Established in 1984, Consolidated Firstfund Capital is a property management and venture capital business operating primarily in Canada and on the West Coast of the US. Consolidated Firstfund company chiefly assists businesses with fundraising through equity debt or other methods of investments and targets public and private companies residing in the resort development (and real estate), high-tech, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. Consolidated Firstfund company has invested in such companies as nutritional food products supplier Vitality Products, medical device designer MDMI Technologies, and portable power products supplier Battery & Wireless Solutions.

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).

Derbyshire First Investments Limited was founded in 1987 as the Derbyshire Enterprise Board Limited by the Derbyshire County Council. DFI is a joint owner with the Derby City Council of the Rosehill Business Centre, a small business incubator located in Derby. Derbyshire First Investments (DFI) provides business counseling and consulting to start-up and early-stage businesses. DFI company's investments typically range from £50,000 to £250,000 and are usually used to provide working capital, expenditure on capital equipment, refinance bank debt, or develop and market new products. DFI's investment activities are centered in Derby but extend to surrounding counties.

Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Salisbury, and Southampton, United Kingdom. Smith & Williamson Limited is a member firm of Nexia International. Smith & Williamson Limited operates as a subsidiary of Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited. Smith & Williamson Limited offers accounting and consulting services. The firm provides accounting, tax consulting, reporting, financial modeling, risk management, and compliance and regulatory advisory services. Additionally, it offers due diligence, valuation, business planning, and IT advisory services. The firm also provides pension and financial planning; employee benefits and human resource solutions; forensic; and restructuring and recovery services. It caters to financial, agriculture, real estate, media, technology, corporate, and non-profit sectors.

MLP AG operates as a consulting company for academics and other clients. MLP AG company is an independent financial and investment adviser for academics and other clients. It integrates a multitude of products and services of various banks, insurance, and investment companies to offer a financial concept that is modified to the requirements of each individual client. MLP AG company has approximately 240 branches in Germany advising approximately 730,000 clients. It holds a full banking licence and together with the MLP Group company Feri Finance AG, manages assets in Germany. Segments The Financial services segment consists of consulting services for academics and other clients, particularly with regard to insurance, investments, occupational pension provision schemes, and loans of all kinds, as well as the brokering of contracts concerning these financial services. This segment also includes finance portfolio management, the trustee credit business, and the loan and credit card business. MLP AG company serves approximately 730,000 clients in the various segments. The Financial Services segment, which focuses on the brokerage business, is made up of MLP Finanzdienstleistungen AG, Wiesloch, TPC THE PENSION CONSULTANCY GmbH, Bremen, and the associate MLP Hyp GmbH, Schwetzingen. Feri segment The business operations of the Feri segment cover wealth and investment consulting.

Quilvest SA was founded in 1915 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg with additional offices in Paris, France; New York, New York; and London, United Kingdom. Quilvest SA is a public investment firm specializing in private equity investments and wealth management. It makes private equity investments through its subsidiary Quilvest Private Equity. The firm offers wealth management services through its subsidiaries Banque Privee Quilvest, Quilvest Switzerland and Quilvest Dubai Ltd.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL or the Company) is a holding company listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 15 October 1956. GBL strives to stimulate and promote the growth of a valuable and balanced portfolio of industrial investments, focusing on a small number of major companies, operating in a diversified range of sectors, in which it is able to play its role as a strategic shareholder. The Company’s portfolio consists of four participations, namely Bertelsmann, Total, Suez and Imerys. TotalFina Elf formed by the successive consolidations of the Total, PetroFina and Elf Aquitaine groups, TotalFinaElf is a global oil and gas group and a major player in the chemicals sector. Activities TotalFina Elf is one of the major integrated oil companies. Its activities are based in more than 100 countries and cover the entire oil industry chain, from upstream - exploration, development and production of oil and gas – to downstream - refining and distribution of oil products and international trading of crude oil and refined oil products. TotalFina Elf is also an important operator in the chemicals industry. Upstream, TotalFina Elf’s hydrocarbon reserves amount to some 11.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Present in the liquefied natural gas industry, TotalFina Elf is also expanding its activities to related market segments such as gas distribution and electricity generation. Downstream, the group has a refining capacity of 2.3 million barrels a day and sales of 3.7 million barrels a day of refined products. TotalFinaElf has interests in 27 refineries and operates a network of some 16,700 service stations under the Total, Fina and Elf brands, primarily in Europe.

Credit Acceptance Corporation provides auto loans to consumers primarily in the United States. Credit Acceptance Corporation primarily provides the portfolio and purchase programs. Credit Acceptance Corporation portfolio program comprises advancing money to dealer-partners in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loan; and the purchase program includes buying the consumer loan from the dealer-partner and keeping various amounts collected from the consumer. Credit Acceptance Corporation offers its products through a network of automobile dealers. Credit Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.

Founder and CEO Tom Gores, who started Platinum Equity in 1995, is the brother of Alec Gores, who founded another investment firm, Gores Technology Group. Platinum Equity typically seeks to acquire private companies, public firms that want to become private, and units that large corporations are looking to divest; these companies usually have established brands and customer bases, and most importantly, recurring revenues. Platinum Equity also looks for acquisitions as strategic add-ons to its portfolio companies, which have operations worldwide. It focuses on such sectors as manufacturing, distribution, technology services, and communications.

Capital Institutional Services, Inc. (CAPIS) was founded in 1977 to provide a different – and better – way of delivering trade and research services to institutional investors. Our idea was to offer exceptional trade execution while providing access to independent, third-party research. The institutional brokerage firm provides agency-only trading and independent investment research to fund managers, broker-dealers, and plan sponsors Capital Institutional Services, Inc. provides trading in exchange- and OTC-listed securities, offering block, international, direct access, and electronic trading. Capital Institutional Services, Inc. also handles fixed income trades and provides a number of research products. Don Potts founded CAPIS in 1977.

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