Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUL 2021年7月 亞博匯 38 COVER STORY THE NIKI We’ve published THE NIKI’s answers to our questions verbatim below. IR TRACK RECORD “Our consortium is formed with some of the most experienced professionals in the sector. Companies and executives have worked at each of the top five gaming operators worldwide. This includes designing, constructing, opening and managing the largest IRs in Las Vegas, Singapore, Macau, Australia, Philippines and Europe.” FINANCIAL CAPABILITY “Theplanned investment amount isapproximately JPY 350 billion (US$3.2 billion). Equity has been raised by our consortium members and global institutions, but names cannot be disclosed yet due to confidentiality reasons. For debt financing, we plan to raise funds from investors including investment banks, consortium partners and Japanese domestic banking groups.” MICE EXPERIENCE “Our company has experience running MICE events in a number of jurisdictions, and our MICE executives have been involved in creating, developing and running one of Asia’s top threeMICE international destinations. These include all aspects of M, I, C and E, from large-scale world exhibits to smaller and more intimate quality meetings, large scale conventions from some world-leading companies and major events that are transmitted live globally.