Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated investment bank serving institutional, corporate, government, and high-net-worth individuals. The company operates in two segments, Institutional Securities and Wealth and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory and capital raising services, and sales and trading for users and suppliers of capital. This segment’s products and services include trading in commodities; credit products, including investment-grade debt securities and credit derivatives; equity securities and equity derivatives; foreign exchange services; fund-linked products; index arbitrage and other program-trading activities; interest rate products; leveraged finance, including high-yield and distressed debt and noninvestment grade loans; life insurance finance and risk solutions; margin lending; market making in securities and options; matched book activities; money market instruments; prime services; proprietary trading; real estate activities; risk arbitrage; securities lending; securities, futures, and options clearing services; and structured products, including asset-backed securities.

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.

Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs more than 14,600 people in approximately 70 office locations in 28 countries. Macquarie Group Limited (MGL) acts as a non-operating holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it provides banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. The Company operates in five operating groups and two operating divisions, which include Macquarie Securities Group, Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Funds Group, Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities, Corporate and Asset Finance Division, Real Estate Banking Division, Banking and Financial Services Group and Corporate. Effective November 30, 2009, the Company acquired Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller (FPK). Effective December 31, 2009, MGL acquired Blackmont Capital Inc. from CI Financial Corp. In January 2010, the Company acquired Delaware Management Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Delaware Investments) from Lincoln National Corporation. In January 2010, the Company announced the launch of Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund.

General Finance Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California. General Finance Corporation (GFN) has two operating subsidiaries, Royal Wolf and Pac-Van, that leases and sells storage container products, modular buildings and mobile offices through 18 customer service centers (CSCs) in Australia, six CSCs in New Zealand and 26 branch locations across 18 states in the United States. As of June 30, 2009, the Company had 28,227 and 11,347 lease fleet units in the Asia-Pacific area and United States, respectively. The Company does business in two distinct, but related industries; modular space and mobile storage. Pac-Van leases and sells modular space products. In October 2008, the Company acquired Pac-Van, Inc., through a merger of Mobile Office Acquisition Corp., the parent company of Pac-Van, and GFN's wholly owned subsidiary GFN North America Corp.

Jerusalem Venture Partners was founded in 1993 and is based in Jerusalem, Israel. Jerusalem Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and startup investments. The firm prefers to invest in enterprise software and media technologies including gaming and virtual worlds, mobile media, software and hardware applications, internet advertising, semiconductors and innovative materials, and communications and networking sectors. It typically invests in companies based in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia.

Ameritrans Capital Corporation was founded in 1979 and is based in New York, New York. Ameritrans Capital Corporation (Ameritrans) is a closed-end investment company, which makes loans and investments with the goal of generating both current income and capital appreciation. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Elk Associates Funding Corporation (Elk), the Company makes loans to finance the acquisition and operation of small businesses as permitted by the United States Small Business Administration (the SBA) Regulation. Elk was organized primarily to provide long-term loans to businesses eligible for investments (Small Business Concerns) by small business investment companies (SBICs). Ameritrans makes loans, which have primarily been secured by real estate mortgages, senior corporate loans and equity investments which have been in income producing real estate properties, or in real estate construction projects. It operates in five segments: Corporate Loans, Commercial Loans, Life Insurance Settlements, Equity Investments and Taxicab Medallion Finance.

United Western Bancorp, Inc. (United Western Bancorp) is a unitary thrift holding company. The Company’s operations are conducted primarily through United Western Bank (United Western Bank or the Bank), UW Trust Company (UW Trust), Matrix Financial Services Corporation (Matrix Financial), UWBK Fund Management, Inc., (Fund Management) and UW Investment Services Inc. (UWIS), all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. As of December 31, 2009, it had eight full service banking locations in the Colorado Front Range marketplace (downtown Denver, Cherry Creek, Hampden, Centennial, Boulder, Loveland, Fort Collins and Longmont), and a loan production office servicing the Aspen and Roaring Fork Valley market areas.

Janney Montgomery Scott offers a bevy of financial products and services through about 100 offices up and down the East Coast. One of the largest regional broker-dealers in the US, the firm offers fixed-income brokerage, equity research, wealth management, and retirement planning, and acts as a market maker for approximately 150 NASDAQ-listed stocks. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC also provides investment banking services such as public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions support to emerging and middle-market companies. Janney has more than $13 billion of assets under management. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC was established in 1832 and acquired by The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company 150 years later.

Baker Capital, founded in 1995, is a New York-based private equity firm with $ 1.5 billion under management. Baker Capital invests in growth companies at all stages of development in both Europe and North America. The partners of Baker Capital have extensive private equity and operational experience, allowing the firm to provide its portfolio companies with not only capital but also strategic thinking and relationships.

Matrix Asset Management was formed in early 2010 to group the assets of Matrix, SEAMARK, and GrowthWorks under one umbrella. The combined companies operate offices across Canada and manage about $3 billion in assets. Matrix Asset Management strives to be the investment point-of-origin for its clients. Part mutual fund manager, part private equity firm, Matrix Asset Management is the holding company for SEAMARK Asset Management, which offers portfolio management services to institutional and high-net-worth individuals; and GrowthWorks, a venture capital firm and fund manager. Other holdings include Mavrix Fund Management, a mutual funds manager and subsidiary of GrowthWorks.

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