Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial products and services. The company's Global Corporate and Investment Banking group (GCIB) focuses on companies with annual revenues of more than $2.5 million; middle-market and large corporations; institutional investors; financial institutions; and government entities. GCIB provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management treasury management and research...more Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd (TEN) (NYSE: TNP) is one of the largest transporters of energy in the world and controls a versatile fleet of modern crude and product tankers with strong ice-class capabilities. With a fleet of 50 vessels (44 operational and 6 under construction), TEN provides worldwide marine transportation services to state and international oil majors and refineries under long, medium and short-term charters. TEN operates one of the youngest fleets in the world with an average age of 5.5 years, compared to the world's average of 10.6 years...more Deutsche Bank has an unrivalled track record in the shipping industry, representing some of the industry's most demanding clients on many of the sector's highest profile transactions. From idea generation to world-class execution, Deutsche Bank provides both the brain and the brawn to get things done. Whether it's giving strategic advice, leveraging business insights to drive creative solutions, or delivering superior execution -we are committed to our clients' success. ...more Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for nearly 45 years. Headquartered in New York, with more than 25 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management. The firm is a leading provider of trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible, and international securities for institutional investors and high net worth individuals....more Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Citi's major brand names include Citibank, CitiFinancial, Primerica, Smith Barney, Banamex, and Nikko...more NBGI is the leading investment bank in the Greek market. NBGI provides a full range of investment banking services, including: Transaction advisory, Equity capital markets, Dept capital markets, Structured finance and Equity brokerage. NBGI is a leading London and New York-based brokerage house in Greek Equities, active in equity research, sales and trading. NBGI has extended its Equities coverage to the fast-developing capital markets of Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, and Egypt...more Clarksons is the world's leading shipping services provider. Founded in 1852 - 155 years of experience. Listed on London Stock Exchange in 1986 (Ticker: CKN). World's leading competitive shipping services company. Over 600 staff in 18 offices worldwide. Clarksons offers the most comprehensive chartering service combined with industry leading research and consultancy. Clarksons shoulder the responsibility for plotting changes and modernization as leading innovators in the shipping industry. ...more Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Oppenheimer is a leading investment bank and full-service investment firm serving corporations, high net worth and institutional investors with a full suite of products and services. Based in New York City, we have approximately 3,500 employees in 86 offices in 22 U.S. states, including Washington, D.C. We also have 3 international offices in Israel and South America and an agreement to acquire operations in London and Hong Kong later in 2008. As a leader in the capital markets, we provide sophisticated investment banking, research and trading solutions to growing companies, institutional investors and municipalities...more IMAREX is a leader in innovating new commodity markets. In the fast growing commodity derivatives market, innovation and market development is the key to future growth. The IMAREX Group has successfully built a central market place for Freight derivatives in the dry bulk and tanker sectors of deep sea shipping, and recently added Clearing and Settlement, Electric Power, Carbon Emissions and Oil. IMAREX is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker IMAREX and is licensed by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance and regulated by The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway....more Maxim Group LLC is a full-service investment bank, securities and investment management firm that provides an array of financial services including corporate finance, M&A, advisory, equity research, private wealth management, structured products, global institutional equity (US, Europe and Asian sales forces), fixed-income and derivative sales & trading. Maxim Group is a specialist in the small to mid cap market place with a proven track record financing emerging growth companies. Maxim Group was a top 20 underwriter for all US initial public offerings in both 2006 and 2007 (Bloomberg)....more For more than a century, Morgan Lewis lawyers have helped clients achieve their business goals, and clients have come to rely on the firm for its tradition of professional excellence, integrity and client service. Morgan Lewis has more than 1,400 lawyers and 300 other professionals (including technical specialists, patent agents and paralegals) in 22 offices worldwide. We have a complete range of practices and are well positioned to meet clients' critical legal needs. Our deep infrastructure enables us to handle the most complex transactional and litigation needs of the world's largest companies...more V.Group is a leading provider of outsourced asset management services to the global shipping, energy and defence industries. It employs 1,600 office staff and 24,000 contract staff. V.Group's ownership is an equal partnership between management/employee shareholders and Exponent Private Equity, which acquired Close Bros. Private Equity's shareholding in V.Group in March 2007. Its broad portfolio of services include: Ship management for more than 900 vessels ranging from oil and product tankers and container ships to passenger liners...more Wachovia Corporation (NYSE: WB) is one of the nation's largest diversified financial services companies, with assets of $782.9 billion and a market capitalization of approximately $60 billion. Wachovia provides a broad range of retail banking and brokerage, asset and wealth management, and corporate and investment banking products and services to 15 million customers through 3,400 retail financial centers in 21 states from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas and California, and nationwide retail brokerage, mortgage lending, student lending and auto finance businesses. Globally, clients are served in selected corporate and institutional sectors and through more than 40 international offices....more Germanischer Lloyd is at the forefront whenever it comes to testing, researching and continually improving safety-relevant factors. For about 140 years Germanischer Lloyd (GL) has been offering its services to the shipping industry and setting standards in technology, safety and quality. Over the years, the spectrum of services provided has steadily broadened so that GL ceased to be a pure ship classification society long ago and is now a globally operating technical monitoring group. We offer you a wide range of technical facilities and intelligent services which make a major contribution to the operational safety and thus profitability of your ships. ...more