Investment Banking (Industry Sector: Financial Services)

Cantor Fitzgerald is a leading global financial services firm, serving clients from over 30 offices around the world. Founded in 1945 as a securities brokerage and investment bank, the firm pioneered computer-based bond trading, built one of the broadest distribution networks in the industry and became the market’s premier dealer of government securities. Today, Cantor Fitzgerald is known for its strength across a diverse array of businesses.

Capital Advisors Group, Inc. is an independent SEC-registered investment advisor specializing in institutional cash investments, risk management, and debt finance consulting. Its clients range from venture capital-funded startups and emerging growth companies to Fortune 100 companies. Capital Advisors Group manages customized separately managed accounts (SMAs) that seek to protect principal and maximize risk-adjusted returns within the context of each client’s investment guidelines and specific liquidity needs.

Capital One Financial Corporation, incorporated in 1994, is a diversified banking company focused primarily on consumer and commercial lending and deposit origination. Its principal business segments are Local Banking and National Lending. Local Banking includes consumer, small business and commercial deposits, and lending conducted within its branch network. The National Lending segment consists of three sub-segments: the U.S. Card (domestic consumer credit and debit card activities), the Auto Finance (automobile and other motor vehicle financing activities), and the Global Financial Services (international lending activities, small business lending, installment loans, home loans, healthcare financing and other diversified activities).

The Group acts as the lead investor in transactions, as well as a co-investor with other financial institutions. In addition, it provides advisory and investment banking services to its clients with respect to investments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.The Group’s Directors have accumulated significant investment, financing and mergers and acquisitions experience, and several of the Directors have held senior management positions in other organisations and operating companies. Services: Private Equity Funds Real Estate Advisory Corporate Finance

Capstone Headwaters is an elite investment banking firm dedicated to serving the corporate finance needs of middle market business owners, investors and creditors. Capstone Headwaters provides merger & acquisition, private placement, corporate restructuring and financial advisory services across 16 industry verticals to meet the life cycle needs of emerging enterprises. Headquartered in Boston, MA and Denver, CO, Capstone Headwaters has 19 offices in the US, UK and Brazil with a global reach that includes over 300 professionals in 34 countries.

Capstone Partners is a placement agent dedicated to raising capital for a selected group of general partners. Each year Capstone works with a variety of fund types with a size of between USD 250 million and USD 2 billion. The firm aims to maintain between 8 to 10 engagements per year, with a broad representation of non-competing private equity strategies. In addition, the firm also provides secondary market liquidity solutions with a focus on the GP side advisory. Capstone Partners has a total of 35 fund placement professionals covering North America, Europe and Asia.

Founded in 1925, Carl Marks & Co. is one of the investment community’s most experienced merchant banks. Today, Carl Marks is a platform for a range of investment and advisory businesses. Each business is distinct. Its primary areas of operation are: - Advisory Services (Carl Marks Advisors) - Distressed Investments (Carl Marks Management Company) - Private Equity (CM Equity Partners) - Private Equity (Stone-Goff Partners) - Real Estate (Carl Marks Real Estate Group)

Carnegie is a Nordic Investment Bank and market leader in the areas of Corporate Finance, Securities, and Private Banking. Carnegie brings investors, entrepreneurs, companies, institutions and private individuals together to create innovative products, new jobs, private wealth and social progress. Carnegie operates in seven countries and has approximately 600 employees.

Casimir Capital, L.P. is a boutique investment bank headquartered in Greenwich, CT. Casimir has two unique focuses: energy and consumer products. Casimir provides financing solutions, technical advisory and A&D services to its clients. Casimir supports early stage and middle market companies undergoing transformative growth by providing them access to tailored financial solutions. In the consumer products space, Casimir’s founders have designed, originated, and patented over 300 products for firms such as Black & Decker, Pepsi, Abbott, and others. Casimir structures complex financial packages for companies to aggressively grow, acquire and develop their assets. Casimir provides an assortment of financial solutions, including but not limited to: • Venture Capital • Seed Capital • Growth Capital • Public & Private Equity • Go Public & Take Private Transactions • Physical Offtake Agreements • Royalty Transactions • Convertible and High Yield Debentures • Asset Based Lending & Credit

CastleOak Securities, L.P. is a boutique investment bank focused on the capital markets serving a broad array of corporate, governmental and institutional investor clients. Headquartered in New York City, and with five regional offices, CastleOak specializes in primary and secondary sales and trading of fixed income, equity, and money market securities. CastleOak is in a strategic partnership with Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., a leading global financial services provider to the institutional equity and fixed income capital markets.