The Parkmead Group tries to smooth the path with its corporate finance and investment services. (The Parkmead, through its Quayside Corporate Services unit, also provides a variety of business turnaround services.) Formerly known as Interregnum, the Parkmead Group has invested in such companies as software architecture designer Adaptive, content management provider Open Text, multimedia messaging supplier Yospace, and software security provider KeCrypt. In 2009, the firm bought energy consultant Aupec Ltd. in a cash and stock deal. The Parkmead assists businesses with mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, and other related transactions.

Susquehanna International Group, LLP was founded in 1987. Susquehanna International Group just like the Pennsylvania river with which it shares a name. Susquehanna company is a market-maker for approximately 5,000 NASDAQ-listed securities, in addition to commodities, exchange-traded funds, and about 600 equity options and 45 index options. It trades municipal and corporate bonds and energy derivatives as well. Susquehanna also makes private equity and venture capital investments, performs institutional brokerage services, and conducts equity research on more than 130 companies.

NewStar Financial, Inc., a commercial finance company, provides customized debt financing solutions in the United States. NewStar Financial, Inc. principally focuses on the direct origination of loans and other debt products. NewStar Financial, Inc. provides senior secured and senior subordinated debt products, including revolving warehouse facilities, amortizing loans, term loans, and debt securities secured by various financial assets; second lien; mezzanine and subordinated debt; and equity and equity-linked products primarily to healthcare, manufacturing and industrial, financial services, energy/chemical services, printing/publishing, consumer, retail and restaurants, and business services industries. NewStar Financial, Inc. also offers commercial real estate loans and other debt products primarily through property investors, specialized commercial real estate brokers, regional banks, and other financial intermediaries. NewStar Financial, Inc. commercial real estate loans provide capital for various purposes, including acquisition; lease-up; repositioning and build-out; and refinancing and recapitalization. NewStar Financial, Inc. is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sprout Group is a venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on emerging technology companies from startups to management buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in sectors in healthcare technology (biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, laboratory infrastructure and technology, other healthcare investments), communications (components, equipment & software, service providers), and software (applications, infrastructure, electronic design automation). The firm frequently serves as the lead investor in its portfolio companies and serves on its company's Board of Directors. The Sprout Group is a venture capital affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston. Sprout Group is no longer making new investments, but works actively with associated funds; New Leaf Ventures, which invests in Healthcare Technology, and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, which focuses on a broad range of equity investment opportunities.

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. From turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance. Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.

ACI Capital Co., LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in New York City. ACI Capital Co., LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, growth capital, recapitalization, PIPE, secondary purchase, bridge financing, and special situation transactions of middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in the consumer, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and chemical sectors in the United States. It typically acts as a lead investor and invests between $10 million and $50 million per transaction in portfolio companies that have revenues between $50 million and $500 million and operating incomes between $5 million and $50 million.

Gluskin Sheff + Associates was founded in 1984 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm also provides wealth management services. It provides its services to high net worth investors, including entrepreneurs, professionals, family trusts, private charitable foundations, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations , corporations, and estates. The firm also manages accounts for institutions. It manages equity and balanced portfolios and mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It also invests in fixed income and alternative markets. The firm primarily invests in value, income, and growth stocks employing a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock approach. It also invests in income trusts, hedge funds, and fixed income.

SOFTBANK CORP. is a Japan-based company engaged in the telecommunications and Internet business. The Company operates in six business segments. The Mobile Communications segment provides cellular phone services and sells attached cellular phone terminals. The Broadband and Infrastructure segment provides high-speed Internet access services, Internet protocol (IP) phone services and contents. The Fixed Communication segment provides fixed communication service. The Internet Culture segment is engaged in the Internet advertising, the broadband portal and the auction businesses. The Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) segment sells personal computers (PCs), peripheral devices and software for PC use, as well as provides business-to-business and business-to-customer e-commerce services. The Others segment is involved in the provision of technology services, the media marketing and the overseas fund business.

Founded in 1985, ALPS has some $240 billion of assets under administration. ALPS Holdings wants to make sure fund managers can attain peak performance by keeping their focus on their investments and letting ALPS handle the rest. Through various subsidiaries, the company performs a range of back-office functions for mutual funds, closed-end funds, hedge funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Its offerings encompass fund administration and accounting, shareholder servicing, and legal, marketing, tax, distribution, and transfer agency services. Clients include Cohen & Steers, Macquarie Group, and exchange-traded Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts (SPDR) sector funds.

Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Salisbury, and Southampton, United Kingdom. Smith & Williamson Limited is a member firm of Nexia International. Smith & Williamson Limited operates as a subsidiary of Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited. Smith & Williamson Limited offers accounting and consulting services. The firm provides accounting, tax consulting, reporting, financial modeling, risk management, and compliance and regulatory advisory services. Additionally, it offers due diligence, valuation, business planning, and IT advisory services. The firm also provides pension and financial planning; employee benefits and human resource solutions; forensic; and restructuring and recovery services. It caters to financial, agriculture, real estate, media, technology, corporate, and non-profit sectors.

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