There is no better way to understand the current market for the valuation of various industries than by having investment professionals in the family. The ability to stay actively involved in the market on a daily basis supports all aspects of our business and enables us to be acutely informed regarding our clients' interests and to structure accordingly our value-added service on the venture side.

Our view is that we are at the beginning of an unprecedented investment environment in the Energy sector that will produce a new high in returns. This opportunity is being created by the convergence of deregulation, severe supply and demand imbalances in the power and natural gas markets and emerging technologies such as distributed generation, power storage and power quality.