Kinetic Investment Partners specializes in small Australian companies. It performs cash flow analysis to identify undervalued investment prospects. Kinetic Investment Partners company believes that this method can help it avoid accounting irregularities. It also looks at management, business strategy, the industry in which a company operates, and other factors. Formerly HSBC Asset Management (Australia) Limited (AMAU), it was sold by the UK banking goliath to Australian investment firm Challenger Financial Services Group in 2005.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

Morgan Stanley was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide. It operates in three segments: Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group, and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations, spin-offs, exchange offers, and leveraged buyouts and takeover defenses, as well as shareholder relations; capital raising; corporate lending; investments; and sales, trading, financing, and market-making activities, including equity trading, commodities, and interest rates, credit, and currencies, as well as financing services, including prime brokerage, consolidated clearance, settlement, custody, financing, and portfolio reporting services.The Global Wealth Management Group segment offers brokerage and investment advisory services covering various investment alternatives comprising equities, options, futures, foreign currencies, precious metals, fixed income securities, mutual funds, structured products, alternative investments, unit investment trusts, managed futures, separately managed accounts, and mutual fund asset allocation programs; financial and wealth planning services; annuity and insurance products; credit and other lending products; cash management services; retirement services; and trust and fiduciary services. The Asset Management segment offers products and services in equity, fixed income, and alternative investments, which include hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure to institutional and retail clients through proprietary and third party distribution channels. This segment also involves in investment activities.

Brait S.A. is an international investment company. The Company is engaged in the business of structuring, raising and management of investment funds that are classified as alternative assets. Its product portfolio includes private equity funds, mezzanine debt funds and a range of hedge fund solutions. In addition, the Company invests in investment programmes in these product areas. These investments are made predominantly in South Africa. Investors include global and South African institutions. The Company operates through two segments: Private Capital operations, which incorporates all activities in the private capital markets, and Public Markets operations, which incorporates all activities in the public or highly traded securities markets. Private Capital includes private equity funds, proprietary investing, sponsored funds, mezzanine debt, and fund of private equity funds. Public Markets includes multi-management and capital management.

Amadeus Capital Partner Limited was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. Amadeus Capital Partners company targets enterprises in Europe, Ireland, Israel, and the UK in the computer hardware, software, Internet, e-commerce, and life sciences industries. Current investments include driver safety software developer Greenroad, mobile display screen producer Liquavista, biotechnologist Vermillion, wireless security management designer Red-M, and processor developer XMOS.

David Stockman, who co-founded Heartland Industrial Partners in 1999, is a former Michigan congressman and was director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan administration. He was also chairman and CEO of one of Heartland Industrial's former portfolio companies, auto fabrics company Collins & Aikman, but was ousted in 2005. Heartland Industrial Partners is an investment firm that primarily targets industrial and auto parts companies. Heartland Industrial Partners company's holdings include a more than 40% stake in vehicle component maker TriMas. It sold auto parts maker Metaldyne to an affiliate of Ripplewood Holdings in early 2007.

ECI Partners LLP was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Manchester, United Kingdom. ECI Partners LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion and development capital, finance for acquisitions, management buyouts and buy-ins, institutional buyout, turnarounds, middle market, and refinancing deals. It does not invest in early-stage companies. The firm seeks to make investments in all sectors except property with a focus on consumer and leisure, support services, manufacturing, software, IT and communications services, healthcare, outsourcing, and business improvement. Within the support services sector it prefers to invest in document management education, environmental services, financial services, inspection services, media, recruitment, services benefiting from the aging population, specialist logistics, and white collar outsourcing. Within healthcare it focuses investments in healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical technology including devices and diagnostics, and healthcare IT. It primarily invests in unquoted and smaller quoted companies based in the United Kingdom or has substantial United Kingdom business. It also seeks to make investments in companies based in South Wales.

Terra Nova Royalty Corp. operated in two reportable segments: industrial plant technology, equipment and service business and indirect royalty interest in the Wabush iron ore mine. The industrial plant technology, equipment and service segment requires a variety of production and marketing strategies. The royalty interest consists of a mining sub-lease of the lands, which includes the Wabush iron ore mine. The Wabush mine operation includes the Scully iron ore mine near Wabush in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a pellet plant and port facilities at Point Noire, Quebec and integrated rail facilities. Terra Nova is primarily engaged in the industrial plant technology, equipment and service business. It supplies technologies, engineering and equipment for cement processing.

Camellia Plc, through its subsidiaries, operates in agriculture and horticulture, engineering, food storage and distribution, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and private banking and financial services businesses. Its agriculture and horticulture business includes production of tea, edible nuts, avocados, rubber, soya, wheat, citrus products, wine grapes, table grapes, and other horticultural produce; and general farming operations. The company’s engineering business comprises the provision of metal finishing, fabrication, precision engineering, and heat treatment services primarily for the aerospace, and oil and gas industries. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, India, Kenya, Malawi, Bangladesh, North America, Bermuda, South Africa, and South America.

Benefit Capital Companies founded in 1984, has participated more than $5 billion worth of transactions. Benefit Capital company provides a variety of investment and merchant banking services, including support for mergers and acquisitions, financial advisory, and private placements. A major focus for the firm is helping companies develop employee stock purchase plans. Target companies are typically worth somewhere between $10 million and $900 million. Benefit Capital also provides equity financing for management and employee buyouts. In addition to its Logandale, Nevada headquarters, Benefit Capital has offices in Irvine and Los Angeles, California; New York; Dallas; and Honolulu.

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