
Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

Morgan Stanley & Co. (MS&Co.) has their investment banking needs covered. A subsidiary of Morgan Stanley and part of its Global Wealth Management Group, MS&Co. also provides its individual, business, institutional, and government customers with brokerage and investment advice through products such as annuity, insurance, and credit vehicles. After Morgan Stanley merged Morgan Stanley DW into MS&Co. in early 2007, the unit became Morgan Stanley's primary US broker-dealer. The following year MS&Co. merged with government broker Morgan Stanley Market Products.

Coimex Empreendimentos e Participações (know as Coimexpar) is a holding company which operates, through subsidiaries, primarily in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Its foreign trade business, Coimex Trading, deals in such commodities as coffee, sugar, and ethanol. Its logistics arm, which includes subsidiary Coimex Logistica Integrada, provides storage, distribution, and transportation services to customers in the auto, IT, and telecom industries among others. Coimexpar's other investments include a thermal electricity plant, a highway concession, and auto and real estate financing provider. Its latest venture is Embraport, a $180 million project which will expand the port of Santos.

St. James's Place plc, through its subsidiaries, provides financial and wealth management services in the United Kingdom. It offers pensions, protection, and investment products; unit trust investment products, including ISAs and PEPs; and financial products, such as annuities, mortgages, and stakeholder pensions from third party providers. The company, formerly known as St. James's Place Capital plc, was founded in 1977 and changed its name to St. James's Place plc in May 2006. The company is headquartered in Cirencester, the United Kingdom.

HKEx is the holding company of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited. It brings together the market organisations which have transformed Hong Kong's financial services industry from a domestically focused market to become a central market place in Asia attracting investment funds from all over the world. HKEx was listed in June 2000 following the integration of Hong Kong's securities and derivatives markets. As a market-driven organisation, answerable to its shareholders, HKEx competes vigorously for opportunities in the region and around the world.HKEx's operations are organised into focused units, directly supervised and controlled by management and the board of directors. The board, the highest decision-making body, determines HKEx’s objectives, missions, strategies, policies and business plan and monitors their implementation by management. In its role as the operator and frontline regulator of the central securities and derivatives marketplace in Hong Kong, HKEx regulates listed issuers; administers listing, trading and clearing rules; and provides services, primarily at the wholesale level, to customers of the exchanges and clearing houses, including issuers and intermediaries – investment banks or sponsors, securities and derivatives brokers, custodian banks and information vendors – who service the investor directly. These services comprise trading, clearing and settlement, depository and nominee services, and information services.

Guinness Peat Group plc is an investment holding company with a diversified range of strategic interests in a number of businesses, mainly in Europe and Australasia. GPG is listed on the London, Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges. As at 31 December 2009, it had a market capitalisation of approximately £584 million. Shareholders’ Funds at the same date were £867 million. GPG’s successful track record spans investments in various sectors including financial services, textiles and thread manufacture, food processing, building services, property development and fruit and produce distribution. GPG’s investment portfolio covers a spread of investments and is widely diversified both geographically and sectorially. GPG has a small but experienced group of prudent and professional executives operating with strong teamwork and close communication, which has been a proven formula for achieving steady growth in the value of shareholders’ funds.

Fitch Ratings, one of the top three credit rating agencies in the world (alongside Moody's and Standard & Poor's), issues ratings for thousands of banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, corporations, and governments. With dual headquarters in New York and London and about 50 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings engages in the politically charged business of rating the debt of nations; Fitch Ratings Inc. covers companies and governments in more than 90 nations. French holding company Fimalac owns 60% of Fitch Ratings; The Hearst Corporation owns the rest. Financial statistician John Knowles Fitch founded the company in 1913.

Apax Partners is an independent global private equity advisory firm. Funds advised by Apax Partners (‘Apax Funds’) typically invest in companies with a value of between €1bn and €5bn. The Funds invest in five growth sectors: Tech & Telecom, Retail & Consumer, Media, Healthcare and Financial & Business Services.Apax Funds commit capital on behalf of a diverse range of investors, which include public and private pension funds, insurance companies, university endowments and other financial institutions. Apax Funds buy both majority and minority stakes in large companies that have strong, established market positions and the potential to expand. Apax Funds back excellent management teams to create efficient and sustainable businesses that have a strong track record of growing by investing in research and development, exports, sales and employment.

Olympus Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut. Olympus Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing late stage venture capital, expansion capital, mature and middle market management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, senior and subordinated debt, growth capital, turnarounds, private financings of public companies, going private transactions, and divestitures. The firm does not invest in seed or early stage. It prefers to invest in business services, healthcare manufacturing and services, logistics and transportation services, consumer products and services, consumer and restaurant, software and information technology services, and financial services. The firm typically invests $20 million for venture capital and growth capital deals to $300 million or more for buyouts. It can either take a controlling stake or a minority ownership position in a company depending on capital and liquidity requirements of the company. The firm seeks to take Board seats in the portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments between three years and seven years.

CITIC Group was founded in 1979 and is based in Beijing, China with additional offices in New York, New York; Tokyo, Japan; and Almaty, Kazakhstan. CITIC Group Company operates as an industrial conglomerate that offers banking, financial, manufacturing, and communication services through its subsidiaries. It provides securities, insurance, and trusts and funds related services. Additionally, CITIC Group offers construction contracting; and real estate and infrastructure development, trading, and information technology related services. Its subsidiaries include China CITIC Bank, CITIC Asset Management Corporation, Ltd, CITIC USA Holding Inc, CITIC Construction, CITIC Metal Co., Ltd., CITIC East China Group, CITIC Machinery Manufacturing Co.,Ltd., CITIC Digital Technology Co.,Ltd., CITIC Travel Co.,Ltd., and CITIC Automobile Co., Ltd.
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