HSBC Private Bank comprises the private banking operations of UK banking bigwig HSBC Holdings. A subsidiary of principal holding company, HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) and operating through several subsidiaries of its own, the company specializes in private banking and trustee services such as investment advisory and wealth and tax planning for wealthy individuals and families. Banking services include deposit products, debit and credit cards, lines of credit, loans, high-end residential mortgages and home equity loans, and other related services. HSBC Private Bank group also provides specialty advisory services to charities, foundations, media companies, and diamond and jewelry concerns.

Walker Crips Group plc provides securities brokerage, investment banking, and asset management services through subsidiaries. Walker Crips Stockbrokers offers trading, unit trust management, and related services. Walker Crips Financial Services provides individuals and businesses with financial advice, pension funds, unit trusts, insurance, and other investment vehicles. Keith, Bayley, Rogers & Co. is the company's corporate finance arm. London York Group offers pension and investment services. A new division, Walker Crips Structured Investments, opened in 2009. Walker Crips Group plc clients can work with a financial advisor or use the InvestorLink online system.

The Cross-Harbour (Holdings) Limited, an investment holding company, operates motoring schools, tunnels, and an electronic toll collection system in Hong Kong. It offers driver training lessons for individual learners; and fleet training for operators from various commercial and public organizations by operating a fleet of training vehicles, including private cars, light goods vehicles, medium goods vehicles, motorcycles, buses, skid cars, and articulated vehicles. The company also operates the Western Harbour Tunnel located at West Kowloon reclamation area; and manages the Cross-Harbour Tunnel at Hunghom. In addition, it provides electronic toll clearing facilities in Hong Kong for 11 toll roads and tunnels; and global positioning system service that offers fleet management service to corporate customers, as well as develops a data exchange platform, On-Board Trucker Information System.

Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated investment bank serving institutional, corporate, government, and high-net-worth individuals. The company operates in two segments, Institutional Securities and Wealth and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory and capital raising services, and sales and trading for users and suppliers of capital. This segment’s products and services include trading in commodities; credit products, including investment-grade debt securities and credit derivatives; equity securities and equity derivatives; foreign exchange services; fund-linked products; index arbitrage and other program-trading activities; interest rate products; leveraged finance, including high-yield and distressed debt and noninvestment grade loans; life insurance finance and risk solutions; margin lending; market making in securities and options; matched book activities; money market instruments; prime services; proprietary trading; real estate activities; risk arbitrage; securities lending; securities, futures, and options clearing services; and structured products, including asset-backed securities.

Vestar Capital Partners is on a quest to invest. Specializing in management buyouts, growth capital investments, and recapitalizations, the firm targets middle-market firms (valued between $250 million and $3 billion) in the consumer products, financial services, media and communications, health care, and manufacturing sectors. It typically invests up to $700 million per transaction. An active, long-term investor that partners with the management of its portfolio companies, Vestar company oversees some $7 billion of committed equity capital on behalf of financial institutions, endowments, foundations, funds of funds, and public and private pension plans.

HollisWealth Inc. is a Canada-based diversified wealth management company. Through its various subsidiaries, the Company provides diversified wealth management and investment solutions including alternative and tax-advantaged products, capital markets and advisory services to financial advisors, institutions, corporations and foundations, and wealth management through independent financial advisors across Canada. The Company has three main businesses: investment management (HollisWealth Investment), financial advisory, and capital markets, comprised of institutional sales and trading, investment banking and research. HollisWealth Investment operates principally through the Company’s subsidiary, Goodman & Company and through Aurion Capital Management Inc. HollisWealth Financial provides financial advisory and capital market services to both retail and institutional clients across Canada.

Salix Ventures was founded in 1997 to pursue high growth investment opportunities in health care services companies (including health care information technology). Salix Ventures to assist fellow entrepreneurs in developing the strategies, building the management teams, and obtaining the financial resources necessary to create great companies.Salix Ventures is unique in that Salix founding partners are former health care entrepreneurs with more than 25 years of operating experience managing successful venture backed health care services companies. Salix have a deep knowledge of health care and of building companies from the ground up.Salix Ventures manages two venture capital partnerships with more than $180 million of committed capital. Salix limited partners include some of the nation's leading university endowments, corporate pension plans, and financial institutions. With offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Andover, Massachusetts, Salix is a national investor focused on investing in and supporting the best management teams and companies, regardless of location.

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. provides risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. It operates in two segments, RiskMetrics and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The RiskMetrics segment provides multi-asset, position-based risk, and wealth management products and services. Its RiskManager mark-to-market risk system integrates consistently-modeled market data with analytical models and processing capabilities to address its clients’ risk reporting requirements. This segment’s clients license RiskManager as a secure, interactive Web-based application service or as an outsourced risk reporting service. It provides clients with solutions based on credit-event risk through its CreditManager application, as well as solutions for financial advisors at private banks through its WealthBench application. The ISS segment provides corporate governance and specialized financial research and analysis services to institutional investors and corporations. It offers an outsourced proxy research, voting, and vote reporting service to assist clients with their proxy voting responsibilities.

optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. provides brokerage and education services in the United States and internationally. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. offers Internet-based options, stock, bond, mutual fund, and futures brokerage services to retail customers. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. brokerage platform delivers various trading tools, which allow retail and professional investors to identify, analyze, and execute a range of investment strategies. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. also offers a range of education products and services, which covers various financial products, including stock, market analysis, options, foreign exchange, and financial planning. optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

H.I.G. Capital was founded in 1993 and is based in Miami, Florida with additional offices across the United States and Europe. H.I.G. Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed or startups, early, mid, and late stage; management and leveraged buyouts; add on acquisitions; mature businesses; industry consolidation; corporate divestitures; recapitalization transactions; turnarounds; growth or development capital; distressed credits and shares; and public to private transactions of small and middle market companies. It also invests in underperforming businesses. The firm does not invest in industries that are highly cyclical or capital intensive. It primarily invests in small and medium sized companies in the manufacturing, business services, specialty chemicals, promotional products, plastic molding, consumer products, oil recycling and water filtration, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical manufacturing services sectors. The firm typically makes investments ranging between €2 million ($3 million) to €100 million ($150.27 million). It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Europe. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues up to $500 million; enterprise value between $50 million and $500 million; and an EBITDA between $5 million and $150 million. It invests in the form of equity and debt.

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