Ascend Acquisition Corp. and e.PAK Resources (S) Pte. Ltd. to Present at the Roth Capital Partners 20th Annual OC Growth Stock C
09 February 2008 - 7:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
WAYNE, Pa. and AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Ascend Acquisition Corp. ("Ascend") (OTC:ASAQOTC:ASAQUOTC:ASAQW)
(BULLETIN BOARD: ASAQ, ASAQU, ASAQW) , a specified purpose
acquisition company, announced that its Chairman and CEO, Don K.
Rice and Steve Dezso, CEO of its merger partner e.PAK Resources (S)
Pte. Ltd. ("ePAK"), will present at the upcoming Roth Capital
Partners 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference. The Roth Capital
Partners 20th Annual OC Growth Stock Conference is a four-day event
featuring presentations from over 300 small-cap companies including
over 40 U.S.-listed Chinese companies across a broad spectrum of
sectors, such as technology, healthcare, energy, industrial and
consumer products. Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Time: 3:00
p.m. Pacific Time Venue: The Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel, Dana
Point, CA Live webcast: http://www.ascendgrowth.com/ A replay of
the webcast will be available on the website for 90 days beginning
the afternoon of the presentation. Interested parties and
institutional investors may register for the conference by visiting
the conference website at http://www.rothconference.com/ or
emailing . In July 2007, Ascend entered into a definitive agreement
to merge with ePAK. Under the terms of the agreement, at the
closing of the transaction, Ascend will reincorporate as a Bermuda
public company and acquire 100% of the outstanding capital stock of
ePAK. Upon completion of the transaction, which is expected in the
second quarter of 2008, the resulting public company will be
domiciled in Bermuda and renamed ePAK International Ltd. It is
expected that ePAK International's common stock and warrants will
trade on the NASDAQ Global Market. Additional Information A
registration statement and proxy statement under Form S-4 has been
filed under the issuer name "EPAK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED" with the
Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the proposed
acquisition of ePAK and reincorporation of Ascend in Bermuda..
STOCKHOLDERS OF ASCEND AND OTHER INTERESTED PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO
READ, WHEN AVAILABLE, THE FINAL PROSPECTUS AND DEFINITIVE PROXY
STATEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSACTIONS AND THE SOLICITATION
OF PROXIES FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING OF ASCEND'S STOCKHOLDERS BECAUSE
THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. The final prospectus and
definitive proxy statement will be mailed to Ascend's stockholder
as of a record date to be established for voting on the acquisition
and redomestication. These documents also will be available without
charge online at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Internet
site (http://www.sec.gov/) and by mail through requests to Ascend
Acquisition Corp., 435 Devon Park Drive, Bldg. 400 Wayne, PA 19087,
Attention: T. Anderson. Stockholders and other interested persons
can also read Ascend's final prospectus, dated May 11, 2006, for a
description of the security holdings of Ascend's directors and
officers and of EarlyBirdCapital, Inc., the underwriters of
Ascend's initial public offering, and their respective interests in
the successful consummation of the proposed transactions. About
e.PAK Resources (S) Pte. Ltd. ePAK is a full-service designer,
manufacturer and supplier of precision engineered products and
solutions for the automated transport and handling of semiconductor
and electronic devices. ePAK's product areas include front-end
wafer handling, back-end IC transport, and end-system sub-assembly
handling. The Company's products are sold globally to top tier
global customers including semiconductor companies, system OEMs,
and IC assembly and test operations. The company's low cost,
large-scale manufacturing operations in Shenzhen, the People's
Republic of China ("PRC") are centrally located to the
semiconductor industry. ePAK's executive offices are located in
Austin, Texas and the Company maintains nine sales and applications
engineering offices worldwide. About Ascend Acquisition Corporation
Ascend Acquisition Corp. was formed on December 5, 2005 for the
purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset
acquisition or other similar business combination with an operating
business. Ascend's registration statement for its initial public
offering was declared effective on May 11, 2006 and the offering
closed on May 22, 2006, generating net proceeds of approximately
$38.5 million from the sale of 6.9 million units, including the
full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option and the
sale of 166,667 units to the Ascend's Chairman and CEO, Don K.
Rice. Each unit was comprised of one share of Ascend common stock
and two warrants, each with an exercise price of $5.00. As of
January 31, 2007, Ascend held approximately $40.8 million in a
trust account maintained by an independent trustee, which will be
released to Ascend upon the consummation of the business
combination. Contact Information: Ascend Acquisition Corporation
Don K. Rice, Chairman and CEO Phone: 610-519-1336
http://www.ascendgrowth.com/ ePAK International Inc. Steve Dezso,
CEO Phone: 512-231-8083 http://www.epak.com/ Investor Relations:
Crocker Coulson, President CCG Investor Relations Phone:
646-213-1915 http://www.ccgir.com/ DATASOURCE: Ascend Acquisition
Corp. CONTACT: Don K. Rice, Chairman and CEO, Ascend Acquisition
Corporation, +1-610-519-1336, ; Steve Dezso, CEO, ePAK
International Inc., +1-512-231-8083, ; Investor Relations: Crocker
Coulson, President, CCG Investor Relations, +1-646-213-1915, Web
site: http://www.ascendgrowth.com/ http://www.epak.com/
http://www.rothconference.com/
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