MicroFinancial Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialized commercial finance company that provides microticket equipment leasing and other financing services in the United States. MicroFinancial Incorporated provides financing alternatives, and leases and rents commercial equipment to start-up and established businesses for use in their daily operations. MicroFinancial Incorporated leases water coolers, security equipment, point-of-sale authorization systems, automotive repair equipment, restaurant equipment, advertising and display equipment, paging systems, and other business equipment. MicroFinancial Incorporated primarily sources its originations through a network of independent equipment vendors, sales organizations, and other dealer-based origination networks. MicroFinancial Incorporated was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Eight Peaks seeks out and invests in near start up and small companies that are in sectors exhibiting long term growth. The investments must have the potential and catalysts to generate asymmetric returns. Once invested, Eight Peaks assists the companies to realise their potentials. Returns are generated on exits, which can be IPOs or trade sales. Eight Peaks makes investments in all sectors including technology, energy and natural resources, specifically in businesses and opportunities with the potential for substantial asymmetric capital appreciation. The focus is primarily on high growth companies, although investments may be made in anticipation of receiving dividends.

Opus Investment Management, Inc was founded in 1993 and is based in Worcester, Massachusetts. Opus Investment Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. The firm primarily provides its services to corporations. It also caters to pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, traditional and alternative insurance entities, corporate retirement funds and benefit programs, public retirement funds, foundations and endowments, and mutual funds. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages a family of mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in government bonds, treasury inflation-protected securities, AAA rated bonds, AA rated bonds, A rated bonds, BBB rated bonds, BB rated bonds, B rated bonds, and CCC rated bonds. It employs a fundamental analysis with a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. The firm benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Index and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index.

Founded in 1999, Agave Capital is fully invested and has not been pursuing new opportunities. The venture capital firm has holdings in high-tech companies, including Internet, telecommunications, networking, semiconductor, and software startups. Portfolio companies include personal computing systems maker ClearCube Technology and software maker Surgient. Past investments included TippingPoint (acquired by 3Com) and DiscoveryCom (acquired by Nokia).

The Patriarch platform is a vertically integrated distressed private equity firm with robust in-house operational turnaround expertise. Patriarch Partners, LLC ("Patriarch"), founded in 2000, was built upon a proprietary patented financial model designed to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. Patriarch has since evolved into a global investment firm that concentrates on direct investments in distressed businesses, managing funds with over $7 billion of equity and secured loan assets with equity investments in more than 70 companies, and controlling interests in approximately two-thirds of these.Patriarch focuses on the acquisition of undervalued companies where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a business and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around the world while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to investors. Patriarch believes that making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. The firm offers a peerless approach that combines innovative financial models, restructuring techniques and the operational expertise necessary to rebuild businesses facing complex circumstances.Challenging conditions often mean the need to improve operations from the ground up; the situations require equal concentration and adeptness between financial engineering and operational execution. An expanded global reach is critical and Patriarch has acquired manufacturing facilities in nations where lower labor costs can help U.S. companies compete in the competitive global economy, Patriarch Partners Management Group, established in 2005, is a team of seasoned and connected global professionals strategically placed among portfolio companies to fortify management and to unearth and implement necessary efficiencies, new technologies and unique strategies.

Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is an operating subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is a private equity firm specializing in small and middle market transactions. The firm prefers to acquire businesses and assets from financially distressed sellers and through divestitures from large corporations. It seeks to invest in management buyouts, private company recapitalizations, corporate orphans, distressed debt, complex structural situations, special situations, partnerships with fundless sponsors and industry executives, corporate lift-outs, difficult or non-traditional deal situations, and asset pool purchases. The firm seeks to invest in specialty finance, retail, consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare services and facilities, and business services. It invests between $10 million and $250 million in companies having enterprise values of $30 million to $500 million. The firm makes control investments as a sole investor or co-investor in transactions.

The Clearing Corporation (TCC) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continuously matched throughout the day, TCC substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts. The independent clearinghouse serves major dealers and participants in the worldwide derivatives market, most of which are stockholders. The company was formed in 1925 as The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation and became the first independent clearinghouse for futures markets in the US. TCC was bought by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2009.

Lazard Middle Market LLC is an investment banking firm that represents sellers of public and private middle-market businesses in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. The services provided by the firm include mergers and acquisitions, distressed company, and private placement advisory services; and valuations and opinions services. It offers a range of domestic and cross-border transactions including sales, mergers, and partnerships and joint ventures. Goldsmith provides financial advisory services to distressed companies in both Chapter 11 court-supervised proceedings and in out-of-court workouts. Its valuation services include strategic alternative assessments; fairness opinions and analyses; equity placements; purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment opinions; management incentive compensation plans; estate and gift tax planning; and litigation support. The firm caters to various industries including consumer, food & beverage, healthcare, industrial products and manufacturing, natural resources and environment, publishing, printing, media, technology, telecom, transportation and business services.

Investor is a Nordic-based industrial holding company founded almost one hundred years ago by the Wallenberg family. Today we have investment activities in Europe, the United States and Asia. The business concept is to generate long-term attractive returns for our shareholders by owning and developing companies with solid potential for value creation. We are an engaged owner and apply experience, knowledge and a unique network to develop listed and unlisted companies to make them best-in-class.

Aurora Capital Partners (also known as Aurora Capital Group) focuses on buyouts of midsized industrial manufacturers, distributors, and service businesses. It typically invests between $150 million and $1.5 billion in companies in various industries. Employing a buy-and-build strategy, the private equity firm works with existing management to create organic growth, then adds on other purchases to increase the value of its portfolio companies. Holdings include United Plastics Group, Impaxx, Mitchell International, and ADCO Global. Aurora Capital, which is investing its third private equity fund, has some $2 billion of assets under management.

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