NIBC Bank N.V. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands with additional offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, and Singapore. NIBC Bank N.V. is a subsidiary of NIBC Holding N.V. NIBC Bank N.V. provides merchant banking and specialized financial services to mid-cap companies, financial institutions, institutional investors, financial sponsors, family offices, and high net worth entrepreneurs/owners in Europe, North America, and the south-east Asia. The company’s Merchant Banking segment advises, finances, and co-invests with mid-cap clients in the Benelux and Germany. This segment offers various products and solutions, such as merger and acquisition advisory, financing, derivative products, and mezzanine and equity investments. Its M&A services include evaluating and recommending financial strategic alternatives; identifying potential transaction opportunities; advising on and assisting with negotiations and valuation issues; and providing fairness opinions. This segment’s investment management products and services comprise direct investments; third party funds in private equity/mezzanine, real estate, and infrastructure; and leveraged loans securitizations.

Clearstone Venture Partners was founded in 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California with an additional office in Menlo Park, California. Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It also prefers to make later round investments in highly successful companies already backed by other venture capital firms with whom it has prior relationships. The firm seeks to invest in technology markets, including software, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise computing, storage, communications, wireless and optical communications, data center, enterprise software, security, micro-processors, imaging and transformative infrastructure, semiconductors, advanced optics, and consumer and business internet sector. With in enterprise software it focuses on new application models and service oriented architectures (Web Services); open source solutions; web-based application delivery models including software as functional media; and Microsoft exchange as a platform for enterprise collaboration. Within consumer sector the firm seeks to invest in mobile phone applications, wireless multimedia, social networking applied to commerce, and where there is a broad intersection of technology and consumer activity.

Ariel Capital Management was founded in 1983 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Ariel Capital Management, LLC (ACM) is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to high net worth individuals. It also provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable and non-profit organizations, corporations, state and municipal government entities, Taft-Hartley plans, and public organizations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It primarily invests in value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. It obtains external research to complement its in-house research.

Unified Financial Services, Inc., a holding company, provides financial products and services in the United States. It offers back-office and shareholder services for the assets of third-party mutual fund families, as well as its affiliated series funds, including mutual fund distribution services. In addition, the fund manages and administers 401(k) and other ERISA-directed assets, and wealth for individuals through portfolio management and a suite of family-office services. As of December 31, 2003, it provided mutual fund services, transfer agency, fund accounting, administration, and distribution services to 31 mutual fund families consisting of 176 portfolios. As of the above date, the fund provided trust and retirement services to approximately 1,800 clients. Unified Financial was organized in 1989 as Unified Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Unified Financial Services, Inc. in 1997. The fund is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky.

ICAP plc, the world's largest interdealer brokerage with more than $2 trillion in average daily volume, is a wholesale broker of OTC derivatives, money markets, and securities, focusing on foreign exchange, energy, credit, and equities markets. With operations in more than 30 countries, the firm is a major interdealer broker in US Treasury notes. Direct trade execution and processing are available to investment houses and major banks through the company's electronic trading services. Institutional clients include international, investment, and commercial banks. ICAP also has a joint venture with insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group.

North Castle is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on consumer-driven product and service businesses that benefit from two long-term trends: (i) "Healthy Living" or the desire to live healthier, longer and more active lives, and (ii) the "Aging" of the Baby Boomer generation, which is expected to foster strong growth in segments of the consumer industry. These predictable and irreversible trends are fueling consumer interest and significant growth in our target markets. North Castle makes control private equity investments in consumer-driven product and service companies located in North America, with enterprise values ranging from $50 million to $500 million. Our target markets often include industries that are highly fragmented providing opportunities to build market leaders and create value through leveraged buyouts, growth capital infusions and strategic acquisitions.North Castle is a hands-on, value-added investor. We utilize our cumulative knowledge and network, which results from our industry focus, to partner with management and entrepreneurs to create market-leading companies. The strength of our focused approach yields significant benefits to our partners and portfolio companies. North Castle is led by a seasoned team of managing directors, who have spent more than 10 years working together, and are supported by six additional investment professionals. In addition, North Castle has sixteen outside operating advisors that provide relevant experience in North Castle's areas of focus, actively participate in management of the portfolio and supplement North Castle's operating and sourcing capabilities. This unique mix of senior resources differentiates North Castle and gives it a distinct competitive advantage in developing and generating new opportunities for its portfolio companies.

Ampal-American Israel holds interests in half a dozen companies in the chemical, energy, real estate, telecommunications, and leisure industries. Ampal-American Israel Corporation prefers to invest in companies that initially grow in Israel, then expand abroad. Ampal-American Israel often exerts influence after acquiring stakes in companies. Previous investments include Gadot Chemical Tankers and Terminals, one of Israel's leading chemical shippers; East Mediterranean Gas Company, a natural gas exporter; and Bay Heart Limited, a shopping mall owner in Haifa, Israel's third-largest city. Chairman and CEO Yosef A. Maiman and his family own a majority of Ampal-American Israel.

Golden Gate Capital was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Golden Gate Capital is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate extractions, distressed, bankruptcy acquisitions, public-to-private transactions, consolidations, build-ups, and growth equity investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology sectors with a focus on semiconductors, electronics, software, information technology services, financial services, security, media, consumer products, and retail. Within semiconductors, it focuses on specialty device and semiconductor equipment businesses. In electronics, the firm invests in hardware and electronics manufacturing and related services. Within financial services, it focuses on specialty finance, insurance, and outsourcing businesses. In consumer and retail, the firm prefers to invest in consumer products, specialty retail, direct marketing, and restaurants.

MEAG is a major asset management force in the European financial sector with responsibility for round EUR 198 billion (31 March 2010). We are also the asset manager for the Munich Re Group. We invest in securities, real estate and funds, offering our expertise to both institutional and private investors. MEAG are the ideal partner for both private and institutional investors, bundling extensive know-how in all key asset classes under one roof and ensuring that your money is in good hands. MEAG compile fund, security and real-estate portfolios based on your earnings specifications. MEAG size and the volume of funds under MEAG management enable us to offer you highly competitive conditions for the reinvestment and security of your investments.

Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia, a financial services company, provides brokerage services for Saudi securities in the Middle East. It provides confirmation of the order, as well as financial information, such as account and portfolio transactions through various media, including email, online interactive voice response, SMS mobile messages, fax, mail, and courier. Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia was formerly known as Saudi Swiss Securities. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with additional offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Riyadh, Beirut, Cairo, and Manama. As of November 10, 2008, Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia operates as a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group.

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