The consultant, Saul Meyer of Aldus Equity, a Dallas-based firm, was also charged with violations of securities laws by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of what the agency called "a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme involving New York's largest pension fund".
They turned out to be equity analysts at a Shanghai-based firm that helps investors identify opportunities in China's Internet and media sectors.
Another Scottish Tory, James Stewart, was honoured for his "political service" - he was a director of a London-based equity firm when he took over as treasurer of the Scottish Tories in 2012. 5.
They are Mark McInnes, director of the Scottish Conservatives since 2003, and James Stewart, who was a director of a London-based equity firm when he took over as treasurer of the Scottish Tories in 2012.
Lenders worried that Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity firm, would buy Delphi in a sweetheart deal.
Hellman & Friedman, a buyout firm, agreed to acquire Gartmore Investment Management, the London-based equity hedge firm that oversees £25 billion ($47 billion), from the Nationwide Mutual Life Insurance Company.
"The market is treating Sony and Toyota like pariahs," Paul Migliorato, head of research at NamiNori, a Honolulu-based equity research firm, said.
SeeThruEquity, a New York-based equity research firm, has been bullish on the stock for the last year.
As part of the transaction, GTCR, a leading Chicago-based private equity firm, will make an equity investment in Zayo.
Corizon is owned by Chicago-based private equity firm Beecken, Petty, O'Keefe & Co. CMCG is owned by HIG Capital, a Miami-based private equity firm with $19bn of capital under management.
At Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearing, Bruce E. Rosenblum, managing director of the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private equity firm, argued that changing the tax treatment for private equity managers would have adverse consequences.
