Euroclear Bank SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides clearance and settlement services for domestic and international securities transactions covering bonds, equities, investment funds, and derivatives. Its International Central Securities Depository operates as the settlement platform for international and domestic securities markets. The company’s Central Securities Depositories provide settlement and custody services to Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Euroclear Bank also offers banking services, including cash management, credit management, treasury, and money transfer services; collateral management services; new issues services; securities lending and borrowing services; and tax services. In addition, it provides ClimateSettle, a settlement and safeguarding service for the European Union allowance units and certified emission rights; DerivManager, an over the counter derivatives exposure management service; EquityReach, an equities service that offer direct access to multiple equity markets; FundSettle, a platform for automated fund transaction processing; and LoanReach, a multi-currency post-trade service for loans.

Astellas Venture Management invests in seed-stage and emerging biotech companies, including drug discovery and development companies. The firm manages four venture funds, and its portfolio includes more than 20 companies. Astellas Venture Management is the venture capital arm of Astellas Pharma, formed from the 2005 merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical. Astellas Venture Management provides its portfolio companies not only with cash, but also access to the scientific expertise, production facilities, and marketing clout of its parent firm.

Informative Research Inc. is an information provider for lenders, brokers, and agents involved in the mortgage lending business. Informative Research helps mitigate the financial risk involved with mortgage lending by providing clients with credit reports on potential customers, and identifying fraudulent or invalid loan applications. Informative Research Inc. also offers flood zone determinations, including life of loan reports and portfolio monitoring, as well as automated valuation modeling, including property valuation reports and physical appraisal audits. Informative Research was founded in 1946.

Littlejohn & Co. LLC was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. Littlejohn & Co. LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in turnaround, middle market in mid-sized companies. It also invests in mature companies. The firm typically invests in underperforming companies that would benefit from financial restructuring, fundamental change in strategic direction, or substantial improvements in operating infrastructure. It seeks to invest in industrial equipment, packaging, chemicals, automotive and transportation parts and equipment, food processing, electronics and electrical products, healthcare, plastics, textiles, aerospace and defense, distribution, environmental and infrastructure services, and consumer products. It does not invest in fashion, retail, real estate, and high technology industries. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in United States, but would also consider opportunities in Canada and Europe. It makes control equity investment in companies with revenues between $150 million and $800 million. The firm seeks to invest $50 million to $100 million of equity per transaction and will only sponsor friendly transactions.

H.I.G. Capital was founded in 1993 and is based in Miami, Florida with additional offices across the United States and Europe. H.I.G. Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed or startups, early, mid, and late stage; management and leveraged buyouts; add on acquisitions; mature businesses; industry consolidation; corporate divestitures; recapitalization transactions; turnarounds; growth or development capital; distressed credits and shares; and public to private transactions of small and middle market companies. It also invests in underperforming businesses. The firm does not invest in industries that are highly cyclical or capital intensive. It primarily invests in small and medium sized companies in the manufacturing, business services, specialty chemicals, promotional products, plastic molding, consumer products, oil recycling and water filtration, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical manufacturing services sectors. The firm typically makes investments ranging between €2 million ($3 million) to €100 million ($150.27 million). It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Europe. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues up to $500 million; enterprise value between $50 million and $500 million; and an EBITDA between $5 million and $150 million. It invests in the form of equity and debt.

Counsel Corporation seeks to acquire real estate and controlling stakes in a variety of established companies with stable management and growth prospects. It targets the real estate, communications, consumer goods, and other sectors in Canada and the US. Counsel Corporation company owns C2 Global Technologies and Fleetwood Fine Furniture, which manufactures custom case goods for upscale hotels. Counsel's real estate holdings throughout Canada include more than a dozen retail properties that contain more than 1 million sq. ft. of leasable space. Its private equity arm, Knights Bridge Capital Corporation, makes investments up to $10 million in small and mid-market companies in North America.

Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales has privatized numerous state holdings since it was established in 1995 through private equity sales, IPOs, and other transaction. SEPI's Cofivacasa arm is responsible for winding down companies that are no longer viable enterprises, such as steel concerns Sofesa and ENSIDESA. Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) is the holding company for all businesses owned or partially owned by Spain's government. Its portfolio includes Latin America media company Agencia EFE, tobacco grower Cetarsa, and commercial financing firm Sodian. Other assets have included energy, real estate, infrastructure, aerospace, and ship building businesses.

GS Capital Partners V, L.P. specializes in investments in mature companies, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth investments to fund acquisitions or expansions. The fund prefers to invest $50 million or less in Chinese private businesses and participates in ownership reorganization in Chinese state-owned enterprises with investments above $200 million each.

GFI Energy Ventures, LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California. GFI Energy Ventures, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in acquisitions and buyouts. The firm does not invest in start-up and turnaround situations. It prefers to invest in the energy and power sector with a focus on companies engaged in power quality and power conversion; energy measurement and control; transmission and distribution optimization; information systems and transaction support; and demand management. The firm targets the downstream portion of the market with emphasis on the point of interface among the energy supplier, transporter, marketer, and industrial and commercial end-users. It also does not invest in unproven technologies and companies having an equity investment requirement of less than $30 million. The firm seeks to invest in companies having enterprise values between $50 million and $500 million and minimum revenues of $50 million. It seeks to acquire controlling or significant interests in private companies or business units of public companies. The firm also acquires large equity positions in publicly traded companies under certain circumstances.

Lazard Middle Market LLC is an investment banking firm that represents sellers of public and private middle-market businesses in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. The services provided by the firm include mergers and acquisitions, distressed company, and private placement advisory services; and valuations and opinions services. It offers a range of domestic and cross-border transactions including sales, mergers, and partnerships and joint ventures. Goldsmith provides financial advisory services to distressed companies in both Chapter 11 court-supervised proceedings and in out-of-court workouts. Its valuation services include strategic alternative assessments; fairness opinions and analyses; equity placements; purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment opinions; management incentive compensation plans; estate and gift tax planning; and litigation support. The firm caters to various industries including consumer, food & beverage, healthcare, industrial products and manufacturing, natural resources and environment, publishing, printing, media, technology, telecom, transportation and business services.

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