ARCH invests primarily in companies co-founded with leading scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market innovations in life sciences, physical sciences, and information technology. ARCH enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commercialization of technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. ARCH currently manages seven funds totaling nearly $1.5 billion and has invested in the earliest venture capital rounds for more than 120 companies. ARCH investors include major corporations, pension funds, endowment funds, financial institutions, and private investors. The partnership is led by six managing directors and a team of venture partners, principals, associates, and technology specialists.

Domini Social Investments is an investment firm with a focus on socially and environmentally responsible investments. Through investment vehicles including: the Domini Social Equity Fund, the Domini Social Bond Fund, and the Domini Money Market Account, the firm manages nearly $2 billion in investor capital and invests it in community economic development. Domini also offers investment consultancy and portfolio management assistance. The firm was founded by CEO Amy Domini in 1989 to address a growing number of investors unwilling to invest in certain companies, such as tobacco and defense contractors.

Founded in 1993, Corbett Keeling is owned by the Keeling family; brothers Jim and Simon act as co-chairmen. Investment firm Corbett Keeling targets businesses valued up to $150 million that are seeking equity, mezzanine, or debt financing in the range of $500,000 to $20 million. Corbett Keeling also assists companies with such transactions as takeovers, recommended bidding, and maintaining stockholder equity or debt. Clients include Gieves & Hawkes (demerger consulting), Linguaphone (raised equity funding), Radiant Networks (raised shares), Opus (refinancing assistance), and BUPA Healthcare Professionals (buyout advisement).

Investec Limited is an international banking group that provides a range of financial products and services. The Company is organized into five business divisions: Private Client Activities, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Asset Management and Property Activities. In addition, its head office provides certain group-wide integrating functions, such as risk management, information technology, finance, investor relations, marketing, human resources and organizational development. It is also responsible for the Company’s central funding, as well as other activities, such as trade finance.

One Equity Partners LLC was founded in 2001 and is based in the New York, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. One Equity Partners LLC is the private equity arm of OEP Holding Corporation. The firm specializes in investments in management buyouts and growth capital financing, with a particular emphasis on corporate partnerships and divestitures. It typically invests between $50 million to $200 million per transaction. It seeks to invest in defence, chemicals, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing. The firm prefers to be the lead equity investor in its portfolio companies and does not have any time limit for exiting its investments. It only invests permanent capital of JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Institutional Venture Partners was founded in 1980 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Institutional Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in later stage companies, small-cap public companies, and growth equity. The firm seeks to invest in industry rollups, founder liquidity, and select public market transactions. It generally invests in information technology and media companies with a focus on internet and digital media, enterprise information technology, travel, communications, wireless, software, infrastructure, and technology-enabled services. The firm invests in companies based in the United States. It invests in private companies having revenues greater than $10 million.

HM Capital Partners LLC was founded in 1989 and is based in Dallas, Texas. HM Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market and mature companies. It seeks to invest in, the acquisition of under-managed, under-capitalized or under-appreciated assets and their transformation into strategically relevant assets; acquisition of divisions or products that have no management; acquisition of divisions or assets of large corporations; acquisition of distressed businesses going either through a restructuring or bankruptcy process; acquisition or recapitalization of privately owned or publicly traded businesses; and growth opportunities. The firm seeks to make control investments in companies operating in the, media sector, with a focus on new media technologies and companies offering multiple exit strategies; consumer products sector; energy sector, with a focus on on-shore United States natural gas value chain (both upstream and downstream) and new capital projects or strategic acquisitions that will generate returns in varying commodity price environments; food and beverages sector, with a focus on undermanaged or no management situations, as in the case of a divestiture of a single brand or product line and businesses that have an inappropriate cost structure with opportunity for savings by rationalizing expenses; financial services sector; information services sector; and niche manufacturing sector.

Aurora Capital Partners (also known as Aurora Capital Group) focuses on buyouts of midsized industrial manufacturers, distributors, and service businesses. It typically invests between $150 million and $1.5 billion in companies in various industries. Employing a buy-and-build strategy, the private equity firm works with existing management to create organic growth, then adds on other purchases to increase the value of its portfolio companies. Holdings include United Plastics Group, Impaxx, Mitchell International, and ADCO Global. Aurora Capital, which is investing its third private equity fund, has some $2 billion of assets under management.

Northern Financial Corporation (Northern) is a Canada-based company. The Company wholly owns Northern Securities Inc. (Northern Securities), a member firm of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC). It carries on a traditional full service investment dealer business through Northern Securities providing financial advisory services to retail and institutional clients and investment banking services to small capitalization companies. This business generates revenue from commissions and advisory fees earned on investment banking activities, and commissions from institutional sales and trading and retail investment advisors, and from principal trading. Northern also carries on a merchant banking business that supplements the investment dealer business.

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).

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