The Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest private equity firms, with more than $81.1 billion under management. With 60 funds across four investment disciplines (buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate and leveraged finance), Carlyle combines global vision with local insight,... more

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

Founded in 1923, The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., a leading investment banking and securities trading and brokerage firm. With approximately $61.9 billion in total capital, Bear Stearns serves governments, corporations,... more

affiliates, is one of the world's leading private investment firms with approximately $27 billion under management in funds and accounts.

Sun Capital Partners, Inc. is a leading private investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in market-leading companies that can benefit from its in-house operating professionals and experience. Sun Capital affiliates have invested in and managed more... 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

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

American Capital Ltd., formerly American Capital Strategies, Ltd., is an alternative asset management company. The Company is engaged in providing capital to middle market companies with sales between $10 million and $750 million. It primarily invests in senior debt, mezzanine debt and... more

We deliver value through providing superior service to our clients. Our service team is the most experienced in the business. Every member of our team has previous employment experience with a health insurance company, which gives us an edge in understanding the complex underwriting and... 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

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

Golden Gate Capital is a leading private equity firm with $9 billion in capital under management. We generate superior returns for our investors through buyout and growth equity investments across a wide variety of industries. We partner with world-class management teams to make equity... more

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a strong and profitable private clients franchise. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With 78,275 employees in 76 countries, Deutsche Bank offers... more

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (CD&R) is a leading private equity investment firm that has earned consistent, superior investment returns using an integrated operational and financial approach to building and growing portfolio businesses. Since its founding in 1978, CD&R has managed... 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

Platinum Equity (www.peh.com) is a global acquisition firm specializing in the strategic operation of mission-critical companies according to a unique M&A&O(SM) model of value creation. Since its founding in 1995, Platinum has completed over 40 privately funded transactions, leveraging a... more

Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is a global alternative asset manager that raises, invests and manages private equity funds, hedge funds and publicly traded alternative investment vehicles. Fortress earns management fees based on the size of its funds, incentive income based on... more

Permira is a leading European-based private equity firm. Permira acts as adviser to the 19 Permira Funds, totalling approximately Euro 22 billion, that have been raised since 1985. These funds have invested in over 180 transactions in over 15 different countries, in companies across a... more

Castle Harlan was founded in 1987, but its roots reach back to the start of the institutionalized private equity market in the 1960s and the pioneering use of private equity limited partnerships as investment vehicles. Our investment funds are limited partnerships that include public and... more

CVC Capital Partners is a leading global private equity firm with over US$35 billion in funds raised focused on management buyouts. CVC was founded in 1981 and today has a network of 19 offices throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Since 1981, CVC has completed over 250... more

"The SEC also is the only agency that doesn't have a top-level management position equivalent to chief financial officer. As required of all agencies, it has an inspector general who can conduct audits. But responsibility for financial management and accounting is with the office of... more

THL is a leading private equity firm based in Boston, MA. We focus on identifying and obtaining substantial ownership positions in large growth-oriented companies where we can add managerial and strategic expertise to create value for our partners. As one of the oldest and most successful... more

KBW, Inc. is a full-service investment bank specializing in the financial services industry. The Company’s business is organized into four general service offerings: Investment Banking, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and other strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income... more

U.S. Trust Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation and is a member FDIC. Banking deposits are FDIC insured up to the maximum amount allowable by law. Investments are NOT FDIC INSURED, NOT BANK GUARANTEED and MAY LOSE VALUE.

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

The Yucaipa Companies is a premier private equity investment firm that has established a record of fostering economic value through the growth and responsible development of companies. As an investor, Yucaipa works with management to strategically reposition businesses and implement... 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.

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

Based in New York, Capital Z Financial Services Fund II, L.P., is a $1.85 billion global private equity fund that focuses exclusively on investments in the insurance, financial services and healthcare services industries. The fund, which was formed in August 1998, is managed by Capital Z... 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

Lightyear Capital is a private equity firm providing buyout and growth capital to companies in the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear, through its affiliated funds, has managed approximately $3 billion of committed capital. Lightyear brings several unique strengths to... more

Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is one of the nation's preeminent private equity firms with approximately $9 billion in equity capital under management. Our firm, founded in 1989, has invested in 45 companies with aggregate value of $34 billion. We are currently investing our fifth fund,... 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

KRG Capital Partners, L.L.C. ("KRG Capital") is a private equity investment firm specializing in acquiring controlling interests in middle-market companies and growing them into significantly larger enterprises through the combination of internal growth and selective strategic add-on... 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

The Capital Group Companies form one of the world's most experienced investment-management organizations with roots dating back to 1931. Capital currently manages over $500 billion in assets and has an unparalleled global research effort that has been involved in international investing... more

Behrman Capital is a private equity investment firm with more than $2.0 billion of capital under management. Founded in New York in 1991 by brothers Grant G. Behrman and Darryl G. Behrman, the firm invests in management buyouts, leveraged buildups and recapitalizations of established... more

The Gores Group is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can benefit from the firm's operating experience and flexible capital base. Gores' offices in North America and Europe serve its active investment programs in these... more

Oaktree Capital Management was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It is an independent investment management firm with over $52 billion of assets under management in specialized investment strategies. These strategies include private equity, distressed debt,... more

A global leader with close to 200 years of experience, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) helps many of the world's most sophisticated mutual funds, investment managers, banks and insurance companies achieve their international business objectives. With approximately $1.5 trillion of assets in... more

Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc. is one of the world's largest private investment firms, specializing in private equity transactions such as leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and other forms of direct investment. With offices in Dallas, New York, London and Buenos Aires, the company to... 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

Goldner Hawn is a private equity investment firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since our formation in 1989, we have produced excellent returns for our investors and our business partners by staying true to our founders' strategy for success. We take a long-term approach to investing,... more

Audax Group is a premier source of investment capital for middle market companies. Established in 1999, Audax manages over $4 billion of capital through its private equity, mezzanine debt, senior secured debt and affiliate funds. Audax focuses on investing in companies with leading market... more

Avista is a cohesive team of experienced private equity professionals, with a long history of working together at DLJ Merchant Banking Partners,one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms. Avista's team of proven investment professionals is augmented by veteran... more

WELLSPRING is one of the top performers in middle-market private equity. Capital Wellspring's best-in-class performance has enabled it to expand its capital base with each successive fund raised. Since the launch of its initial fund in 1995, Wellspring's fund size has grown by over 12... more

Starwood Capital is a private investment firm that was founded in 1991. Since its inception, Starwood Capital has completed more than 200 transactions representing assets in excess of $19 billion. Public companies created by Starwood Capital have gone on to acquire, often with Starwood's... more

ABRY Partners is one of the most experienced and successful media-focused private equity investment firms in North America.

- manages private equity funds that invest in selected segments of the communications, information and media industries. Such funds currently own or have owned companies in educational publishing, consumer publishing, medical information services, community newspapers, radio broadcasting,... more