Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides short term, secured, non–banking, commercial loans to small businesses in the United States. Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc. loans are secured by collateral, such as real estate, receivables, and marketable securities, as well as accompanied by personal guarantees from the principals of the businesses. Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc. also develops Nextyellow, a software solution; and Nextyellow.com, a related Web site, which allow retail businesses and other service providers to reach prospective customers and clients for their goods and services. Manhattan Bridge Capital offers its loan products primarily through the company’s officers and independent loan brokers. Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

RA Capital Advisors, formerly known as Relational Advisors, LLC, was founded in 1988 and is based in San Diego, California. RA Capital Advisors LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions, valuations, proxy solicitations, divestitures, and Initial Public Offering (IPO) services. Additionally, it provides structured financing, operational repositioning, and restructuring services. The firm caters to aerospace, automotive, energy, healthcare, technology, mining, and pharmaceuticals industries.

Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation provides agricultural real estate and rural housing mortgage loans in the secondary market in the United States. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation engages in purchasing eligible loans directly from lenders; providing advances against eligible loans by purchasing obligations secured by those loans; securitizing assets and guaranteeing securities representing interests in pools of eligible loans; and issuing long-term standby purchase commitments for eligible loans. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation also purchases portfolios of newly originated and seasoned loans, mortgage loans secured by first liens on agricultural real estate, fixed- and adjustable rate loans, and loans to finance electrification and telecommunications systems in rural areas. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation was founded in 1987 and is based in Washington, D.C.

JCB Finance provides asset management and financial services for the UK construction and heavy machinery industries. The company's JCB Finance Asset Management segment sells or leases cars, access platforms, excavators, forklifts, loading shovels, and highway maintenance equipment, while its JCB Insurances Services branch issues insurance for the construction and industries sectors. In addition, the company's JCB Farm Finance unit provides farmers with combine harvesters, foragers, cultivation equipment, bailers, mowers, sprayers, trailers, and other related products. JCB Finance is owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland and farming equipment maker J C Bamford Excavators.

RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada and the leading debt and equity underwriter in the Great White North. As the only Canadian bank designated as a primary dealer in the US, RBC Capital Markets offers mergers and acquisitions support, securities trading and research, foreign exchange, infrastructure finance, and advisory services. It serves a number of industries, including aerospace, media, mining, energy, health care, forest products, transportation, and the public sector. Almost half of its business comes from the US. The firm has some 75 offices mainly in North America, but also in major cities in Australia, Brazil, Dubai, Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

Evergreen Investment Management was founded in 1932 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Malvern, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Evergreen Investment Management Co., LLC is an asset management arm of Wachovia Bank, NA. The firm provides its services to investment companies; corporations; pension and profit sharing plans; state and municipal government entities; individuals, including high net worth individuals; banking and thrift institutions; pooled investment vehicles; and charitable organizations. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages a family of mutual funds, hedge funds, and variable annuities for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, private real estate, commodities markets, and managed futures. For its equity investments, it typically invests in growth and value stocks of all-cap companies, including small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. For its small/mid cap growth portfolio, the firm makes investments in companies with market capitalizations below $6 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its enhanced index portfolio against the S&P 500 index.

J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies. The firm invests in consumer products, healthcare, specialty retail, and asset management companies. It invests in companies based in North America and Asia. The firm invests in companies having enterprise values between $150 million and $600 million and an earnings growth rate of at least 10 percent per annum. It seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Calvert Group, Ltd. was established in 1976 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland. Calvert Group, Ltd. is a Maryland-based investment advisor with over $7.5 billion assets under management. Its equity investment strategies include aggressive growth, growth, growth and value, indexing, value, small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, quantitative, and social screening. The firm invests globally, but specifically, in the United States, Europe, and emerging markets.

Founder and chairman Gerhard Andlinger started the Andlinger & Company, Inc. in 1976. Andlinger & Company, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management and leveraged buyout, acquisition, recapitalization of public and private companies, corporate divestiture, turnaround, and growth capital transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation, emission reduction, and waste recovery sectors. It also seeks platform acquisition opportunities in companies engaged in the industrial manufacturing, medical devices, value-added distribution and logistics, graphic arts, scientific instruments, information services and software, engineering services, technology infrastructure, pharmaceutical packaging, and manufacturing sectors. The firm prefers not to invest in the retail, real estate, natural resources, and commodities sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies headquartered in North America and Europe. It typically invests up to $25 million in portfolio companies with enterprise values between $20 million and $200 million.

Axel Johnson, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in supplying energy products and related services in the United States. Axel Johnson company provides water treatment systems for potable and process water, waste water, and solids handling applications to individuals and communities; and water softeners, filters, drinking water systems, and water purification systems to residential and light commercial customers. Its technology is used by industrial customers for water recycling, hazardous waste minimization, metals recovery, and purity water production. Axel Johnson company also provides material-handling services; and supplies filtration technology for municipal water treatment systems, including various technologies for the arsenic removal. In addition, it recovers antique wood timbers from various circumstances, including abandoned industrial mills, antique barns, submerged forests, 19th century breweries, and ancient Chinese temples, as well as refinishes them into custom flooring and millwork.

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