Willis Stein & Partners, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquiring and building middle market companies. The firm seeks to invest in growth capital, industry consolidations, buy-outs, build-ups, non-core assets or carve-outs from large companies, public-to-private transactions, management buyouts, and acquisitions of family-owned businesses. It also invests in public and private companies, subsidiaries or divisions of larger public and private companies, and companies undergoing generational changes of ownership. The firm generally invests in consumer services including food retailing, distribution and food service, consumer finance, and loan services, consumer-facing health and dental care, veterinary services, travel and leisure services, retail-based consumer services businesses, relocation and moving services, and consumer services and products-oriented distribution businesses; education including post-secondary education, healthcare certification and training.

Croudace has been operating as a building company since 1945, from its headquarters in Caterham, Surrey. It continues to expand its areas of operation and the number of homes built and has earned a reputation for providing quality new housing throughout the South East of England. The Croudace Homes Group comprises Croudace Homes Ltd., which develops private housing schemes, Portland Homes Plc, a niche developer based in south-east London, Croudace Homes in Partnership Ltd., which contracts to build affordable housing and Croudace Strategic Ltd., which secures and promotes a wide range of sites for mainly housing development.

Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company was founded in 1961 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company provides pension insurance solutions. It offers pension advisory services, pension insurance services, services for promoting well-being at work, vocational rehabilitation counseling, customer financing, management of company pension funds, and services related to insuring employment abroad. The company’s earnings-related pension programs secure employees and self-employed persons an income when working is no longer possible due to ageing, disability, or unemployment; and an income for the surviving spouse and children after the death of the family provider. Ilmarinen also provides employee pension and own self-employed person's pension insurance services; and financing services that include client loans consisting of premium loans, investment loans, and subordinated loans to companies. The company offers its pension benefits to approximately 274,000 persons. In addition, Ilmarinen engages in the investment, construction, management, and leasing of commercial and residential properties.

AXA Advisors, LLC company is the broker-dealer subsidiary of AXA Financial and part of French financial services powerhouse AXA. AXA Advisors offers retirement planning, education funding, and estate transfer services to consumers through a network of more than 6,000 advisors. The firm also sells life insurance (through AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company), annuities, and mutual funds, and provides online trading services. To corporations, the company provides employee benefit and 401(k) plans. AXA Advisors has offices throughout the US, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Eurovestech Plc was founded in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Eurovestech plc is an investment company, which focuses on technology businesses. Eurovestech plc's subsidiaries include ToLuna plc (ToLuna), Knowledge Support Systems Limited (KSS Ltd) and KSS Retail Limited (KSS Retail). ToLuna is European provider of online panels and services to the market research industry. ToLuna operates and builds online panels, and designs and operates application services that enable research to be undertaken online. KSS Ltd is a provider of price optimization technology and services to the oil and gas sectors. KSS Retail is a provider of price optimization technology and services to the convenience store, grocery and chain drug sectors. Its other investments include Magenta Corporation Limited, D-Pharm Limited, ARKeX Limited, MIST Technologies SA and LogNet Information Systems plc. On June 18, 2008, the Company’s subsidiary ToLuna purchased the entire issued share capital of Common Knowledge Inc.

Milestone is an independent European private equity investor owned by its partners. From our offices in London and Paris we back management teams in buy-and-build transactions. We believe that Milestone is unique in seeing the UK / French market as ONE investment market. Milestone has a well established, highly experienced team of professionals with a strong track record in growing businesses and generating positive returns for its shareholders and management teams alike.At Milestone we look to back management teams in sectors that are consolidating and where additional equity can be committed upfront to support the buy-and-build or roll out strategy. We will do this in an open and transparent manner so that all interests are aligned upfront. Potential investment opportunities must be private companies pursuing a buy-and-build or where there is a clearly defined profit improvement plan, with an enterprise value of €20 to 100 million, have a minimum EBITDA of €2 million, allow us to take a majority stake and be based in UK, France, Ireland, Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

Baydonhillfx started life in March 2000 as Currencies4Less concentrating on serving the Private Client market place and 2 years later the product offering was increased to include the International Mortgages and Car Finance divisions. This was followed by its successful admission to OFEX which was the junior market of the London Stock Exchange. With continued growth Currencies4Less became The 4Less Group plc and moved up to AIM, the Alternative Investment Market on the LSE, where we remain today. In 2006 the Group changed its name to Baydonhill plc and shortly after, with additional funding from Ekwienox FX Ltd. the Company expanded to include the Baydonhillfx Corporate Division offering international payment solutions with development of an online payment platform.

Great Hill Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 when M/C Partners split into two separate firms, Great Hill Partners and M/C Ventures Partners. Great Hill Partners, LLC is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Great Hill Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage, mid stage, growth capital, buyouts, recapitalizations, PIPEs, go private, acquisitions, and industry consolidations in growth oriented private or public companies. It typically invests in business service, Internet, software, consumer services, financial technology, logistics, education, healthcare, media and communications, and transaction processing. The firm seeks to invest primarily in the United States but also considers Europe and Latin America for special situations. It invests between $50 million and $150 million per transaction in its portfolio companies. It invests in companies with valuations between $50 million and $500 million. However this range is smaller when the firm is consolidating acquisitions. It prefers to make both minority and control investments, with ownership between ten percent and 85 percent and usually over 30 percent.

Piper Jaffray Companies is an international investment bank and institutional securities firm, serving the needs of corporations, private equity groups, public entities, non-profit clients and institutional investors. It provides a set of products and services, including equity and debt capital markets products, public finance services, financial advisory services, equity and fixed income institutional brokerage, equity and fixed income research, and asset management services. The Company markets the investment banking and institutional securities business under Piper Jaffray name. It markets the primary asset management business under the name of FAMCO, which is derived from Fiduciary Asset Management, LLC. Piper Jaffray Company operates in four business segments: investment banking, equity and fixed income institutional brokerage, asset management, and other income. In March 2010, the Company acquired Advisory Research, Inc., an asset management firm focused in equity strategies.

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.

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