NYSE Amex, formerly the American Stock Exchange or AMEX, is NYSE Euronext's US market for emerging growth companies and a specialist in options and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Operating as NYSE Amex Options and NYSE Amex Equities, the exchange uses a hybrid model of auction-based and electronic trading; it lists more than 500 operating companies and funds and is the one of the nation's largest options exchanges (behind the Chicago Board Options Exchange). NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX in 2008 and changed its name to NYSE Alternext US. Responding to feedback from traders, NYSE changed the company's name to the more-familiar NYSE Amex in mid-2009.

The Fidelity Global Group is an international asset-based investment firm that provides credit facilities to a variety industries through its subsidiaries. Fidelity Global provides development funding for communications, metals, mining, and chemical companies for both the private and government sectors internationally. It offers credit services and loans for refiners of nonferrous metal, such as aluminum, brass, copper, magnesium, and zinc, to purchase new equipment or expand operations. Fidelity Global company also offers loans to companies that are credit-challenged on a per project basis. Fidelity Global Group usually gets a percentage of the profits from those projects.

Fimalac has stepped away from its manufacturing businesses in favor of financial services after selling Facom, a manufacturer of hand tools and garage equipment, to what is now Stanley Black & Decker for more than $485 million in 2006. Fimalac now provides risk management and international credit ratings through its majority-held subsidiaries Algorithmics and Fitch Ratings. Fimalac focus on financial services has shifted its revenue base from Europe to North America. A shareholders' group led by Fimalac president Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere owns about 80% of the company and controls about 80% of its voting rights.

Neuberger Berman manages about 30 mutual funds invested in US and international equities, bonds, and tax-exempt money markets for individual and institutional clients. It also offers closed-end municipal bond, real estate securities, and hybrid funds; variable annuity portfolios; separate accounts; and alternative investments; as well as wealth management services for high-net-worth clients. Neuberger Berman operates about two dozen offices in the US, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region. Employees own a majority of the firm, which has approximately $180 billion of assets under management. Institutional clients account for more than half of that total.

MicroFinancial Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialized commercial finance company that provides microticket equipment leasing and other financing services in the United States. MicroFinancial Incorporated provides financing alternatives, and leases and rents commercial equipment to start-up and established businesses for use in their daily operations. MicroFinancial Incorporated leases water coolers, security equipment, point-of-sale authorization systems, automotive repair equipment, restaurant equipment, advertising and display equipment, paging systems, and other business equipment. MicroFinancial Incorporated primarily sources its originations through a network of independent equipment vendors, sales organizations, and other dealer-based origination networks. MicroFinancial Incorporated was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Founders Jean Deleage, Garrett Gruener, and Guy Nohra had been partners at venture capital firm Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., before they left in 1996 to form Alta Partners. Alta Partners offers companies an alternative to raising cash on their own. The firm invests venture capital primarily in life science companies; Alta Partners also invests in information technology ventures. It has backed more than 150 companies and has about $2 billion in committed capital. Alta Partners funds both early- and late-stage companies through stage-specific funds. Its portfolio has included such companies as Cellomics, Occam Networks, and Xelerated.

Global Yatirim Holding Anonim Sirketi was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Global Yatirim Holding A.S., through its subsidiaries, operates primarily in the fields of finance, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and transportation. The company’s Finance segment provides various financial services. Its Energy segment engages in natural gas distribution and electricity generation activities. The company’s Infrastructure segment involves in cruise and commercial ports operations. Its Real Estate segment invests and trades in real estate properties. The company’s Other segment engages in the media and steel iron production activities. Global Yatirim Holding also engages in the brokerage, portfolio management, financial investments, mining investments, provision of waste disposal systems, mining, tourism investments, publishing, and storage operations, as well as operates as an insurance agent.

Capricorn Management was formed by managing general partner Herbert "Pug" Winokur in 1987. Capricorn Management was born under the dollar sign. Capricorn Management company is a private equity firm that targets companies valued between $50 and $500 million and holds them for about four to eight years. It looks for undervalued investments with strong customer bases. Investors in the firm include endowments, financial institutions, corporate pension funds, and select families and individuals. Capricorn generally invests $3 million to $35 million per transaction. Portfolio companies include snack food company Mrs. Fields and incontinence products maker Whitestone.

Symphony Technology Group (STG) is a strategic private equity firm with the mission of investing in and being a partner in building great software and services companies. In addition to capital, STG provides transformation expertise to enable its portfolio companies to deliver more value to clients to retain and attract the best talent and to achieve best-in-class business performance. All STG portfolio companies are expected to grow through innovation. STG's current portfolio consists of nine global companies with combined revenue of $2.5 Billion and 15,000 employees spread evenly across North America, Europe and Asia.

Palladium Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 1997. Palladium Equity Partners, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm primarily invests in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate spinouts, growth financings, and restructurings. It also invests in late venture companies and may invest in mature businesses. The firm typically invests in business services, financial services, consumer and retail, food, beverage, and restaurants, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, media and entertainment, and telecommunication companies. In the business services sector, it focuses on business process outsourcing; transaction processing; and engineering services. Within the financial services sector, the firm invests in transactional services; money transfer; consumer and specialty finance; and casualty, life, and health insurance; and financial services targeting underserved segments.

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