Established in 1979, Skandia UK is one of the the nation's top financial services groups. Skandia is controlled by South African financial services group Old Mutual. Skandia Life Assurance and related companies make up what's known as Skandia UK, the arm of Swedish insurance and investment firm Skandia serving the British Isles. Skandia UK offers medium- and high-net-worth clients a range of savings, investment, pension, and insurance products, which are sold through independent financial advisors (IFAs). Parent Skandia operates in more than 20 countries; its largest markets are the UK and Sweden.

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.

Communications Equity Associates was founded in 1973 by CEO Rick Michaels. Communications Equity Associates (CEA) provides investment banking, merchant banking, and private equity services to global companies in the communications, entertainment, and media industries. Communications Equity Associates company offers mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, divestment, and fund-raising services from 10 offices in the US and Europe. Its private equity division manages a family of funds with more than $1 billion under management. CEA has completed more than 900 transactions, most of which are cross-border arrangements. Customers have included such big names as AT&T, IBM, EDS, and Siemens.

The main aim of the El Oro Group since 1938 has been to increase the asset value of the shares in issue whilst continually increasing dividends. El Oro is a collective investment vehicle and seeks to be competitive with similar investment funds. To achieve this aim, the Board restructured the El Oro Mining and Exploration Company plc to allow El Oro Ltd to be subject to a tax regime that puts it on a par with other investment vehicles such as unit and investment trusts.El Oro Ltd is the El Oro Group holding company, registered in Guernsey with its shares listed on the Official List of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange [Ticker – ELX]. El Oro became the holding company for the El Oro Group by way of a scheme of arrangement under section 899 of the Companies Act during March 2009 as approved by the Scheme Stockholders and sanctioned by the Court.

Imperial Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Imperial Capital Group, Inc., a holding company, operates as an independent, full-service investment bank offering an integrated platform of diverse products and services. The company, through its subsidiary, Imperial Capital, LLC, engages in institutional sales and trading, investment banking and restructuring, and institutional research activities. Its institutional sales and trading activities provide sales and trading services for bank debt, debt securities, hybrid securities, preferred and common equity, and special situation claims to institutional investors. These operations also cover thinly-traded, illiquid, and bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy securities. The company’s investment banking and restructuring activities offer debt and equity financing, merger and acquisition, restructuring, and other strategic advisory services for corporate, private equity, and institutional investor clients by advising on, and implementing value enhancing solutions and transactions. Its institutional research operations publish company-specific reports, macro-economic industry reports, and real-time desk analysis with a focus on 14 industry sectors.

E. ohman J:or Fondkommission offers products and services to help its customers invest in Swedish equities and bonds -- including government and corporate bonds -- and structured finance products. Its offerings include brokerage, research, and corporate advisory services. ohman Fondkommission serves corporate clients in Sweden and institutional investors. The company is part of the ohman Group, which includes publicly traded parent company, investment bank E. ohman J:or AB. The company is controlled by Sweden's Dinkelspiel family. Emric ohman founded E. ohman J:or AB in 1906.

The Patriarch platform is a vertically integrated distressed private equity firm with robust in-house operational turnaround expertise. Patriarch Partners, LLC ("Patriarch"), founded in 2000, was built upon a proprietary patented financial model designed to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. Patriarch has since evolved into a global investment firm that concentrates on direct investments in distressed businesses, managing funds with over $7 billion of equity and secured loan assets with equity investments in more than 70 companies, and controlling interests in approximately two-thirds of these.Patriarch focuses on the acquisition of undervalued companies where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a business and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around the world while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to investors. Patriarch believes that making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. The firm offers a peerless approach that combines innovative financial models, restructuring techniques and the operational expertise necessary to rebuild businesses facing complex circumstances.Challenging conditions often mean the need to improve operations from the ground up; the situations require equal concentration and adeptness between financial engineering and operational execution. An expanded global reach is critical and Patriarch has acquired manufacturing facilities in nations where lower labor costs can help U.S. companies compete in the competitive global economy, Patriarch Partners Management Group, established in 2005, is a team of seasoned and connected global professionals strategically placed among portfolio companies to fortify management and to unearth and implement necessary efficiencies, new technologies and unique strategies.

Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) boasts a global alliance of investment firms. Allianz Global Investors company is the umbrella organization for the worldwide asset management operations of financial services giant Allianz SE. One of the largest investment management firms in the world, the division includes US-based bond manager PIMCO, Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management, and NFJ Investment Group. AllianzGI boasts a broad array of asset management products for more than 60 million retail and institutional clients; its offerings include mutual funds, closed-end funds, hedge funds, and wealth management services. Allianz Global Investors company has more than $1 trillion of assets under management.

Castle Harlan, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. Castle Harlan, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, divestitures under duress, restructurings, turnarounds, workouts, bankruptcies, mature and development capital in middle market companies. The firm will not consider investments in heavily regulated companies. It typically invests in companies based in North America and Europe. The firm invests in transactions with a minimum value of $50 million. It prefers to hold controlling positions in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its portfolio companies through a strategic sale or public offerings.

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.

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