Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited represent the combined operations of Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited in their sale to RHJ International SA. As of July 1, 2010, Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited were acquired by RHJ International S.A. Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited provides banking and wealth management service. The company is based in London, United Kingdom. Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited provides banking and financial service. Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Ltd. company is based in Westbourne, Channel Islands.

International Assets Holding Corporation and subsidiaries operates (INTL) as a financial services group focusing on select international markets, committing its capital and expertise to market-making and trading of financial instruments, currencies and commodities and to asset management. The Company’s activities are divided into five functional areas: international equities market-making, foreign exchange trading, commodities trading, international debt capital markets and asset management. The Company provides these services to a group of wholesale customers, including major investment banks, commercial banks, brokers, institutional investors, corporations, charities, governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations located worldwide. On September 30, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of FCStone Group, Inc. (FCStone).

The Baxi Partnership Trust was set up as an employee benefit trust (EBT) by Philip Baxendale and his cousin Joan Caselton in 1983 when they sold their gas-boiler manufacturing company to the trust for only one tenth of its value; a massive gift to the employees. The aim of the EBT was to enable the employees of the boiler manufacturing company to keep the company independent and to share in the wealth they had helped to create. Over the next 16 years the company grew to £200m sales and was highly productive and profitable.

Duke Street is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition, leveraged buyouts and buyins of established middle market companies, consolidation, turnaround, public to private transition, parent company distress, and buy and build investments. It does not invest in start-ups and early-stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in chemical; distribution; corporate services; business services and outsourcing; retail and consumer; food; industrial; healthcare; leisure; Biotechnology, Medical, Chemistry, New materials, and financial services. Within the business services and outsourcing sector, it focuses on public and private sector facilities management; white-collar engineering consultancy, particularly environmental; testing; outsourcing, particularly third party administration; waste management and recycling; and printing and packaging companies with strong intellectual property and significant service element. In the retail and consumer sector, the firm focuses on specialty retailers, chilled food manufacturers, and niche branded FMCG companies. Within the healthcare sector, it focuses on specialized healthcare service providers, producers of pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment manufacturers. In the leisure sector the firm focuses on health and fitness and sports companies, gaming, Continental European hotel groups, and niche tourism related companies.

Terra Nova Royalty Corp. operated in two reportable segments: industrial plant technology, equipment and service business and indirect royalty interest in the Wabush iron ore mine. The industrial plant technology, equipment and service segment requires a variety of production and marketing strategies. The royalty interest consists of a mining sub-lease of the lands, which includes the Wabush iron ore mine. The Wabush mine operation includes the Scully iron ore mine near Wabush in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a pellet plant and port facilities at Point Noire, Quebec and integrated rail facilities. Terra Nova is primarily engaged in the industrial plant technology, equipment and service business. It supplies technologies, engineering and equipment for cement processing.

T. Rowe Price Group was founded in 1937 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Central Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; and Singapore. T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a financial services holding company that provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional investors in the sponsored T. Rowe Price mutual funds and other investment portfolios. The Company operates its investment advisory business through its subsidiary companies, primarily T. Rowe Price Associates, T. Rowe Price International and T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services. The Company also manages a range of United States and international stock, blended asset, bond, and money market mutual funds and other investment portfolios, which are designed to meet the varied and changing needs and objectives of individual and institutional investors. On January 20, 2010, the Company completed the acquisition of 26% equity interest in UTI Asset Management Company.

Edward Jones serves nearly 7 million investors and we have more offices than any other investment firm in America. Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. attribute a great deal of our success to our principles and personal, long-term approach to investing. The principal subsidiary of The Jones Financial Companies, retail brokerage Edward D. Jones & Co. (better known by trade name Edward Jones) operates more than 10,000 branch offices located throughout the US, many in small towns or suburbs; Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. operates another 600 offices in Canada. Edward Jones, which advocates a conservative investment strategy, sells securities and insurance products and distributes mutual funds to more than seven million retail clients. Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. investment banking practice underwrites corporate and municipal bonds.

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Beijing, China. Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation and early stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in green technology innovation, information technology, pandemic and bio-defense, and life sciences. In information technology sector, it prefers to invest in consumer, enterprise, semiconductor, security, wireless, and communication sectors. Within pandemic and bio-defense, the firm invests in surveillance, diagnostics, vaccines, antiviral drugs, and technologies enabling large-scale manufacturing. In life science sector, it invests in medical devices, drugs, vaccines, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and healthcare information technology and services.

Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building market-leading companies since 1964. Through our decades of experience, Sutter Hill have developed strong industry networks, considerable operating and venture capital experience, and an understanding of the challenges that early-stage and high-growth companies face. Sutter Hill offer expertise in developing business strategy and partnerships, building management teams, and financing companies in both public and private markets.Sutter Hill Ventures are experienced operating executives who love building companies. Sutter Hill approach is straightforward. Sutter Hill have a collegial and uncomplicated operating style that is direct and results-driven. Sutter Hill work as a team to respond quickly to new investment proposals and to Sutter Hill portfolio companies' needs. Once sutter hill invest in a company, sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill time, expertise, and extensive industry networks to help these companies succeed. Building companies is sutter top priority and sutter favorite occupation.

HAL Trust was founded in 1873 and is based in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles. HAL Trust, through its subsidiary, HAL Holding N.V., owns and operates optical retail chains in the Netherlands and internationally. It supplies timber products and building materials; provides shipping services; imports and distributes wine; sells and assembles orthopaedic devices; develops and produces identification and timing equipment for sports events; and provides training for pilots using flight simulators. The company also produces high-pressure laminate products for exterior and interior applications; produces and sells office furniture; retails hearing aids; produces and distributes plant labels, announcement cards, and calendars; communication services for the financial industry, such as financial prospectuses and virtual data rooms; and distributes personal protection equipment, such as safety clothing for factory workers. In addition, its real estate investment activities include the development and rental of multi-family properties and office buildings in Seattle.

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