Skandia Forsakrings was founded in 1855 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As of February 2006, Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Old Mutual plc. Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. provides long-term savings products worldwide. Its product portfolio comprise unit linked assurance products, mutual funds, and traditional life assurance products, as well as provides online retail banking services. The company also sells protection and critical illness products that comprise healthcare and group insurance policies.

Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc., through its principal subsidiary, Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, provides investment banking services to public and private companies operating in the life science/healthcare, energy, metals/mining, financial services, and cleantech sectors in the United States and China. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. offers corporate finance in a range of financing alternatives, including private placements, private investments in public equity, registered direct offerings, and underwritten public offerings. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. also provides strategic advisory services on a range of transactions comprising mergers, acquisitions, and asset sales, as well as provides sales and trading, and equity research services. In addition, Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. designs investment conferences that bring together companies, institutional investors, business development executives, and experts. Further, the company makes principal investments in early-stage biotechnology and life sciences companies. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

BinckBank (formerly Binck) provides online brokerage services to customers in The Netherlands and Belgium. Some 70,000 private customers trade on its Web site, which offers access to all major global financial markets. BinckBank N.V. also provides professional services to banks and professional asset managers; it sold its propietary bond trading operations in 2007. Dutch trading specialist AOT (Amsterdan Options Traders) merged with BinckBank and established holding company Binck in 2004; two years later Binck and BinckBank merged into a single company. BinckBank plans to expand its operations into France.

Dubin Clark & Company, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm whose sole activity is buying and building businesses in partnership with their management teams. Dubin Clark & Company long-term investors, dedicated to creating value by helping our companies grow. Dubin Clark do this through a coordinated approach that includes providing the capital necessary to support internal growth, completing add-on acquisitions to build market share, and helping to develop new strategies for the future, while protecting the independence, culture and values that made the company successful in the first place.

Abingworth Management Limited was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Menlo Park, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; and Cambridge, United Kingdom. Abingworth Management Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early and late-stage venture financing, growth equity, expansion capital, VIPE, and acquisition financing. The firm also provides financing for recapitalizations, build-ups, and growth buyouts. The firm also seeks to invest in undervalued public companies. It invests in healthcare services and information technology with a focus on providers, payors, specialty services, software, and related services and on life sciences with a focus on specialty pharmaceuticals, medical products and devices, lab instrumentation, and consumables. The firm also invests in platform and enabling technologies, healthcare services, biomedical, biotechnology, and companies developing therapeutics.

White River Capital is a holding company that specializes in auto finance. Subsidiary Coast Credit offers subprime auto financing in more than 20 states. Visa International Service Association acquires the subprime receivables from franchise and independent auto dealers. Another unit, Union Acceptance, oversees a portfolio of non-prime automobile receivables. In 2005 UAC was bankrupt and stockholders were looking for a way to squeak out value in their investment. The shareholders agreed to exchange UAC for shares of White River. After the swap White River bought the similar, yet more successful, Coast Credit. The holding-company-hat-trick allowed UAC to carry its business forward even after it declared bankruptcy in 2002.

Ansbacher was founded in 1894 and acquired by QNB in 2004. Ansbacher Group channels money through the right channels. Operating as Ansbacher Banking Group, the company is the wealth management and private banking arm of Qatar National Bank (QNB). The group offers a wealth of financial services options, including specialist and private banking, financial and estate planning, and fiduciary and trust services. It also has a unit that facilitates corporate yacht ownership and yacht registration. The company operates in Switzerland, the Bahamas, the Channel Islands, and the United Arab Emirates; it pulled out of the UK in 2009.

Merchant House Group, which formerly provided support services to companies in the transportation industry, now offers corporate finance and investment advisory services. Merchant House Group Plc underwent a reorganization in 2006 after two straight years of losses. Merchant House Group now has six subsidiaries: Merchant Capital, Aldermary Secretaries, Merchant House Securities, Merchant House Finance, Merchant Legal, and Merchant Wealth Management, which was formed in January 2008. Merchant House Finance arranges leasing for private jets, race horses, and yachts. All of Merchant House Group Plc subsidiaries operate on a revenue-sharing basis.

Ecofin is an investment management firm which specialises in the global utility, infrastructure, alternative energy and environmental sectors. The firm, which was founded in 1992, is based in London and has offices in New York, Hong Kong and Geneva. Ecofin is owned by its principals and professional staff. Its principal operating company, Ecofin Limited, is an English company which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA). Ecofin Limited is also registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an investment adviser.

With a heritage dating from the 1960s, PineBridge Investments is an independent multi-product investment adviser with US $83 billion* in assets under management. PineBridge Investments is an investment arm of American International Group, Inc. It specializes in distressed investments. The firm provides a platform for customized portfolio construction and client based servicing. The firm manages a diversified product line of alternative investments including: private equity investments, fund of funds, small to mid-market buyout funds, hedge funds, real estate investment funds and fixed income strategies. The Alternative Investment Group's Private Equity program provides equity and mezzanine financing for private and public companies at different stages of development. PineBridge Investments is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Ontario, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Tiajin, China; Houston; Texas; and Manila; Philippines.

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