NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--()--ROTH Capital Partners (ROTH), www.roth.com, a full service investment bank focused on identifying growth opportunities for corporate and institutional clients, will host its 24th Annual Growth Stock Conference March 11–14, 2012, at The Ritz Carlton, located at 1 Ritz Carlton Drive, Dana Point, California.
One of the largest of its kind, ROTH’s flagship three-day investment conference brings together executives from more than 400 growth companies and 1,000 buy-side investors. The event provides institutional investors with investment ideas across a variety of sectors. Company presentations, Q&A sessions, panels and management one-on-one meetings offer institutional clients opportunities for extensive interaction with executive management to gain in-depth insights into each business and sector.
The event will feature 48 Chinese companies listed in the U.S. from a variety of sectors, including Cleantech, Consumer & Internet, Education, Industrials, Healthcare, and Technology. We expect that this will be one of the larger investor conferences for U.S.-listed Chinese companies during 2012. This year’s presenting companies have an average market cap of $330 million. ROTH will also conduct the 15th session of its ROTH China Seminar Series, with a panel of experts focused on the current market environment and strategic implications for Chinese companies including capital raising and the pros and cons of privatization.
ROTH CEO Byron Roth commented, “We remain committed to China as the sector progresses through its transition. Stock performance dramatically under performed during 2011 as investor concerns about governance and accounting heightened, resulting in broadly depressed valuations. While some companies have been delisted and others have privatized, we believe a good number of these companies have taken steps to regain investor confidence.”
“We are starting to see signs of investor interest returning to the sector after a challenging 2011. ROTH’s China Research Universe has outperformed most major indices to start 2012, gaining 26% year-to-date versus 9.8% for the Russell 2000, 12.7% for the Hang Seng, and 5.7% for the Shenzhen SME Composite,“ said Mark Tobin, Co-Director of Research at ROTH. “While the recovery has been broad-based, it has been led by strong performance among solar, TMT, and consumer stocks. Our line-up of presenting companies represents some of the fastest growing industries in China.”
*Past Performance is not an indicator of future results. Source: Thomson Reuters.
Sponsors
The conference provides a rich environment for business development opportunities and is a powerful and effective marketing platform targeting key decision-makers. A partial list of conference sponsors at the time of this announcement includes:
Platinum Level
DLA Piper US LLP
Friedman LLP
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Lowenstein Sandler PC
Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP
Thomson Reuters
William O’Neil + Co.
Gold Level
Business Wire
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
K&L Gates
MeetMax Conference Software
OTC Markets Inc.
Pillsbury
S&P Capital IQ
Silver Level
BIOCOM
ChinaVenture
CleanTech OC
Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company
Corporate Stock Transfer
Crowe Horwath LLP
Dickinson Wright PLLC
EFP Rotenberg LLP
Financial Profiles, Inc.
Genesis Select
Goodwin Procter LLP
Grant Thornton LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Hayden IR
Holtz Rubenstein Reminick LLP
KCSA Strategic Communications
Latham & Watkins LLP
Locke Lord LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
MD Becker Partners LLC
NASDAQ OMX
NYSE Euronext
PRNewswire/Vintage Filings
Richardson & Patel, LLP
SingerLewak
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Weinberg & Company, P.A.
Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin & Tobin
Participant Level
AH&T Insurance
Anslow + Jaclin LLP
BikeReligion
Blank Rome LLP
Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF)
CONNECT
Inventure Foods
Junior Achievement of Orange County
Lucosky Brookman LLP
Mattervalue Recruiters LLC
Mayer Hoffman McCann, LLC
MZ Group
Moss Adams LLP
Pacific Stock Transfer
SD Sport Innovators (SDSI)
The Mergermarket Group
Conference Website
For more information about the ROTH Capital Partners 24th Annual Growth Stock Conference, please visit http://www.roth.com/main/Page.aspx?PageID=7250
About ROTH Capital Partners, LLC:
ROTH Capital Partners, LLC (ROTH) is a relationship-driven investment bank focused on identifying growth opportunities for corporate and institutional clients. As a full-service investment bank, ROTH provides capital raising, M&A advisory, analytical research, trading and market-making services. Headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, ROTH is privately-held and owned by its employees, and maintains offices throughout the U.S., Hong Kong and a Shanghai Representative Office. For more information on ROTH, please visit www.roth.com.