Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is a global alternative asset manager that raises, invests and manages private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Fund investors provide the capital for these funds, which it invests and manages on their behalf. Fortress earns management fees based on the size of its funds, incentive income based on the performance of its funds. Its offering of alternative investment products includes private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Hedge funds allow periodic contributions and redemptions of capital by investors and make relatively shorter-term, more liquid investments. Hybrid funds share certain of the characteristics of both private equity and hedge funds. It refers to these investment products, collectively, as the Fortress Funds. As of December 31, 2009, it managed alternative assets in three core businesses: Private Equity, Liquid Hedge Funds and Hybrid Funds.

Astellas Venture Management invests in seed-stage and emerging biotech companies, including drug discovery and development companies. The firm manages four venture funds, and its portfolio includes more than 20 companies. Astellas Venture Management is the venture capital arm of Astellas Pharma, formed from the 2005 merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical. Astellas Venture Management provides its portfolio companies not only with cash, but also access to the scientific expertise, production facilities, and marketing clout of its parent firm.

MSouth Equity Partners was founded in 2007 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. MSouth Equity Partners is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, management buyouts, and recapitalization of lower middle-market companies. The firm invests in distribution, niche manufacturing, and business services companies. It seeks to invest in companies based in the southern United States. The firm typically invests in companies with revenues between $25 million and $150 million and transactions valued between $25 million and $125 million.

Audiolux luxuriates in Luxembourg-based investments -- including a number that deal in audio. The investment outfit takes minority stakes in media and communications companies, especially those headquartered in its own tiny grand duchy. Audiolux invests in both startups and more advanced companies; it has taken stakes in SES Global, RTL Group, and Utopia, among others. In some cases, Audiolux takes an active advisory role as it helps to build the business of its portfolio companies. Financial firm Luxempart owns more than 70% of Audiolux.

PAI partners is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity firms in Europe with its origins dating back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas, the pan-European merchant bank which merged with BNP in 1999. PAI partners SAS is an independent company, owned by its partners, which manages and advises dedicated private equity funds. The buyout funds include PAI LBO Fund, PAI Europe III, PAI Europe IV and PAI Europe V. PAI partners has offices in Paris, Copenhagen, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich. The Europe-wide team is composed of 50 professionals with diverse backgrounds and sectorial expertise.

Mayfield Fund was founded in 1969 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Mayfield Fund is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in incubation, seed, series A, early stage, later stage, growth stage, and mid market investments. The firm does not invest in publicly traded companies and in companies that are not technology-based. It seeks to invest in technology companies with a focus on consumer, enterprise, energy tech, healthcare, communication service providers, and semiconductors chips and components sectors. Within enterprise sector, the firm invests in online marketing and advertising, business application, infrastructure, software, and equipment companies. Within semiconductors chips and components sectors, it invests in communications and application-specific devices. Within energy tech sector, the firm focuses on energy efficiency, management, and cleantech opportunities. It also seeks investments in business services, digital media, engineering services, consumer Internet services, interactive entertainment, retail, power ancillary, media, networking components and systems, mobile communications, and business-to-business e-commerce.

Detwiler, Mitchell & Co. performs brokerage, wealth management, and equities research services through various subsidiaries. Subsidiary Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves handles institutional research (specializing in the communications, manufacturing, software, and semiconductor industries), as well as wealth management and brokerage services for high-net-worth individuals. Detwiler Fenton & Co. DMC Financial Services division, including its James Mitchell & Co. subsidiary, provides insurance, annuities, retirement products, and mutual funds. Messrs. Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton, and Graves own a majority of the company.

With a heritage dating from the 1960s, PineBridge Investments is an independent multi-product investment adviser with US $83 billion* in assets under management. PineBridge Investments is an investment arm of American International Group, Inc. It specializes in distressed investments. The firm provides a platform for customized portfolio construction and client based servicing. The firm manages a diversified product line of alternative investments including: private equity investments, fund of funds, small to mid-market buyout funds, hedge funds, real estate investment funds and fixed income strategies. The Alternative Investment Group's Private Equity program provides equity and mezzanine financing for private and public companies at different stages of development. PineBridge Investments is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Ontario, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Tiajin, China; Houston; Texas; and Manila; Philippines.

Raymond James is a diversified financial services holding company with subsidiaries engaged primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to investment banking and asset management. Raymond James & Associates, Inc. performs trade execution, securities processing, equity research, and investment banking services for institutional clients in North America and Europe. The unit also offers clearing services to fellow Raymond James Financial subsidiary, Raymond James Financial Services. Planning Corporation of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of RJA, sells insurance and annuities.

Axel Johnson, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in supplying energy products and related services in the United States. Axel Johnson company provides water treatment systems for potable and process water, waste water, and solids handling applications to individuals and communities; and water softeners, filters, drinking water systems, and water purification systems to residential and light commercial customers. Its technology is used by industrial customers for water recycling, hazardous waste minimization, metals recovery, and purity water production. Axel Johnson company also provides material-handling services; and supplies filtration technology for municipal water treatment systems, including various technologies for the arsenic removal. In addition, it recovers antique wood timbers from various circumstances, including abandoned industrial mills, antique barns, submerged forests, 19th century breweries, and ancient Chinese temples, as well as refinishes them into custom flooring and millwork.

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