Apax Partners, private equity firm Altamir Amboise co-invests in high-growth potential companies from several industries including technology, telecom, retail, consumer goods, health care, and business services. Its portfolio includes more than 20 companies including French consulting firm Altran Technologies, optical retailer Alain Afflelou, and Vizada, a leading telecom company. Altamir invests at all stages, including late-stage venture companies to more established businesses nearing the buy-out stage, and prefers to actively manage its holdings. The average holding period is five years. Chairman and CEO Maurice Tchenio owns 15% of the company.

LaunchCyte LLC creates life sciences companies. Since LaunchCyte founding in 2000, LaunchCyte have created six companies that offer unique technologies and products to improve healthcare and the human condition. LaunchCyte search for the most exciting technologies from leading research universities and form companies to commercialize the innovations. At their base, LaunchCyte companies have platform technologies that solve problems relating to a particular disease state or method of improving diagnosis, drug development, or clinical trials. As the core technologies evolve, LaunchCyte often branch out into other applications where there is a market need for LaunchCyte solutions.

Stone Point Capital is a private equity firm that has been making investments in the global financial services industry for more than twenty years. Led by Charles A. Davis, Stephen Friedman, Meryl D. Hartzband and James D. Carey, Stone Point have an extensive track record of investing throughout various financial services industries. Stone Point has raised and managed four private equity funds – the Trident Funds – with aggregate committed capital of $5.4 billion. In addition to the capital invested and committed by the Trident Funds, since 2001 Stone Point have secured approximately $4.5 billion of additional equity co-investments and commitments. Stone Point team of more than thirty investment professionals and senior advisors has a long and successful record of making private equity investments and managing businesses in the financial services industry.

The TCW Group, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; New York City; and Houston, Texas. The TCW Group, Inc. operates as a privately owned investment manager. It provides its services to corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, foreign investors, and high net worth individuals. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in the growth and value stocks of small cap, mid cap, and large cap companies while making its equity portfolios. The firm also invests in fixed income securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage backed securities, and floating rate debt obligations. For its alternative investing, it also does mezzanine investing and invests in special situations, energy, and infrastructure sectors.

MEAG is a major asset management force in the European financial sector with responsibility for round EUR 198 billion (31 March 2010). We are also the asset manager for the Munich Re Group. We invest in securities, real estate and funds, offering our expertise to both institutional and private investors. MEAG are the ideal partner for both private and institutional investors, bundling extensive know-how in all key asset classes under one roof and ensuring that your money is in good hands. MEAG compile fund, security and real-estate portfolios based on your earnings specifications. MEAG size and the volume of funds under MEAG management enable us to offer you highly competitive conditions for the reinvestment and security of your investments.

Senvest Capital Inc. engages in merchant banking, asset management, real estate, and electronic security activities in the United States. The company's activities are divided into two principal sectors of activity, including equity holdings and real estate investments. Equity Holdings The company, through Senvest International LLC, invests primarily in publicly traded companies and also has investments in private companies. Its public holdings are primarily in small- and mid-cap companies located primarily in the United States and are at various levels of participation. The company’s activities with respect to its private holdings include providing financial and market related support and assisting companies in obtaining additional financial backers by leveraging its network of contacts in the merchant banking industry. It provides services to two equity funds targeted toward institutions and individuals. Real Estate Investments The company, directly and through Pennsylvania Properties Inc., Senvest Argentina Inc., and Senvest Equities Inc., holds a portfolio of real estate investments located primarily in the United States. These holdings consist principally of office, research and development, and telecommunications properties.

CIR S.p.A. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy. CIR S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the utilities, media, automotive components, healthcare, and financial services businesses. Its utilities business comprises the sourcing, marketing, and sale of electricity and gas for industries, small and medium enterprises, and micro-businesses. This business also has electricity generation plants. In the media sector, the company engages in publishing daily newspapers and periodicals; broadcasting radio and digital television networks; and the collection of advertising for the company’s and third party publications, as well as operates in the Internet sector. The company’s publications include la Repubblica, a daily newspaper; and L Espresso, a weekly magazine. It also offers automotive components, including filters and flexible suspension components. The company offers filters under the brands ‘FIAAM’, ’FRAM’, ‘PBR’, ‘COOPERS’, ‘PURFLUX’, ‘TECNOCAR’, and ‘CROSLAND’ with a range of oil, gasoline, gasoil, air, and cabin filters. In addition, it engages in the management of hospitals, nursing homes, physiological and psychiatric rehabilitation centers. Further, the company involves in the acquisition and management of non performing loans and trade receivables originated by banks, financial institutions, commercial companies, and public administrations; and in the creation, acquisition, and management of retail financing companies focusing on non-conforming customers in the product segments of residential mortgages and personal loans.

Scotia Capital was founded in 1999. Scotia Capital Inc. provides investment banking services to communications, media, technology, consumer products, real estate, forest products, infrastructure, industrial products, power, mining, and oil and gas sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placement, negotiation assistance, due diligence, and restructuring services. Additionally, it provides research, equity sales and trading, foreign exchange management, merchant banking, short-term funding, investment research, and structured leasing services.

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. operates as an investment and technology development company. Its activities range from the deployment of investment strategies based on mathematical models or human expertise to the acquisition of existing companies and the financing or development of new ones. The company's investment activities include quantitative strategies based on mathematical and computational models, and qualitative strategies based on the analysis of human experts. It also provides debt and equity financing to healthy and financially distressed companies; makes venture capital investments in early and later stage ventures; and organizes and develops new technology-oriented ventures.

Kohlberg & Company, L.L.C. is a leading U.S. private equity firm which acquires "middle market" companies (valued from $100 to $500 million). Since its inception in 1987, the firm has organized six private equity funds, through which it has raised $3.7 billion of committed capital. The firm’s objective has been to realize substantial capital gains through control investments in a diversified portfolio of companies. The firm has completed approximately 100 platform and add-on acquisitions with an aggregate value of more than $6 billion. Kohlberg & Company invests in companies where it can work in partnership with senior management to identify growth opportunities and implement fundamental operating and strategic changes, resulting in substantial increases in revenue and cash flow. The firm’s use of moderate amounts of debt financing in acquiring companies affords them the financial flexibility necessary to attain these corporate objectives.

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