CapEx is an investment fund that specializes in mezzanine debt and equity investments in later-stage private or small-cap public companies with revenues of at least $10 million. An active investor, CapEx typically injects between $2 million and $5 million into companies in such industries as business services, consumer products, and manufacturing; it avoids the financial services, high tech, energy, and real estate sectors. Investments have included BriteSmile and SSP America (formerly Creative Host Services).

Golden Gate Capital was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Golden Gate Capital is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate extractions, distressed, bankruptcy acquisitions, public-to-private transactions, consolidations, build-ups, and growth equity investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology sectors with a focus on semiconductors, electronics, software, information technology services, financial services, security, media, consumer products, and retail. Within semiconductors, it focuses on specialty device and semiconductor equipment businesses. In electronics, the firm invests in hardware and electronics manufacturing and related services. Within financial services, it focuses on specialty finance, insurance, and outsourcing businesses. In consumer and retail, the firm prefers to invest in consumer products, specialty retail, direct marketing, and restaurants.

Laird Norton Tyee Trust Company (LNTyee) caters to the ultra-wealthy. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company grew out of the private asset management efforts of the Laird and Norton families, northwestern timber-industry pioneers and founders of forest products firms such as General Timber Company and Potlach Lumber. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company (categorized as a multi-family office, or MFO) provides wealth management services, along with such necessities as family governance, financial education, and charitable gift planning. The firm has more than $4 billion in assets under advisement for some 430 clients.

Mediobanca S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, provides lending and investment banking services in Italy and internationally. Segments The company operates in three segments that include Corporate and Investment Banking, Principal Investing, and Retail and Private Banking. Corporate and Investment Banking The company’s corporate and investment banking products and services include lending and structured finance comprising corporate lending, leasing, export finance, subsidies and other funding assistance, and credit analysis and rating advisory; capital market services consisting of equity capital markets, equities and derivatives trading, securities, debt capital markets and securitization, credit products sale, funding, ALM, treasury and fixed income derivatives, proprietary trading, and equity portfolio; and advisory services related to strategic objectives, extraordinary financing, liabilities restructuring, corporate restructuring, company valuations, relations with authorities. Principal Investing Principal Investing includes minority/majority stakes in listed/unlisted corporates of medium/large size which the company invests in with a view to assist them in their plans for growth over the medium term.

Primary Corp. is a publicly traded, diversified merchant bank. As a principal investor, Primary Corp. is able to leverage the considerable industry experience of its directors and management team and their strong relationships within the North American and international capital markets to create value. Primary invests in Canadian companies that are active in the resource, real estate and technology sectors by providing bridge loans, mortgages, convertible debentures and direct equity investments with the intention of earning a superior return on invested capital while minimizing downside risk.

H.D. Vest, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas. H.D. Vest, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company. Company Overview H.D. Vest, Inc., doing business as H.D. Vest Financial Services, provides investment and tax advice to individuals and small businesses in the United States. Its solutions and products include mutual funds, brokerage services, and fee planning; insurance services, which include life (term and permanent), long-term care, disability, fixed annuities, equity indexed annuities, and variable annuities. The company also provides education and recommendations concerning appropriate securities investments, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, variable insurance, annuities, trusts, and other investment products. In addition, it offers retirement planning, college savings, and estate planning servic... H.D. Vest, Inc., doing business as H.D. Vest Financial Services, provides investment and tax advice to individuals and small businesses in the United States. Its solutions and products include mutual funds, brokerage services, and fee planning; insurance services, which include life (term and permanent), long-term care, disability, fixed annuities, equity indexed annuities, and variable annuities. The company also provides education and recommendations concerning appropriate securities investments, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, variable insurance, annuities, trusts, and other investment products. In addition, it offers retirement planning, college savings, and estate planning services.

Lazard Ltd. company was founded in 1848 and is based in New York, New York. Lazard Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm worldwide. Lazard Company's Financial Advisory segment offers a range of services regarding mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory matters, restructurings and capital structure advisory services, capital raising, and various other corporate finance matters, which include evaluating potential acquisition targets, providing valuation analyses, evaluating and proposing financial and strategic alternatives, rendering opinions, assisting in the negotiating and closing the acquisition, and assisting in executing an acquisition by acting as a dealer-manager in transactions structured as a tender or exchange offer. This segment primarily serves consumer; financial institutions; financial sponsors; healthcare and life sciences; industrial; power and energy/infrastructure; real estate; and technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., along with its affiliates, is one of the world's leading private investment firms. Through its team of investment and operations professionals, Cerberus specializes in providing both financial resources and operational expertise to help transform undervalued companies into industry leaders for long-term success and value creation. Cerberus holds controlling or significant minority interests in companies around the world. Cerberus is headquartered in New York City with affiliate and/or advisory offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Thomas Weisel Partners company operates in four segments: investment banking, brokerage, equity research, and asset management. Focusing on the technology, industrial growth, health care, mining, and consumer products and services sectors, the company offers services including mergers and acquisition advisory, institutional sales, and wealth management. The firm also offers venture capital investing and other opportunities to affluent private investors and institutional clients. Thomas Weisel Partners was acquired by Stifel Financial for more than $300 million in 2010. Thomas Weisel is now a subsidiary of Stifel.

Globis Capital Partners was created in 1999 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Globis Capital Partners is the venture capital and private equity investment arm of Globis Corporation. It specializes in early stage, growth capital, later stage, incubation, mezzanine, corporate spin-offs and management buyouts. The firm prefers to invest in the service, technology, and IT industries. It primarily invests in Japan but exceptions are made where the Japan subsidiary is incorporated in Japan and operates with autonomy from the parent company. The firm typically invests between ¥1 million ($.01 million) to ¥ 1.8 billion ($18.78 million) in its portfolio companies. It generally does not invest in seed stage companies.

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