business consultancy and advisory services; business analysis, namely, statistical analysis, financial analysis and performance analysis for business purposes; market analysis and research; business appraisals, inquiries and investigations; business management advice, business management services; corporate business advice and consultancy; provision of business information and commercial information agencies; project management services for others for business purposes in the fields of financial investment, business acquisition; strategic planning; business marketing, strategic business marketing, advertising and promotional services; business services for the processing of sales, investments, joint ventures and acquisitions in the nature of administrative processing of financial transactions and investments; business research in the field of business acquisition searches; advice and consultancy relating to business acquisitions and provision of commercial information; business management services relating to business acquisitions; business advice and business consultancy all relating to disposals, acquisitions, privatizations, investments and restructuring of companies and business; economic forecasting; business reporting, namely, reporting services for business purposes; business venture development, management of business and database management in the field of financial databases; asset management services, namely, reporting on histories, utilization of assets, end of product life information and replacement costs; promotion of joint ventures, namely, promoting the joint ventures of others by connecting buyers and sellers of financial assets, utilizing financial and business knowledge and relationships to match opportunities with potential investors; business acquisition consultation

financial services, namely, financial advisory and consultancy services; banking services; merchant banking and investment banking; financing services and investment services, namely, investment banking services and private equity fund investment services, public equity investment services, financial investment advisory services in the field of emerging markets; financing of business acquisitions; private equity financing; investment services, namely, asset management; fund management, namely, management of capital investment fund and private equity funds; public equity capital investments; financial and financial asset portfolio management; investment financial portfolio management; financial advice services, namely, identifying, evaluating and targeting investment opportunities; executing investment opportunities, namely, administration of transactions through negotiating and brokerage for capital investments on behalf of investors; managing investments for others; arranging investments and acquisitions in the nature of brokerage services for capital investments; equity release sand acquisitions in the nature of brokerage services for capital investments; equity releases and acquisitions in the nature of brokerage services for capital investments; equity release services in the nature of assisting others with the completion of appropriate financial and investment transactions for equities; buy-outs in the nature of providing funds for the purchase of business, private equities and listed equities; and financing services, real estate investment services and management; investment services, namely, management and brokerage in the fields of stocks and other securities, investments, and financial investment in the field of real estate securities, public equities and private equities, emerging markets; financial management; provision of information and analysis regarding financial markets; capital investment services, venture capital services, namely, providing financing to emerging and start-up companies; participation in joint ventures, namely, investment management services in the field of acquiring joint ventures; international corporate finance activities, in the nature of international collections finance, namely, the settling of international transactions for obtaining the proceeds of a sale in cash or in exchange for debt instructions; brokerage in the field of private equities; transacting acquisitions, namely, land acquisition services, real estate acquisition services, and providing financial information and advisory services about property acquisition; commodity trading for others in the field of international equities; capital investment services, principal finance services, namely, financing services; asset finance, namely, financing of purchases and investments; lease securitization services; financial services in the nature of investment fund transaction services in the field of future securities, securities and options, market transactions; provision of information, advisory and consultancy services relating to all of the aforesaid