Focus Strategies, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Austin, Texas. Focus Strategies, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt private placements, and corporate finance advisory services. Additionally, it provides recapitalization and restructuring advisory, fairness opinions, and valuation services. The firm caters to insurance, healthcare, telecommunication, real estate, oil and gas, industrial manufacturing, technology, consumer products, and financial services sectors.

Founder and chairman Gerhard Andlinger started the Andlinger & Company, Inc. in 1976. Andlinger & Company, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management and leveraged buyout, acquisition, recapitalization of public and private companies, corporate divestiture, turnaround, and growth capital transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation, emission reduction, and waste recovery sectors. It also seeks platform acquisition opportunities in companies engaged in the industrial manufacturing, medical devices, value-added distribution and logistics, graphic arts, scientific instruments, information services and software, engineering services, technology infrastructure, pharmaceutical packaging, and manufacturing sectors. The firm prefers not to invest in the retail, real estate, natural resources, and commodities sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies headquartered in North America and Europe. It typically invests up to $25 million in portfolio companies with enterprise values between $20 million and $200 million.

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.

Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C was founded in 1990 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; and San Francisco, California. Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C is a privately owned investment manager. The firm manages client focused portfolios and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe. As part of its alternative investments, the firms invests in currency, commodities, and derivatives such as interest-rate swaps, futures, options, repurchase agreements, and reverse repurchase agreements. Its fixed income investments include investments in government bonds and mortgage-backed securities. The firm employs a mix of strategies including credit arbitrage and structured credit strategies to make its investments. It employs a combination of quantitative and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its investment portfolio. The firm makes its investments in the stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It conducts an in-house research to make its investments.

Amphion Innovations plc was founded in 1984 and is based in Douglas, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York. Amphion Innovations plc is a principal investment firm specializing in both public and private early stage investments and spun out of universities and corporations. It does not invest in “speculative” technologies requiring long development timeframes or excessive capital investment. It invests in the medical, life sciences, and technology sectors with defensible core intellectual property, know-how and growth potential in very large markets of at least $1 billion in size together with corporations, governments, universities, and entrepreneurs. The firm typically invests in companies with broad-based, proprietary, platform technologies in the areas of pharmacogenomics, proteomics, nutriceuticals or wellness, diagnostics, medical products and related fields, leveraging advances in and the convergence of materials science and life science IT, particularly software technologies. It targets investments in companies based in both the United States and United Kingdom. The firm makes investments in a company that requires capital of up to $5 million as new capital in the first one to two years, with later, additional capital requirements of between $15 million and $25 million and is at least $1 billion in size. It acts as a lead investor and seeks to acquire a sizable ownership stake and measure of influence or control in its portfolio companies.

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P (AllianceBernstein) is a limited partnership company. AllianceBernstein Company provides research, diversified investment management and related services to a range of clients. It also provides distribution, shareholder servicing and administrative services to its sponsored mutual funds. AllianceBernstein Company offers a range of investment products and services to its clients, which include Institutional Services, Retail Services, Private Client Services and Bernstein Research Services. Its clients include institutional clients, such as unaffiliated corporate and public employee pension funds, endowment funds, domestic and foreign institutions and governments, and various affiliates; retail clients; including United States and offshore mutual funds, variable annuities, insurance products and sub-advisory relationships; private clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, private and family corporations, and other entities.

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. was established in 1978 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in George Town, Cayman Islands and London, United Kingdom. Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, acquisitions, and growth capital financings of mature and underperforming companies. The firm does not invest in middle market. It invests in the manufacturing, services, and information technology sectors. The firm invests in companies based in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy. It also identifies and evaluates potential opportunities in France and the Benelux countries. The firm focuses on non-core divisions of large corporations.

Duff & Phelps Corporation (D&P) is a provider of independent financial advisory and investment banking services. The Company provides independent advice on issues involving highly technical and complex assessments in the areas of valuation, transactions, financial restructuring, disputes and taxation. Its clients include publicly-traded and privately-held companies, government entities, and investment firms, such as private equity firms and hedge funds. The Company provides its services through three segments: Financial Advisory, Corporate Finance Consulting and Investment Banking. The Company serves a global client base through offices in 23 cities, comprising offices in 17 United States cities, including New York, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles, and six international offices located in Amsterdam, London, Munich, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. In June 2010, it acquired Cole Partners.

iVoice has found the best way to increase shareholder value, separate and apart from the operating performance of iVoice, is by spinning off and distributing shares of its wholly owned subsidiaries in the form of a special dividend to the Company’s shareholders. The common stock distributions are part of a broader strategy relating to the transition of iVoice into a company focused on the development and licensing of proprietary technologies. iVoice also continue to search for potential merger candidates with or without compatible technology and products, which management feels may make financing more appealing to potential investors.

Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP was founded in 1934 and is headquartered at London, United Kingdom with an additional office at Paris, France. Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP is a private equity firm specializing in buyout investments. The firm prefers to invest in industrial and commercial sectors with a focus on business service companies, financial services, leisure, support services, healthcare, and consumer brands. It targets companies based in Europe with a focus on Western Europe, Northern Europe, Continental Europe, United Kingdom, and Spain. The firm participates in companies with debt free worth between €400 million ($518.64 million) and €4 billion ($5.1864 billion). It seeks to invest between €100 million ($148.58 million) and €1000 million ($1296.6 million) and can make higher level of equity investments with their fund investors. The firm holds its investments for approximately five years. It prefers to invest as a sole equity sponsor in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies.

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