Clairvest Group Inc.

Clairvest Group is a merchant bank that invests its own capital and that of third-party investors as well. The bank invests primarily through its Clairvest Equity Partners Limited Partnership subsidiary, in both public and private entrepreneurial corporations. The company acquired a controlling interest in orthopedic back-care products investor Integral Orthopedics in early 2005. Other substantial holdings include N-Brook Mortgage Group, an underwriter of residential real estate mortgages in Canada, and Light Tower Rentals, which leases oil field equipment in the southwestern US.