Founded in 1999, Silver Lake is a global private investment firm with approximately $14 billion in assets under management. With offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Tokyo, Silver Lake employs over 75 investment professionals across its strategies. The firm's investing strategies derive from specialization in three primary areas.Silver Lake Partners is the leader in private investments in technology, technology-enabled, and related growth industries. Its funds' portfolio companies include or have included technology industry leaders such as Ameritrade, Avago, Avaya, Business Objects, Flextronics, Gartner, Gerson Lehrman Group, Instinet, Intelsat, IPC Systems, MCI, NASDAQ OMX, NetScout, NXP, Sabre Holdings, Seagate Technology, Serena Software, SunGard Data Systems, Thomson and UGS.Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle market technology companies with established business models and attractive growth prospects where there is an opportunity to create value through operational transformation. Silver Lake Sumeru combines specialized technology sector knowledge, rigorous due diligence processes and a network of industry relationships to create a significant competitive advantage in executing its investment strategy.

Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. was founded in 1989 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in restructurings, public to private transactions, recapitalizations of privately held companies, growth capital, acquisitions, turnarounds, and acquisitions of divisions and assets from large corporations. The firm seeks to invest in established companies. It invests in a range of industries including retail, consumer products, distribution, media, business services, and healthcare. The firm focuses its investments in North America. It prefers to invest between $500 million and $2 billion per transaction, in enterprise value, but can complete transactions in excess of $5 billion in enterprise value, as well. It seeks to invest in companies which have an ability to grow by at least 50 percent over a five year period.

Tudor Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Tudor Investment Corporation, an internationally recognized, $10 billion in assets, diversified investment management firm. Tudor has been investing in venture capital and other private equity opportunities since the early 1990's. Over this time, Tudor and its principals have invested in over 75 companies, with a strong record of investment success, and currently manage over $700 million in capital commitments. Tudor Ventures announced the closing of our third fund, Tudor Ventures III L.P., in June 2007 with $262 million in capital commitments. Limited partners in this fund include large institutional, endowment, fund of funds, and high net-worth individual investors along with significant investments from Tudor's proprietary capital and the Tudor Ventures' principals.

BB BIOTECH AG is a Switzerland-based investment company, which principal activity is to invest in companies active in the biotechnology industry. BB BIOTECH AG invests mainly in companies operating in such sectors as oncology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s portfolio comprised 23 companies, including Actelion, Gilead, Celgene, Genentech, Biogen Idec, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Elan, Basilea Pharmaceuticals and Roche Holding GS, among others. The investments are held through its wholly owned subsidiaries, which include Biotech Focus NV, Biotech Invest NV, Biotech Target NV and Biotech Growth NV.

Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. As of May 10, 2010, Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated was taken private. The company was formerly known as Consolidated Mercantile Corporation and changed its name to Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated in October 1998. Consolidated Mercantile Incorporated does not have significant operations. Previously, the company involved in the manufacture and import of leather and fabric upholstered furniture; and manufacture and distribution of protective packaging products primarily in the United States.

TradeStation Group, Inc. operates as an online broker-dealer, an introducing broker, a futures commission merchant, and a trading technology company. TradeStation Group, Inc. product/service includes TradeStation, an electronic trading platform that enables traders to test and automate technical and fundamental trading strategies across various asset classes. TradeStation Group, Inc. also offers online brokerage services covering equities, equity and index options, financial and commodities futures, futures options, and spot forex transactions. TradeStation Group, Inc. also provides TradeStation electronic subscription service, which includes trading features and functions, streaming charts and quotes, streaming news, analytical charting, and various other features included in the TradeStation electronic trading platform other than trade order placement, and other trading or brokerage-related features or services. TradeStation Group serves the active trader and institutional trader markets. TradeStation Group, Inc. has strategic relationships with J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.; R.J. OBrien & Associates, Inc.; and GAIN Capital Group, Inc. TradeStation Group, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Plantation, Florida.

Growth Capital Partners, L.P. was founded in 1992 and is based in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Dallas and Austin, Texas. Growth Capital Partners, L.P. (GCP) is a boutique investment bank that offers financial advisory and merchant banking services to private and public middle market companies. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, pre-IPO advisory, private placement, strategic advisory, management-led buyouts, recapitalization, restructuring, and strategic advisory services. The firm’s clientele include Roofing Supply Group, Silver Eagle Distributors, The SCOOTER Store, Critieria Labs, Ambion, Rennhack Marketing Services, American Central Gas Technologies, and Standard Fruit and Vegetable Co. GCP caters to energy, consumer and retail, business services, technology and software, healthcare, and manufacturing and distribution industries.

JatoTech Ventures is a venture capital company specializing in technology startups. JatoTech Ventures company typically invests $500,000 to $3 million initially and between $5 million and $8 million over the life of its partner companies. The firm looks for those businesses that are creating new markets with the their products and services focusing its resources toward early stage investing. To better provide its portfolio companies with a full range of services, JatoTech limits the size of its portfolio. Wireless communications technology developer Bandspeed is one of JatoTech's holdings.

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.

Brewin Dolphin Holdings owns Brewin Dolphin Limited (formerly Brewin Dolphin Securities), which is one of the UK's largest investment and brokerage firms. Founded in the 18th century, Brewin Dolphin serves more than 130,000 private, corporate, and institutional clients and has more than 1,100 representatives. The company's primary services include discretionary or representative investing, tax efficiency savings accounts, financial planning, and advisory services. Brewin Dolphin has nearly 40 offices around the UK and manages more than $33 billion for its clients.

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