Janus Capital Group was founded in 1969 and is based in Denver Colorado with additional offices in the United States, Hong Kong; London; Milan; and Tokyo, Japan. Janus Capital Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company with approximately $167.7 billion in assets under management. It also provides retirement planning, investment planning, tax planning, investment for college, and tax planning services to its clients. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies, retail investors, institutions, and individuals. Through its subsidiaries, it manages equity, fixed income, money markets, and balanced mutual funds for its clients and invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm was formerly known as Stilwell Financial Incorporated.

Acorn Capital Partners provides corporate finance services to growing companies. Acorn Capital also advises on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, regulatory compliance, and flotations on the PLUS and AIM stock markets. The firm has worked with companies in the business services, technology, communications, and real estate industries. Affiliate Acorn Fund Management offers three funds that invest in real estate (mainly in the European Union) to pension schemes and high-net-worth individuals. Acorn Capital Partners was co-founded by chief executive Ian Templeton and director Graham Norfolk.

Established in 2000, HgCapital is a leading investor in the European private equity market. It is the successor to Mercury Private Equity (founded in 1985), which was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1997. In December 2000, Mercury Private Equity staff acquired the business from Merrill Lynch and renamed it HgCapital. HgCapital has funds under management of £2.4 billion. HgCapital services over 200 institutional clients and manages HgCapital Trust plc, an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange that participates in all HgCapital's investments. Since 1985, HgCapital have invested and worked with a broad range of companies and managers, successfully tackling a wide array of challenges. These challenges include public-to-private leveraged buy-outs, management buy-ins, turnarounds, operational improvement initiatives and, of course, scaling up for fast growth. HgCapital knowledge and energy is available to all companies in which HgCaptial invest.

Centre Partners Management LLC was founded in 1986 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas. Centre Partners Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies, private family owned companies, management buyouts, acquisitions, growth capital, management investment partnerships, and going private transactions. Within management investment partnerships, the firm prefers to invest in renal disease, fixed base operations for general aviation, liquid waste collection and treatment, and midstream segment of the energy industry. It focuses on companies engaged in the consumer; business services; energy; industrial products and services; financial services; healthcare; cable and media; and multi-unit sectors including retail, restaurant, and drugstore. The firm primarily invests in companies based in North America. It typically invests between $15 million and $85 million in the portfolio companies and for management investment partnerships, the firm generally invests a smaller amount, with a final investment amount of over $50 million.

Ledstiernan AB was founded in 1994 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Ledstiernan AB is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in mid and late venture, growth capital, and buyouts investments in middle market and mature companies. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing, retail, energy, and information technology and communication technology with a focus on mobile communication and wireless technology. It prefers to invest in the Nordic region and Sweden. The firm invests between SK 5 million ($0.62 million) and SK 50 million ($6.19 million) in its portfolio companies. It seeks to exit its investments between two and eight years through an industrial sale.

Novacap is one of Canada's leading private equity firms. Since 1981, Novacap partnership approach has helped companies accelerate their growth and maximize their value. At Novacap, it's about more than just an investment; it's about building world-class companies. Novacap highly-experienced, multifunctional team understands the operational and financial challenges faced by today's organizations. Novacapprovide active support, deep operational expertise and growth capital to help companies with strategic competitive advantages realize their full potential.Novacap is the only firm to have won the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association's "Deal of the Year Award" twice. In 2000, we won for our Venture Capital investment in InnoMediaLogic Inc. Then, in 2005, Novacap won again in the Private Equity category for its investment in Santé Naturelle A.G. Ltd.

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. We manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and our funds under management exceed £186 million. NVM is a generalist investor specialising in making equity investments between £2 million and £10 million in UK unquoted companies. Established in 1988, NVM is owned by its employees following a management buy-out from the Aberdeen Group in December 2003.

Engemann Asset Management was founded in 1969 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Los Angeles, California. Engemann Asset Management is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also caters to individuals, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm invests in value and growth stocks of micro cap, small cap, mid cap, and large cap companies with market capitalization of over $10 billion. It employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolio against the Russell 1000 Growth Index and Russell 2000 Growth Index. It operates as a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.

KRG Capital Partners, L.L.C was founded in 1996 and is based in Denver, Colorado. KRG Capital Partners, ("KRG Capital") is a private equity investment firm specializing in acquiring controlling interests in middle-market companies and growing them into significantly larger enterprises through the combination of internal growth and selective strategic add-on acquisitions. KRG Capital seeks investment opportunities where we can partner with existing management teams that are committed to building a best-in-class industry leader through industry consolidation. KRG Capital invests in companies with a history of operating profitability and strong growth prospects in specialty or "niche" manufacturing, distribution or service industries. In all cases, KRG Capital seeks to develop a growth and consolidation strategy that will clearly add value to the end customers of our portfolio companies by providing an enhanced product or service offering.

Hargreaves Lansdown was founded in 1981 and is based in Bristol, the United Kingdom. Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of investment products, investment services, and financial planning and advice to private investors in the United Kingdom. Its flagship service, Vantage, is a direct-to-private investor fund supermarket and wrap platform. Vantage offers clients the administrative convenience of being able to hold and manage their investments, including unit trusts, OEICs, equities, bonds, investment trusts, and cash. The company also provides investment management, independent financial advisory, and stock broking services to private investors, and advisory services to companies in respect of group pension schemes.

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