Massachusetts Financial Services Company was founded in 1969 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has additional offices in Argentina, London, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and Singapore. Massachusetts Financial Services Company is a privately owned investment manager. The firm is conducts business as MFS Investment Management, Inc. The firm provides retirement planning, college planning, and education and planning services. It also manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. It provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, corporations, pooled investment vehicles, state and municipal government entities, high net worth individuals, trusts, Taft-Hartley plans, institutions, public pension plans, corporate pension plans, bank trust clients, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, multi-employer plans, and investment advisory firms. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It also invests in ADR securities to make its investments. For its equity investments, the firm typically invests in growth and value stocks of all-cap companies, including large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies. The firm benchmarks the performance of its investments against the S&P 500 index, the various Russell indices, and the various MSCI indices. It benchmarks the performance of its fixed income investments against the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Index and the JP Morgan EMBI Global Index.

Milestone is an independent European private equity investor owned by its partners. From our offices in London and Paris we back management teams in buy-and-build transactions. We believe that Milestone is unique in seeing the UK / French market as ONE investment market. Milestone has a well established, highly experienced team of professionals with a strong track record in growing businesses and generating positive returns for its shareholders and management teams alike.At Milestone we look to back management teams in sectors that are consolidating and where additional equity can be committed upfront to support the buy-and-build or roll out strategy. We will do this in an open and transparent manner so that all interests are aligned upfront. Potential investment opportunities must be private companies pursuing a buy-and-build or where there is a clearly defined profit improvement plan, with an enterprise value of €20 to 100 million, have a minimum EBITDA of €2 million, allow us to take a majority stake and be based in UK, France, Ireland, Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

TSI Holding Company is a private holding company founded in 1953 by John M. Hauck. In 1988, John C. Hauck assumed responsibilities as President and CEO. TSI today has revenues exceeding $500 million, and 1,081 employees. TSI is focused on acquiring middle-market distribution and manufacturing companies with sales revenues between $30 and $150 million, and building TSI current portfolio through add-on acquisitions with a minimum of $15 million in revenues.

SVG Capital is a private equity investor and fund management business listed on the London Stock Exchange (ticker: SVI). SVG Capital’s investment objective is to achieve capital appreciation by investing principally in private equity funds that are managed or advised by Permira, a leading international private equity specialist*.In addition, SVG Capital invests in private equity funds that invest in Japan, North America, Asia and the life sciences sectors, and in unquoted and quoted businesses through specialist funds and co-investments alongside these funds. The Company may also invest in other private equity related assets and alternative asset classes. To complement this investment objective and create capital and income for the Company, its fund management business structures, markets, manages and advises products for investment in private equity, private equity related assets, alternative asset classes and in public equity using private equity techniques.

Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides wealth management and institutional services principally to individuals, corporations, and financial institutions. Its Wealth Management segment provides investment advisory, wealth and investment management, and financial planning services to high net worth and mass affluent individuals and institutions, including investment strategies and alternatives, tax efficient estate and financial planning, trusts, and agent/fiduciary investment management services, as well as private client brokerage services. Sanders Morris Harris Company's Institutional Services segment provides institutional equity brokerage and hedge funds research to various institutions, which include banks, retirement funds, mutual funds, endowments, investment advisors, and insurance companies; and prime brokerage services, such as trade execution, clearing, bookkeeping, reporting, custodial, securities borrowing, financing, research, and fund raising to hedge fund clients. This segment also maintains asset management accounts on behalf of individual asset managers; and provides research, sales, and trading services to institutional investors. In addition, the company provides sports representation and management services to professional athletes, principally professional football players.

PLUS Markets plc ('PLUS') is a new small & mid-cap stock exchange for London, seeking to create the deepest pool of small & mid-cap liquidity in Europe. It is a Recognised Investment Exchange in the UK and a Market Operator under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ('MiFID'), authorised to operate both secondary (trading) and primary (listing/quotation) markets.PLUS is fully committed to the principles of competition and choice for trading and listing equity securities in London. Indeed, PLUS introduced competition to small & mid-cap trading in London in December 2005 in response to customer demand, a full two years ahead of the implementation of MiFID in November 2007.PLUS is itself a smaller quoted company, with some 50 employees covering all core exchange functions including Business Development, Information Technology and Regulation. Based in the heart of the City of London, it meets stringent Financial Services Authority requirements in order to offer efficient access to the London investment community.

Luxor Industrial Corp. was founded in 1979. Luxor Industrial Corporation manufactures and markets the Interlocking Bridging System (IBS2000). IBS2000 The IBS2000 controls bounce and vibration in floors. A row of IBS interlocks all the joists together, resulting in a stiff floor assembly - performing floor with increased span. Luxor Architectural Details are crafted from selected western Red Cedar or Douglas Fir timbers. In addition to a range of standard sizes and products the company manufactures custom sizes and patterns. The company manufactures various wood products, including survey stakes, conventional bridging, rainscreen, fireplace and door mantles, prefabricated window and door openings, as well as specialty products for the natural resource sector. The company offers specialty cutting services, such as multi-ripping, customripping, custom cutting, and precision end trimming. Subsidiaries Western Interlok Systems Ltd., the company’s wholly owned subsidiary (WIS), manufactures and distributes a patented engineered bridging system. These products are distributed to building material distributors located in Canada and the United States of America. J.E.J. Holdings Inc., the company’s wholly owned subsidiary (JEJ), holds a worldwide license under patent applications in the United States of America and Canada, to manufacture, market and distribute an engineered bridging system utilized in the building construction industry. JEJ has licensed the North American rights to western Interlok Systems Ltd. Eastern Brake Alert Systems Ltd., the company’s 75% owned subsidiary (EBAS), has acquired the North American manufacturing and marketing rights for an air-brake warning system for the trucking industry.

NWQ Investment Management was founded in 1982 and acquired by Nuveen Investments in 2002. NWQ Investment Management serves institutional investors such as corporations, endowments, foundations, high-net-worth individuals, multi-employer plans, and public entities. A value-oriented, long-term investor, the firm focuses on what it perceives to be underpriced equities of all market capitalizations. It also utilizes a core fixed-income strategy and provides access to alternative investments. NWQ Investment Management Company has approximately $37 billion in assets under management.

Founded in 1985, International Monetary Systems (IMS) serves over 17,000 businesses and professional people representing 23,000 cardholders in 50 U.S. markets. The IMS network enables companies to acquire new business, create cost savings, and improve operations by taking advantage of barter opportunities in their business models. Based in New Berlin, WI and managed by seasoned industry veterans, IMS is one of the largest publicly traded barter companies in the world and is continually expanding its network by adding exchange locations. The company's proprietary transaction software, Trade Network Tracking System (TNT), enables businesses and individuals to trade goods and services throughout North America online using an electronic currency known as trade dollars.

Barclays established its investment banking division in 1986; today, Barclays Capital has offices in more than 30 countries around the world. Barclays Capital is the investment banking arm of venerable European bank Barclays. It provides financing and risk management services for corporate, institutional, and government clients around the world. Barclays Capital is one of the world's most prolific underwriters of fixed-income securities; it provides services for all asset classes. Barclays Capital is also active in private equity, typically committing between $10 million and $200 million per transaction; it has invested in more than 350 companies.

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