About Our Sponsors
The Japan Go IPO Summit is pleased to be sponsored by the most active dealmakers and advisors in the Asia cross-border market for initial public offerings, SPAC mergers, and M&A transactions.
Co-Hosts
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a global technology company serving corporate clients, investment managers, banks, brokers, and exchange operators as they navigate and interact with the global capital markets and the broader financial system. We aspire to deliver world-leading platforms that improve the liquidity, transparency, and integrity of the global economy. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software, exchange capabilities, and client-centric services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. To learn more about the company, technology solutions and career opportunities, visit us on LinkedIn, on X @Nasdaq, or at www.nasdaq.com.
MarcumAsia is an independent public accounting firm focusing on cross-border services for public and private companies. We are one of the leading providers of audit and assurance services to Asian companies listed on the U.S. stock markets and have offices in major cities in Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou, and a planned office in Tokyo in 2025.
Organizing Sponsor
AUM Media provides comprehensive communications, investor relations, public relations, and visibility support to IPOs, de-SPACs, and public companies to ensure our clients can achieve favorable transaction outcomes and develop a strong following on Wall Street.
Platinum Sponsors
Hunter Taubman Fisher & Li
HTFL is a boutique law firm specializing in securities transactions, corporate, commercial, and cross-border financing, immigration, and taxation. Our team of lawyers works together so our clients can benefit from astute business experience and sophisticated legal solutions.
Gold Sponsors
Anthony, Linder & Cacomanolis, PLLC
Our experienced securities attorneys are here to take you public and help you maintain public company compliance as you grow and continue to raise capital. We are exceptionally experienced with all forms of going public transactions, including traditional IPOs, de-SPAC, reverse mergers, and direct listings. Over the years, we have built a significant business sector by working with Japanese companies seeking to access U.S. public markets.
Chardan
Chardan is an independent, full-service global investment bank focused on supporting the capital markets goals of corporate and institutional clients. It has broad deal experience, having participated in more than 700 transactions with an aggregate transaction value of over $115 billion. Headquartered in New York City, Chardan is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of FINRA, SIPC, and NASDAQ.
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is a New York City-based law firm comprised of nearly 125 professionals, offering its clients legal services in a broad range of business-related matters. Founded in 1992, the Firm specializes in many areas of commercial law: Corporate, Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions, International Transactions, Real Estate, Broker-Dealer Regulation, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Labor, Employment, Cannabis, ERISA, Executive Compensation, Tax and Estate Planning.
Kingswood Capital Partners
Kingswood Capital Partners, LLC is a full-service investment bank serving the middle market. With over 300 financial professionals and over 20 offices worldwide, Kingswood has completed over 100 transactions with a gross transaction value of over $50 billion. It also has a wealth management platform with about $15 billion in global assets under management.
Sullivan & Worcester (Sullivan) is one of the leading global mid-sized firms in the U.S. The firm’s capital markets practices are comprised of experienced lawyers from Am Law 100 firms, including several who have served in-house at sophisticated organizations. Our capital markets team leverages the breadth and depth of their practical experience to deliver top-tier services to the global middle market. Clients rely on Sullivan for our practical business acumen, international finance connections, and ability to balance legal and business risks. With strategic offices in Boston, London, New York, Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C., and an emerging presence in Asia, we are uniquely positioned to help clients understand and navigate the world's global markets. As a result, we attract clients that are also unique: visionaries, trailblazers and game changers; established companies pushing their industries in bold new directions; growing businesses seeking new markets; and emerging companies pursuing disruptive business models.
Silver Sponsors
DLA Piper is the third largest global law firm, with more than 4,900 lawyers across 90 offices in 40 countries. The firm helps clients execute complex transactions seamlessly while supporting clients across all stages of development. DLA Piper has been rated number one in global M&A volume for 15 consecutive years, according to Mergermarket, and ranked as a top five most active VC legal advisor in the US and number one in VC, PE, and M&A in combined global deal volume according to PitchBook. DLA Piper’s global capital markets team represents issuers and underwriters in registered and unregistered equity, equity-linked, and debt capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, equity-linked securities offerings, and offerings of investment grade and high-yield debt securities, and specializes in cross-border transactions linking the New York exchanges with securities issuers across the globe.
Freedom Capital
Founded in 2022 as a subsidiary of Prime Executions Inc., Freedom Capital Markets operates as a boutique investment banking firm specializing in middle-market advisory, capital solutions, equity execution, corporate services, and high-quality research in key growth sectors. We deliver tailored solutions and a full suite of products designed to support clients throughout their business lifecycle, fostering strong relationships with both current and prospective issuers.
Marketing Sponsors
BDA Partners is the global investment banking advisor for Asia. We are a premium provider of Asia-related advice to sophisticated clients globally, with 30 years’ experience advising on cross-border M&A, capital raising, and financial restructuring.
We have strategic partnerships with William Blair, a premier global investment banking business, and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), a Japanese government owned bank with total assets of US$150bn.
HiJoJo Partners
HiJoJo Partners is a Japanese independent asset management firm founded in 2017 by Spyridon Mentzas. It is one of the largest VC funds investing in U.S. unicorn companies, selling to Japanese investors through face-to-face and online channels. HJJ has achieved total sales exceeding 35 billion yen. Shareholders include major Japanese financial institutions such as Credit Saison, Mizuho Securities, SBI Group, Finatext Holdings, MUFG Innovation Partners, Okasan Securities Group, Japan Investment Adviser, and Monex Group.
At Loeb & Loeb, we represent a wide range of organizations, as well as high net worth individuals and families. We help these clients identify opportunities, expand into new markets, launch innovative products and services, protect their assets, resolve disputes, and connect with audiences in new ways. We know our clients’ businesses and understand their personal objectives. And we have tremendous multidisciplinary know-how in today’s technology and mobility trends, which continue to transcend all industries. As a multi-service law firm with approximately 450 lawyers across eight offices in the United States and Asia, we have you covered.
Roth Capital Partners
ROTH is a relationship-driven investment bank focused on serving growth companies and their investors. Our full-service platform provides capital raising, high-impact equity research, macroeconomics, sales and trading, technical insights, derivatives strategies, M&A advisory, and corporate access.