Industrivärden was established in 1944; Ericsson was its sole original investment. Industrivärden's roster reads like a who's who of Nordic entrepreneuralism. The holding company invests in midsized and large public Nordic companies with an emphasis on industrial manufacturers and financial services. (Industrivärden is a Swedish word meaning "industrial value".) It owns stakes in companies including financial services group Handelsbanken, telecom company Ericsson, toolmaker Sandvik, and paper products maker Svenska Cellulosa. AB Industrivärden company prefers to take long-term significant stakes in companies in which it can take an active ownership role.

VSS provides capital for buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings and strategic acquisitions to middle market companies and management teams with a goal of building companies both organically and through a focused add-on acquisition program. VSS makes both control and minority equity investments. Since 1987, VSS has managed five private equity funds: four equity buyout funds and a structured capital fund. Over the past 20 years, VSS has managed funds with capital committed exceeding $2.8 billion. To date, VSS equity and structured capital funds have invested in more than 50 platform companies, which have together completed over 220 add-on acquisitions resulting in a portfolio with realized and unrealized enterprise values of more than $10.2 billion.VSS focuses solely on the Media, Communications, Information and Education industries in North America and Europe. The team of investment professionals at VSS is comprised of former media company operating executives as well as investment bankers, commercial bankers, consultants, accountants and lawyers who have worked closely with the media industry. VSS is well known for its expertise in the Media industry and is viewed as a value added investor which is more akin to a strategic partner than solely a financial investor.

Berkshire Partners, LLC was founded in 1986 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Berkshire Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in private companies, public companies, and special situations. Within private companies, the firm seeks to invest in leveraged buyouts, acquisition; management buyouts; recapitalizations of a business in which management retains significant ownership either as a majority or a minority partner; growth capital; and privatization investments. It invests in companies where founder is seeking liquidity from his or her business for estate purposes; a company owned by another financial buyer seeking a realization on an investment; and a divestiture of a business line or segment from a larger corporation. In public companies, the firm primarily invests in going private transactions and PIPES. It also purchases preferred stock, common stock, and other public or non-public securities issued by public companies. Within special situations, the firm invests in private and public companies experiencing stress from financial or operating issues, requiring growth capital for new initiatives, requiring capital for internal expansion, minority investments in pre-IPO companies, and joint ventures with strategic operating partners.

Commonwealth Equity Services, Inc. provides investment services to a network of more than 1,000 independent financial advisors throughout the US. Commonwealth Equity Services, Inc. has about $50 billion in assets under management. Commonwealth Equity Services, Inc. also provides support services to its financial advisors that include marketing, compliance, and practice management. Founded by Chairman Joe Deitch in 1979, Commonwealth Equity Services, Inc. is owned by its principals.

Sagentia Group was founded in 1986. Sagentia Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a technology consulting, product development, and IP licensing company that commercializes various science and technology solutions. The company creates, develops, and delivers business opportunities, products and services for its clients. Its product portfolio includes Ebonex, a conductive ceramic material; Cap-Track and MuTrack, which are contact-less inductive sensing technologies; and a contact-less inductive sensing ‘Pad’ technology. The company also assists business leaders to create strategies for technology, innovation, and growth. In addition, Sagentia Group offers asset management services, and property and central services; and proprietary Internet protocol licensing services. It offers its products and services in the areas of engineering, materials, telecommunications, life sciences, business innovation, and electronics.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Limited, a private bank, provides financial services in United Kingdom. The company offers banking, investment management, financial planning, pension, leasing, and factoring and invoice discounting services, as well as alternative investments. Its services include current accounts, money transmission, money market deposits, notice accounts, electronic banking, borrowing facilities, treasury, foreign exchange, fiduciary deposits, and derivative products; and investment advice and portfolio management, trust and company management, fund management, personal and inheritance tax planning, life assurance and family protection, health insurance and income protection, mortgage advice, school fees planning, offshore investments, savings, unit and investment trusts, OEICs, and tax effective investments. The company also provides lending products for the acquisition and development residential and commercial properties; finance to lease, own, and manage business and personal assets; and musical instrument and yacht finance. It serves private individuals, entrepreneurs, property investors and developers, owner-managed businesses, solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, letting and managing agents, charities, and the motor sport sector.

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.

Brait S.A. is an international investment company. The Company is engaged in the business of structuring, raising and management of investment funds that are classified as alternative assets. Its product portfolio includes private equity funds, mezzanine debt funds and a range of hedge fund solutions. In addition, the Company invests in investment programmes in these product areas. These investments are made predominantly in South Africa. Investors include global and South African institutions. The Company operates through two segments: Private Capital operations, which incorporates all activities in the private capital markets, and Public Markets operations, which incorporates all activities in the public or highly traded securities markets. Private Capital includes private equity funds, proprietary investing, sponsored funds, mezzanine debt, and fund of private equity funds. Public Markets includes multi-management and capital management.

The London Stock Exchange is at the heart of the global financial market and is home to some of the largest, most successful and dynamic companies in the world. The Exchange has built on a long history of integrity, expertise and market knowledge to become the world's most international stock exchange. In October 2007 the Exchange merged with Borsa Italiana, creating Europe's leading diversified exchange business, London Stock Exchange Group. The LSE includes the main market, the Professional Securities Market (or PSM, listed debt securities), and the Alternative Investment Market (or AIM, which lists new and growing companies). The LSE is also a leader in international IPOs. Borse Dubai owns around 21% of the exchange; Qatar Investment Company owns about 15%.

OppenheimerFunds Inc. was founded in 1960 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Rochester, New York and Centennial, Colorado. OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, corporations and institutions. It also provides sub-advisory investment-management services. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.

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