Euroclear Bank SA, together with its subsidiaries, provides clearance and settlement services for domestic and international securities transactions covering bonds, equities, investment funds, and derivatives. Its International Central Securities Depository operates as the settlement platform for international and domestic securities markets. The company’s Central Securities Depositories provide settlement and custody services to Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Euroclear Bank also offers banking services, including cash management, credit management, treasury, and money transfer services; collateral management services; new issues services; securities lending and borrowing services; and tax services. In addition, it provides ClimateSettle, a settlement and safeguarding service for the European Union allowance units and certified emission rights; DerivManager, an over the counter derivatives exposure management service; EquityReach, an equities service that offer direct access to multiple equity markets; FundSettle, a platform for automated fund transaction processing; and LoanReach, a multi-currency post-trade service for loans.

Guinness Peat Group plc is an investment holding company with a diversified range of strategic interests in a number of businesses, mainly in Europe and Australasia. GPG is listed on the London, Australian and New Zealand Stock Exchanges. As at 31 December 2009, it had a market capitalisation of approximately £584 million. Shareholders’ Funds at the same date were £867 million. GPG’s successful track record spans investments in various sectors including financial services, textiles and thread manufacture, food processing, building services, property development and fruit and produce distribution. GPG’s investment portfolio covers a spread of investments and is widely diversified both geographically and sectorially. GPG has a small but experienced group of prudent and professional executives operating with strong teamwork and close communication, which has been a proven formula for achieving steady growth in the value of shareholders’ funds.

Cortera, Inc. provides credit risk management software and services to credit and collections professionals. Cortera's online database allows users to make credit and lending decisions quickly by acessing financial infomation on public and private companies. Cortera, Inc. also allows its users to share feedback and rate their unique payment experiences. Cortera also assists with monitoring portfolio risk, resolving credit disputes, and collecting debts. Cortera, Inc., which has about 20,000 users, targets small businesses and large organizations by offering competitive prices and some free data. Venture capital firm Volition Capital holds stake in Cortera, which was founded in 1993.

Croudace has been operating as a building company since 1945, from its headquarters in Caterham, Surrey. It continues to expand its areas of operation and the number of homes built and has earned a reputation for providing quality new housing throughout the South East of England. The Croudace Homes Group comprises Croudace Homes Ltd., which develops private housing schemes, Portland Homes Plc, a niche developer based in south-east London, Croudace Homes in Partnership Ltd., which contracts to build affordable housing and Croudace Strategic Ltd., which secures and promotes a wide range of sites for mainly housing development.

Warburg Pincus LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in all stages of a company’s life cycle from founding startups, early-stage financings, growth equity investments, and developing companies to restructurings, recapitalizations, and management buyouts of mature businesses. The firm also invests in change in control leveraged buyout transactions, divisional spin-outs of non-core corporate assets, minority private investments in public companies, and special situations transactions with a focus on acquisition of undervalued companies. It typically invests in financial services; healthcare; media, information and communication technology, and telecommunications; energy; consumer and industrials; and real estate sectors. Within healthcare and life sciences, the firm seeks to invest in healthcare services, medical devices, biotechnology, and specialty pharmaceuticals. In medical devices, it focuses on investments in diabetes, interventional cardiology, interventional neurology, orthopedics, and urology/gynecology.Within financial services, the firm primarily invests in specialty and consumer finance, private banking, payment and transaction processing companies, insurance companies, financial technology, exchanges, banks, depository institutions, and asset and wealth management. Within technology, media, and telecommunications, it typically invests in software, financial technology, business services, semiconductors and systems, and information and Internet. In software, the firm invests in industry-specific enterprise applications, information security, SaaS, open source, and alternative business models, data center automation, and business intelligence, analytic applications, and decision support. Within financial technology, it focuses on technology/ technology-enabled solutions or software, transaction processing/outsourcing/utilities/exchanges, and data.

