The Catalyst Group wants to be a catalyst for your investment needs. The Catalyst group provides investment banking services (mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate partnering) and specializes in midsized companies in the information technology and telecommunications industries. Some of the companies the group has assisted in past transactions include Ericsson (integration into the French market), SSA Global Technologies (European expansion), Peritus Software Services (provided financial advice), and Alcatel-Lucent (formerly Lucent; evaluated strategic partners).

Aviva Investors Global Services Limited was founded in 1971 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Aviva Investors Global Services Limited operates as a subsidiary of Aviva plc. Aviva Investors Global Services Limited, doing business as CGU Fund Management, provides its services to corporations. It also caters to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios for its clients. It also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to real estate and private equity. For its equity investments, the firm typically invests in value and growth stocks of large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies. It employs a combination of a quantitative and a fundamental analysis with a top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach. The firm has a disciplined approach to investing. It conducts in-house research to make its investment decisions. The firm also invests in socially responsible sectors while investing.

NEL Fund Managers Limited provides funding for small and medium-sized enterprises of northern England. NEL offers venture capital and unsecured loan and mezzanine capital through its two divisions, Evolve Finance and NEL Capital. Evolve specializes in debt funding (up to £250,000 per client), and Insight focuses on institutional venture capital (up to £500,000 per client). The company changed its name from Northern Enterprise Limited to NEL Fund Managers Limited in 2006. The company's Insight Capital division also underwent a change and was rebranded NEL Capital (Evolve Finance stayed the same).

Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. was founded in 1988 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office in Phoenix, Arizona. As of 07/10/2001, GMB is a subsidiary of CoBiz Financial Inc. Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. (GMB) is an investment bank that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of equity and debt, valuation and fairness opinion, and strategic financial advisory services. It caters to business services, construction, consumer, healthcare, and telecommunications industries.

Primary Capital Limited is a private equity investment firm specializing in management buyouts and buyins. Primary Capital company invests primarily in proven businesses based in the UK and Germany with a focus on companies operating in the consumer goods, business services, leisure, health care, and IT services sectors. Primary Capital company invests in businesses valued between � 10 million and �100 million with a target to realise its investment over three to five years. Primary Capital investments include gourmet coffee stations provider Coffee Nation; fast-food Japanese restaurant chain YO! Sushi; bar, restaurant, and entertainment company Harlequin Entertainment, and IT infrastructure provider Esteem Systems.

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. was founded in 1953. Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion financing, growth capital, management buyout, recapitalization, industry consolidation, corporate spinout, and early stage financing transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the technology and life sciences sectors. Within the technology sector, it invests in software as a service, technology enabled services, Internet/new media, financial services information technology, healthcare information technology with capital requirements of up to $25 million, and internet-based businesses. Within the life sciences sector, the firm invests in molecular and point-of-care diagnostics, medical devices, regenerative medicine, and specialty pharmaceuticals. It invests throughout United States and Canada. The firm primarily invests between $10 million and $25 million in growth equity financing and between $5 million and $10 million in early-stage financing. It typically invests in the capital structures including owner financed and bootstrapped companies, corporate division or business unit, and venture capital-backed seeking a growth partner.

Jasper Investments Limited is a holding company listed on the SGX since 1993 which principally invests in the offshore oil and gas drilling and services sector. Jasper’s principal subsidiary, Jasper Offshore, owns and operates oil rigs for deep sea drilling which are contracted out to oil and gas exploration and production companies.The major shareholders of Jasper include certain investment funds managed by Ashmore Investment Management Limited. Ashmore is a leading London-based emerging market fund specialist listed on the London Stock Exchange. Ashmore’s investments include fixed income, equity and special situations (incorporating distressed debt and private equity) and have extensive experience in the oil and gas businesses.

Lazard Ltd. company was founded in 1848 and is based in New York, New York. Lazard Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm worldwide. Lazard Company's Financial Advisory segment offers a range of services regarding mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory matters, restructurings and capital structure advisory services, capital raising, and various other corporate finance matters, which include evaluating potential acquisition targets, providing valuation analyses, evaluating and proposing financial and strategic alternatives, rendering opinions, assisting in the negotiating and closing the acquisition, and assisting in executing an acquisition by acting as a dealer-manager in transactions structured as a tender or exchange offer. This segment primarily serves consumer; financial institutions; financial sponsors; healthcare and life sciences; industrial; power and energy/infrastructure; real estate; and technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

Palamon Capital Partners was founded in 1999. Palamon Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm invests in mid and late venture, development capital, recapitalizations, deleveraging transactions, turnarounds, and buyouts. It primarily invests in service sector businesses with a focus on specialty engineering, communications and media, financial services, leisure and entertainment, healthcare, information technology, and business services. The firm invests in companies based in Europe. It seeks to invest between €10 million ($15.45 million) and €80 million ($123.67 million) in its portfolio companies. The firm prefers to be the lead investor with either a majority or significant minority shareholding and at least two board seats in its portfolio companies.

ABRY Partners, LLC was co-founded in 1989 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. ABRY Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in late stage; total buy-outs of financial investors, families, publicly-traded or strategic owners; acquisition roll-ups, platform acquisitions; leveraged buyouts; industry consolidations; add-on acquisitions; mezzanine, recapitalizations, turnaround; and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in media, communication, business services, education, entertainment, healthcare services, information services, and online media industries with a focus on television and radio broadcasting, cable television, business-to-business, magazine publishing, newsletter publishing, conventions/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, consumer magazine publishing, recorded music libraries, proprietary database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertising. The firm typically invests between $25 million and $150 million of equity in case of the private equity fund or between $15 million and $50 million of mezzanine/senior equity capital in its portfolio companies.

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