Capital Management and Investment plc (CMI) is a United Kingdom-based investment holding company. In October 2007, Algeco Scotsman was formed following the merger of Algeco, Europe’s modular construction and mobile storage business, with Williams Scotsman, the modular storage rental business in North America. CMI, through its investment in Yola Investments Sarl (Yola) indirectly owns 7% of Magticom, a provider of mobile telephone services in the Republic of Georgia.

Eurazeo has a zeal for Euros. The private equity firm buys stakes in mid-sized and large companies in a wide variety of industries, including hospitality, equipment distribution, and property management. It participates in deals including going-private transactions, spin-offs, and secondary buyouts. Eurazeo usually takes a long-term, lead investor role with an initial investment of up to E100 million (about $142 million). It then actively participates in the strategic, financial, and operational management of its portfolio companies. Through majority-owned subsidiary ANF, the company also invests in real estate. Eurazeo owns interest in telecom company Sirti and hotel operator Accor, among others.

Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP"), based in Chicago, is one of the most experienced and successful private equity investment firms in the United States. MDP has raised over $18 billion of capital since its formation in 1992. Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of private or publicly held companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held companies; balance sheet restructurings; acquisition financings; and growth capital investments in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in basic industries, communications, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and real estate sectors. Within the basic industries sectors, it focuses on energy and power, paper, packaging and forest products, chemicals, building products, metals and mining, diversified industrial, natural resources, automotive, food, refining, and general manufacturing industries. In the communications sector, the firm invests in media including broadcast television, radio station groups, and publishing companies; wireless communications sector including mobile telephone operators, paging service providers, high-capacity data and voice transmission service providers, and satellite service providers; and wireline telecommunications including local exchange carriers, rural telephone operators, and cable television system operators.

Credit Acceptance Corporation provides auto loans to consumers primarily in the United States. Credit Acceptance Corporation primarily provides the portfolio and purchase programs. Credit Acceptance Corporation portfolio program comprises advancing money to dealer-partners in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loan; and the purchase program includes buying the consumer loan from the dealer-partner and keeping various amounts collected from the consumer. Credit Acceptance Corporation offers its products through a network of automobile dealers. Credit Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.

and Capital Corporation was founded in 1969 and is based in Buffalo, New York. Rand Capital Corporation is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in small to medium-sized privately held companies. The firm does not prefer to invest in real estate sector. It invests in companies that are engaged in the exploitation of new or unique products or services. It seeks to invest in companies based in the Western and Upstate New York region and its surrounding states with focus on Buffalo and Niagara region. The firm may invest in region within three to five hour drives from Western New York including Canada. It typically invests between $500,000 and $1.5 million and the total Investment in rounds is between $1 million and $5 million. The firm seeks to be a lead investor in companies within its geographical area and participates in syndicate with other investors outside it. It prefers to invest in businesses that are unique or possess proprietary right. The firm prefers to be a minority investor and seeks to take a Board seat in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to seven years.

Integrated Asset Management plc (Integrated) is an alternative investment company. The Company’s business includes asset management, specifically fund of hedge fund management and institutional brokerage. It operates through two segments: hedge fund management and brokerage. Through regulated subsidiaries in London, Integrated manages assets in a variety of Fund of Hedge Funds (FoHF) vehicles, as well as providing advisory and distribution services. Institutional brokerage provides services in Europe, in foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, equities, and bonds. The wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company include Integrated Alternative Advisors Limited, Integrated Alternative Investments Limited, Integrated Financial Products Limited, Capital Management Limited and Attica Holdings (UK) Limited.

Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. was founded in 1996. Polaris Venture Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and first round investments. The firm also participates in recapitalization, liquidity, leveraged buyouts, and minority growth equity investments in middle market companies. It makes early stage investments in companies engaged in the information technology and life sciences sectors. Investments in the middle market comprise of companies engaged in technology, healthcare, digital media, ecommerce, consumer products and services, and business service sectors. The firm prefers to invest in portfolio companies based in the United States and can selectively invest in Asia and Europe. It typically invests between $10 million and $60 million in portfolio companies with a maximum EBITDA of $25 million. The firm generally acts as a lead or co-lead investor.

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.

Evergreen Investment Management was founded in 1932 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Malvern, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Richmond, Virginia. Evergreen Investment Management Co., LLC is an asset management arm of Wachovia Bank, NA. The firm provides its services to investment companies; corporations; pension and profit sharing plans; state and municipal government entities; individuals, including high net worth individuals; banking and thrift institutions; pooled investment vehicles; and charitable organizations. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages a family of mutual funds, hedge funds, and variable annuities for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm also invests in the alternative investments markets, typically limiting such investments to private equity, private real estate, commodities markets, and managed futures. For its equity investments, it typically invests in growth and value stocks of all-cap companies, including small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. For its small/mid cap growth portfolio, the firm makes investments in companies with market capitalizations below $6 billion. It benchmarks the performance of its enhanced index portfolio against the S&P 500 index.

Jaguar Financial is on the prowl for undervalued companies it thinks are worthy of investment. The Canadian investment company owns more than a quarter of pipe and tubing manufacturer Lakeside Steel and about 20% of Royal Laser, a manufacturer of steel and wood products for the retail, industrial, and automotive markets. Other holdings include a minority interest in Blue Note Mining, which owns lead/zinc mines in New Brunswick. Prior to its becoming a merchant bank in 2007, the company was known as Jaguar Nickel and operated nickel mining projects in Guatemala.

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