Barclays Bank Delaware was founded as Juniper Financial in 2000. Barclays Bank Delaware became a part of Barclays in 2004. With co-branded credit cards from Barclays Bank Delaware (also known as Barclaycard US) customers rack up points that can be redeemed for air travel, hotel stays, and other perks. Barclays Bank Delaware, a division of Barclays, issues Visa and MasterCard credit cards, in addition to co-branded credit cards through partnerships with more than 60 companies and institutions, including Best Western, US Airways, Carnival Cruise Lines, L.L. Bean, and Harvard University.

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.

A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan’s members include 175,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 114,000 pensioners, and 69,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada’s largest payrolls with $4.4 billion in benefits paid to plan members, and $2.7 billion received in total contributions from teachers, the provincial government and designated employers in 2009.Before 1990, the plan was administered by the Ontario government and restricted to investing in non-marketable Province of Ontario debentures. In 1990, the government established the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board as a corporation overseen by a nine-member board.With $96.4 billion in net assets at December 31, 2009, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada. An independent organization, it invests the pension fund’s assets and administers the pensions of 289,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.

Henderson Investment Limited, through its subsidiaries, primarily invests in infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company is a subsidiary of Henderson Development Limited. Infrastructure The company's infrastructure business mainly comprises interests in Hangzhou Qianjiang Third Bridge and a highway in Maanshan City, Anhui Province. They are both located in the Yangtze River Delta. Associated Company - The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited: The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited supplies piped gas in Hong Kong. Its core businesses comprise production and distribution of gas, marketing of gas and gas appliances, and after-sales services. It serves approximately 1.6 million local customers throughout Hong Kong, Kowloon peninsula, some new towns in the New Territories, as well as North Lantau Island including the Hong Kong International Airport. It also operates water supply projects in Wujiang, Jiangsu province and in Wuhu, Anhui province, and manages an integrated water supply and wastewater joint venture in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu province. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the ECO Energy Company Limited, Hong Kong and China Gas has diversified into various green businesses including Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vehicle filling stations and the utilization of landfill gas. ECO is operating a total of five LPG filling stations, which are strategically located in Chai Wan, Mei Foo, Tuen Mun, West Kowloon and Wan Chai.

Quad-C Management, Inc. was founded in 1989. Quad-C Management, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, owner recapitalization and family succession, and industry consolidation in middle market companies through both, internal growth and add-on acquisitions. Under management buyouts, the firm seeks to invest in corporate orphan, where it help managers acquire a division of a parent company, a going private, where the firm work with management to buy out public shareholders and take the company private, or a buyout of a private company, where it partner with management and buyout shares from the controlling private shareholders. The firm will also consider smaller strategic acquisitions for its current portfolio companies. It prefers to invest in building products; specialty finance; food, beverage, and restaurants; transportation and logistics; distribution; infrastructure; healthcare; equipment rental; financial services; light manufacturing; packaging; specialty chemicals; security and corrections; business-to-business services; education and training; and consumer and leisure products sectors.

Auriga Partners was founded in May, 1998 and is based at Paris, France. Auriga Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage companies. It prefers to invest in the information technology, industrial technology, and life sciences sectors. The firm primarily invests in the European Union, with a minor focus on North America, France, and Israel. It typically invests between €0.5 million ($0.74 million) and €8 million ($11.87 million) in its portfolio companies. For investments outside France, the firm participates in the funding along with its extensive global network of local venture capitalists.

Amadeus Capital Partner Limited was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Amadeus Capital Partners company targets enterprises in Europe, Ireland, Israel, and the UK in the computer hardware, software, Internet, e-commerce, and life sciences industries. Current investments include driver safety software developer Greenroad, mobile display screen producer Liquavista, biotechnologist Vermillion, wireless security management designer Red-M, and processor developer XMOS.

ARCH invests primarily in companies co-founded with leading scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market innovations in life sciences, physical sciences, and information technology. ARCH enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commercialization of technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. ARCH currently manages seven funds totaling nearly $1.5 billion and has invested in the earliest venture capital rounds for more than 120 companies. ARCH investors include major corporations, pension funds, endowment funds, financial institutions, and private investors. The partnership is led by six managing directors and a team of venture partners, principals, associates, and technology specialists.

Clinton Group was founded in August 1991 and is based in New York City with additional offices in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, Washington, District Of Columbia, and London, United Kingdom. Clinton Group, Inc (CGI) is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm primarily provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It also caters to corporations, banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and public funds. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income and hedging markets across the globe. For its fixed income investments, it primarily invests in collateralized debt obligations, mortgage-backed securities, convertible bonds, and sovereign debt. The firm employs long/short and arbitrage fixed income strategies to make its investments.

CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC was formed on August 1, 2006 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Woodlands, Texas. CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts and growth equity transactions in middle market companies. The firm invests in consumer, retail, and services; media and telecom; industrial; energy; healthcare infrastructure; and financial services sectors. Within the consumer, retail, and services industry, it focuses on specialty retail, direct marketing, consumer packaged goods, Internet, and services industries. For its media and telecom investments, the firm focuses on consumer and trade publishing, content and programming, broadcasting, cable, and wireless and wireline communications sectors.

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