Founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm, CVC carried out its own buyout in 1993 and is now owned by its management. It has about 20 offices around the world. CVC Capital Partners is in the business of making other businesses its business. The private equity investor specializes in buyouts of firms in the UK, the US, Western Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its portfolio of more than 50 companies consists mainly of retail, manufacturing, and service firms. Holdings include UK department store chain Debenhams, US-based luggage maker Samsonite, and Japan-based restaurant chain operator Skylark. It acquired a 47.5% stake in Pilot Travel Centers (now Pilot Flying J) in 2008.

MCG Capital Corporation is a solutions-focused commercial finance company that provides capital and advisory services to middle-market companies throughout the United States. The Company is an internally managed, non-diversified, closed-end investment company. It conducts some of its activities through wholly owned, special-purpose financing subsidiaries. Its investment portfolio is composed primarily of middle-market companies in which it has made up to $75 million of debt and equity investments. Typically, these middle-market companies have $20 million to $200 million in annual revenue. As of December 31, 2009, it had debt and equity investments in 59 portfolio companies. Its diversified investment portfolio spans 30 industries. Approximately 40% of its portfolio is composed of investments in industries that consist less than 5% of its portfolio.

Ronald A. Chisholm Limited was founded in 1938. Ronald A. Chisholm Limited provides a market place for the buyers and sellers of meat, dairy, and food ingredient raw materials internationally. It provides logistics, finance, and currency options, as well as market opinion, research, and information for producers, importers, exporters, and distributors. The company also acts as an agent and facilitator to employers for hiring foreign workers in Canada. It involves in trading various dairy products, such as cheese, milk powders and blends, milk fats, functional milk proteins and nutraceutical ingredients, whey derivatives, ice cream, and egg products; pork, poultry, and beef products; and dried fruits, nuts and seeds, soya flour, vital wheat gluten, and potato flakes.

Monitor Clipper Partners, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Monitor Clipper Partners, Inc. is the private equity arm of the Monitor Group specializing in management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity investments in middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the North America and Western Europe. It typically makes equity investments between $20 million and $100 million per transaction and can also make smaller or larger investments. The firm seeks to make control or minority investments.

AllianceBernstein Holding L.P (AllianceBernstein) is a limited partnership company. AllianceBernstein Company provides research, diversified investment management and related services to a range of clients. It also provides distribution, shareholder servicing and administrative services to its sponsored mutual funds. AllianceBernstein Company offers a range of investment products and services to its clients, which include Institutional Services, Retail Services, Private Client Services and Bernstein Research Services. Its clients include institutional clients, such as unaffiliated corporate and public employee pension funds, endowment funds, domestic and foreign institutions and governments, and various affiliates; retail clients; including United States and offshore mutual funds, variable annuities, insurance products and sub-advisory relationships; private clients, including high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, private and family corporations, and other entities.

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Fimalac has stepped away from its manufacturing businesses in favor of financial services after selling Facom, a manufacturer of hand tools and garage equipment, to what is now Stanley Black & Decker for more than $485 million in 2006. Fimalac now provides risk management and international credit ratings through its majority-held subsidiaries Algorithmics and Fitch Ratings. Fimalac focus on financial services has shifted its revenue base from Europe to North America. A shareholders' group led by Fimalac president Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere owns about 80% of the company and controls about 80% of its voting rights.

Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada with additional offices in Paris, France and Quebec City, Canada. Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec is a private equity firm specializing in private equity and real estate investments. The firm also manages the funds contributed to the Québec Pension Plan. The firm’s private equity investments invest in development capital, buyouts, mezzanine, small and medium sized enterprises, and technology venture capital funds. It prefers to invest in manufacturing, distribution, financial services, natural resources, energy, infrastructure, media and telecommunication services. In the manufacturing sector the firm invests in printing, automotive, packaging and plastics, aeronautics, agribusiness, and electronic components. The firm’s distribution investments include health care, outsourcing, logistics, leisure, and retail. Energy and infrastructure investments include electricity, pipelines, oil and gas, transport, health care, water distribution, and other services. Its natural resource investments include mines and metals, pulp, and paper.The firm’s media investments include publishing, entertainment, and cable distribution. Telecommunication investments include data transmission, wireless, satellite, and other types of communication. Financial services include financial institutions and services. The firm seeks to invest in companies seeking financing of $2 million or more. The firm acts as a lead or a co-investor. It structures its investments in the form of equity or debt investments or both. Equity investments are structured in the form of common or preferred shares and convertible or participating debentures. The firm can provide senior debt, high-yield, mezzanine, short-term bridge, term, and subordinated loans. It prefers to be a board member in its portfolio companies. The firm’s real estate investments invest in debt and equity products. It prefers to invest in office buildings and business parks, retail properties, industrial properties, hotels, residential properties, and senior residences. It typically invests Canada, United States, Western Europe, and Brazil.

HSBC Card Services is the US consumer credit card segment of gigantic British bank HSBC Holdings. One of the top credit card issuers and servicers in the country, HSBC Card Services offers HSBC- and Household Bank-branded plastic from Visa, MasterCard, and American Express with a variety of annual percentage rates and rewards programs. HSBC Card Services Inc. Orchard Bank unit issues cards to consumers looking to establish or re-establish their credit. HSBC Card Services also offers branded cards from General Motors, Sak's Fifth Avenue, and Best Buy, among others.

Founded in 1987, Canaan closed its eighth fund in 2008. Notable past investments include Acme Packet, Amicus Therapeutics, DoubleClick, and Match.com. Canaan Management (alslo known as Canaan Partners) is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in early-stage technology and health care companies, with a focus on digital media, mobile communications, enterprise software, clean technology, biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics. Canaan company typically invests $1 million to $20 million per transaction and has approximately $3 billion in capital under management.

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