Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL) is a bank holding company. Western Alliance provides a range of banking and related services to locally owned businesses, professional firms, real estate developers and investors, local non-profit organizations, high net worth individuals and other consumers through its subsidiary banks and financial services companies located in Nevada, Arizona, California and Colorado. Western Alliance also offers an array of financial products and services aimed at satisfying the needs of small to mid-sized businesses and their proprietors, including cash management, trust administration and estate planning, custody and investments and equipment leasing. Western Alliance also provides a range of banking services, as well as trust and investment advisory services, through its consolidated subsidiaries. On December 31, 2009, Western Alliance sold a 75% interest in Miller/Russell & Associates, Inc (MRA).

David Stockman, who co-founded Heartland Industrial Partners in 1999, is a former Michigan congressman and was director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan administration. He was also chairman and CEO of one of Heartland Industrial's former portfolio companies, auto fabrics company Collins & Aikman, but was ousted in 2005. Heartland Industrial Partners is an investment firm that primarily targets industrial and auto parts companies. Heartland Industrial Partners company's holdings include a more than 40% stake in vehicle component maker TriMas. It sold auto parts maker Metaldyne to an affiliate of Ripplewood Holdings in early 2007.

GIP was founded in 2006 as a joint venture between Credit Suisse and General Electric. It is owned and managed by affiliates of the two companies. Global Infrastructure Management gives its investments the power to grow. Doing business as Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the company is a private equity firm that makes infrastructure-focused investments in the power and utilities, energy, air transport, water/wastewater, and transportation sectors. Its portfolio consists of about a dozen companies, most of which are located in North America and the UK. The firm typically makes long-term investments; its partners sit on the boards of, and work with management at, its portfolio companies.

Augen Capital Corp., a merchant bank, specializes in financing of early-stage resource companies, as well as provision of tax-advantaged flow-through investments in resource sectors in Canada. Segments The company operates under two segments: Managed Products and Merchant Banking. The Managed Products (MP) segment consists of annual resource flow-through limited partnership offerings, and the Augen Resource Strategy mutual fund. The Merchant Banking (MB) segment consists of an investment portfolio of primarily emerging resource stocks. The MB segment provides financing and strategic management support to resource investee companies. Augen Resource Strategy Fund Augen Resource Strategy Fund, Inc. is a mutual fund corporation. The investment objective of the Fund is to provide long-term capital growth, by investing primarily in equity securities of senior and emerging Canadian resource companies. The Fund is also permitted to invest in fixed income and money market instruments. Merchant Banking Portfolios The company holds merchant banking portfolios directly in Augen Capital Corp. (Augen) and indirectly through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aumerco Limited, which primarily consist of listed Canadian resource companies whose principal business is resource exploration and development. Polar Bear Project: Augen established Polar Bear Exploration, Inc. (PBE), a private company, to acquire claims in the Hudson Bay/James Bay area of northern Ontario, south east of the coastal town of Pewanuck and south west of Polar Bear Provincial Park.

Corporacion Financiera Alba SA is a Spain-based investment holding company. Corporacion Financiera Alba Company is engaged in the real estate sector and its activities include the acquisition, management, promotion and lease of non-residential and commercial properties located in Madrid and Barcelona. As of December 31, 2008, the Company’s properties had a combined floor area of approximately 82,000 square meters. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Alba Participaciones SA, the Company holds interests in such entities as Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (ACS), Acerinox SA, Prosegur Compania de Seguridad SA, Clinica Baviera SA, Antevenio SA and Deya Capital SCR. In addition, the Company is a member of Grupo March.

Francisco Partners Management LLC was founded in August 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. Francisco Partners Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in financing divisional spinouts, divisional buyouts including divestiture, acquisitions and "take privates" of public companies, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of private and public companies, strategic minority investments in public and private companies, fallen angels, management buyouts, growth equity financing, recapitalizations, and restructurings. In growth equity financing, the firm seeks to invest in industry roll-ups, joint ventures, and adjacent market opportunities that may evolve from situations such as post-venture capital funding needs, sponsor changes, or assets hidden within larger companies. It prefers to invest in mature or maturing technology and technology-related companies. The firm seeks to invest in communications, hardware, information technology services and software, healthcare technology, outsourcing and transaction processing services, semiconductors and capital equipment, electronic product distributors, electronics components, systems, and manufacturing, business process outsourcing (BPO), security and enterprise application and infrastructure software, and communications service providers. It prefers to invest in companies with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $2 billion.

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.

Eight Peaks seeks out and invests in near start up and small companies that are in sectors exhibiting long term growth. The investments must have the potential and catalysts to generate asymmetric returns. Once invested, Eight Peaks assists the companies to realise their potentials. Returns are generated on exits, which can be IPOs or trade sales. Eight Peaks makes investments in all sectors including technology, energy and natural resources, specifically in businesses and opportunities with the potential for substantial asymmetric capital appreciation. The focus is primarily on high growth companies, although investments may be made in anticipation of receiving dividends.

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC was founded in 1994 and is based New York, New York with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, China. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC is a publicly owned investment manager. Och-Ziff Capital firm provides investment advisory services for its clients. It invests in alternative markets across the world. Och-Ziff Capital firm employs quantitative and qualitative analysis to make its investments. Och-Ziff Capital firm aslo manages a buyout fund, Och-Ziff Energy Fund.

Integrated Asset Management plc (Integrated) is an alternative investment company. The Company’s business includes asset management, specifically fund of hedge fund management and institutional brokerage. It operates through two segments: hedge fund management and brokerage. Through regulated subsidiaries in London, Integrated manages assets in a variety of Fund of Hedge Funds (FoHF) vehicles, as well as providing advisory and distribution services. Institutional brokerage provides services in Europe, in foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, equities, and bonds. The wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company include Integrated Alternative Advisors Limited, Integrated Alternative Investments Limited, Integrated Financial Products Limited, Capital Management Limited and Attica Holdings (UK) Limited.

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