Highland Capital Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Bethesda, Maryland; Geneva, Switzerland; Shanghai, China; and Menlo Park, California. Highland Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, later stage, growth stage, venture buyouts, spin-outs, and recapitalizations investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, consumer, communications, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Within the information technology sector, it seeks to invest in Internet, digital media, new media, emerging media, e-commerce, online business, software, services, software-as-a-service, open source software, low-cost telesales, online marketing, payment systems, emerging broadband, interactive television, and media technologies. In the communications sector, the firm typically invests in networking and communications infrastructure, mobile, wireless technologies, telecom services, service opportunities, cable infrastructure, and semiconductor opportunities. Within the healthcare sector, it prefers to invest in medical technology, software, services, medical devices, and biotechnology.

Torch Energy Royalty Trust (“Trust”) is a grantor trust which provides unit holders with quarterly cash distributions from a 95% net profits interest (“Net Profits Interest”) in proved developed oil and gas properties in Texas, Alabama and Louisiana. The Trust was formed effective October 1, 1993 under the Delaware Business Trust Act pursuant to a trust agreement among Wilmington Trust Company as trustee for the Trust (“Trustee”), Torch Royalty Company (“TRC”), Velasco Gas Company, Ltd. (“Velasco”) and Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated (“TEAI”) as grantor. TRC and Velasco created a Net Profits Interest which burdens certain oil and gas properties (“Underlying Properties”), and conveyed such interest to TEAI. TEAI conveyed the Net Profits Interest to the Trust in exchange for an aggregate of 8.6 million units of beneficial interest (“Units”). Such Units were sold to the public through various underwriters in November 1993. The Units of the Trust are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TRU.The Underlying Properties constitute working interests in the Chalkley field in Louisiana, the Robinsons’ Bend field in the Black Warrior Basin in Alabama, fields that produce from the Cotton Valley formations in Texas and fields that produce from the Austin Chalk formation in Texas. On January 29, 2008, holders of more than 66 2/3% of the outstanding units of beneficial interest in the Trust affirmatively voted for a proposal to terminate the Trust in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement. Accordingly, the Trust is currently in the wind up and liquidation process.

FX Solutions, LLC was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Saddle River, New Jersey. As of February 5, 2008, FX Solutions, LLC operates as a subsidiary of City Index Holdings, Ltd. FX Solutions, LLC operates as an online foreign exchange brokerage company. It offers Global Trading System (GTS), a mobile Forex trading platform that provides trading and risk management services. FX Solutions company offers institutional services, including white label, introducing broker, institutional trading, and API solutions. It serves retail clients, white label partners, and institutional trading partners.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851. LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets.

Henderson Investment Limited, through its subsidiaries, primarily invests in infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company is a subsidiary of Henderson Development Limited. Infrastructure The company's infrastructure business mainly comprises interests in Hangzhou Qianjiang Third Bridge and a highway in Maanshan City, Anhui Province. They are both located in the Yangtze River Delta. Associated Company - The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited: The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited supplies piped gas in Hong Kong. Its core businesses comprise production and distribution of gas, marketing of gas and gas appliances, and after-sales services. It serves approximately 1.6 million local customers throughout Hong Kong, Kowloon peninsula, some new towns in the New Territories, as well as North Lantau Island including the Hong Kong International Airport. It also operates water supply projects in Wujiang, Jiangsu province and in Wuhu, Anhui province, and manages an integrated water supply and wastewater joint venture in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu province. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the ECO Energy Company Limited, Hong Kong and China Gas has diversified into various green businesses including Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vehicle filling stations and the utilization of landfill gas. ECO is operating a total of five LPG filling stations, which are strategically located in Chai Wan, Mei Foo, Tuen Mun, West Kowloon and Wan Chai.

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.

Acacia Venture Partners picks small shrubs with hopes of developing them into blossoming trees. The venture capital firm focuses its investments on the health care industry. It supports early stage business services and health care services firms, and information technology developers that target the medical industry. Acacia typically invests at the seed and start-up stages of financing, but it also offers funding to more mature companies. Acacia Venture Partners' portfolio features companies that include CompHealth, AMERIGROUP, and physician office revenue management service, MDEverywhere, among others.

Scailex Corporation Ltd. was founded in 1968. The company was formerly known as Scitex Corporation Ltd. and changed its name to Scailex Corporation Ltd. in 2005. Scailex Corporation Ltd. engages in the import, marketing, and provision of maintenance services for cell phones from Samsung Corporation. Segments Cellular operator segment The company is engaged in import, marketing and provision of maintenance services for cell phones from Samsung Corporation. In addition, the company sells spare parts and accessories for cell phones made by Samsung. The cell phones sold by the company are based on GSM technology, used in cellular networks of Pelephone, Cellcom and Partner, as well as on CDMA technology, used in the Pelephone network. The company also sells spare parts and accessories (batteries, and handsfree kits) for the cell phones sold by the company. End-customer segment The company, in this segment, engages in marketing (by way of sale and upgrade) cell phones and associated accessories and also provides maintenance services for cell phones to end customers in the Cellcom network. Operations in this segment are carried out via a chain of stores and points of sale throughout Israel, which the company operates under the name Dynamica Cellular (Dynamica Cellular).

Roxbury Capital Management was founded in 1986 and has a demonstrated track record of providing outstanding long-term returns across the market capitalization spectrum for a wide array of institutional and high net worth clients. The firm's unique structure allows its highly experienced managers to devote their time exclusively to selecting and monitoring quality investments within their respective asset classes. Roxbury also manages a no-load mutual fund: The Roxbury Small-Cap Growth Fund. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Roxbury has additional offices in Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Portland, Oregon.

Transamerica Investment Management, LLC was founded in 1967 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Dayton, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Fort Worth, Texas; and Los Angeles, California. Transamerica Investment Management, LLC (TIM) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, foundations, endowments, Taft-Hartley accounts, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. 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, fixed income, and alternative markets of the United States. Within the alternative markets, it seeks to invest in convertible securities. The firm invests in growth and value stocks of micro-cap companies with market capitalization between $10 million and $300 million, small-cap companies with market capitalization between $100 million and $2.5 billion, mid-cap companies with market capitalizations between $300 million and $5.0 billion and large-cap companies with market capitalization greater than $5.0 billion to make its equity investments.

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