The Reverse Merger Conference 2008, June 18-19, 2008, Los Angeles, CA



Premier Sponsor

West Park Capital

WestPark Capital, Inc. is a leading full-service investment bank dedicated to providing innovative, professional financial services to emerging growth companies. WestPark has extensive experience in reverse mergers and PIPE transactions, culminating in the development of the WRASP. A WRASP is a process in which a Company becomes publicly traded through a reverse merger and trades directly onto a Senior Exchange – AMEX or the NASDAQ, completely bypassing the OTCBB. WestPark’s WRASP blends components of a Public Offering and a Reverse Merger, encompassing the cost effectiveness and timeliness of a Reverse Merger while also retaining the increased market awareness and liquidity of a traditional Public Offering.


Conference Cafe Sponsor

Gemini Partners

Gemini Partners is a Los Angeles-based boutique investment bank providing corporate finance, M&A and valuation advisory services to small to middle market companies. Gemini Partners has a particular focus on reverse mergers, PIPEs and bridge financings for high growth companies. Gemini Partners also selectively invests in its client companies.

Gemini Valuation Services is a full service valuation practice providing fairness opinions and enterprise and intangible asset valuation services for financial reporting, tax, secured lending, transaction and general corporate purposes.


Marketing Sponsors

Anslow & Jaclin

Anslow + Jaclin serves diverse clients worldwide on unique and sophisticated corporate and securities matters, reverse mergers, PIPEs, corporate finance and M+A. Anslow + Jaclin's global clients include publicly and privately held corporations, emerging and development stage companies, entrepreneurial start up enterprises and other business entities across a broad range of industries. In 2006, Anslow + Jaclin was one of only two issuer's legal counsel ranked in the top 10 overall in the nation by Deal Flow Media, Inc.'s The PIPEs Report for the number of PIPE transactions advised (5th for 2006), and by SEC New Registrations Report for the number of pre-effective IPO registrations advised (9th for 2006).


Halter Financial

Founded in 1995, Halter Financial Group is a leading U.S. based consulting firm specializing in taking companies public through the Reverse Merger and its APO® process. Since 1987, principals of HFG have been involved in well over 100 Reverse Merger and APO® transactions. In the last 18 months, HFG has completed 14 Reverse Merger and APO® transactions, raising $272 million for our clients.


Gottbetter & Partners

Gottbetter Capital

Gottbetter & Partners, LLP is a law firm which offers corporate, securities and M&A legal services to support the capital needs of public companies and private companies as part of a committed going public transaction. The firm specializes in alternative going public structures including the "APO", or reverse merger, and the "GPO", or Gottbetter public offering, in which a company takes itself public without an underwriter. Since 1993, Gottbetter & Partners has created a one-stop shop approach to legal and finance services for micro cap public companies in coordination with Gottbetter Capital Group.


Feldman Weinstein & Smith LLP

Feldman Weinstein & Smith LLP is a boutique law firm based in Manhattan. Its 23 attorneys specialize in corporate and securities law, including reverse mergers, alternative public offerings and PIPEs, litigation and dispute resolution, intellectual property, tax, trusts and estates, and employee benefits and executive compensation. The firm's Managing Partner published the only text on reverse mergers. The firm has been one of the top two leading law firms in PIPE financings since 2003, according to The PIPEs Report.


Vintage Filings

Who is Vintage Filings LLC? We’re the fourth most active S.E.C. Filer in the nation!

With the constant changing requirements in SEC filing regulations for public companies, Vintage Filings, a division of PR Newswire, works in partnership with clients to file documents in an accurate and expeditious fashion. We provide EDGAR filings and Newswire services in a prompt manner enabling public companies and their attorneys to stay focused on their core business.


Loeb & Loeb

At Loeb & Loeb LLP, we value every client, every deal and every relationship. Loeb & Loeb provides our clients innovative strategies and sophisticated services because of our substantial experience in counseling issuers and underwriters, taking companies public through the initial public offering or reverse merger process and advising on the legal, business and accounting issues which arise in connection with going public. Loeb & Loeb is nationally recognized as a leader in several industries, particularly the financial services industry where we work with commercial banks, investment banks, insurers, finance companies and private equity funds. Loeb & Loeb is a multi-service national law firm with nearly 300 attorneys and offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Nashville, and an affiliation in Asia.


