PAI partners is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity firms in Europe with its origins dating back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas, the pan-European merchant bank which merged with BNP in 1999. PAI partners SAS is an independent company, owned by its partners, which manages and advises dedicated private equity funds. The buyout funds include PAI LBO Fund, PAI Europe III, PAI Europe IV and PAI Europe V. PAI partners has offices in Paris, Copenhagen, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich. The Europe-wide team is composed of 50 professionals with diverse backgrounds and sectorial expertise.

Harris Williams was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia with additional offices in Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Harris Williams LLC, doing business as Harris Williams & Co., is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services to aerospace; automotive and heavy duty truck; building products and materials; Chemicals; commercial and industrial equipment; consumer or business services; consumer products; marketing; energy and power; food and beverage; forest and paper products; furniture; healthcare and life sciences; media and entertainment; metal fabrication; mining; business outsourcing; packaging; chemical; retail; technology; telecommunications; textiles; and transportation and logistics sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, management buyouts, and fairness opinions services. Its clientele includes American Tower Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Oglebay Norton, Linesoft Corporation, Snyder Industries, Pioneer International, Banc One Capital Partners, Cedar Creek Partners, and Allied Capital.

AssetCo is in the thick of things. The integrated services company specializes in providing support for emergency response and homeland security agencies in the UK and some 145 countries around the world. Primarily serving the public-service sector, AssetCo offers an array of services including training, fire reserve, emergency vehicle assembly and management, infrastructure support, equipment supply, and technology and information management. Customers include the London Fire Brigade and all other fire and rescue organizations in Great Britain. AssetCo also has an international office in Abu Dhabi, which specializes in serving the civil defense, emergency services, airport and military sectors.

Borsa Italiana S.p.A. was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy. As of October 1, 2007, Borsa Italiana S.p.A. is a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange plc. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. regulates, develops, and manages the Italian equities markets, the Italian Derivatives market, the Securitised Derivatives market, the electronic Fixed Income market, the electronic ETFs and ETCs market, and the Electronic Market where closed-end funds are traded. Borsa Italiana S.p.A. company also operates an after hours market where financial instruments are traded after the close of the daily market. It offers listing, post trading and custody, information, training, and information technologies services.

Founded in 1965, Greylock has helped build more than 300 companies, nearly half of which have gone on to initial public offerings. Its current portfolio consists of interests in more than 60 companies, including interests in Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pandora, Red Bend Software, Zend, and Zipcar. Greylock Management believes it holds the key to venture capital investing. Also doing business as Greylock Partners, the firm provides funding development-stage companies involved in such sectors as information technology, software, semiconductors, the Internet, clean technology, and consumer services, with a focus on the San Francisco Bay area and Boston, as well as emerging markets China, India, and Israel.

Cabot Square Capital was founded in 1996. Cabot Square Capital invests capital in small and mid-sized companies in growing markets in the UK and Western Europe. It also specializes in startup business and companies in a state of expansion or turnaround. The firm currently offers customers its Cabot Square Capital Partners II, with some $200 million ($320 million) of committed capital, and its third fund, CS Capital Partners III, with approximately $300 million ($480 million) of committed capital. The firm typically takes majority control positions in its acquisitions and sees its role as a value-added partner.

Arcapita Bank B.S.C. was founded in 1997 and is based in Manama, Bahrain. Arcapita Bank B.S.C.(c) provides investment banking services to individuals and institutions in Bahrain and internationally. Arcapita Bank B.S.C. company invests in its own account and providing investment banking services in conformity with Islamic Shari’ah rules and principles. Arcapita offers corporate investment, real estate investment, asset-based investment, and venture capital management services.

PLUS Markets plc ('PLUS') is a new small & mid-cap stock exchange for London, seeking to create the deepest pool of small & mid-cap liquidity in Europe. It is a Recognised Investment Exchange in the UK and a Market Operator under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ('MiFID'), authorised to operate both secondary (trading) and primary (listing/quotation) markets.PLUS is fully committed to the principles of competition and choice for trading and listing equity securities in London. Indeed, PLUS introduced competition to small & mid-cap trading in London in December 2005 in response to customer demand, a full two years ahead of the implementation of MiFID in November 2007.PLUS is itself a smaller quoted company, with some 50 employees covering all core exchange functions including Business Development, Information Technology and Regulation. Based in the heart of the City of London, it meets stringent Financial Services Authority requirements in order to offer efficient access to the London investment community.

The Veritas Capital was founded by president Robert McKeon in 1992. The Veritas Capital is a private-equity firm that invests in established companies through buyouts, growth capital investments, and leveraged recapitalizations. The Veritas Capital focuses on public and private middle-market companies in the aerospace and defense, government services, telecommunications, and specialty manufacturing industries. Its current portfolio includes holdings in government contractors McNeil Technologies and Vangent, and electronic components manufacturer Aeroflex, which filed to go public in 2010.

Irving Place Capital was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York. Irving Place Capital is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in middle market companies. The firm seeks to invest in add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, industry consolidations, recapitalizations, growth capital opportunities, and other ownership liquidity situations. It makes investments in companies operating in the, retail, consumer products, financial services, healthcare services, industrial distribution, industrials, packaging, transportation and logistics, and energy sectors. The firm also seeks to invest in companies in the other old economy and service sectors including restaurants; business services; chemicals; natural resources; specialty finance; apparel; financial technology; food and beverages; healthcare; and security and defense industries. It targets investments in companies primarily based in North America and Western Europe. The firm makes equity investments between $75 million and $250 million in companies with EBITDA in excess of $20 million.

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