Cash America International, Inc. provides specialty financial services to individuals primarily in the United States and Mexico. Cash America International, Inc. operates in three segments: Pawn Lending, Cash Advance, and Check Cashing. The Pawn Lending segment offers pawn loans through its pawn lending locations, which operate under the names Cash America Pawn and SuperPawn in the United States, and Prenda Facil in Mexico. This segment also sells previously-owned merchandise acquired from customers who do not redeem their pawned goods, as well as sells items purchased from third-parties or customers. The Cash Advance segment offers unsecured cash advances in selected lending locations that are operated under the names Cash America Payday Advance and Cashland in the United States; and short-term cash advances over the Internet under the names CashNetUSA in the United States, QuickQuid in the United Kingdom, and DollarsDirect in the Canada and Australia. Cash America International, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

S3 Investment Company, Inc. operates as an investment banking advisory firm that offers U.S. corporate finance and investment banking services to private companies in China. The company specializes in providing alternative public offerings for private Chinese companies through the simultaneous listing on a U.S. or other stock market, and private investment in public equity financing. Its services help client companies to prepare, assist, and manage various stages of the process of a reverse merger into a publicly-traded shell, as well as in capital funding, a progression to a U.S. national market listing, and multiple registered follow-on offerings for additional growth capital.

The Jordan Company, L.P. was founded in 1982. The Jordan Company, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in traditional leverage buyouts, recapitalizations, restructuring, public-to-private transactions, industry consolidation, and growth capital transactions of middle market companies. The firm seeks to invest in a wide range of sectors with a focus on aerospace and defense, automotive aftermarket parts, building products, business services, contract research organizations, electric motors and controls, equipment rental, industrial safety and controls, chemicals, consumer products, distribution, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial products and manufacturing, media and entertainment, insurance, metals, packaging, retail, transportation and logistics, and telecom. It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The firm typically invests between $75 million and $500 million of equity in transactions valued between $75 million and $2 billion. It invests in companies with an enterprise value between $100 million and $2 billion and a minimum EBITDA of $15 million.

CME Group was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. CME Group Inc. offers access to all asset classes for futures products from a single electronic trading platform, and on trading floors in Chicago and New York City. The Company offers markets in futures and options on futures contracts based on the United States interest rate yield curve, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, metals and alternative investment products. Its products are traded through the CME Globex electronic trading platform, its open outcry auction markets in Chicago and New York City or through privately negotiated transactions that the Company clears. It serves the risk management and investment needs of customers around the globe. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately 140 clearing firms. In April 2009, the Company acquired the Carvill Hurricane Index from Carvill America Inc. and renamed it the CME Hurricane Index.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) provides business consulting services. It offers early stage business growth advisory, financial planning, business strategy development, taxation planning, and market research services. Additionally, the company provides business performance improvement, financial assistance, international networking, recruitment, and work-based training services. It caters to aerospace, chemicals, digital media, electronics, energy, financial services, food and beverage, and life sciences industries.

Founded in 1999, Acorn Angels is an affiliate of business incubator Acorn Campus. Acorn Angels helps promising high-tech entrepreneurs spread their wings and fly. A group of Silicon Valley investors that includes CEOs and venture capitalists, Acorn Angels provides capital and business development support to early-stage companies. The group looks for start-ups with strong leadership and viable intellectual property; it also seeks companies formed around new ideas, or what it refers to as disruptive technologies. Target industries include communications, Internet infrastructure, fiber optics, and wireless communications. Investments have included Alliance Fiber Optic Products and CipherMax.

Communications Equity Associates was founded in 1973 by CEO Rick Michaels. Communications Equity Associates (CEA) provides investment banking, merchant banking, and private equity services to global companies in the communications, entertainment, and media industries. Communications Equity Associates company offers mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, divestment, and fund-raising services from 10 offices in the US and Europe. Its private equity division manages a family of funds with more than $1 billion under management. CEA has completed more than 900 transactions, most of which are cross-border arrangements. Customers have included such big names as AT&T, IBM, EDS, and Siemens.

Morgan Stanley & Co. (MS&Co.) has their investment banking needs covered. A subsidiary of Morgan Stanley and part of its Global Wealth Management Group, MS&Co. also provides its individual, business, institutional, and government customers with brokerage and investment advice through products such as annuity, insurance, and credit vehicles. After Morgan Stanley merged Morgan Stanley DW into MS&Co. in early 2007, the unit became Morgan Stanley's primary US broker-dealer. The following year MS&Co. merged with government broker Morgan Stanley Market Products.

Morgenthaler LLP was founded in 1968 by managing partner David Morgenthaler. Morgenthaler firm operates through two divisions. Its venture capital operation provides funding to growth-stage technology and life sciences companies. Its buyout arm focuses on traditional management buyouts and corporate divestitures of manufacturing and business services firms in North America valued between $25 million and $250 million. Between both divisions, Morgenthaler has approximately $3.5 billion of assets under management.

Janney Montgomery Scott offers a bevy of financial products and services through about 100 offices up and down the East Coast. One of the largest regional broker-dealers in the US, the firm offers fixed-income brokerage, equity research, wealth management, and retirement planning, and acts as a market maker for approximately 150 NASDAQ-listed stocks. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC also provides investment banking services such as public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions support to emerging and middle-market companies. Janney has more than $13 billion of assets under management. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC was established in 1832 and acquired by The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company 150 years later.

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