Mid-Year Conference 17-18 June in Bangkok

Please book your diaries for our Mid-Year Conference.  

We will focus on:

• Trends in intra-regional FDI in Southeast Asia
• Myanmar: The role of T&T within reconstruction and development
• Enforcement of Security: law and practice in Thailand, India & PRC
• Facilitation Mediation: dispute resolution with arbitration

Launching a new Corporate Membership program

ATTA brings together transformation and turnaround practitioners and specialist service providers with stakeholders and the people who lead change within enterprises.  We are therefore opening up membership to corporations who are active promoters or users of transformation and turnaround in their own organisations and subsidiaries, and with investees, suppliers and clients. 

The standard corporate membership package is now being offered. Included in the core package are three or more individual memberships and seats at our Conference and Awards Dinner. Sponsors will also be provided opportunities for thought leadership and branding.  We recommend corporate membership to your clients or business partners involved, or in need of, transformation or turnaround.  Please contact membership@asiatta.com for further details or with referral queries or information.

Welcoming New Members

Tobias Monden is Managing Director at Staufen. Shanghai, a leading leantransformation consultancy in the manufacturing sector.  His expertise lies in automotive andstrategic transformation of German manufacturers’ Asian operations and valuechains.

Peter & Craig Taylor are Partners at PKF Advisory in Thailand.  PKF International specialises in audit,accounting, tax and business advisory solutions with over 400 offices globally.

Peter is one of the organisers of our mid-year conferences in 2015 and 2016 in Bangkok.

We seek ways to enhance our value proposition as an organisation to our members, current and new.  In mid-March, we announced the partnership between ATTA and the IFT (International Financial Transformation & Turnaround) (see attachment). Members of ATTA can now, at no charge, enrol as reciprocal members with the IFT.  Next month we will welcome over 30 reciprocal members from the IFT.  For more information regarding how to become a reciprocal member, please contact membership@asiatta.com.

Chapter News and Events for you Diary

ATTA is branching out!  Plans are underway to found a Chapter in Sydney, Australia. ATTA founder and former chairman Adam Salzer is heading this initiative.  If you or your associates are involved in Australia, please contact Adam at australia@asiatta.com.

We are also in the early stages of establishing a chapter in Japan.  Please contact Steve Hardacre at japan@asiatta.com with recommendations, referrals or queries related to restructuring and turnaround in Japan.

Forthcoming events at our other chapters are:

• Shanghai: our next meeting will be on Tuesday 10 May at 18:00 at Lesli Ligoner’s office: Simmons & Simmons, 40th Floor, Park Place, 1601 Nanjing Road West.  New members Jeffrey Sprafkin and Tobias Monden will share short cases in new media and industrial strategy.  We will discuss ATTA’s growth plans and plan our chapter calendar for 2016/7.

• Beijing: ATTA Beijing Chapter will be holding networking drinks on Tuesday 7 June from 18:30 to 20:30 at Pudao Wines: Jin Tong Xi Lu in Office Park on the East Side next to Annie's and facing Central Park (8590 3020).  For further information, please contact Russell Brown at brown@lehmanbrown.com or Bob Fonow@rliltd.com

• Sydney: ATTA Australia launch dinner in Sydney CBD in July.  Further details will follow in June: australia@asiatta.com

Annual Conference: Call for Speakers

ATTA’s 2016 Annual Conference and Awards Dinner is scheduled for 11-12 November in Hong Kong.  Keynote topics are planned to include:

• Swipe: how the digital world is repurposing major sectors of Asia’s economies
  
• Squeeze: Asia’s winners and losers in the next resource hype
  
• Socio: HR strategies for a narcissistic generation
  
• Checkout: Integration within intra-regional M&A in the new economy
  
• Check-up: Deregulation and restructuring in learning, health and elderly care
  
• Tweak: recent developments in offshore-onshore structuring
  
• Fool’s Gold:  Keeping abreast of AML/KYC/Anti Bribery regulations across industries     
  

We are now planning the agenda and venue.  If you would like to speak or wish to introduce a potential speaker, please contact conference@asiatta.com.