Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is the Scottish Government’s economic and community development agency for a diverse region which covers more than half of Scotland. HIE aims to build sustainable economic growth in all parts of the Highlands and Islands. HIE provides advice and grants to new and existing businesses, helping promote all sorts of commercial ventures. Along with Scottish Enterprise, its counterpart for the more populous southern region of Scotland, HIE supports Careers Scotland, a public organization for apprenticeships, job training, and professional development. While most Scots speak English, HIE attempts to accommodate speakers of Gaelic through its Web site, publications, and community outreach efforts.

Stifel Financial Corp. serves individual, corporate, municipal, and institutional investors through about 200 offices in the US, with a concentration in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Stifel Financial Corp. also has three offices in Europe. Through subsidiaries Stifel Nicolaus (founded 1890), Century Securities Associates, and others, the company provides securities brokerage, investment products, and financial advice for private clients. Stifel also offers brokerage and mergers and acquisitions advisory services for corporate clients, underwrites corporate and municipal bonds, and provides research on US and European equities. Stifel merged with Thomas Weisel in 2010.

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers merger and acquisition, private placement, acquisition financing, management buyout, and recapitalization advisory services. Additionally, it provides retail brokerage, securities trading, and business valuation and insurance services. The firm, formerly known as J.J.B. Hilliard & Son, was founded in 1854 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky. As of March 31, 2008, J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC operates as a subsidiary of HL Financial Services, LLC.

Harris Williams was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia with additional offices in Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Harris Williams LLC, doing business as Harris Williams & Co., is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services to aerospace; automotive and heavy duty truck; building products and materials; Chemicals; commercial and industrial equipment; consumer or business services; consumer products; marketing; energy and power; food and beverage; forest and paper products; furniture; healthcare and life sciences; media and entertainment; metal fabrication; mining; business outsourcing; packaging; chemical; retail; technology; telecommunications; textiles; and transportation and logistics sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, management buyouts, and fairness opinions services. Its clientele includes American Tower Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Oglebay Norton, Linesoft Corporation, Snyder Industries, Pioneer International, Banc One Capital Partners, Cedar Creek Partners, and Allied Capital.

GenSpring Family Offices was founded in 1989 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; Orlando, Florida; St. Petersburg, Florida; and Chevy Chase, Maryland. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC. operates as a subsidiary of GenSpring Holdings, Inc. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC is a privately owned multi-family office with approximately $5.88 billion in assets under management. It also provides estate and trust planning, tax planning, and philanthropy services to its clients. The firm provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals; pension and profit sharing plans; pooled investment vehicles; charitable organizations, and corporations. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm also makes its investments in private equity and hedge funds.

Banc of America Investment Services (BAI) is the primary retail brokerage unit of banking powerhouse Bank of America. Banc of America Investment Services, Inc. offers online brokerage services for do-it-yourself investors; customers with a balance of more than $25,000 get up to 30 free trades per month. BAI provides access to stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as investment research, retirement accounts, and college savings plans. Banc of America Investment Services, Inc. offers full-service financial advisory services to clients with investable assets in excess of $100,000. BAI is a part of Bank of America's Premier Banking and Investments division.

Braemar Group plc was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Hale, the United Kingdom. As of July 20, 2010, Braemar Group PLC operates as a subsidiary of Brooks Macdonald Group Plc. Braemar Group plc engages in the fund management, corporate finance, and property management businesses. The company operates in two divisions, Braemar Securities and Braemar Estates. The Braemar Securities division provides advisory and fund raising services for public and private companies. It also enables the company and other property fund managers to create property-based funds, as well as advises companies on fundraising via AiM, EIS, and other forms of equity finance. In addition, this division provides and operates tax efficient property funds for the high net worth individuals. The Braemar Estates division provides property management services. It offers residential property management services for individual landlords, developers, and fund managers. This division also provides building services, such as general repairs and maintenance in the areas of gardening and grounds maintenance, electrical work, electrical safety checks, decoration, brickwork, roofwork, plastering, cleaning, and plumbing.

Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on the consumer media/retail and financial services sectors. Village Ventures strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.When it comes to seed and early stage investing, village ventures believe that there is strength in numbers. True early stage firms are necessarily small, and therefore often lack the scale required to effectively support their entrepreneurs. Village Ventures has built a platform, which it offers to other seed and early stage firms, to provide for collaboration, co-investment and administrative cost sharing. This network is a powerful tool to expand village ventures reach and make us more effective partners for village ventures portfolio companies.

IGM Financial Inc. was founded in 1894. IGM Financial Inc., a personal financial services company, provides investment advisory and related services. The company’s activities are carried out through Investors Group Inc., Mackenzie Financial Corporation and Investment Planning Counsel Inc. IGM Financial Inc. is a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies. Investors Group Inc. (Investors Group) delivers personalized financial solutions to Canadians through a network of consultants located throughout Canada. In addition to a family of mutual funds and other investment vehicles, Investors Group offers a range of insurance, securities, mortgage products and services, and, through National Bank of Canada, also offers banking products and services. Mackenzie Financial Corporation (Mackenzie) is an investment management firm providing investment advisory and related services. Mackenzie distributes its products and services primarily through a diversified distribution network of third party financial advisors. Investment Planning Counsel Inc. (Investment Planning Counsel) is an independent distributor of financial products, services and advice in Canada.

MDY Healthcare PLC previously known as Medisys plc, was listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in June 2000. Following the sale of its main operating subsidiary, Hypoguard Limited, to ARKRAY Inc. of Japan in May 2006, the company became an investing company. In September 2006, simultaneous with the move across to AIM and the change of name, the company raised £4.7 million (£4.4 million net of expenses) through a subscription for new shares by 3i Group plc and the management team.MDY Healthcare plc is a sector specialised investing company quoted on AIM (ticker symbol: MDY). The company seeks to achieve superior returns for shareholders by investing globally in companies, both public and private, in the healthcare sector, with a particular focus on medical technology. The directors and executives have significant operational and investment experience in the sector and therefore the ability to identify and review a wide range of potential investments. Given the management's experience and contact base within the sector, MDY is also able to provide investee companies with strategic business support and advice over and above finance.

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