Avenir Group invests in small and midsized companies and helps build those companies by providing management services and analysis, as well as business and administrative consulting. The firm prefers to invest in family businesses, threshold companies, and US divestments of international corporations. Avenir's portfolio includes such manufacturing companies as Proline Billiards (billiard tables), Nichols & Stone (wood furniture), and Westminster Ceramics (ceramic tile).

AdMedia Partners is an independent merger and acquisition advisory firm providing M&A advice to digital and traditional media, marketing and information businesses. Founded in 1990 by former advertising, media, and financial executives, the firm focuses on mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, valuations, and strategic consulting. AdMedia has provided transactional services and strategic and financial advice to the world's leading advertising and media companies. The firm's industry knowledge and strong transactional skills provide the best outcomes for both buyers and sellers–the strategic value that AdMedia Partners brings to every assignment.AdMedia's group of managing directors is among the most experienced financial advisors in the media, marketing services, and Internet industries. Their diverse backgrounds as former operating and financial executives, and entrepreneurs provide unique insights into both the strategic and operating issues that surface during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Management teams and shareholders benefit from the managing directors' keen and unique perspectives into the current themes and trends within the sectors that AdMedia covers. Most importantly, the managing directors speak the same language and have shared backgrounds with the clients they serve.

Alliance Trust was founded in 1888 and is based in Dundee, United Kingdom. Alliance Trust PLC is a publicly owned investment manager with approximately £2.87 billion ($5.64 billion) in assets under management. The firm also provides pensions and ISA/PEP services to its clients. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, private equity, and real estate markets across the globe. It employs a combination of a top-down and a bottom-up stock picking approach to create it portfolio mix. The firm makes its fixed income investments in government and corporate bonds. It does not benchmark the performance of its portfolios against any specific index. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments.

PSG Solutions Plc company owns stakes in real estate, manufacturing, and technology companies. Its primary holding is PSG Franchising, which (through some 80 franchised offices) provides private searches and reports for residential properties throughout England and Wales. It also owns Audiotel International, which makes surveillance equipment, and specialist packaging company Moore & Buckle. PSG Franchising cut workers and closed offices when the UK's Home Information Packs (HIPs) system was abolished in 2010; it was among the nation's leading providers of HIPs. Investment company Southwind controls the company and has offered to buy it outright.

Founded by Paul Singer in 1977, Elliott Associates is one of the oldest hedge funds under continuous management. Elliott means action: Hedge fund firm Elliott Management takes an activist approach to investing, frequently amassing significant but minority stakes in distressed or underperforming companies and attempting to foment change. Elliott Management Corporation company manages hedge funds Elliott Associates and Elliott International, which together manage more than $16 billion of capital for large institutional investors and wealthy individuals. Elliott Associates invests in corporate, real estate, and sovereign debt (most famously with its 1995 $20 million investment in Peru), with investments in North America, Asia, and Europe.

Audiolux luxuriates in Luxembourg-based investments -- including a number that deal in audio. The investment outfit takes minority stakes in media and communications companies, especially those headquartered in its own tiny grand duchy. Audiolux invests in both startups and more advanced companies; it has taken stakes in SES Global, RTL Group, and Utopia, among others. In some cases, Audiolux takes an active advisory role as it helps to build the business of its portfolio companies. Financial firm Luxempart owns more than 70% of Audiolux.

Dubai Holding has its fingers in a lot of pies -- hospitality, real estate, financial services, telecom, media, health care, and more. The company has a portfolio of seven main corporations (including hotelier Jumeirah Group) that span across 13 industries. Each main corporation has its own subsidiaries, giving Dubai Holding interests in about 250 companies in the UAE. Dubai Holding is primarily involved in funding development, whether it's building a 3 billion sq. ft. theme park (Dubailand) or a 30 million sq. ft. research park (DuBiotech, owned by TECOM Investments). Dubai Holding is ultimately controlled by the emirate's ruler, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

GLG Partners, Inc. (GLG) is an asset management company. The Company offers a range of investment products and managed account services. GLG manages global investment funds and accounts. It derives revenue primarily from management fees and administration fees charged to the GLG Funds and accounts it manages based on the value of assets in these funds and accounts, and performance fees charged to the GLG Funds and accounts it manages based on the performance of these funds and accounts. On April 3, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of Societe Generale Asset Management Group Ltd.’s share capital to acquire Societe Generale Asset Management UK (SGAM UK), Societe Generale’s United Kingdom asset management business.

3i Group Plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in private equity, buyouts, venture capital, and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in business services, healthcare, consumer, media, oil, gas, power, technology, general industries, financial services, infrastructure, and regional sectors. The firm also seeks to invest in family owned business. It seeks to invest in media businesses at all stages of development and on selective basis, it also makes early-stage venture investments in oilfield technologies. The firm typically makes growth capital investments in medium-sized businesses in the healthcare, financial services, food and drink, media, IT services, support services, and oil and gas sectors. It prefers to invest in buyouts across a broad range of sectors with a particular focus on healthcare, business services, telecommunication, media, consumer, and oil, gas and power. The firm typically invests in business services with a focus on blue collar services (including cleaning, security, repair and maintenance, and facilities management); white collar services (including consultancy services including engineering, environmental, and recruitment and training and process outsourcing); distribution; and rental services (including hire of equipment and other non consumables).

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.

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