Co-chairman Lawrence Lawson III and Robert Barr, president of North American operations, founded the company in 1996. Lincoln International LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory; private placements; fairness opinions; valuations; Initial Public Offerings (IPO); and financial restructuring services. Lincoln International is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Paris, France.

IDB Holdings Corporation Ltd. (IDB Holding) part of the IDB Group is an Israel-based company engaged in diversified investment, financial and other related operations. IDB Holding Corporation owns a 100% interest in IDB Development Corporation Ltd., which holds and centralizes the Group’s investment activities. Through its interest in IDB Development, IDB Holding’s business interests include insurance through Clal Insurance, financial activities through Credit Suisse and Clal Finance, communications through 013 NetVision and Cellcom Communications, technology through several of its subsidiaries, industry through Makhteshim Agan Industries, Nesher, Taavura and several other companies, real estate development through Property & Building Corp. and Gav-Yam, and retail trade and tourism through Shufersal, Golf & Co. and Clal Tourism.

CME Group was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. CME Group Inc. offers access to all asset classes for futures products from a single electronic trading platform, and on trading floors in Chicago and New York City. The Company offers markets in futures and options on futures contracts based on the United States interest rate yield curve, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, metals and alternative investment products. Its products are traded through the CME Globex electronic trading platform, its open outcry auction markets in Chicago and New York City or through privately negotiated transactions that the Company clears. It serves the risk management and investment needs of customers around the globe. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately 140 clearing firms. In April 2009, the Company acquired the Carvill Hurricane Index from Carvill America Inc. and renamed it the CME Hurricane Index.

Muscatine Foods (formerly Varied Investments, Inc.) heard what you were sayin'. Muscatine Foods' name now better reflects what it does -- the Muscatine, Iowa-based company invests in various midwestern ag businesses. Among the units owned by the holding company are the Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), Kent Feeds (which also owns animal food maker Evergreen Mills), and Blue Seal Feeds. Muscatine's Precision Foods has acquired Connecticut-based hot beverage manufacturer Alternative Channels. Muscatine Foods is owned by the families of GPRC founders Gage Kent and S.G. Stein.

ABRY Partners, LLC was co-founded in 1989 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. ABRY Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in late stage; total buy-outs of financial investors, families, publicly-traded or strategic owners; acquisition roll-ups, platform acquisitions; leveraged buyouts; industry consolidations; add-on acquisitions; mezzanine, recapitalizations, turnaround; and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in media, communication, business services, education, entertainment, healthcare services, information services, and online media industries with a focus on television and radio broadcasting, cable television, business-to-business, magazine publishing, newsletter publishing, conventions/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, consumer magazine publishing, recorded music libraries, proprietary database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertising. The firm typically invests between $25 million and $150 million of equity in case of the private equity fund or between $15 million and $50 million of mezzanine/senior equity capital in its portfolio companies.

George Mairs, Jr. founded the firm in 1931, and George Power joined in 1944. Mairs and Power's two flagship funds -- Mairs and Power Growth Fund (opened in 1958) and the Mairs and Power Balanced Fund (1961) -- have some $2 billion in assets under management. The firm also manages about $3 billion in assets for retail customers, benefits managers, and charitable foundations. Mairs and Power relies on a conservative investment strategy, where it seeks growth stocks that it holds for long periods of time. It invests heavily in companies based in the Midwest, where the firm is based, because of its familiarity with the region.

President Joseph Shocken founded Broadmark Capital in 1987; since then the company has advised or invested in more than 150 deals worth some $1 billion. Broadmark Capital makes a big deal out of the little guy. The merchant bank provides financing and advisory services, including private placements of stock and mergers & acquisitions guidance, to emerging companies in the US and Europe. It also makes direct investments in firms. The company's typical deal ranges from $500,000 to more than $60 million. Targeted industries include life sciences and health care, technology, financial services, and communications.

Informative Research Inc. is an information provider for lenders, brokers, and agents involved in the mortgage lending business. Informative Research helps mitigate the financial risk involved with mortgage lending by providing clients with credit reports on potential customers, and identifying fraudulent or invalid loan applications. Informative Research Inc. also offers flood zone determinations, including life of loan reports and portfolio monitoring, as well as automated valuation modeling, including property valuation reports and physical appraisal audits. Informative Research was founded in 1946.

MMC is a venture capital firm that invests growth capital in UK companies. MMC are an active investor and look to work closely and in partnership with impressive management teams. Although MMC approach is generalist, MMC focus on growth leads us to invest particularly in healthcare, financial services, support services and technology, including cleantech and media.MMC have substantial capital available through managed funds and a Syndicate of private investors. MMC offers MMC investors a diversified and tax-efficient portfolio service. When risk is properly calibrated and management teams are well supported venture capital offers superior returns. Since MMC began investing in 2000 MMC has established a strong track record of growing and selling businesses. MMC was named EIS Fund Manager of the Year by the EISA in January 2009. MMC is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is a member of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA).

Hong Leong Group Malaysia was founded in 1963 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hong Leong Group Malaysia, a conglomerate, operates in manufacturing, trading and distribution, semiconductor assembly, banking and financial services, insurance, stock broking and investment banking, property development, and hotel and resort sectors. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides banking, investment management, stock and share broking, corporate advisory, fund management, unit trust, share financing, and futures and options broking services, as well as offers life and general insurance products; manufactures and sells ceramic, wall, and flooring tiles; designs, manufactures, assembles, tests, and sells integrated circuits, semiconductor devices, electronic components, and lead frames; and manufactures and assembles motorcycles, scooters, motorcycle engines, and spare parts, as well as distributes motorcycles and motorcycle components. It also manufactures newsprint for newspaper publishers; distributes building material products; develops leasehold condominiums, residential developments, and homes, as well as engages in property investment and development; produces edible oils and fats, and operates flour mills; manufactures asbestos cement sheets and pipe products; manufactures furniture; and operates hotels and resorts.

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