HM Capital Partners LLC was founded in 1989 and is based in Dallas, Texas. HM Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market and mature companies. It seeks to invest in, the acquisition of under-managed, under-capitalized or under-appreciated assets and their transformation into strategically relevant assets; acquisition of divisions or products that have no management; acquisition of divisions or assets of large corporations; acquisition of distressed businesses going either through a restructuring or bankruptcy process; acquisition or recapitalization of privately owned or publicly traded businesses; and growth opportunities. The firm seeks to make control investments in companies operating in the, media sector, with a focus on new media technologies and companies offering multiple exit strategies; consumer products sector; energy sector, with a focus on on-shore United States natural gas value chain (both upstream and downstream) and new capital projects or strategic acquisitions that will generate returns in varying commodity price environments; food and beverages sector, with a focus on undermanaged or no management situations, as in the case of a divestiture of a single brand or product line and businesses that have an inappropriate cost structure with opportunity for savings by rationalizing expenses; financial services sector; information services sector; and niche manufacturing sector.

Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and known as the PHLX for short) might think so. Founded in 1790, the exchange claims seniority status over the larger New York Stock Exchange. The PHLX provides electronic and hybrid floor-based trading of equities, options, and futures trading, as well as clearing services. The exchange trades some 7,000 stocks and 2,600 equity options. In 2008 The Nasdaq OMX Group bought the PHLX from a group of investors including Citadel Investment Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse (USA), Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS for some $695 million. The exchange is now part of the Nasdaq Transaction Services US Group.

Adams Capital Management, Inc. was founded in 1994. Adams Capital Management, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in early stage and emerging growth investments. The firm prefers to invest in applied technology with a focus on information technology, networking infrastructure, telecommunications, and semiconductors. It typically invests in markets of at least $500 million in size. It is a series A investor and typically invest between $5 million and $10 million in the first round of financing and can start out under $1 million. The firm usually invests a maximum of $30 million over the life of an investment. It prefers to be a lead investor in its transactions. The firm seeks to take a board seat and an ownership stake of more than 35 percent in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for five years to ten years and prefers to exit through public offering, merger, and an outright sale.

ORIX USA was founded in 1981. ORIX USA Corporation is an investment banking and financial services company. It offers senior secured, unsecured, mezzanine, equipment leasing, and structured loan credit products to corporate, real estate, and public finance sectors, as well as to capital markets throughout the United States and Canada. ORIX USA Corporation company also offers investment banking and advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, and financial restructuring.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851. LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets.

Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia, a financial services company, provides brokerage services for Saudi securities in the Middle East. It provides confirmation of the order, as well as financial information, such as account and portfolio transactions through various media, including email, online interactive voice response, SMS mobile messages, fax, mail, and courier. Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia was formerly known as Saudi Swiss Securities. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with additional offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Riyadh, Beirut, Cairo, and Manama. As of November 10, 2008, Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia operates as a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group.

Intrepid Capital is here to help you face the sometimes frightening world of investing. Through subsidiary Intrepid Capital Management the company manages investments for institutional investors such as corporations, labor unions, foundations, and endowments, as well as wealthy individuals and families. Its products include small-cap and multi-cap equity, high-yield fixed-income, and balanced portfolios. The company invests in a variety of sectors including retail stores, consumer products, and sporting facilities. Chairman Forrest Travis founded Intrepid Capital in 1994 along with his son Mark, who is president and CEO of the firm.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

Frontenac Company was founded in 1971. Frontenac believes in the power of the people -- powerful people, that is. The private equity firm utilizes an investment strategy dubbed "CEO1ST", in which it matches one of its roster of already successful executives with high-potential companies. The company targets private midsized firms, typically family-owned companies worth up to $250 million. It invests in industries including financial services, business services, health care, publishing, and consumer goods. It participates in MBOs and expansion capital investments and holds its interest stakes for the long term. Frontenac has more than 200 investments under its belt and more than $1 billion in capital under management.

Acorn Capital Partners provides corporate finance services to growing companies. Acorn Capital also advises on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, regulatory compliance, and flotations on the PLUS and AIM stock markets. The firm has worked with companies in the business services, technology, communications, and real estate industries. Affiliate Acorn Fund Management offers three funds that invest in real estate (mainly in the European Union) to pension schemes and high-net-worth individuals. Acorn Capital Partners was co-founded by chief executive Ian Templeton and director Graham Norfolk.

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