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.

Reglera is a leading organization specializing in quality and regulatory consulting and process outsourcing. Reglera focuses on two primary industries: medical devices and human cellular and tissue products. Since 1994, Reglera has been helping tissue and medical device companies navigate the regulatory maze through its expertise and understanding of regulatory and quality systems requirements.Based in Lakewood, CO, Reglera is recognized as one of the largest and fastest growing regulatory consulting and outsourcing companies in the world. With more than 100 employees worldwide, and an unmatched group of strategic partners, Reglera is uniquely positioned to provide companies with products and services covering a wide variety of technical and support areas. Reglera fixed bid pricing approach is unique to Reglera industry and provides significant benefits to Reglera clients.Whether you are developing a new product, improving an existing product, need assistance with the FDA, or are simply trying to comply with the myriad of regulation and standards, Reglera's products and services will accelerate your success and profitability. If the right regulatory partner for your company is one that not only advises, but also specializes in implementation and results, choose Reglera. Reglera combination of regulatory expertise and operational knowledge will accelerate your products to market and ensure compliance and operational efficiency. In addition, all of Reglera products and services come with the guarantee that if you receive any FDA observations, Reglera will respond to the FDA and correct the issue and at no charge to you.

Based in Minneapolis, ShoreView Industries manages $600 million in private equity funds. ShoreView invests this partnership in established, middle-market companies with operations in North America, across a wide range of industries. ShoreView structures a variety of acquisition, recapitalization and build-up transactions, typically in businesses with revenues ranging between $20 million and $300 million.The Principals at ShoreView have completed over 50 lower middle-market transactions together over the past several years. ShoreView commitment to partnering with entrepreneurial companies in the lower middle market has resulted in a highly successful track record. The team has a broad and complementary array of transactional, legal, financial and operating skills and has substantial, relevant prior career experience in areas of corporate law, senior lending and other sectors of private equity.

Cash America International, Inc. provides specialty financial services to individuals primarily in the United States and Mexico. Cash America International, Inc. operates in three segments: Pawn Lending, Cash Advance, and Check Cashing. The Pawn Lending segment offers pawn loans through its pawn lending locations, which operate under the names Cash America Pawn and SuperPawn in the United States, and Prenda Facil in Mexico. This segment also sells previously-owned merchandise acquired from customers who do not redeem their pawned goods, as well as sells items purchased from third-parties or customers. The Cash Advance segment offers unsecured cash advances in selected lending locations that are operated under the names Cash America Payday Advance and Cashland in the United States; and short-term cash advances over the Internet under the names CashNetUSA in the United States, QuickQuid in the United Kingdom, and DollarsDirect in the Canada and Australia. Cash America International, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

First Reserve is a leading investment firm specializing in the energy industry. Throughout its 25-year history, First Reserve has developed an unparalleled franchise by investing exclusively in the energy industry and utilizing its broad base of specialized industry knowledge to the benefit of its portfolio companies and investors. First Reserve believes that strategic diversification across a wide range of energy industry sectors has been a major contributor to the long-term, superior investment record achieved by the First Reserve funds across economic cycles.First Reserve is an independently owned firm whose current management team, in place since 1983, collectively has more than 300 years of energy investment experience. The firm has developed a global platform by investing exclusively in the energy industry, having invested approximately $12.5 billion in equity. First Reserve has invested in over 100 platform acquisitions and First Reserve portfolio companies have completed approximately 300 add-on transactions.First Reserve generally targets investments in global energy companies with enterprise values of up to $10 billion. First Reserve’s investor base is predominately institutional and consists primarily of corporate and public retirement funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations.

Dowgate Capital plc, through its subsidiaries, provides financial advisory and stock broking services to the smaller companies in the United Kingdom. Dowgate Capital company’s services include corporate finance adviser, nominated adviser, PLUS Markets corporate adviser, official list sponsor, takeover code specialist, and corporate finance adviser to smaller quoted companies. Dowgate Capital also provides private client and corporate broking services.

Pacific Investment Management Company LLC was founded in 1971 and is based in New Port Beach, California with an additional office in New York City. Pacific Investment Management Company LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, investment companies, and foreign clients. It also manages accounts for high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, universities, foundations, endowments, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in value stocks of companies. The firm invests in fixed income securities including governments, corporates, mortgages, asset backs, money market, and hedged international bonds while creating its portfolios. It employs fundamental and quantitative analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking approaches while making its investments.

Founded in the late 1800s as The West Point Telephone and Electric Company, a telephone and electric concern that would eventually rival AT&T in the long distance industry, ITC today answers to an altogether different call -- that of a financial holding group. It has invested in several telecom companies, including MindSpring, headhunter.net, and knology. Current holdings include ITC Commercial Funding, which provides commercial mortgages for income-producing properties in the South; restaurant supplier Instawares; and Realview TV, a streaming video system developer. ITC Holding also has interests in the Gro-Eco growing system and venture capital firm Kinetic Ventures.

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

CI Financial Corp. (CI), formerly CI Financial Income Fund, is a diversified wealth management firm. It is engaged in the management, marketing, distribution and administration of mutual funds, segregated funds, structured products and other fee-earning investment products for Canadian investors, distributed primarily through brokers, independent financial planners and insurance advisors, including Assante Capital Management Ltd. and Assante Financial Management Ltd. It operates in two segments. The Asset Management provides the majority of its income and derives its revenues from the fees earned on the management of several families of mutual, segregated, pooled and closed-end funds, structured products and discretionary accounts. The Asset Administration derives its revenues from commissions and fees earned on the sale of mutual funds and other financial products, and ongoing service to clients. On December 31, 2009, it completed the sale of Blackmont Capital Inc. to Macquarie Group.

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