D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. operates as an investment and technology development company. Its activities range from the deployment of investment strategies based on mathematical models or human expertise to the acquisition of existing companies and the financing or development of new ones. The company's investment activities include quantitative strategies based on mathematical and computational models, and qualitative strategies based on the analysis of human experts. It also provides debt and equity financing to healthy and financially distressed companies; makes venture capital investments in early and later stage ventures; and organizes and develops new technology-oriented ventures.

Quest Capital seeks investments in first mortgage loans secured by single-family residences, apartments, condominiums, social housing, and nursing and retirement facilities in Canada. Quest Capital Corp. previously was an asset-based lender to companies in the mining and oil and gas industries, but sold those operations in 2007 and converted to a mortgage investment company. Quest Capital Corp., however, halted new loan production the following year as it waited out the rough economy. Some vestiges of Quest Capital's former incarnation remain in its much smaller commercial real estate and natural resource lending activities.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board was founded in 1985 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to Wisconsin retirement system. It also manages accounts for state investment fund and other state trust funds, including injured patients and families compensation fund, state life insurance fund, local government property insurance fund, historical society endowment fund, and tuition trust fund (EdVest). The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds for its clients. It also manages index funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe, with a focus on the United States. It typically invests in real estate, private equity, and natural resources to make its alternative investments. The firm invests in value stocks employing a fundamental research with a tactical asset allocation for its multi-asset investments. It invests in companies of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap to create its funds.

Union painters who don't want to find themselves painted into a corner come retirement time probably need to know about IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The pension fund is sponsored by and serves the members of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, or IUPAT. Union members include floor- and wall-covering installers; display workers; convention and show decorators; drywall finishers; and painters. Some 7,000 US and Canadian employers participate in the IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The union, which represents more than 140,000 workers, is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC was formed on August 1, 2006 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Woodlands, Texas. CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts and growth equity transactions in middle market companies. The firm invests in consumer, retail, and services; media and telecom; industrial; energy; healthcare infrastructure; and financial services sectors. Within the consumer, retail, and services industry, it focuses on specialty retail, direct marketing, consumer packaged goods, Internet, and services industries. For its media and telecom investments, the firm focuses on consumer and trade publishing, content and programming, broadcasting, cable, and wireless and wireline communications sectors.

GC-Global Capital Corp. was founded in 2005 and is based in Toronto, Canada. GC-Global Capital Corp. provides merchant banking services to micro-cap and small-cap companies in public and private markets in North America. It offers bridge loan services to companies in oil and gas, mining, real estate, manufacturing, retail, financial services, technology, and biotechnology industries. The company also provides services, which include equity financing, developing mergers and acquisitions, operational management support, and structuring and negotiating debt and equity placements. In addition, it offers debtor-in-possession financing services; and scientific research experimental development, a tax credit program, which is used as collateral in loans.

Javelin Ventures was founded in 2002 by chairman Janis Anderson and chief executive Valerie Jolliffe. Javelin Ventures provides venture capital funding for early stage technology companies. Javelin Ventures also provides consulting and business mentoring services. Javelin Ventures company manages the Kinetique Biomedical Seed Fund, which funds biomedical science companies that are engaged in the development of pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, medical devices, and biomaterials. The Heptagon Fund, a fund for translating early business ideas and concepts into licensing details and investment funding, is also managed by the company.

Menlo Ventures has the means to keep the American entrepreneurial spirit alive and kicking. The venture capital firm, which was founded in 1976, provides long-term capital and management services primarily to development-stage technology companies in such areas as communications, semiconductors, enterprise software, security, and mobile and Internet services. It has a focus on US companies and typically offers between $5 million and $30 million per transaction. Portfolio companies include Broncus Technologies, Bluesocket, 3Par , and nCircle Network Security. An active investor, Menlo has stakes in more than 80 companies and has some $4 billion under management.

Established in 2000, HgCapital is a leading investor in the European private equity market. It is the successor to Mercury Private Equity (founded in 1985), which was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1997. In December 2000, Mercury Private Equity staff acquired the business from Merrill Lynch and renamed it HgCapital. HgCapital has funds under management of £2.4 billion. HgCapital services over 200 institutional clients and manages HgCapital Trust plc, an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange that participates in all HgCapital's investments. Since 1985, HgCapital have invested and worked with a broad range of companies and managers, successfully tackling a wide array of challenges. These challenges include public-to-private leveraged buy-outs, management buy-ins, turnarounds, operational improvement initiatives and, of course, scaling up for fast growth. HgCapital knowledge and energy is available to all companies in which HgCaptial invest.

Founded in 1985, Domain Associates, L.L.C. is a venture capital firm with an exclusive focus on life sciences. With $2.5 billion of capital under management, Domain is headquartered in Princeton, NJ with a second office in San Diego, CA. Domain’s three major investment segments are pharmaceuticals, specialty pharmaceuticals, and medical devices, while additional areas of interest include biomaterials, bioinstrumentation, and diagnostics. The Partners of Domain have a total of close to 200 person-years of experience among them in the healthcare/venture capital industries and have been involved in the formation and growth of more than 220 life-sciences companies. The highly focused network, experience, and reputation of this team have made it one of the top private-equity groups participating in the healthcare field.

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