SVB Silicon Valley Bank provides financial services to entrepreneurial companies in the technology, life science, private equity, and wine industries. The company offers accounts payable services, including business checking, business credit card, controlled disbursement accounts, account reconcilement, positive pay, and zero balance accounts; credit and global cash management; private banking; banking services for private equity firms and funds; and broker-dealer investment services. In addition, SVB Silicon Valley Bank provides SVBeConnect, a commercial banking platform for online banking services. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. SVB Silicon Valley Bank operates as a subsidiary of SVB Financial Group.

NYSE Euronext, the holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., was launched on April 4, 2007. NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world ' s largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in seven countries and eight derivatives exchanges, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data.

IntraLinks, Inc. provides online workspaces for document exchange. It offers On-Demand Workspaces that enables the online exchange of sensitive business information in the areas of enterprise boundaries. The company’s solutions are used in mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loans, and alternative investments. IntraLinks, Inc. also provides solutions for corporate services, including board communication, legal, corporate finance, audit and compliance, acquisition management, merger integration, real estate, procurement, and corporate repository; and life sciences, such as clinical trial management, safety document distribution, digital study conversion, cross-licensing, alliance management, and CRO partnerships. It serves financial services and pharmaceutical markets. The company has locations in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Frankfurt, Germany; and Hong Kong, Hong Kong, as well as in Paris, London, and Brisbane. IntraLinks, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Misys Banking Systems. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York.

Growth and Culture
Evolving from a partnership of prominent lawyers in Philadelphia a century ago, Duane Morris now has offices in many major markets and continues to expand across the country and overseas through nonmerger growth. Throughout this expansion, Duane Morris remains committed to preserving the collegial culture that has attracted so many talented attorneys. The firm's leadership believes this culture is truly unique among large law firms, and that outstanding legal work is best accomplished by skilled professionals who respect each other and work well together.

Leadership and Experience
Duane Morris lawyers hold leadership positions in bar associations, as well as in educational, cultural and charitable organizations and with community groups across the country. Many of the firm's attorneys come to Duane Morris after having held senior positions in government agencies and large corporations. This range of experience is further enriched by the diverse backgrounds of the firm's attorneys. Duane Morris has long been committed to recruiting, retaining and promoting talented female and minority lawyers, many of whom hold leadership roles at the firm.

Technology and Infrastructure
Trade publications have placed Duane Morris in the upper echelon of law firms in terms of utilizing technology. Hundreds of lawyers working around the globe quickly communicate and collaborate using the firm's integrated computer network, accessing sophisticated research software, information-rich databases, and other knowledge-sharing tools. Duane Morris' clients also benefit from the contributions of professional-level support staff who maintain the firm's technological and administrative infrastructure and enable lawyers to focus on providing valuable counsel and service to their clients.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (ARE: NYSE), Landlord of Choice to the Life Science Industry®, the largest owner, cluster developer and pre-eminent first-in-class international real estate investment trust focused principally on the ownership, operation, management, redevelopment, selective development and acquisition of properties containing office/laboratory space. Alexandria is the leading provider of real estate to the life science industry, and has an outstanding ten-year track record as a NYSE listed company with an approximate $6.1 billion total market capitalization (as of December 31, 2007). Alexandria provides high-quality real estate, technical infrastructure, services and capital to the broad and diverse life science sector. Client tenants include institutional (universities and independent not-for-profit institutions), pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, life science product, service, and translational medicine entities, as well as governmental agencies. Alexandria's international operating platform is based on the principle of "clustering", with assets and operations strategically located in key life science hub markets.