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Guoco Group Limited, an investment holding company, provides principal investment, property development and investment, hospitality and leisure, and financial services. The company operates as a subsidiary of Guoline Overseas Limited. Principal Investment The company’s principal investment business includes equity and direct investments, as well as treasury operations. Its investment infrastructure includes synergistic analytical tools, risk management system, as well as management information system. Its treasury division focuses on global economic conditions, forex and interest rate trends, and strategic trading ideas. It also manages financial exposures of the company and hedging proposals. Property Development and Investment GuocoLand Limited (GLL) is the company’s property arm and operates in Singapore, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. As of June 30, 2009, the company developed and sold 29 residential projects in Singapore, producing approximately 8,300 apartments and homes. In China, GLL has a land bank of approximately two million square metres in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Tianjin. In Malaysia, GLL has established an embedded property operation through its Malaysia subsidiary, GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad, with property development, property investment, as well as hotel and resort holdings business. Hospitality and Leisure Business GuocoLeisure Limited (GL) is the company’s subsidiary in the hospitality and leisure business. GL’s operating assets include the Guoman Hotels group (Guoman) and Clermont Leisure (U.K.) Limited (Clermont Leisure) in the United Kingdom and rights to a royalty stream from the production of oil and gas in the Bass Strait in Australia. Guoman owns, leases, or manages 37 hotels (8,400 rooms) in the United Kingdom under two brands, the international deluxe Guoman brand, which includes four Central London landmark hotels with approximately 2,300 rooms, and the four-star ‘Thistle’ brand in 33 properties with 6,100 rooms in London and the provinces. In the Asia Guoman manages two hotels in Malaysia under the Thistle brand standard. Clermont Leisure is a licensed casino operator in the United Kingdom.

Guthrie GTS Limited is a Singapore-based investment holding company. The Company operates in three segments: Property, which includes investment and management of retail and commercial properties, as well as development of residential properties for sale; Engineering, which involves undertaking of engineering contracts, and Leisure, which includes investment in and operation of hotels. The Company’s immediate holding company is GA 1821 Pte. Ltd. and ultimate holding company is Dornier Profits Ltd. The Company’s subsidiaries include Craig Development Pte Ltd, which is engaged in property investment; GTS Detico Co. Ltd, which is engaged in hotel operations; Guthrie (Anshan) Pte Ltd, which is engaged in investment holding; Guthrie Cathay Pte Ltd, which is engaged in property investment, and Guthrie Changi Development Pte Ltd, which is engaged in property development and investment.

H.I.G. Capital was founded in 1993 and is based in Miami, Florida with additional offices across the United States and Europe. H.I.G. Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed or startups, early, mid, and late stage; management and leveraged buyouts; add on acquisitions; mature businesses; industry consolidation; corporate divestitures; recapitalization transactions; turnarounds; growth or development capital; distressed credits and shares; and public to private transactions of small and middle market companies. It also invests in underperforming businesses. The firm does not invest in industries that are highly cyclical or capital intensive. It primarily invests in small and medium sized companies in the manufacturing, business services, specialty chemicals, promotional products, plastic molding, consumer products, oil recycling and water filtration, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical manufacturing services sectors. The firm typically makes investments ranging between €2 million ($3 million) to €100 million ($150.27 million). It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Europe. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues up to $500 million; enterprise value between $50 million and $500 million; and an EBITDA between $5 million and $150 million. It invests in the form of equity and debt.

Haas Wheat & Partners is a Dallas-based private investment firm specializing in strategic equity investments and leveraged buyouts of middle market companies. Since 1984, the Firm has compiled an impressive track record investing in both private and public companies including such notable successes as Dr Pepper Company, The Seven-Up Company, A&W Brands, AMN Healthcare Services, Nebraska Book Company, and Sybron International Corporation. The Firm’s investments have been of varying sizes and have included both minority and control equity positions.

HAL Trust was founded in 1873 and is based in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles. HAL Trust, through its subsidiary, HAL Holding N.V., owns and operates optical retail chains in the Netherlands and internationally. It supplies timber products and building materials; provides shipping services; imports and distributes wine; sells and assembles orthopaedic devices; develops and produces identification and timing equipment for sports events; and provides training for pilots using flight simulators. The company also produces high-pressure laminate products for exterior and interior applications; produces and sells office furniture; retails hearing aids; produces and distributes plant labels, announcement cards, and calendars; communication services for the financial industry, such as financial prospectuses and virtual data rooms; and distributes personal protection equipment, such as safety clothing for factory workers. In addition, its real estate investment activities include the development and rental of multi-family properties and office buildings in Seattle.

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