Coimex Empreendimentos e Participações (know as Coimexpar) is a holding company which operates, through subsidiaries, primarily in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Its foreign trade business, Coimex Trading, deals in such commodities as coffee, sugar, and ethanol. Its logistics arm, which includes subsidiary Coimex Logistica Integrada, provides storage, distribution, and transportation services to customers in the auto, IT, and telecom industries among others. Coimexpar's other investments include a thermal electricity plant, a highway concession, and auto and real estate financing provider. Its latest venture is Embraport, a $180 million project which will expand the port of Santos.

Liu Chong Hing Investment Limited ("LCHI"), founded in 1970, was established to engage in the investment and development of residential and commercial buildings both in Hong Kong and China, including Guangzhou, Shanghai, etc. It became a listed company in 1972 and subsequently expanded its investment and development to other business fields, such as investment holding, property management and agency, money lending, hotel management, manaufacturing of magnetic materials, share investment, etc., with more than 30 subsidiaries.

Arbuthnot Securities Limited is a boutique investment bank that offers institutional stock broking and financial advisory services. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, demergers, private placements, capital raising, initial public offerings, and secondary fundraisings advisory services. Additionally, it offers securities valuation, market making, and sales trading services. Arbuthnot caters to leisure, hospitality, aerospace, defense, transport, logistics, construction, information technology, mining, and engineering sectors. The firm, formerly known as Old Mutual Securities Ltd., is based in London, United Kingdom. Arbuthnot Securities operates as a subsidiary of Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC.

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. We manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and our funds under management exceed £186 million. NVM is a generalist investor specialising in making equity investments between £2 million and £10 million in UK unquoted companies. Established in 1988, NVM is owned by its employees following a management buy-out from the Aberdeen Group in December 2003.

TA Associates, Inc. was founded in 1968. TA Associates, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed investments, management buyouts, leveraged recapitalization or liquidity with leverage for shareholders, purchasing stocks from owners, technology buyouts, growth capital, and acquisitions transactions. The firm primarily invests in private companies with a focus on consumer and retail, technology, financial services, business services, and healthcare businesses. However, it may also consider investments in other areas. The firm targets investments in companies based in North America, Europe, India, and other emerging markets. It may also consider opportunities in other parts of the world. The firm typically invests between $60 million and $600 million in equity and between $10 million and $75 million in subordinated debt transactions in the companies with values between $200 million and $5 billion. It can also make larger investments through its limited partners. The firm usually takes majority or minority positions, with ownership position ranging between 15 percent and 90 percent but never takes operating control of its portfolio companies.

Boom Securities (H.K.) Ltd. was founded in 1997. BOOM Securities (H.K.) Limited, is a fully licensed Broker / Dealer regulated by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong and headquartered in Hong Kong. Boom Securities (H.K.) Ltd. is the first company to offer online trading in Asia, the Hong Kong-based firm provides access to most major exchanges located throughout the Asia/Pacific region and the US. Its inventory includes stocks, mutual funds, index funds, warrants, equity-linked notes, and currencies. Major investors in Boom Securities include William Hambrecht of WR Hambrecht Co., which is owned by JP Morgan Chase.

Great Hill Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 when M/C Partners split into two separate firms, Great Hill Partners and M/C Ventures Partners. Great Hill Partners, LLC is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Great Hill Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage, mid stage, growth capital, buyouts, recapitalizations, PIPEs, go private, acquisitions, and industry consolidations in growth oriented private or public companies. It typically invests in business service, Internet, software, consumer services, financial technology, logistics, education, healthcare, media and communications, and transaction processing. The firm seeks to invest primarily in the United States but also considers Europe and Latin America for special situations. It invests between $50 million and $150 million per transaction in its portfolio companies. It invests in companies with valuations between $50 million and $500 million. However this range is smaller when the firm is consolidating acquisitions. It prefers to make both minority and control investments, with ownership between ten percent and 85 percent and usually over 30 percent.

Fitch Ratings, one of the top three credit rating agencies in the world (alongside Moody's and Standard & Poor's), issues ratings for thousands of banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, corporations, and governments. With dual headquarters in New York and London and about 50 offices worldwide, Fitch Ratings engages in the politically charged business of rating the debt of nations; Fitch Ratings Inc. covers companies and governments in more than 90 nations. French holding company Fimalac owns 60% of Fitch Ratings; The Hearst Corporation owns the rest. Financial statistician John Knowles Fitch founded the company in 1913.

Acorn Capital Partners provides corporate finance services to growing companies. Acorn Capital also advises on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, regulatory compliance, and flotations on the PLUS and AIM stock markets. The firm has worked with companies in the business services, technology, communications, and real estate industries. Affiliate Acorn Fund Management offers three funds that invest in real estate (mainly in the European Union) to pension schemes and high-net-worth individuals. Acorn Capital Partners was co-founded by chief executive Ian Templeton and director Graham Norfolk.

Founded in 1998, with significant backing from the bank community and from the global logistics industry, Bolero was created as a neutral, trusted third party to develop a comprehensive set of standards that would remove the barriers to global, cross-enterprise business. Bolero implements and enforces these standards in an open platform to enable paperless trading between buyers, sellers, logistics, banks, agencies and customs anywhere in the world, delivering transaction visibility, predictability, speed, accuracy and security.Building on this platform, Bolero delivers applications that enable the merging of the physical and Financial Supply Chains, allowing companies to fundamentally re-engineer the way that business is done and take advantage of electronic trading. Customers and their trade partners are rapidly deploying Bolero solutions delivering significant reductions in cost and working capital, increased visibility and improvements in operating efficiency.

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