Towry was founded in 1958. Its principal shareholders are its employees and Palomon Capital Partners. Towry is a financial services firm with more than 500 private and corporate wealth advisors in 10 locations throughout the UK. Towry, which manages some $4.5 billion ($7 billion), offers fee-based wealth advice and investment management services such as retirement planning, life insurance, tax services, property/casualty insurance, and employee benefits consultancy. Its 2009 acquisition of the UK business of Edward Jones added some 1,000 associates and boosted Towry's wealth advisory business.

Evolution Securities is a leading investment bank specialising in the UK and European equity and debt markets. Evolution Securities services include equity and fixed income research, institutional sales and trading, equity market making, corporate finance and corporate broking. In addition, Evolution Securities is an acknowledged leader in investment banking activities for UK small and mid cap companies and institutional investors.Evolution Securities is a subsidiary of The Evolution Group plc, a FTSE 250 UK listed holding company for UK based financial services companies. Utilising the significant financial strength of the Group and taking advantage of the recent dislocation in capital markets, Evolution Securities has substantially transformed its profile with material increases in the scale of business and range of services offered in both the equity and debt markets in UK and Europe. The core strategic objective is to maintain a balanced business, between equities and fixed income, servicing the needs of institutional and corporate customers in both these product areas. Evolution Securities is committed to providing clients with the highest quality of service based on a deep understanding of their needs, delivering independent ideas and propositions and offering best in class trading and execution.

FAF Advisors, Inc. is an asset management arm of U.S. Bank National Association. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. It also manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in value and growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. It employs a fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, Inc. FAF Advisors, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sanford C. Bernstein, a unit of AllianceBernstein (formerly Alliance Capital Management), was founded by the late Sanford Bernstein in 1967 to manage the discretionary accounts of the wealthy; it has some $70 billion of assets under management for affluent families, as well as pension funds and corporate investors. Sanford Bernstein's hallmark, however, is the fundamental company and industry research and securities valuation it performs for institutional clients. Sanford C. Bernstein company is active mainly in the US, where it maintains some 20 offices.

Established in 1984, Consolidated Firstfund Capital is a property management and venture capital business operating primarily in Canada and on the West Coast of the US. Consolidated Firstfund company chiefly assists businesses with fundraising through equity debt or other methods of investments and targets public and private companies residing in the resort development (and real estate), high-tech, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. Consolidated Firstfund company has invested in such companies as nutritional food products supplier Vitality Products, medical device designer MDMI Technologies, and portable power products supplier Battery & Wireless Solutions.

Mittel S.p.A. was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy. Mittel S.p.A, together with its subsidiaries, provides various financial services in Italy and internationally. It operates in five segments: Operating Finance, Real Estate, Private Equity, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management Advisory. The Operating Finance segment, through Mittel Generale Investimenti S.p.A., provides corporate lending and proprietary trading services. The Real Estate segment, through Mittel Investimenti Immobiliari S.p.A., manages property investments. The Private Equity segment invests in Italian companies through the means of stake acquisitions or closed investment funds. The Investment Management Advisory segment, through ECPI S.r.l., offers various consultancy services, including the production, maintenance, and release of financial indexes, primarily portfolio rating and screening, risk scores, and financial researching. The Corporate Finance segment, through Mittel Corporate Finance S.p.A., offers investment advisory services.

Retail Decisions Limited issues fuel and pre-paid cards in several world markets and provides retailers and financial institutions with services including payment processing, fraud prevention, database development, and IT consulting. ReD operates in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and the US. It also has partnered operations in Japan, India, China, and in South America. Retail Decisions Limited works with banks, oil companies, e-commerce retailers, and telecommunications firms. Corporate customers include Wal-Mart, Tesco, Macy's, Shell, and Virgin Mobile. ReD was founded in 2000.

Pender Financial can drop some serious money on technology. The Canadian merchant bank invests in emerging growth companies, specifically British Columbia firms in high tech fields. Pender Financial Group has sunk about $6 million in what it considers undervalued companies that need some management guidance. One of its biggest money makers is ActiveState Software, which creates open-source software for the Perl, Python, and Tcl programming and scripting languages. Other investments include bio tech venture capitalist Bio FutureFund, high-end marine lighting firm Carmanah, and Web host Radiant Communications.

Dinamia Capital Privado, Sociedad de Capital Riesgo, S.A. is a Spain-based holding company. Dinamia Capital Privado SCR SA is engaged in private equity, which consists of the acquisition and sells of equity investments in unlisted companies with the ultimate goal of generating capital gains over the medium to long term. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s investments portfolio included Gestion Integral Novolux Internacional SL, The Beauty Bell Chain SL, High Tech Hotels & Resorts SA, Enfasis Billing & Marketing Services SL, Saint German Grupo de Inversiones SL, Colegios Laude SL, Hortus Mundi SL, TBBC Helena Investments SL, Limestone Spain SL, Miser SL, Leucorodia SL, Ronda Corporate SL and Helena Debtco, among others. In addition, the Company is 16.71%-owned by Ventos SA.

Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. was founded in 1988 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office in Phoenix, Arizona. As of 07/10/2001, GMB is a subsidiary of CoBiz Financial Inc. Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. (GMB) is an investment bank that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of equity and debt, valuation and fairness opinion, and strategic financial advisory services. It caters to business services, construction, consumer, healthcare, and telecommunications industries.

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