Artio Global Investors, Inc. was founded in 1962. Artio Global Investors, Inc., an asset management company, provides investment management services to institutional and mutual fund clients. It primarily involves in managing and advising Julius Baer Investment Funds. Artio Global Investors Inc company offers various investment strategies, including International Equity strategies, Global High Grade Fixed Income, Global High Yield, Global Equity, and the U.S. Equity. It delivers investment management services to various vehicles, including registered investment management companies, commingled vehicles, and separate accounts. Artio Global Investors distributes its products and services through intermediaries, including investment consultants, broker dealers, RIAs, mutual fund platforms, and sub-advisory relationships.

Updata Partners was founded in 1998. Updata Partners is an investment arm of Updata Capital, Inc. specializing in growth capital, expansion capital, acquisition financing, buyouts, recapitalizations, and corporate spin-offs investments. The firm also provides finance for founder and investor liquidity. It typically invests in information technology sector with a focus on software and information services businesses. Within the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in application software and software-as-a-service, internet, digital media and e-commerce, infrastructure software, and business and information services. The firm invests between $5 million and $20 million in companies with revenue between $5 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be a lead or co-lead investor. It seeks to co-invest in its portfolio companies.

Harris Williams was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia with additional offices in Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Harris Williams LLC, doing business as Harris Williams & Co., is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services to aerospace; automotive and heavy duty truck; building products and materials; Chemicals; commercial and industrial equipment; consumer or business services; consumer products; marketing; energy and power; food and beverage; forest and paper products; furniture; healthcare and life sciences; media and entertainment; metal fabrication; mining; business outsourcing; packaging; chemical; retail; technology; telecommunications; textiles; and transportation and logistics sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, management buyouts, and fairness opinions services. Its clientele includes American Tower Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Oglebay Norton, Linesoft Corporation, Snyder Industries, Pioneer International, Banc One Capital Partners, Cedar Creek Partners, and Allied Capital.

MTS HEALTH PARTNERS, L.P. offers strategic advisory and capital raising services as well as private equity capital distinguished by unparalleled healthcare experience, senior level attention and a unique perspective as both an advisor as well as a principal. As an industry-focused merchant bank, MTS is free from the pressure to satisfy the competing institutional constituencies of a typical investment bank. The principals of MTS have spent their careers focused on the healthcare industry, with over 100 years of experience in acquiring, operating, advising, financing and selling healthcare companies. As such, MTS is uniquely positioned as the premier global healthcare-focused merchant bank.

Hong Kong-based Heritage International Holdings invests in commercial real estate, securities, media companies, and the gaming industry (including casinos in Macau and lottery-related businesses in China). Heritage International company also provides short-term financing to companies and individuals. It earns revenue from four primary sources: retail property rental income, interest income from lending money, dividend income from equity investments, and the sale of investments. Among Heritage International company's many holdings, it owns a stake in a lottery-related business (providing primarily lottery ticket sales and outdoor advertising) in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Oxford Bioscience Partners (OBP), established in 1992, is a venture capital firm that provides equity financing and management assistance to emerging, entrepreneurial-driven companies within the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Experienced partners, who bring together deep domain knowledge in life sciences, have established a proven track record of identifying, validating and backing emerging trends and technologies. While willing to consider an investment in a company at almost any stage, OBP brings unique value and expertise to early-stage situations. With approximately $1B of committed capital under management, OBP has invested in over 140 life science companies worldwide, and has successfully leveraged the extensive research, operating, and financial expertise and experience of its team of investment professionals.

UBS investment banking arm of UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, the company offers equities trading and research, mergers and acquisitions advice, foreign exchange trading, and financing to corporate, institutional, and government clients. UBS Investment Bank has offices in some 30 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. It boasts the world's largest trading floor at its complex in Stamford, Connecticut. UBS Investment Bank's dismal performance during the recession helped sink parent company UBS into a bad position.

Founded in the late 1800s as The West Point Telephone and Electric Company, a telephone and electric concern that would eventually rival AT&T in the long distance industry, ITC today answers to an altogether different call -- that of a financial holding group. It has invested in several telecom companies, including MindSpring, headhunter.net, and knology. Current holdings include ITC Commercial Funding, which provides commercial mortgages for income-producing properties in the South; restaurant supplier Instawares; and Realview TV, a streaming video system developer. ITC Holding also has interests in the Gro-Eco growing system and venture capital firm Kinetic Ventures.

Progress Investment Management Company was founded in 1990 and was under the wings of Bank of America for a time, but is independent after a management buyout. Progress Investment Management specializes in the management of emerging-markets managers, particularly those run by minorities or women; clients include such pension funds as CalPERS, whose manager-development program it manages. Progress Investment Management has approximately $6.4 billion in assets under management.

BFC Financial Corporation (BFC) is a diversified holding company. Its business activities consist of Real Estate and Other Activities and Financial Services Activities. BFC’s real estate and other business activities include four business segments: BFC Activities, Real Estate Operations, and Bluegreen’s two business segments; Bluegreen Resorts and Bluegreen Communities. The BFC Activities segment consists of BFC operations, its investment in Benihana, and the other operations. On November 16, 2009, the Company holds 52% interest in Bluegreen Corporation (Bluegreen).

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