Prospect Capital Corporation was founded in 1988 and is based in New York, New York. Prospect Capital Corporation (Prospect Capital), formerly Prospect Energy Corporation, is a financial services company that primarily lends to and invests in middle market privately-held companies. The Company is a closed-end investment company. The Company invests primarily in debt and equity of companies, which require capital for acquisitions, divestitures, growth, development, project financing and recapitalization. As of June 30, 2009, the Company had invested in industrial and energy-related companies. The Company’s investment objective is to generate current income and long-term capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. It focuses on making investments in private companies, and many of its investments are in energy companies. Prospect Capital Management LLC is the investment adviser of the Company. In December 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Patriot Capital Funding, Inc. (Patriot), whereby Patriot merged with and into the Company.

Collins Stewart has offices in New York City and San Francisco. Boutique investment banking firm Collins Stewart LLC (formerly C.E. Unterberg, Towbin) is the US arm of UK brokerage Collins Stewart plc. Serving more than 700 financial institutions and hedge funds, the company trades in and conducts research on US equities and derivatives. Collins Stewart LLC also manages IPOs for technology and health care companies, makes markets in American Depositary Receipts, and trades foreign stocks and currency. Its research division focuses on the technology, health care, defense, and energy sectors.

The United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (the "Funds") is a group of five multi employer plans that provide health and pension benefits to retired coal miners and their eligible dependents. The Funds has been in existence since 1946. The Funds is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has Field Service Offices located in the coalfield areas of Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. The Funds has approximately 200 employees, most of whom are located in the Washington, D.C. office. The Funds is separate and distinct from the United Mine Workers of America (“UMWA”) and the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, Inc. (“BCOA”).

Bain Capital was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Bain Capital, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early to late stage, growth capital, emerging growth, corporate divestitures, spin offs, management buyouts, industry consolidations, and family/founder situations. It focuses its investments in information technology, including information data, software, hardware, and Internet; communications, including telecommunications, broadcasting, and media; healthcare, including devices and equipment, distribution and information, providers, and other medical products; industrial and manufacturing including, automotive, steel and non-ferrous metals, industrial equipment, engineered components, and business services. The firm also seeks to invest in retail and consumer products including, traditional retailers, on-line merchandising, consumer products, food and restaurants, and consumer services and finance including banking, credit cards, insurance, mortgage, brokerage, exchanges, transaction processing infrastructure and software, and information.

The General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of The United Methodist Church (GBOPHB) supervises and administers pension, retirement, investment, health care, disability, and death benefit plans for more than 74,000 church clergy, lay employees, and their families. Formed in 1908, the not-for-profit GBOPHB manages more than $16 billion in assets and is the nation's largest faith-based pension funds. GBOPHB focuses on socially responsible investing (SRI) and has taken an activist stance in addressing major corporations about such issues as global vendor standards, employee wages, and genetically modified foods.

Intervest Bancshares is the holding company for Intervest National Bank, which operates one branch in New York City and six other branches in Pinellas County, Florida. Most of the company's lending activities are real estate-related: Commercial mortgages make up more than half of its loan portfolio, while multifamily residential mortgages account for another 40%. Some of the company's lending has historically been carried out by its Intervest Mortgage Corporation arm. However, the subsidiary drastically scaled back its lending practices as market conditions deteriorated in 2008. The family of chairman and CEO Lowell Dansker controls Intervest Bancshares.

Ashmore Group plc (Ashmore) is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in providing investment management services. The Company is a fund manager across six core investment themes, such as external debt, local currency, special situations, equity, corporate high yield and multi-strategy. The external debt theme comprises principally United States dollar and other hard currency denominated instruments, which may include derivatives, investing in mainly sovereign bonds. The local currency investment theme comprises local currency and local currency denominated debt instruments. The special situations theme comprises investments in debt and/or other instruments. The equity investment theme comprises public equity and equity-related securities. The corporate high yield investment theme comprises investments in corporate debt within emerging markets.

Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown is part of the Private Wealth Management segment of German giant Deutsche Bank. The company provides a range of advisory, brokerage, and investment services to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individual investors, as well as institutional and corporate clients in the US. For corporate clients, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown provides cash management, foreign exchange, investment consulting, custody, and prime brokerage services. The company also administers employee stock and stock option purchase plans. It has more than 15 US offices and approximately $43 billion of assets under control.

The Fidelity Global Group is an international asset-based investment firm that provides credit facilities to a variety industries through its subsidiaries. Fidelity Global provides development funding for communications, metals, mining, and chemical companies for both the private and government sectors internationally. It offers credit services and loans for refiners of nonferrous metal, such as aluminum, brass, copper, magnesium, and zinc, to purchase new equipment or expand operations. Fidelity Global company also offers loans to companies that are credit-challenged on a per project basis. Fidelity Global Group usually gets a percentage of the profits from those projects.

DMG Information was founded in 1997 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in Milford, Connecticut; Santa Monica, California; and Waltham, Massachusetts. DMGI is a division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), a UK-based media company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The firm prefers not to invest in early stage, pre-revenue companies unless closely aligned with the firm current activities or active in the market area. It seeks to invest in information driven companies with focus mainly on two areas: Business-to-Business and Careers. Within career division, the firm seeks to invest in education and student division. It prefers to invest in insurance, real estate, financial, mapping and geographical, medical or healthcare information sector. The firm primarily seeks to invest in companies with revenue of at least $50 million, with pre-tax profit margin of 20% to 30% or more. It typically invests for control but can take minority stake in early stage companies.

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