The Blackstone Group L.P. is a global alternative asset manager and provider of financial advisory services. The Company is an independent alternative asset manager with assets under management of $102.43 billion, as of December 31, 2007. Its alternative asset management businesses... more

Goldman Sachs is a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. It provides a wide range of services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, institutional investors, governments, non-profit organisations and high net worth... more

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. together with its subsidiaries, provide investment, financing, insurance, and related services to individuals and institutions on a global basis through its broker, dealer, banking, and other financial services subsidiaries. The Company’s operations are organized... more

Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for 45 years. Headquartered in New York, with more than 25 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory... more

Lehman Brothers First Trust Income Opportunity Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek high total return (income plus capital appreciation). The Fund pursues its investment objective by investing its assets... more

Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, provides a wide range of services, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, financial opinions and advisory services, and financial restructuring. Houlihan Lokey has ranked among the top 10 M&A advisors in the U.S. for the past seven... more

Smith Barney is the private wealth management unit of Citigroup. It is a leading provider of comprehensive financial planning and advisory services to high net worth investors, institutions, corporations and private businesses, governments and foundations. With more than 13,000 Financial... more

Legg Mason, Inc. (Legg Mason) is a global asset management company. Acting through its subsidiaries, the Company provides investment management and related services to institutional and individual clients, Company-sponsored mutual funds and other investment vehicles. The Company offers... more

Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's primary objective is to seek high current income. The Fund invests primarily in below investment-grade United States fixed-income securities. The Fund’s investment... more

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides its products and services to a group of clients and customers, including corporations, governments, financial institutions and individuals. Morgan Stanley’s business segments include... more

UBS AG is a global provider of financial services for wealthy clients. UBS’s financial businesses are organized on a worldwide basis into three Business Groups and the Corporate Center. Global Wealth Management & Business Banking consists of three segments: Wealth Management International... more

Veronis Suhler Stevenson (www.vss.com) is a private equity firm that invests buyout and structured capital funds in the media, communications, information and education industries in North America and Europe. VSS provides capital for buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings and... more

BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock) operates as an investment management firm in the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had $1.357 trillion of assets under management (AUM). BlackRock provides diversified investment management services to institutional clients and to individual... more

Lazard Ltd (Lazard) is an international financial advisory and asset management firm. The Company serves a diverse set of clients around the world, including corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and high-net worth individuals. Lazard operates from 39 cities in business... more

A division of BMO Financial Group, BMO Spend & Payment Solutions (formerly BMO ePurchasing Solutions) is a leading commercial card, spend and payment solutions provider in North America. BMO Spend & Payment Solutions' products are widely used by Corporations, non-profit and government... more

Piper Jaffray Companies is a middle-market investment bank and institutional securities firm, serving the needs of middle-market corporations, private equity groups, public entities, nonprofit clients and institutional investors. The Company provides a set of products and services,... more

Salomon Smith Barney (www.smithbarney.com) is a global, full-service financial firm that provides brokerage, investment banking, and asset management services to corporations, governments, and individuals. As a leader in the U.S. securities industry, Salomon Smith Barney's core... more

AdMedia Partners is an independent M&A financial advisory firm serving digital and traditional media, marketing and information businesses. Founded in 1990 by former advertising, media, and financial executives, the firm focuses on mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, valuations, and... more

Duff & Phelps Corporation is a provider of independent financial advisory and investment banking services. It principally supports client needs in financial and tax valuation (especially in the context of business combinations and other corporate transactions), mergers and acquisitions... more

The Chase Payroll Card is issued by JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM), a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.6 trillion and operations in 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial... more

Greenhill & Co., Inc. (Greenhill) is an independent investment banking firm that provides financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and similar corporate finance matters, and manages merchant banking funds and commits capital to those funds. Greenhill acts for... more

Netherlands-based ABN AMRO is a leading international bank with total assets of EUR 975.1 bln (as at 31 March 2006). It has over 3,500 branches in more than 60 countries and territories, and has a staff of over 105,000 full-time equivalents worldwide. ABN AMRO is listed on Euronext and... more

FBR Financial Services Partners, L.P. (FSP) is a private equity fund whose sole investment objective is to provide strategic, medium-term equity capital to growing financial services companies. The institutional investors committed to FSP include major banks, insurance companies and... more

Robertson Stephens is the dominant force in Growth Economy investment banking. Our primary clients are companies for whom the Firm offers investment banking services and institutional investors for whom it provides investment recommendations and trade execution.

CIBC World Markets is the global marketing name for CIBC's investment banking affiliates and subsidiaries around the world. The CIBC World Markets companies offer a full range of investment services to governments, corporations, institutions and private clients worldwide.

