The Gores Group, founded by Alec E. Gores in 1987, is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can benefit from the firm’s operating experience and flexible capital. Since its inception, Gores has acquired 60 companies worldwide with combined revenues in excess of 15 billion dollars. Currently, Gores has 2.7 billion dollars in equity under active management. Gores’ offices in North America and Europe serve its active investment programs in these regions.The firm combines the operational expertise and detailed due diligence capabilities of a strategic buyer with the seasoned M&A team of a traditional financial buyer. As a result, the firm looks to create value with its operating perspective, in addition to the more customary buy-out and financial engineering skills.Gores has become a leading investor, primarily in the technology, telecommunications, business services and industrial sectors, having demonstrated over time a reliable track record of creating substantial value in its portfolio companies alongside management. Private equity-backed companies, like those that Gores invests in, have been shown to grow faster than other types of companies and Gores' private equity returns have consistently and significantly outperformed publicly traded indices.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL or the Company) is a holding company listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 15 October 1956. GBL strives to stimulate and promote the growth of a valuable and balanced portfolio of industrial investments, focusing on a small number of major companies, operating in a diversified range of sectors, in which it is able to play its role as a strategic shareholder. The Company’s portfolio consists of four participations, namely Bertelsmann, Total, Suez and Imerys. TotalFina Elf formed by the successive consolidations of the Total, PetroFina and Elf Aquitaine groups, TotalFinaElf is a global oil and gas group and a major player in the chemicals sector. Activities TotalFina Elf is one of the major integrated oil companies. Its activities are based in more than 100 countries and cover the entire oil industry chain, from upstream - exploration, development and production of oil and gas – to downstream - refining and distribution of oil products and international trading of crude oil and refined oil products. TotalFina Elf is also an important operator in the chemicals industry. Upstream, TotalFina Elf’s hydrocarbon reserves amount to some 11.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Present in the liquefied natural gas industry, TotalFina Elf is also expanding its activities to related market segments such as gas distribution and electricity generation. Downstream, the group has a refining capacity of 2.3 million barrels a day and sales of 3.7 million barrels a day of refined products. TotalFinaElf has interests in 27 refineries and operates a network of some 16,700 service stations under the Total, Fina and Elf brands, primarily in Europe.

The Ziegler Companies, Inc. was founded in 1902 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The Ziegler Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Capital Markets and Investment Services. The Capital Markets segment underwrites fixed income securities to finance senior living and healthcare providers, religious institutions, private schools, and alternative energy projects. It also offers risk management and financial advisory, merger and acquisition advisory, health care consulting, and corporate and public finance services. This segment provides its services to not-for-profit corporations, municipalities, and for-profit business corporations in the healthcare and alternative energy industries. The Investment Services segment offers investment advisory services to institutional and individual clients; and financial products and financial planning services, including equity and fixed-income securities, mutual funds, real estate investment trusts, affiliated and non-affiliated alternative investments, annuities, insurance products, and portfolio management services to retail and institutional clients through its retail branch distribution network.

DMG Information was founded in 1997 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in Milford, Connecticut; Santa Monica, California; and Waltham, Massachusetts. DMGI is a division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), a UK-based media company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The firm prefers not to invest in early stage, pre-revenue companies unless closely aligned with the firm current activities or active in the market area. It seeks to invest in information driven companies with focus mainly on two areas: Business-to-Business and Careers. Within career division, the firm seeks to invest in education and student division. It prefers to invest in insurance, real estate, financial, mapping and geographical, medical or healthcare information sector. The firm primarily seeks to invest in companies with revenue of at least $50 million, with pre-tax profit margin of 20% to 30% or more. It typically invests for control but can take minority stake in early stage companies.

Westchester Technology Advisors was founded in London in 1993 and expanded into the US (Westchester Associates) in 2002. Westchester Technology Advisors wants to bring the art of the deal to mid-market technology companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions assistance to both buyers and sellers, helping tech companies (with a focus on software and service providers) identify acquisition targets, perform due diligence, negotiate, and implement post-acquisition strategies. The company is active in Europe and the US; clients served include IT services provider Netstore and printer supplier Danka Business Systems.

Union Financiere de France Banque SA Company offers asset management services to nearly 128,000 individuals and nearly 18,000 companies in France. Union Financiere de France Banque SA company employs more than 1,000 advisors throughout the nation. Union Financiere de France Banque has been increasing its marketing efforts toward upper-income individuals: It has employed such slogans as the bank which makes you long to be a capitalist and has used images of Karl Marx and Mao Tse-tung in capitalist garb for its advertising. Life insurer Aviva Vie (part of Aviva) owns more than three-quarters of Union Financiere de France Banque.

The Pullman Group issues bonds secured by the future royalties of popular songs. The group garnered attention in 1997 when it launched "Bowie Bonds," which securitized future royalties of 300 David Bowie songs, including "Ziggy Stardust." Bonds have been issued for such artists as James Brown, the Isley Brothers, Motown hitmakers Holland-Dozier-Holland, and for TV and movie libraries. The Pullman Group also handles the sales and securitization of other intellectual properties such as trademarks and patents.

Sinopia Asset Management was founded in 1989 and is based in Paris, France. Sinopia Asset Management SA is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to investment companies. It primarily manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It employs quantitative analysis to create its portfolio. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments. It operates as a subsidiary of HSBC CCF Asset Management Group SA.

Since our launch in 1981, LDC has completed over 400 investments and supports a portfolio that stands at over 60 businesses across the UK, and is collectively valued in excess of £2billion. Whilst having the Lloyds Banking Group as a parent company pays dividends in strong financial support, it's LDC's unique commitment to making a difference in business that has led to long-term success.LDC's investments are driven at a regional level from a network of offices across the UK, Asia and Europe. Our expert knowledge has secured LDC's place as a national leader in the mid-market, whilst our focus on establishing enjoyable and enduring relationships with those we work with ensures stability and success.As to the future, LDC's strong ownership culture, with every member of the team being actively engaged in the direction of the business suggests that LDC is a company that will continue to lead and make a difference in the private equity mid market.

Founded in 1988, JLL Partners is among the leading private equity investment firms in the country. JLL Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in balance sheet restructurings, buyouts, operational turnarounds, acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, industry consolidations, growth capital, and strategic co-investments. It invests in companies which are significantly over-leveraged; companies lacking committed sponsorship; companies requiring strategic and/or operational refocusing; companies in out-of-favor industries; businesses being divested from a larger corporate entity; and companies seeking a financial partner to pursue their strategies. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing and services, financial services, healthcare and medical services, and building products. It seeks to take a majority stake in its portfolio companies.

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