FBR Capital Markets Corporation is a full-service investment banking, institutional brokerage and asset management company. In addition, it makes principal investments, including merchant banking investments. The Company’s subsidiaries are FBR Capital Markets & Co. (FBR & Co.), FBR Capital Markets International, Ltd. (FBRIL), Financial Services Authority (FSA), and FBR Fund Advisers, Inc. (FBR Fund Advisers). Its segments include capital markets, which include investment banking and institutional brokerage and research; asset management, and principal investing, which includes merchant banking. The Company’s capital markets business is conducted by its investment banking and institutional brokerage professionals through its United States and United Kingdom broker-dealer subsidiaries. The Company’s investment adviser subsidiaries principally manage a family of mutual funds. On August 31, 2009, the Company acquired Watch Hill Partners LLC.

Avenir Group invests in small and midsized companies and helps build those companies by providing management services and analysis, as well as business and administrative consulting. The firm prefers to invest in family businesses, threshold companies, and US divestments of international corporations. Avenir's portfolio includes such manufacturing companies as Proline Billiards (billiard tables), Nichols & Stone (wood furniture), and Westminster Ceramics (ceramic tile).

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851. LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets.

First Physicians Capital Group, Inc. provides financial and managerial services to physicians, physicians groups, and healthcare delivery centers in rural America. The company is building a portfolio of interests in healthcare services operations outside the traditional urban hospital setting. FPCG promotes quality medical care by offering improved access and breadth of services. It unlocks the value of its investments by developing strong, long-term and mutually beneficial relationships with their physicians and the communities they serve.

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P (AllianceBernstein) is a limited partnership company. AllianceBernstein Company provides research, diversified investment management and related services to a range of clients. It also provides distribution, shareholder servicing and administrative services to its sponsored mutual funds. AllianceBernstein Company offers a range of investment products and services to its clients, which include Institutional Services, Retail Services, Private Client Services and Bernstein Research Services. Its clients include institutional clients, such as unaffiliated corporate and public employee pension funds, endowment funds, domestic and foreign institutions and governments, and various affiliates; retail clients; including United States and offshore mutual funds, variable annuities, insurance products and sub-advisory relationships; private clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, private and family corporations, and other entities.

Raymond James is a diversified financial services holding company with subsidiaries engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to investment banking and asset management. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. performs trade execution, securities processing, equity research, and investment banking services for institutional clients in North America and Europe. The unit also offers clearing services to fellow Raymond James Financial subsidiary, Raymond James Financial Services. Planning Corporation of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of RJA, sells insurance and annuities.

Fresh Capital is the specialist investment arm of the London based Hanover Acceptances Group. Formed in 1998, Fresh Capital provides Hanover Acceptances with a means of diversifying its investment portfolio, pursuing high growth opportunities and investing in leading-edge areas tangential to its core food and agribusiness and real estate portfolios.

Named after a 17th century war ship, Brigantine Advisors wants to help its clients navigate the vast investment world. The firm provides investment research and advisory services to corporations, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and a variety of funds (i.e. mutual, hedge, bonds). It conducts research and analysis of technology, retail, and energy companies on behalf of its clients, focusing on market analysis, mergers and acquisitions, product development, financing, and investor relations. In addition, the firm provides trading services through a partnership with a third-party company. Brigantine Advisors operates offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.

SagePoint Financial was formed as AIG Financial Advisors in 2005 from the combination of three of the broker-dealer subsidiaries of insurance giant American International Group (AIG): Sentra Securities, Spelman & Co., and SunAmerica Securities. Part of AIG Retirement Services, SagePoint sells products and services including retirement and estate planning, securities trading, and insurance. SagePoint Financial, Inc. oversees around $27 billion in account assets. SagePoint Financial, Inc. serves both short- and long-term investors through a nationwide network of some 2,300 independent financial advisors, who receive technology, business development, and training support from SagePoint.

Dunedin Capital Partners Limited was founded in 1983 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Dunedin Capital Partners Limited is a private equity firm specializing in mid-market buyouts. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins; institutional and secondary buyouts; and funding for acquisitions. The firm prefers to invest in industry sectors with a focus on construction and building materials, consumer products and services, financial services, healthcare, leisure and hotels, specialist manufacturing, oil and gas, TMT, and support services. It typically invests in companies based in the United Kingdom. The firm invests between £5 million ($9.82 million) and £50 million ($98.21 million) in transactions with size between £10 million ($19.64 million) and £75 million ($147.3 million). It seeks to hold a board seat in its portfolio companies.

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