Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides wealth management and institutional services principally to individuals, corporations, and financial institutions. Its Wealth Management segment provides investment advisory, wealth and investment management, and financial planning services to high net worth and mass affluent individuals and institutions, including investment strategies and alternatives, tax efficient estate and financial planning, trusts, and agent/fiduciary investment management services, as well as private client brokerage services. Sanders Morris Harris Company's Institutional Services segment provides institutional equity brokerage and hedge funds research to various institutions, which include banks, retirement funds, mutual funds, endowments, investment advisors, and insurance companies; and prime brokerage services, such as trade execution, clearing, bookkeeping, reporting, custodial, securities borrowing, financing, research, and fund raising to hedge fund clients. This segment also maintains asset management accounts on behalf of individual asset managers; and provides research, sales, and trading services to institutional investors. In addition, the company provides sports representation and management services to professional athletes, principally professional football players.

Rothschild North America was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York. It has over 40 offices in 30 countries. Rothschild North America Inc. is the U.S. arm of the Rothschild financial services group. Rothschild North America Inc. provides corporate and resource banking, treasury, fund management, private banking, and trust services to governments, corporations, and individuals. The company also provides investment banking services, which includes corporate advisory, public and private, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, privatizations, bid defenses, capital raisings, strategic alliances, project finance, and underwriting of international equity offerings.

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. was founded in April 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices across United States; Asia; and Europe. Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is the private equity arm of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC specializing in marketable securities and private investments. The firm’s marketable securities investments include high yield bonds, convertible securities, high-income convertibles, European high yield bonds, and international convertibles. Within high yield bonds, it purchases only debt of solvent United States and Canadian corporations and emphasize senior, cash-paying securities, and thorough diversification. The firm eschews emerging nation debt sector and does not shift adroitly from sector to sector. It invests in senior secured and second lien debt, syndicated mezzanine transactions, senior bank loans, and high yield bonds and concentrates on below-investment-grade syndicated loans. Within convertible securities, the firm focuses on United States, international, and high income convertibles with short maturities. Its private investments strategies include distressed debt, emerging market equities, real estate management, private equity, mezzanine financing, and power infrastructure. In senior bank debt, it focuses primarily on United States dollar-denominated loans secured by first priority liens in performing companies within the United States and Canada.

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.

Credit Saison Co., Ltd. is one of Japan's leading credit card companies, issuing Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and affinity cards carrying its Saison brand to some 26 million cardholders. In addition to issuing plastic, Credit Saison provides financial services and products including insurance and asset management. Subsidiary Saison Fundex issues loans, while Atrium provides loan servicing. Other subsidiaries and affiliates provide ticket sales, and collection and staffing services. Credit Saison was founded in 1951 as a retailer specializing in payment plan sales. Credit Saison is merging its credit card operations with Seven & i Holdings.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Goldman Sachs) is a bank holding and a global investment banking, securities and investment management company. The Company provides a range of financial services to customers, including corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Its depository institution subsidiary, Goldman Sachs Bank USA (GS Bank USA), is a New York State-chartered bank. It operates in three segments: Investment Banking, Trading and Principal Investments and Asset Management and Securities Services. In March 2010, the Company's subsidiaries sold the La Francia mine and related infrastructure assets, including Concession 5160, and Adromi Capital Corp., the holder of the La Francia II concession, to a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. In May 2010, Nexen Inc. sold its natural gas trading operations to a unit of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Nikko Cordial Securities trades in equities, fixed-income products, and investment trusts for retail and institutional investors. Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. has about $300 billion of assets under management in some 2,500 client accounts. Formerly part of Citigroup, which acquired the company in 2008, Nikko Cordial was sold to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group the following year for some $8.7 billion, including cash and debt considerations. Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. sold most of its stake in private equity investment subsidiary Nikko Antfactory for $140 million in 2008. The relatively small divestiture portended Citigroup's sale of non-core operations in Japan, including Nikko Cordial.

Astellas Venture Management invests in seed-stage and emerging biotech companies, including drug discovery and development companies. The firm manages four venture funds, and its portfolio includes more than 20 companies. Astellas Venture Management is the venture capital arm of Astellas Pharma, formed from the 2005 merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical. Astellas Venture Management provides its portfolio companies not only with cash, but also access to the scientific expertise, production facilities, and marketing clout of its parent firm.

Gruppo, Levey & Co. (GLC) is a leading independent private investment banking firm specializing in the consumer, industrial, media, multi-channel retail & marketing services sectors. GLC provides M&A services; capital and debt financing raises as well as restructuring services; it advises companies, debtors, trustees and special committees on restructurings, recapitalizations and corporate reorganizations; and provides fairness opinions, due diligence and valuation services.Over the past 15 years, GLC has served as a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs, financial sponsors, corporate boards and family business owners in transactions encompassing every segment of the direct marketing industry, including retailers selling in all channels, B2B marketers, targeted media firms, specialty publishers, database/analytics companies and online/lead generation businesses. GLC is based in New York City.

Pond Venture Partners, known for its hands-on management style, was founded by chairman Charles Irving (based in Europe) and CEO Richard Irving (based in California). Pond Venture Partners invests in high-tech companies from both sides of the pond. The venture capital firm targets early-stage communications infrastructure companies based in Europe, including the UK. Pond Venture Partners is focused on funding startups developing networking hardware and software, optical components, and wireless products. Its portfolio includes chip technology manufacturer picoChip, digital content management products supplier SealedMedia, and software integrator Transitive Corporation.

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