The Bessemer Group manages more than $55 billion in assets for wealthy individuals and families with more than $10 million to invest. Main subsidiary Bessemer Trust administers portfolios with holdings in domestic and international equities and bonds, as well as such alternative assets as hedge funds, real estate, and private equity funds of funds. The group also provides trust, custody, tax and estate planning, strategic philanthropy, and financial advisory services. The group has some 15 US offices in addition to locations in London and the Cayman Islands.

Aeon Credit Service (Asia) was the first non-bank credit card issuer in Hong Kong, and today it is one of its largest. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited provides about 850,000 cardholders with more than 30 different house, affinity, and corporate cards under the American Express, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa, and UnionPay brands. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited also offers personal loans, cash advances, and insurance, but credit cards account for about 70% of its total revenues. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) operates in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Aeon Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited is part of Japanese retail and financial giant AEON CO.

Brentwood Associates was founded in 1972 and is based in Los Angles, California. Brentwood Associates is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market growth companies. The firm invests in management buyouts, industry consolidations, recapitalizations, PIPEs, and growth capital transactions. It invests in consumer-related businesses including action sports; outdoor lifestyle products; business services; consumer products and services; direct marketing; distribution; education; health, wellness and conscious living; marketing services; restaurants; specialty media; specialty retail; and sporting goods. The firm seeks to invest between $20 million and $75 million in the portfolio companies and has the ability to lead equity investments of $150 million or more. It seeks to invest in companies with operating cash flows exceeding $10 million, operating margins exceeding 10 percent, and purchase price between $50 million and $400 million. The firm prefers majority ownership stake in the portfolio companies but may consider significant minority investments. It seeks to take a seat on the Advisory Board of its portfolio companies.

World Acceptance Corporation engages in small-loan consumer finance business. It offers short-term small loans, medium-term larger loans, related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services, as well as loans standardized by amount and maturity. World Acceptance Corporation also offers income tax return preparation services and access to refund anticipation loans. In addition, World Acceptance Corporation markets and sells credit life, credit accident and health, credit property, and unemployment insurance products; markets automobile club memberships to its borrowers; and reinsures credit insurance. Further, World Acceptance Corporation, through its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, provides data processing systems; and markets computer software and related services to financial services companies. World Acceptance Corporation serves individuals with limited access to consumer credit from banks, savings and loans, other consumer finance businesses, and credit card lenders. As of March 31, 2009, the company has 944 offices in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mexico. World Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.

GlobeOp Financial Services S.A. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. GlobeOp Financial Services S.A., through its subsidiaries, provides business process outsourcing, financial technology services, and risk analytics to hedge funds and other targeted sectors of the financial services industry. It offers specialized Web-based financial products supporting middle and back office trade processing, fund administration, complex derivatives, and risk reporting. The company provides middle and back office services, such as daily reconciliation, daily portfolio profit and loss statements, data aggregation and pricing, exposure calculations and reports, over-the-counter (OTC) processing, real time analytics, security master processing, and trade capture; and fund administration services, including fund valuation, investor communications, fund performance reporting, pricing and net asset value calculation, share registry and transfer, and audit support. GlobeOp Financial also offers transaction solutions, including GoOTC, an outsource package for OTC derivative trade processing; and GoMarkets, a multi-asset electronic trading and connectivity platform for asset managers, long/short equity funds, mutual funds, regional and custodial banking institutions, pension funds, and insurance companies.

The Peak Group was founded in 1998 with equity and debt support from several financial institutions. Peak has the financial backing to bid for companies as large as 2 billion dollars. Peak's primary focus is on acquiring businesses in the United States and western europe. Peak Investments goal is to provide global support for general management, strategic planning, business development and financial management. In the past five years The Peak Group has successfully acquired businesses for its affiliate companies.

Kobren Insight Management Inc. (KIM) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios and mutual funds. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm employs quantitative analysis for creating its portfolio. It also invests in external mutual funds that invest in real estate, high yield bonds, and inflation-linked bonds and employ merger arbitrage and long/short strategies. The firm employs a combination of in-house and external research to make its investments. Kobren Insight Management is based in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts with additional offices in Longboat Key, Florida and Lincoln, Nebraska. Kobren Insight Management, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of E*Trade Wealth Management, Inc.

Bidtimes' ultimate goal is to invest in and provide advice to growing companies in the UK. Diminishing earnings and continual financial losses led the company to sell the entirety of its remaining freehold property investments in 2006 and 2007. The performance of its previous investments -- in publicly traded real estate investor Innobox, electronics manufacturer SRS Technology Group, and Blue Chip Casinos -- ultimately led to this strategic decision. Bidtimes is actively searching for businesses and scouting for a reverse takeover opportunity that will relaunch the company.

The Ayco Company was founded in 1971 and is based in Saratoga Springs, New York with additional offices in Albany, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Parsippany, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Troy, Michigan. The Ayco Company, L.P. is an asset management arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. It primarily provides its services to corporate executives and employees, high-net-worth individuals and families, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client – focused equity portfolios. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments.

The Patriarch platform is a vertically integrated distressed private equity firm with robust in-house operational turnaround expertise. Patriarch Partners, LLC ("Patriarch"), founded in 2000, was built upon a proprietary patented financial model designed to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. Patriarch has since evolved into a global investment firm that concentrates on direct investments in distressed businesses, managing funds with over $7 billion of equity and secured loan assets with equity investments in more than 70 companies, and controlling interests in approximately two-thirds of these.Patriarch focuses on the acquisition of undervalued companies where time, capital and sound strategy can rescue a business and restore value, preserving jobs in America and around the world while simultaneously providing demonstrated returns to investors. Patriarch believes that making money and making the world a better place are not mutually exclusive concepts. The firm offers a peerless approach that combines innovative financial models, restructuring techniques and the operational expertise necessary to rebuild businesses facing complex circumstances.Challenging conditions often mean the need to improve operations from the ground up; the situations require equal concentration and adeptness between financial engineering and operational execution. An expanded global reach is critical and Patriarch has acquired manufacturing facilities in nations where lower labor costs can help U.S. companies compete in the competitive global economy, Patriarch Partners Management Group, established in 2005, is a team of seasoned and connected global professionals strategically placed among portfolio companies to fortify management and to unearth and implement necessary efficiencies, new technologies and unique strategies.

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