Shanghai Branch of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Successfully Holds 2023 Mergers and Acquisitions Annual Conference Investment Bank Mergers and Acquisitions Brand Effect Becoming More and More Highlighted Pudong Art Museum | Enterprise | Annual Conference Investment Bank
On June 26th, as the 30th anniversary celebration of the Shanghai branch of Pudong Development Bank approaches, the bank held the 2023 M&A Annual Conference with the theme of "Chongde Guangye, Striving for the Supreme Good" at the Pudong Art Museum. This annual meeting invites over a hundred well-known investment institutions, high-quality domestic and foreign corporate clients, and professional service institutions from investment banks to participate. The industry and capital sides jointly explore hot macroeconomic issues under the new situation, as well as opportunities and challenges in the M&A market. The successful holding of the annual meeting fully reflects that under the strong leadership of the Party Committee of the head office, the investment bank merger and acquisition services of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank have been widely recognized in the market, and its brand influence is constantly improving.
On site, Wang Sunan, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shanghai Branch of Pudong Development Bank, delivered a speech at the annual meeting; Representatives from the Shanghai Stock Exchange delivered a keynote speech titled "Embracing the Comprehensive Registration System"; Partners of Fangyuan Capital shared several practices in post investment management of merger and acquisition funds in their keynote speech. At the roundtable forum with the theme of "Multidimensional Perspectives Behind Successful Investment", discussions were held around relevant topics by industry investors from the chip and consumer industries, parent funds and S funds, securities firms, law firms, and investment banking departments of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
In recent years, the merger and acquisition financial services of Shanghai Branch of Pudong Development Bank have formed a complete service system through continuous exploration, innovation, and practical summary. The Pufa merger and acquisition brand of "Buy Enterprises, Find Pufa" has gained word-of-mouth among a group of PE/VC companies and those with merger and acquisition needs. Centered around the concept of "integration of intelligent financing and investment, collaboration of stock and bond loans, domestic and foreign linkage, and full process of front, middle, and back", the bank covers three areas: buyer's financial services, seller's financial services, and characteristic services. The bank provides "financing+consulting+investment" M&A full process services, and builds an international M&A service framework through the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone platform, offshore OSA accounts, and overseas branch linkage model.
As of now, the balance of merger and acquisition loans at Shanghai Branch of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank has exceeded 75 billion yuan. In the past 5 years, the bank has served over 200 M&A clients, participated in transactions with a scale of over 600 billion yuan, and cumulatively invested over 150 billion yuan in domestic and foreign M&A loans. Among them, support for privatization of overseas listed companies through M&A loans exceeded 20 billion yuan, and support for industrial upgrading in the Yangtze River Delta region exceeded 17 billion yuan. The number and quality of participation in M&A projects are leading in the industry.
In the face of the new normal in the M&A financial market, Shanghai Branch of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank focuses on key business areas such as healthcare, integrated circuits, consumer retail, and green and low-carbon. At the same time, it insists on expanding its "investment banking circle of friends" and has led or participated in multiple industry benchmark projects by exploring emerging industries and business models. Among them, in 2020, as the exclusive lead agency, assisted 58.com in completing privatization transactions; In 2021, as a joint leader, assisted Taibang Biotech in delisting from the US stock market; In 2022, as a joint lead, I assisted 51job, the first domestic human resources listed company on the US stock market, in completing a series of influential privatization and acquisition cases in the market, as well as assisting the high-end private medical service platform Hejia Medical in completing privatization and delisting.
Under the guidance of various levels of government and regulatory departments, the Shanghai Branch of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank adheres to the characteristic business card of mergers and acquisitions finance, deeply cultivates the Shanghai region, and expands the national market. Shanghai Branch of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank will actively explore new opportunities in the M&A market, continue to build the "Buy Enterprises, Find Shanghai Pudong Development" M&A Financial characteristic brand, and sincerely serve as a strategic partner for enterprises in transformation, upgrading, and development, striving to become the preferred bank for M&A in the hearts of partners.