Thomas Cressey Bravo is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in growth capital, family business or other recapitalizations, going-private transactions, roll-overs of a portion of existing equity, management buyouts (full or partial), buy and build, and industry consolidations. The firm invests in business services, software, healthcare, consumer products and services, education, and media sectors. Within consumer products and services, it invests in food and beverages; health, wellness and beauty aids, and services; automotive aftermarket; sports, leisure, entertainment and hobby products, and services; catalog and internet retailing; house wares, home repair and home furnishings; gardening and crafts; and pet care. In the healthcare sector, the firm invests in healthcare services (including hospitals, outpatient services, and managed care); pharmaceutical products and services (including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, marketing services, and specialty distribution); medical products and technologies (including disposables/consumables, medical technologies, and durable medical equipment); life-science instruments (including analytical instruments, consumables/reagents, and services).

Pinetree Capital Ltd. was born out of the ingenuity of Sheldon Inwentash, its Founder and current Chairman and CEO. The Company started in 1992 as a public shell that was formed to invest in technology companies. Pinetree raised initial funds of $2 million for its first venture capital investment. Using proceeds from successful early investments, Pinetree built a portfolio of early stage technology companies through the mid-to-late 1990’s. Typically taking a 20% to 40% interest in each company, Pinetree acted as an incubator to these early stage technology start-ups. Pinetree’s investment philosophy during the dot-com era was to select companies with solid business plans and novel and valuable intellectual property. As a result, Pinetree was exposed to, but survived when the technology bubble burst in 2000-2001.Anticipating that global growth would lead to an unprecedented demand for energy and resources, Pinetree switched its focus from technology and biotechnology to the resource sector in 2002. Today, Pinetree’s strategy is to identify companies with good potential properties and reserves and invest heavily in advance of the projects being developed. Due to numerous global economic and political factors, Pinetree expects the prices of resource and energy-related commodities to remain elevated in the future. With a finger on the pulse of the market and a proven track record of anticipating trends, Pinetree consistently invests ahead of the cycle.

LMS Capital plc was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in San Francisco, California. LMS Capital plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of funds investments. The firm seeks to invest in mid venture, late venture, middle market, mature, turnarounds, and buyouts. It makes balance sheet investments. It typically invests in energy and industrial, applied technology, media and leisure, healthcare and medical sectors, consumer services, software and services, commercial and professional services, and financial services. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada, United Kingdom, Israel, and European Developed Markets. It invests in public and private companies. The firm seeks to hold a board seat in its portfolio companies and actively manages significant stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm typically invests between £5 million ($9.98 million) and £15 million ($29.93 million) in companies with an enterprise value between £10 million ($19.95 million) and £50 million ($99.77 million), minimum revenue of £5 ($9.98 million), and minimum EBITDA of £1 million ($1.995 million).

Vision Capital's focus is clear: finance high-tech firms looking to go global. The venture capital firm specializes in funding European technology companies wanting to expand into the US and vise-versa. It focuses on the communications, semiconductor, software, and Internet sectors. Active investors who prefer to take seats on the boards of portfolio companies, Vision Capital's multinational, multilingual team looks for high-growth ventures, which it defines as greater than 35% compound annual growth, before it sinks its typical $3 million to $8 million in any given firm.

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. was established in 1978 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in George Town, Cayman Islands and London, United Kingdom. Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, acquisitions, and growth capital financings of mature and underperforming companies. The firm does not invest in middle market. It invests in the manufacturing, services, and information technology sectors. The firm invests in companies based in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. It also identifies and evaluates potential opportunities in France and the Benelux countries. The firm focuses on non-core divisions of large corporations.

Silverfleet Capital Partners was founded in 1990. Silverfleet Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in middle market management buyouts, secondary buyouts, buyins, buy and build, and industry consolidation. It does not invest in development capital, minority shareholdings (unless as part of a consortium of investors), turnaround, or early stage financing. The firm seeks to invest in private companies operating in mature markets and going private transactions and supports its portfolio companies in product or geographic expansion organically or through acquisition. It prefers to invest in all sectors including industrial and commercial sectors with a focus on business and financial services, distribution, healthcare, leisure, consumer, and retail sectors. The firm primarily invests in Europe with a particular focus on the English, French, and German speaking countries and Nordic countries. It also invests in United States headquartered companies that either have or are developing significant activities in Europe. The firm typically invests in companies having enterprise value between €75 million ($97.25 million) and €500 million ($648.33 million).

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. founded in 1931, is quiet (it doesn't advertise or grant many interviews), stable (it prides itself on consistency and believes investment decisions should not be taken lightly), and faithful (most of its investments and its executives are long-term). Subsidiary Capital Research and Management manages The American Funds, a family of more than 30 mutual funds that ranks among the largest groups of mutual funds by assets in the US. Other Capital Group units offer mutual funds in Canada and Europe, and investment trusts in Japan.

Private Equity is the common term used to refer to a specific type of long-term investment activity. Typically private equity firms take a controlling stake in companies with a view to transforming their performance over a number of years such that they can be sold at a premium to the acquisition price. The private equity investor will generally be represented on the board of the company so that they can actively support management in determining the strategic direction of the business.Private equity investments can be sub-divided according to the size of the company acquired, its development stage and the type of financing provided by the private equity firm. The Permira funds are primarily involved in medium to large buy-outs. This means that they tend to acquire sizeable businesses with a long-standing trading history and a strong market position. In addition, private equity firms traditionally finance their acquisitions with a mix of equity, provided by their institutional investors, and debt.Private Equity ownership is recognised to offer a number of benefits, which stem from its long-term investment horizon and a governance structure which fully aligns management’s and shareholders’ interests for the long-term benefit of a company and its employees. For more details on the industry, please visit our 3rd Party Research section.

North Bridge Venture Partners (NBVP) focuses on early-stage companies involved in software, semiconductors, manufacturing, communications, and technology services. North Bridge Venture Partners, with locations on both coasts, commits as little as $100,000 to startups and often makes multi-million dollar investments in more established enterprises. Besides an infusion of cash, it also offers strategic and financial guidance and industry-specific knowledge. NBVP has invested in about 100 companies, providing financing to firms such as Phase Forward, Sonus Networks, and Voxware. Its current portfolio includes Crossbeam Systems, and Antenna Software. An affiliate, North Bridge Growth Equity, supplies funding for technology companies.

HAL Trust was founded in 1873 and is based in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles. HAL Trust, through its subsidiary, HAL Holding N.V., owns and operates optical retail chains in the Netherlands and internationally. It supplies timber products and building materials; provides shipping services; imports and distributes wine; sells and assembles orthopaedic devices; develops and produces identification and timing equipment for sports events; and provides training for pilots using flight simulators. The company also produces high-pressure laminate products for exterior and interior applications; produces and sells office furniture; retails hearing aids; produces and distributes plant labels, announcement cards, and calendars; communication services for the financial industry, such as financial prospectuses and virtual data rooms; and distributes personal protection equipment, such as safety clothing for factory workers. In addition, its real estate investment activities include the development and rental of multi-family properties and office buildings in Seattle.

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