The Reverse Merger Conference 2008 was the largest educational and networking event for professionals in the business. The two-day conference covered all of the technical issues relating to reverse mergers, self-underwriting, and other alternative routes to the public market.

• Current Trends in the Reverse Merger Market
• A Comprehensive Review of 12 Years Worth of Shell Mergers
• How you Can be a Legitimate Finder (Without Registering as a Broker-Dealer)
• Negotiating Air-tight Agreements: Enforcing Contracts between Issuers & Bankers
• Hybrid Investment Valuation: Considerations for PIPE Funds & Reverse Merger Funds
• Institutional Sales: Understanding Retail Brokerage and how it’s changed the Small Cap Landscape
• Building a PIPE Practice in a Downward-to-Sideways Market
• Legal Issues in China: MOFCOM, SAFE, and Rules Pertaining to Offshore Transactions
• The Importance of Guanxi
• The Case for Self-filings as a Private-to-Public Path
• The Pro’s & Con’s of Form 10 Shells
• Listing Alternatives for Shells and Reverse Mergers
• Why Regulators Hate Reverse Mergers
• Legal & Regulatory Update: Has the SEC Made Raising Cash Easier?
• Reverse Merger Financing: How to Structure Deals around a Lack of Trading Liquidity
• Shell Companies: Do You Know Where your Shell (or Shell Promoter) has been?