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Altira is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focused on energy technology. Based in Denver, Colorado, the firm is investing from its fourth fund. Altira looks for promising technology companies in the areas of oil and gas, energy information technology, electric power generation, transmission and distribution, and renewable energy. The firm targets opportunities in first institutional equity rounds with initial investments of $500,000 to $3 million. Visit www.altiragroup.com. |
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Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is a leading global investment bank serving institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. CSFB's businesses include securities underwriting, sales and trading, investment banking, private equity, financial advisory services, investment research, venture capital, correspondent brokerage services and asset management. It operates in over 89 locations across more than 37 countries on 6 continents. The Firm is a business unit of the Zurich based Credit Suisse Group, a leading global financial services company. In addition to the business unit Credit Suisse First Boston, Credit Suisse Group (CSG) comprises the business area Credit Suisse Financial Services, including the business units Winterthur Insurance, Winterthur Life & Pensions, Credit Suisse Banking, Credit Suisse Personal Finance and Credit Suisse e-Business, as well as the business units Credit Suisse Private Banking. Credit Suisse First Boston is one of the world's largest securities firms in terms of financial resources, with approximately US$14.0 billion in revenues in 2001 and US$9.7 billion in equity and US$406 billion in assets as of December 31, 2001. Visit www.csfb.com. |
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Energy Central is the most used on-line resource connecting professionals in the power industry to news, events, databases, insight and analysis and jobs. Visit us today at www.EnergyCentral.com to gain immediate access to:
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Haddington Ventures, L.L.C. was formed in 1998 to take advantage of the changes that were occurring in the U.S. energy industry as a result of deregulation, convergence of gas and electricity, consolidation and introduction of new technologies. Haddington is unique among Private Equity Funds for two reasons: 1. Haddington is willing to take development risks if the market is such that it is more profitable to "build" rather than "buy." 2. Haddington's team has actual "hands on" experience with starting and managing operating companies. Haddington Ventures, L.L.C. management team has been together for over 15 years and has over 90 years combined experience in applying technology, marketing, finance and general business skills to earn superior returns for investors. This team has most recently been responsible for the startup and growth of TPC Corporation (NYSE: TPC, sold to PacifiCorp in 1997). The principals are Larry W. Bickle, J. Chris Jones, John A. Strom, M. Scott Jones and Robert D. Kincaid. Visit www.hvllc.com. |
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Hamilton Robinson LLC (HRCo) a private equity firm founded in 1984, works with financial and management partners to make investments in small to medium size growing businesses. Over the past decade, the firm and its principals have managed and organized transactions involving 35 companies, representing an aggregate value of approximately $1 billion. We are investing capital from our most recent fund, Cygnet Capital Partners L.P. SBIC (Cygnet), a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) licensed in August 2001 with committed capital from institutional, executive and family office investors.
HRCo is an experienced financial resource for profitable, small to middle sized businesses. We seek to invest with management teams having an objective of growing and creating outstanding companies and we look to assist in the development of growth strategies and value added investments. HRCo is looking for committed managers with good business plans, basic industry stability and a reasonable market presence, often in a niche market. We offer owners and managers a balanced solution to the problem of achieving fair business valuation, while assuring future opportunity for operating managers who have been instrumental in achieving that fair value. We especially like mature industries undergoing fundamental change, particularly in the areas of business services and applications, industrial processes and engineered products, and energy and utility services, equipment and applications. Visit www.hrco.com. |
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Nth Power Technologies is a venture capital firm focused on high-growth investment opportunities arising from the restructuring of the global energy utility marketplace. The fundamental changes taking place in the $300 billion global energy utility industry have given rise to many venture capital investment opportunities, and Nth Power has emerged as a leading source of venture capital for this sector. The firm is managed by a professional investment team with extensive experience growing successful companies in the energy and communication fields and managing venture capital funds. Visit www.nthpower.com. |
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Founded in 1988 and headquartered in New York, Prospect Street Ventures is a private equity and merchant banking firm focused on investing in and adding value to rapidly growing companies, particularly those in the energy/utility, information technology, and communications industries. Prospect Street's experienced team of professionals have invested in several companies that have undergone initial public offerings and acquisitions. The firm is an active, hands-on partner that works hard to source new opportunities, screen for outstanding companies, build management teams, make strategic introductions, raise capital, and maximize exit value. Visit www.prospectstreet.com. |
