February 10, 2010 (FinancialWire) — ICR, a leading financial communications consulting firm specializing in investor relations, corporate communications and digital media, and The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ), the world’s largest exchange company, announced they will host a U.S. IPO Summit on Wednesday, March 3, 2010, at the St. Regis Beijing.

The U.S. IPO Summit, an exclusive event for Chinese enterprises seeking a U.S. listing, will educate China-based companies about best practices in the U.S. capital markets with a focus on TODAY’s more active areas of new issuance: healthcare, consumer, clean technology and education.

The Summit will bring together leading investment banking, legal and accounting firms along with ICR’s experts to provide potential new issuers with best practice approaches to executing successful IPOs and upgrades in the U.S. capital markets. In addition, the event will provide companies with insight about industry-specific investor sentiment and expectations for new issuance activity.

Investment banks will lead sector-specific panels on Healthcare, Consumer, Clean Technology and Education focusing on:

  * Deal activity, recent valuations and expected new issuance activity in each sector;

  * Valuation metrics to track and communicate to potential investors;

  * Recent investor feedback and concerns per sector;

  * Key growth drivers for issuers to provide; and

  * Developing trends and regulatory issues affecting each sector.

Team panels will educate attendees on broader featured topics, such as:

  * The investment banking process overview and expected capital markets activity in 2010;

  * An evaluation of listing in the U.S. versus other markets;

  * Pre-IPO auditing process and timeline;

  * board of director selection and executive and director compensation; and

  * Investor relations and financial communications pre- and post-IPO.

Regarding benefits companies will receive from the conference, Ashley Ammon and Bill Zima, Co-Heads of ICR’s Asia practice said, “Attendees will have the chance to participate in panel discussions and one-on-one meetings with select teams dedicated to serving the Asia-Pacific market from leading investment banking, legal and accounting firms. In a one-day period, attendees will gain a deep understanding of the IPO, or ‘re-IPO’ process in the U.S. capital markets.”

In 2009, 33 Chinese companies listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market, an exchange of NASDAQ OMX, the most of any U.S. exchange during the past year. A total of 124 Chinese companies now list on NASDAQ, including 102 from mainland China and 22 from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. NASDAQ OMX has offices in Beijing and Hong Kong.

Sponsors on sector-focused new issuance activity include HSBC, Piper Jaffray and Jefferies & Co. The event will also feature key topics on re-IPOs from sponsors such as Rodman & Renshaw and Loeb & Loeb, as well as best practices in IPO-related services from BNY Mellon and Bowne.

Participation in the U.S. IPO Summit is by invitation only. Interested parties or members of the media who would like to attend should contact Wen Lei Zheng at 646-277-1215 or by email at wenlei.zheng@icrinc.com. For more information on the conference, please visit our website at: www.iposummit.com.

ICR is a leading financial communications firm specializing in investor relations, corporate communications and digital media. Established in 1998, ICR represents more than 200, primarily publicly-listed companies and maintains offices in Westport, Conn., New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Beijing.

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