Avenir Group invests in small and midsized companies and helps build those companies by providing management services and analysis, as well as business and administrative consulting. The firm prefers to invest in family businesses, threshold companies, and US divestments of international corporations. Avenir's portfolio includes such manufacturing companies as Proline Billiards (billiard tables), Nichols & Stone (wood furniture), and Westminster Ceramics (ceramic tile).

First Republic Bank was founded in 1985 as First Republic Bancorp Inc. and changed its name to First Republic Bank in September 1997. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of September 21, 2007, First Republic Bank operates as a subsidiary of BofA Merrill Lynch. First Republic Bank provides private banking, private business banking, investment management, brokerage, trust services, and real estate lending services in California, Nevada, and New York. It provides private business banking services to accounting firms, architecture and design, art and antique dealers, business management firms, business partnerships, entertainment/media, family offices, financial services, hedge funds, independent schools, investment firms, law firms, medical firms, non-profit organizations, private equity funds/firms, property management firms, and venture capital firms.First Republic Bank company also provides private wealth management services, including asset allocation, trust administration, custody, asset management, brokerage, private placements, fixed income management, financial and estate planning, alternative investments, socially responsible investing, and multi-cap equity and management services. First Republic Bank also offers residential lending products, such as single family mortgages, vacation home mortgages, co-op and condominium loans, home equity lines of credit, bridge loans, and construction-to-permanent loans; commercial lending, including apartment building, mixed-use building, commercial real estate, and site-acquisition and construction loans; and personal lending, such as stock/bond secured loans, unsecured loans, overdraft lines of credit, letters of credit, partner capital lines, aircraft and yacht financing. The company’s deposit services comprise ATM rebate checking, money market checking, money market savings, passbook savings, and certificates of deposit.

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.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board was founded in 1985 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to Wisconsin retirement system. It also manages accounts for state investment fund and other state trust funds, including injured patients and families compensation fund, state life insurance fund, local government property insurance fund, historical society endowment fund, and tuition trust fund (EdVest). The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds for its clients. It also manages index funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe, with a focus on the United States. It typically invests in real estate, private equity, and natural resources to make its alternative investments. The firm invests in value stocks employing a fundamental research with a tactical asset allocation for its multi-asset investments. It invests in companies of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap to create its funds.

Scotia Capital was founded in 1999. Scotia Capital Inc. provides investment banking services to communications, media, technology, consumer products, real estate, forest products, infrastructure, industrial products, power, mining, and oil and gas sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placement, negotiation assistance, due diligence, and restructuring services. Additionally, it provides research, equity sales and trading, foreign exchange management, merchant banking, short-term funding, investment research, and structured leasing services.

BC Partners is a leading private equity firm with advised funds of €10bn. Established in 1986, BC Partners has played an active role in developing the European buy-out market for over 20 years. BC Partners executives operate as an integrated team through offices in Europe and North America, acquiring and developing European or multinational businesses to create value in partnership with management. Since inception, BC Partners has invested in 71 companies with a total enterprise value of €66 billion.

Battery Management, which was founded in 1983, manages more than $3 billion in committed capital; notable past investments include Akamai Technologies, Allegiance Telecom, Focal Communications, and Chordiant Software. Battery Management gives emerging technology companies the juice they need to keep running. A venture capital firm specializing in such high-tech fields as communications, software, and e-commerce, the company has invested in more than 200 businesses around the world. It invests as little as several hundred thousand dollars to seed small ventures on up to $100 million for late-stage expansion; it also takes equity stakes in companies through its private equity operations.

GLG Partners, Inc. (GLG) is an asset management company. The Company offers a range of investment products and managed account services. GLG manages global investment funds and accounts. It derives revenue primarily from management fees and administration fees charged to the GLG Funds and accounts it manages based on the value of assets in these funds and accounts, and performance fees charged to the GLG Funds and accounts it manages based on the performance of these funds and accounts. On April 3, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of Societe Generale Asset Management Group Ltd.’s share capital to acquire Societe Generale Asset Management UK (SGAM UK), Societe Generale’s United Kingdom asset management business.

TTT Moneycorp Limited provides foreign exchange (FX) services to private and corporate customers. It enables individuals to purchase overseas property, transfer emigration funds, and make regular payments, as well as provides currency information, including currency charts and tools, and weekly currency updates. The company also serves business clients with protecting profitability, FX risk management, and online dealing and payments. In addition, it provides travel money services, including bureaux de change, a prepaid currency card and home delivery solution; bulk currency services for banks, money service businesses, and other industry sectors; and FX, CFDs, ETFs, shares, and futures trading services. Further, TTT Moneycorp Limited supplies wholesale currency banknotes to money services businesses, private banks, FX brokers, shipping companies, travel companies, cruise companies, and aircraft charters.

Sentinel Capital Partners, L.L.C. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York. Sentinel Capital Partners, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in mature and lower middle market private and public companies. The firm seeks to invest in, management buyouts; recapitalizations; corporate divestitures; growth financings; industry consolidations; turnarounds; restructurings; special situations; and going private transactions. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the, outsourcing; consumer products; business and marketing services; consumer services; consumer discretionary; healthcare; consumer staples; materials; food and restaurants; outsourced manufacturing; franchising; distribution; outsourced manufacturing; and manufacturing sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada. It invests up to $75 million in equity investments but prefers a range between $20 million and $50 million in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $25 million and enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $250 million with minimum $6 million annual cash flows. It prefers to be a majority investor, but co-invests selectively, and takes a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

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