Conservative Private Equity Fund.

Vulcan Capital is a leading private investment firm that creates long-term value by applying extensive industry knowledge, operational expertise and flexible financial resources to attractive investment opportunities.

The firm invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital as well as public equity value investing.

The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, financial and information services, technology, and life sciences.

Glencoe Capital is a private equity firm that acquires lower-middle market companies and generates transformational growth.

Since 1994, Glencoe Capital has raised four private equity funds and completed over 35 acquisitions, representing over $1.5 billion of transaction value. (as of 12/31/2012)

In 2008, Glencoe Capital introduced its groundbreaking Michigan Opportunities Fund, a blend of the Firm's traditional private equity strategy and national investing expertise with a geographically-targeted investment mandate.

StepStone is a global private equity specialist overseeing more than US$50 billion of private equity allocations, including approximately US$10 billion of assets under management. The Firm creates customized portfolios for the world’s most sophisticated investors using a highly disciplined research-focused approach that prudently integrates fund, secondary, mezzanine and co-investments.

Listed Private Equity Firm with >150m AUM

Financial services focused buyout and growth capital firm

PE fund

PE Fund - Mid market

Capstone Infrastructure Corporation was formerly Macquarie Power and Infrastructure Corporation, which succeeded Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Corporation following our corporate conversion on January 1, 2011. We publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in April 2004, where our common shares now trade under the symbol CSE. Our convertible debentures trade under the symbol CSE.DB.A and our preferred shares trade under the symbol CSE.PR.A.

Founded in 2005, EEF manages approximately $600 million of committed capital across two funds with the most recent raised in 2010. The Principals of EEF have over 100 years of combined experience investing in healthcare companies and possess strong relationships and knowledge within the industry. We specialize in working with smaller companies (typically less than $100 million in revenues) and take a creative approach to building value. EEF employs a flexible, but disciplined investment strategy focused on value creation through organizational development, organic growth and acquisitions.We seek to invest $10 to $50 million or more over the life of a portfolio company in a variety of flexible structures.

Corporate and Investment Banking in Russia

Founded in 2010 by renowned economic forecaster and gold expert, Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Precious Metals is a company dedicated to the philosophy that owning physical gold and silver are vital elements of a prudent investor's portfolio. The company is headquartered in New York City and managed by Michael Freedman, a successful entrepreneur and gold investor. We offer gold and silver coins and bullion in standard denominations.

Conix is a private investment company which acquires REO and NPL from banks and financial institutions across the country, with particular interest in single-family residential, multifamily residential, and self-storage assets. We have completed more than 55 bank-direct acquisitions; deploying over $200MM of capital since Q4 2008. In addition to building proprietary software for asset management and special servicing, Conix has also developed software which examines financial performance for each bank in the country versus its direct peers.

Based in San Francisco, Alpine Investors’ objective is to invest in or acquire U.S. based companies with EBITDA greater than $5 million. The firm’s capital, $281 million of assets under management, may be used to provide full or partial liquidity to entrepreneurs, family members, estates, passive investors or corporate owners. Alpine will also consider minority investments for growth.

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm focused on acquiring leading small and medium-sized enterprises (with a value of up to $200 million/€200 million) and partnering with strong management teams to enhance the success of its companies through acquisitions and organic growth. Since its founding in 1988, the firm has invested in more than 250 acquisitions with a total enterprise value of $5.2 billion/€4.2 billion. As of January 2012, the investment portfolio in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region includes more than 75 companies with approximately 13,000 employees.

Colony Capital, LLC is a privately-held independent global real estate investment firm founded in 1991 by Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. Colony Capital has an extensive global footprint and corresponding infrastructure, with over 250 employees operating in a total of 12 offices in the following 9 countries: China, England, France, Italy, Lebanon, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan and the United States. This global infrastructure provides Colony Capital's acquisition team with proprietary market knowledge, sourcing capabilities and the local presence required to identify and execute complex transactions.

Investment advisory firm with $11.3 billion in assets under management as of 12/31/12. Components include mutual fund, private equity, and wealth management.

