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Ameritrans Capital Corporation was founded in 1979 and is based in New York, New York. Ameritrans Capital Corporation (Ameritrans) is a closed-end investment company, which makes loans and investments with the goal of generating both current income and capital appreciation. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Elk Associates Funding Corporation (Elk), the Company makes loans to finance the acquisition and operation of small businesses as permitted by the United States Small Business Administration (the SBA) Regulation. Elk was organized primarily to provide long-term loans to businesses eligible for investments (Small Business Concerns) by small business investment companies (SBICs). Ameritrans makes loans, which have primarily been secured by real estate mortgages, senior corporate loans and equity investments which have been in income producing real estate properties, or in real estate construction projects. It operates in five segments: Corporate Loans, Commercial Loans, Life Insurance Settlements, Equity Investments and Taxicab Medallion Finance.

Ampersand Ventures was founded in 1988 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts with an additional office in San Diego, California and Boston, Massachusetts. Ampersand Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in later stage growth equity investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in healthcare and industrial sector. Within Industrial sector, it focuses on product and process design software, instrumentation for the chemical processing and environmental industries. Within healthcare sector, the firm focuses on, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology sectors. It typically invests between $10 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be the first and sole institutional investor in its portfolio companies.

Amphion Innovations plc was founded in 1984 and is based in Douglas, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York. Amphion Innovations plc is a principal investment firm specializing in both public and private early stage investments and spun out of universities and corporations. It does not invest in “speculative” technologies requiring long development timeframes or excessive capital investment. It invests in the medical, life sciences, and technology sectors with defensible core intellectual property, know-how and growth potential in very large markets of at least $1 billion in size together with corporations, governments, universities, and entrepreneurs. The firm typically invests in companies with broad-based, proprietary, platform technologies in the areas of pharmacogenomics, proteomics, nutriceuticals or wellness, diagnostics, medical products and related fields, leveraging advances in and the convergence of materials science and life science IT, particularly software technologies. It targets investments in companies based in both the United States and United Kingdom. The firm makes investments in a company that requires capital of up to $5 million as new capital in the first one to two years, with later, additional capital requirements of between $15 million and $25 million and is at least $1 billion in size. It acts as a lead investor and seeks to acquire a sizable ownership stake and measure of influence or control in its portfolio companies.

Founder and chairman Gerhard Andlinger started the Andlinger & Company, Inc. in 1976. Andlinger & Company, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management and leveraged buyout, acquisition, recapitalization of public and private companies, corporate divestiture, turnaround, and growth capital transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation, emission reduction, and waste recovery sectors. It also seeks platform acquisition opportunities in companies engaged in the industrial manufacturing, medical devices, value-added distribution and logistics, graphic arts, scientific instruments, information services and software, engineering services, technology infrastructure, pharmaceutical packaging, and manufacturing sectors. The firm prefers not to invest in the retail, real estate, natural resources, and commodities sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies headquartered in North America and Europe. It typically invests up to $25 million in portfolio companies with enterprise values between $20 million and $200 million.

Antarchile SA is a Chile-based investment company primarily engaged in the acquisition of shares in other companies, properties and diversified goods. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company is involved in the forestry, fuel distribution, fishing, mining and energy sectors. The Company owns such subsidiaries as Empresas Copec SA, a holding company active in the energy and natural resources sectors, and Astilleros Arica SA, which specializes in the construction and repair of industrial ships, as well as manufactures equipment for the fishing industry. It also holds interests in Pesquera Iquique-Guanaye SA, Empresa Pesquera Eperva SA, Sigma SA and Servicios Corporativos SerCor SA. In addition, the Company has operations established in Argentina and Brazil. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s majority shareholder was Inversiones Angelini y Compania Limitada, with 63.4% of its interests.

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