Benchmark Capital was founded in 1995 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Herzliya Pituach, Israel. Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology driven companies in the areas of enterprise software and services, communications and security, semiconductors, mobile computing, consumer services, and financial services. It mainly seeks to invest in companies based in U.S. and Europe. The firm typically seeks to make initial investments between $3 million and $5 million, with investments between $5 million and $15 million over the life of its portfolio companies. Its investments can range between $100,000 and $10 million or $15 million. The firm seeks to be the first investor in the portfolio companies.

Wexford Capital was founded in 1994 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Wexford Capital LLC is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It invests in the public equity and hedging markets across the globe. The firm employs an opportunistic approach to make its investments in bankruptcy/distressed companies in the energy/natural resource, real estate, technology/telecommunication, and transportation sectors. It utilizes a multi-strategy approach to make its investments.

ACOM Co., Ltd. provides a variety of financial services, namely consumer loans, credit cards, installment sales financing, and loan guarantee products. ACOM Co., Ltd. subsidiaries include investment firm AC Ventures and unsecured loan provider EASY BUY in Thailand. ACOM expanded upon its long relationship with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) in 2008 when it became a consolidated subsidiary of MUFG. The move was a way for ACOM to strengthen is consumer loan and guarantee business. As a result of the merger ACOM dissolved its RELATES call center subsidiary.

Medallion Financial Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty finance company in the United States. Medallion Financial Corp. engages in originating, acquiring, and servicing loans that finance taxicab medallions and various commercial businesses. Medallion Financial Corp. also originates consumer loans for the purchase of recreational vehicles, boats, motorcycles, and trailers, as well as provides other debt, mezzanine, and equity investment capital to companies in various industries. In addition, Medallion Financial Corp. originates commercial loans that finance the purchase of the equipment and related assets necessary to open a new business or the purchase or improvement of an existing business; and loans to small businesses for the purpose of financing inventory and receivables. Further, it raises deposits and conducts other banking activities. Medallion Financial Corp. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

FCStone Group, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. As of September 30, 2009, FCStone Group, Inc. was acquired by International Assets Holding Corp. FCStone Group, Inc. operates as an integrated commodity risk management company. The company provides risk management consulting and transaction execution services to commercial commodity intermediaries, end-users, and producers. It assists primarily middle market customers in optimizing their profit margins and mitigating their exposure to commodity price risk. The company operates through three segments: Commodity and Risk Management Services, Clearing and Execution Services, and Financial Services. The Commodity and Risk Management Services segment offers commodity services to its customers with an emphasis on risk management using futures, options, and other derivative instruments. The Clearing and Execution Services segment provides clearing and direct execution services to commodities firms, fund operators, commodities traders, and others.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

IFG Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the provision of financial services, and corporate and trustee services. The Company operates in three segments: International, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its subsidiaries include IFG Holdings Limited, IFG Securities Limited, IFG Investment and Mortgage Services Limited, IFG Quigley Limited, IFG Mortgage and Assurance Services Limited and IFG Pensco Limited. On March 10, 2010, the Company acquired James Hay Holdings Limited, a provider of self invested personal pensions (SIPPs) in the United Kingdom. On February 17, 2009, the Company acquired 26% interest in Simply Mortgages Holdings Limited.

Candover Investments plc is a United Kingdom-based investment company. The principal activity of the Company is to invest in private equity transactions. It invests in buyouts across Europe via funds managed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Candover Partners Limited. The activities of its principal subsidiary, Candover Partners Limited, are to raise, invest and manage, on behalf of third parties, private equity funds (the Candover Funds), alongside which the Company makes co-investments. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s 10 largest investments included Expro International, Stork, Parques Reunidos, Alma Consulting Group, Ontex, Qioptiq, Equity Trust, Eurotax Glass’s, Capital Safety Group and Innovia Films. During the year ended December 31, 2009, Candover Partners Limited purchased Bearstead Holding Sarl, which owns a 100% interest in Bosting Holding Sarl.

Morgan Keegan is keen on more gain for its clients. A subsidiary of Regions Financial, Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. offers a range of financial advisory, brokerage, and investment banking services. Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. Private Client Group serves individual investors in the South, Midwest, and Texas. Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. Investment Banking segment performs equity and fixed-income sales, trading, and research for institutional clients across the US, as well as overseas. Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. also manages mutual funds and offers access to IPOs, secondary offerings, and private placements. Morgan Keegan has more than 300 offices in nearly 20 states and some $125 billion of client and trust assets under management.

Axcess International, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Addison, Texas. Axcess International, Inc. provides patented radio frequency identification and real time location systems that locate, track, monitor, count, and protect people, assets, and vehicles in the United States. Axcess company offers ActiveTag, a multi-use, single-system solution that supports automatic monitoring and tracking applications, including electronic asset protection and asset management, automatic personnel and vehicle access control, and wireless sensing; and Online supervisor software that provides real time management solutions through reporting, display, and decision and control functions. Its products have applications in automated workforce management, and fleet access control and data capture solutions; electronic asset protection and tracking; electronic inventory control and tracking; and automatic personnel identification.Axcess company also engages in the development, design, manufacture, and marketing of video security technology and video storage products; and packaging, sale, and marketing of high technology security products. It provides its solutions for corporate access control and asset management, airport and port security infrastructure homeland defense, civil and military government, education, and inventory and transportation management. Axcess International, Inc. sells its products through system integrators, distributors, specialty dealers, catalog sales organizations, and original equipment manufacturers.

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