Gold Sponsor
Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. With a 140-year history of success and client service, the firm is recognised as a model for modern legal practice. S&C is a leader across its core practice areas and geographic markets, advising on major domestic and cross-border M&A, finance, corporate transactions, high-stakes litigation, investigations, and complex regulatory, tax and estate planning matters. The Financial Services Group is at the forefront of developments affecting global financial institutions, including UK and international banking organisations, insurers, investment funds and asset managers. S&C comprises more than 900 lawyers across 13 highly integrated offices in key financial centres in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. Established in 1972, Sullivan & Cromwell’s London office is the second largest office of the firm. The London office advises on English, EU and U.S. law, serving as a natural focal point for English law advice, as well as for cross-border European and cross-continental transactions.
Day 1 Drinks Reception Sponsor
Invest HK
Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) is the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government Department responsible for Foreign Direct Investment. InvestHK’s vision is to strengthen Hong Kong’s status as the leading international business location in Asia. Our mission is to attract and retain foreign direct investment which is of strategic importance to the economic development of Hong Kong. In all our services, we apply the following core values: passion, integrity, professionalism, customer service, business friendliness, responsiveness, collaboration and innovation.
We work with overseas and Mainland entrepreneurs, SMEs and multinationals that wish to set up an office – or expand their existing business – in Hong Kong.
We offer free advice and services to support companies from the planning stage right through to the launch and expansion of their business.
Bronze Sponsors
Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie is a global law firm that empowers clients to compete confidently in the international marketplace. The firm delivers comprehensive, practical legal advice that cuts through complexity with clear, actionable guidance. With a team defined by cultural and jurisdictional diversity, Baker McKenzie combines deep local knowledge with international expertise to help businesses thrive across borders.
Global perspective is embedded in the firm’s DNA, shaping how its people think, collaborate, and solve problems. Embedded in key markets worldwide, its teams build trust, nurture relationships, and work closely with local regulators to provide clients with truly on-the-ground insight.
Baker McKenzie partners with clients for the long term, guided by the belief that success is built on shared commitment rather than transactions. This approach ensures clients receive timely, practical support to make the decisions that matter most.
With more than 6,500 locally qualified, globally experienced lawyers and tax advisors across over 40 countries, the firm brings the knowledge, resources, and cultural fluency needed to deliver consistent, high quality service. Its professionals represent more than 60 nationalities, are admitted in nearly 250 jurisdictions, educated at over 1,200 institutions, and collectively speak more than 70 languages.
Cleary Gottlieb
Founded in 1946, Cleary Gottlieb has grown to over 1,200 lawyers from more than 50 countries, working across practices, industries, jurisdictions and continents to provide clients with clear, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges. The firm operates across 14 offices worldwide and its lawyers speak 65 languages.
Cleary supports every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen and a human touch, with a proven track record for serving with innovation and consistent success across multiple jurisdictions. Global corporations, financial institutions, sovereign governments, local businesses and individuals rely on the firm for consistently practical and forward-looking advice.
The firm has served as counsel to over 50 sovereigns and has advised on over 1,200 completed M&A transactions worldwide since 2015, valued at over $2.6 trillion. Cleary's track record also includes advising on some of the most significant transactions and matters in legal history, including the largest ever sovereign debt restructuring, leveraged buyout, real estate transaction and patent portfolio sale, as well as the most prominent antitrust case of the decade. The firm has also represented over 50 financial institutions in financial crisis-related litigation.
Latham and watkins
Latham & Watkins is a leading global law firm that brings together exceptional legal talent in financial centers around the world to advise on complex transactions, litigation, and regulatory matters. The firm’s deep market and product knowledge, industry experience, vast scale, and commitment to innovation and excellence help clients navigate their most critical challenges and achieve their goals.
Linklaters
For almost 200 years, the world’s leading corporates, banks, funds and financial sponsors have relied on Linklaters for market-leading legal advice.
Our talented and ambitious teams operate at the forefront of all major practice areas and sectors, providing innovative, commercial solutions to our clients’ most complex corporate, finance and contentious matters.
Teamwork fuels our success. We work as one global team across borders and practices to bring the whole firm to our clients, enabling them to confidently seize opportunities and navigate risk.
We equip our teams with the best AI-enabled tools to enhance the support we provide to clients. We also help clients to seize opportunities and stay ahead of emerging legal and regulatory challenges surrounding AI.
Robinhood
Robinhood U.K. Ltd (Robinhood UK) is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN: 823590) and is a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., a US-based financial services company with a mission to democratise finance for all. Robinhood Markets, Inc. and its subsidiaries (“Robinhood”) transformed financial services by introducing commission-free stock trading and democratising access to the markets for millions of investors. Robinhood launched in the UK in 2023 with a low-cost, intuitive platform designed to lower barriers to investing and better support customers who felt underserved by the existing market offering. Today, Robinhood UK offers access to: more than 5,000 US-listed stocks and ADRs; a stocks & shares ISA; options trading; futures trading; margin investing; securities lending; trading of certain securities 24/5; a percentage back on uninvested USD cash; Robinhood Legend; and more all in one place with no account minimums or account fees. Additional information about Robinhood UK can be found at https://robinhood.com/gb/en/.
White & Case
White & Case is a global law firm with long-established offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, cross-border integration and depth of local, US, and English-qualified lawyers help our clients operate with confidence in any one market or across many.
Our global team of specialized lawyers represents businesses across the AI tech stack including those investing in, developing or adopting:
- Applications and other tech leveraging foundational AI technology
- Foundational AI technology (including foundation models, such as large language models and large data sets)
- Critical AI infrastructure powering such foundational AI technology and the applications and other technologies leveraging them










