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.

Genesis Park Enterprises LP was founded by Paul Hobby in 2000. Genesis Park Enterprises private equity firm fund focuses on buyouts in the software, telecommunications, media, finance, and select energy sectors. Genesis Park takes an active role in the management of its portfolio companies, which include telecommunications provider Alpheus Communications and live entertainment producer BASE Entertainment. Past investments have included CapRock Communications and PointOne. Most of Genesis Park's investments are in Texas-based businesses.

RBS Card Services (formerly RBS National Bank) is the credit card unit of Citizens Financial Group, the US banking arm of UK-based financial services giant Royal Bank of Scotland Group. RBS Card Services offers MasterCard Platinum credit card products to consumers and businesses through Citizens Bank and Charter One Bank branches, as well as via direct marketing and the Internet. The cards offer supplemental benefits such as auto rental insurance, emergency roadside assistance, and other related purchase protection products. RBS Card Services also sells payment insurance.

Charterhouse Group, Inc was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Charterhouse Group, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in buyout, buildup platform acquisitions, buy-and-build, growth capital financing, and recapitalization transactions. It seeks to invest in business services, telecommunication services, healthcare services, and consumer products and service sectors. Within the business service sector, the firm focuses on business process outsourcing including document management, benefit administration, billing, customer relationship management, and legal support; information management services including regulation, risk management, and compliance oriented models; logistics including non-asset based, brokerage models; marketing services including direct marketing and loyalty programs; Specialty Distribution; specialty maintenance, distribution, and repair; specialty staffing; energy services including asset-light, non-commodity price risk opportunities, and energy management and procurement services; vendor management including outsourced repair and maintenance; waste management, janitorial, and landscaping services; specialty maintenance and repair; transaction processing and information processing; specialty leasing; education; security and related service; telecommunication services; information management services including regulation, risk management, and compliance oriented models; specialty waste management; and transaction processing.

Founded in 1991 by former investment banking director Charles Montanaro, the firm has investments in such companies as Care UK, Chloride, Holidaybreak plc, and Northgate plc. Montanaro manages more than E1 billion in funds. Montanaro Investment Managers prefers the little guy over the elite. The independent fund manager seeks out well-managed small companies in niche markets in the UK and Europe to make long-term investments in. Most of its clients are financial institutions, including insurance companies and pension funds. It launched its first investment trust in 1995; the Montanaro UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust PLC is currently listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. was founded in April 2004 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Sherman Oaks, California. Epoch Holding Corporation (Epoch) is a holding company whose primary line of business is investment advisory and investment management services. The operations of the Company are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. (EIP). EIP provides investment advisory and investment management services for retirement plans, mutual funds, endowments, foundations and high net worth individuals. As of June 30, 2009, EIP offered 11 separate investment products to its clients, including U.S. All Cap Value, U.S. Value, U.S. Smid (small/mid) Cap Value, U.S. Small Cap Value, U.S. Choice, International Small Cap, Global Small Cap, Global Choice, Global Absolute Return, Global Equity Shareholder Yield and Balanced Portfolios.

Primary Capital Limited is a private equity investment firm specializing in management buyouts and buyins. Primary Capital company invests primarily in proven businesses based in the UK and Germany with a focus on companies operating in the consumer goods, business services, leisure, health care, and IT services sectors. Primary Capital company invests in businesses valued between � 10 million and �100 million with a target to realise its investment over three to five years. Primary Capital investments include gourmet coffee stations provider Coffee Nation; fast-food Japanese restaurant chain YO! Sushi; bar, restaurant, and entertainment company Harlequin Entertainment, and IT infrastructure provider Esteem Systems.

Cohen & Steers, Inc. (CNS), together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, manages income-oriented equity portfolios specializing in United States and international real estate securities, large cap value stocks, listed infrastructure and utilities, and preferred securities. CNS also manages alternative investment strategies, such as hedged real estate securities portfolios and private real estate multimanager strategies for qualified investors. It serves individual and institutional investors through a range of investment vehicles. The Company manages three types of accounts: open-end mutual funds, closed-end mutual funds and institutional separate accounts. The 14 open-end mutual funds, for which it is the investment advisor offer and issue shares continuously as funds are invested and redeem shares when funds are withdrawn.

Austin Ventures has corralled themselves a heapin' helpin' of a whole different breed -- the nerd herd. The venture capital firm offers funding mainly to software, computer hardware, semiconductor, communications, and business services startups. Focused on investment opportunities in the Southwest (and still with a heavy Texas concentration despite looking outward), Austin Ventures typically invests from $100,000 to $20 million per transaction, usually holds its investments long-term, and almost always takes a seat on the acquired firm's board. Austin Ventures also assists clients in hiring management, setting up compensation plans, and going public.

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.

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