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Sonco Gaming

Founded in 1995, Halifax-based Sonco Gaming owns, operates and develops gaming properties. It is active in joint ventures and has developed and managed Great Blue Heron Charity Casino on the Scugog Island First Nation in Ontario and the Grey Eagle Casino, the latter opening in December of 2007 in Calgary, Alberta. Sonco and its offshoot companies also own, develop and manage various office buildings and parking garages. Sonco's CEO, Michael Novac, has a long history in real estate development.

The Navegante Group

The Navegante Group, founded by Chairman Larry J. Woolf, has been in the business of casino development and management since 1995 after winning the bid to develop and manage Casino Niagara. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Navegante currently manages the Casino Fandango in Carson City and the Las Vegas-based Plaza Hotel and Casino, the Goldspike Hotel and Casino, as well as several others also in Las Vegas. Woolf has also created Amazing Taiwan Co. Ltd., which is planning to develop and manage a casino in the Penghu Islands, Taiwan, pending legalization and gaming approval.

Clairvest Group

Founded in 1987, Clairvest Group Inc. is a publicly-listed provider of equity financing with an invested capital of $195 million and about $600 million of equity capital under management. Earlier this year, Clairvest became an investor of Casino Marina Del Sol in the city of Concepcion, Chile, as well as Kubra, an electronic billing and payment company. Clairvest has fellow casino proponent Sonco Gaming as a client in the financing of the Grey Eagle Casino and Resort southwest of Calgary, Alberta.

2050631 Ontario Inc.

According to a corporation profile report, the corporation 2050631 Ontario Inc. is registered to James Baxter Warren, 37. Warren graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University in 1994. He was a manager of corporate affairs with the Royal Bank, and was head of corporate communications for Magna International and Magna Entertainment. Warren served as executive director of communications for Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and was deputy chief of staff for former Toronto mayor Mel Lastman. He was also vice president of strategic relationships with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. He left the OLG in September of 2007.