Managing partner Ned Sherwood founded ZS Fund L.P. in 1985. ZS Fund helps middle-market companies build their business while remaining independent. The private equity firm targets private or closely held public companies with annual profits between $4 and $30 million; it takes both minority and majority interests in its investments. Portfolio companies include Industrial Air Tool, market research firm Research Horizons, transportation company Transervice Logistics, and VPSI, a provider of commuter vanpooling services. ZS Fund also possesses expertise in estate planning, management transitions, industry consolidations, and resoving shareholder disputes.

Founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm, CVC carried out its own buyout in 1993 and is now owned by its management. It has about 20 offices around the world. CVC Capital Partners is in the business of making other businesses its business. The private equity investor specializes in buyouts of firms in the UK, the US, Western Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its portfolio of more than 50 companies consists mainly of retail, manufacturing, and service firms. Holdings include UK department store chain Debenhams, US-based luggage maker Samsonite, and Japan-based restaurant chain operator Skylark. It acquired a 47.5% stake in Pilot Travel Centers (now Pilot Flying J) in 2008.

Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company was founded in 1961 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company provides pension insurance solutions. It offers pension advisory services, pension insurance services, services for promoting well-being at work, vocational rehabilitation counseling, customer financing, management of company pension funds, and services related to insuring employment abroad. The company’s earnings-related pension programs secure employees and self-employed persons an income when working is no longer possible due to ageing, disability, or unemployment; and an income for the surviving spouse and children after the death of the family provider. Ilmarinen also provides employee pension and own self-employed person's pension insurance services; and financing services that include client loans consisting of premium loans, investment loans, and subordinated loans to companies. The company offers its pension benefits to approximately 274,000 persons. In addition, Ilmarinen engages in the investment, construction, management, and leasing of commercial and residential properties.

Rosenthal Collins Group (or "RCG" as Rosenthal are commonly known) is a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA). Originally established in 1923 as Greene and Collins, Rosenthal Collins Group is one of the largest independently owned FCMs. Through Rosenthal branches, Introducing Brokers and correspondents, Rosenthal offer a wide range of services, such as execution, brokerage, clearing, electronic trading, foreign exchange and managed futures to clients around the globe.Rosenthal recognize the importance of doing your due diligence when choosing the right brokerage firm. From Rosenthal extensive background in the futures industry to Rosenthal rock-solid financials, Rosenthal invite you to see why thousands of clients trust us. Although our headquarters are in Chicago, Rosenthal global trading presence is evident in Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East, and even Africa and the subcontinent of India.

AFT Corporation Limited provides clean air technologies for the marine and built environments, as well as building materials and facades for the construction industry primarily in Australia. Its patented Microgenix and MAQ technology offers purified air and odour control technologies for use in the marine environment. The company supplies building products, such as glass curtain walls, facades, ceramic tiles, and solar photovoltaic cell panels. It also focuses on leveraging custom designed Chinese manufactured building products to customers, who require turnkey solutions for their projects. In addition, it provides logistics services. AFT Corporation is headquartered in St. Leonards, Australia.

Wedbush Morgan Securities offers investment banking and a range of financial services, including financial planning, sales and trading, and research. Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. targets mid-market growth companies and entrepreneurs primarily in California and the western US. Wedbush offers research in sectors including consumer products and retail, financial services, life sciences, and technology. Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. ClientLink service provides access to account information and reports via the Internet. Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. also provides clearing services. Wedbush Morgan Securities is affiliated with investment firm Wedbush Capital Partners; both entities are controlled by Wedbush, Inc.

Scotia Waterous (formerly Waterous & Co.) provides investment banking services to companies in the energy industry. The firm offers support for mergers & acquisitions and divestitures, private placements, and other corporate finance services. In 2005, The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) acquired Waterous, combining Scotiabank's Scotia Capital division with the global financial counseling business of Waterous. Scotia Waterous owns and operates facilities in Canada, Latin America, Singapore, the UK, and the US. Scotia Waterous company maintains offices in Calgary, Houston, Denver, London, Latin America, Singapore, and Beijing.

Dundee Corporation is a Canadian asset management company. The Company’s core focus is in the areas of wealth management, real estate and resources. Third-party asset management activities are carried out by Ned Goodman Investment Counsel Limited (Ned Goodman Investment Counsel or NGIC), and by Dundee Real Estate Asset Management (DREAM), the asset management division of Dundee Realty Corporation (Dundee Realty), a subsidiary of the Company. Dundee Corporation also owns and manages its own direct investments in these core focus areas, through ownership of both publicly listed and private companies. The Company’s investment in wealth management is conducted primarily through its subsidiary, DundeeWealth Inc. (DundeeWealth), as well as through operations carried out in Bermuda and in the Cayman Islands. Real estate operations are carried out through the Company’s investment in Dundee Realty.

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for United Bank (the Bank). United Mutual Holding Company is a mutual holding company and owns 53.6% of United Financial Bancorp. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its main office in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and its 12 branch offices located in Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Springfield, Northampton and two offices in Westfield, Massachusetts, and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, as well as in home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and industrial loans, automobile loans, other consumer loans, and investment securities. During the year ended December 31, 2006, United Bank acquired Levine Financial Group.

River Cities Capital Funds was founded in 1994 and has over $300 million under management. River Cities Capital Funds invests mostly in middle stage companies located in the Midwest and Southeast. River Cities Capital Funds invests venture capital in companies engaged primarily in technology, health care, and consumer and business services in the Midwest and Southeastern US. Portfolio companies include online book distributor Atomic Dog Publishing and software developer Manta Media, and online data recovery provider EVault. Investment partners include Austin Ventures, Fifth Third Bancorp, and Finova.

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