Founded in 1993, Woodbridge Group, Inc. also offers capital raising and valuation services. Woodbridge operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Brazil. Woodbridge Group isn't in the construction business, but it does build bridges between commercial buyers and sellers. The mergers and acquisitions firm helps buyers determine strategic fits, search for potential acquisition candidates, extend offers, negotiate prices, and close deals. It helps sellers (typically companies with $5 million to $100 million in revenues) develop marketing collateral, then discreetly market and sell their businesses. It serves clients worldwide in the areas of manufacturing and distribution, services, retail, and technology.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform that allows investment industry professionals to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. multi-dealer trading platform allows its institutional investor clients to request executable bids or offers from its broker-dealer clients and execute trades with the broker-dealer of their choice. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. offers its broker-dealer clients a solution that enables them to reach its institutional investor clients for the distribution and trading of bonds. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. also provides its clients the ability to trade the United States high-grade corporate bonds, European high-grade corporate bonds, and emerging markets bonds, as well as crossover and high-yield bonds, agency bonds, and credit default swaps. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. DealerAxess trading service enables dealers to trade fixed-income securities and credit default swaps with each other on its platform. In addition, MarketAxess Holdings Inc. provides Corporate BondTicker, an information services product, which offers fixed-income market data, analytics, and compliance tools that help clients in making trading decisions; and Financial Information eXchange message management tools, connectivity solutions, and ancillary technology services that facilitate the electronic communication of order information between trading counterparties. Further, it offers Application Programming Interface services to broker-dealer clients for pre-trade, trade negotiation, and post-trade services for straight-through processing. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. serves institutional investor clients, including investment advisers, mutual funds, insurance companies, public and private pension funds, bank portfolios, broker-dealers, and hedge funds, as well as broker-dealers in fixed-income trading. MarketAxess Holdings was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

The Boston Company Asset Management, LLC traces its roots back to Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company which first opened its doors to the public on June 1, 1875. Today, the firm is a highly-regarded fundamental active equity manager, whose success has been built on the responsibility of each employee to themselves, to their colleagues, and to our valued clients at every opportunity, every single day. The Boston Company Asset Management serve the investment needs of public, corporate, defined benefit and defined contribution plans, as well as Taft-Hartley, endowment/foundation and sub-advised relationships and the retail marketplace.The Boston Company Asset Management research-based culture, which we consider to be among our most valued assets, emphasizes teamwork and collaboration across asset classes, sectors, industries, and investment disciplines in constant pursuit of the best investment ideas. The Boston Company offers a number of incentives designed to attract and retain best-in-class investment professionals. First and foremost is Boston Company's collegial culture. The Boston Company Asset Management have a reputation among employees and clients as a firm where very smart, humble, driven individuals are assembled in an open team atmosphere wherein the free exchange of ideas is encouraged. The Boston Company Asset Management senior management takes particular pride in the attention that has been placed on the creation and management of this unique environment.

Co-chairman Lawrence Lawson III and Robert Barr, president of North American operations, founded the company in 1996. Lincoln International LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory; private placements; fairness opinions; valuations; Initial Public Offerings (IPO); and financial restructuring services. Lincoln International is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Paris, France.

Investment bank Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin soldiers on for mergers on the economic front. Operating as Houlihan Lokey, the firm provides advisory services for primarily mid-market companies involved in M&A deals and corporate restructurings, including the sale of distressed assets and other turnaround situations. Houlihan Lokey also raises private and public equity for midsized private and small-cap public companies. The company is among the top M&A advisors in the US, especially for deals valued at less than $1 billion. Houlihan Lokey operates about 15 offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. Japanese financial services company ORIX acquired control of the company in 2007.

Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., along with its affiliates, is one of the world's leading private investment firms. Through its team of investment and operations professionals, Cerberus specializes in providing both financial resources and operational expertise to help transform undervalued companies into industry leaders for long-term success and value creation. Cerberus holds controlling or significant minority interests in companies around the world. Cerberus is headquartered in New York City with affiliate and/or advisory offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. was founded in 1935. William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is an employee-owned financial services firm that offers investment banking, equity research, institutional and private brokerage, and asset management to individual, institutional, and issuing clients. The firm’s services include portfolio management, sales and trading, investment banking services, mutual funds, and venture capital financing. In addition, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. also makes private equity investments through its investment arm William Blair Capital Partners.

Apax Partners, private equity firm Altamir Amboise co-invests in high-growth potential companies from several industries including technology, telecom, retail, consumer goods, health care, and business services. Its portfolio includes more than 20 companies including French consulting firm Altran Technologies, optical retailer Alain Afflelou, and Vizada, a leading telecom company. Altamir invests at all stages, including late-stage venture companies to more established businesses nearing the buy-out stage, and prefers to actively manage its holdings. The average holding period is five years. Chairman and CEO Maurice Tchenio owns 15% of the company.

Second Avenue Partners Seattle-based venture capital firm specializes in early stage, high-tech companies with promise. It also helps if they are located in the Pacific Northwest. The firm's portfolio has about 10 such companies, including data management software provider Bocada, data miner Revenue Science, and broadband services provider Terabeam. Second Avenue Partners was founded by a quartet of high-tech success stories (including former executives from Microsoft and Starwave) in 2000.

Dollar Financial Corp. provides retail financial services to unbanked and under-banked consumers. Dollar Financial Corp. offers cash checking, single-payment consumer loans, longer-term installment loans, electronic tax filing, bill payment, foreign currency exchange, pawnbroking, debit cards and gift cards, photo ID, prepaid local and long-distance phone services, gold buying services, and legal document processing. Dollar Financial Corp. provides its services through its stores, which operate under the names of Money Mart, The Money Shop, Loan Mart, Insta-Cheques, The Check Cashing Store, American Payday Loans, American Check Casher, Check Casher, Payday Loans, Cash Advance, Cash Advance USA, and We The People. As of June 30, 2009, Dollar Financial Corp. had a network of 1,206 stores, including 1,031 company-operated financial services stores and 175 franchised and agent locations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Poland. Dollar Financial Corp., formerly known as DFG Holdings, Inc., was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

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