Brown Shipley to make sure it doesn't just float away again. The private bank serves wealthy individuals and institutional investors in the UK. Brown Shipley focuses on investment management, self-directed pension plans, financial planning, and banking services such as foreign currency accounts, money market deposit accounts, and credit cards with travel, insurance, and concierge benefits. The firm is also noted for its IFDS (formerly Solus) family of funds. Brown Shipley is the UK arm of KBC Group's KBL European Private Bankers unit (KBL epb), which provides private banking services in seven other nations.

Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie was founded in 1796 and is based in Geneva, Switzerland with additional offices in Fribourg, Lausanne, Lugano, Vevey, Zurich, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Gibraltar, Istanbul, Jersey, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Montreal, Bermuda, Nassau, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Dubai. Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie, a private banker, offers advisory services in wealth management, financial products, and specialized areas to private and institutional clients. Its services include investment decisions assistance, assets management, portfolio management advice, estate planning, legal and tax advice, occupational pensions advise, actuarial, bancassurance, equity management, and equity research. The company also engages in creating, managing, and administering mutual funds. In addition, it offers online financial services. Further, the company offers Asset Management & Investment Research software, an asset management software.

Since 1984, VENTANA has led multiple syndicates comprised of both domestic and internationally recognized venture investors. VENTANA creates value for Ventana investors using the know-how and know-who accumulated over more than two decades of doing business around the world. VENTANA works very closely with portfolio companies using a disciplined, value-added approach to drive each investment toward the best possible liquidity event, in the shortest time possible.VENTANA's experienced Team bring to the firm their in-depth domain knowledge and reputation as innovators. These individuals contribute proprietary advantages to VENTANA, resulting from active and successful investing in one of the largest and fastest growing technology centers of the world. With its corporate office in Orange County, California, VENTANA is in an ideal location – entrepreneurially positioned within Southern California’s burgeoning entrepreneurial “knowledge economy.” In addition to the sheer number of technology businesses located in this region, it is one of the very few in the world with leadership positions across alternative energy/cleantech, information technology, and life sciences sectors. Given its nearly 30-year history in the region, VENTANA is in an ideal position to benefit from this rich local universe of outstanding opportunities

Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) is hoping to recycle the business savvy it applied to the aluminum manufacturing business and use it to generate returns in the telecommunications field. The private equity firm was launched in 1987 to invest in an aluminum smelter plant in Washington state. It now owns a number of manufacturing facilities, including Columbia Commercial Building Products (aluminum windows) and Specialty Chemical Products LLC (silica extraction from crushed glass). In recent years the firm has turned its attention to international telecom providers; those holdings include One Communications, THUS Group, and Magnet Networks (Internet, telephone, and video provider in Ireland).

Premier Asset Management manages funds and provides customized asset management services for individual and institutional investors in the UK and Ireland. Its products include individually managed mutual funds, multi-asset and subadvised funds, investment trusts, and professionally managed investment portfolios. In 2009 the company agreed to buy 10 former Credit Suisse mutual funds from Aberdeen Asset Management to increase its assets under management to more than $2 billion (more than $3 billion). Electra Private Equity and the management of Premier Asset Management bought the firm in 2007.

Vista Equity Partners was founded in 2000. Vista Equity Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in management and leveraged buyouts, growth and acquisition financings, recapitalizations, restructurings, spinouts, divestitures, special situations, and going private transactions. The firm seeks to invest in software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), technology enabled business services, and technology enabled information services. It also seeks to invest in technology-enabled companies which have a proven and defensible technology that can be leveraged to build new products, solutions, and services; mature companies in which opportunities exist to create value through embracing and leveraging technology; and new or existing companies which have developed proprietary technologies that address specific niche markets. The firm seeks to acquire a majority stake in the portfolio companies.

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.

Kent Financial Services (once known as Texas American Energy) has moved from the oil patch to the financial services field. Kent Financial Services, Inc. holds a majority stake in publicly traded Kent International Holdings (formerly Cortech), which scrapped its pharmaceutical research and is seeking new business opportunities in the US and China. Kent Financial Services, Inc. in 2010 also scrapped subsidiary Kent Educational Services, which controlled The Academy for Teaching and Leadership, a provider of educational programs for school administrators and teachers. Chairman and CEO Paul Koether owns approximately 60% of Kent Financial Services.

Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. was founded in 1981. Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. operates as a private pension fund administrator in the Republic of Chile. The company’s services include the collection and management of contributions made by affiliates; investments of affiliate’s contributions in pension funds; provide life and disability benefits for affiliates; and provide a senior pension for affiliates. Services of collection and management of contributions made by affiliates The services regarding collection and management provided by the company are referred to mandatory contributions, as well as voluntary contributions made by its affiliates. The company collects monthly mandatory contributions that are withheld from the salaries of its affiliates by their employers and those contributions from its self-employed affiliates. Those monthly contributions are credited into each affiliate’s individual capitalization account. In the case of dependent workers, each employer must provide to the company a monthly payroll listing all its employees who are affiliates of it, identifying the payments being made on behalf of each employee for pension contributions, both mandatory and voluntary. Self-employed workers prepare and submit their own payrolls.

VenCap® was founded in 1987, and has over 20 years of experience of selecting and participating in investment vehicles launched by top tier venture capital firms. As a result, we are one of the longest-established and most experienced fund-of-funds managers in the private equity industry today. In addition, due to our long-term presence in the private equity industry, we have many long-term relationships with highly regarded US venture capital firms that have helped to generate strong returns over the past 20 years.VenCap® is supported by a select group of high-quality institutional investors that includes leading endowments, pension funds and insurance companies from across the globe. We currently have US$2.0 billion in funds under management, spread across twelve fund-of-funds, the most recent of which was a US$450 million investment vehicle raised in 2007.VenCap® is based in a single office location in Oxford, United Kingdom. Our team, which has over 196 years of private equity experience, is led by Michael Ashall, who founded the firm in 1987. Our six-strong investment team is led by Tim Cruttenden, who has been active in the venture capital market for over fifteen years.

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