Jefferies was a Gold Sponsor of the Sea Asia Conference, an event where senior representatives of the Asian maritime community gathered at an important debate forum with their counterparts from Europe, North America and the Middle East. Jefferies sponsored the Equity Finance session on April 3, 2007. Conference sessions embraced finance for shipping, forecasting the markets, global clustering trends, and patterns of maritime services. For further information, please visit http://www.sea-asia.com/index.htm.