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Founded in 1997, Marshall Wace is one of Europe’s foremost hedge fund managers specialising in global long/short equity. We have investment management offices in London; Greenwich, Connecticut; and Hong Kong. Marshall Wace LLP was named Management Firm of the Year by the EuroHedge Awards 2011, reflecting the strong performance delivered by a number of our funds during the year. The firm is dedicated to the objective of providing its clients with a persistent, risk-adjusted return on their investment. Through our range of products, investors can select funds offering variable sources of alpha and beta, in different combinations, from equity markets around the world. We bring together two distinct but complementary approaches to asset management. First, traditional, fundamental long/short investing grounded in stock-specific analytical research and secondly, Marshall Wace TOPS (‘MW TOPS’), the pioneering, and proprietary, systematic, alpha capture strategy. Marshall Wace has built a robust and scalable global infrastructure. Our strong operational platform, disciplined multi-factor risk control systems and efficient quantitative trading support our portfolio managers in their efforts to maximise the skill-based return delivered to investors. In October 2010, 2011 and 2013, Marshall Wace was recognised as ‘IT Department of the Year - Buy Side’ by the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Trading & Technology. We were instrumental in the creation of the Hedge Fund Standards Board, which has been set up to establish and maintain a set of voluntary best practice standards for hedge fund managers including disclosure, valuation, risk management, fund governance and shareholder conduct. Marshall Wace is a founder signatory of its Best Practice Standards. Many of our partners and employees invest alongside our clients, ensuring alignment of interest.
Z capital Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, buyout, distressed, turnaround, special situations, repairing the capital structures, and leveraged finance investments. The firm makes investments in middle market companies via complex transactions through restructuring and/or bankruptcy processes, opportunistic acquisitions and special situations. It also manages hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets primarily focusing on the non-investment grade senior secured debt markets. It invests in financial services, leisure, gaming, leisure- real estate, manufacturing, specialty services, automotive, consumer products, steel, steel processors, agriculture, transportation, metal and mining, and paper and forestry industries. The firm makes investments in companies based in United States. The firm seeks to invest minimum of $1 million in companies having EBITDA of $100 million. It prefers to makes constructive and control investments. Z capital Management LLC was founded in October 2006 and is based in Lake Forest, Illinois with additional offices in Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; and London, United Kingdom.
THL Credit is a specialized high yield credit manager responsible for $4.1 billion of assets under management. We have the ability to invest across the capital structure – from broadly syndicated senior debt to common equity in middle-market companies. Our investment activities are managed by dedicated teams in our Direct Lending and Senior Loan Strategies platforms. Our teams collectively benefit from a scaled and integrated business that draws on a diverse resource base and the credit and industry expertise of the entire platform. Fundamental credit analysis, rigorous and disciplined underwriting, well-structured investments and ongoing monitoring are the hallmarks of our credit culture. THL Credit’s direct lending group provides debt and equity capital to middle-market companies. Investments are made through THL Credit, Inc. (NASDAQ: TCRD), a publicly traded business development company (BDC), THL Credit Greenway Fund LLC and THL Credit Greenway Fund II LLC and related account (collectively, “Greenway”), separately managed accounts and portfolio companies of THL Credit, Inc. that invest alongside THL Credit, Inc. THL Credit’s senior loan strategies team invests in the non-investment grade credit market, particularly in syndicated bank loans and high yield bonds. Investments by the THL Credit senior loan strategies team are made through collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), separate accounts and co-mingled funds. With its headquarters in Boston, THL Credit also has offices in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and New York allowing us to be close to both our portfolio companies, as well as our origination and syndication sources. Over the years, THL Credit has developed deep and diverse national relationships that we leverage to maximize investment opportunities across our platforms. THL Credit Advisors LLC, the investment adviser of THL Credit, Inc. and the parent of THL Credit Senior Loan Strategies LLC, is the credit affiliate of Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (THL Partners), one of the oldest and largest growth-oriented private equity firms in the United States.
GC-Global Capital Corp. is a publicly traded (TSX Venture Exchange - "GDE.A") Canadian merchant banking organization that focuses on providing a range of investment banking services to micro-cap and small-cap companies in North America in both the public and private markets. Primarily, Global Capital provides bridge loan services (asset backed/collateralized financing) ranging from $300,000 to $3,000,000 to companies across many industries.