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.

Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited represent the combined operations of Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited in their sale to RHJ International SA. As of July 1, 2010, Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited were acquired by RHJ International S.A. Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited provides banking and wealth management service. The company is based in London, United Kingdom. Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited provides banking and financial service. Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Ltd. company is based in Westbourne, Channel Islands.

Adams Capital Management, Inc. was founded in 1994. Adams Capital Management, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in early stage and emerging growth investments. The firm prefers to invest in applied technology with a focus on information technology, networking infrastructure, telecommunications, and semiconductors. It typically invests in markets of at least $500 million in size. It is a series A investor and typically invest between $5 million and $10 million in the first round of financing and can start out under $1 million. The firm usually invests a maximum of $30 million over the life of an investment. It prefers to be a lead investor in its transactions. The firm seeks to take a board seat and an ownership stake of more than 35 percent in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for five years to ten years and prefers to exit through public offering, merger, and an outright sale.

Taiwan Business Bank was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan Business Bank, Ltd. operates as a financier and provider of banking assistance to small and medium-size businesses primarily in Taiwan. The company offers various deposit products that include demand deposits, including brokerage accounts; savings deposits comprising brokerage accounts and salary transfer accounts; combined savings, including demand deposit accounts, savings deposit accounts, and time deposit accounts; check deposits; certificates of deposit; and negotiable certificates of deposit. It also provides various loan products comprising assisting small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) upgrading loan, traditional industry boost - up loan, SME root establishment project loan, youth business start-up loan, micro-business start-up loan, traditional industry loan with credit guarantee programs, loans for earthquake reconstruction, loan for purchasing automatic machines, loan for purchasing energy-saving machine, low-interest loan for private enterprises to purchase pollution-protecting devices, soft loan for promoting east- area industry development, promoting industry research and development loan, and mortgage loans, including home loans.

Julius Baer Gruppe AG company provides private banking and investment advisory services to wealthy individuals and asset managers around the world. Operating through key subsidiary Bank Julius Baer and other units, the company is the largest independent private bankers among the traditional Swiss banking guard. Julius Baer has some 40 offices in many of the world's financial centers, from Dubai to Tokyo. In 2009 the company split itself up, separating its private banking and asset management operations. It spun off GAM Holding and its stake in advisory firm Artio Global Investors to focus on its core private banking business.

Pershing marshals its forces in the service of securities clearing, execution, and settlement for broker/dealers and registered investment advisors worldwide. Pershing company deals in domestic and international equities, fixed-income products, options, annuities, and foreign exchange. Pershing also performs compliance support, custody, brokerage account reporting, and prime brokerage services, and offers programs that assist brokerages and investment advisors in supplying mutual funds, retirement planning, managed accounts, and other investment products and services to their clients. Pershing is a member of more than 60 exchanges.

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers merger and acquisition, private placement, acquisition financing, management buyout, and recapitalization advisory services. Additionally, it provides retail brokerage, securities trading, and business valuation and insurance services. The firm, formerly known as J.J.B. Hilliard & Son, was founded in 1854 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky. As of March 31, 2008, J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC operates as a subsidiary of HL Financial Services, LLC.

Equity Ventures provides investment capital to companies looking to expand and for management buyouts and buyins. The firm acts as an investment advisor to the British Smaller Companies Venture Capital Trust, the British Smaller Technology Companies Venture Capital Trust, and as the fund manager of the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for the South West. Equity Ventures has invested in a diversified array of customers including trailer manufacturer York Trailer, home builder Admiral Homes, and gaming operator London Clubs.

KBC Ancora SCA is a Belgium-based company that holds approximately 23% of the shares in the listed KBC Group and, together with Cera SCRL, Maatschappij voor Roerend Bezit van de Boerenbond SCRL (MRBB) and other permanent shareholders, ensures the shareholder stability and continuity of KBC Group. KBC Group is a Belgian company that specializes in retail banking, insurance and asset management activities, as well as in the provision of services to businesses, principally in Belgium and Central and Eastern Europe. KBC Group is also active in private banking and services to businesses in other countries in Europe.

Dorchester Minerals, L.P. was founded in 1982 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Dorchester Minerals, L.P. (Partnership) is a limited partnership formed on the combination of Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd., Republic Royalty Company, L.P. and Spinnaker Royalty Company, L.P. The Partnership is engaged in the acquisition, ownership and administration of Net Profits Interests and Royalty Properties. The Net Profits Interests represent net profits overriding royalty interests in various properties owned by the operating partnership. The Royalty Properties consist of producing and nonproducing mineral, royalty, overriding royalty, net profits, and leasehold interests located in 574 counties and parishes in 25 states. The Partnership’s general partner is Dorchester Minerals Management LP, which is managed by its general partner, Dorchester Minerals Management GP LLC. Its general partner also controls and owns, directly and indirectly, all of the partnership interests in Dorchester Minerals Operating LP and its general partner.

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