Julius Baer Gruppe AG company provides private banking and investment advisory services to wealthy individuals and asset managers around the world. Operating through key subsidiary Bank Julius Baer and other units, the company is the largest independent private bankers among the traditional Swiss banking guard. Julius Baer has some 40 offices in many of the world's financial centers, from Dubai to Tokyo. In 2009 the company split itself up, separating its private banking and asset management operations. It spun off GAM Holding and its stake in advisory firm Artio Global Investors to focus on its core private banking business.

easyGroup was founded in 1998 by self-avowed "serial entrepreneur" Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who owns the company. Haji-Ioannou (who is known simply as Stelios) in 2005 sold his stake in Stelmar Shipping (the original company he founded), but through easyGroup has continued to branch out into new "easy" areas, including men's grooming line easy4men. easyGroup is an umbrella company that explores ways to capitalize on the Web through a variety of low-cost business services. easyGroup brands include easyCar, easyCinema, easyHotel, easyInternetcafe, easyPizza, and easyValue. Airline easyJet is now publicly traded, but easyGroup holds a stake in the company

iVoice has found the best way to increase shareholder value, separate and apart from the operating performance of iVoice, is by spinning off and distributing shares of its wholly owned subsidiaries in the form of a special dividend to the Company’s shareholders. The common stock distributions are part of a broader strategy relating to the transition of iVoice into a company focused on the development and licensing of proprietary technologies. iVoice also continue to search for potential merger candidates with or without compatible technology and products, which management feels may make financing more appealing to potential investors.

The company was founded in April 2000 under the name BGL Investment Partners as a joint initiative of Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL) – now BGL BNP Paribas – and several private investors. The aim was to provide added momentum to regional entrepreneurship while at the same time offering shareholders a stable, high-quality revenue base. BIP was seen as heir to the traditions of BGL, with its long history of support for the creation and ongoing development of companies in Luxembourg and beyond. To continue and consolidate these achievements, the bank opted to contribute its institutional investment business to a new, independent company. This focuses talents and resources to unleash the value of existing firms and turn new ideas into business reality. The launch of BIP was associated with a capital increase through an Initial Public Offering, allowing other institutions and private investors to participate in the venture. Following this IPO, Banque Générale owned approximately 40% of equity, with the balance held by a group of core investors and members of the public. In February 2006, the company changed its name to BIP Investment Partners in the wake of the rebranding of Banque Générale. Meanwhile, BGL has discreased its share of capital to 10%, while the parent of insurance company La Luxembourgeoise increased its stake to 15%.

MSD Capital, L.P. was founded in 1998 and is based in New York, New York. MSD Capital, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in publicly traded securities, private equity activities, real estates, special opportunities, and forming partnerships with third-party managers in the private and public markets. It seeks to invest in leveraged and management buyouts, going private transactions, mezzanine debt, PIPEs, growth equity financings, platform acquisitions and roll-ups, bridge loans, and recapitalization. The firm actively pursues investment opportunities in both public and private companies. It invests in both United States and foreign securities. It does not concentrate its investments in any particular industry. The firm’s Public Equities Group typically invests as a minority owner of publicly traded companies. In addition to investing in equities, it also makes debt investments including the maintenance of convertible bond portfolio. The Private Equity Group invests in established public and private companies through privately-negotiated transactions, including buyouts of private companies and divisions of public or private companies; acquisitions of public companies through going private transactions; and purchases of equity or mezzanine securities from public or private companies seeking equity capital or persons, families, and funds seeking liquidity on existing investments. It seeks to make both growth and control investments.

OAM Avatar is owned by Overture Asset Managers. OAM Avatar, LLC company offers investments, analysis, and brokerage services for financial planners, institutions, wrap brokerage sponsors, and private clients. It manages more than $1 billion in assets from a portfolio that includes Microsoft, Bank of America, United Technologies, Target, and Johnson & Johnson. Products include equity and balanced brokerage programs, defensive and core equity, mutual funds, and customized services for private clients.

Three Cities Research, Inc. was founded in 1976. Three Cities Research, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of medium sized business. The firm seeks to invest in transactions that involve a change of control in unexploited growth situations that can benefit from the infusion of substantial equity capital which can fund growth involving both internal expansion and acquisitions; under performing companies due to poor operating performance, excess leverage, or failed strategies; companies with poor operating management; and complicated transactions including strategic issues, legal complications, capital problems, operating issues, and shareholder or debt holder issues. It seeks to invest in industrial manufacturing, distribution, apparel, publishing, services, and retailing. The firm seeks to invest a minimum of $20 million in companies that have the potential of generating at least $15 million of operating income. It prefers to be an all-cash buyer in transactions of up to $100 million. The firm typically targets transactions that have values up to $200 million. It does not invest in high technology, natural resources, or regulated industries.

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.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing (GSEC) provides trade execution and clearing services to institutional clients such as corporations, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, central banks, and other broker-dealers. Through the company's Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading affiliate, customers can trade equities, options, currencies, futures, and commodities, and view prices and positions in real time. Its services are performed both electronically and by brokers. The company also offers algorithmic trading. GSEC is active in the US, Europe, and Asia. In 2008 parent Goldman Sachs converted from an investment bank to a bank holding company.

Cowen Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Cowen and Company, represents the firm's investment banking and brokerage practice, which mainly entails strategic advisory and corporate finance services for small to midsized companies in the alternative energy, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, health care, media, technology, and real estate industries. Cowen Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; and San Francisco, California.

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