Firm Activities

Corporate Finance Advisory Services

ACG develops and maintains relationships with clients worldwide to provide financial advice in connection with strategic business developments including acquisitions and divestitures, restructuring and recapitalizations, and in arrangement of cross-boarder financing for such activities.

• The firm identifies and develops initial business and investment opportunities in the People's Republic of China on behalf of its clients. ACG is focused on providing value-added services including market condition advice, and analyzing, evaluating, structuring and financing joint venture and other forms of business expansion in China. The firm assists its clients in developing market strategies, action plans, and in negotiation and documentation as well as other logistics necessary to operate businesses in China.
  
  
• Asia Capital Group provides advisory services to major western engineering and construction companies in their efforts to secure infrastructure projcts in China in various roles including contractor, design and engineering consultancy. The firm also advises western companies seeking to participate in BOT ("Build, Operate and Transfer") projects in China.
  
  
• ACG provides advisory services to Chinese companies who are seeking to execute initial public offerings by way of US stock exchanges.

Infrastructure Project Finance and Advisory Services

Working in close association with multi-national corporations, government agencies and multilateral institutions, Asia Capital Group seeks to bring together Chinese infrastructure project needs and western companies' technology, know-how and financing.

ACG enjoys strong relationships with major money center banks, other financial institutions and equity investment funds, and the firm advises its clients in structuring financing for infrastructure projects, including:

• Equity;
• High-yield Debt;
• Commercial Bank Loans;
• Structured Finance Facilities;
• Credit Enhancements;
• Asset Securitizations; and
• Multilateral government export agency financings such as by way of the US Eximbank.

Business Development Consulting

By way of ACG's affiliation with Compass Research Ltd., its local Chinese partner, the firm provides qualitative and quantitative research and analysis to assist multinational corporations in the formation and execution of business developement strategies and action plans in the emerging Chinese markets. Compass also provides representation services in Beijing for western companies.

• Compass Research Ltd.
  
  Compass Research Ltd., ("CR") an affiliate of Asia Capital Group, is an experienced market research and management consulting firm based in Beijing with a network of agents in 50 cities all over China. A predominance of CR staff have US or European academic backgrounds in marketing, business administration, statistics and economics, with working experiences both in multinationals as well as in the Chinese government.
  
  
• Compass' Activities
  
  Compass conducts qualitative and quantitative research with information derived from consumer surveys, focus groups and in-depth interviews with business executives in manufacturing and distribution, customers, government officials and industry experts. Compass' service spectrum embraces customer study, market potential estimate, market segmentation, retail auditing, distribution channel study, competitor profile, partner evaluation, media research and secondary industry research.
  
  
• Working with Compass
  
  Before the beginning of any engagement, Compass Research works closely with the client from the start to design a project fully reflecting its specific requirements. Then a dedicated case team is assigned to be responsible for the project throughout. Each member of the team is carefully selected to bring the necessary industry, technical and linguistic expertise.
  
  The case team gathers and processes all the necessary data to build solid, defensible, fact-based solutions. Throughout the engagement, the team collaborates closely with the relevant personnel from the client in building consensus around essential conclusions. At key points of each engagement, the most senior and experienced members of the company will meet to review progress, discuss major issues and opinions. The quality and completeness of each project is thus ensured.
  
  
• Compass Experience
  
  For the past few years, CR staff have provided satisfactory research and consulting services to dozens of international and multinational corporations as well as some Chinese government bureaus and departments. Compass have worked in the following industries and fields: transportation, telecommunication, aviation, avionics, electronics, machinery, automation, automotive, and pharmaceutical, home appliances, food and beverage, cosmetics, toys, sportswear, entertainment, etc.
  
  
• Government Relations
  
  Compass Research has developed close relationships with the following Chinese agencies: State Development Planning Commission, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation, Ministry of Information Technology Industry, Civil Aviation Administration of China, State Bureau of Machinery Industry, State Bureau of Light Industry, State Bureau of Oil and Chemical Industry, State Bureau of Non-ferrous Industry, Customs General Administration, State Administration of Taxation, State Statistics Bureau, State Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau, Ministry of National Defense, and Ministry of Public Security.