Advantage Credit International, Inc. has grown to become one of the top mortgage credit reporting agencies in the nation through two key qualities: next-step technology that allows originators to close more loans, and expert service delivered in an unusually friendly way. Advantage Credit International, which provides mortgage credit information to more than 20,000 mortgage brokers, in addition to realtors and government agencies. Advantage Credit International, Inc. also offers automated property valuation, flood zone certification, tax return verification, and mortgage fraud and identity theft protection services. Advantage Credit International, Inc. provides employment screening through Advantage Hire and tenant screening at its AdvantageTenant.com Web site. Advantage Credit, which was founded in 1991 by CEO Tim Handley, is a subsidiary of privately owned company Advantage Plaza.

nwest Investments was founded in 1981 by chairman Hassan Khosrowshahi as a holding company for his family's investments. Inwest Investments company has three offices in Canada and two in the US. nwest Investments is a private investment firm with holdings in real estate and financial endeavors in Canada. Inwest Investments company's portfolio includes Wesbild Holdings, a developer of residential real estate and resort communities in British Columbia; DRI Capital, which acquires royalty interests in patented pharmaceuticals; and Reservoir Media Management, which invests in entertainment-related royalties. Inwest Investments also founded Future Shop, one of Canada's largest electronics retailers, which was sold to Best Buy Canada in 2001.

J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies. The firm invests in consumer products, healthcare, specialty retail, and asset management companies. It invests in companies based in North America and Asia. The firm invests in companies having enterprise values between $150 million and $600 million and an earnings growth rate of at least 10 percent per annum. It seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Noventi LLC was founded in November 1999 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Noventi LLC is a venture capital investment arm of CIR SpA specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm invests in companies in cleantech and emerging technology companies. It is actively looking for investment opportunities that focus on the convergence of technology, energy, and the environment. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in Europe. It invests between €250,000 ($316,383) and €2.5 million ($3.16 million) in exchange for a minority equity stake ranging between 15% and 35%. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Part of BNP Paribas' Wealth and Asset Management Division, BNP Paribas Banque Privée, or BNP Paribas Private Bank, is the financial giant's private banking arm. (BNP Paribas Asset Management operations are also within the Wealth and Asset Management Division.) BNP Paribas Banque Privée provides personal wealth management services, including tax and estate planning, to financially blessed individuals around the world. Client assets under management total more than $120 billion (E100 billion). The company operates out of locations in more 20 countries. BNP Paribas Private Bank teamed with Insinger de Beaufort Holdings in 2008 by purchasing a minority interest in the Luxembourg private bank. The two companies plan to create a new Anglo-Dutch wealth manager.

Since 1982, Sierra has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world begin—and grow—successful technology companies. Sierra Ventures capital firm invests in early-stage technology companies, focusing on such sectors as telecommunications, software, semiconductors, security, storage, and Internet-related and mobile applications in North America, Europe, China, and India. Its initial investments typically range between $2 million and $25 million. Financial institutions, university endowments, pension funds, and high net-worth individual investors make up most of Sierra Ventures' investment partners.

In 1977, Morgan Stanley opened its European headquarters in London, where it now has over 5,000 staff. More than 3,000 further people are located in the firm's other European offices in Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Stockholm and Zurich.Both in the UK and in Europe generally, Morgan Stanley is one of the preeminent financial services firms, with longstanding client relationships and a leading role in many landmark transactions. Morgan Stanley offer a full range of services covering mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, fixed income and equity financing, as well as secondary trading, research, foreign exchange, commodities, securities lending, asset management and prime brokerage.

GAMCO Investors, Inc., (GBL) is a provider of investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutional and private wealth management investors, and investment partnerships, principally in the United States. Through Gabelli & Company, Inc. (Gabelli & Company), it provides institutional research services to institutional clients and investment partnerships. It generally manages assets on a discretionary basis and invests in a variety of United States and international securities through various investment styles. Its revenues are based primarily on the firm’s levels of assets under management (AUM) and to a lesser extent, incentive fees associated with its various investment products. It also offers a series of investment partnership (performance fee-based) vehicles that provide a series of long-short investment opportunities, both market and sector specific opportunities, including offerings of non-market correlated investments in merger arbitrage, as well as a fixed income strategy.

Fiske Plc is a UK agency brokerage firm serving private clients; Fiske also is seeing growth in its institutional investor business. The company also offers corporate financial advising. In June 2002 the company acquired investment bank Ionian Group Ltd. The unit, which does business as Ionian Investment Management, serves corporate, institutional, and private investment clients. Jove Investment Trust controlled nearly 20% of Fiske, but reduced its stake in 2004.

AdCapital capitalizes on investing in high-technology companies on a temporary basis. The group, which began as a spinoff from Berliner Elektro Holding in 2000, has invested in such companies as assembly equipment manufacturer BE Semiconductor Industries, control engineering firm Bavaria Digital Technik, and medical diagnostic equipment group Erich Jaeger. It also helped finance Softpro, a leading vendor of signature verification systems. AdCapital invests in enterprises at all stages, including IPOs and privatizations of listed companies.

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