Established in 1987, The Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings.The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with more than $90.5 billion under management. With 67 funds across four investment disciplines (buyouts, credit alternatives, growth capital and real estate), Carlyle combines global vision with local insight, relying on a top-flight team of 400+ investment professionals operating out of offices in 19 countries to uncover superior opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America.While open to opportunities wherever they can be found, Carlyle focuses on sectors in which it has demonstrated expertise: aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, real estate, technology & business services and telecommunications & media.

Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) is hoping to recycle the business savvy it applied to the aluminum manufacturing business and use it to generate returns in the telecommunications field. The private equity firm was launched in 1987 to invest in an aluminum smelter plant in Washington state. It now owns a number of manufacturing facilities, including Columbia Commercial Building Products (aluminum windows) and Specialty Chemical Products LLC (silica extraction from crushed glass). In recent years the firm has turned its attention to international telecom providers; those holdings include One Communications, THUS Group, and Magnet Networks (Internet, telephone, and video provider in Ireland).

Cruttenden Partners is trying to root the evil out of money. The investment firm says it invests in companies that "help create a better world." It targets companies with strong management teams and offers services, such as financing, structuring, exiting, equity optimization. With a focus on early and late-stage investments, Cruttenden Partners' portfolio includes holdings in the financial, biomedical, and technology industries, such as SRS Sound Design (audio electronics), eGoose (financial advisory products for online traders), and PRISMedical Corporation (fluid therapies).

Deutsche Beteiligungs AG was founded in 1965 and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Deutsche Beteiligungs AG is a public investment firm specializing in management buyout transactions of middle market companies. It does not invest in start-up and early stage companies. The firm prefers to make investments across a broad range of sectors, including automotive supplies; machine and plant construction; printing, media, and packaging; industrial services and logistics; and measuring and automation technology. It primarily invests in mid sized companies based in Germany and in German speaking countries. The firm typically invests between €50 million ($70.42 million) and €250 million ($352.10 million) in companies with revenues between €50 million ($70.42 million) and €500 million ($704.20 million).

Resource America was founded in 1966 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Resource America, Inc. (Resource America) is a specialized asset management company that uses industry specific expertise to evaluate, originate, service and manage investment opportunities in the commercial finance, real estate and financial fund management sectors. As a specialized asset manager, the Company’s focuses to develop investment funds for outside investors, for which it provides asset management services, under long-term management arrangements either through a contract with, or as the manager or general partner of, the Company’s sponsored investment funds. As of September 30, 2009, the Company’s assets under management were $13.7 billion. The Company has developed and managed public and private investment entities, a real estate investment trust (REIT) and collateralized debt obligation (CDO) issuers.

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.

Pershing marshals its forces in the service of securities clearing, execution, and settlement for broker/dealers and registered investment advisors worldwide. Pershing company deals in domestic and international equities, fixed-income products, options, annuities, and foreign exchange. Pershing also performs compliance support, custody, brokerage account reporting, and prime brokerage services, and offers programs that assist brokerages and investment advisors in supplying mutual funds, retirement planning, managed accounts, and other investment products and services to their clients. Pershing is a member of more than 60 exchanges.

KBW, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment bank specializing in the financial services industry in the United States and Europe. KBW, Inc. provides various investment banking services, including mergers and acquisitions and other strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income securities offerings, and mutual thrift conversions; and equity and fixed income sales and trading. KBW, Inc. also offers research services comprising fundamental and objective analysis that identifies investment opportunities and assists investor to make investment decisions; and asset management services consisting of investment management and other advisory services to institutional clients, private high net worth clients, and various investment vehicles. KBW, Inc. serves bank and thrift holding companies, banking and insurance companies, thrift institutions, broker-dealers, mortgage banks, asset management companies, mortgage and equity real estate investment trusts, consumer and specialty finance firms, financial processing companies, and securities exchanges. KBW, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Leerink Swann LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Leerink Swann LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services to the healthcare industry. The firm offers private placements, initial public offerings, PIPEs, valuation and fairness opinions, due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Additionally, it provides institutional sales and trading management, cash management, company transformation, turnaround management, and marketing strategy development services.

Aeon Credit Service (Asia) was the first non-bank credit card issuer in Hong Kong, and today it is one of its largest. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited provides about 850,000 cardholders with more than 30 different house, affinity, and corporate cards under the American Express, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa, and UnionPay brands. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited also offers personal loans, cash advances, and insurance, but credit cards account for about 70% of its total revenues. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) operates in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited is part of Japanese retail and financial giant AEON CO.

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