Fred Alger Management was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Jersey City, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts. Fred Alger Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of Fred Alger & Company Incorporated. The firm provides its services primarily to individuals. It also caters to investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations, endowments and foundations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm primarily invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

Siparex Croissance has holdings in some 200 French and international companies, including businesses in the food, IT, and medical sectors. Its holdings include such firms as Botanic (consumer garden products), La Grande Récré (major French toy and game retailer), and Martin Belaysoud Expansion (industrial and plumbing supplies). Due to the worldwide slump in technology stocks, Siparex is focusing its new investments on a smaller number of companies with established track records and experienced management. Some of the largest French banks, companies, and institutional investors dominate Siparex's shareholders, owning almost three-quarters of its stock.

Deutsche Borse provides securities trading through the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the electronic Xetra platform, derivatives trading on the Eurex market, market information with the DAX indices, and global clearing services through subsidiary Clearstream. The Frankfurt is Germany's largest stock exchange, and Eurex (which Deutsche Borse jointly operates with the SIX Swiss Exchange) is among the largest futures markets in the world. The company licenses its Xetra platform to other exchanges, including the Vienna Exchange; Xetra boasts more than 10,000 securities from around the world.

AAC Capital Partners was founded in 1982 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Stockholm, Sweden. AAC Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing specializes in investments in buyouts and management buyouts of middle market companies. It does not invest in property development, financial services, and defense. The firm seeks to invest in the consumer, industrial and services sectors with a focus on healthcare, retail, food and consumer products, printed media and leisure, transport and logistics, industrial engineering, support services, information technology, media and telecom, and life sciences. It prefers to invest in companies based in the Netherlands, Nordic region, and the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in companies with an enterprise value ranging between €50 million ($66.70 million) and €500 million ($667.01 million). It seeks majority stakes and prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Advantage Credit International, Inc. has grown to become one of the top mortgage credit reporting agencies in the nation through two key qualities: next-step technology that allows originators to close more loans, and expert service delivered in an unusually friendly way. Advantage Credit International, which provides mortgage credit information to more than 20,000 mortgage brokers, in addition to realtors and government agencies. Advantage Credit International, Inc. also offers automated property valuation, flood zone certification, tax return verification, and mortgage fraud and identity theft protection services. Advantage Credit International, Inc. provides employment screening through Advantage Hire and tenant screening at its AdvantageTenant.com Web site. Advantage Credit, which was founded in 1991 by CEO Tim Handley, is a subsidiary of privately owned company Advantage Plaza.

Piper Private Equity invests in UK companies valued up to £25 million through management buyouts, management buyins, and other transactions, typically putting in £2 million to £10 million per deal. Piper Private Equity company invests primarily in businesses residing in the retail, leisure, consumer products, and travel markets. Several of its portfolio companies are targeted at female consumers, such as the Pitcher & Piano pub chain. Piper Private Equity has also invested in the Las Iguanas and Tootsies casual-dining restaurant chains, partnering with Phoenix Equity Partners on the Tootsies deal. It sold its stake in Tootsies in 2005.

Apax Partners is an independent global private equity advisory firm. Funds advised by Apax Partners (‘Apax Funds’) typically invest in companies with a value of between €1bn and €5bn. The Funds invest in five growth sectors: Tech & Telecom, Retail & Consumer, Media, Healthcare and Financial & Business Services.Apax Funds commit capital on behalf of a diverse range of investors, which include public and private pension funds, insurance companies, university endowments and other financial institutions. Apax Funds buy both majority and minority stakes in large companies that have strong, established market positions and the potential to expand. Apax Funds back excellent management teams to create efficient and sustainable businesses that have a strong track record of growing by investing in research and development, exports, sales and employment.

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for United Bank (the Bank). United Mutual Holding Company is a mutual holding company and owns 53.6% of United Financial Bancorp. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its main office in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and its 12 branch offices located in Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Springfield, Northampton and two offices in Westfield, Massachusetts, and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, as well as in home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and industrial loans, automobile loans, other consumer loans, and investment securities. During the year ended December 31, 2006, United Bank acquired Levine Financial Group.

Frazier & Company was founded in 1991. Frazier & Company provides venture and growth equity capital through its Frazier Healthcare Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures units. The former provides early-stage capital to companies in the biopharma, medical devices, and healthcare services sectors, while the latter funds companies in such markets as wireless technology, software, and networking. The companies in which Frazier Healthcare primarily invests in major health care hubs in California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington. Combined, the firms have more than $1.3 billion under management.

The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation was founded in 1954 and is based in New York, New York. The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of companies as platform investments and as strategic add-ons for its subsidiaries. The firm seeks to invest in platform companies with transaction sizes between $50 million and $150 million and revenues of at least $50 million. It prefers to acquire 100 percent ownership interests. The firm may also acquire minority positions depending on the opportunity and sponsorship. It invests its own capital supplemented by bank debt.

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