About Our Sponsors
The Asia Go IPO Summit is pleased to be sponsored by the most active dealmakers and advisors in the Asia cross-border market for initial public offerings, SPAC mergers, and M&A transactions.
Co-Hosts
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a global technology company serving corporate clients, investment managers, banks, brokers, and exchange operators as they navigate and interact with the global capital markets and the broader financial system. We aspire to deliver world-leading platforms that improve the liquidity, transparency, and integrity of the global economy. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software, exchange capabilities, and client-centric services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions and career opportunities, visit us on LinkedIn, on X @Nasdaq, or at www.nasdaq.com.
MarcumAsia is an independent public accounting firm focusing on cross-border services for public and private companies. We are one of the leading providers of audit and assurance services to Asian companies listed on the U.S. stock markets and have offices in major cities in Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, and a planned office in Tokyo in 2025.
Organizing Sponsor
AUM Advisors provides comprehensive communications, investor relations, public relations, and visibility support to IPOs, de-SPACs, and public companies to ensure our clients can achieve favorable transaction outcomes and develop a strong following on Wall Street.
Platinum Sponsors
D. Boral Capital LLC is a premier, relationship-driven global investment bank headquartered in New York. The firm is dedicated to delivering exceptional strategic advisory and tailored financial solutions to middle-market and emerging growth companies. With a proven track record, D. Boral Capital provides expert guidance to clients across diverse sectors worldwide, leveraging access to capital from key markets, including the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
A recognized leader on Wall Street, D. Boral Capital has successfully aggregated approximately $30 billion in capital since its inception in 2020, executing ~350 transactions across a broad range of investment banking products.
D. Boral Capital is a member of FINRA and SIPC.
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is a New York City-based law firm comprised of nearly 125 professionals, offering its clients legal services in a broad range of business-related matters. Founded in 1992, the Firm specializes in many areas of commercial law: Corporate, Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions, International Transactions, Real Estate, Broker-Dealer Regulation, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Labor, Employment, Cannabis, ERISA, Executive Compensation, Tax and Estate Planning.
At Loeb & Loeb, we represent a wide range of organizations, as well as high net worth individuals and families. We help these clients identify opportunities, expand into new markets, launch innovative products and services, protect their assets, resolve disputes, and connect with audiences in new ways. We know our clients’ businesses and understand their personal objectives. And we have tremendous multidisciplinary know-how in today’s technology and mobility trends, which continue to transcend all industries. As a multi-service law firm with approximately 450 lawyers across eight offices in the United States and Asia, we have you covered.
Sullivan & Worcester (Sullivan) is one of the leading global mid-sized firms in the U.S. The firm’s capital markets practices are comprised of experienced lawyers from Am Law 100 firms, including several who have served in-house at sophisticated organizations. Our capital markets team leverages the breadth and depth of their practical experience to deliver top-tier services to the global middle market. Clients rely on Sullivan for our practical business acumen, international finance connections, and ability to balance legal and business risks. With strategic offices in Boston, London, New York, Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C., and an emerging presence in Asia, we are uniquely positioned to help clients understand and navigate the world's global markets. As a result, we attract clients that are also unique: visionaries, trailblazers and game changers; established companies pushing their industries in bold new directions; growing businesses seeking new markets; and emerging companies pursuing disruptive business models.
Luncheon Sponsor
The Maples Group
2025 makes the 30th anniversary of the Maples Group in Hong Kong. The Group provides comprehensive legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, entity formation and management services. With 15 offices in key jurisdictions around the world, the Maples Group has specific strengths in areas of corporate, commercial, finance, investment funds, litigation and trusts. Maintaining relationships with leading legal counsel, the Group leverages this local expertise to deliver an integrated service offering for global business initiatives. Our global network of nearly 2,500 lawyers and industry professionals are strategically located in key financial centres across the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East to ensure that clients gain immediate access to expert advice and bespoke support, within convenient time zones.
Cocktail Sponsors
Univest Securities, LLC
Leveraging the unique geographic roots in Asia Pacific and North America, with the hybrid position across institutions and retail, Univest provide a variety of services to small-to-medium size public and private enterprises through our Investment Banking and Corporate Financing Division including mergers & acquisitions capital markets advisory, valuation and fairness of opinion advisory, private placement, initial and secondary public offerings.
Unconventional to our many transactional focused peers, our team takes a fundamental value-driven approach. As generalists, we are focused on discovering innovative, exciting, and emerging growth companies to provide them with long-term strategic advisory service and unique global access to capital. Univest’s seasoned banking team is adept in heavy lifting situations and pride themselves on staying ahead of the curve. We believe in mutual value generation for enterprises and investors driven by capital, innovation, and sound market execution.
Gold Sponsors
Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Manhattan, New York, Cathay Securities Inc. is one of the earliest Chinese-American-owned brokerage firms in the United States. With deep roots in both the U.S. and China, we are committed to delivering reliable, professional, and client-centered financial services.
We specialize in investment banking, with a focus on helping companies access U.S. capital markets. Our services include IPO underwriting on NASDAQ and NYSE, strategic advisory, feasibility analysis, deal structuring, project management, private placements, SPAC transactions, and Rule 144/144A-related services. These are delivered in collaboration with leading U.S. underwriters, law firms, and audit firms.
In addition, through our digital platform, we provide basic online trading and account management services to support the day-to-day needs of both individual and institutional clients.
At Cathay Securities, we prioritize client interests and asset protection. We continue to innovate to meet the evolving needs of global investors.
