Laird Norton Tyee Trust Company (LNTyee) caters to the ultra-wealthy. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company grew out of the private asset management efforts of the Laird and Norton families, northwestern timber-industry pioneers and founders of forest products firms such as General Timber Company and Potlach Lumber. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company (categorized as a multi-family office, or MFO) provides wealth management services, along with such necessities as family governance, financial education, and charitable gift planning. The firm has more than $4 billion in assets under advisement for some 430 clients.

Centre Partners Management LLC was founded in 1986 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas. Centre Partners Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies, private family owned companies, management buyouts, acquisitions, growth capital, management investment partnerships, and going private transactions. Within management investment partnerships, the firm prefers to invest in renal disease, fixed base operations for general aviation, liquid waste collection and treatment, and midstream segment of the energy industry. It focuses on companies engaged in the consumer; business services; energy; industrial products and services; financial services; healthcare; cable and media; and multi-unit sectors including retail, restaurant, and drugstore. The firm primarily invests in companies based in North America. It typically invests between $15 million and $85 million in the portfolio companies and for management investment partnerships, the firm generally invests a smaller amount, with a final investment amount of over $50 million.

Since its inception in 1975, Samsung C&T America Inc.’s philosophy of creative marketing, determined self-development, and entrepreneurship has enabled its remarkable growth and success as a global trading and investment company. Attuned to the pulse of the transforming economy and the changing needs of its customers, SCTA continues to venture away from traditional methods but remains committed to service and quality.Samsung C&T America Inc. (SCTA), is a global trading and investment company that functions as an independent American subsidiary of the Korean conglomerate Samsung C&T Corporation, one of the Samsung Group companies. SCTA is divided into three modes of operation: international commodities trading, product marketing and distribution, and new business development. In trade, SCTA specializes in a variety of commodities such as chemicals and steel. SCTA's strength lies in its expertise in dealing with foreign markets. Sharing Samsung C&T Corp.'s international network spanning 82 offices in 55 countries, SCTA is able to operate both as a major trading intermediary and as a conduit for an immense volume of information. In 2008, Samsung C&T America’s total revenue was $331 million.

Asset Alliance Corporation was founded in 1996 and is based in New York City. Asset Alliance Corporation, the parent company of Asset Alliance Group, is an investment management holding company that buys preferred interests in other privately held investment management firms specializing in alternative investment strategies. The company usually buys an equity interest in established mid size firms that utilize hedging and other risk-modifying strategies when making investments. Asset Alliance Corporation incorporates over 13 affiliate hedge fund managers and investment products for which it provides advisory services.

Duke Street is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition, leveraged buyouts and buyins of established middle market companies, consolidation, turnaround, public to private transition, parent company distress, and buy and build investments. It does not invest in start-ups and early-stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in chemical; distribution; corporate services; business services and outsourcing; retail and consumer; food; industrial; healthcare; leisure; Biotechnology, Medical, Chemistry, New materials, and financial services. Within the business services and outsourcing sector, it focuses on public and private sector facilities management; white-collar engineering consultancy, particularly environmental; testing; outsourcing, particularly third party administration; waste management and recycling; and printing and packaging companies with strong intellectual property and significant service element. In the retail and consumer sector, the firm focuses on specialty retailers, chilled food manufacturers, and niche branded FMCG companies. Within the healthcare sector, it focuses on specialized healthcare service providers, producers of pharmaceuticals, and medical equipment manufacturers. In the leisure sector the firm focuses on health and fitness and sports companies, gaming, Continental European hotel groups, and niche tourism related companies.

Compass Diversified Holdings was founded in 2005 and is based in Westport, Connecticut. Compass Diversified Holdings operates as a subsidiary of The Compass Group LLC. Compass Diversified Holdings (the Trust) acquires controlling interests in and actively manages businesses. The Trust’s manager is Compass Group Management LLC (CGM). As of December 31, 2009, the Company had six business segments: Compass AC Holdings, Inc. (ACI or Advanced Circuits), American Furniture Manufacturing, Inc. (AFM or American Furniture), Anodyne Medical Device, Inc. (Anodyne), Fox Factory, Inc. (Fox) HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. (HALO) and CBS Personnel Holdings, Inc. (CBS or CBS Personnel). In March 2010, the Company announced that its subsidiary, Advanced Circuits, acquired Circuit Express, Inc. In April 2010, the Company acquired Liberty Safe and Security Products, Inc.

Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides cash access products and related services to the gaming industry in the United States and internationally. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. cash access products and services include Casino Cash Plus 3-in-1 ATM that enables patrons to access cash through ATM cash withdrawals, point-of-sale (POS) debit card transactions, and credit card cash advances; QuikCash, a non-ATM cash advance kiosk for the casino gaming industry; money transfer services; check verification and warranty services that allow gaming establishments to manage and reduce risks on patron checks that they cash; and full service kiosks, a multi-function patron kiosk for cash access into self-service kiosks for slot ticket redemption services.Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. also provides information services, such as central credit, a gaming patron credit bureau that assists gaming establishments in credit making decisions; QuikCash Plus Web, a cash access transaction processing system for cashier operations that run on a gaming establishment's own computer hardware; QuikReports, which provide access to information on patron cash access activity; and QuikMarketing, a patron transaction database. In addition, it offers cashless gaming products comprising Powercash, a product that leverages a player’s loyalty card to enable that player to load funds on that card from their checking accounts, credit cards, or debit cards. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. offers its products and services through a direct sales force to traditional land-based casinos, gaming establishments operated on Native American lands, casinos, riverboats, cruise ships with gaming operations, pari-mutuel wagering facilities, and card rooms. Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cohen & Steers, Inc. (CNS), together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, manages income-oriented equity portfolios specializing in United States and international real estate securities, large cap value stocks, listed infrastructure and utilities, and preferred securities. CNS also manages alternative investment strategies, such as hedged real estate securities portfolios and private real estate multimanager strategies for qualified investors. It serves individual and institutional investors through a range of investment vehicles. The Company manages three types of accounts: open-end mutual funds, closed-end mutual funds and institutional separate accounts. The 14 open-end mutual funds, for which it is the investment advisor offer and issue shares continuously as funds are invested and redeem shares when funds are withdrawn.

Terra Nova Financial Group wants to serve investors in a hurry to do some stock trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. was founded in the 1990s as a traditional retail brokerage offering insurance and other investment products. Today, Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. has shifted its attention toward its proprietary software for direct-access trading. Terra Nova Financial Group, Inc. technology platform provides real-time quotes and trading tools for active online investors, semi-professional traders, and institutional portfolio managers. Terra Nova Financial, LLC, the company's broker/dealer subsidiary, handles online trading for more than 3,000 customer accounts. In 2010 Lightspeed Financial, Inc. agreed to acquire Terra Nova Financial, LLC for nearly $27 million.

Texas Pacific Land Trust was created in 1888 as a result of the bankruptcy of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company. Holders of Texas and Pacific Railway Company bonds received 3.5 million acres of land in Texas which had been earned by the railroad and pledged as security against bonds. The bondholders created the Trust and converted bonds to shares of proprietary interest in the Trust. The Trust was created to manage and sell the land. Today the Trust is one of the largest landowners in Texas with around 965,000 acres located in twenty different counties. Texas Pacific Land Trust derives revenue from all avenues of managing the land, i.e. oil and gas royalties, grazing leases, easements, sundry and specialty leases, and land sales. The Trust has a perpetual oil and gas royalty interest in some 387,000 acres.

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