme
13:30 Seizing the potential of real estate 15:00 Networking break
Real estate credit strategies have become
increasingly popular amongst fund managers, given
the tightened conditions for traditional lenders 15:30 Case study: Best practices for cross-border
and attractive risk-adjusted returns. Across Asia, restructuring
although logistics and data centres proved resilient
during the outbreak, office and retail spaces
struggled. As such, this could lead to distressed or 16:00 The road ahead for South and Southeast Asia
discounted deals for investors. At the same time, The pandemic continues to impact countries
the Chinese government’s crackdown on excessive across South and Southeast Asia, especially in
borrowing by the real estate industry could vulnerable sectors such as hospitality and retail.
create opportunities for private debt investors, as Although governments have offered temporary
developers rush to shift debt off the balance sheet. relief to struggling companies, not all are going to
Our real estate experts assess the landscape for come through unscathed, with distressed investors
credit in the sector. looking to capitalise on attractive targets. Our
• To what extent will the “three red lines” policy fuel panel will provide an investment outlook for the
demand for private credit in China, and in what two regions, as well as discuss practical ways to
ways can lenders participate? approach distressed opportunities and special
• In other parts of Asia, which segments within the situations, especially in India and Indonesia.
real estate sector offer the most potential for • Which markets and sectors in Southeast Asia have
returns? the most opportunities, and what will investors look
• What types of strategies are managers deploying for in targets?
in this sector? • What are the different strategies available for debt
• What are the key challenges to real estate lending, restructuring in Indonesia?
especially in China, and how can investors • How will the backlog from RBI’s relief measures
overcome them? affect India’s distressed landscape?
• Will insolvency continue to be the preferred
resolution mechanism in India, or will we see
14:15 Spotlight: Commodities and trade financing alternative pre-insolvency mechanisms?
The commodity trade finance industry was hit
hard by a number of bankruptcies and fraud
scandals in 2020. This led to a significant shift in 16:45 End of conference
dynamics within this segment, with major banks
now reconsidering their exposure and positioning.
Despite the losses incurred by lenders, fund
managers and industry experts remain upbeat
about the outlook for trade financing and believe
that there are plenty of investment opportunities
ahead, especially for those who maintained a strong
record of risk mitigation. Our panellists explore
what the future holds for commodities and trade
financing, as well as the distressed opportunities
arising from this market.
• What were the key reasons behind major collapses
in the region, and how can they be avoided in the
future?
• How will banks scaling back affect the trade
financing landscape?
• How should investors evaluate risk when
considering this segment?
• What distressed investment opportunities have
emerged as a result of the recent collapses?
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In-Person Ticket US$1,295
Virtual Pass US$499
COVID-19 update:
We are continuously monitoring developments globally as we prepare for this event. Please be assured that, the health and safety of our delegates,
speakers, partners and staff are our highest priority. Appropriate measures and changes will be made if the situation changes. We will follow all official
health and travel guidance and precautions from the World Health Organisation and local government authorities, and encouraging our delegates to
do the same. If for any of the above reasons or other unforeseen circumstances, Debtwire reserves the right to switch the Forum to a fully virtual event.
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documents. Virtual pass fees include the virtual forum pass, networking tool, and all conference documents
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refund will be made for cancellations after the date due to our advance guarantee obligations and administration costs. If you do not attend the event or notify us of your intention to cancel, the full fee
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Venue and Accommodation
FOUR SEASONS HOTEL HONG KONG
Address: 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong
Telephone: +852 3196 8888
Website: www.fourseasons.com/hongkong
Delegates need to contact Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong directly. Please check the best room rate from hotel website.
Contact us Registration enquiries: Anil Nathani t: +852 2158 9636 e: book@avcj.com
Speaking opportunities: Michael Lui t: +852 2158 9659 e: michael.lui@acuris.com
Sponsorship enquiries: Darryl Mag t: +852 2158 9639 e: sponsorship@avcj.com
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