Hunter Taubman Fisher & Li
HTFL is a boutique law firm specializing in securities transactions, corporate, commercial, and cross-border financing, immigration, and taxation. Our team of lawyers works together so our clients can benefit from astute business experience and sophisticated legal solutions.
As one of the oldest law firms in the United States, Robinson+Cole prides itself on being a modern law firm with a long history of adapting to change, understanding our clients and their needs, as well as embracing emerging opportunities. Our Capital markets and securities practice devotes special attention to Asia-based/related companies on a broad spectrum of matters involving initial public offerings and secondary offerings, SPACs, M&As, broker-dealers, cross-border transactions, listing on NYSE, Nasdaq and OTC Markets, SEC filings and others.
Roth Capital Partners
ROTH is a relationship-driven investment bank focused on serving growth companies and their investors. Our full-service platform provides capital raising, high-impact equity research, macroeconomics, sales and trading, technical insights, derivatives strategies, M&A advisory, and corporate access.
F&B Sponsor
Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP was founded in 2006. With over 150 years of collective experience as entrepreneurial lawyers, the founding partners’ vision was to combine each of their skills and experience into a full-service, boutique international law firm. This vision, which holds true today, has enabled our firm to compete successfully with the world’s largest law firms.
We have a wide range of practice areas, including international commercial law, capital markets, private equity, cross-border M&A, real estate, licensing, international trusts and estates, and litigation.
Silver Sponsors
Founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1784, BNY proudly holds the title of America's oldest bank and the longest continuously operating financial services company in New York City. We have a proven track record of evolving through challenging times and supporting the market through cycles. Our legacy of innovation and resilience drives us forward.
We are continuously adapting to meet any needs and address risks as we plan for what lies ahead.
Cohen & Company Capital Markets is a full-service boutique investment bank focused on advising leading and emerging companies across sectors to address their strategic and financial opportunities. When partnering with CCM, you get decades of knowledge across a variety of disciplines, industries and expertise. Given our unique approach to banking, you can expect the high level of engagement of a boutique coupled with the expertise of a bulge bracket advisor.
Deutsche Bank
In addition to specializing in administering cross-border equity structures such as New York Shares, American, and Global Depositary Receipts, Deutsche Bank provides corporates, financial institutions, hedge funds and supranational agencies around the world with trustee, agency, escrow, and related services. Deutsche Bank offers a very broad range of services for diverse products, from complex securitizations and project finance to syndicated loans, debt exchanges and restructurings.
Deutsche Bank provides commercial and investment banking, retail banking, transaction banking and asset and wealth management products and services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. Deutsche Bank is Germany’s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.
Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
DFIN is a leading global provider of innovative software and technology-enabled financial regulatory and compliance solutions. We provide domain expertise, enterprise software, and data analytics for every stage of our clients’ business and investment lifecycles. Markets fluctuate, regulations evolve, technology advances, and through it all, DFIN delivers confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter.
DLA Piper is the third largest global law firm, with more than 4,900 lawyers across 90 offices in 40 countries. The firm helps clients execute complex transactions seamlessly while supporting clients across all stages of development. DLA Piper has been rated number one in global M&A volume for 15 consecutive years, according to Mergermarket, and ranked as a top five most active VC legal advisor in the US and number one in VC, PE, and M&A in combined global deal volume according to PitchBook. DLA Piper’s global capital markets team represents issuers and underwriters in registered and unregistered equity, equity-linked, and debt capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, equity-linked securities offerings, and offerings of investment grade and high-yield debt securities, and specializes in cross-border transactions linking the New York exchanges with securities issuers across the globe.
I-OnAsia is Hong Kong’s market leading due diligence and background check company, handling over 30% of all HKEX IPOs and over 15% of all total NASDAQ IPOs and SPACs. Founded in 2001, I-OnAsia also has offices in Greater China, Japan, Dubai, London and New York. The company also provides crisis management investigations and litigation support services to Asian issuers.
The professional services JS Capital provides to our clients in mainland China and other Asia-Pacific regions include overseas listing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, strategic management consultation and equity (securities) investment.
JS Capital provides specialized accounting and reporting advisory services with a focus on SEC and Nasdaq compliance, complex transaction analysis, and audit coordination. We deliver practical, business-driven solutions that ensure regulatory compliance while enhancing financial transparency and operational efficiency. Our team has deep expertise in U.S. financial reporting and regulatory standards, and we work closely with auditors, legal counsel, and corporate finance teams to support IPOs, SPACs, M&A transactions, and other capital market activities. With strong project management capabilities, we guide clients through each step of their financial journey—from planning and preparation to execution and ongoing compliance.
Maxim Group is a leading full-service investment bank, securities and wealth management firm headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Maxim Group was formed in 2002 as an independent and 100% employee-owned firm providing customized solutions to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals.
Our comprehensive array of financial services includes investment banking, global institutional sales, equity research, fixed income and derivative sales & trading, merchant capital, private wealth management, and prime brokerage services.
Maxim Group is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), and is a member of FINRA, SIPC, and NASDAQ.
Marketing Sponsors
BDA Partners is the global investment banking advisor for Asia. We are a premium provider of Asia-related advice to sophisticated clients globally, with 30 years’ experience advising on cross-border M&A, capital raising, and financial restructuring.
We have strategic partnerships with William Blair, a premier global investment banking business, and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), a Japanese government owned bank with total assets of US$150bn.