Global Partners
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Egon Zehnder International was founded in 1964 in Zurich and today the firm specializes in Board Effectiveness Reviews, Leadership Strategy Services and Executive Search at the Management and Board levels. The Firm has a distinctive vision and structure aimed at achieving two basic goals - placing clients' interests first and to lead its profession in creating value for its clients through the assessment and recruitment of top-level management resources. The Firm has a structure which is unique in its profession. The Firm's 385 consultants, operating from 63 wholly owned offices in 37 countries, are organized around a single-profit center partnership. This is designed to eliminate competitive barriers between offices. It allows the Firm to operate seamlessly when engagements call for multi-office, cross collaboration and knowledge sharing. Large or small, local or global, clients benefit from this structure by having access to the Firm's most relevant resources and relationships wherever they may reside.
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Founded in 1988 by Aletta and Peter Stas and driven by passion, Frederique Constant has grown into one of the larger Swiss watch manufacturers. In 2011, production reaches over 120'000 watches, sold in over 2'700 points of sale in 100+ countries around the globe. Frederique Constant positions itself in the Accessible Luxury segment, with most of its watches selling at CHF 1'000-5'000 retail. The company is expected to continue its annual 25% growth, doubling in size every three years. Over the years, we have earned a reputation as a leading maker of Swiss luxury watches despite the relative youth of our brand. The quality of our watches and the detail involved in crafting each watch is only part of our success story; the rest was driven by watch aficionados and lovers of our brand who saw that we had something different and unique to offer. It is by appealing to this same group of people that we hope to make a difference in the lives of many by soliciting for their support to extend the same affection they have for the brand, towards charities and causes we are associated with.
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Founded in 1805 in Geneva, Pictet & Cie is today one of Switzerland’s largest private banks, and the leading independent asset management specialist in Europe, with CHF 357 billion (EUR 297 billion) in assets under management and custody at June 2012. Pictet & Cie is a partnership owned and managed by eight general partners with unlimited liability for the bank’s commitments. The Pictet Group, based in Geneva, employs more than 3,200 staff. The group has offices in the following financial centres: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel, Dubai, Florence, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Lausanne, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Montreal, Nassau, Osaka, Paris, Rome, Singapore, Taipei, Turin, Tokyo and Zurich.
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Organising Partner
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NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of trading technologies. The cash markets of NYSE Euronext represent nearly 40 per cent of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. The NYSE Euronext’s highly liquid, single-order book, pan-European market provides the best access to the global investor community and eco-system for Life Sciences companies.
Since 2009 NYSE Euronext has listed 69% of European Life Sciences IPOs by deal number representing 71% of capital raised in the Life Sciences sector across UK, Germany, Nordics, France, Benelux and Spain (source: Dealogic; includes IPOs > €2.5m deal size).
Home to a vibrant community of 49 Life Sciences issuers across the spectrum, NYSE Euronext is continuing to attract leading sector companies. In the last twelve months alone, 13 Life Sciences issuers, from SMEs and to Abbvie and Eli Lilly, joined the NYSE Euronext European market to fund innovation and growth.
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Bronze Sponsors
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In the UK, Deloitte LLP offers professional services to the UK and European market from offices in 23 locations throughout the UK and approximately 11,500 staff and partners in the UK and Switzerland. We provide professional services and advice to many leading businesses, government departments and public sector bodies, and publish many influential studies and thought leadership pieces. Our annual revenues in the UK reached £1,970m for the financial year ended 31 May 2009.
Deloitte LLP is the UK member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT), a Swiss Verein whose member firms are legally separate and independent entities located in 147 countries, with over 54 member firms and approximately 169,000 staff. DTT member firms’ world-wide revenues for the fiscal year 2009 were US$26.1 billion.
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Gimv is a European investment company with over three decades of experience in private equity and venture capital. Gimv is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels. Gimv currently manages around 1.8 billion EUR (including third party funds) of investments in 85 portfolio companies, which jointly realise a turnover of more than EUR 6 billion and employ over 28,000 professionals.
As a recognized market leader in selected investment platforms, Gimv identifies entrepreneurial and innovative companies with high-growth potential and supports them in their transformation into market leaders. Gimv’s four investment platforms are: Consumer 2020, Health & Care, Smart Industries and Sustainable Cities. Each of these platforms works with a skilled and dedicated team across Gimv’s home markets of the Benelux, France and Germany and can count on an extended international network of experts. |
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For more than a century, Morgan Lewis lawyers have helped clients achieve their business goals, and clients have come to rely on the firm for its tradition of professional excellence, integrity and client service. Morgan Lewis has more than 1,400 lawyers and 300 other professionals (including technical specialists, patent agents and paralegals) in 22 offices worldwide. We have a complete range of practices and are well positioned to meet clients' critical legal needs.
