Off to China

I’m headed Friday to speak at DealFlow Media’s PIPE conference in Shanghai next week. I will be moderating  a panel on how Chinese companies get ready to become US public companies. I am looking forward to the interplay with a fabulous group of panelists. I am also looking forward to the inauguration of a direct Shanghai to Newark flight so coming home I can skip going through Beijing.

I think, as was the theme of a hedge fund dinner I went to a few weeks ago, that all of us in this space need a big group hug. When I worked in a large law firm, the hours and treatment were regularly not great. But when you were sitting in the break room with pizza (granted it was Ray’s famous) at 9 pm with seven other lawyers doing the same thing, somehow that shared misery made it a little more bearable. Thus I am glad so many of us will have the chance to see each other and commiserate. So while the panels will certainly be very important and informative as always, it’s at the coffee break, lunch and cocktails where I think we will all seek solace and share, I hope, optimism that things will be better sooner rather than later.  I had a fabulous meeting today with an individual leading me to believe investors are again ready to start opening their pocketbooks.

In the meantime, I will do some Internet research on restaurants in Shanghai that don’t require me to use chopsticks.

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