Brazil is in its most promising VC/PE phase, attracting interest from large international investors.

The great business opportunities in Brazil, presently and for the next years, will be discussed and presented by the major national and international experts. Among the topics standing out worldwide, there is the sustainable development challenge, based on a clean and renewable energetic matrix. The Brazilian government has stimulated the creation and the enhancement of new technologies in this sector, thus opening several opportunities of credit and investment for companies turning to the energetic efficiency. ABVCAP 2008 Conference will focus on the “Investment, Energy and Infrastructure”.

The Private Equity and Venture Capital sector has distinguished itself in all developed economies, as an innovation and competitiveness driver. In the emergent markets, the levels of activities have achieved excellent yield in the last years, with a track of success cases. Brazil is also the scenario of expressive cases of very successful IPOs, of invested companies – ALL, DASA, Lupatech, Odontoprev, TOTVS, Akwan, Gafisa, Submarino, among others. The Brazilian stock market has also personified very successfully, the business capital openings of BOVESPA and BM&F, as a result of the effort to enhance its corporate governance rules, favoring the continuousness of business capital attraction.  The recent index behavior indicates a strong demand for a wider range of Brazilian companies.  The perspectives for the future are discussed in this event.

A unique opportunity to debate and do networking with the most representative Brazilian and international ‘players’. Interactive sessions of questions and answers, in order to go deeply into debates to clear up the participants’ queries!

Main themes to be tackled:

• Brazilian scenario;
• Private Equity and Venture Capital sector regulation;
• Investments opportunities in clean and renewable energy;
• The Brazilian challenges in infrastructure;
• Cases of success;
• Alternative energy sources;
• Technology and Innovation;
• Entrepreneurism;
• IPOs and the stockholder interest for the new companies.