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Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE-RJF) is a diversified financial services holding company whose subsidiaries engage primarily in securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management and banking services. The firm's asset management subsidiaries manage in excess of $17 billion of financial assets for individuals, pension plans and municipalities. Total assets under control as of September 2001, including all retail accounts, were approximately $87.79 billion. Established in 1962 and a public company since 1983, Raymond James Financial shares are currently owned by more than 11,000 individual investors and institutions. The shareholders' equity, or company net worth, is more than $794 million. Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE-RJF) is a diversified financial services holding company whose subsidiaries engage primarily in securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management and banking services. Its three broker/dealer subsidiaries (Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. and Raymond James Ltd.), which have approximately 5,000 Financial Advisors in more than 2,100 locations throughout the United States, Canada and overseas, provide financial services to more than one million individual and institutional client accounts. Complementing this distribution network, Raymond James & Associates is a leading national investment banking firm, specializing in specific industry groups. Raymond James Financial employs more than 3,100 support Associates at its corporate locations, including 2,738 Associates at the international headquarters in St. Petersburg, Fla., 126 Associates at the Detroit Operations Center in Michigan, and approximately 270 Associates at the Raymond James Ltd. corporate offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Toronto. The firm’s asset management subsidiaries manage in excess of $20.1 billion of financial assets for individuals, pension plans and municipalities. Total assets under control as of December 2003, including all retail accounts, were approximately $105.196 billion. Established in 1962 and a public company since 1983, Raymond James Financial shares are currently owned by more than 13,000 individual investors and institutions. The shareholders’ equity, or company net worth, is more than $956 million. Raymond James provides investment banking services for both public and private companies. These services include advisory and capital raising engagements: Advisory Services
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For more information, please contact: Mark Huhndorff Vice President, Investment Banking 214-720-1314 | mhuhndorff@ecm.rjf.com. Mr. Huhndorff is a Vice President in the Dallas investment banking office of Raymond James & Associates. His deal experience includes merger and acquisition advisory assignments, public offerings, and private placements. Mr. Huhndorff has represented Raymond James in over 35 equity transactions raising over $5.0 billion. Previously, Mr. Huhndorff was a Process Specialist with BetzDearborn, where he developed and sold chemical treatment programs in the petroleum refining industry. Prior to BetzDearborn, Mr. Huhndorff served four years in the Space Systems Division of the U.S. Air Force, where he was the Chief Engineer for the Titan IV launch vehicle. Mr. Huhndorff received the Air Force Commendation Medal for his service and was honorably discharged as a Captain. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan, and he earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School. |
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Technology Partners is a 20 year-old venture capital firm that manages more than $400 million of investment capital with current investments being made from Technology Partners Fund VII. The firm serves principally as a lead investor and business adviser to technology-based ventures. Technology Partners has invested in over 60 companies in a variety of industries. The majority of investments are in early stage companies. The firm invests approximately half of its capital in Information Technology companies and the other half into companies focused on the Life Sciences. Within its Information Technology practice, Technology Partners currently focuses on the areas of energy and water technology, as well materials and enterprise automation. For more information on Technology Partners, go to www.technologypartners.com. Ira Ehrenpreis, the General Partner who helps lead the firm's Information Technology practice, can be reached at ira@technologypartners.com. |
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Torys LLP is an international business law firm with more than 330 lawyers and offices in New York and Toronto. Emerging businesses depend on Torys to guide and protect their growth. Established companies entrust us with their most complex transactions and disputes. We provide legal services of the highest caliber in areas including energy and power, private equity, corporate finance, project finance, M&A, taxation, employment, litigation, insolvency, environmental law, intellectual property and technology, and real estate. Torys lawyers take pride in helping clients create and implement effective solutions to increasingly complex problems that transcend borders and legal systems. |
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With origins dating to 1933, UtiliPoint International, Inc. is a leader in providing research-based consulting to the utility industry. UtiliPoint analysts have provided strategic business plans and studies in the utility and energy industry. Direct experiences include work in investment capital, emerging technologies, trading/risk management, outsourcing, CIS, billing, CRM, metering, AMR, demand response, work/outage management, supply chain, ERP, call centers, rates/pricing products, and IT architectural design. The firm is also the publisher of IssueAlertT, an analysis of the utility and energy industry's hot topics sent to over 33,000 utility and energy executives daily. Visit www.utilipoint.com. |