BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) works in euros, pesos, or dollars. The asset management arm of French banking giant BNP Paribas has some $730 billion of assets under management, almost half of which is for institutional clients. It operates through about 20 specialist investment companies such as hedge fund manager Fauchier Partners, environmental fund manager Impax Group, and multi-manager group FundQuest. Its partners offer mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, money-market funds, equities and fixed-income funds, employee retirement funds, credit, and structured finance. BNPP IP has offices in more than 35 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is an operating subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is a private equity firm specializing in small and middle market transactions. The firm prefers to acquire businesses and assets from financially distressed sellers and through divestitures from large corporations. It seeks to invest in management buyouts, private company recapitalizations, corporate orphans, distressed debt, complex structural situations, special situations, partnerships with fundless sponsors and industry executives, corporate lift-outs, difficult or non-traditional deal situations, and asset pool purchases. The firm seeks to invest in specialty finance, retail, consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare services and facilities, and business services. It invests between $10 million and $250 million in companies having enterprise values of $30 million to $500 million. The firm makes control investments as a sole investor or co-investor in transactions.

Quest for Growth NV is a Belgium-based closed-end investment company that focuses on European technology-based growth companies engaged in various sectors, such as pharmaceuticals and biotechnologies, healthcare equipment and services, information technology, software, semiconductors, energy and materials, among others. Quest Company invests in growth companies with the objective of converting capital gains into tax-free income through the Privak structure, an investment vehicle specially tailored to provide a framework for investments in private equity and in growth companies. The largest part of the Company's portfolio is invested in companies listed on European stock exchanges and other regulated markets.

Sprott Physical Gold Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end mutual fund trust. The Trust was created to invest and hold substantially all of its assets in physical gold bullion. The Trust seeks to provide an exchange-traded investment alternative for investors interested in holding physical gold bullion. The Trust invests primarily in long-term holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical gold bullion and will not speculate with regard to short-term changes in gold prices. Sprott Asset Management LP (the Manager) is the manager and RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust (RBC Dexia), a trust company, is the trustee of the Trust. As of December 31, 2009, the Trust held 97% of its total net assets in physical gold bullion in London Good Delivery bar form. The Trust does not invest in gold certificates or other financial instruments that represent gold or that may be exchanged for gold.

With a heritage dating from the 1960s, PineBridge Investments is an independent multi-product investment adviser with US $83 billion* in assets under management. PineBridge Investments is an investment arm of American International Group, Inc. It specializes in distressed investments. The firm provides a platform for customized portfolio construction and client based servicing. The firm manages a diversified product line of alternative investments including: private equity investments, fund of funds, small to mid-market buyout funds, hedge funds, real estate investment funds and fixed income strategies. The Alternative Investment Group's Private Equity program provides equity and mezzanine financing for private and public companies at different stages of development. PineBridge Investments is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Ontario, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Tiajin, China; Houston; Texas; and Manila; Philippines.

Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman is a global leader in real estate financial services, providing highly specialized debt structuring, debt and equity placement, hospitality financing and sales, note sales and associated advisory services. As a premier real estate investment banking firm, Cushman & Wakefield specialize in providing integrated capital solutions for all asset classes and are also a recognized industry leader in the financing and sale of hospitality and resort properties.By drawing on our integrated full service global platform C&WSG are able to assess our clients' current property operations and, at the same time, develop repositioning strategies that enhance asset value and maximize appeal to capital sources. With C&WSG focus on both the debt and equity markets, C&WSG clients the depth of insight and expertise needed to deliver creative, customized structuring solutions drawing from both traditional and non-traditional capital sources in a rapidly changing marketplace. Understanding the entire capital stack from equity and preferred equity to permanent, bridge, mezzanine and construction loans, C&WSG finance specialists tailor solutions to achieve optimal proceeds on the most attractive terms. From the conventional to cutting edge innovations, C&WSG long-standing record is unrivalled.

Thomas Cressey Bravo is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in growth capital, family business or other recapitalizations, going-private transactions, roll-overs of a portion of existing equity, management buyouts (full or partial), buy and build, and industry consolidations. The firm invests in business services, software, healthcare, consumer products and services, education, and media sectors. Within consumer products and services, it invests in food and beverages; health, wellness and beauty aids, and services; automotive aftermarket; sports, leisure, entertainment and hobby products, and services; catalog and internet retailing; house wares, home repair and home furnishings; gardening and crafts; and pet care. In the healthcare sector, the firm invests in healthcare services (including hospitals, outpatient services, and managed care); pharmaceutical products and services (including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, marketing services, and specialty distribution); medical products and technologies (including disposables/consumables, medical technologies, and durable medical equipment); life-science instruments (including analytical instruments, consumables/reagents, and services).

Cantor Fitzgerald, LP was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Cantor Fitzgerald, LP provides sales and trading services in the areas of equity and fixed income capital markets; investment banking services; and brokerage services for institutional clients. It offers repo and securities lending, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, credit securities, structured products, SBA securities, interest rate products, and agency structures; and domestic and international equities, derivatives, convertibles and structured products, portfolio trading, risk arbitrage services, stock loans, and institutional equity research services. Cantor Fitzgerald company also offers various investment banking services, such as financing solutions to access capital markets; financial advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, complex financings, LBOs, and restructurings; merchant banking services; marketing road shows, market intelligence, investor relations, proxy defenses, and dispositions; and asset management services.

J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. J.W. Childs Associates, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and recapitalizations of middle-market growth companies. The firm invests in consumer products, healthcare, specialty retail, and asset management companies. It invests in companies based in North America and Asia. The firm invests in companies having enterprise values between $150 million and $600 million and an earnings growth rate of at least 10 percent per annum. It seeks to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Mohr Davidow invests in entrepreneurs creating businesses that address significant challenges and opportunities associated with Driving the Digital World, Personalizing Medicine and Powering the Planet. For 25 years Mohr Davidow has partnered with entrepreneurs and taken a hands-on approach to architect and help build successful companies. Mohr Davidow's team and the firm's extended network of industry experts bring years of real-world experience to accelerate each company's time to market and optimize its long-term success. The firm has $2 billion under management.Among the many Mohr Davidow funded companies that have gone public or been acquired are: Actuate; Agile; Auspex; Broadbase (KANA); Brocade; Epigram (BRCM); FormFactor; Freshwater Software (MERQ); Ipsilon Networks (NOK); Kalpana (CSCO); Numerical Technologies (SNPS); ONI Systems (CIEN); Pivotal Technologies (BRCM); Rambus; Vantive; Vitesse; and Zip2 (AltaVista).

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