MCG provides capital to support the growth and value creation strategies of small- to mid-sized companies. As a publicly traded Business Development Company (NASDAQ ticker: MCGC), we offer highly customized financial solutions based on in-depth understanding of our portfolio companies' business requirements. Since 1990, MCG has delivered value for financial sponsors and operators in over 600 diversified financings representing cumulative investments of over $6 billion.

Churchill and Associates, LLC is a privately held alternative asset management and Investment banking firm, headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Since its inception in 2003, Churchill and Associates has grown to over $7 billion in assets under management. In addition, the principles of the firm have completed over $150 million in investment banking transactions worldwide.

Our focus is on small to mid-size and growth companies operating in dynamic industries. The larger investment firms continue to demand significant deal sizes and fees, leaving the middle market companies without high quality investment banking execution. Churchill & Associates is meeting this growing need and filling the middle market void. The firm targets transactions in the $5 million - $500 million range.

Founded in 1984, Onex is one of North America’s oldest and most successful private equity firms committed to acquiring and building high-quality businesses in partnership with talented management teams. As an active owner, the Company has built more than 70 businesses, completing approximately 400 acquisitions with a total value of approximately $49 billion. Onex’ long-term project returns have generated a multiple of invested capital of 2.9 times from its core private equity activities since inception, resulting in a 28 percent compound IRR on realized, substantially realized and publicly traded investments. The Company is guided by an ownership culture focused on achieving strong absolute growth, with an emphasis on capital preservation.

Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. is a private equity fund manager that has been providing Creative Capital and strategic solutions to companies across a variety of industries since 1995. Pegasus partners with management teams of growth companies, with a focus on those that benefit from the business implications of global resource scarcity. Sectors where this trend is most pronounced are food, water, energy and security.

We currently manage approximately $2.7 billion in assets. Our investment team comprises over 60 talented investment professionals and operating partners.

We have an enormous amount of respect for what you have accomplished. At Stripes Group, we have a singular focus - to be a catalyst to support your next stage of growth. We're here to provide you with additional capital, resources, contacts and expertise to accelerate your business and mitigate operating risk.

We partner with entrepreneurs and operating executives in rapidly growing and profitable technology-enabled and consumer products companies with the simple goal of maximizing the appreciation of shareholder value while reducing operating risk. We make minority or majority investments in profitable companies with proven business models that are providing differentiated value to customers.

With over €33 billion assets under management, AlpInvest Partners is a leading independent global private equity investor.

HGGC (formerly Huntsman Gay Global Capital) is a Palo Alto, California-based middle market private equity firm with $1.1 billion in committed capital under management. We seek alignment with our portfolio company partners towards achieving outstanding results. We invest in diverse businesses with strong management teams, leveraging our network of relationships and providing hands-on operational expertise to harness each company's full growth potential.

Capitol Partners is a middle market PE shop in Washington DC that focuses specifically on the healthcare industry. Utilizing a platform investment method, Capitol Partners owns a number of home health agencies throughout the United States and is growing aggressively in this niche market. Furthermore, Capitol Partners has a VC arm (Horizon Partners) that invests in early stage technology and energy companies.

CDIB Capital International Corporation (“CDIB Capital”) operates as the overseas investment arm of China Development Financial (“CDF” or the “Group”), one of the largest and longest standing merchant banking groups in Asia with approx. US$17 billion in assets.

CDIB Capital’s mission is to achieve superior risk-adjusted returns through direct investments in Asian private equity, private debt and special situations opportunities. In addition, we have historically made selective commitments to best-in-class third party funds to broaden our exposure to strategic geographies and asset classes.

CDIB Capital is headquartered in Hong Kong, with principal offices in Taipei, Shanghai, Seoul and San Francisco.

Real Capital Solutions is a highly entrepreneurial company providing active capital with an emphasis on street level solutions. We add value to distressed real estate by working with:
Lenders on non-performing mortgages and OREO;
Under-capitalized real estate operators
We’re an acquisition and post acquisition solution, recapitalizing operators and buying distressed land, condos and commercial projects.