Founded in 1988, Sandler O'Neill & Partners is a full-service investment banking firm dedicated to providing comprehensive, innovative advisory and transaction execution services to the financial industry. The firm specializes in strategic business planning, mergers and acquisitions,... more

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is a Chicago-based investment firm offering investment banking, asset management, equity research, institutional and private brokerage, and private capital to individual, institutional, and issuing clients. Since 1935, we have been committed to helping... more

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated operates 77 offices in 15 states, mostly in the central United States. A full range of investments, including stocks, corporate and municipal bonds, mutual funds, annuities, insurance, options, and managed assets accounts are available through the... more

Baird is an employee-owned, international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm with offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Baird serves individuals, corporations, institutional investors and municipalities as financial advisor,... more

Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 1937, it is an independent, employee-owned firm with $32.2 billion in assets under management and more than 1,100 employees in locations across the country and in London. With expertise in... more

Since 1983, BIAfn has helped clients build enterprise value and increase operational efficiency by providing expert financial consulting and strategic advisory services, as well as a comprehensive array of media research and investment resources. BIAfn also offers services related to fair... more

About WR Hambrecht + Co - Founded by Bill Hambrecht in 1998, WR Hambrecht + Co is a financial services firm committed to using the Internet and auction process to level the playing field for investors and issuers. The firm's impartial Internet-based auctions, which allow the market to... more

Evercore Partners Inc. (Evercore) is an investment banking company. The Company is a holding company and its sole material asset is a controlling equity interest in Evercore LP. It provides advisory services to multinational corporations on significant mergers, acquisitions, divestitures,... more

Lincoln Partners is an investment bank specializing in mergers & acquisition services, and private capital raising. Lincoln Partners focuses on select industries including automotive, aerospace, building products, business services, chemicals, consumer products, engineered products,... more

Goldsmith Agio Helms (www.agio.com) is one of the nation's leading independent investment banking firms providing sophisticated corporate finance advisory services to middle-market businesses. The firm's services include mergers and acquisitions, private placements of debt and equity,... more

ORIX Venture Finance LLC, a member of the Corporate Finance Group of ORIX USA Corporation, with offices in Silicon Valley; Newport Beach, Calif.; Hartford, Conn.; New York; Northern Virginia; and Dallas, provides enterprise financing to mid- to late-stage companies via acquisition and... more

The Ziegler Companies, Inc. (symbol: ZGCO) is a growth-oriented boutique investment banking and investment services firm with a primary focus in the healthcare, senior living and church and school sectors. Operations encompass capital markets (capital advisory services, bond underwriting,... more

Calyon is the Corporate and Investment Bank of Crédit Agricole Group, France's leading banking group. Calyon was created in 2004 from the merger between Crédit Agricole Indosuez and Crédit Lyonnais' Corporate and Investment Banking division. Backed by Crédit Agricole Group's credit... more

Founded in 2001, Avondale Partners, LLC is an independent investment banking firm providing objective, high quality equity research, as well as sales and trading capabilities to the institutional marketplace. We also provide investment banking services including mergers and acquisitions... more

Capital.com, Inc. is a business finance portal where premier financing sources compete to provide receivable and inventory financing, machinery and equipment loans and leasing, real estate and construction financing, subordinated debt and equity financing for growth, acquisitions,... more

Lazard is a pre-eminent global investment bank committed to helping its clients - corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals - achieve their strategic and financial goals. Lazard's success results from its focus on providing clients with superior quality advice... more

MCG Capital Corporation (MCG) is a solutions-focused commercial finance company providing capital and advisory services to middle market companies throughout the United States. MCG's capital is generally used by its portfolio companies to finance acquisitions, recapitalizations, buyouts,... more

Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. (SMHG), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides asset/wealth management, and capital markets services. The products and services provided by the Company include asset/wealth management and capital markets. The asset/wealth management business... more

WFG Capital Advisors is a company dedicated to your success. We are investment bankers focused solely on insurance and financial services. We provide guidance, business analysis and strategic advice backed up by experience, education and research. We are your information source for... more

Jefferies Group, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, operates as a full-service global investment bank and institutional securities firm serving companies and their investors. The Company offers these companies capital markets, merger and acquisition (M&A), restructuring and other... more

Baird provides a wide variety of advisory services, primarily serving middle,market companies; however, we have advised on acquisitions as large as ,6.3 billion. Our merger and acquisition practice is closely split between buyers and sellers, giving us unique perspectives into both. Our... more

Johnson Capital International is a real estate investment banking advisory firm responsible for Johnson Capital's real estate capital markets and corporate finance transactions in the emerging markets. We advise our clients on capital raising and corporate finance transactions involving... more

At Rothschild we are committed to developing long term, mutually beneficial relationships with schools, charities and community organisations local to our offices. All UK employees are entitled to spend two paid days per year volunteering, and additionally to get involved at their... more

Banc of America Securities LLC (BAS), a subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation, is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm. With principal offices in San Francisco, New York and Charlotte, BAS employs more than 4,200 associates in offices around the country, and with... more