We all know that designing the correct incentive structure is essential to achieving your objectives. This is correct in any aspect of life as people respond to incentives. Likewise it is essential for government to design the correct incentive structures for getting companies to develop new sectors. The Chinese government has made great efforts to further the development of the cleantech sector such as feed-in tariffs for renewable electricity, low interest loans, tax holidays, support infrastructure and similar. On the upcoming Cleantech Thursdays we will discuss the incentives in place in China and how investors can benefit from these when making investments in the Cleantech sector.

After the panel discussion Cleantech Thursdays will as always provide a platform for networking amongst the Cleantech industry in China.
 
Guest Panelists include(see bios below):
Howard Yu, Partner, PwC Beijing
Tom Luckock, Partner, Norton Rose Beijing
Kent Carter, Managing Director, Camco Investments China
Additional Speakers TBD
Moderated by: Anders Brendstrup, Cleantech Thursdays
 
There will be complimentary snack and wine served, though as ever, space is limited for this event, so please be sure to register as soon as possible.
Also, be sure to visit our website at www.cleantechthursdays.com to stay informed about upcoming events. We look forward to seeing you then!
 
Date: Thursday ,July 15th, 2010
Time: Registration: 6:30pm, Panel 7:00pm, network: 7:45pm
Location: PWC office, 26/F Office Tower A, Beijing Fortune Plaza, 7 Dongsanhuan Zhong Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Cost: 100 RMB
 
日期：7月15日,  星期四
时间：注册: 6:30pm，嘉宾论坛：7:00pm, 来宾交流：7:45pm
地点：北京普华永道多功能厅,朝阳区东三环中路7号财富中心办公楼A座 26 层
费用：100元
注：本次活动使用语言为英语

组织者/Organizers:
      Camco
合作者/PARTNER:
      PriceWaterHouseCoopers
 
Panelist bios
Howard Yu,tax Partner, PwC Beijing office, who is specializing in mergers & acquisition and investment in China. Howard joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1991 and has worked in the US and Taiwan, prior to coming to China in June 1996. In addition to PwC experience, Howard also worked as the China CFO of a Dutch/South African company in media and technology sectors. Howard has master’s degrees from Rice University (Houston, Texas) in accounting and business administration and holds a CPA certificate in Washington State, the United States.As part of the China M&A tax team, Howard heads up a team of M&A tax specialists in Beijing, China and has been providing advice to multinational and domestic companies on PRC-related tax and business issues, including China entry strategy, JV negotiation, company formation, corporate restructuring, due diligence, deal implementation and post dealintegration across various sectors. Howard is familiar with tax andregulatory issues faced by both foreign and Chinese investors on acquisition, disposition and internal re-organization, and investments in China.

Tom Luckock, Partner, Beijing Climate change Energy Project finance Mergers and acquisitions, Norton Rose. Tom is a projects lawyer based in Beijing. He specialises in projects in the climate change sector. Tom has assisted with debt and equity investments in a range of wind, water, coal mine methane, solar, coal to liquids and biomass projects in China and also in to Europe.  In the last 12 months he has assisted with the deal that won Project Finance, Asia Pacific Renewables Deal of the Year 2010, the largest desalination project in China to date and the first foreign invested solar project.  He is a recommended practitioner in the 2010 edition of IFLR 1000 and the 2009 and 2010 edition of Chambers and Partners. Tom worked for an Australian law firm before joining Norton Rose LLP in early 2004, and as been based in Beijing for eight years. He studied Chinese and undergraduate law at Renmin University and speaks and reads Chinese.
 
Kent J Carter, Managing Director of Camco’s Investments division in China, which is dedicated to financing of clean energy projects and technology companies in the country.  He has lived in Asia since 1989 and in Beijing since 1999.  Before joining Camco, Kent was Senior Vice President M&A at Peak Pacific Investment Company in Beijing, where he had overall responsibility for building the company’s portfolio of energy assets. With Peak Pacific he evaluated hundreds of conventional thermal and renewable energy projects in China, and negotiated and closed 6 joint ventures with total investment in excess of US$150 million.  Prior to coming to China, he was based in Singapore with one of SE Asia’s leading infrastructure development, construction and investment firms in the oil & gas, power, water supply and transportation sectors. Kent holds a BASc from the University of British Columbia, Canada.