Diamond Level
William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is a global 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 clients achieve their financial objectives. As an independent, employee-owned firm, our philosophy is to serve our clients' interests first and foremost. (
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In the United States, Deloitte has 45,000 professionals with a single focus: serving our clients and helping them solve their toughest problems. We work in four key business areas — audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting — but our real strength comes from combining the talents of those groups to address clients’ needs. Fortune and BusinessWeek consistently rank our firm among the best places to work, (
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Fifth Street Finance Corp. (NYSE: FSC) is a business development company that lends to and invests in small to mid-sized companies in connection with investments by private equity sponsors. Our investment objective is to maximize our portfolio’s total return by generating current income from our debt investments and capital appreciation from our equity investments. We strive to achieve this objective by capitalizing (read more).

Golub Capital is a private investment firm formed in 1994.
The firm's investment funds make debt and equity investments in U.S.-based middle market companies. The firm invests in businesses with established operating cash flow and sustainable proprietary positions in their markets. The firm seeks to partner with strong management teams executing long-term growth strategies. (read more)
Platinum Level
Companies face a number of challenges as the economy recovers. CFOs and finance and accounting professionals must not only find ways to cut costs, deliver value and instill financial discipline, but must also keep up with a changing financial landscape. Beyond having technical skills, accounting and finance professionals need to grasp the nuances of constantly emerging regulations, financial reform legislation and accounting standards. (
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Gold Level
We help our clients achieve more by providing them with deep information on the companies, markets, and people that matter to them along with tools that greatly simplify their workflow. We founded our business in 1999, and we now work with well over 4,200 client firms including many of the world's most successful investment banks, investment management firms, private equity firms, universities, consultants, and corporations. (
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DLC helps companies transform ideas into action, one project at a time. Our full-time practitioners are Big 4 CPAs or graduates of the nation’s leading business schools. All have executed work within the complex environments of the Fortune 1000. Their desk-level expertise, backed by our highly efficient business model, positions us as a leading provider of high-quality results. Our performance led the Los Angeles Business Journal to rank us the #1 (
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McGladrey is the brand under which RSM McGladrey, Inc. and McGladrey & Pullen, LLP serve clients’ business needs. Together, they rank as the fifth largest U.S. provider of assurance, tax and consulting services with 7,000 professionals and associates in nearly 90 offices. The two firms operate as separate legal entities in an alternative practice structure. McGladrey & Pullen is a licensed CPA firm that provides assurance services. RSM McGladrey is a leading professional services firm providing tax and consulting services. Both firms are members of RSM International, the sixth largest global network of independent accounting, tax and consulting firms. (
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With 23 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive transactional, litigation, labor and employment, regulatory, and intellectual property legal services to clients of all sizes—from global Fortune 100 companies to just-conceived startups—across all major industries. The firm’s service philosophy is grounded in a disciplined approach to advancing our clients’ interests as effectively and efficiently as possible. (
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Sagin is a value driven management consulting firm. We believe in advancing business performance and creating value by implementing innovative and sustainable solutions.Our professionals will bring their experience to provide measurable results for our clients while always recognizing that we must first listen before acting. Our firm is comprised of the best and brightest from the large consulting and accounting firms coupled with industry veterans to (
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Smith Whiley manages funds that specialize in providing mezzanine debt and private equity to small and middle-market companies nationwide. While at Smith Whiley and elsewhere, the team collectively has a track record in excess of almost 200 years in the asset class, including $21 billion in managed assets and $9 billion in new investments. Smith Whiley currently manages three mezzanine and private equity partnerships called the SW Pelham Funds. (
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Wells Fargo Capital Finance has a large and diversified portfolio of more than 2,300 customers and over $27 billion in loans outstanding. This positions us as one of the most active asset-based lenders in the industry by volume and number of syndicated transactions throughout 2008 and the first half of 2009, one of the top asset-based lead arrangers* and the largest bank-owned factoring company. (
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Silver Level
Baird is an employee-owned wealth management, capital markets, asset management and private equity firm with client assets of more than $78 billion. Leveraging our deep expertise and broad skills, we're dedicated to providing the best advice and service to our individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. (
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Established in 2007 from the merger of Mellon Financial Corporation and The Bank of New York Company, Inc., BNY Mellon is a leading asset management and securities services company, uniquely focused to help clients manage and move their financial assets and succeed in the rapidly changing global marketplace. Headquartered in New York, BNY Mellon has $22.3 trillion in assets under custody or administration and $1.1 trillion under management. (
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Capital One Leverage Finance (COLF) offers both asset-based (ABL) and structured finance loans to expanding companies in the manufacturing, retailing, wholesaling and service industries. We provide working capital to businesses with revenues ranging from $20 million to more than $1 billion. We offer flexible credit facilities to generally fund working capital growth, restructurings or acquisitions (either by financial buyers or existing management teams). (read more)
Each customer, vendor and employee relationship makes the difference in the success of your growing business. When you need capital to build these relationships, you need a partner with vision; a big-picture thinker who sees what you see and is willing to reach. CapX Partners looks beyond the standard and sees the potential in your mission-critical initiatives. We are there for equipment leasing, loans and secured mezzanine capital when our clients need it most. (
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As a leading global independent provider of financial advisory and investment banking services, Duff & Phelps delivers trusted advice, principally in the areas of valuation, transactions, financial restructuring, dispute and taxation. The firm's world class capabilities and resources, combined with an agile and responsive delivery, distinguish the Duff & Phelps client experience. (read more)
Lazard Middle Market is a premier middle market investment bank dedicated to providing the highest quality advice in the following areas: Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial Restructuring, Private Placements. Lazard Middle Market was formed after Lazard acquired Goldsmith Agio Helms in 2007 to serve as its middle market financial advisory platform. (
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For global executives and boards who want to align individuals, senior management teams and their organization with short and long term business objectives; accelerate the executive learning and development process; and mobilize and sustain necessary changes that affect the performance of their business, RHR consultants provide integrated, seamless business solutions and a consistent, high quality level of service. (
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Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm with more than 900 attorneys among 14 offices in Beijing, Charlotte, Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Newark, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Washington, D.C. Our firm serves the needs of enterprises of all types and sizes, in both the private and the public sector. The exceptional depth and geographic reach of our resources enable Winston & Strawn to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue. (
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Bronze Level
Millennium Trust understands that the investment world is getting more complex by the day. For this reason, we strive to provide the resources needed to simplify and streamline the plethora of financial choices. We enjoy the opportunity to take a complex set of circumstances and find an alternative which fits the unique needs of our clients. (
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Valuation Research Corporation is a leading international financial advisory firm with more than 35 years of experience providing M & A advisory services, fairness and solvency opinions in support of transactions, and valuations of intellectual property and tangible assets for financial reporting and tax purposes. (
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