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings knows the ins and outs of financing heavy construction projects. Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited company (also known as CKI) has interests in transportation, energy, water, and construction materials primarily in Hong Kong and mainland China. Its energy group owns nearly 40% of Hongkong Electric and has stakes in several Chinese power plants. CKI's materials operations include cement and concrete firms. The transportation arm oversees toll roads and bridges in five Chinese provinces. CKI company also has infrastructure investments in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. Through Hutchison Whampoa, real estate investment holding company Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited controls an 85% stake in CKI.

TradeCard, Inc. was founded in 1994. TradeCard, Inc. delivers a software-as-a-service supply chain collaboration platform that synchronizes financial transactions with physical events in the supply chain to help customers automate trade transactions from purchase order to payment and chargebacks. The company’s platform offers trading partner management services, including purchase order and terms management, settlement options, invoice presentment, 3PL integration, factory and supplier integration, partner and systems integration, and workflow and event management. Its platform also offers accounts payable and accounts receivable management services, such as document collection and match, discrepancy and resolution management, workflow and approvals, automated payments, and pay discount management. In addition, the company’s platform offers financial management services, including credit management, payment protection programs, financing programs, cash management and forecasting, end-of-period reporting, SOX reporting, and bank integration.

EQT is a group of leading private equity funds with investments in Northern and Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. Activities focus on buyouts, growth financing and infrastructure. In our view, the funds have a unique industrial approach. EQT has raised approximately EUR 13 billion since its establishment and invested some EUR 8.5 billion in more than 75 companies.EQT’s strategic vision is to provide the most successful investment organization and network of industrialists in those markets in which the funds operate by combining entrepreneurship, industrial thinking and financial discipline. The funds invest in companies in which EQT can act as a catalyst for change and growth and to transform companies into global or regional leaders by making genuine and sustainable improvements.The approach of the Equity, Expansion Capital and Infrastructure funds is to acquire or finance high-quality, market-leading, medium-sized companies in growth industries with a potential for top-line growth and to contribute to their industrial acceleration.All EQT funds are advised by EQT Partners. EQT Partners has more than 200 employees in 11 countries, of which approximately 100 are investment professionals with a broad industrial and financial background. EQT Partners has offices in Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Munich, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Warsaw and Zurich.

With roots going back to 1906, the organization operated for many years under the business names of Credit Bureau Reporting, Credit Bureau Mortgage Reporting and Credit Bureau Collection divisions. Due to corporate growth and acquisitions, FirstPoint, Inc., was formed in 2001 as a holding company designed to maximize operating synergies and technology among the Credit Bureau and its subsidiaries. The new FirstPoint identity provides a unifying umbrella for the various business units- allowing joint marketing and growth opportunities.Today, the FirstPoint family of resources offers businesses a variety of day-to-day operation services that include accounts receivable management and collection through FirstPoint Collection Resources, Inc. Checkfax (check warranty, verification and collection), Insight® pre-employment screening, Equifax credit information products, Rentfacts® tenant screening, FirstPoint Mortgage Resources, and association management through FirstPoint Management Resources.

Marlin Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 2005 and is based in El Segundo, California. Marlin Equity Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in corporate divestiture, carve-outs, extractions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, PIPES, and public-to-privates transactions. The firm also invests in special situations including bankruptcies, reorganization, debtor-in-possession financings, out of court restructurings, equity and debt recapitalizations, and operational turnarounds. It seeks to invest in middle market and mature companies and provides bridge financing. The firm typically invests in the technology, healthcare, consumer, services, manufacturing, distribution and logistics, aerospace and defense, and media sectors. Within technology, it focuses on software, hardware, payment and transaction processing and financial technology, telecommunications, and the Internet. Within healthcare, the firm focuses on healthcare technology and information technology, revenue cycle management, and services and outsourcing. Within consumer sector, it focuses on consumer products, ecommerce and direct marketing, footwear and apparel, food and beverage.

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