Canaccord Genuity (formerly Canaccord Adams) provides equities research, sales, and trading services, and investment banking services such as securities underwriting, sales, trading, M&A advice, and industry research. Formed in 1969 through the merger of Weston W. Adams & Company and Harkness & Hill, the company specializes in the technology, metals, mining, life sciences, real estate, and financial services sectors. Canaccord Genuity also acts as a market maker for small- and mid-cap stocks in the US. Canaccord Capital (now Canaccord Financial) acquired Canaccord Adams in 2006. Four years later, it acquired M&A advisory firm Genuity Capital Markets and rebranded all of its capital markets businesses.

Candover Investments plc is a United Kingdom-based investment company. The principal activity of the Company is to invest in private equity transactions. It invests in buyouts across Europe via funds managed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Candover Partners Limited. The activities of its principal subsidiary, Candover Partners Limited, are to raise, invest and manage, on behalf of third parties, private equity funds (the Candover Funds), alongside which the Company makes co-investments. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s 10 largest investments included Expro International, Stork, Parques Reunidos, Alma Consulting Group, Ontex, Qioptiq, Equity Trust, Eurotax Glass’s, Capital Safety Group and Innovia Films. During the year ended December 31, 2009, Candover Partners Limited purchased Bearstead Holding Sarl, which owns a 100% interest in Bosting Holding Sarl.

Cantor Fitzgerald, LP was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Cantor Fitzgerald, LP provides sales and trading services in the areas of equity and fixed income capital markets; investment banking services; and brokerage services for institutional clients. It offers repo and securities lending, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, credit securities, structured products, SBA securities, interest rate products, and agency structures; and domestic and international equities, derivatives, convertibles and structured products, portfolio trading, risk arbitrage services, stock loans, and institutional equity research services. Cantor Fitzgerald company also offers various investment banking services, such as financing solutions to access capital markets; financial advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, complex financings, LBOs, and restructurings; merchant banking services; marketing road shows, market intelligence, investor relations, proxy defenses, and dispositions; and asset management services.

Cantor Index Limited, an online financial spread betting company, provides spread bets on equity, commodity, and bond markets. It provides stocks and shares, indices, bonds and commodities, foreign exchanges, interest rates, daily rolling shares, and daily rolling spot FX bets. The company also offers sales and trading, investment banking, asset management, market data, and market commentary services; brokerage services to wholesale market participants; electronic marketplaces and related trading technology developing and deploying services; and professional charting and news services.

CapEx is an investment fund that specializes in mezzanine debt and equity investments in later-stage private or small-cap public companies with revenues of at least $10 million. An active investor, CapEx typically injects between $2 million and $5 million into companies in such industries as business services, consumer products, and manufacturing; it avoids the financial services, high tech, energy, and real estate sectors. Investments have included BriteSmile and SSP America (formerly Creative Host Services).

Capital Management and Investment plc (CMI) is a United Kingdom-based investment holding company. In October 2007, Algeco Scotsman was formed following the merger of Algeco, Europe’s modular construction and mobile storage business, with Williams Scotsman, the modular storage rental business in North America. CMI, through its investment in Yola Investments Sarl (Yola) indirectly owns 7% of Magticom, a provider of mobile telephone services in the Republic of Georgia.

Capital Southwest Corporation was founded in 1961 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Capital Southwest Corporation (CSC) is a business development company. The Company’s investment interests are focused on expansion financings, management buyouts, minority recapitalizations, industry consolidations and early-stage financings in a range of industry segments. The portfolio is a composite of companies, in which it has interests, as well as a number of developing companies and marketable securities of publicly-traded companies. The Company makes available managerial assistance to the companies, in which it invests. As of March 31, 2010, the 12 largest investments the Company owned represented 90.3% of the value of its consolidated investment portfolio. Capital Southwest Management Company (CSMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of CSC, is the management company for CSC and Capital Southwest Venture Corporation (CSVC). In June 2010, NorthStar Memorial Group, LLC acquired the Company’s wholly owned portfolio company, Lifemark Group.

Capital Z Management company holds significant minority interests in about 15 US and European alternative investment management firms that specialize in long/short equity positions, managed futures, private equity, emerging markets, special situations, and other investment strategies. Capital Z typically acquires an ownership stake of 20% to 50% in its sponsored asset managers, takes seats on their boards of directors, and provides input on the management of their funds and on other major business decisions. Capital Z Management company also makes private equity investments through its CZR Capital and Union Square Partners affiliates.

Capricorn Management was formed by managing general partner Herbert "Pug" Winokur in 1987. Capricorn Management was born under the dollar sign. Capricorn Management company is a private equity firm that targets companies valued between $50 and $500 million and holds them for about four to eight years. It looks for undervalued investments with strong customer bases. Investors in the firm include endowments, financial institutions, corporate pension funds, and select families and individuals. Capricorn generally invests $3 million to $35 million per transaction. Portfolio companies include snack food company Mrs. Fields and incontinence products maker Whitestone.

Castle Harlan, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. Castle Harlan, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, divestitures under duress, restructurings, turnarounds, workouts, bankruptcies, mature and development capital in middle market companies. The firm will not consider investments in heavily regulated companies. It typically invests in companies based in North America and Europe. The firm invests in transactions with a minimum value of $50 million. It prefers to hold controlling positions in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its portfolio companies through a strategic sale or public offerings.

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