Cowen Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Cowen and Company, represents the firm's investment banking and brokerage practice, which mainly entails strategic advisory and corporate finance services for small to midsized companies in the alternative energy, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, health care, media, technology, and real estate industries. Cowen Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; and San Francisco, California.

Alliance Trust was founded in 1888 and is based in Dundee, United Kingdom. Alliance Trust PLC is a publicly owned investment manager with approximately £2.87 billion ($5.64 billion) in assets under management. The firm also provides pensions and ISA/PEP services to its clients. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real estate markets across the globe. It employs a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create it portfolio mix. The firm makes its fixed income investments in government and corporate bonds. It does not benchmark the performance of its portfolios against any specific index. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments.

U.S. Venture Partners was founded in 1981. U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies. It typically invests in information technology, life science and technologies for adapting to or mitigating climate change with a focus on energy-related products and services, components, software, systems, semiconductors, web-enabled services for businesses and consumers, storage, wireless communication, sustainable agriculture, the Internet version 2.0, biomedical devices, and new drugs with profound social benefits. The firm seeks to invest in markets with revenue potential in excess of $1 billion and rarely invests in companies focusing on a market smaller than $300 million. It prefers to avoid investing in companies that compete directly with each other. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies and typically invests for a period of three to ten years.

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.

AAC Capital Partners was founded in 1982 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Stockholm, Sweden. AAC Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing specializes in investments in buyouts and management buyouts of middle market companies. It does not invest in property development, financial services, and defense. The firm seeks to invest in the consumer, industrial and services sectors with a focus on healthcare, retail, food and consumer products, printed media and leisure, transport and logistics, industrial engineering, support services, information technology, media and telecom, and life sciences. It prefers to invest in companies based in the Netherlands, Nordic region, and the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in companies with an enterprise value ranging between €50 million ($66.70 million) and €500 million ($667.01 million). It seeks majority stakes and prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

ACOM Co., Ltd. provides a variety of financial services, namely consumer loans, credit cards, installment sales financing, and loan guarantee products. ACOM Co., Ltd. subsidiaries include investment firm AC Ventures and unsecured loan provider EASY BUY in Thailand. ACOM expanded upon its long relationship with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) in 2008 when it became a consolidated subsidiary of MUFG. The move was a way for ACOM to strengthen is consumer loan and guarantee business. As a result of the merger ACOM dissolved its RELATES call center subsidiary.

iD TechVentures Inc., formerly Acer Technology Ventures, is an early stage investor for former Acer executive Stan Shih that focuses on the greater China region. Its portfolio includes high-tech chip manufacturers and software designers, but other holdings include oil well drilling products and media companies. iD TechVentures has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Taiwan, all the better to capitalize on the region's status as a powerhouse of manufacturing and technology innovation. iD TechVentures company has some $955 million in funds under management.

Borsa Italiana S.p.A. was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy. As of October 1, 2007, Borsa Italiana S.p.A. is a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange plc. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. regulates, develops, and manages the Italian equities markets, the Italian Derivatives market, the Securitised Derivatives market, the electronic Fixed Income market, the electronic ETFs and ETCs market, and the Electronic Market where closed-end funds are traded. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. company also operates an after hours market where financial instruments are traded after the close of the daily market. It offers listing, post trading and custody, information, training, and information technologies services.

Innergex Power Income Fund was established in 1990 to manage Canadian hydroelectric power plants. Innergex Power Income Fund plans to merge with INE and convert from a fund to a corporation. Innergex Power Income Fund is an open-ended investment trust that owns stakes in 10 hydroelectric power plants (with a total installed capacity of about 330 MW) and two wind farms in Canada and the US. The power plants and wind farms are operated and managed by Innergex Renewable Energy (INE).

Graphite Capital Management LLP was founded in 1981 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Graphite Capital Management LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in management buyouts and buyins, whether as part of a corporate spin-off or from within a privately held business; replacement capital; and development capital and expansion funding. It also invests in turnaround, rollouts and buy-and-build transactions. The firm invests in established companies with opportunities for growth or through add-on acquisitions. It primarily invests in retail and consumer, Industrial and Engineering, services and distribution, financial services, healthcare, and leisure and property industries. The firm invests in companies based in United Kingdom and focuses on transactions valued between £25 million ($36.2 million) and £200 million ($405.60 million). It seeks a Board seat in the portfolio company. The firm seeks to exit its investments through flotation, trade sale, and secondary buyout.

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