Catapult Venture Managers Limited was formed in 1999 and is based at Leicester, United Kingdom with an additional office at Birmingham, United Kingdom. Catapult Venture Managers Limited is a priavte equity and venture capital firm specializing in equity investments in all stages of the business lifecycle with a focus on start ups, early stage, development capital, management buy-outs, and management buyins in small and medium sized companies. It invests in healthcare, medical devices, environmental or green propositions, and support services. The firm primarily invests in companies based in the East Midlands region. It typically invests between £200,000 ($292,124) and £2 million ($2.92 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments within three years to five years. It takes a minority stake, can work with other investors, and can lead and be involved with investor syndicates.

Founded in 1988 by President Kay Chandler, the firm has some $2 billion under management. Chandler Asset Management is an investment adviser specializing in the management of fixed-income portfolios for institutional investors. The firm offers portfolio management, analysis, and accounting as well as cash flow modeling, compliance reporting, and client training. Its investment strategies include short-term fixed income, core fixed income, and 1-5 year fixed income. Public agencies, healthcare companies, foundations, endowments, and corporations make up Chandler's customer base.

Wedbush Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, recapitalizations, acquisition, management-led buyouts, add-on acquisitions and expansion capital investments in lower middle market. The firm prefers to invest in business and financial services, consumer products and services, and niche manufacturing with a focus on medical devices, materials, containers and packaging, industrials, capital goods, aerospace and defense, building products, construction and engineering, electrical equipment, trading companies and distributors, commercial services and supplies, transportation, consumer discretionary, consumer durables and apparel, leisure equipment and products, textiles, apparel and luxury goods, restaurants and leisure, retailing, consumer staples, financials, banks, commercial banks, diversified financials, diversified financial services, consumer finance, capital markets, energy services, and insurance sectors. It invests in companies based in the Western United States.

Fortress International Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in consulting, planning, designing, building, and maintaining facilities, such as data centers, trading floors, call centers, network operation centers, communication facilities, laboratories, and secure bunkers. The company offers services for electrical, mechanical, telecommunications, security, fire protection and building automation systems that are critical to the mission-critical facilities lifeblood. Services The company’s services include technology consulting, engineering and design management, construction management, system installations, operations management, and facilities management and maintenance. It provides its services to both government and private sector customers. Technology Consulting Energy and Green Solutions: The company developed services that identify energy savings for the customer on both the supply side from utility sources and demand side in terms of consumption of an existing data center. Supply side services include utility rate analysis in deregulated areas; obtaining energy certificates and carbon offset certificates for capital expenditures on both renewable energy based initiatives, as well as replacement initiatives; and participation in demand response programs. Demand side initiatives include energy audits; facility consolidation; and performance based contracting initiatives that create capital from energy savings on replacement projects.IT Solutions: These services are partially performed by its staff and done in conjunction with its teaming partners and include data center strategic planning; data center optimization; virtualization and consolidation of servers and storage devices; and data center relocation planning and implementation. Real Estate Solutions: These services include assisting customers with disposal and acquisition of mission-critical assets; site assessments, evaluation and selection; conceptual design and in depth budget and cost analysis; financial modeling and market research; utility assessment; telecommunication service assessment; cost and payback analysis; and phased investment strategy for development of speculative space. Capital solutions: These services include finding sale and lease back alternatives for its customers; matching customers up with leasing partners to finance equipment purchases; finding equity partners for its customers developing speculative projects; and performance contract financing for gy related capital projects. Design and Engineering/Planning and Programming: This phase represents the initiation of project development and typically includes establishing project goals and a preliminary budget and schedules, setting technical parameters and requirements, and determining project team members and the overall level of effort required of the team.

Davis Selected Advisers LP was founded in 1969 and is based in Tucson, Arizona. Davis Selected Advisers LP is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity and alternative investment markets across the globe. For alternative investment, it invests in the real estate markets. The firm invests in value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap companies to make its investments. It employs fundamental research, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques with a combination of bottom-up and top-down approach to make its investments.

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. was founded in April 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices across United States; Asia; and Europe. Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is the private equity arm of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC specializing in marketable securities and private investments. The firm’s marketable securities investments include high yield bonds, convertible securities, high-income convertibles, European high yield bonds, and international convertibles. Within high yield bonds, it purchases only debt of solvent United States and Canadian corporations and emphasize senior, cash-paying securities, and thorough diversification. The firm eschews emerging nation debt sector and does not shift adroitly from sector to sector. It invests in senior secured and second lien debt, syndicated mezzanine transactions, senior bank loans, and high yield bonds and concentrates on below-investment-grade syndicated loans. Within convertible securities, the firm focuses on United States, international, and high income convertibles with short maturities. Its private investments strategies include distressed debt, emerging market equities, real estate management, private equity, mezzanine financing, and power infrastructure. In senior bank debt, it focuses primarily on United States dollar-denominated loans secured by first priority liens in performing companies within the United States and Canada.

Kent Financial Services (once known as Texas American Energy) has moved from the oil patch to the financial services field. Kent Financial Services, Inc. holds a majority stake in publicly traded Kent International Holdings (formerly Cortech), which scrapped its pharmaceutical research and is seeking new business opportunities in the US and China. Kent Financial Services, Inc. in 2010 also scrapped subsidiary Kent Educational Services, which controlled The Academy for Teaching and Leadership, a provider of educational programs for school administrators and teachers. Chairman and CEO Paul Koether owns approximately 60% of Kent Financial Services.

Prism Capital Corporation was founded in 1999. Prism Capital Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in growth finance, recapitalizations and buyouts. It is a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC). The firm invests through its funds. The Prism Opportunity Fund, L.P. specializes in expansion capital, mid and late ventures, and acquisition investments. It does not invest in start-ups. The fund primarily invests in information technology, healthcare, specialty manufacturing, and service industries. It seeks to invest in Midwest region including Illinois within the United States. It seeks to make equity investments between $1 million and $3 million in transactions valued between $2 million and $15 million and can also invest in exceptional young companies. Prism Mezzanine Fund SBIC, L.P. specializes in recapitalizations, internal growth, mergers, acquisitions, ownership changes, and subordinated debt financing to private middle market and mature companies. It primarily invests in industrial, healthcare, distribution, and business services industries.

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.

Delaware Management Holdings, which does business as Delaware Investments, provides investment management services to institutional and individual clients. The company manages some 40 mutual funds with value, core, and growth equity, fixed income, and international strategies. Other products for consumers include managed accounts, insurance, and retirement plans. Delaware Investments also offers separate accounts and mutual funds to its more than 500 institutional clients, including corporations, retirement plans, endowments, foundations, and financial institutions. Macquarie Group bought the company in 2010 for nearly $430 million in cash.

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