Lazard Middle Market LLC is an investment banking firm that represents sellers of public and private middle-market businesses in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. The services provided by the firm include mergers and acquisitions, distressed company, and private placement advisory services; and valuations and opinions services. It offers a range of domestic and cross-border transactions including sales, mergers, and partnerships and joint ventures. Goldsmith provides financial advisory services to distressed companies in both Chapter 11 court-supervised proceedings and in out-of-court workouts. Its valuation services include strategic alternative assessments; fairness opinions and analyses; equity placements; purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment opinions; management incentive compensation plans; estate and gift tax planning; and litigation support. The firm caters to various industries including consumer, food & beverage, healthcare, industrial products and manufacturing, natural resources and environment, publishing, printing, media, technology, telecom, transportation and business services.

Value Line, Inc. was founded in 1931 and is based in New York, New York. Value Line, Inc. is a subsidiary of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc. Value Line, Inc. (Value Line) is principally engaged in the business of producing investment-related periodical publications and making available copyrighted data, including Value Line ranking system information and other information under agreements to third parties for use in selecting securities for third party marketed products, such as unit investment trusts, closed-end fund products and exchange traded funds, and providing investment management services to the Value Line Funds and other managed accounts. The Company is organized in two segments: Investment Periodicals, Related Publications and Copyright Data, and Investment Management. The investment-related periodicals offered by Value Line Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, cover investments, including stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities. As of April 30, 2009, the Company was the investment adviser for the Value Line Mutual Funds, which consisted of 14 mutual funds.

Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Salisbury, and Southampton, United Kingdom. Smith & Williamson Limited is a member firm of Nexia International. Smith & Williamson Limited operates as a subsidiary of Smith & Williamson Holdings Limited. Smith & Williamson Limited offers accounting and consulting services. The firm provides accounting, tax consulting, reporting, financial modeling, risk management, and compliance and regulatory advisory services. Additionally, it offers due diligence, valuation, business planning, and IT advisory services. The firm also provides pension and financial planning; employee benefits and human resource solutions; forensic; and restructuring and recovery services. It caters to financial, agriculture, real estate, media, technology, corporate, and non-profit sectors.

The Blackstone Group, L.P. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The Blackstone Group L.P. (Blackstone) is a manager of private capital and provider of financial advisory services. The Company is an independent manager of private capital with assets under management of $98.2 billion, as of December 31, 2009. Blackstone provides a range of financial advisory services, including corporate and mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and reorganization and fund placement services. The Company operates in four segments: Private Equity, Real Estate, Credit and Marketable Alternatives, which consists of its management of funds of hedge funds, credit-oriented funds and separately managed accounts, CLOs and publicly-traded closed-end mutual funds, and Financial Advisory, which consists of its corporate and mergers and acquisitions advisory services, restructuring and reorganization advisory services and Park Hill Group, which provides fund placement services for alternative investment funds.

Chuan Hup Holdings Limited (“CHH”) was founded in 1970 as a tug and barge service provider for the PSA Corporation in Singapore. CHH subsequently developed a core competency in the provision of marine transportation services to the mining and energy sectors within the ASEAN region. In doing so, CHH established itself as one of the leading owners and operators of marine transport equipment to the resource industries. In addition, CHH also has investments in the property and electronics manufacturing services sectors.In the Financial Year ended 30 June 2003, CHH reorganized its marine business into two separate and distinct operations according to industry focus, namely, the offshore support services to the oil and gas industry (held under its then subsidiary CH Offshore Ltd) and marine logistics services and transportation of bulk aggregates. On 14 February 2005, CHH entered into an agreement with Habib Corporation Berhad, pursuant to which Habib Corporation Berhad would acquire from CHH the entire marine logistics business, 29.1% (out of the 52.8% held by CHH) of the issued shares of CH Offshore Ltd and 49.1% of the issued shares of PT Rig Tenders Indonesia held by CHH. On 30 September 2005, CHH completed the above transaction with Habib Corporation Berhad (now known as Scomi Marine Berhad) for SGD $485,621,190 and a 28.9% stake in Scomi Marine Berhad.

Clarion Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Clarion Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in growth equity investments, recapitalizations, turnarounds, leveraged buyouts, distressed debt, add-on acquisitions, and purchase of debt or equity securities in private or publicly traded companies. It seeks to invest in middle market companies that have long-term growth characteristics, but are temporarily undervalued. Though the firm does not limit itself to any particular industry, it invests in companies that share similar characteristics to those in which it has invested previously. These include the consumer products; business services; healthcare services; specialty financial services; specialty retail; and media and entertainment sectors. The firm does not have any geographic limitations for investing. It seeks to make equity investments between $15 million and $50 million in companies having an enterprise value between $50 million and $200 million. However it targets companies that require $25 million.The firm invests in platform companies with an EBITDA greater than $10 million.

Centerline Holding Company, through its subsidiaries, provides real estate financial and asset management services. The Company offers capital solutions, including financing and investment products, to developers, owners and investors. The Company’s Corporate group, consists of Finance and Accounting, Legal, Corporate Communications and Operations departments, supports these four business groups. In March 2010, the Company sold its Portfolio Management group and the portion of the Commercial Real Estate group

Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California. Dunham & Associates Investment Counsel, Inc. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm also provides advisory and brokerage services. It provides its services to individuals including high net worth individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and other pooled investment vehicles. The firm manages separate client focuses portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and real estate markets across the globe. It conducts in-house research to make investments.

The Chairman, Bruce Rowan, has managed the Company since January 2002. Bruce has a wealth of experience over many years of investing primarily in small company new issues and pre-IPO opportunities in the natural resources and mineral exploration sectors. Bruce is supported by Tony Scutt, non-executive director, and by John Watkins, finance director and company secretary. Tony is an experienced private investor and investment analyst as well as a director of three investee companies; Tony is a qualified Chartered Secretary, a Certified Internal Auditor with the US Institute of Internal Auditors and spent 35 years with Shell. John has been in practice as a Chartered Accountant since 1972, including periods in the City with the accountancy firms of Neville Russell and Ernst & Young. In addition, he is a non-executive director of five Starvest investee companies.

Marks and Spencer Financial Services (known as Marks and Spencer Money, or M&S Money for short) can help you with that and much more. The company provides a variety of financial products such as personal and auto loans, individual savings accounts (ISAs), fixed-rate savings, unit trusts, and credit cards to UK consumers. Its insurance offerings include life, home, travel, car, and even pet and wedding coverage. British banking giant HSBC bought M&S Money from department store operator Marks and Spencer in late 2004.

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