The Balloch Group (“TBG”) is a leading financial advisory and merchant banking firm, serving clients and investors throughout China and North America. TBG provides financial advisory services and capital raising solutions to its clients across a number of industries. TBG also manages equity investments that integrate capital and its advisory expertise.

TBG was founded in 2001 by Howard Balloch (Canada’s ambassador to China from 1996 to 2001). TBG provides its clients quality advice from bankers with decades of experience and a deep knowledge of China. TBG was ranked as the number one boutique investment bank in China in 2008 and 2009 by ChinaVenture.

Financial Advisory

TBG provides a broad range of financial advisory services to clients across a broad range of industries. TBG’s clients range from fast growing domestic Chinese companies to leading multi-national companies.

TBG’s corporate finance practice provides the following services to its clients:
•    Buy-side and Sell-side Mergers and Acquisitions
•    Capital Raising
•    Exclusive Sales
•    Strategic Corporate and Government Advisory
•    Market Entry Advisory

TBG’s professionals provide access to capital, investors and partners in China, the United States and Canada. TBG Capital, Inc., a FINRA registered broker dealer, provides access to institutional private debt and equity capital markets in the United States.

Merchant Banking

TBG, through its affiliates, seeks to integrate capital with its advisory expertise to assist leading Chinese companies achieve their strategic goals. TBG provides its portfolio companies more than capital. TBG provides sound strategic advice and access to foreign partners and technology. TBG enables investors to earn compelling returns with less risk by leveraging TBG’s deep knowledge of China and its unparalleled corporate and government relationships.

TBG announced the formation of the TBG‐Dalian Growth Fund, a RMB500 million (approximately $75 million) private equity fund. TBG will manage the fund with its partner, Dalian Hi‐Tech Venture Capital Management Co. Ltd.

Dalian Hi‐Tech Venture Capital Management is owned by the city of Dalian’s Hi‐Tech Zone. Dalian’s Hi‐Tech Zone is home to over 3,600 of China’s most dynamic companies and 800 international corporations, including 62 ‘Global Fortune 500’ companies. Dalian is northeast China’s fastest growing city with a population of 8 million people and an average annual GDP growth rate of more than 12% over the past ten years. Foreign direct investment in Dalian totaled over $6.6 billion in 2009.

Portfolio companies include:
•    Maple Leaf Education – China’s largest private K-12 international school
•    Genscript - China’s largest biology contract research organization