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 Advisors 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.

Univest Securities, LLC
Leveraging the unique geographic roots in Asia Pacific and North America, with the hybrid position across institutions and retail, Univest provide a variety of services to small-to-medium size public and private enterprises through our Investment Banking and Corporate Financing Division including mergers & acquisitions capital markets advisory, valuation and fairness of opinion advisory, private placement, initial and secondary public offerings.

Unconventional to our many transactional focused peers, our team takes a fundamental value-driven approach. As generalists, we are focused on discovering innovative, exciting, and emerging growth companies to provide them with long-term strategic advisory service and unique global access to capital. Univest’s seasoned banking team is adept in heavy lifting situations and pride themselves on staying ahead of the curve. We believe in mutual value generation for enterprises and investors driven by capital, innovation, and sound market execution.

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.

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.

Silver Sponsors

Citi
Citi has the largest geographical reach of any bank in the world, making it the ideal partner for clients around the world. We conduct business in nearly 160 countries providing consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management.

Citi Depositary Receipt (DR) Services is a leader in bringing quality issuers to global capital markets and in promoting DRs as an effective listing and fund raising tool. Citi began offering DRs in 1928 and today is widely recognized for providing issuers with its powerful global platform, facilitating access to a global network that issuers can use to build and grow their DR program. As one of the world’s leading depositary banks, Citi manages over 1,200 unsponsored ADR Programs and over 270 sponsored ADR and GDR programs. Citi is also a leading provider of corporate trust services, providing Japanese clients with “one-stop shop” solution for their cross border capital market transactions.

Deutsche Bank
In addition to specializing in administering cross-border equity structures such as New York Shares, American, and Global Depositary Receipts, Deutsche Bank provides corporates, financial institutions, hedge funds and supranational agencies around the world with trustee, agency, escrow, and related services. Deutsche Bank offers a very broad range of services for diverse products, from complex securitizations and project finance to syndicated loans, debt exchanges and restructurings.

Deutsche Bank provides commercial and investment banking, retail banking, transaction banking and asset and wealth management products and services to corporations, governments, institutional investors, small and medium-sized businesses, and private individuals. Deutsche Bank is Germany’s leading bank, with a strong position in Europe and a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)
DFIN is a leading global provider of innovative software and technology-enabled financial regulatory and compliance solutions. We provide domain expertise, enterprise software, and data analytics for every stage of our clients’ business and investment lifecycles. Markets fluctuate, regulations evolve, technology advances, and through it all, DFIN delivers confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter.

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.

Federal Filings LLC, a Texas-based leader in SEC compliance, empowers public companies, pre-IPO issuers, law firms, and individuals with fast, accurate, and fully managed filing solutions. We deliver regulatory financial reporting—from EDGAR HTML to XBRL tagging—all handled in-house to ensure seamless and stress-free regulatory compliance.

Maxim Group is a leading full-service investment bank, securities and wealth management firm headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Maxim Group was formed in 2002 as an independent and 100% employee-owned firm providing customized solutions to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals.

Our comprehensive array of financial services includes investment banking, global institutional sales, equity research, fixed income and derivative sales & trading, merchant capital, private wealth management, and prime brokerage services.

Maxim Group is a registered broker-dealer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), and is a member of FINRA, SIPC, and NASDAQ.

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.

D. Boral Capital LLC is a premier, relationship-driven global investment bank headquartered in New York. The firm is dedicated to delivering exceptional strategic advisory and tailored financial solutions to middle-market and emerging growth companies. With a proven track record, D. Boral Capital provides expert guidance to clients across diverse sectors worldwide, leveraging access to capital from key markets, including the United States, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

A recognized leader on Wall Street, D. Boral Capital has successfully aggregated approximately $30 billion in capital since its inception in 2020, executing ~350 transactions across a broad range of investment banking products.

D. Boral Capital is a member of FINRA and SIPC.

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.

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.

Creating Value for Our Clients’ Investors
ThinkEquity is a boutique investment bank created by experienced professionals that have worked together for over a decade, collectively financing over $50 billion of public and private capital raises, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. The ThinkEquity model is built around the client’s needs, no matter how complicated or around the clock attention required, and to identify solutions that help them to create value for their investors.