China is a complex and highly competitive marketplace. Pantek’s principals have cut their teeth over the past ten years navigating the complexities of the Chinese marketplace, developing relationships and conducting deals on behalf of our clients and this enables our clients to quickly acquire and leverage the local knowledge and relationships we have built over the past decade to be successful and avoid the common pitfalls of operating and conducting joint ventures, capital raising and mergers & acquisitions in China.

Why China? Design, development, production, manufacturing, sales, licensing and distribution partner relationships have globalized for early stage and middle market companies over the past decade, as have their respective arenas of financing sources and their ecosystems of potential merger and acquisition targets and joint venture partners. Multi-national, or 'hybrid' business models, previously the domain of only the largest Fortune 500 corporations, have become an operational mandate for middle market companies to remain competitive in today's global markets. China, as a global hub of export manufacturing, a center of raw materials and commodities consumption, an emerging leader in technology development and as one of the world’s largest end markets, is a critical element of any successful business plan for companies who wish to tap into new large markets, increase market share in existing markets while maintaining competitive operating metrics and innovation levels on a global basis.

As the financial and operational ecosystems for early-stage to middle market companies has expanded globally, or 'hybridized', the cross-border corporate finance advisory ecosystem for these companies, particularly in China, has not. The large bulge-bracket investment banks are limited to larger deal sizes and minimum fee levels, while mid-market-boutique firms typically have not developed true cross-border capabilities with both onshore and offshore teams, expertise and strategic partner relationship ecosystems.

Pantek provides its clients with Wall Street-trained, China-experienced M&A and private placement advisory services supported by real 'boots-on-the-ground' resources and critical ecosystem relationships enabling our clients to more efficiently navigate the local Chinese markets and conduct successful M&A, JV, fundraising and related market-entry activities.