BGL was founded in 1989 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Brown Gibbons Lang & Company LLC (BGL) is an investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. It focuses on middle market companies with enterprise values between $25 million and $500 million. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, private placements of equity and debt securities, initial public offerings, valuations and fairness opinions, and financial restructuring advisory services. Additionally, it offers due diligence, transaction negotiation, and document preparation services. The firm caters to automotive, business services, chemicals, construction materials and building products, consumer products, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, metals processing, plastics, and packaging industries.

Acorn Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage, start-ups, series A or first round, series B or second round, and series C or third round investments in early stage companies. The firm does not invest in idea, later stage, mezzanine, and public companies. It seeks to invest in technology, Internet, and education sectors. In technology sector, the firm focuses on broadband, infrastructure, wireless, and software. In education sector, it focuses on enterprise and consumer. In Internet sector, the firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and retail. It prefers to invest in the United States. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $5 million per round. The funding requirement of more than $5 million is fulfilled along with other venture capital firms. It seeks to invest only in equity but can sometimes supplement with debt instruments but not only debt investments. The firm typically takes a Board seat in the portfolio company. It seeks to exit its investments within three to seven years through initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System was founded in 1935 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Public Employees Retirement System is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefit programs to its clients. It primarily provides its services to public employees, retirees, and beneficiaries. The firm manages pension funds and principal investment funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, including venture capital; real estate; currency markets; derivatives; hedge fund-of funds; and commodities. It also invests in exchange traded funds and ADRs while making its investments. For its equity investments, the firm typically invests in the large-cap and small-cap companies. It also invests in warrants, initial public offerings, and preferred securities. For its fixed income investments, the firm typically invests in investment-grade securities, high yield debt, treasury inflation protected securities, corporate bonds, government bonds, short-term securities. It also makes limited partnership investments. The firm seeks to commit between $5 million and $15 million per partnership and has a net internal rate of return target of 20%.

Sealaska Corporation was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Juneau, Alaska. Sealaska Corporation operates as a landowner with surface lands and subsurface lands in the southeast Alaska. Sealaska Corporation company also engages in harvesting and marketing wood products for hardwood outdoor furniture in the Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest. In addition, it invests in construction and manufacturing aggregates, plastics injection molding, environmental consulting, machining and prototyping, logistics, financial, and information technology markets.

GC-Global Capital Corp. was founded in 2005 and is based in Toronto, Canada. GC-Global Capital Corp. provides merchant banking services to micro-cap and small-cap companies in public and private markets in North America. It offers bridge loan services to companies in oil and gas, mining, real estate, manufacturing, retail, financial services, technology, and biotechnology industries. The company also provides services, which include equity financing, developing mergers and acquisitions, operational management support, and structuring and negotiating debt and equity placements. In addition, it offers debtor-in-possession financing services; and scientific research experimental development, a tax credit program, which is used as collateral in loans.

Legg Mason, Inc. was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Legg Mason, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified group of global asset management firm serving individual and institutional investors worldwide. Its multi-affiliate business model provides clients with a spectrum of equity, fixed income, liquidity, and alternatives solutions, including mutual funds, college savings plans, variable annuities, and separately managed accounts. Legg Mason Company's affiliates operate with investment autonomy, with each affiliate pursuing its own unique investment philosophy and process, as well as maintaining its own investment culture. Legg Mason complements the investment expertise of its affiliates by providing distribution and client service, enabling affiliates to access new markets, new clients, and new opportunities. It also provides shared services, such as operations and technology, accounting, legal, compliance, and marketing, to allow the affiliates to maintain their full focus on delivering sustainable investment excellence.

Julius Baer Gruppe AG company provides private banking and investment advisory services to wealthy individuals and asset managers around the world. Operating through key subsidiary Bank Julius Baer and other units, the company is the largest independent private bankers among the traditional Swiss banking guard. Julius Baer has some 40 offices in many of the world's financial centers, from Dubai to Tokyo. In 2009 the company split itself up, separating its private banking and asset management operations. It spun off GAM Holding and its stake in advisory firm Artio Global Investors to focus on its core private banking business.

PEAK6 Investments, L.P. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Peak6 Investment, LP, an online stock and option broker, provides options trading, risk management, and hedge fund services. It also operates a news network that provides market analysis, trading floor interviews, trading strategies, education, and news feeds regarding options. In addition, the company operates a Website that provides information about the stock market, as well as enables to trade in real stocks under real market conditions with fake money.

Evercore Partners Inc. (Evercore), incorporated on July 20, 2005, is an independent investment banking advisory firms in the world based on the dollar volume of announced worldwide merger and acquisition (M&A). The Company provides advisory services to multinational corporations on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings and other strategic corporate transactions. Evercore also includes an Investment Management business through which it manages institutional assets for institutional investors, provide wealth management services for net-worth individuals, provide specialized investment management, independent fiduciary and trustee services to employee benefit plans of large corporations and manage private equity funds.The Company operates in two business segments: Advisory and Investment Management. In April 2010, the Company announced that the acquisition of MJC Associates, a commercial real estate advisory boutique.

Clearstone Venture Partners was founded in 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California with an additional office in Menlo Park, California. Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It also prefers to make later round investments in highly successful companies already backed by other venture capital firms with whom it has prior relationships. The firm seeks to invest in technology markets, including software, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise computing, storage, communications, wireless and optical communications, data center, enterprise software, security, micro-processors, imaging and transformative infrastructure, semiconductors, advanced optics, and consumer and business internet sector. With in enterprise software it focuses on new application models and service oriented architectures (Web Services); open source solutions; web-based application delivery models including software as functional media; and Microsoft exchange as a platform for enterprise collaboration. Within consumer sector the firm seeks to invest in mobile phone applications, wireless multimedia, social networking applied to commerce, and where there is a broad intersection of technology and consumer activity.

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