American Capital, Ltd. (American Capital) is an equity firm and a global asset manager. The Company invests in private equity, private debt, private real estate investments, early and late-stage technology investments, special situation investments, alternative asset funds managed by the Company and structured finance investments. On April 1, 2009, the Company completed the combination of three portfolio companies within its Financial Services Group to create Core Financial Group, a diversified commercial finance holding company. On July 13, 2009, American Capital completed the sale of its portfolio company, People Media to Match.com. On September 15, 2009, it completed the sale of its portfolio company, Axygen BioScience Inc., including its subsidiaries Axygen Inc. and Sorenson BioScience Inc. On October 13, 2009, the Company completed the sale of its portfolio company, Imperial Supplies Holding Inc.

Artio Global Investors, Inc. was founded in 1962. Artio Global Investors, Inc., an asset management company, provides investment management services to institutional and mutual fund clients. It primarily involves in managing and advising Julius Baer Investment Funds. Artio Global Investors Inc company offers various investment strategies, including International Equity strategies, Global High Grade Fixed Income, Global High Yield, Global Equity, and the U.S. Equity. It delivers investment management services to various vehicles, including registered investment management companies, commingled vehicles, and separate accounts. Artio Global Investors distributes its products and services through intermediaries, including investment consultants, broker dealers, RIAs, mutual fund platforms, and sub-advisory relationships.

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. founded in 1931, is quiet (it doesn't advertise or grant many interviews), stable (it prides itself on consistency and believes investment decisions should not be taken lightly), and faithful (most of its investments and its executives are long-term). Subsidiary Capital Research and Management manages The American Funds, a family of more than 30 mutual funds that ranks among the largest groups of mutual funds by assets in the US. Other Capital Group units offer mutual funds in Canada and Europe, and investment trusts in Japan.

Jesup & Lamont, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage, investment banking, market making research, investment advisory, asset management services, and order execution services to retail and institutional customers primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Jesup & Lamont, Inc. offers brokerage services, including ancillary services, such as market data and financial information, portfolio tracking and records management, account security, and cash management services directly to retail customers, including individuals, and small to mid-sized institutions, such as banks, credit unions, hedge funds, money managers, mutual funds, and pension funds.Jesup & Lamont, Inc. also provides municipal bond and corporate/high yield bond trading, and certificate of deposit underwriting services; and market making and order execution services, which include filling orders received from independent broker dealers to buy or sell domestic or foreign securities for affiliated and unaffiliated broker dealers and institutions. In addition, Jesup & Lamont, Inc. offers investment advisory services, including investment portfolio planning, recommendations and separate account manager and mutual fund research and due diligence, portfolio performance review and reallocation, and wrap accounts for registered investment advisors. Jesup & Lamont, Inc. was formerly known as Empire Financial Holding Company and changed its name to Jesup & Lamont, Inc. in January 2008. Jesup & Lamont was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Crowell Weedon & Co. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Carlsbad, West Covina, Encino, Newport Beach, Pasadena, San Diego, La Jolla, and Long Beach, California. Crowell, Weedon & Co. (CWC) provides financial advisory and securities brokerage services. The firm’s services include financial planning, fee-based investment programs, customized retirement strategies, investment advisory, corporate finance, preferred and common stocks, and tax-deferred annuities and insurance.

Centre Partners Management LLC was founded in 1986 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas. Centre Partners Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies, private family owned companies, management buyouts, acquisitions, growth capital, management investment partnerships, and going private transactions. Within management investment partnerships, the firm prefers to invest in renal disease, fixed base operations for general aviation, liquid waste collection and treatment, and midstream segment of the energy industry. It focuses on companies engaged in the consumer; business services; energy; industrial products and services; financial services; healthcare; cable and media; and multi-unit sectors including retail, restaurant, and drugstore. The firm primarily invests in companies based in North America. It typically invests between $15 million and $85 million in the portfolio companies and for management investment partnerships, the firm generally invests a smaller amount, with a final investment amount of over $50 million.

Smedvig Capital is a London based private equity firm formed in early 1996 by John Hewett and Peter Smedvig. Over that time, the firm has committed approximately £350 million to more than 40 investments. About a third of that sum has been invested directly with Smedvig as lead investor, typically in small buy outs and development capital deals. Direct investment size ranges from £2 million to £10 million of equity, although larger sums can be financed in collaboration with our strategic partners. The remainder has been invested with a small number of third party private equity funds where there is a strong affinity with the investment philosophy of the general partner. The most established of these relationships is Bain Capital. Whilst Smedvig Capital does not focus exclusively on any specific sectors, over time it has built expertise in a number of areas including information management, financial services, consumer goods, retail and support services.

Knight Capital Group performs electronic and voice-activated trade execution services for US and foreign stocks, as well as futures, options, foreign exchange, and fixed income products, through subsidiaries such as Knight Equity Markets, Knight Capital Markets, Knight Direct, Hotspot, and Knight BondPoint. Active in the US, the UK, and Hong Kong, Knight Capital Group, Inc. executes approximately four billion trades per day. Customers include brokerages, investment banks, institutional investors, private wealth managers, and corporate issuers of securities. Knight Capital Group, Inc. was formerly known as Knight Trading Group, Inc. and changed its name to Knight Capital Group, Inc. in May 2005. Knight Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Greenhill & Co., Inc. operates as an independent investment bank. Greenhill & Co, Inc. focuses on providing financial advice on mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, fund placement, financings, and capital raisings to corporations, partnerships, institutions, and governments. Greenhill & Co, Inc. acts for clients located worldwide from its offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Greenhill & Co, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Founded in 1982 as a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley, the firm became independent in 1998. It has completed more than 80 transactions in its history; its current portfolio consists of about 10 firms. Mason Wells focuses its buyout efforts on middle-market firms in the Midwest that are involved in engineered products, specialty paper and packaging, and outsourced business services. Target companies typically have annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $250 million. Mason Wells prefers to be the lead investor and majority shareholder in its portfolio companies; it usually holds onto investments for four to seven years.

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