Daniel S. Freyman

Lightyear evaluates each potential acquisition or investment situation individually, considering industry sector, company quality and merits, management expertise and integrity, and valuation and transaction details. Transaction strategies they employ include leveraged recapitalizations, LBOs, restructurings and consolidations.The firm is interested in middle market, quality businesses led by excellence management teams that are in large and growing markets, and have a stable, recurring revenue base.

Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), through their portfolio management teams, offer a wide variety of investment strategies and vehicles, including property and casualty insurance-linked strategies; investments in and arbitrage of commodity futures, swaps, structured notes and options; investments in various derivative instruments for hedging purposes or to create exposure in lieu of holding actual securities or other instruments; investments in currencies, including through forward contracts; investments in actively managed hedge fund-of-funds; investments in preferred equity, leveraged loans, high yield or municipal bonds, CLOs; mezzanine debt, MBS and ABS; and venture capital/private equity and common equity and the origination of secured and unsecured loans to US middle market companies. These strategies are offered through various investment vehicles to both private and public investors.CSAM's portfolio management teams include: Liquid Alternatives, Credit Investment Group, Commodities, Volaris (options-based volatility strategies), Securitized Products Group, Insurance-Linked Strategies, Global Equity Investment Group, Emerging Markets Team; NEXT ( growth equity opportunities in the financial services and technology sectors in the US and Western Europe), Employee Plans Team, and Legacy Strategies.

Alex Brown, Inc., part of Raymond James Financial, Inc., is an American company located in Baltimore, MD, that engages in the purchase, sale and brokerage of securities.