DBRS Limited issues credit ratings for corporate, financial, and government bonds throughout the world. Canada's largest credit rating agency, DBRS also operates in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In the US, DBRS is one of the 10 official Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSROs) approved by the SEC; about a dozen European nations have granted the company External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI) status. DBRS maintains ratings on more than 43,000 companies. DBRS uses a variety of quantitative methodologies based on the various industries and markets it covers. Chairman and owner Walter Schroeder founded the company in 1976.

Montagu Private Equity participates in management-led buyouts, buyins, and other private equity deals. It invests in mid-market European companies in the retail, manufacturing, and consumer services industries. Montagu Private Equity has some E3 billion of assets and funds under management; deals are typically valued at between E100 million and E1 billion. Among the firm's investments are funeral services provider Dignity and electronics retailer Maplin Electronics. Montagu Private Equity has offices in France, Germany, Sweden, and the UK. HSBC owns a minority stake in Montagu Private Equity LLP.

Gelber Group was founded in 1982 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Gelber Group provides trade execution, clearing, and risk management services for all major global electronic exchanges. The firm also offers market analysis, business operations consulting, facilities and data management services, and asset management for international banks, hedge funds, and independent professional traders in the US, Europe, and Asia. The company's GelberConnect electronic network provides individual and institutional traders with real-time exchange information, trade execution, and clearing services.

F&C Asset Management one of the top asset managers in the UK and Europe. F&C Asset Management company has more than $100 billion in assets under management, more than one-third of which comes from insurance giant Friends Provident, which spun off the company to shareholders in 2009. F&C Asset Management primarily manages insurance and institutional pension funds. In addition to its Baronsmead brand of venture capital trusts, F&C Asset Management also offers corporate bonds, UK and European equities, and ethical funds. It serves institutional and private investors from offices located throughout Europe and the US.

Francisco Partners Management LLC was founded in August 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. Francisco Partners Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in financing divisional spinouts, divisional buyouts including divestiture, acquisitions and "take privates" of public companies, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of private and public companies, strategic minority investments in public and private companies, fallen angels, management buyouts, growth equity financing, recapitalizations, and restructurings. In growth equity financing, the firm seeks to invest in industry roll-ups, joint ventures, and adjacent market opportunities that may evolve from situations such as post-venture capital funding needs, sponsor changes, or assets hidden within larger companies. It prefers to invest in mature or maturing technology and technology-related companies. The firm seeks to invest in communications, hardware, information technology services and software, healthcare technology, outsourcing and transaction processing services, semiconductors and capital equipment, electronic product distributors, electronics components, systems, and manufacturing, business process outsourcing (BPO), security and enterprise application and infrastructure software, and communications service providers. It prefers to invest in companies with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $2 billion.

Credit Solutions was established in 2003. Credit Solutions helps consumers dig their way out of debt. One of North America's largest for-profit debt management companies, Credit Solutions offers programs that enable people to lower their monthy bills and, in many cases, get out of debt in three years or less. It also offers a built-in savings plan to help families reach their long-term financial goals, with no home ownership or credit check required. Credit Solutions has more than $1.7 billion of unsecured debt under management for about 80,000 active clients.

Mellon Capital is one of the leading institutional investment managers in the United States, with 550 clients representing $177.7 billion in assets under management as of May 31, 2010, which includes assets managed in overlay strategies ($9.4 billion).* Offering a range of investment portfolios, from traditional to alternative asset classes, MCMC are an acknowledged leader in MCMC field.

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.

Dubin Clark & Company, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm whose sole activity is buying and building businesses in partnership with their management teams. Dubin Clark & Company long-term investors, dedicated to creating value by helping our companies grow. Dubin Clark do this through a coordinated approach that includes providing the capital necessary to support internal growth, completing add-on acquisitions to build market share, and helping to develop new strategies for the future, while protecting the independence, culture and values that made the company successful in the first place.

Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (Westwood) manages investment assets and provides services for its clients through its two subsidiaries, Westwood Management Corp. (Westwood Management) and Westwood Trust. Westwood Management provides investment advisory services to corporate retirement plans, public retirement plans, endowments and foundations, a family of mutual funds, which the Company calls the WHG Funds, other mutual funds and clients of Westwood Trust. Westwood Trust provides trust and custodial services and participation in common trust funds that it sponsors to institutions and high net worth individuals. Westwood’s revenues are generally derived from fees based on a percentage of assets under management. On November 16, 2009, Westwood acquired Baxter Financial Corporation.

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