Essex Woodlands Health Ventures was founded in 1985 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in New York, New York, The Woodlands, Texas, and London, United Kingdom. Essex Woodlands Health Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in the healthcare sectors. The firm typically invests across all stages of company development including early stage, late stage, growth equity, and PIPE transactions. In the healthcare sector it seeks to invest in drug, device and service companies, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, medical devices, healthcare services, managed care, and health information technology. The firm prefers to invest in companies throughout the world including east coast, west coast, and mid-west of United States with a focus on North America, Europe, and Asia. It typically invests growth capital in mature companies having revenues between $20 million and $100 million.

Morgan Stanley was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide. It operates in three segments: Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group, and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations, spin-offs, exchange offers, and leveraged buyouts and takeover defenses, as well as shareholder relations; capital raising; corporate lending; investments; and sales, trading, financing, and market-making activities, including equity trading, commodities, and interest rates, credit, and currencies, as well as financing services, including prime brokerage, consolidated clearance, settlement, custody, financing, and portfolio reporting services.The Global Wealth Management Group segment offers brokerage and investment advisory services covering various investment alternatives comprising equities, options, futures, foreign currencies, precious metals, fixed income securities, mutual funds, structured products, alternative investments, unit investment trusts, managed futures, separately managed accounts, and mutual fund asset allocation programs; financial and wealth planning services; annuity and insurance products; credit and other lending products; cash management services; retirement services; and trust and fiduciary services. The Asset Management segment offers products and services in equity, fixed income, and alternative investments, which include hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure to institutional and retail clients through proprietary and third party distribution channels. This segment also involves in investment activities.

Catapult Venture Managers Limited was formed in 1999 and is based at Leicester, United Kingdom with an additional office at Birmingham, United Kingdom. Catapult Venture Managers Limited is a priavte equity and venture capital firm specializing in equity investments in all stages of the business lifecycle with a focus on start ups, early stage, development capital, management buy-outs, and management buyins in small and medium sized companies. It invests in healthcare, medical devices, environmental or green propositions, and support services. The firm primarily invests in companies based in the East Midlands region. It typically invests between £200,000 ($292,124) and £2 million ($2.92 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments within three years to five years. It takes a minority stake, can work with other investors, and can lead and be involved with investor syndicates.

NWQ Investment Management was founded in 1982 and acquired by Nuveen Investments in 2002. NWQ Investment Management serves institutional investors such as corporations, endowments, foundations, high-net-worth individuals, multi-employer plans, and public entities. A value-oriented, long-term investor, the firm focuses on what it perceives to be underpriced equities of all market capitalizations. It also utilizes a core fixed-income strategy and provides access to alternative investments. NWQ Investment Management Company has approximately $37 billion in assets under management.

Deutsche Beteiligungs AG was founded in 1965 and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Deutsche Beteiligungs AG is a public investment firm specializing in management buyout transactions of middle market companies. It does not invest in start-up and early stage companies. The firm prefers to make investments across a broad range of sectors, including automotive supplies; machine and plant construction; printing, media, and packaging; industrial services and logistics; and measuring and automation technology. It primarily invests in mid sized companies based in Germany and in German speaking countries. The firm typically invests between €50 million ($70.42 million) and €250 million ($352.10 million) in companies with revenues between €50 million ($70.42 million) and €500 million ($704.20 million).

The United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (the "Funds") is a group of five multi employer plans that provide health and pension benefits to retired coal miners and their eligible dependents. The Funds has been in existence since 1946. The Funds is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has Field Service Offices located in the coalfield areas of Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. The Funds has approximately 200 employees, most of whom are located in the Washington, D.C. office. The Funds is separate and distinct from the United Mine Workers of America (“UMWA”) and the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, Inc. (“BCOA”).

TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage services and technology-based financial services in the United States. TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation offers common and preferred stock, American depository receipts, exchange traded funds, option trades, futures and foreign exchange trades, trading on mutual funds and fixed income securities, margin lending, and cash management services.TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation client offerings comprise TD AMERITRADE for self-directed retail investors; TD AMERITRADE Institutional that provides brokerage and custody services; trading platforms that enables research and analysis; a suite of education products and services for stock, option, foreign exchange, futures, mutual fund, and fixed-income investors; Amerivest, an online advisory service that develops portfolios of exchange-traded funds to help long-term investors pursue their financial goals; and TD AMERITRADE Corporate Services, which offers self-directed brokerage services to employees and executives of corporations.TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation also provides services, such as trade execution, clearing, trustee, and trust-related services; and cash sweep products through third-party banking relationships. TD AMERITRADE Holding offers its products and services to retail investors, traders, financial planners, and institutions through the Internet, a network of retail branches, wireless telephone or personal digital assistant, interactive voice response, and independent registered advisors via telephone. TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (ICE) is an operator of regulated futures exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) markets and derivatives clearing houses. ICE operates electronic futures and OTC marketplaces for trading an array of energy and agricultural commodities, credit default swaps (CDS), currencies and equity index products. It offers an integrated electronic trading platform for side-by-side trading of products in both futures and OTC markets, together with clearing, post-trade and market data services. Through its electronic marketplace, ICE brings together buyers and sellers of derivative and physical commodities and financial contracts, and offers a range of services to support its participants’ risk management needs. The Company has three segments: futures segment, global OTC segment and market data segment. In July 2010, IntercontinentalExchange Inc. acquired Climate Exchange plc.

Private Equity is the common term used to refer to a specific type of long-term investment activity. Typically private equity firms take a controlling stake in companies with a view to transforming their performance over a number of years such that they can be sold at a premium to the acquisition price. The private equity investor will generally be represented on the board of the company so that they can actively support management in determining the strategic direction of the business.Private equity investments can be sub-divided according to the size of the company acquired, its development stage and the type of financing provided by the private equity firm. The Permira funds are primarily involved in medium to large buy-outs. This means that they tend to acquire sizeable businesses with a long-standing trading history and a strong market position. In addition, private equity firms traditionally finance their acquisitions with a mix of equity, provided by their institutional investors, and debt.Private Equity ownership is recognised to offer a number of benefits, which stem from its long-term investment horizon and a governance structure which fully aligns management’s and shareholders’ interests for the long-term benefit of a company and its employees. For more details on the industry, please visit our 3rd Party Research section.

HSBC Card Services is the US consumer credit card segment of gigantic British bank HSBC Holdings. One of the top credit card issuers and servicers in the country, HSBC Card Services offers HSBC- and Household Bank-branded plastic from Visa, MasterCard, and American Express with a variety of annual percentage rates and rewards programs. HSBC Card Services Inc. Orchard Bank unit issues cards to consumers looking to establish or re-establish their credit. HSBC Card Services also offers branded cards from General Motors, Sak's Fifth Avenue, and Best Buy, among others.

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