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Crowe Chizek & Co. LLC
www.crowechizek.com
Under our core purpose of Building Value with Values®, Crowe Chizek and Company LLC provides innovative business solutions in the areas of assurance, financial advisory, performance, risk consulting, and tax. Crowe, a Crowe Group LLP entity, was founded in 1942. Ranked as one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the United States, Crowe serves clients worldwide as a leading independent member of the Horwath International global professional services organization.
Our professionals provide thought leadership to both public and private companies across the country plus maintain their focus on national professional standards associations and regulatory organizations, in order to provide valuable insight to our clients. These include The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Tax Executives Institute, Financial Executives International, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. Additionally, Crowe has been recognized by a number of organizations as one of the best places to work.
Our industry strategy includes:
- Financial institutions;
- Manufacturing and distribution;
- Private equity groups;
- Construction;
- Healthcare;
- Retail dealerships;
- Government;
- Food and Commodities;
- Higher education; and
- Not-for-profit.
Our primary service offerings for SEC registrants include:
- Financial statement audit;
- Financial reporting guidance;
- Consultation of application on accounting principles;
- Assistance with financial reporting standards;
- Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; and
- Acquisition due diligence consulting.
We invite you to learn why public companies are turning to Crowe. Please visit www.crowechizek.com or contact Tim Luther at 317.706.2681 or tluther@crowechizek.com to learn more.
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Ice Miller LLP
www.icemiller.com
Founded in 1910, Ice Miller LLP is one of the largest law firms based in the Midwest. We are nationally recognized in many of our practice areas. With offices in Indianapolis, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and DuPage County, Illinois, the Firm has over 250 lawyers.
Over 45 of our attorneys concentrate a significant portion of their practice in domestic and international business transactions. Our lawyers regularly represent public and private companies, and lenders, investment banks, private equity and venture capital firms, and others, in connection with:
- Acquisitions and sales of public and private companies;
- Division and product line spin-offs and acquisitions;
- Leveraged buyouts;
- Formation of joint ventures;
- Purchases of distressed businesses;
- Registered public offerings of securities;
- Institutional Rule 144A private placements of securities;
- Private offerings;
- Senior debt credit facilities;
- Asset-backed financings and securitizations;
- Private activity bond financings;
- Venture capital fund formation and investments;
- Private equity fund formation and investments;
- Stock repurchase programs and issuer tender offers; and
- Reorganizations and recapitalizations.
Among the transactions in which we have served as lead counsel in recent years include the representation of the Indiana Finance Authority in its $3.8 billion lease of Indiana Toll Road; Centaur, LLC (gaming and hospitality) in connection with its private raise of $1 billion of secured debt and equity financing; a high performance nickel- and cobalt-alloy manufacturing company in connection with a $157 million initial public stock offering; and a company that provides email marketing software solutions in its pending initial public offering.
Our business and finance clients are engaged in (or invested in) diverse industries and businesses, including:
- technology (including life sciences, biotech, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, software and Internet-based services and products);
- manufacturing (including automotive, specialty chemicals, and specialty metals manufacturers, many of which result from spin-offs or are foreign-owned);
- financial services (banking, insurance, investment bankers and advisors);
- health care (including hospitals, multi-specialty physician clinics, retirement centers);
- pari-mutuel and gaming;
- public finance; and
- agriculture and agribusiness.
Ice Miller has been consistently recognized as having a top-ranked practice in the state of Indiana in the area of corporate transactions/mergers and acquisitions by Chambers and Partners, a London-based publisher of international guides to leading lawyers for businesses that rates firms based on its independent research. For additional information, including client case studies, please visit www.icemiller.com.
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Butler University
College of Business Administration
www.butler.edu/cba
Established in 1855, Butler University is a private, liberal arts based institution in Indianapolis. The College of Business Administration (CBA) is accredited by AACSB International and offers three degrees: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Professional Accounting (MPAcc). The CBA’s guiding theme is “real life, real business,” which means that students learn through hands-on, practical experiences with local businesses. A key component of the CBA is the Butler Business Accelerator, which is a consulting business operated out of the college. The Accelerator’s mission is to provide students and faculty with a laboratory for learning and research by helping established Central Indiana businesses transform themselves into high-growth companies. For more information, visit
www.butler.edu/cba.
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Hilliard Lyons
www.hilliard.com
Hilliard Lyons focuses on the creation, preservation and distribution of
its clients’ wealth. The firm specializes in planning issues that
include retirement, business succession, trust and estate planning and
education funding. Hilliard Lyons offers comprehensive service and
advice for an extensive menu of investments, including professionally
managed accounts by the country’s premier managers in addition to
stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, annuities and insurance to
facilitate the financial strategies recommended.
Founded in 1854, the firm has a long and distinguished history in the
American marketplace. Hilliard Lyons Financial Consultants use
proprietary and purchased research tools and state-of-the-art
software—coupled with their own knowledge and experience—to advise their
clients through life’s financial challenges.
J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC is a member of the New York Stock
Exchange, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Securities
Investors Protection Corp., the Securities Industry and Financial
Markets Association and the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.
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NASDAQ OMX
www.nasdaqomx.com
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, and with over 3,900 companies, it is number one in worldwide listings among major markets. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; the OMX Nordic Exchange, including First North; and the 144A PORTAL Market. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 60 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. OMX Nordic Exchange is not a legal entity but describes the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit www.nasdaqomx.com.
