Founded in 1908, Baillie Gifford & Co. is one of the UK's leading investment management firms for individuals and institutions. The company manages a number of investment trusts, including the Monks Investment Trust, the Baillie Gifford Shai Nippon, and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Owned by 30 working partners, the firm's offerings include retirement and pension management services, charitable and family trusts, and other investment and savings plans. It has about $46 billion in assets under management. Its UK pension fund business consistently represents the company's largest segment, bringing in almost 50% of total sales.

Wedbush Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, recapitalizations, acquisition, management-led buyouts, add-on acquisitions and expansion capital investments in lower middle market. The firm prefers to invest in business and financial services, consumer products and services, and niche manufacturing with a focus on medical devices, materials, containers and packaging, industrials, capital goods, aerospace and defense, building products, construction and engineering, electrical equipment, trading companies and distributors, commercial services and supplies, transportation, consumer discretionary, consumer durables and apparel, leisure equipment and products, textiles, apparel and luxury goods, restaurants and leisure, retailing, consumer staples, financials, banks, commercial banks, diversified financials, diversified financial services, consumer finance, capital markets, energy services, and insurance sectors. It invests in companies based in the Western United States.

Barclays Private Equity Ltd. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices across Europe. Barclays Private Equity Ltd. is the private equity arm of Barclays Capital specializing in middle market and change of ownership transactions. It invests in management buyout, management buy-in, institutional buyout, equity release, expansion capital, and going private transactions of lower middle market companies. The firm also provides equity funding to privately financed infrastructure projects. It seeks to invest in support services, specialist engineering, financial services, consumer and travel, and other sectors. Within the support services sector, investments are sought in staffing- recruitment of temporary or permanent staff; BPO/FM– outsourcing, facilities management, and property services; asset rental- vehicle or equipment; logistics- supply chain management, freight forwarding, contract logistics, distribution, and haulage; professional and IT services; and other miscellaneous support services companies.

Mackenzie Financial Corporation was founded in 1967 and is based in Toronto, Ontario with an additional office in Vancouver, Canada. Mackenzie Financial Corporation is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It also caters to corporations, high net worth individuals, banking and thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and charitable organizations. The firm manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds, segregated funds, pooled funds, pension funds, and labor sponsored funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. For its equity investments, the firm invests in growth and value stocks. It operates as a subsidiary of Mackenzie Inc.

Guangdong Investment Limited engages in investment holding, property holding and investment, investing in infrastructure and energy projects, water supply business, highway operations, electric power generation, financing, hotel ownership and operations, property development, toll roads and bridges construction, hotel management, and department stores operation. The company is a subsidiary of GDH Limited. Segments The company’s segments include Property Investment and Development; Toll Roads and Bridges; Water Distribution; Electric Power Generation; Hotel Operations and Management; and Department Stores. Property Investment and Development segment invests in various properties in Hong Kong and Mainland China that are held for rental income purposes, and engages in the development of properties in Mainland China. This segment also provides property management services for certain commercial properties; and rents a shopping mall, including department stores, as well as two tower blocks. Toll Roads and Bridges segment invests in various road and bridge projects in Mainland China. Water Distribution segment operates a water supply project in Mainland China supplying natural water to Hong Kong, Dongguan, and Shenzhen. Electric Power Generation segment operates coal-fire power plants that supply electricity in the Guangdong Province, Mainland China.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

BlackRock, Inc. (BlackRock) is an investment management firm. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had 3.346 trillion of assets under management (AUM). The Company offers an array of equity, fixed income, multi-asset class, alternative investment and cash management products, as well as its BlackRock Solutions investment systems, risk management and advisory services. It offers its investment products directly and through intermediaries in a variety of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares exchange-traded funds1 (ETFs), collective investment trusts and separate accounts. Its clients include taxable, tax-exempt and official institutions, high net worth individuals and retail investors. It offers a spectrum of investment management and risk management products and services. Investment management offerings include single- and multi-asset class portfolios. On December 1, 2009, BlackRock acquired Barclays Global Investors (BGI) from Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays).

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets has over 2,200 employees operating in 27 locations around the world, including 15 in North America. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$384 billion total assets and 37,000 employees as at April 30, 2010.

Acorn Ventures, Inc. is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage, start-ups, series A or first round, series B or second round, and series C or third round investments in early stage companies. The firm does not invest in idea, later stage, mezzanine, and public companies. It seeks to invest in technology, Internet, and education sectors. In technology sector, the firm focuses on broadband, infrastructure, wireless, and software. In education sector, it focuses on enterprise and consumer. In Internet sector, the firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and retail. It prefers to invest in the United States. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $5 million per round. The funding requirement of more than $5 million is fulfilled along with other venture capital firms. It seeks to invest only in equity but can sometimes supplement with debt instruments but not only debt investments. The firm typically takes a Board seat in the portfolio company. It seeks to exit its investments within three to seven years through initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

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