Anthony Monro-Davies

Fox-Pitt, Kelton Ltd. engages in providing investment advisory services. It is also underwriter of equity securities and actively serves as a strategic advisor providing advice on mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructurings and equity capital market transactions for banks, insurance companies and other financial services companies around the world. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Assured Guaranty (UK) plc specializes in functions related to depository banking. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

HSBC Bank Plc provides commercial banking and financial services. It operates in four businesses: Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, Global Banking and Markets, and Global Private Banking. The Retail Banking and Wealth Management business offers personal banking, mortgages, loans, credit cards, savings and investments and insurance services. The Commercial Banking business offers financial products and services to enable them to operate efficiently and meet their business aspirations. The Global Banking and Markets business offers capital financing, transaction and advisory banking services, trade, research, securities services and global liquidity and cash management. The Global Private Banking business offers investment management, incorporating advisory, discretionary and brokerage, private wealth solutions, comprising trusts and estate planning services. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

The Ukraine Opportunity Trust Ltd. operated as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. Its investment objective is to achieve long-term capital growth primarily from a diversified portfolio of companies incorporated, headquartered or domiciled in, or whose businesses are primarily carried on in, Ukraine. The company was founded on August 16, 2005 and was headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

North American Banks Fund Ltd is a is a closed-ended fund. Its principal activities of the company are to carry out business as an investment company. The company has the investing policy of achieving long-term capital growth, through investment in unquoted start-up banks, which intend to offer banking services to small and medium sized enterprises. It invests in banks which are located in certain regions of the United States which includes Georgia, Florida, Texas, California and the South Carolina. The firm was founded May 05, 2005 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

Fitch Ratings Ltd. (FRL) is an investment research firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1977 and is a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, Inc., ultimately held by The Hearst Family Trust in the US. FRL provides research and specialized ratings of services to residential and commercial mortgages, asset managers and managed funds. They also publish quantitatively based ratings such as Q-IFS ratings.

Mergermarket Ltd. provides forward-looking merger and acquisition news and intelligence services. The firm offers predictive intelligence, analysis, deals database, and private equity portfolio. It also provides active analysis of corporate strategy before it becomes public knowledge and a historical deals database to analyze past deals. The company was founded by Caspar J. A. Hobbs, Charlie Juxon Welsh, and Gawn William Rowan Hamilton on November 18, 1999 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.