Aeon Credit Service (Asia) was the first non-bank credit card issuer in Hong Kong, and today it is one of its largest. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited provides about 850,000 cardholders with more than 30 different house, affinity, and corporate cards under the American Express, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa, and UnionPay brands. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited also offers personal loans, cash advances, and insurance, but credit cards account for about 70% of its total revenues. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) operates in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited is part of Japanese retail and financial giant AEON CO.

Wells Capital Management Incorporated was founded in 1996 and is based in San Francisco, California. Wells Capital Management Incorporated primarily provides its services to corporations and charitable organizations. It also manages accounts for high net worth individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, state or municipal government entities, and brokerage firms. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap equity portfolios for its clients. The firm employs a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its equity portfolios. It benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolio against the Russell 1000 Value Index, Russell 1000 Growth Index, Russell Mid Cap Growth Index, Russell 2500 Growth Index, Russell 2000 Value Index, and various other Russell Indices.

Sun Hung Kai is one of Hong Kong's largest and oldest non-banking financial houses. Operating as Sun Hung Kai Financial, the company provides wealth management and brokerage (including securities, bullion, futures, and options), asset management, investment banking, consumer lending, and principal investments. Subsidiary SHK Fund Management offers alternative investments including two Asian and six international hedge funds. Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited has more than 50 offices in Hong Kong, Macau, and China. AP Emerald, a subsidiary of Hong Kong real estate firm Allied Properties (H.K.), owns about two-thirds of the company.

Solium Capital Inc. provides technology and services for the administration of equity-based incentive and savings programs for public corporations in Canada and the United States. The company services its clients through a Web-based, realtime application called Shareworks. Shareworks is an online solution that integrates the management of multiple equity plan types, including stock options, share appreciation rights (SARs), share units, restricted stock awards, and employee share purchase and holdings plans on one platform. As of December 31, 2008, the company had approximately 8,998 participants. For corporate clients, Shareworks streamlines an administrator’s workflow with regards to the issuance of incentives, the exercise of incentives, reporting of incentives, and day-to-day maintenance of the incentives database. It provides constant online access to reports for securities regulators, internal management, and financial disclosure purposes. Shareworks empowers plan participants by providing direct access to the financial markets through its national online brokerage partners. StockVantage StockVantage is a Web-based solution, which uses the company’s Shareworks technology to deliver solutions for companies with smaller stock option plans.

Stone Point Capital is a private equity firm that has been making investments in the global financial services industry for more than twenty years. Led by Charles A. Davis, Stephen Friedman, Meryl D. Hartzband and James D. Carey, Stone Point have an extensive track record of investing throughout various financial services industries. Stone Point has raised and managed four private equity funds – the Trident Funds – with aggregate committed capital of $5.4 billion. In addition to the capital invested and committed by the Trident Funds, since 2001 Stone Point have secured approximately $4.5 billion of additional equity co-investments and commitments. Stone Point team of more than thirty investment professionals and senior advisors has a long and successful record of making private equity investments and managing businesses in the financial services industry.

BC Partners is a leading private equity firm with advised funds of €10bn. Established in 1986, BC Partners has played an active role in developing the European buy-out market for over 20 years. BC Partners executives operate as an integrated team through offices in Europe and North America, acquiring and developing European or multinational businesses to create value in partnership with management. Since inception, BC Partners has invested in 71 companies with a total enterprise value of €66 billion.

Muscatine Foods (formerly Varied Investments, Inc.) heard what you were sayin'. Muscatine Foods' name now better reflects what it does -- the Muscatine, Iowa-based company invests in various midwestern ag businesses. Among the units owned by the holding company are the Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), Kent Feeds (which also owns animal food maker Evergreen Mills), and Blue Seal Feeds. Muscatine's Precision Foods has acquired Connecticut-based hot beverage manufacturer Alternative Channels. Muscatine Foods is owned by the families of GPRC founders Gage Kent and S.G. Stein.

Barclays Private Equity Ltd. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices across Europe. Barclays Private Equity Ltd. is the private equity arm of Barclays Capital specializing in middle market and change of ownership transactions. It invests in management buyout, management buy-in, institutional buyout, equity release, expansion capital, and going private transactions of lower middle market companies. The firm also provides equity funding to privately financed infrastructure projects. It seeks to invest in support services, specialist engineering, financial services, consumer and travel, and other sectors. Within the support services sector, investments are sought in staffing- recruitment of temporary or permanent staff; BPO/FM– outsourcing, facilities management, and property services; asset rental- vehicle or equipment; logistics- supply chain management, freight forwarding, contract logistics, distribution, and haulage; professional and IT services; and other miscellaneous support services companies.

KRG Capital Partners, L.L.C was founded in 1996 and is based in Denver, Colorado. KRG Capital Partners, ("KRG Capital") is a private equity investment firm specializing in acquiring controlling interests in middle-market companies and growing them into significantly larger enterprises through the combination of internal growth and selective strategic add-on acquisitions. KRG Capital seeks investment opportunities where we can partner with existing management teams that are committed to building a best-in-class industry leader through industry consolidation. KRG Capital invests in companies with a history of operating profitability and strong growth prospects in specialty or "niche" manufacturing, distribution or service industries. In all cases, KRG Capital seeks to develop a growth and consolidation strategy that will clearly add value to the end customers of our portfolio companies by providing an enhanced product or service offering.

Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. was founded in 1989 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in restructurings, public to private transactions, recapitalizations of privately held companies, growth capital, acquisitions, turnarounds, and acquisitions of divisions and assets from large corporations. The firm seeks to invest in established companies. It invests in a range of industries including retail, consumer products, distribution, media, business services, and healthcare. The firm focuses its investments in North America. It prefers to invest between $500 million and $2 billion per transaction, in enterprise value, but can complete transactions in excess of $5 billion in enterprise value, as well. It seeks to invest in companies which have an ability to grow by at least 50 percent over a five year period.

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