Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

Brentwood Associates was founded in 1972 and is based in Los Angles, California. Brentwood Associates is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market growth companies. The firm invests in management buyouts, industry consolidations, recapitalizations, PIPEs, and growth capital transactions. It invests in consumer-related businesses including action sports; outdoor lifestyle products; business services; consumer products and services; direct marketing; distribution; education; health, wellness and conscious living; marketing services; restaurants; specialty media; specialty retail; and sporting goods. The firm seeks to invest between $20 million and $75 million in the portfolio companies and has the ability to lead equity investments of $150 million or more. It seeks to invest in companies with operating cash flows exceeding $10 million, operating margins exceeding 10 percent, and purchase price between $50 million and $400 million. The firm prefers majority ownership stake in the portfolio companies but may consider significant minority investments. It seeks to take a seat on the Advisory Board of its portfolio companies.

EQT is a group of leading private equity funds with investments in Northern and Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. Activities focus on buyouts, growth financing and infrastructure. In our view, the funds have a unique industrial approach. EQT has raised approximately EUR 13 billion since its establishment and invested some EUR 8.5 billion in more than 75 companies.EQT’s strategic vision is to provide the most successful investment organization and network of industrialists in those markets in which the funds operate by combining entrepreneurship, industrial thinking and financial discipline. The funds invest in companies in which EQT can act as a catalyst for change and growth and to transform companies into global or regional leaders by making genuine and sustainable improvements.The approach of the Equity, Expansion Capital and Infrastructure funds is to acquire or finance high-quality, market-leading, medium-sized companies in growth industries with a potential for top-line growth and to contribute to their industrial acceleration.All EQT funds are advised by EQT Partners. EQT Partners has more than 200 employees in 11 countries, of which approximately 100 are investment professionals with a broad industrial and financial background. EQT Partners has offices in Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Munich, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Warsaw and Zurich.

Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation (Atalanta Capital), Atalanta Sosnoff Management Corporation (Atalanta Management), and ASCC Corporation, provides discretionary investment advisory, brokerage, and other related services to investment advisory clients. Atalanta Capital is a registered investment advisor that provides investment advisory and management services to institutional clients; and is the general partner and investment advisor of certain investment partnerships and mutual funds. Atalanta Management is also a registered investment advisor and a broker-dealer in securities that owns a seat; and is a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. It provides investment advisory and management services to individual and smaller institutional clients, and brokerage services to its clients and some of the clients of Atalanta Capital. ASCC performs investment advisory services for proprietary investment-related activities.

National Holdings provides securities brokerage services to high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors through subsidiaries National Securities Corporation, vFinance, and EquityStation. National Holdings Corporation also provides investment banking services to micro-, small-, and midcap companies and trades securities. Another subsidiary, National Asset Management, offers investors access to mutual funds, money manager accounts, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, and real estate limited partnerships. With headquarters offices in New York, Seattle, and Boca Raton, Florida, National Holdings has more than 120 retail brokerage locations in the US, Europe, and Latin America.

Blue Planet Investment Management Ltd is a Malta based investment management company which specialises in managing investments in financial companies. Its corporate philosophy is that consistent out-performance is more likely to be achieved by specialisation than it is from the generalist approach, which currently prevails across most of the fund management industry. Stock markets comprise of many sectors and at any point in time a number of these sectors will be in economic decline and will produce below average returns to investors. The financial sector is not immune to these cycles. However, financial companies, and in particular banks, play a crucial and central role in free market economies. Money transmission is perhaps the single most important function performed in any free market economy and it is the banks’ dominance of this function that gives them tremendous economic muscle. This role will ensure that banks endure whilst other sectors come and go. Blue Planet believes that investors should only invest in those sectors that have superior long-term economic prospects and, crucially, which are undervalued. It believes that the World’s financial sector is one such sector.

Mavinwood plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the document handling business in the United Kingdom. It provides document management solutions, including document and asset management consultancy, project management, scanning and data integration, system delivery, contract personnel assignments, archive compression, and facilities management services for oil and gas, railways, civil engineering, power, and shipping/ship building sectors. The company also offers near and deep storage, off-site tape storage, document scanning, file and asset tracking and management, and secure destruction services, as well as specialized storage products primarily for accountancy, corporate, financial, insurance, law, and media firms, as well as local authorities and hospital trusts. In addition, it provides rising damp and damp proofing, timber preservation, structural waterproofing, basement conversion, dry rot and wet rot control, resin repairs, condensation control, wall anchors and stabilization, bird control, and remedial wall ties services for home owner and commercial markets, including surveyors/architects, property owners and managers, local authorities and contractors, and commercial and public buildings.

Forward Ventures, founded in 1993, has a team of five investment professionals with extensive experience in venture capital and operations. Forward has invested in over 50 companies since it was founded in 1993 and currently has approximately $500 million in capital under management. The most recent fund, Forward V, continues Forward Ventures’ program of life sciences and health care venture investing in companies of all stages. The firm is headquartered in a 40,000 square-foot research building that also serves as an incubator for its portfolio companies.

Alloy Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion under management that invests in the entrepreneurs creating the next generation of ground-breaking Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Cleantech companies.For the last 30 years, Alloy has leveraged the operational experience, extensive networks and forward-thinking vision of its partners to help start and build over 200 market-leading companies in fields such as software, semiconductors, mobile, medical devices, diagnostics, and laboratory instrumentation. Some of Alloy successful investments include Amgen, AMCC, Applied Biosystems, Aspect Communications, CV Therapeutics, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Nuance Communications, Octel, PMC-Sierra, Red Brick Systems, Remedy, and Verity – and alloy current portfolio includes companies like Barrx, Molecular Imprints, Optimedica, Pacific Biosciences, and Vivotech which are poised to become the next global leaders.

Life Partners Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Waco, Texas. Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (Life Partners) is a financial services company and the parent company of Life Partners, Inc. (LPI). LPI is engaged in the secondary market for life insurance known generally as life settlements. LPI facilitates the sale of life settlements between sellers and purchasers, but does not take possession or control of the policies. The purchasers acquire the life insurance policies at a discount to their face value for investment purposes. Life settlement transactions involve the sale of an existing life insurance policy to another party. By selling the policy, the policyholder receives an immediate cash payment to use as he or she wishes. The purchaser takes an ownership interest in the policy at a discount to its face value and receives the death benefit under the policy when the insured dies.

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