Evergreen Investment Management was founded in 1932 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Malvern, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Evergreen Investment Management Co., LLC is an asset management arm of Wachovia Bank, NA. The firm provides its services to investment companies; corporations; pension and profit sharing plans; state and municipal government entities; individuals, including high net worth individuals; banking and thrift institutions; pooled investment vehicles; and charitable organizations. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages a family of mutual funds, hedge funds, and variable annuities for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, private real estate, commodities markets, and managed futures. For its equity investments, it typically invests in growth and value stocks of all-cap companies, including small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. For its small/mid cap growth portfolio, the firm makes investments in companies with market capitalizations below $6 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its enhanced index portfolio against the S&P 500 index.

Ampersand Ventures was founded in 1988 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts with an additional office in San Diego, California and Boston, Massachusetts. Ampersand Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in later stage growth equity investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in healthcare and industrial sector. Within Industrial sector, it focuses on product and process design software, instrumentation for the chemical processing and environmental industries. Within healthcare sector, the firm focuses on, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology sectors. It typically invests between $10 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be the first and sole institutional investor in its portfolio companies.

Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., along with its affiliates, is one of the world's leading private investment firms. Through its team of investment and operations professionals, Cerberus specializes in providing both financial resources and operational expertise to help transform undervalued companies into industry leaders for long-term success and value creation. Cerberus holds controlling or significant minority interests in companies around the world. Cerberus is headquartered in New York City with affiliate and/or advisory offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

The Permian Basin Royalty Trust’s (the “Trust”) principal assets are comprised of a 75% net overriding royalty interest carved out by Southland Royalty Company (“Southland”) from its fee mineral interest in the Waddell Ranch properties in Crane County, Texas (“Waddell Ranch properties”), and a 95% net overriding royalty interest carved out by Southland from its major producing royalty properties in Texas (“Texas Royalty properties”). The interests out of which the Trust’s net overriding royalty interests were carved were in all cases less than 100%. The Trust’s net overriding royalty interests represent burdens against the properties in favor of the Trust without regard to ownership of the properties from which the overriding royalty interests were carved. The net overriding royalties above are collectively referred to as the “Royalties.” The properties and interests from which the Royalties were carved and which the Royalties now burden are collectively referred to as the “Underlying Properties.”

August Capital was founded in 1995 by Dave Marquardt and John Johnston. Seasoned veterans of the venture capital industry, Marquardt and Johnston formed August Capital to invest in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital's six partners -- Marquardt, Johnston, Andy Rappaport, David Hornik, Vivek Mehra and Howard Hartenbaum -- have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $1.3 billion and have invested in more than 75 companies across the technology spectrum.From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital's partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a million people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. We are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.

KRG Capital Partners, L.L.C was founded in 1996 and is based in Denver, Colorado. KRG Capital Partners, ("KRG Capital") is a private equity investment firm specializing in acquiring controlling interests in middle-market companies and growing them into significantly larger enterprises through the combination of internal growth and selective strategic add-on acquisitions. KRG Capital seeks investment opportunities where we can partner with existing management teams that are committed to building a best-in-class industry leader through industry consolidation. KRG Capital invests in companies with a history of operating profitability and strong growth prospects in specialty or "niche" manufacturing, distribution or service industries. In all cases, KRG Capital seeks to develop a growth and consolidation strategy that will clearly add value to the end customers of our portfolio companies by providing an enhanced product or service offering.

Quilter & Co. Limited company, which is part of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, provides investment management services to private clients, trusts, and charities. Quilter has nearly $6 billion ($10 billion) in assets under management and operates through 10 offices in the UK, Channel Islands, and Ireland. Its offerings include discretionary accounts and managed portfolios with a variety of investment strategies, as well as Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs), Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), and Personal Equity Plans (PEPs). Citigroup bought the company from Morgan Stanley in 2007. However, the two firms merged their wealth management units two years later.

Capital Management and Investment plc (CMI) is a United Kingdom-based investment holding company. In October 2007, Algeco Scotsman was formed following the merger of Algeco, Europe’s modular construction and mobile storage business, with Williams Scotsman, the modular storage rental business in North America. CMI, through its investment in Yola Investments Sarl (Yola) indirectly owns 7% of Magticom, a provider of mobile telephone services in the Republic of Georgia.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Limited, a private bank, provides financial services in United Kingdom. The company offers banking, investment management, financial planning, pension, leasing, and factoring and invoice discounting services, as well as alternative investments. Its services include current accounts, money transmission, money market deposits, notice accounts, electronic banking, borrowing facilities, treasury, foreign exchange, fiduciary deposits, and derivative products; and investment advice and portfolio management, trust and company management, fund management, personal and inheritance tax planning, life assurance and family protection, health insurance and income protection, mortgage advice, school fees planning, offshore investments, savings, unit and investment trusts, OEICs, and tax effective investments. The company also provides lending products for the acquisition and development residential and commercial properties; finance to lease, own, and manage business and personal assets; and musical instrument and yacht finance. It serves private individuals, entrepreneurs, property investors and developers, owner-managed businesses, solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, letting and managing agents, charities, and the motor sport sector.

tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG company provides a wide range of financial and legal services, including retirement planning, wealth and investment management, and insurance brokerage services. tecis invests clients' moneys into various mutual funds, whether for long-term investment, retirement, or pension needs purposes, or as a safety net against sudden costly misfortune or loss of employment due to disability. Its insurance brokerage services include coverage for life, health, property (home, rental, fire), accidents, legal fees, or motor vehicle liability. tecis is a subsidiary of AWD.

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