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Lightyear Capital Inc. is an investment banking firm that focuses on small and mid-cap companies. The firm provides merger and acquisition, fairness opinions, sourcing and valuation, turnaround and divestiture, privatization, management buyout (MBOs), initial public offering, secondary financing, private placement, private equity and venture capital financing, reverse take over (RTO) transaction, reorganization and re-capitalization, and strategic advisory services. It also offers investment research, institutional sales and brokerage, and private client services.

Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

Co-chairman Lawrence Lawson III and Robert Barr, president of North American operations, founded the company in 1996. Lincoln International LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory; private placements; fairness opinions; valuations; Initial Public Offerings (IPO); and financial restructuring services. Lincoln International is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Paris, France.

Lion Capital is a consumer-focused investment firm that seeks to make control investments in mid and large-sized, consumer-oriented businesses in Europe and North America. The Firm aims to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns through the application of deep investment and operating expertise in the consumer sector. Lion’s senior team has over 200 years of collective experience investing in and operating consumer businesses, providing an effective base from which to lead successful investments in the industry. Our focus on the consumer sector differentiates us from other investment firms and gives us a number of advantages in our pursuit of value-creation strategies in the companies in which we invest.Within Lion Capital’s partnership are long-standing professional relationships that extend back over seventeen years in some cases, and certain of the Lion Partners have been investing in Europe since the early 1990s. Over this time, Lion’s Partners have led the investment of over €4.5 billion in companies representing €17 billion of enterprise value. Lion Capital is currently managing two active pools of investment capital: Lion Capital Fund I (formed in 2004) and Lion Capital Fund II (formed in 2007), which combined give Lion over €2.8 billion of assets under management.

Littlejohn & Co. LLC was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. Littlejohn & Co. LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in turnaround, middle market in mid-sized companies. It also invests in mature companies. The firm typically invests in underperforming companies that would benefit from financial restructuring, fundamental change in strategic direction, or substantial improvements in operating infrastructure. It seeks to invest in industrial equipment, packaging, chemicals, automotive and transportation parts and equipment, food processing, electronics and electrical products, healthcare, plastics, textiles, aerospace and defense, distribution, environmental and infrastructure services, and consumer products. It does not invest in fashion, retail, real estate, and high technology industries. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in United States, but would also consider opportunities in Canada and Europe. It makes control equity investment in companies with revenues between $150 million and $800 million. The firm seeks to invest $50 million to $100 million of equity per transaction and will only sponsor friendly transactions.

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