Richardson Patel LLP

Richardson & Patel, LLP (R&P) serves a diverse base of clients with specific focus on corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate fi nance and business, securities and employment litigation. R&P’s clients include public and private companies across a broad range of industries. R&P’s expertise in legal matters and relationships in the business world enables the firm to provide cost-effective and progressively creative and sophisticated solutions to the challenges confronted by modern corporations. R&P’s clients range from private emerging businesses to large public companies, to multi-national corporations engaged in various industries. R&P’s Asian Practice Group is the leader in the legal industry in providing Asian companies with successful US-based financings.


Agoracom

AGORACOM is North America’s largest small-cap investor relations firm, with over 90 clients under contract and over 300 clients served.

AGORACOM is leading the world of online investor relations with a global traffic ranking in the top 1%, equating to 10,000,000 + pages per month.

AGORACOM is Google’s largest small-cap partner in North America, together producing Small-Cap IR campaigns targeting small-cap investors through the world’s largest search engine.

AGORACOM recently introduced affordable Business TV IR Campaigns via Bloomberg TV and CNBC TV.

AGORACOM advocates professional and responsible stock promotion through legitimate marketing sources.


Troy Gould

TroyGould is a prominent Century City law firm representing small to middle market companies since 1970. Its corporate and securities group has considerable experience in reverse mergers, IPOs, SPACs, PIPEs, mergers and acquisitions, private placements, tender offers, debt financings, proxy solicitations, exchange listings, equity compensation plans and general corporate matters.


TSX

TSX Group understands the needs of small to mid cap companies and have developed innovative listing and financing vehicles, such as the Capital Pool Company® (CPC) Program, Reverse Mergers and PIPEs), to meet their growth capital requirements.


AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC

AFH Holding & Advisory, LLC is an integrated advisory and consulting firm serving US and international clients who seek the preparation and implementation of APOs, acquisitions or marketing strategies–executed concurrently with the organization and structuring of capital procurement. AFH delivers objective thinking, proven practices and best-of-breed partners to help clients achieve their specific development and financial goals


KL Gates

K&L Gates is a leading law firm advising in the area of alternative capital finance. We regularly represent issuers and placement agents in reverse mergers, PIPE transactions and listings on U.S. and foreign exchanges. We are one of the only law firms that has represented issuers in reverse mergers where the company's stock has initially traded on a U.S. national securities exchange. K&L Gates also has substantial experience in reverse mergers involving China-based entities. The combination of the strength of our securities practices in our 18 U.S. offices, plus our 4 China offices (and 3 European offices), offers unparalleled representation for entrepreneurial Chinese companies seeking to access the U.S. capital markets. Our sophisticated practice provides excellent counsel not only to companies seeking to become public through the reverse merger process, but also to companies (whether domestic or foreign) that are entering the U.S. capital markets for the first time.


Media Sponsors

Capital IQ

Capital IQ provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 2,000 leading financial institutions, advisory firms and corporations. Completely web-based, Capital IQ uniquely combines deep fundamental and market data on companies you care about with a broad range of easy-to-use tools for financial modeling, screening, charting, and sourcing industry contacts. Capital IQ helps financial professionals minimize the time and effort required to make sound investment decisions.


Eurekahedge is the world's largest independent data provider and research house focusing on alternative investments. Eurekahedge is headquartered in Singapore and have representative offices in New York and London. They maintain coverage on over 15,000 alternative funds globally and disseminate data on over 14,000. Eurekahedge's global alternative research covers hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity funds, Islamic funds, real estate funds and long-only absolute return funds.


mergermarket is an independent Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) intelligence service. Unlike any other service of its kind, mergermarket specializes in providing forward-looking origination and deal flow opportunities integrated with a comprehensive deals database – resulting in real revenues for clients.


Hedge Connection is the only web-based platform that offers hedge funds direct access to pre-qualified, opt-in investors that are actively allocating to hedge funds. Investor members join for free and can review videos and presentation material from our hedge fund members. All members receive invitations to member's only events and partner discounts.


VC Experts

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HedgeCo.Net

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Albourne Village

With over 37,000 active users, Albourne Village is a free community website for anyone interested in alternative investments - providing a pub and library to exchange news and IP, job and conference centres, school and strategy forecasts. Don't just join the Village, be the Village!


Hedge Fund Association

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