Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

VIEL & Cie was founded in 1920 and is based in Paris, France. VIEL & Cie, through its subsidiaries, provides interdealer broking, online trading, and private banking solutions to institutional and retail investors. The company offers financial products, such as money market products, interest rate and credit derivatives, bonds, interest rate futures and index futures currency options, and equity derivatives; and commodity-related products, such as precious metals, energy products, and pulp and paper. It also operates in the over-the-counter markets and regulated markets in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In addition, the company offers online broking services; online trading, account maintenance, custodial, and private asset management services for private investors; a trading platform for asset management centres; and back office and order transmission services.

Summit Partners' dough rises a little later rather than earlier. Summit Partners funds later-stage companies, preferring those that are profitable and growing. It invests in a range of industries, including business and financial services, energy, health care, communications, media, industrial and consumer products, software, and semiconductors. Summit Partners' private equity investments range from $30 million to more than $500 million; venture capital investments range between $5 million to $30 million. Summit Partners also provides mezzanine debt financing. Its current portfolio includes stakes in more than 50 firms in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

Mavinwood plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the document handling business in the United Kingdom. It provides document management solutions, including document and asset management consultancy, project management, scanning and data integration, system delivery, contract personnel assignments, archive compression, and facilities management services for oil and gas, railways, civil engineering, power, and shipping/ship building sectors. The company also offers near and deep storage, off-site tape storage, document scanning, file and asset tracking and management, and secure destruction services, as well as specialized storage products primarily for accountancy, corporate, financial, insurance, law, and media firms, as well as local authorities and hospital trusts. In addition, it provides rising damp and damp proofing, timber preservation, structural waterproofing, basement conversion, dry rot and wet rot control, resin repairs, condensation control, wall anchors and stabilization, bird control, and remedial wall ties services for home owner and commercial markets, including surveyors/architects, property owners and managers, local authorities and contractors, and commercial and public buildings.

CITIC Group was founded in 1979 and is based in Beijing, China with additional offices in New York, New York; Tokyo, Japan; and Almaty, Kazakhstan. CITIC Group Company operates as an industrial conglomerate that offers banking, financial, manufacturing, and communication services through its subsidiaries. It provides securities, insurance, and trusts and funds related services. Additionally, CITIC Group offers construction contracting; and real estate and infrastructure development, trading, and information technology related services. Its subsidiaries include China CITIC Bank, CITIC Asset Management Corporation, Ltd, CITIC USA Holding Inc, CITIC Construction, CITIC Metal Co., Ltd., CITIC East China Group, CITIC Machinery Manufacturing Co.,Ltd., CITIC Digital Technology Co.,Ltd., CITIC Travel Co.,Ltd., and CITIC Automobile Co., Ltd.

Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management was founded in 1984 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management, LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, endowments, foundations, public funds, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe and fixed income markets of the United States. It invests in stocks of small-cap, small/mid-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm invests in high-quality intermediate maturity fixed income government, municipal, and corporate securities. It employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach.

NYSE Amex, formerly the American Stock Exchange or AMEX, is NYSE Euronext's US market for emerging growth companies and a specialist in options and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Operating as NYSE Amex Options and NYSE Amex Equities, the exchange uses a hybrid model of auction-based and electronic trading; it lists more than 500 operating companies and funds and is the one of the nation's largest options exchanges (behind the Chicago Board Options Exchange). NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX in 2008 and changed its name to NYSE Alternext US. Responding to feedback from traders, NYSE changed the company's name to the more-familiar NYSE Amex in mid-2009.

CITIC Securities International (CSI) finds its security in Chinese securities. CITIC Securities International primarily provides securities brokerage services, including the trading of equities, funds, treasury bills, and corporate bonds. CSI also underwrites securities and distributes equities, convertible bonds, and funds as well as sponsors the listing of various financial products. CITIC Securities International proprietary trading segment offers the trading of equities and funding of treasury bills and corporate bonds. In 2008 CSI became wholly owned by CITIC Securities, a top investment bank in mainland China that is focused on increasing its international capabilities. CITIC Securities' largest shareholder is the state-owned CITIC Group.

T. Rowe Price Group was founded in 1937 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Central Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; and Singapore. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a financial services holding company that provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional investors in the sponsored T. Rowe Price mutual funds and other investment portfolios. The Company operates its investment advisory business through its subsidiary companies, primarily T. Rowe Price Associates, T. Rowe Price International and T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services. The Company also manages a range of United States and international stock, blended asset, bond, and money market mutual funds and other investment portfolios, which are designed to meet the varied and changing needs and objectives of individual and institutional investors. On January 20, 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of 26% equity interest in UTI Asset Management Company.

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