Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank offers various products and services in capital markets, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking. Its Coverage and Investment Banking division monitors and develops corporate and financial institutions in France and internationally. This division’s operations comprise advisory services and equity financing operations, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate equity derivatives, and loan syndication, as well as Islamic banking. The company’s Equity Brokerage and Derivatives division involves in the trading, sale, and arbitrage of equity derivatives, index derivatives, simple or complex structured products, warrants, certificates, and indexed products. Its Fixed Income Markets division offers standard and structured market products, including commodities, debt and credit markets, foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, and treasury for corporate and financial institutions. The company’s Structured Finance division consists of originating, structuring, and financing operations involving large-scale exports and investments in France and internationally, backed by collateral security, as well as complex and structured loans.

Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP"), based in Chicago, is one of the most experienced and successful private equity investment firms in the United States. MDP has raised over $18 billion of capital since its formation in 1992. Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of private or publicly held companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held companies; balance sheet restructurings; acquisition financings; and growth capital investments in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in basic industries, communications, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and real estate sectors. Within the basic industries sectors, it focuses on energy and power, paper, packaging and forest products, chemicals, building products, metals and mining, diversified industrial, natural resources, automotive, food, refining, and general manufacturing industries. In the communications sector, the firm invests in media including broadcast television, radio station groups, and publishing companies; wireless communications sector including mobile telephone operators, paging service providers, high-capacity data and voice transmission service providers, and satellite service providers; and wireline telecommunications including local exchange carriers, rural telephone operators, and cable television system operators.

MPM Capital Limited Partnership firm targets biotechnology, specialty pharmaceutical, and medical technology companies. With more than $2 billion of committed capital in four funds, it invests in all stages of a firm's development, typically offering between $5 million and $50 million per transaction, and takes a long-term approach. MPM Capital's portfolio includes about 60 firms, including Affymax, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Oxagen, and Surface Logix. Most of MPM Capital's investments are in US concerns, but the company also seeks opportunities in Europe, and more recently, Asia and Australia.

Lighthouse Group plc provides financial advice to personal and corporate clients through 820 specialist advisers located throughout the United Kingdom. It is a provider of financial advice to employees of large organizations and members of affinity groups. The Company is engaged in provision of regulatory authorization and related assistance to independent financial advisers operating from locations across the United Kingdom. It’s services are delivered to the ultimate retail client through its advisers operating in two operating segments: National, under the LighthouseTemple, LighthouseCarrwood, LighthouseGEB (Group Employee Benefits) and LighthouseGP brands, and Network, under the LighthouseXpress, LighthouseWealth, LighthouseFSAS and Falcon Group brands.

Old Mutual plc provides life assurance, asset management, banking, and general insurance services in North America, Europe, southern Africa, Latin America, and Asia. U.K. and Offshore This business provides products that serve the needs of long-term investors in the U.K. and international offshore markets. Skandia Investment Solutions is an investment platform. This platform gives advisers and their customers access to Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), PEPs, and Collective Investment Accounts, which are provided by Skandia MultiFUNDS Limited. In addition, the platform offers an approved pension wrapper and U.K. and offshore life assurance bonds. Skandia Investment Management Ltd (SIML) is an asset management company. It provides multimanager funds created by Skandia Investment Group, the part of the Skandia group that specializes in investment research and the construction of multimanager funds. Skandia International is the company’s offshore and cross-border specialist, working in partnership with other Skandia and Old Mutual businesses. It includes Royal Skandia, Skandia Life Ireland, Old Mutual International, and Skandia Leben. Skandia U.K. Skandia U.K. focuses on long-term investments. It allows each customer to have a personalized and flexible investment portfolio, suited to their goals and risk appetite. The company provides tools for customers to analyse and construct the portfolio using open-architecture solutions which give access to approximately 1,000 funds from fund management companies, as well as manager-of-managers funds created both in-house and externally.

American Century Companies, Inc. was founded in 1958 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. American Century Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment advisory, management, and administrative services for American Century mutual funds. It administers fixed income, value, quantitative, U.S growth, and international growth funds. The company's brokerage services offer investors access to mutual funds from other firms. American Century Companies, Inc. was formerly known as Twentieth Century Companies, Inc.

Founders Jean Deleage, Garrett Gruener, and Guy Nohra had been partners at venture capital firm Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., before they left in 1996 to form Alta Partners. Alta Partners offers companies an alternative to raising cash on their own. The firm invests venture capital primarily in life science companies; Alta Partners also invests in information technology ventures. It has backed more than 150 companies and has about $2 billion in committed capital. Alta Partners funds both early- and late-stage companies through stage-specific funds. Its portfolio has included such companies as Cellomics, Occam Networks, and Xelerated.

RBC Wealth Management company offers private banking, asset management, brokerage, and estate and trust services in more than 20 countries. About half of the company's revenue, however, comes from outside Canada, where the company caters to more than 35,000 individuals and institutions. It has about $500 billion of assets under administration and about $245 billion of assets under management. RBC Wealth Management boasts more than 4,500 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers, and trust officers, and has about 200 offices throughout the US.

Capital Hotel Management (CHM) is a hotel investment advisory and asset management firm, specialized in managing lodging assets for hotel owners including corporations, private investors, and public agencies. CHM company provides asset advisory services for about 20 hotels and resorts, including properties under construction, throughout the US. It oversees a portfolio worth about $5 billion; properties include hotels operated by Sheraton, Marriott, Hilton, and other lodging companies. Services include renovation planning for landmark properties, financial assessment, and strategic planning. CHM was founded in 2000 and operates from offices in Boston, Detroit, Honolulu, Florida, New York City, and San Francisco.

Active Media Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Pearl River, New York. Active Media Services, Inc., doing business as Active International, provides marketing and business solutions. It provides media services, including national broadcast, local broadcast, digital and emerging media, print, out-of-home, youth media, direct response-broadcast, hispanic and multicultural, and mobile services; and retail marketing services, such as retail consulting, merchandising, promotions, environments, and media. The company also provides travel and meeting services, which include hotel rooms, meetings and events, incentive, recognition, loyalty programs, cruises, resorts, special events, and trade shows; and freight and logistics, such as business-to-business, retail, institutional and wholesale delivery channels, warehousing and distribution, pick and pack, supply chain consulting, inventory management, customs brokerage, domestic, ocean and air import/export, point-to-point delivery, and truckload and LTL freight. In addition, it offers music licensing and inventory services.

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