MF Global gives its clients access to the world's marketplaces Monday through Friday (and weekends, too). MF Global Holdings Ltd. provides trade execution, clearing, and settlement services for cash, equity derivatives, commodities, and fixed-income products on more than 70 exchanges, as well as over the counter. MF Global Holdings Ltd. also makes markets for fixed-income instruments and conducts equity research. MF Global's clients include institutional and individual investors, corporations, professional traders, hedge funds, and asset managers. MF Global Holdings Ltd. handles an average of nearly five million contracts per day. MF Global has about a dozen offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Scottish Equity Partners LLP was founded in 1997. Scottish Equity Partners LLP is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early stage, mid and late venture, and growth capital financing. The firm prefers to invest in information technology, healthcare, life sciences, and energy related sectors. It seeks to invest in information technology sector with a focus on enterprise application software, enterprise network technologies focused on connectivity, security and mobility standards based communication technologies, semiconductors, displays, and novel new materials. In healthcare and life sciences sector, the firm includes enabling diagnostics, medical devices, specialty pharmaceuticals, as well as platform and enabling technologies, new therapeutics, novel research, and development technologies. In energy related sector, it primarily invests in oilfield technology, renewable energy, environmental technologies, and clean and green technology. In the renewable energy sector, the firm includes sources such as wind, wave, tidal, and solar energy. It also seeks to invest in equipment and services, distributed and mobile power technologies such as fuel cells, advanced batteries, energy storage, energy efficiency, and new materials.

Kleinwort Benson Private Bank offers private banking services to the UK market. The bank's products and services are provided through several affiliated entities. Customized banking products include standard cash deposits and loans, while the bank's wealth management services include portfolio advisement, estate planning, real estate investment, and other investment products. Kleinwort Benson Private Bank was part of the private banking segment of Dresdner Bank, which German insurance giant Allianz sold to Commerzbank in 2008. However, Commerzbank arranged to sell the unit to investment group RHJ International the following year.

Legg Mason, Inc. was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Legg Mason, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified group of global asset management firm serving individual and institutional investors worldwide. Its multi-affiliate business model provides clients with a spectrum of equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternatives solutions, including mutual funds, college savings plans, variable annuities, and separately managed accounts. Legg Mason Company's affiliates operate with investment autonomy, with each affiliate pursuing its own unique investment philosophy and process, as well as maintaining its own investment culture. Legg Mason complements the investment expertise of its affiliates by providing distribution and client service, enabling affiliates to access new markets, new clients, and new opportunities. It also provides shared services, such as operations and technology, accounting, legal, compliance, and marketing, to allow the affiliates to maintain their full focus on delivering sustainable investment excellence.

Fuse Capital (formerly Velocity Interactive Group) is hot for digital media and communications ventures. Focusing on early-stage growth companies, the venture capital firm is a long-term investor, providing up to $30 million per transaction. Its current portfolio consists of interests in some two dozen companies. The former Velocity Interactive was formed by the 2007 merger of venture capital firms Velocity and ComVentures; it changed its name in 2009. Fuse Capital has some $1.5 billion in capital under management, including former ComVentures funds.

Alta Berkeley LLP is a venture capital firm that targets information technology, communications, and life science startups, primarily in Europe and Israel. It has raised six funds and has invested in more than 100 businesses since 1982. Invested companies (both past and present) include analogue semiconductor designer Elantec Semiconductors, digital consumer semiconductor manufacturer Frontier Silicon, clinical software designer Araccel, imaging systems provider Camero, and wireless devices technology manufacturer Cambridge Positioning Systems.

Institutional Venture Partners was founded in 1980 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Institutional Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in later stage companies, small-cap public companies, and growth equity. The firm seeks to invest in industry rollups, founder liquidity, and select public market transactions. It generally invests in information technology and media companies with a focus on internet and digital media, enterprise information technology, travel, communications, wireless, software, infrastructure, and technology-enabled services. The firm invests in companies based in the United States. It invests in private companies having revenues greater than $10 million.

Draper Triangle Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in angel and seed/start-up stage companies. It does not invest in shops, metal bending plants, and chemical processing plants. The firm typically invests in technology companies with a focus on Internet, high-tech, bio-medical devices, and electronic services. It prefers to invest in companies based in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Midwest region of the United States. The firm typically invests between $250,000 and $2 million in first round of investments. It prefers a board seat in its portfolio company and seeks to be a lead investor for the first round of financing.

Parallax Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Laguna Hills, California. Parallax Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyout, management buy-outs, private companies, public-to-private, recapitalization, corporate divestiture, spin-off, build-up, and turnaround transactions in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in the software and related services; semiconductor; telecommunication equipment and services; computer hardware and components; healthcare and pharmacy services; information technology services; media content and delivery; aerospace and defense; catalog industry; consumer products; distribution and logistics; transportation; specialty manufacturing; business services; travel and leisure; and food processing and distribution sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The firm typically invests in companies with revenues between $5 million and $500 million. It takes an active management role in its portfolio companies.

Ascendant Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1997. Ascendant Solutions, Inc. ("Ascendant") is a value oriented investment firm focused on making equity investments in underperforming or distressed U.S. lower middle-market businesses. Ascendant is primarily interested in investing or acquiring, in manufacturing, distribution, service, healthcare, finance and retail industries with $20 to $150 million in annual revenues that require access to capital or capital restructuring, and strategic support to improve operational performance. Ascendant currently has approximately $40 million in net operating loss carryforwards, which can be used to shelter future income, thus enhancing free cash flow or debt service capabilities.

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