This early evening event, presented by Debtwire and O'Melveny & Myers LLP, will be the first in our Singapore distressed debt discussion series taking place in the wake of the credit crisis. Speakers will engage the audience through lively presentations featuring real life distressed debt and restructuring case studies.

This early evening event will examine the future of M&A in the South East Asian region and explore new burgeoning investment markets such as Cambodia and Laos. The panel will feature speakers from both the financial, legal and investment community operating in South East Asia.

During the past few months, developments around the Cadbury/Kraft deal has brought M&A activity in the Consumer sector into the limelight. Join mergermarket and Weil, Gotshal & Manges' panel discussion which will explore trends and opportunities in the sector, and discuss how opportunities are best captured in this rapdily changing environment. WE REGRET THAT THIS EVENT IS NOT OPEN TO LAW FIRMS

This opening event in mergermarket and IntraLinks' series of breakfast briefings will look at the effect that macro-economic factors have had on M&A activity and look ahead at how these changing variables will continue to affect dealmaking during 2010.

This event offers first-hand perspectives from Chinese and Australian banking, legal, and regulatory participants. The discussion will focus on likely M&A opportunities across a number of sectors and it will also consider dealmaking between the two countries from a political and regulatory standpoint.

The second in the ‘Dealmaking in a New Decade’ series of complimentary breakfast briefings. This event will look at the current and emerging trends in the French domestic M&A sector.

The impact that the recent economic crisis has had across the CEE region has varied immensely. Several countries received emergency bail-outs from international financial bodies to prevent their wholesale economic collapse, whilst others have rode out the financial storm better than other conventionally more economically secure nations nearby. This full-day forum will look at the effect that recent events have had on M&A and corporate finance activity, examining recent trends to provide in-depth analysis of the challenges faced in the region, and garner the opinions of the sector’s leading figures on what they think the future opportunities for dealmaking are.

This afternoon event will bring together creditors, advisors and senior corporate executives to discuss the trends in bankruptcy and restructurings in Brazil as well as opportunities in distressed and high yield markets. There is a $15 administration fee for this event.

This unique forum will encompass the most pressing issues in today's financial climate and is essential for all dealmakers in the Nordic region. Including opportunities to network with leading practitioners and senior corporate representatives, this event will provide an excellent opportunity to stay up to date with the current deal climate and future M&A outlook for the Nordic countries.

As we find ourselves emerging from one of the deepest global recessions on record, understanding the distressed debt and restructuring markets has never been more important. With corporate default rates at record highs, vast uncertainty in the leveraged finance markets, sovereign entities engaging in unprecedented restructurings and the latest bankruptcy rulings changing market dynamics, now more than ever investors will require the deep distressed debt market insight that only Debtwire can deliver in order to optimize their position within the capital structure.