Founded in 1988 by President Kay Chandler, the firm has some $2 billion under management. Chandler Asset Management is an investment adviser specializing in the management of fixed-income portfolios for institutional investors. The firm offers portfolio management, analysis, and accounting as well as cash flow modeling, compliance reporting, and client training. Its investment strategies include short-term fixed income, core fixed income, and 1-5 year fixed income. Public agencies, healthcare companies, foundations, endowments, and corporations make up Chandler's customer base.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Limited, a private bank, provides financial services in United Kingdom. The company offers banking, investment management, financial planning, pension, leasing, and factoring and invoice discounting services, as well as alternative investments. Its services include current accounts, money transmission, money market deposits, notice accounts, electronic banking, borrowing facilities, treasury, foreign exchange, fiduciary deposits, and derivative products; and investment advice and portfolio management, trust and company management, fund management, personal and inheritance tax planning, life assurance and family protection, health insurance and income protection, mortgage advice, school fees planning, offshore investments, savings, unit and investment trusts, OEICs, and tax effective investments. The company also provides lending products for the acquisition and development residential and commercial properties; finance to lease, own, and manage business and personal assets; and musical instrument and yacht finance. It serves private individuals, entrepreneurs, property investors and developers, owner-managed businesses, solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, letting and managing agents, charities, and the motor sport sector.

Ashmore Group plc (Ashmore) is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in providing investment management services. The Company is a fund manager across six core investment themes, such as external debt, local currency, special situations, equity, corporate high yield and multi-strategy. The external debt theme comprises principally United States dollar and other hard currency denominated instruments, which may include derivatives, investing in mainly sovereign bonds. The local currency investment theme comprises local currency and local currency denominated debt instruments. The special situations theme comprises investments in debt and/or other instruments. The equity investment theme comprises public equity and equity-related securities. The corporate high yield investment theme comprises investments in corporate debt within emerging markets.

First Atlantic Capital, Ltd. is a leading middle-market private equity firm with offices in New York City. Since its founding in 1989, the firm has invested over $830 million, resulting in 56 transactions across four funds. The First Atlantic team is composed of fourteen members, including nine investment professionals and five operating partners, who have a combined 240 years of consulting and operating experience.First Atlantic focuses on the plastics and packaging, food and beverage, industrial products, business services, and consumer products industries with transaction values between $100 million and $500 million. Working in partnership with strong operating management teams, First Atlantic seeks to build value in its portfolio companies through strategic add-on acquisitions, modifications in business strategy, and improvements in operating performance.The firm’s consulting heritage, extensive operational expertise, and strong focus on portfolio company's development are mainstays of the firm’s investment approach, which has consistently yielded first-quartile returns for its investors since inception.

Founded in 1965, Greylock has helped build more than 300 companies, nearly half of which have gone on to initial public offerings. Its current portfolio consists of interests in more than 60 companies, including interests in Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pandora, Red Bend Software, Zend, and Zipcar. Greylock Management believes it holds the key to venture capital investing. Also doing business as Greylock Partners, the firm provides funding development-stage companies involved in such sectors as information technology, software, semiconductors, the Internet, clean technology, and consumer services, with a focus on the San Francisco Bay area and Boston, as well as emerging markets China, India, and Israel.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

Barclays established its investment banking division in 1986; today, Barclays Capital has offices in more than 30 countries around the world. Barclays Capital is the investment banking arm of venerable European bank Barclays. It provides financing and risk management services for corporate, institutional, and government clients around the world. Barclays Capital is one of the world's most prolific underwriters of fixed-income securities; it provides services for all asset classes. Barclays Capital is also active in private equity, typically committing between $10 million and $200 million per transaction; it has invested in more than 350 companies.

Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Cavendish Corporate Finance Limited (CCFL) provides financial advisory services to private companies, public enterprises, and financial institutions. The firm offers mergers and acquisition, valuation, deal negotiation and structuring, and due diligence advisory services. Additionally, it provides assistance in buyer identification, risk assessment, operational planning, and benchmarking services. The firm caters to construction, consumer and retail, leisure, healthcare, paper and packaging, and telecommunications and media industries. Its clientele includes GET Group plc, YORK Novenco, Hale Hamilton, U-POL Products Limited, JJ Barker Ltd, and Canterbury Foods Group plc.

Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Overland Park, Kansas. Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. conducts business through its subsidiaries. The Company is engaged in providing investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to mutual funds and institutional and separately managed accounts. The Company operates its business through three distribution channels. Its retail products are distributed through its sales force of registered financial advisors (the Advisors channel) or through third-parties, such as other broker/dealers, registered investment advisors (including the retirement advisors of the Legend group of subsidiaries (Legend)) and various retirement platforms, (collectively, the Wholesale channel). It also markets its investment advisory services to institutional investors, either directly or through consultants (the Institutional channel). On July 15, 2009, the Company sold of its interest in its wholly owned subsidiary, Austin, Calvert & Flavin, Inc. (ACF).

Vista Equity Partners was founded in 2000. Vista Equity Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in management and leveraged buyouts, growth and acquisition financings, recapitalizations, restructurings, spinouts, divestitures, special situations, and going private transactions. The firm seeks to invest in software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), technology enabled business services, and technology enabled information services. It also seeks to invest in technology-enabled companies which have a proven and defensible technology that can be leveraged to build new products, solutions, and services; mature companies in which opportunities exist to create value through embracing and leveraging technology; and new or existing companies which have developed proprietary technologies that address specific niche markets. The firm seeks to acquire a majority stake in the portfolio companies.

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