Vining-Sparks IBG wants to help institutional investors kindle an investment blaze. Operating as Vining Sparks, the firm provides broker/dealer services to institutional investors including financial companies, money managers, funds, insurance firms, and municipalities. Through its alliance with Howe Barnes, Vining-Sparks IBG offers investment banking services including debt and equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions advisory. Headquartered in Memphis, far from the capital of capital centers, Vining Sparks has more than a dozen offices in the US and another in London. Chairman James Vining founded Vining-Sparks IBG to serve community banks in 1981.

Banca Fideuram was formed in 1992 and is based in Rome, Italy. As of January 18, 2007, Banca Fideuram S.p.A. was a subsidiary of Eurizon Financial Group S.p.A. Banca Fideuram S.p.A. now operates as subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo SpA. Banca Fideuram S.p.A. operates in the private banking industry in Italy and Europe. The bank and its subsidiaries provide mutual funds, life insurance policies, pension funds, certificates of deposit, and private banking services. It manages financial products that are distributed by its private bankers. The bank also provides banking facilities, including securities and mutual funds trading services, which are available online. As of September 30, 2004, the bank operated 89 branches and served approximately 727,000 customers.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Berkshire) is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and a reinsurance basis. Berkshire also owns and operates a large number of other businesses engaged in a variety of activities. Berkshire’s insurance and reinsurance business activities are conducted through approximately 70 domestic and foreign-based insurance entities. Berkshire’s insurance businesses provide insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty risks world-wide and also reinsure life, accident and health risks world-wide. Berkshire’s insurance underwriting operations are comprised of sub-groups: GEICO and its subsidiaries, General Re and its subsidiaries, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. On February 12, 2010, the Company acquired all of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF).

Saratoga Partners is an independent, New York-based merchant banking firm making alternative asset investments in private equity and debt in partnership with management across the industrial manufacturing, business service and information service sectors. Saratoga primarily pursues investments in U.S.-headquartered, middle-market companies that it believes have opportunities for enhanced growth and productivity. Saratoga’s investment strategy includes a special focus on “special situation” middle-market investments involving complexity or inefficiencies – including restructurings – that present attractive value combined with active, “hands-on” post-investment involvement to achieve revenue and productivity enhancements.

ISIS Equity Partners LLP is a private equity firm specializing in replacement capital, management buy-out, secondary buy-out, management buy-in, and development capital in lower mid-market companies. It seeks to invest in business services; consumer markets including retail, consumer products, and leisure; financial services; healthcare and education; and information technology and media. The firm primarily invests in the companies that are based in the British Isles. It typically invests between £2 million ($3.96 million) and £30 million ($59.5 million) in companies valued between £5 million ($9.91 million) and £75 million ($148.69 million). The firm does not invest in start up and early stage investments.

CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC was formed on August 1, 2006 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Woodlands, Texas. CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts and growth equity transactions in middle market companies. The firm invests in consumer, retail, and services; media and telecom; industrial; energy; healthcare infrastructure; and financial services sectors. Within the consumer, retail, and services industry, it focuses on specialty retail, direct marketing, consumer packaged goods, Internet, and services industries. For its media and telecom investments, the firm focuses on consumer and trade publishing, content and programming, broadcasting, cable, and wireless and wireline communications sectors.

Fred Alger Management was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Jersey City, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts. Fred Alger Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of Fred Alger & Company Incorporated. The firm provides its services primarily to individuals. It also caters to investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations, endowments and foundations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm primarily invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada and the leading debt and equity underwriter in the Great White North. As the only Canadian bank designated as a primary dealer in the US, RBC Capital Markets offers mergers and acquisitions support, securities trading and research, foreign exchange, infrastructure finance, and advisory services. It serves a number of industries, including aerospace, media, mining, energy, health care, forest products, transportation, and the public sector. Almost half of its business comes from the US. The firm has some 75 offices mainly in North America, but also in major cities in Australia, Brazil, Dubai, Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

Doughty Hanson handsomely manages dough, making private equity investments in middle-market European firms in a range of industries, including media, communications, consumer goods, and building materials. It also invests in and develops real estate and makes venture capital investments in growing technology concerns. Established in 1985, has invested in more than 100 companies. Its current portfolio includes interests in more than a dozen firms. Doughty Hanson closed its fifth private equity fund, worth some E3 billion, in 2007. Institutional investors in the fund include pension funds, banks, and insurance companies. Doughty Hanson has about ten offices throughout Europe.

Institutional Venture Partners was founded in 1980 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Institutional Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in later stage companies, small-cap public companies, and growth equity. The firm seeks to invest in industry rollups, founder liquidity, and select public market transactions. It generally invests in information technology and media companies with a focus on internet and digital media, enterprise information technology, travel, communications, wireless, software, infrastructure, and technology-enabled services. The firm invests in companies based in the United States. It invests in private companies having revenues greater than $10 million.

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