Thompson Street Capital Partners was founded in 2000. Thompson Street Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm specializing in family businesses in transition, growth capital, recapitalizations, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, and take privates investments in middle market companies. The firm does not invest in start-up and early-stage companies. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the manufacturing, distribution, and services companies. The firm invests in niche manufacturers and value-added distributors, military and homeland security providers, business-to-business catalog companies, home healthcare distributors, clinical labs, and business process outsourcing providers. It invests in companies based in the North America region. The firm does not invest in the real estate sector. It seeks to invest between $7.5 million and $40 million in companies having revenues between $20 million and $200 million and EBITDA of $5 million and $15 million.

Palladium Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 1997. Palladium Equity Partners, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm primarily invests in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate spinouts, growth financings, and restructurings. It also invests in late venture companies and may invest in mature businesses. The firm typically invests in business services, financial services, consumer and retail, food, beverage, and restaurants, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, media and entertainment, and telecommunication companies. In the business services sector, it focuses on business process outsourcing; transaction processing; and engineering services. Within the financial services sector, the firm invests in transactional services; money transfer; consumer and specialty finance; and casualty, life, and health insurance; and financial services targeting underserved segments.

Retail Decisions Limited issues fuel and pre-paid cards in several world markets and provides retailers and financial institutions with services including payment processing, fraud prevention, database development, and IT consulting. ReD operates in Australia, Europe, South Africa, and the US. It also has partnered operations in Japan, India, China, and in South America. Retail Decisions Limited works with banks, oil companies, e-commerce retailers, and telecommunications firms. Corporate customers include Wal-Mart, Tesco, Macy's, Shell, and Virgin Mobile. ReD was founded in 2000.

HIFX PLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Windsor, the United Kingdom. It has operations in Europe, North America, and Australasia. HiFX Plc was formerly known as HiFX Limited and changed its name to HiFX Plc in January 2004. HiFX Plc provides foreign exchange advisory services. It offers advisory services on identifying the nature of risks, foreign currency forecasting, and foreign currency exchange rates, as well as provides advisory services for foreign exchange structured products and managing surplus funds. The company also provides online and international money transfer services; news and information on various aspects of the currency markets, foreign exchange, emigrating, and overseas property; overseas property insurance services; and foreign exchange services for property purchase and emigration.

Established in 1987, The Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings.The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with more than $90.5 billion under management. With 67 funds across four investment disciplines (buyouts, credit alternatives, growth capital and real estate), Carlyle combines global vision with local insight, relying on a top-flight team of 400+ investment professionals operating out of offices in 19 countries to uncover superior opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America.While open to opportunities wherever they can be found, Carlyle focuses on sectors in which it has demonstrated expertise: aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, real estate, technology & business services and telecommunications & media.

Macquarie Private Wealth (formerly Blackmont Capital) provides equity sales, trading, and research, as well as capital raising and financial advisory services for corporate and institutional clients. Its research division focuses on the technology, media, communications, metals and minerals, energy, real estate, and financial services sectors. Macquarie Private Wealth company's wealth management activities include private client services and support for investment advisors. Products include money market instruments, bonds, public venture capital, retirement plans, and tax-free savings accounts. Australia-based Macquarie Group acquired Blackmont Capital from CI Financial at the end of 2009.

TradeWeb LLC operates as an online trading marketplace for fixed income, derivatives, and equities. The company offers trade execution, market data, and trade processing services, as well as a range of post-trade analytical services that enable clients to measure the benefits generated from electronic trading for trading strategies and compliance purposes. Its network connects the institutional clients, dealers, prime brokers, and electronic confirmation vendors for trade processing, as well as provides dealers and buy-side institutions with paperless trade allocations and confirmations. The company’s multi-dealer auction model links the trading desks of the fixed-income dealers with buy-side institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its network also includes AccountNet, a derivatives counterparty management tool, as well as the data warehouse for standing settlement instructions and OTC derivatives legal documentation.

Cressey & Company LP was founded in 2007 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in Nashville, Tennessee. Cressey & Company LP is a private equity firm specializing in buy-and-build, add-on acquisitions, and growth equity investments. It prefers to make control investments, but can also make minority investments in special situations. The firm prefers to invest in healthcare services, facilities, and provider businesses. It also invests in software, education, distribution, financial services and consumer products industries. The firm prefers to invest in the United States healthcare market. It prefers to invest between $10 million and $100 million with an average investment of $50 million in the companies with more than $10 million of EBITDA. The firm prefers to exit its investments between three years and seven years.

Irving Place Capital was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York. Irving Place Capital is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in middle market companies. The firm seeks to invest in add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, industry consolidations, recapitalizations, growth capital opportunities, and other ownership liquidity situations. It makes investments in companies operating in the, retail, consumer products, financial services, healthcare services, industrial distribution, industrials, packaging, transportation and logistics, and energy sectors. The firm also seeks to invest in companies in the other old economy and service sectors including restaurants; business services; chemicals; natural resources; specialty finance; apparel; financial technology; food and beverages; healthcare; and security and defense industries. It targets investments in companies primarily based in North America and Western Europe. The firm makes equity investments between $75 million and $250 million in companies with EBITDA in excess of $20 million.

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.

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