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Marsh USA
www.marsh.com
As the world's leading insurance broker and strategic risk advisor, Marsh is devoted to finding the opportunity in risk. Companies look to us to help them navigate the daunting global risk landscape. Our role, and our commitment to clients, is to help transform risk from a liability into an advantage, enabling you to seize opportunity and achieve things you otherwise could not. We apply a rigorous, diagnostic, total-cost-of-risk approach that helps our clients embrace risk as a core element of their strategy. From risk identification and assessment, to risk quantification and prioritization, to risk
mitigation and financing – our strategic approach to risk lies at the core of a truly differentiated client experience. An experience based on brokerage excellence, analytical rigor, deep intellectual capital, and seamless access to unrivalled global talent. It's challenging, meaningful work that inspires the
industry's best risk experts to join us. In fact, Risk & Insurance magazine named 47 Marsh executives
among the top 150 insurance brokers in the United States in February 2008.
With 26,000 employees and annual revenues approaching $5 billion Marsh serves more clients in more industries worldwide than any firm in our industry. We work with businesses, public entities, organizations, and private clients in over 100 countries. We see risk – and its accompanying
opportunities – in all its permutations. And our experience in helping clients turn risk into competitive advantage is unrivalled. Marsh is part of the family of MMC companies, including: Guy Carpenter; Mercer; Oliver Wyman Group;and Kroll.
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Wall Street Transcript
www.twst.com
The Wall Street Transcript is an investor publication that has been published continuously since 1963. Additionally, TWST is the leading provider of registration software and webcasting for financial conferences. The publication provides in-depth verbatim interviews of analysts and company CEOs for long-term investors. MeetMax registration software is the most sophisticated service for registering attendees and managing 1x1 meetings. Wall Street Webcasting is the leading webcaster of Investor Conferences and Analyst Meetings.
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SBAuer Funds
www.sbauerfunds.com
The Indianapolis-based Auer Growth Fund seeks to achieve its objective by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of common stocks traded on major U.S. exchanges that the advisor believes present the most favorable potential for capital appreciation. In selecting stocks for the Fund’s portfolio, the advisor reviews public companies’ financial statements to determine those companies that report substantial sales and earnings growth over the prior twelve months, plus a price to earnings ratio that has decreased substantially during that time. After identifying these growth stocks, the advisor focuses its review on secondary criteria including, but not limited to, earnings per share growth, earnings outlook, competitive position, and the balance sheet of each individual company. The advisor typically purchases common stocks of companies that have a relatively low price to earnings ratio, as such ratio is determined by the advisor.
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Bandy Carroll Hellige Advertising
Bandy Carroll Hellige was founded in 1989 by partners Susan Bandy, Mark Carroll and Tim Hellige, and offers a full range of marketing-communications services including advertising, public relations, new product introduction, online communications, media and branding. Based in Indianapolis, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., BCH has performed award-winning work for local, regional and national clients including McDonald's, Citizens Gas, the Hoosier Lottery, Delta Dental, Big O Tires Service Centers. For more information, contact Mark Carroll, Partner, BCH, 307 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd., Louisville, KY 40202. Phone: 502-589-7711. www.bch.com. |
BitWise Solutions, Inc.
www.bitwisesolutions.com
BitWise Solutions is an Indiana Web design and development company with a history of partnering with clients to provide measurable results through Web-based technology. With a breadth of Web services ranging from strategy and design to application development and search engine optimization, BitWise boasts an impressive portfolio of successful Web sites and other custom computer applications.
Our Web design and development team has consistently delivered innovative business solutions, inspired by clients from a wide range of industries and organizations. Our goal is to help our clients remain competitive in todays' aggressive markets by elevating their Web sites to a new level.
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Harding Poorman Group
www.hardingpoorman.com
The locally owned and operated HardingPoorman Group, www.hardingpoorman.com, is one of North America’s leading providers of communication solutions. HardingPoorman Group consists of several integrated companies all under one roof: SPG Graphics, Ropkey Graphics, Full Court Press, Discom Technologies, and Education Connection. HardingPoorman Group’s broad portfolio of services includes: computer-to-plate offset printing, UV printing, digital printing, variable data services, CD/DVD replication and automated packaging, mailing, comprehensive bindery, and wide format signage. They currently employ 138 associates with annual sales exceeding $26 million. Contact Charles Greene in Indianapolis at 317.876.3355. |

Ipreo
www.ipreo.com
Ipreo is a leading global provider of high quality data, expert insight, and productivity solutions to Investment Banking and Corporate clients. With decades of experience serving the capital markets, a reputation for superior customer service and a commitment to creating technologies that improve our clients' performance, Ipreo is both a dynamic innovator and a trusted resource. Counting the world's leading investment banks, and hundreds of Fortune 1000 & FTSE 100 corporations as customers, Ipreo demonstrates every day how it brings players together through market-leading innovation, intelligence, and insight. Contact
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CFA Society of Indianapolis
www.cfainstitute.org
The CFA Society of Indianapolis promotes ethical and professional standards within the investment industry, encourages professional development through the CFA Program, and facilitates the open exchange of information and opinions. Our mission is to enhance the professional success of our members by elevating awareness of the investment profession and the CFA charter, promoting high ethical and professional standards for our members and others in the investment community, supporting professional development, and facilitating the open exchange of information and opinions. Contact: Charlotte Lippert at charlotte.lippert@gmail.com. |
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Mozaic Investor Relations, Inc.
www.mozaicir.com
Mozaic is a financial communications consultancy that helps publicly traded companies build effective relationships with key audiences—from shareholders to analysts and fund managers, from the financial media to brokers. Whether it involves increasing awareness and understanding in the marketplace, expanding institutional ownership, or solidifying the shareholder base, all IR communication programs are guided by the client company’s strategic goals. So whatever the delivery method – annual report, news release, earnings webcast or analyst presentation – the messages are consistent and reinforce one another. For more information about Mozaic’s approach, call Terry McWilliams at 502-410-2113 or visit www.mozaicir.com. |
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