Roth Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1984. Roth Capital Partners, LLC (ROTH) is an investment banking firm that focuses on the small-cap public market. The firm offers IPO underwriting services to small-cap companies; capital raising services for public companies; and placement services of PIPE transactions. Additionally, it provides investment banking services including capital raising, research coverage, trading and market making, merger and acquisition advisory, and investor conferences. ROTH has raised over $10.6 billion for small-cap public companies and over $3 billion through PIPE transactions. The firm has completed transactions totaling more than $2 billion for US-listed Chinese companies. It offers financing services to small-cap Chinese companies.

Foresight, which was founded in 1984 by Bernard Fairman and Peter English, manages four capital trusts and owns more than £90 million under management. Foresight Group, formerly Foresight Venture Partners, provides venture capital primarily to technology companies. Its portfolio includes companies involved in manufacturing, IT services, environmental, retail, and communications. The group's investments include nanoscale engineering company Oxonica, retail payment systems designer Nomad, generator services provider Ozone, investment bank software designer BlueCurve, and telephone and energy services supplier Telecom plus.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Limited, a private bank, provides financial services in United Kingdom. The company offers banking, investment management, financial planning, pension, leasing, and factoring and invoice discounting services, as well as alternative investments. Its services include current accounts, money transmission, money market deposits, notice accounts, electronic banking, borrowing facilities, treasury, foreign exchange, fiduciary deposits, and derivative products; and investment advice and portfolio management, trust and company management, fund management, personal and inheritance tax planning, life assurance and family protection, health insurance and income protection, mortgage advice, school fees planning, offshore investments, savings, unit and investment trusts, OEICs, and tax effective investments. The company also provides lending products for the acquisition and development residential and commercial properties; finance to lease, own, and manage business and personal assets; and musical instrument and yacht finance. It serves private individuals, entrepreneurs, property investors and developers, owner-managed businesses, solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, letting and managing agents, charities, and the motor sport sector.

The Jones Financial Companies is the parent of Edward Jones, an investment brokerage network catering to individual investors. Serving some seven million clients, the "Wal-Mart of Wall Street" has thousands of offices (mainly in rural communities and suburbs) in all 50 states and Canada. Brokers preach a conservative buy-and-hold approach, offering relatively low-risk investment vehicles such as government bonds, blue-chip stocks, high-quality mutual funds, and annuities. The Jones Financial Companies, L.L.L.P. also sells insurance and engages in investment banking, underwriting and making markets for corporate securities and municipal bonds.

Founder and chairman Gerhard Andlinger started the Andlinger & Company, Inc. in 1976. Andlinger & Company, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management and leveraged buyout, acquisition, recapitalization of public and private companies, corporate divestiture, turnaround, and growth capital transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation, emission reduction, and waste recovery sectors. It also seeks platform acquisition opportunities in companies engaged in the industrial manufacturing, medical devices, value-added distribution and logistics, graphic arts, scientific instruments, information services and software, engineering services, technology infrastructure, pharmaceutical packaging, and manufacturing sectors. The firm prefers not to invest in the retail, real estate, natural resources, and commodities sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies headquartered in North America and Europe. It typically invests up to $25 million in portfolio companies with enterprise values between $20 million and $200 million.

Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in middle market buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth stage transactions. Within recapitalization and buyouts, the firm seeks to invest in small to medium sized companies and focuses on leveraged acquisitions of corporate subsidiaries, recapitalizations of founder-owned and operated entities, and management-led acquisitions of independent companies. It typically invests in healthcare industry with a focus on specialty distribution including alternate site (non-hospital) and pharmaceutical niches; provider and payor outsourcing including contract management, staffing, utilization and disease management, billing, collections, and other financial service providers.

Collins Stewart has offices in New York City and San Francisco. Boutique investment banking firm Collins Stewart LLC (formerly C.E. Unterberg, Towbin) is the US arm of UK brokerage Collins Stewart plc. Serving more than 700 financial institutions and hedge funds, the company trades in and conducts research on US equities and derivatives. Collins Stewart LLC also manages IPOs for technology and health care companies, makes markets in American Depositary Receipts, and trades foreign stocks and currency. Its research division focuses on the technology, health care, defense, and energy sectors.

Aker ASA is a Norway-based industrial investment company engaged in active ownership. Its interests are concentrated on the areas of energy, environment, fisheries and marine biotechnology, and finance. The Company organizes its business activities in three sectors. The Industrial Holdings sector comprises ownership interests in Aker Solutions, Aker Drilling, Det norske oljeselskap, Aker Clean Carbon, and Aker BioMarine. The Financial Holdings sector comprises Aker Asset Management, which manages the hedge fund AAM Absolute Return Fund, and Converto Capital Management, an investment advisor to Converto Capital Fund. Converto Capital Fund holds interests in Aker Seafoods (65.9%), Aker Floating Production (76.2%), Aker Philadelphia Shipyard (50.3%), Bjorge (indirect 39.9%), and American Shipping Company (19.9%). Converto Capital Fund also controls 100% of Ocean Harvest. The Treasury sector manages Aker’s financial instruments: interest-bearing receivables, cash, and cash equivalents.

Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with additional offices in Paris, France and Quebec City, Canada. Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec is a private equity firm specializing in private equity and real estate investments. The firm also manages the funds contributed to the Québec Pension Plan. The firm’s private equity investments invest in development capital, buyouts, mezzanine, small and medium sized enterprises, and technology venture capital funds. It prefers to invest in manufacturing, distribution, financial services, natural resources, energy, infrastructure, media and telecommunication services. In the manufacturing sector the firm invests in printing, automotive, packaging and plastics, aeronautics, agribusiness, and electronic components. The firm’s distribution investments include health care, outsourcing, logistics, leisure, and retail. Energy and infrastructure investments include electricity, pipelines, oil and gas, transport, health care, water distribution, and other services. Its natural resource investments include mines and metals, pulp, and paper.The firm’s media investments include publishing, entertainment, and cable distribution. Telecommunication investments include data transmission, wireless, satellite, and other types of communication. Financial services include financial institutions and services. The firm seeks to invest in companies seeking financing of $2 million or more. The firm acts as a lead or a co-investor. It structures its investments in the form of equity or debt investments or both. Equity investments are structured in the form of common or preferred shares and convertible or participating debentures. The firm can provide senior debt, high-yield, mezzanine, short-term bridge, term, and subordinated loans. It prefers to be a board member in its portfolio companies. The firm’s real estate investments invest in debt and equity products. It prefers to invest in office buildings and business parks, retail properties, industrial properties, hotels, residential properties, and senior residences. It typically invests Canada, United States, Western Europe, and Brazil.

Redbus Group (Redbus) is a UK based acquisition vehicle, which seeks to acquire small cap. businesses or business assets that require restructuring or re-financing and return them to profitability. Its roots are in the media business though it does not operate exclusively in this sector. Redbus came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of the largest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold for $23 million to Helkon Media AG.The key management, all from investment banking or professional backgrounds remained with Redbus Group after this transaction and segued Redbus’ focus towards acquiring media businesses and assets that were either undervalued, in distress or in need of restructuring. Employing an entrepreneurial yet disciplined approach, Redbus, either in partnership with other financial institutions or alone, is constantly looking for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.The combination of Redbus’ intricate understanding of the corporate debt and securities market and its experience of managing businesses is both unusual and increasingly relevant in today’s financial markets. Redbus was the fastest growing company in the UK in 2003 and ranked number one in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100. Redbus Group is a UK based private company and the main operating vehicle of Simon Franks who is both the company’s chairman and largest single shareholder.

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