With a heritage dating from the 1960s, PineBridge Investments is an independent multi-product investment adviser with US $83 billion* in assets under management. PineBridge Investments is an investment arm of American International Group, Inc. It specializes in distressed investments. The firm provides a platform for customized portfolio construction and client based servicing. The firm manages a diversified product line of alternative investments including: private equity investments, fund of funds, small to mid-market buyout funds, hedge funds, real estate investment funds and fixed income strategies. The Alternative Investment Group's Private Equity program provides equity and mezzanine financing for private and public companies at different stages of development. PineBridge Investments is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Ontario, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Tiajin, China; Houston; Texas; and Manila; Philippines.

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.

Palladium Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 1997. Palladium Equity Partners, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm primarily invests in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate spinouts, growth financings, and restructurings. It also invests in late venture companies and may invest in mature businesses. The firm typically invests in business services, financial services, consumer and retail, food, beverage, and restaurants, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, media and entertainment, and telecommunication companies. In the business services sector, it focuses on business process outsourcing; transaction processing; and engineering services. Within the financial services sector, the firm invests in transactional services; money transfer; consumer and specialty finance; and casualty, life, and health insurance; and financial services targeting underserved segments.

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.

The main aim of the El Oro Group since 1938 has been to increase the asset value of the shares in issue whilst continually increasing dividends. El Oro is a collective investment vehicle and seeks to be competitive with similar investment funds. To achieve this aim, the Board restructured the El Oro Mining and Exploration Company plc to allow El Oro Ltd to be subject to a tax regime that puts it on a par with other investment vehicles such as unit and investment trusts.El Oro Ltd is the El Oro Group holding company, registered in Guernsey with its shares listed on the Official List of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange [Ticker – ELX]. El Oro became the holding company for the El Oro Group by way of a scheme of arrangement under section 899 of the Companies Act during March 2009 as approved by the Scheme Stockholders and sanctioned by the Court.

Founded in 1977, Matrix Partners venture capital firm primarily funds startups in the software, Internet infrastructure, communications equipment, and semiconductor markets. Matrix Partners company likes to get in on the ground floor of a new business, and it enjoyed success even during the tech wreck because it generally stays away from dot-coms. Its Matrix Partners India fund invests in a range of industries (not just tech) in that country. Matrix, which typically invests more than $10 million per company in a series of stages, has offices in the high-tech hotbeds of the Silicon Valley and Boston. It opened an office in Beijing in 2008.

Criteria CaixaCorp is an investment group with holdings in financial and industrial companies. The company's core shareholder is "la Caixa"; it has been listed on the continuous market of the Spanish stock exchange since October 2007. Criteria has a firm commitment to international growth, active management of its portfolio within a framework of controlled risk, and boosting the growth, development and returns of the companies it invests in.The company is now a consolidated business reality and has set its sights on becoming a European benchmark for investment and development in companies which are leaders in their respective markets with proven capacity to create value and recurrent profitability. Criteria has a significant knowledge of the sectors in which it operates, a proven track record that affords a privileged position as an investment company, and experienced management teams. This is a goal towards which Criteria works day in day out and for which it is constantly identifying, analysing, studying and assessing new business and investment opportunities.

Active Media Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Pearl River, New York. Active Media Services, Inc., doing business as Active International, provides marketing and business solutions. It provides media services, including national broadcast, local broadcast, digital and emerging media, print, out-of-home, youth media, direct response-broadcast, hispanic and multicultural, and mobile services; and retail marketing services, such as retail consulting, merchandising, promotions, environments, and media. The company also provides travel and meeting services, which include hotel rooms, meetings and events, incentive, recognition, loyalty programs, cruises, resorts, special events, and trade shows; and freight and logistics, such as business-to-business, retail, institutional and wholesale delivery channels, warehousing and distribution, pick and pack, supply chain consulting, inventory management, customs brokerage, domestic, ocean and air import/export, point-to-point delivery, and truckload and LTL freight. In addition, it offers music licensing and inventory services.

Borsa Italiana S.p.A. was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy. As of October 1, 2007, Borsa Italiana S.p.A. is a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange plc. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. regulates, develops, and manages the Italian equities markets, the Italian Derivatives market, the Securitised Derivatives market, the electronic Fixed Income market, the electronic ETFs and ETCs market, and the Electronic Market where closed-end funds are traded. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. company also operates an after hours market where financial instruments are traded after the close of the daily market. It offers listing, post trading and custody, information, training, and information technologies services.

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.

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