Cenkos Securities takes stock in its clients and then helps them take stock in the UK market. Through its subsidiaries, Cenkos Securities plc offers financial services and consulting to small- to mid-cap companies. Cenkos Securities plc services include stock brokering, investment advice (with an emphasis on long-term investments), corporate financing advice, and fund management. Cenkos Securities plc also advises on mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, and makes markets in about 40 stocks on the LSE and other markets. Cenkos Securities plc serves various industries in the UK, including companies in the technology, mining, real estate, and insurance sectors. Cenkos was established in 2004 by chairman Andrew Stewart.

Barclays Private Equity Ltd. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices across Europe. Barclays Private Equity Ltd. is the private equity arm of Barclays Capital specializing in middle market and change of ownership transactions. It invests in management buyout, management buy-in, institutional buyout, equity release, expansion capital, and going private transactions of lower middle market companies. The firm also provides equity funding to privately financed infrastructure projects. It seeks to invest in support services, specialist engineering, financial services, consumer and travel, and other sectors. Within the support services sector, investments are sought in staffing- recruitment of temporary or permanent staff; BPO/FM– outsourcing, facilities management, and property services; asset rental- vehicle or equipment; logistics- supply chain management, freight forwarding, contract logistics, distribution, and haulage; professional and IT services; and other miscellaneous support services companies.

Acuity Ventures is a Silicon Valley based family of venture capital funds that provides investment capital and strategic and operational guidance to early stage and emerging growth companies. The latest fund, Acuity Ventures III, L.P. is currently investing. The fund provides capital through convertible preferred debt, direct equity investments and other investment participations.Acuity strives to incubate qualified companies with financing facilities and access to important alliances in order to position these companies for profitable growth and liquidity exit. Acuity maintains alliances with other capital sources and its high net worth, as well as strategic consulting and advisory firms that specialize in high-technology startups.

Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund was founded in 1918 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Charlotte, North Carolina. Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm also provides retirement plans, including IRAs, education savings plans, and annuities for its clients. It primarily provides its services to individuals in the academic, medical, cultural, and research fields, including employee, retiree, or trustee of nonprofit colleges and universities, public and private elementary and secondary schools, teaching hospitals, museums, libraries, certain other nonprofit institutions, and government entities. The firm manages equity and fixed income mutual funds. It also manages fund of funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe and the fixed income markets of the United States. It also invests in the direct real estate markets and real estate securities markets.

First Quadrant was founded in 1988 and is based in Pasadena, California with an additional office in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. First Quadrant L.P. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional investors. It also caters to high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, state or municipal government entities, investment companies, charitable organizations, and foreign governments. The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It makes its investments in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm seeks to invest in alternative investments markets including currencies, global index options, and options on future contracts. It employs currency management arbitrage, tactical asset allocation, policy allocation control, and long/short strategies to make its investments.

The Options Clearing Corporation was founded in 1973. he Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world's largest equity derivatives clearinghouse. The OCC serves some 130 broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, and securities firms in the US and abroad. It is owned by options trading participants NYSE Amex, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange Holdings, and Nasdaq OMX PHLX. The OCC also manages the Options Industry Council, a not-for-profit organization sponsored by several securities and options exchanges to educate investors and brokers about the options industry.

NBGI Private Equity Limited is a private equity arm of NBG International Limited specializing in investments in small to medium sized businesses. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins, institution led buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. The firm does not invest in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in consumer and leisure, manufactured, industrial and building products, and business and support services. It prefers to invest in the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in a deal size between £5 million ($9.40 million) and £50 million ($94.09 million) with an equity investment between £2 million ($3.2 million) and £15 million ($24.05 million). It invests in private and public companies. The firm also invests in further rounds of financing for acquisition and growth in its portfolio companies.

Impact Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm. Impact Venture are a team of company builders that believes that pursuing one's goals is the most satisfying expression of human talent. Impact Venture seek to join entrepreneurs who share in this belief and in Impact Venture passion for innovation, opportunity and accomplishment. Impact Venture work relentlessly to offer strategic direction, recruit management and create partnerships. Drawing on Impact Venture extensive, nationwide network of corporate and financial relationships, Impact Venture provide our entrepreneurs with access to the resources needed to accelerate growth and achieve market dominance.

Oak Associates, ltd. is a nationally recognized growth equity investment advisor. From its founding in 1985, Oak Associates has provided quality growth portfolios to national endowments, public pension plans, private clients, and mutual fund investors. A concentration in key growth areas, diligent research and a focus on a long-term performance have been integral to the company’s success.The firm has managed a ‘best-ideas’ portfolio for institutional clients under a large-cap growth approach since its inception in 1985. Oak Associates expanded its institutional strategies to include a small-cap growth portfolio in 2009. The small-cap growth strategy was launched in 2005 and offered to retail investors through Oak’s family of no-load mutual funds. Oak Associates also provides health care and technology sector-specific strategies through subadvisor relationships or direct accounts.

Founded in 1993, Corbett Keeling is owned by the Keeling family; brothers Jim and Simon act as co-chairmen. Investment firm Corbett Keeling targets businesses valued up to $150 million that are seeking equity, mezzanine, or debt financing in the range of $500,000 to $20 million. Corbett Keeling also assists companies with such transactions as takeovers, recommended bidding, and maintaining stockholder equity or debt. Clients include Gieves & Hawkes (demerger consulting), Linguaphone (raised equity funding), Radiant Networks (raised shares), Opus (refinancing assistance), and BUPA Healthcare Professionals (buyout advisement).

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