Corporacion Financiera Alba SA is a Spain-based investment holding company. Corporacion Financiera Alba Company is engaged in the real estate sector and its activities include the acquisition, management, promotion and lease of non-residential and commercial properties located in Madrid and Barcelona. As of December 31, 2008, the Company’s properties had a combined floor area of approximately 82,000 square meters. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Alba Participaciones SA, the Company holds interests in such entities as Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (ACS), Acerinox SA, Prosegur Compania de Seguridad SA, Clinica Baviera SA, Antevenio SA and Deya Capital SCR. In addition, the Company is a member of Grupo March.

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., through its affiliates, operates as an asset management company providing investment management services to mutual funds, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals in the United States. It provides advisory or subadvisory services to mutual funds. These funds are distributed to retail and institutional clients directly and through intermediaries, including independent investment advisors, retirement plan sponsors, broker-dealers, major fund marketplaces, and bank trust departments. Affiliated Managers Group company also offers investment products in various investment styles in the institutional distribution channel, including small, small/mid, mid, and large capitalization value and growth equity, and emerging markets. In addition, it offers quantitative, alternative, and fixed income products, and manages assets for foundations and endowments, defined benefit, and defined contribution plans for corporations and municipalities. Affiliated Managers Group provides investment management or customized investment counseling and fiduciary services.

Deutsche Bank Securities is the US arm of German banking colossus Deutsche Bank. Its Deutsche Bank USA is the only investment bank physically located on Wall Street; it offers investment banking services to corporations, governments, and institutional investors. (Services for private clients and asset management are offered through other divisions, such as DB Advisors and DWS Investments, but investment banking accounts for about 90% of its parent's US revenues). Deutsche Bank Securities also provides investment products, brokerage, and financial advice to wealthy individual investors through its Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown division. Deutsche Bank Securities has almost 70 offices in about 25 states.

Alliance Data Systems Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides data-driven and transaction-based marketing and customer loyalty solutions primarily in the United States and Canada. Alliance Data Systems Corporation operates through four segments: Loyalty Services, Epsilon Marketing Services, Private Label Services, and Private Label Credit. The Loyalty Services segment includes AIR MILES Reward Program. The AIR MILES Reward Program enables consumers to earn AIR MILES reward miles as they shop within a range of retailers and other sponsors participating in the AIR MILES Reward Program. These AIR MILES reward miles could be redeemed by its collectors for travel or other awards. Alliance Data Systems Corporation primarily serves financial services, specialty retail, grocery and drugstore chains, petroleum retail, technology, hospitality and travel, media, and pharmaceuticals markets. Alliance Data Systems Corporation was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

The First Marblehead Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides outsourcing services for designing and implementing private education loan programs to national and regional financial institutions, and educational institutions in the United States. The First Marblehead Corporation offers program design, marketing support, loan origination, and loan securitization, as well as stand-alone loan origination services and portfolio management services on a fee-for-service basis. The First Marblehead Corporation primarily focuses on private education loan programs for undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, The First Marblehead Corporation, through Union Federal Savings Bank, a federally chartered thrift, offers residential and commercial mortgage loans, retail savings products, time deposit products, and money market accounts. The First Marblehead Corporation was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Medford, Massachusetts; and North Providence, Rhode Island.

Gladstone Capital Corporation operates as a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. The Company’s investment objective is to achieve a high level of current income by investing in debt securities, consisting primarily of senior notes, senior subordinated notes and junior subordinated notes, of established private businesses that are substantially owned by leveraged buyout funds, individual investors or are family owned businesses, with a particular focus on senior notes. In addition, it may acquire from others existing loans that meet this profile. It also seeks to provide its stockholders with long-term capital growth. Gladstone Management Corporation is the Company’s investment adviser. Gladstone Business Loan, LLC is the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary.

S3 Investment Company, Inc. operates as an investment banking advisory firm that offers U.S. corporate finance and investment banking services to private companies in China. The company specializes in providing alternative public offerings for private Chinese companies through the simultaneous listing on a U.S. or other stock market, and private investment in public equity financing. Its services help client companies to prepare, assist, and manage various stages of the process of a reverse merger into a publicly-traded shell, as well as in capital funding, a progression to a U.S. national market listing, and multiple registered follow-on offerings for additional growth capital.

Alta Berkeley LLP is a venture capital firm that targets information technology, communications, and life science startups, primarily in Europe and Israel. It has raised six funds and has invested in more than 100 businesses since 1982. Invested companies (both past and present) include analogue semiconductor designer Elantec Semiconductors, digital consumer semiconductor manufacturer Frontier Silicon, clinical software designer Araccel, imaging systems provider Camero, and wireless devices technology manufacturer Cambridge Positioning Systems.

Virgin Money offers savings and investment vehicles such as individual savings accounts, pension plans, unit trusts, and deposit accounts. It also offers personal loans and home, car, life, pet, and travel insurance. Virgin Money has launched a successful credit card, with services reaching into Australia and South Africa. In 2010 it bought small UK private bank Church House Trust as a platform to offer retail banking. Virgin Money is looking to the US for expansion as well. Also in 2010 US billionaire Wilbur Ross (through WL Ross) arranged to acquire a 21% stake in the company for some $100 million ($152 million). A unit of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Virgin Money was founded in 1995.

ZelnickMedia is a partnership of experienced media executives and investors. The firm manages and owns interests in an array of media enterprises, including video games and interactive entertainment, television advertising, wireless network enabling software, business information, tradeshows and media-related business services in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia. Current portfolio companies include Take-Two Interactive Software, Airvana, Cannella Response Television, ITN Networks, Arkadium and Naylor Inc. The partnership is currently investing from ZM Capital, its media-focused private equity fund.

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