Miranda Zhao Managing Director, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Asia Pacific NATIXIS CIB

Miranda Zhao joined Natixis in 2019 as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Asia Pacific, Corporate & Investment Banking. Miranda is responsible for leading the development of M&A activities for the Asia Pacific platform, working closely with the bank’s in-house teams as well as its network of boutiques in the region and globally.

Miranda has extensive investment banking experience across Asia Pacific and Europe, with a strong focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

Her most recent role prior to joining Natixis was as Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at China Everbright Capital Limited. Prior to that, she works for various global investment banks, including Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and The Royal Bank of Scotland/CIMB.

Alvin Chan Executive Director M&A UBS

Alvin spent over 14 years of experience in investment banking as well as other industries. He is an Executive Director of M&A for Investment Banking, Southeast Asia at UBS. He has been with UBS since 2019.

He has worked in UBS and Nomura in Singapore and Hong Kong and focuses on origination and execution of M&A transactions across industry sectors in the Asia Pacific.

Prior to that, he worked at Huawei Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent in Hong Kong and the UK.

Alvin holds an Master of Business Administration from INSEAD and Bachelor of Civil Engineering from The University of Hong Kong.

Romaine Jackson Director, Investment Banking Segment ION ANALYTICS

Romaine is developing a regional strategy from Singapore to execute commercial initiatives to serve Investment Banks with a focus on Emerging Markets. Domain expertise in Leveraged Capital Markets, ECM and M&A. Capital Markets contributor to CNBC, Yahoo Finance & Fox Business Network. Opened a new regional office in Singapore in 2017 and consulted IB Management Committees across SE Asian and Global investment banks to provide insights, strategic content, benchmarking evaluation and wallet share analysis. Executed commercial growth initiatives for Southeast Asia with business oversight across core ION-Analytics brands: Dealogic, Mergermarket, Debtwire & Infralogic. Romaine is currently completing his MBA with Warwick Business School at the Shard Campus in London and is a two-time British National American football champion.

Hajime Higuchi Managing Director, International Head of M&A NOMURA

Hajime Higuchi is International Head of M&A and a member of the Global Investment Banking Executive Committee at Nomura. He was previously Head of M&A for Europe, Middle East & Asia in London and Head of M&A for Asia ex-Japan in Hong Kong past decade combined prior to relocating to Singapore in 2020. Mr. Higuchi advised more than 200 M&A deals in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Japan including mergers, acquisitions, takeover offers, scheme of arrangements, MBOs, debt restructurings and defenses in Consumer, Retail, Automotive, Industrials, Logistics, Chemicals, Healthcare, TMT, FIG, and Power sectors. Mr. Higuchi previously worked for J.P.Morgan and MUFG and is a graduate from MIT Sloan School.

Geoff Lee Executive Director, Head, Private Markets and Head, Technology KHAZANAH NASIONAL

Geoff joined Khazanah in September 2021 after spending over 30 years in various roles in the finance and investments industries in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He was previously a partner at Hendale Capital, Head of Principal Investments at Korea Development Bank Asia, Head of Asian Investments at HSBC Alternative Proprietary Investments and Managing Director and co-founder of Myo Capital Special Situations Fund.

Prior to moving to the buy-side, he spent nearly a decade in investment banking, latterly as a Director of Telecommunication, Media and Technology and founding member of the Mergers & Acquisitions team at HSBC Investment Bank Asia.

Geoff is a UK Fellow Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of Manchester.