Industrivärden was established in 1944; Ericsson was its sole original investment. Industrivärden's roster reads like a who's who of Nordic entrepreneuralism. The holding company invests in midsized and large public Nordic companies with an emphasis on industrial manufacturers and financial services. (Industrivärden is a Swedish word meaning "industrial value".) It owns stakes in companies including financial services group Handelsbanken, telecom company Ericsson, toolmaker Sandvik, and paper products maker Svenska Cellulosa. AB Industrivärden company prefers to take long-term significant stakes in companies in which it can take an active ownership role.

Alexander David Securities (formerly Griffin Group) looks out for the little guy. Alexander David Securities Group plc provides corporate brokerage services to small and midsized businesses and institutional brokerage services to micro-cap and small-cap fund managers. Alexander David Securities Group plc also conducts research on small companies. Alexander David Securities Group plc offers financial advice and trading of equities, futures, options, and other financial instruments to high-net-worth private clients as well. In early 2009 the former Griffin Group bought UK-based brokerage house Alexander David in a reverse merger and assumed the acquired company's name.

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.

First Reserve is a leading investment firm specializing in the energy industry. Throughout its 25-year history, First Reserve has developed an unparalleled franchise by investing exclusively in the energy industry and utilizing its broad base of specialized industry knowledge to the benefit of its portfolio companies and investors. First Reserve believes that strategic diversification across a wide range of energy industry sectors has been a major contributor to the long-term, superior investment record achieved by the First Reserve funds across economic cycles.First Reserve is an independently owned firm whose current management team, in place since 1983, collectively has more than 300 years of energy investment experience. The firm has developed a global platform by investing exclusively in the energy industry, having invested approximately $12.5 billion in equity. First Reserve has invested in over 100 platform acquisitions and First Reserve portfolio companies have completed approximately 300 add-on transactions.First Reserve generally targets investments in global energy companies with enterprise values of up to $10 billion. First Reserve’s investor base is predominately institutional and consists primarily of corporate and public retirement funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations.

ACI Capital Co., LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in New York City. ACI Capital Co., LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, growth capital, recapitalization, PIPE, secondary purchase, bridge financing, and special situation transactions of middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in the consumer, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and chemical sectors in the United States. It typically acts as a lead investor and invests between $10 million and $50 million per transaction in portfolio companies that have revenues between $50 million and $500 million and operating incomes between $5 million and $50 million.

Sequoia Capital nurtures the seeds that grow into the giants of the tech industry. The venture capital firm, which backed little acorns such as Apple, Oracle, Yahoo!, and Cisco Systems, fertilizes some of Silicon Valley's most promising seedlings. Other notable investments have included Web search engine Google, content management software maker Agile, and Internet darling YouTube. Investing up to $50 million per transaction, Sequoia Capital has funded more than 300 companies in the US, China, India, and Israel. Globally it manages nearly $10 billion in funds.

Wind Point Partners is a private equity investment firm that acquires middle market businesses with growth potential and a clear path to value creation. Wind Point manages $2 billion in commitments from pension funds, endowments and individuals and has invested in more than 80 companies since 1984. Wind Point identifies and invests in partnerships with top caliber CEOs and executives who have a record of success within their industry and the vision to build a market-leading enterprises via acquisition and organic growth. Wind Point align Wind economic interests closely with those of company management teams through significant equity participation.

Essex Woodlands Health Ventures was founded in 1985 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in New York, New York, The Woodlands, Texas, and London, United Kingdom. Essex Woodlands Health Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in the healthcare sectors. The firm typically invests across all stages of company development including early stage, late stage, growth equity, and PIPE transactions. In the healthcare sector it seeks to invest in drug, device and service companies, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, medical devices, healthcare services, managed care, and health information technology. The firm prefers to invest in companies throughout the world including east coast, west coast, and mid-west of United States with a focus on North America, Europe, and Asia. It typically invests growth capital in mature companies having revenues between $20 million and $100 million.

HIFX PLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Windsor, the United Kingdom. It has operations in Europe, North America, and Australasia. HiFX Plc was formerly known as HiFX Limited and changed its name to HiFX Plc in January 2004. HiFX Plc provides foreign exchange advisory services. It offers advisory services on identifying the nature of risks, foreign currency forecasting, and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as provides advisory services for foreign exchange structured products and managing surplus funds. The company also provides online and international money transfer services; news and information on various aspects of the currency markets, foreign exchange, emigrating, and overseas property; overseas property insurance services; and foreign exchange services for property purchase and emigration.

Hellman & Friedman LLC was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at San Francisco, California with offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom. Hellman & Friedman LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged recapitalizations, acquisitions, buys and builds, traditional buyouts, financial restructurings, growth investments, and numerous types of minority investments. It invests in public and private companies. The firm makes investments in marketing and professional services, asset management and other business and financial services, insurance, energy, healthcare, industrials, vertical software and information services industries, internet, media, and communications. It targets investments in companies based in United States, Europe, and Australia. The firm seeks to invest between $200 million and $750 million in its portfolio companies. It may act as a controlling shareholder and as an influential minority investor. The firm prefers to invest alongside management in companies going through transitions including private or closely held businesses looking to institutionalize, to go public, to de-mutualize, or to undertake public to private transactions.

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