Harris Williams was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia with additional offices in Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Harris Williams LLC, doing business as Harris Williams & Co., is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services to aerospace; automotive and heavy duty truck; building products and materials; Chemicals; commercial and industrial equipment; consumer or business services; consumer products; marketing; energy and power; food and beverage; forest and paper products; furniture; healthcare and life sciences; media and entertainment; metal fabrication; mining; business outsourcing; packaging; chemical; retail; technology; telecommunications; textiles; and transportation and logistics sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, management buyouts, and fairness opinions services. Its clientele includes American Tower Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Oglebay Norton, Linesoft Corporation, Snyder Industries, Pioneer International, Banc One Capital Partners, Cedar Creek Partners, and Allied Capital.

Vista Equity Partners was founded in 2000. Vista Equity Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in management and leveraged buyouts, growth and acquisition financings, recapitalizations, restructurings, spinouts, divestitures, special situations, and going private transactions. The firm seeks to invest in software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), technology enabled business services, and technology enabled information services. It also seeks to invest in technology-enabled companies which have a proven and defensible technology that can be leveraged to build new products, solutions, and services; mature companies in which opportunities exist to create value through embracing and leveraging technology; and new or existing companies which have developed proprietary technologies that address specific niche markets. The firm seeks to acquire a majority stake in the portfolio companies.

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.

National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. was founded in 1992 and is based in Mumbai, India. National Stock Exchange of India Limited operates as a stock exchange in India. It provides a range of products for various markets, including equity shares, exchange traded funds, mutual funds, debt instruments, index futures and options, stock futures and options, and currency futures. The company also offers a trading platform for investors for trading equity, corporate debt, central and state government securities, t-bills, commercial paper, certificate of deposits, warrants, mutual funds units, exchange traded funds, derivatives, and currency futures. In addition, it engages in the clearing and settlement of the trades executed in the equities, derivatives, and government securities; undertakes settlement of transactions on other stock exchanges; and clearing and settlement of the commodity markets. Further, National Stock Exchange provides various services, products, and professional index services; data and info-vending products; and information technology products, services, and solutions for the securities industry.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board was founded in December 1997 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. CPP Investment Board is a state owned pension fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public and private markets across Canada. It invests in the public equity, fixed income and alternative markets of Canada. The firm also invests in private equity, real estate and infrastructure projects, and energy and natural resources. It also makes limited partnership investments in venture capital, private equity, and other investment vehicles. The firm is also known as Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Centerline Holding Company, through its subsidiaries, provides real estate financial and asset management services. The Company offers capital solutions, including financing and investment products, to developers, owners and investors. The Company’s Corporate group, consists of Finance and Accounting, Legal, Corporate Communications and Operations departments, supports these four business groups. In March 2010, the Company sold its Portfolio Management group and the portion of the Commercial Real Estate group

The London Stock Exchange is at the heart of the global financial market and is home to some of the largest, most successful and dynamic companies in the world. The Exchange has built on a long history of integrity, expertise and market knowledge to become the world's most international stock exchange. In October 2007 the Exchange merged with Borsa Italiana, creating Europe's leading diversified exchange business, London Stock Exchange Group. The LSE includes the main market, the Professional Securities Market (or PSM, listed debt securities), and the Alternative Investment Market (or AIM, which lists new and growing companies). The LSE is also a leader in international IPOs. Borse Dubai owns around 21% of the exchange; Qatar Investment Company owns about 15%.

Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) is hoping to recycle the business savvy it applied to the aluminum manufacturing business and use it to generate returns in the telecommunications field. The private equity firm was launched in 1987 to invest in an aluminum smelter plant in Washington state. It now owns a number of manufacturing facilities, including Columbia Commercial Building Products (aluminum windows) and Specialty Chemical Products LLC (silica extraction from crushed glass). In recent years the firm has turned its attention to international telecom providers; those holdings include One Communications, THUS Group, and Magnet Networks (Internet, telephone, and video provider in Ireland).

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.

Mesirow Financial was founded in 1937 when Norman Mesirow purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Since then, the one-man brokerage firm has become a leading Chicago-based financial services firm and one of the largest independent financial services firms in the Midwest. For the past seven decades Mesirow Financial firm has remained committed to the fundamental principals upon which it was founded: integrity, service and performance. Throughout good times and bad, Mesirow Financial overriding mission is to help Mesirow Financial clients achieve their financial goals. Mesirow Financial do that by building long-term relationships and keeping sight of what's important to our clients. Mesirow Financial is a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Mesirow Financial are an employee-owned, private company with more than 1,200 employees in offices across the country and in London.

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