Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is a global alternative asset manager that raises, invests and manages private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Fund investors provide the capital for these funds, which it invests and manages on their behalf. Fortress earns management fees based on the size of its funds, incentive income based on the performance of its funds. Its offering of alternative investment products includes private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Hedge funds allow periodic contributions and redemptions of capital by investors and make relatively shorter-term, more liquid investments. Hybrid funds share certain of the characteristics of both private equity and hedge funds. It refers to these investment products, collectively, as the Fortress Funds. As of December 31, 2009, it managed alternative assets in three core businesses: Private Equity, Liquid Hedge Funds and Hybrid Funds.

Venrock was founded in 1969. Venrock is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and first round investments. The firm may also consider second round investments. It primarily invests in information technology, healthcare, media, and energy sectors and also focuses on biotechnology, nanotechnology, drug discovery and development, life sciences technology, digital media and mobile, Internet, consumer, consumer electronics, enablers, nano, healthcare information technology and services, medical devices, application software, communication, wireless, enterprise software and infrastructure, security, financial services, and semiconductors and components sectors. The firm can invests upto $10 million or more.

Founded in 1993, Woodbridge Group, Inc. also offers capital raising and valuation services. Woodbridge operates in North America, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and Brazil. Woodbridge Group isn't in the construction business, but it does build bridges between commercial buyers and sellers. The mergers and acquisitions firm helps buyers determine strategic fits, search for potential acquisition candidates, extend offers, negotiate prices, and close deals. It helps sellers (typically companies with $5 million to $100 million in revenues) develop marketing collateral, then discreetly market and sell their businesses. It serves clients worldwide in the areas of manufacturing and distribution, services, retail, and technology.

GFI Energy Ventures, LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California. GFI Energy Ventures, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in acquisitions and buyouts. The firm does not invest in start-up and turnaround situations. It prefers to invest in the energy and power sector with a focus on companies engaged in power quality and power conversion; energy measurement and control; transmission and distribution optimization; information systems and transaction support; and demand management. The firm targets the downstream portion of the market with emphasis on the point of interface among the energy supplier, transporter, marketer, and industrial and commercial end-users. It also does not invest in unproven technologies and companies having an equity investment requirement of less than $30 million. The firm seeks to invest in companies having enterprise values between $50 million and $500 million and minimum revenues of $50 million. It seeks to acquire controlling or significant interests in private companies or business units of public companies. The firm also acquires large equity positions in publicly traded companies under certain circumstances.

Welcome to LACERA, the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 directs us to administer defined retirement plan benefits for the employees of Los Angeles County and outside Districts. LACERA provides retirement, disability, and death benefits, as well as health care coverage for current and retired employees of Los Angeles County. In all, the organization oversees more than $35 billion in assets. Its operations are overseen by two boards, one that manages retirement benefits and one that manages LACERA's investments.

Founded in 1988, JLL Partners is among the leading private equity investment firms in the country. JLL Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in balance sheet restructurings, buyouts, operational turnarounds, acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, industry consolidations, growth capital, and strategic co-investments. It invests in companies which are significantly over-leveraged; companies lacking committed sponsorship; companies requiring strategic and/or operational refocusing; companies in out-of-favor industries; businesses being divested from a larger corporate entity; and companies seeking a financial partner to pursue their strategies. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing and services, financial services, healthcare and medical services, and building products. It seeks to take a majority stake in its portfolio companies.

First Republic Bank was founded in 1985 as First Republic Bancorp Inc. and changed its name to First Republic Bank in September 1997. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of September 21, 2007, First Republic Bank operates as a subsidiary of BofA Merrill Lynch. First Republic Bank provides private banking, private business banking, investment management, brokerage, trust services, and real estate lending services in California, Nevada, and New York. It provides private business banking services to accounting firms, architecture and design, art and antique dealers, business management firms, business partnerships, entertainment/media, family offices, financial services, hedge funds, independent schools, investment firms, law firms, medical firms, non-profit organizations, private equity funds/firms, property management firms, and venture capital firms.First Republic Bank company also provides private wealth management services, including asset allocation, trust administration, custody, asset management, brokerage, private placements, fixed income management, financial and estate planning, alternative investments, socially responsible investing, and multi-cap equity and management services. First Republic Bank also offers residential lending products, such as single family mortgages, vacation home mortgages, co-op and condominium loans, home equity lines of credit, bridge loans, and construction-to-permanent loans; commercial lending, including apartment building, mixed-use building, commercial real estate, and site-acquisition and construction loans; and personal lending, such as stock/bond secured loans, unsecured loans, overdraft lines of credit, letters of credit, partner capital lines, aircraft and yacht financing. The company’s deposit services comprise ATM rebate checking, money market checking, money market savings, passbook savings, and certificates of deposit.

Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in Asia What is now popularly known as the BSE was established as "The Native Share & Stock Brokers' Association" in 1875. Over the past 135 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it with an efficient capital raising platform. Today, BSE is the world's number 1 exchange in the world in terms of the number of listed companies (over 4900). It is the world's 5th most active in terms of number of transactions handled through its electronic trading system. And it is in the top ten of global exchanges in terms of the market capitalization of its listed companies (as of December 31, 2009). The companies listed on BSE command a total market capitalization of USD Trillion 1.28 as of Feb, 2010. BSE is the first exchange in India and the second in the world to obtain an ISO 9001:2000 certification. It is also the first Exchange in the country and second in the world to receive Information Security Management System Standard BS 7799-2-2002 certification for its BSE On-Line trading System (BOLT). Presently, we are ISO 27001:2005 certified, which is a ISO version of BS 7799 for Information Security.

Nova Capital Management Ltd. was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Essex, Connecticut. Nova Capital Management Ltd. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing acquisitions, turnaround, and middle market transactions. It seeks to invest in underperforming and under-managed portfolio companies run by private equity and venture capital firms. The firm also invests in the secondary direct market. It invests across all industrial and commercial sectors. The firm typically acquires or manages holdings in portfolios of companies based in the United Kingdom, United States, and Western Europe with a transactional value of between £20 million ($39.84 million) and above £200 million ($398.42 million). It invests in companies that comprise a minimum of three businesses with value and risk diversification.

As an investment company active since 1957, Cobepa has progressively developed into a well recognized actor in private equity. Cobepa success has been built on cobepa ability to invest in companies with long term growth perspectives and to accompany these companies in a spirit of partnership with their shareholders and efficient cooperation with their management. The quality and experience of cobepa teams, cobepa ability to arrange complex transactions and our aptitude to contribute actively to the definition of strategy, are the key contribution to the strengthening of the companies in which cobepa are shareholders.

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