The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) is a boutique investment bank that provides financial services to media and information companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisition; debt and equity financing; valuation; and strategic consulting services. JEGI caters to media, information technology, marketing, communications, advertising, and publishing sectors. Its clientele include CNET, Dow Jones, Hearst, Jupitermedia, Nielsen Media, Pearson, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Corporation, United Business Media, Abry Partners, Frontenac Company, Housatonic Partners, Pfingsten Partners, Seaport Capital, Warburg Pincus, and Wicks Group of Companies.

Lyceum Capital Partners LLP was founded in 1999 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Lyceum Capital Partners LLP is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. It seeks to invest in mid-sized businesses. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions. The firm seeks to invest in business and consumer service industries with a preference for healthcare, education and human capital, business outsourcing and technology, financial services, and media services companies. It selectively also invests in specialist consumer, retail, and industrial services. The firm seeks opportunities in companies based in the United Kingdom. It typically invests between £5 million ($9.76 million) and £40 million ($78.10 million) in companies with enterprise values between £10 million ($19.52 million) and £75 million ($146.44 million). The firm prefers a board seat in its portfolio companies.

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).

Innovium Media Properties Corp. invests in early stage opportunities, having proprietary/patented ideas or technologies, having completed basic research and development, and is approaching commercialization. It invests in opportunities that are intended to capitalize on growth sectors of the economy. The company invests in media opportunities and its venture investment portfolio is focused upon Seed Media Group, LLC. As of December 31, 2006, the company had investments in Voice on the Go, Inc.; First Person Plural, Inc.; Seed Media Group LLC; RxRite.com, Inc.; Atlantis; and Fly America Furniture, Inc. Investments Voice on the Go Inc. is a private software company engaged in developing broadband and wireless applications. Voice on the Go provides mobile subscribers with access to email, contacts, calendar and other content by voice at any time, on any cell phone, Blackberry smartphone, or other PDA. First Person Plural, Inc. is a private company based in Montreal, Quebec.

Euroclear Bank SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides clearance and settlement services for domestic and international securities transactions covering bonds, equities, investment funds, and derivatives. Its International Central Securities Depository operates as the settlement platform for international and domestic securities markets. The company’s Central Securities Depositories provide settlement and custody services to Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Euroclear Bank also offers banking services, including cash management, credit management, treasury, and money transfer services; collateral management services; new issues services; securities lending and borrowing services; and tax services. In addition, it provides ClimateSettle, a settlement and safeguarding service for the European Union allowance units and certified emission rights; DerivManager, an over the counter derivatives exposure management service; EquityReach, an equities service that offer direct access to multiple equity markets; FundSettle, a platform for automated fund transaction processing; and LoanReach, a multi-currency post-trade service for loans.

Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street institution with the iconic bull logo is now the wealth management, brokerage, and investment banking arm of Bank of America. The bank acquired the distressed investment bank in 2009 in a move that greatly expanded its wealth management and international operations. Merrill Lynch is among the world's top brokerages, with some $2.2 trillion in customer assets. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. also provides corporate finance and investment banking services to institutional, commercial, and government clients. Merrill Lynch has offices in some 40 countries around the world.

Kardan N.V. (Netherlands) is a Netherlands-based investment group listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The Company acts as an investment company which is engaged in the development of real estate, insurance and pension, banking and lending, infrastructure projects, infrastructure assets, rental of vehicles and sale of vehicles and others through its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associated companies. The Company is mainly active in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Common Wealth of Independent States (CIS) and China. It has four directly held subsidiaries located in the Netherlands and Israel and numerous indirectly held subsidiaries located in Bulgaria, Georgia, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Albania, China and Germany among others. In addition, Kardan is active in the automotive, consumer goods and communications and technology sectors through its subsidiary Kardan Israel.

Salix Ventures was founded in 1997 to pursue high growth investment opportunities in health care services companies (including health care information technology). Salix Ventures to assist fellow entrepreneurs in developing the strategies, building the management teams, and obtaining the financial resources necessary to create great companies.Salix Ventures is unique in that Salix founding partners are former health care entrepreneurs with more than 25 years of operating experience managing successful venture backed health care services companies. Salix have a deep knowledge of health care and of building companies from the ground up.Salix Ventures manages two venture capital partnerships with more than $180 million of committed capital. Salix limited partners include some of the nation's leading university endowments, corporate pension plans, and financial institutions. With offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Andover, Massachusetts, Salix is a national investor focused on investing in and supporting the best management teams and companies, regardless of location.

Braemar Group plc was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Hale, the United Kingdom. As of July 20, 2010, Braemar Group PLC operates as a subsidiary of Brooks Macdonald Group Plc. Braemar Group plc engages in the fund management, corporate finance, and property management businesses. The company operates in two divisions, Braemar Securities and Braemar Estates. The Braemar Securities division provides advisory and fund raising services for public and private companies. It also enables the company and other property fund managers to create property-based funds, as well as advises companies on fundraising via AiM, EIS, and other forms of equity finance. In addition, this division provides and operates tax efficient property funds for the high net worth individuals. The Braemar Estates division provides property management services. It offers residential property management services for individual landlords, developers, and fund managers. This division also provides building services, such as general repairs and maintenance in the areas of gardening and grounds maintenance, electrical work, electrical safety checks, decoration, brickwork, roofwork, plastering, cleaning, and plumbing.

Progress Investment Management Company was founded in 1990 and was under the wings of Bank of America for a time, but is independent after a management buyout. Progress Investment Management specializes in the management of emerging-markets managers, particularly those run by minorities or women; clients include such pension funds as CalPERS, whose manager-development program it manages. Progress Investment Management has approximately $6.4 billion in assets under management.

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