Benchmark Capital was founded in 1995 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Herzliya Pituach, Israel. Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology driven companies in the areas of enterprise software and services, communications and security, semiconductors, mobile computing, consumer services, and financial services. It mainly seeks to invest in companies based in U.S. and Europe. The firm typically seeks to make initial investments between $3 million and $5 million, with investments between $5 million and $15 million over the life of its portfolio companies. Its investments can range between $100,000 and $10 million or $15 million. The firm seeks to be the first investor in the portfolio companies.

Fiduciary Trust Company International was founded in 1931 and is based in New York, New York. Fiduciary Trust Company International operates as a subsidiary of Franklin Resources Inc. Fiduciary Trust Company International is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides financial planning, trust and estate planning and administration, tax planning, custody, and supporting services. It primarily provides its services to individuals, families, foundations, and institutions. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm typically makes its equity investments in growth-oriented value stocks of small-cap and large-cap companies. It primarily makes its fixed income investments in municipal bonds. The firm employs a top-down approach to select its sector and currency allocations with a fundamental analysis and a bottom-up approach to create its equity and fixed income portfolios. It makes its alternative investments in hedge funds and publicly trade and private real estate securities. The firm uses in-house research to make its investments.

Park Row offers its clients financial advice and services through a number of divisions, both in person and via the Internet or special seminars. It has independent financial advisers (IFAs) as well as independent mortgage advisers, and also provides wealth management services to corporate and private clients. Group companies include Park Row Associates, Park Row Associates (Mortgages), and Park Row Conveyancing. Park Row is a subsidiary of Royal Liver Assurance. In 2007 the parent company combined its sales team with Park Row's independent financial advisers who now also distribute Royal Liver products.

In January 1997, Alchemy was formed as a private equity advisory business and in 2006 added a team to focus on distressed debt and special opportunities. In 2007, Alchemy launched a development capital fund advisory business based in India. The Alchemy Partners and Portfolio Monitoring Directors work closely as a small, highly professional team with considerable investment experience, supported by motivated and ambitious Executives. Funding is provided by a large number of blue-chip investors including major banks, pension funds, fund-of-funds, university endowments and high net worth individuals. Alchemy is perfectly positioned to take advantage of the current turbulent markets with its focus on value investing and experience in executing difficult deals.

Since its inception in 1975, Samsung C&T America Inc.’s philosophy of creative marketing, determined self-development, and entrepreneurship has enabled its remarkable growth and success as a global trading and investment company. Attuned to the pulse of the transforming economy and the changing needs of its customers, SCTA continues to venture away from traditional methods but remains committed to service and quality.Samsung C&T America Inc. (SCTA), is a global trading and investment company that functions as an independent American subsidiary of the Korean conglomerate Samsung C&T Corporation, one of the Samsung Group companies. SCTA is divided into three modes of operation: international commodities trading, product marketing and distribution, and new business development. In trade, SCTA specializes in a variety of commodities such as chemicals and steel. SCTA's strength lies in its expertise in dealing with foreign markets. Sharing Samsung C&T Corp.'s international network spanning 82 offices in 55 countries, SCTA is able to operate both as a major trading intermediary and as a conduit for an immense volume of information. In 2008, Samsung C&T America’s total revenue was $331 million.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

Bayview Capital Group specializes in mergers and acquisitions-related services for middle-market companies in the service and manufacturing sectors. The company has completed about 100 such transactions since it was founded in 1995; clients typically have annual sales between $10 million and $150 million. Bayview Capital believes that serving only smaller firms and focusing on relatively few transactions at a time give it a competitive advantage over bulge-bracket investment banks.

CI Financial Corp. (CI), formerly CI Financial Income Fund, is a diversified wealth management firm. It is engaged in the management, marketing, distribution and administration of mutual funds, segregated funds, structured products and other fee-earning investment products for Canadian investors, distributed primarily through brokers, independent financial planners and insurance advisors, including Assante Capital Management Ltd. and Assante Financial Management Ltd. It operates in two segments. The Asset Management provides the majority of its income and derives its revenues from the fees earned on the management of several families of mutual, segregated, pooled and closed-end funds, structured products and discretionary accounts. The Asset Administration derives its revenues from commissions and fees earned on the sale of mutual funds and other financial products, and ongoing service to clients. On December 31, 2009, it completed the sale of Blackmont Capital Inc. to Macquarie Group.

Everett Smith Group owns Eagle Ottawa Leather, which makes upholstery leather for major carmakers. Other Everett Smith portfolio companies include OEM Worldwide, which manufactures electronic assemblies for medical and industrial applications, and Maysteel, which makes power distribution equipment and sheet metal enclosures for the utility industry. Everett Smith typically invests up to $75 million per transaction and maintains a longterm buy-and-hold philosophy. Dickten Masch Plastics, which makes thermoplastic products for cars and hand tools, and Trostel, which makes rubber components rounds out Everett Smith's portfolio.

Kim Eng Holdings is one of Southeast Asia's foremost brokerage houses. Kim Eng Holdings Limited provides securities trading and investment banking services such as IPO underwriting, corporate advisory, and financing. Kim Eng Holdings Limited also provides asset management services through KE Capital Partners, a joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, as well as through associate firm Republic Investment Management. Subsidiary Emfore Capital Partners manages private equity funds. Kim Eng also performs stock research; its KE Live division specializes in event-driven strategies for retail investors. Kim Eng has a presence in eight countries in Asia (it entered Vietnam and India in 2007), in addition to sales offices in New York and London.

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