Sponsors
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PREMIUM SPONSOR: Berenberg Bank
Berenberg is the world's second oldest bank, founded in 1590. Headquartered in Hamburg, we have been servicing clients for over 420 years. We have a unique ownership structure, being family and privately owned and led by three managing partners who have unlimited liability which extends for a further five years after their retirement. Such a structure allows for long-term, entrepreneurial thinking aligned to our clients.
Today, Berenberg is a modern and full service private, investment and corporate bank with an integrated approach to private and institutional clients. Berenberg is regarded a quality leader in Germany and was awarded the Best Private Bank in Germany by World Finance in 2011.
We are financially strong with a core capital ratio of 15.1% and assets under management of some €26bn. Our 1,000 employees operate in 18 locations across 8 countries; Germany, France, the UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, China and the US.
PREMIUM SPONSOR: Barclays Corporate
In the ever changing world of business, it is important for your business to have support and insight from a trusted financial partner. With a clear focus on supporting our client’s success, Barclays Corporate provides integrated banking solutions to businesses with an annual turnover of more than £5 million or its currency equivalent. We serve our clients via a global network of relationship, industry sector and product specialist managers, who provide tailored solutions to meet their needs. These include lending, risk management, trade, cash and liquidity management, and specialist asset and sales financing. Additionally, clients are offered access to the products and expertise of other businesses in the Group, particularly the investment banking solutions of Barclays Capital and the private wealth management expertise of Barclays Wealth. With our stability and financial strength, 300 years of corporate banking experience and our commitment to building and maintaining strong relationships, Barclays Corporate is dedicated to giving your business the power to help you succeed. For more information and to find out how your business can tap into THE POWER TO HELP YOU SUCCEED, please visit www.barclayscorporate.com.
PREMIUM SPONSOR: Morrison Foerster
As the world economy faces unprecedented challenges from volatile energy prices, climate change, natural resource constraints, and security threats, MoFo Cleantech attorneys help provide solutions and build the next engine of economic growth.
Ranked Nationwide as leaders in Climate Change and in Renewable Energy & Alternative Energy Projects
-Chambers USA 2011
Morrison & Foerster has become the leading firm in Cleantech, delivering cutting-edge legal advice to clients in related industries for more than 20 years. Our Cleantech Group includes more than 150 lawyers around the world - from California to Denver, New York to London, and China to Japan - providing seamless services to a broad range of clients impacted by and commercializing technology, products, and services to address climate change and natural resource constraints. Three of the primary driving forces in Cleantech today are intellectual property, government regulation, and the need for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Our corporate and technology transactions attorneys team with litigators and patent counsel to help clients effectively preserve the value of the core technology. Our environmental and energy regulatory lawyers help clients navigate the rapidly changing legal framework related to climate change, utilities, clean energy standards, and protection of natural resources to identify impacts on and risks to a company's compliance and operational plan, as well as business opportunities created by such regulation. Our transactional lawyers advise companies in Cleantech-related industries on corporate governance, acquisition, development and finance matters. We help these companies to acquire synergistic assets; to obtain equity, debt, and development financing; and to acquire, develop, and operate energy production facilities, core technology, and energy efficiency and other green businesses.
Morrison & Foerster's Cleantech Group has comprehensive knowledge of emerging issues and concerns related to energy, carbon, and climate change. Our dominance in the Cleantech space is a direct result of our ability to stay ahead of the curve on legislative and regulatory developments, investment trends, and corporate sustainable activity.
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RUSTON wheb
RUSTON wheb is an established executive search firm dedicated to the renewable energy and clean technology sectors. With offices in the UK and Germany it has completed over 300 board level assignments across Europe. RUSTON wheb specialises in recruiting entrepreneurs for early stage, high-growth businesses; recruiting executives for large blue-chip organisations; sourcing Non-Executive Directors and Chairmen and hiring within early stage, venture capital, growth capital and infrastructure funds.
Bird & Bird
Bird & Bird LLP is an international commercial law firm with over [900] lawyers in offices in Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, The Hague, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Lyon, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Warsaw and close ties with firms in other key centres in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States .
Our Renewables and Cleantech Team is at the heart of our business and advise commercial and public sector organisations on a wide range of legal issues within the renewables and cleantech sector including advice on the use of carbon credits and trading schemes, solar and wind feed-in tariffs, unbundling of European energy supplies and protection and maximisation of intellectual property assets.
Our clients include many organisations who are developing or investing in projects and technological solutions to the challenges presented by the combined forces of climate change and energy security. We advise these clients on a wide range of issues such as corporate work, projects, intellectual property, regulatory, commercial contracts and dispute resolution. We are proud to work with some of the world's most innovative and technologically advanced companies, each of which depend on cutting-edge legal advice to meet their business objectives.
Carbon Trust
The Carbon Trust are a not-for-profit company providing specialist support to help business and the public sector boost business returns by cutting carbon emissions, saving energy and commercialising low carbon technologies.
PR Sponsor: Hotwire
Hotwire is a global PR and communications agency dedicated to helping forward-looking organisations to manage reputations in a rapidly evolving influencer landscape. We are structured around specialist industry practice areas that deliver integrated campaigns across consumer, digital, corporate, government relations and business to business communications. In addition to Hotwire, our group includes sister agencies 33 Digital, Skywrite, and CPR. Together we work with brands on national and global campaigns through our wholly owned offices in the UK, US, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, and those of our global affiliate network. www.hotwirepr.com
Charity Partner: SolarAid
SolarAid helps to combat global poverty and climate change by bringing clean, renewable power to the poorest people in the world.
Climate change is impacting on the world's poorest countries the most. With barely 2% of rural Africa having access to the grid, SolarAid's approach is simple and affective; working with remote and disadvantaged communities, helping them tap into an abundant source of free, clean and renewable energy - the sun.
SolarAid's work spans South and Eastern Africa, where they install solar systems on schools, clinics, community centres and orphanages. They also work with local people helping them to set up businesses. SolarAid offers sales and marketing training, assisting entrepreneurs in the sale of solar-powered lighting products, which replace dangerous and polluting kerosene lamps. These solar lights allow the entrepreneurs to generate a sustainable income for their families, whilst also allowing their communities to save money and improve health and living standards.
To find out more about SolarAid, please visit: www.solar-aid.org
