Numis Corporation Plc, through its subsidiaries, operates as an independent investment banking and stock broking company in the United Kingdom. It offers a range of research, execution, equity capital markets, corporate broking, and corporate finance services to quoted companies and their investors. The company also provides advisory services for fundraising and corporate finance transactions, including primary and secondary issues and mergers and acquisitions. Numis Corporation offers its services for aerospace and defense, building and property, engineering, fast moving consumer goods, life sciences, media, metals and mining, new energy and emissions, non-life insurance, oil and gas, retail, specialty and other financials, support services, technology, and travel and leisure sectors.

Scottish Health Innovations Ltd works in partnership with NHS Scotland to protect and develop new innovations that come from healthcare professionals. By developing these ideas, SHIL creates new products and technologies that will improve patient care and generate income for NHS Scotland. SHIL services include: Project management, Market Research, Sourcing of funding, Intellectual property protection, Sourcing of development partners & Spinout set up. SHIL was set up in 2002 by NHS Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to provide this support to NHS innovation. It was recognised that there was a wealth of potential in the knowledge of NHS employees in terms of how to improve care and that there was no means of support out there to make the most of this. Since SHIL came in to existence they have successfully developed many ideas and projects that have come from NHS staff. These vary from basic ideas to more complicated research projects. If you work in healthcare and you have an idea for a new product SHIL wants to hear from you.

Founded in 1994, Legacy Capital, LLC assists with mergers & acquisitions, as well as recapitalizations, valuations, and capital raising. Legacy Capital provides investment banking and advisory services to small and middle-market companies, with a focus on closely held businesses with sales ranging from $5 million to $150 million in the Southeast and the Midwest. The firm prides itself on its extensive and individualized industry research for clients. It has served companies in a variety of industries, including health services, information technology, oil and gas, and retail.

Chairman William "Beau" Duncan founded Duncan-Hurst Capital Management, L.P. in 1990 and continues to control it. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management has more than $620 million of assets under management. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management specializes in growth equity investments. Duncan-Hurst Capital Management company administers about a half dozen funds, primarily for institutional investors. A minimum investment is around $5 million for institutional investors and around $25,000 for customers investing in Duncan-Hurst's Aggressive Growth Fund. Its investments consist mostly of small- and mid-cap companies.

MPM Capital Limited Partnership firm targets biotechnology, specialty pharmaceutical, and medical technology companies. With more than $2 billion of committed capital in four funds, it invests in all stages of a firm's development, typically offering between $5 million and $50 million per transaction, and takes a long-term approach. MPM Capital's portfolio includes about 60 firms, including Affymax, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Oxagen, and Surface Logix. Most of MPM Capital's investments are in US concerns, but the company also seeks opportunities in Europe, and more recently, Asia and Australia.

Hotbed works to match investors with alternative investments such as private equity, commercial property, and hedge funds. And it doesn't stop there. Once it has matched an investor with potential business opportunity, it monitors the progress of the relationship, offers financial counseling, and also guides the member companies' strategy. For companies seeking cash, Hotbed works with companies needing between £1 million to £7.5 million. It has assisted such UK companies as care homes group Mimosa Healthcare, medical technology manufacturer Sphere Medical, and shopping center Downham Market.

Lazard Ltd. company was founded in 1848 and is based in New York, New York. Lazard Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm worldwide. Lazard Company's Financial Advisory segment offers a range of services regarding mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory matters, restructurings and capital structure advisory services, capital raising, and various other corporate finance matters, which include evaluating potential acquisition targets, providing valuation analyses, evaluating and proposing financial and strategic alternatives, rendering opinions, assisting in the negotiating and closing the acquisition, and assisting in executing an acquisition by acting as a dealer-manager in transactions structured as a tender or exchange offer. This segment primarily serves consumer; financial institutions; financial sponsors; healthcare and life sciences; industrial; power and energy/infrastructure; real estate; and technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

KBW, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment bank specializing in the financial services industry in the United States and Europe. KBW, Inc. provides various investment banking services, including mergers and acquisitions and other strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income securities offerings, and mutual thrift conversions; and equity and fixed income sales and trading. KBW, Inc. also offers research services comprising fundamental and objective analysis that identifies investment opportunities and assists investor to make investment decisions; and asset management services consisting of investment management and other advisory services to institutional clients, private high net worth clients, and various investment vehicles. KBW, Inc. serves bank and thrift holding companies, banking and insurance companies, thrift institutions, broker-dealers, mortgage banks, asset management companies, mortgage and equity real estate investment trusts, consumer and specialty finance firms, financial processing companies, and securities exchanges. KBW, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Smedvig Capital is a London based private equity firm formed in early 1996 by John Hewett and Peter Smedvig. Over that time, the firm has committed approximately £350 million to more than 40 investments. About a third of that sum has been invested directly with Smedvig as lead investor, typically in small buy outs and development capital deals. Direct investment size ranges from £2 million to £10 million of equity, although larger sums can be financed in collaboration with our strategic partners. The remainder has been invested with a small number of third party private equity funds where there is a strong affinity with the investment philosophy of the general partner. The most established of these relationships is Bain Capital. Whilst Smedvig Capital does not focus exclusively on any specific sectors, over time it has built expertise in a number of areas including information management, financial services, consumer goods, retail and support services.

Established in 2001, Sovereign Capital is the UK's private equity Buy & Build specialist. Sovereign Capital have a significant track record and specific expertise in the defined UK service sectors of healthcare, education & training and outsourced business support services. As an independent private equity house with £650m under management, sovereign invest up to £40m in proven management teams who are committed to growing their businesses. Sovereign have developed a strong reputation for successfully building investee companies' scale: through geographic expansion and / or service diversification.

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