Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. was founded in 1818 and has offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., formerly known as Brown Brothers & Co., is a private bank, provides commercial banking, investment management, brokerage, and trust services to private companies and individuals. It also performs merger advisory, foreign exchange, custody services, commercial banking, and corporate financing services.

Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is a global alternative asset manager that raises, invests and manages private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Fund investors provide the capital for these funds, which it invests and manages on their behalf. Fortress earns management fees based on the size of its funds, incentive income based on the performance of its funds. Its offering of alternative investment products includes private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Hedge funds allow periodic contributions and redemptions of capital by investors and make relatively shorter-term, more liquid investments. Hybrid funds share certain of the characteristics of both private equity and hedge funds. It refers to these investment products, collectively, as the Fortress Funds. As of December 31, 2009, it managed alternative assets in three core businesses: Private Equity, Liquid Hedge Funds and Hybrid Funds.

Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technologies and business models in emerging and high-growth markets, across a broad range of sectors including software, technology-enabled services, communications and emerging technology.El Dorado has a two-decade track record of successful early-stage technology investing, including early investments in Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies, including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens and Texas Instruments.With more than $750 million in capital under management, EDV has a stable group of institutional investors, most of whom have invested with EDV for more than a decade. EDV's limited partners also include a select group of successful entrepreneurs and other technology luminaries, known as EDV's Technology Partner Network, who play an active role as strategic consultants to EDV and its portfolio companies.

Guangdong Investment Limited engages in investment holding, property holding and investment, investing in infrastructure and energy projects, water supply business, highway operations, electric power generation, financing, hotel ownership and operations, property development, toll roads and bridges construction, hotel management, and department stores operation. The company is a subsidiary of GDH Limited. Segments The company’s segments include Property Investment and Development; Toll Roads and Bridges; Water Distribution; Electric Power Generation; Hotel Operations and Management; and Department Stores. Property Investment and Development segment invests in various properties in Hong Kong and Mainland China that are held for rental income purposes, and engages in the development of properties in Mainland China. This segment also provides property management services for certain commercial properties; and rents a shopping mall, including department stores, as well as two tower blocks. Toll Roads and Bridges segment invests in various road and bridge projects in Mainland China. Water Distribution segment operates a water supply project in Mainland China supplying natural water to Hong Kong, Dongguan, and Shenzhen. Electric Power Generation segment operates coal-fire power plants that supply electricity in the Guangdong Province, Mainland China.

Founded in 1989, Alfa Group Consortium is one of Russia’s largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, media, water supply and water disposal, as well as other industrial-trade and special-situation investments. The Group typically focuses on value-oriented, longer-term opportunities, primarily in Russia and the CIS, but also invests in other markets which form part of the Group’s strategic business objectives.Alfa-Banking Group, includes Alfa-Bank Russia, Alfa-Bank Ukraine, banks in the Netherlands, in Belarus and in Kazakhstan as well as representative offices in Cyprus, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Alfa-Bank Russia one of Russias largest private banks, is the Group's flagship company. The Bank provides a full range of corporate, retail and investment banking services, asset management and trade finance, and has a considerable branch network in Russia and has subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Cyprus, the USA and the United Kingdom. Alfa-Bank Ukraine, one of the ten largest and is one of the most dynamic privately-owned banks in Ukraine, operates in all key sectors of the banking sphere. Alfa Capital Management is the Group's asset management arm whose clients include Russian as well as international institutional and private clients. Alfa Capital Partners is the Group's private equity and real estate investment advisory arm. Alfa Group is also the owner of AlfaStrakhovanie Group one of the largest Russian insurers with a diversified portfolio of services comprising both comprehensive business insurance coverage and an extensive range of retail insurance products.

Allegis Capital was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Santa Monica, California and San Francisco, California. Allegis Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early-stage startup companies. The firm also provides incubation services. It typically invests in developing enabling technology and infrastructure, which serve emerging information technology markets with a focus on enabling hardware devices, enterprise software solutions, broadband and wireless delivery technologies, wired and wireless communications, digital media and commerce enablers, internet delivery platforms and services, security, and information services. The firm prefers to invest in the western region of United States and selected investments in Asia. It seeks to invest between $3 million and $5 million in its first investment to acquire an initial 20 % ownership stake in companies and provides capital support for subsequent financings. The firm typically acts as the lead investor and will partner with other venture capital firms. It prefers a board seat on its portfolio companies.

Hamon Investment Group believes in Asia's potential to provide investors with long-term capital growth, and it wants to put your money where its mouth is. Hamon is an independent asset management firm specializing in Asian investments. It offers open-ended funds and individual discretionary accounts to corporations, family trusts, financial institutions, pension funds, and private investors. Its flagship fund, Hamon Asian Market Leaders Fund, invests in regional Asian companies and emerging blue chip growth companies. The Hamon Selected Asian Portfolio fund makes strategic equity investments in listed Asian growth companies. Its Asian iTech Fund invests in listed equities of Asian IT and electronics companies.

The company was founded in April 2000 under the name BGL Investment Partners as a joint initiative of Banque Générale du Luxembourg (BGL) – now BGL BNP Paribas – and several private investors. The aim was to provide added momentum to regional entrepreneurship while at the same time offering shareholders a stable, high-quality revenue base. BIP was seen as heir to the traditions of BGL, with its long history of support for the creation and ongoing development of companies in Luxembourg and beyond. To continue and consolidate these achievements, the bank opted to contribute its institutional investment business to a new, independent company. This focuses talents and resources to unleash the value of existing firms and turn new ideas into business reality. The launch of BIP was associated with a capital increase through an Initial Public Offering, allowing other institutions and private investors to participate in the venture. Following this IPO, Banque Générale owned approximately 40% of equity, with the balance held by a group of core investors and members of the public. In February 2006, the company changed its name to BIP Investment Partners in the wake of the rebranding of Banque Générale. Meanwhile, BGL has discreased its share of capital to 10%, while the parent of insurance company La Luxembourgeoise increased its stake to 15%.

FAF Advisors, Inc. is an asset management arm of U.S. Bank National Association. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. It also manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in value and growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. It employs a fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, Inc. FAF Advisors, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Panmure Gordon & Co. plc offers investment bank and institutional stockbroking services. It provides advice to companies on their financing requirements through equity capital markets, including flotations, private placements, secondary issues, and follow-on services and corporate finance advisory. The company acts as corporate broker or adviser to approximately 100 companies and investment trusts. It provides sales and trading to institutional investors, producing research on approximately 250 companies and 300 investment trusts. Panmure Gordon makes markets in approximately 750 stocks and investment trusts.

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