Emerging business and technology businesses that partner with us benefit from our guidance, value-added network, and access to sources of capital. We work closely with clients to position companies for investment, raise capital, negotiate strategic relationships, establish intellectual property protection practices, and create incentive compensation plans. Each of our clients works with a dedicated, partner-led team familiar with its business objectives, industry dynamics, and market issues.
Morgan Lewis’s reputation and relationships help entrepreneurs and investors make profitable decisions and connections. We keep clients close to the financing resources that fund today’s growing companies through our established relationships with the venture capital and investment banking communities in the New York, Mid-Atlantic, Silicon Valley, and European markets. Our track record of success with investors and entrepreneurs has enabled us to open doors for clients. |
Local Support Partner
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Salus Partners is a Swiss based investment and advisory firm active in the financial and healthcare industries. We have a special expertise in proven health technologies and seek to generate exceptional returns while bringing good outcomes to society. Salus Partners delivers independent wealth optimization advise and applies its expertise on potential Direct and Co-investment opportunities. |
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Media & Communication Partners
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Global Corporate Venturing is both a monthly magazine and website written for the in-house venture capital units of businesses.
The monthly magazine, due out the first Monday of each month, covers each economic sector in turn throughout the year to provide the most comprehensive data and analysis of companies' activities in buying minority stakes in third-party businesses as well as the best comment from the most highly-regarded thinkers. The analysis centres on an exclusive ranking of the top corporate venturing units in each sector. In addition, the news section rounds up the previous months deal activity, people moves and regulatory and other relevant stories to complement the website.
Each year there is also an annual review and awards and coverage of the industry's best events and surveys from the most influential figures in the industry and related areas.
The website covers the most important stories relevant to corporate venturers and offers a push-service email newsletter.
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Founded in1998 GoingPublic Media AG is today one of the leading publishers of magazines on corporate finance, technology, and capital markets. In addition to the monthly issued GoingPublic Magazin and its well known special editions like "Biotechnology" or "Corporate Finance & Private Equity Guide", the company publishes monthly the VentureCapital Magazin. It stands as a hub for the private equity and venture capital industry in German speaking Europe and addresses investors and entrepreneurs. The monthly issued magazine Smart Investor addresses retail investors. The six times a year published HV Magazin is directed to the GM-responsibles (board members, investor relations managers etc.) of listed companies. The likewise young publication Unternehmeredition, focuses six times a year mediumsized business entrepreneurs. In 2008 DIE STIFTUNG became part of publication programme of GoingPublic Media. The magazine appears with the highest coverage (15.000 recipients) within the foundation and private wealth market in German speaking Europe. In its corporate publishing division "GoingPublic Services" about ten magazines and newsletters are annually produced on behalf of corporate customers as Deutsches Aktieninstitut, the association of German listed companies ("Finanzplatz"). GoingPublic Media is listed in the Open Market of Frankfurt Stock Exchange (WKN 761 210) and in M:access of Munich Stock Exchange. All publications are published in German.
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Venture Valuation specializes in independent assessments and valuations of companies in high-growth markets, such as biotechnology, life sciences and medical technology. Clients include investors like corporate, VCs, family offices as well as the management of companies. Valuations have also been done in the food and food additive sector. Furthermore, the company runs the global Biotech Database (www.biotechgate.com) as a subscription service as well as a white label solution for clients like BIOTECanada, BioCom San Diego, Maryland, HoustonBIO, OneNucleus, Swiss Exchange SIX, Swiss Biotech Association, SwedenBIO, Medicon Valley and many more.
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The World Medtech Forum is a high-caliber platform for the international medtech sector – made by the industry for the industry and Made in Switzerland! This platform is set to be an integral part of the medtech scene and is open to you as an exhibitor, visitor or congress attendee. So plan your trip to Lucerne now, organize your schedule and consider how you and your company can play a part in shaping the forum and using it as a platform for your own business. Set aside September 17 to 19, 2013 in your diary and start looking forward to a stimulating cocktail of the latest achievements in medical technology, to talking to clever people and to the welcoming atmosphere at the World Medtech Forum Lucerne. |
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Elsevier Business Intelligence, a global leader in the field of healthcare industry information, provides business intelligence on regulatory, business and reimbursement issues that are vital to the healthcare industry. Through a range of products including publications, conferences, e-learning, databases and reports, Elsevier Business Intelligence places medical device and biopharma professionals, and those who focus on these industries, at the forefront of knowledge, by providing the perfect combination of news and information together with penetrating insight and analysis.
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