Scale Venture Partners makes mid- to late-stage investments in businesses mostly in the hardware, software, semiconductor, networking, biotechnology, and health care industries. Scale Venture Partners has invested in such companies as Bellamax, Picolight, Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, and Dynavax Technologies. The firm typically makes an initial investment between $5 million to $15 million and then keeps capital on hand for companies to use as they grow. Bank of America had been the majority owner of the company, but decided to sell its stake in a shift away from venture capital.

First Quadrant was founded in 1988 and is based in Pasadena, California with an additional office in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. First Quadrant L.P. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional investors. It also caters to high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, state or municipal government entities, investment companies, charitable organizations, and foreign governments. The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It makes its investments in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm seeks to invest in alternative investments markets including currencies, global index options, and options on future contracts. It employs currency management arbitrage, tactical asset allocation, policy allocation control, and long/short strategies to make its investments.

Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles (BME), a leading European stock exchange operator by trading volume, has holdings that include Spain's four stock exchanges: Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia. Its services include public offerings and trading facilities for equities, fixed-income securities, and derivatives. Additionally, the company owns subsidiaries that provide clearing and settlement services. BME has been operating since 1856; the Bolsa de Madrid traces its roots back to the Middle Ages. The company's shareholders include several of Spain's largest banks, including Grupo Santander and its subsidiary, Banco Espanol de Crndito SA (Banesto).

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC was founded in 1994 and is based New York, New York with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, China. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC is a publicly owned investment manager. Och-Ziff Capital firm provides investment advisory services for its clients. It invests in alternative markets across the world. Och-Ziff Capital firm employs quantitative and qualitative analysis to make its investments. Och-Ziff Capital firm aslo manages a buyout fund, Och-Ziff Energy Fund.

Centerline Capital Group operates as a real estate finance and investment company in the United States. The company provides equity and debt capital to the affordable multifamily housing industry. Its asset management group comprises construction monitoring, primary servicing, special servicing, and portfolio oversight. Centerline's commercial real estate group provides financing and investment products for affordable multifamily, conventional multifamily, retail, office, mixed use properties, and industrial properties. The company also offers institutional investment products, such as tax credit funds, direct loan funds, high-yield CMBS funds, and real estate equity funds. It offers financing at each level of a property's capitalization, including equity, mezzanine capital, B-notes, bridge and first mortgage loans. Centerline Capital Group focuses on providing credit intermediation, primarily in the form of credit default swaps to the affordable multifamily housing industry.

Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs more than 14,600 people in approximately 70 office locations in 28 countries. Macquarie Group Limited (MGL) acts as a non-operating holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it provides banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. The Company operates in five operating groups and two operating divisions, which include Macquarie Securities Group, Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Funds Group, Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities, Corporate and Asset Finance Division, Real Estate Banking Division, Banking and Financial Services Group and Corporate. Effective November 30, 2009, the Company acquired Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller (FPK). Effective December 31, 2009, MGL acquired Blackmont Capital Inc. from CI Financial Corp. In January 2010, the Company acquired Delaware Management Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Delaware Investments) from Lincoln National Corporation. In January 2010, the Company announced the launch of Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund.

Gemina was established in 1961, under the name of Compagnia Generale Alimentare S.r.l., as a holding company operating in the food sector. During the 1970's, the company took on its current name and started operating as an industrial holding company, and in 1981 was listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. During the '80s, the company launched an investment program in the financial and merchant-banking sectors. In 1996, the company started progressively reducing its financial sector investments, which were no longer considered strategic, and redirected its energies, mainly focusing on the industrial sector. In March 1997, Gemina's partial division, with the establishment of the beneficiary HdP, started gaining effectiveness. Indeed, the shareholdings in the industrial companies present in Gemina's investment portfolio were transferred to HdP. Gemina then concluded the divestment of its financial assets, direct to acquire, by launching, in the second half of 1998, a new investment program:significant quotas of shareholdings in companies, operating in well-established businesses and capable of ensuring a suitable level of soundness to the company portfolio and in medium/small sized companies operating in the production of goods and services and with good development prospects. Starting from 2000 Gemina focuses its activities on directing and controlling its subsidiaries. In the same period Gemina takes part in the privatization of ADR (managing company of Roma’s airports) and develops its core business in the area of airports’ infrastructures. In the meantime Gemina divests its shareholdings in the other subsidiaries and today it holds the 95,76% of ADR shares’ capital that is the most important asset of Gemina’s group.

Investec Limited is an international banking group that provides a range of financial products and services. The Company is organized into five business divisions: Private Client Activities, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Asset Management and Property Activities. In addition, its head office provides certain group-wide integrating functions, such as risk management, information technology, finance, investor relations, marketing, human resources and organizational development. It is also responsible for the Company’s central funding, as well as other activities, such as trade finance.

Principal Global Investors, LLC is an asset management arm of Principal Life Insurance Company. It primarily provides its services to individuals and high net worth individuals. The firm also caters to banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, foundations, endowments, public and corporate retirement plans, Taft-Hartley plans and global governments, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, and other businesses. It manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and real estate portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and offers specialized overlay and advisory services. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and real estate markets across the globe.

First Republic Bank was founded in 1985 as First Republic Bancorp Inc. and changed its name to First Republic Bank in September 1997. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of September 21, 2007, First Republic Bank operates as a subsidiary of BofA Merrill Lynch. First Republic Bank provides private banking, private business banking, investment management, brokerage, trust services, and real estate lending services in California, Nevada, and New York. It provides private business banking services to accounting firms, architecture and design, art and antique dealers, business management firms, business partnerships, entertainment/media, family offices, financial services, hedge funds, independent schools, investment firms, law firms, medical firms, non-profit organizations, private equity funds/firms, property management firms, and venture capital firms.First Republic Bank company also provides private wealth management services, including asset allocation, trust administration, custody, asset management, brokerage, private placements, fixed income management, financial and estate planning, alternative investments, socially responsible investing, and multi-cap equity and management services. First Republic Bank also offers residential lending products, such as single family mortgages, vacation home mortgages, co-op and condominium loans, home equity lines of credit, bridge loans, and construction-to-permanent loans; commercial lending, including apartment building, mixed-use building, commercial real estate, and site-acquisition and construction loans; and personal lending, such as stock/bond secured loans, unsecured loans, overdraft lines of credit, letters of credit, partner capital lines, aircraft and yacht financing. The company’s deposit services comprise ATM rebate checking, money market checking, money market savings, passbook savings, and certificates of deposit.

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