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.

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Shanghai, China and Beijing, China. Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in incubation and early stage companies. The firm seeks to invest in green technology innovation, information technology, pandemic and bio-defense, and life sciences. In information technology sector, it prefers to invest in consumer, enterprise, semiconductor, security, wireless, and communication sectors. Within pandemic and bio-defense, the firm invests in surveillance, diagnostics, vaccines, antiviral drugs, and technologies enabling large-scale manufacturing. In life science sector, it invests in medical devices, drugs, vaccines, personalized medicine, diagnostics, and healthcare information technology and services.

Gladstone Capital Corporation is a business development company and operates as a closed-end non-diversified management investment company. It invests in debt and equity securities of small and medium-sized private United States businesses. The company primarily invests in various categories of debt of private companies comprising senior notes, senior subordinated notes, and junior subordinated notes.

Established in 1923 by Governor Gifford Pinchot, the system has grown to manage more than $35 billion in assets. Employees of the Keystone State can rest assured the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System (SERS) is keeping a keen eye on their currency. SERS administers the statewide retirement and pension benefits fund for Pennsylvania's public employees. Serving more than 210,000 members, SERS is funded by a combination of employee contributions, employer contributions, and investment earnings. In addition to managing retirement accounts, the system provides retirees with health insurance.

Riordan, Lewis & Haden was founded in 1982. Riordan, Lewis & Haden is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in growth capital, management buyouts, shareholder’s liquidity, and recapitalizations. It makes growth investments for working capital needs, additional production capacity, strategic acquisitions, and geographic expansion. The firm makes investments in business services, high value added manufacturing, specialty distribution, healthcare, and financial services. I t prefers to invest in home improvement, lawn and garden, storage and organization, sporting goods, outdoor recreation, luggage and travel accessories, and pet products. Within business services, the firm focuses on IT services, systems engineering, consulting, information security, and specialized data services. It looks for branded food, consumer products, precision components, and complex materials in high value added manufacturing sector. For specialty distribution, the firm focuses on healthcare products, plastics, and food. Within healthcare sector, it particularly invests in rehabilitation services, assisted living, devices, and home care. The firm focuses on specialty insurance and specialty finance for financial services sector. It typically, makes investments in companies headquartered Western U.S. with a focus in California.

Home BancShares, Inc. (HBI) is a bank holding company. Home BancShares Company is primarily engaged in providing a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its wholly owned community bank subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank). Home BancShares Company is engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The Bank has locations in central Arkansas, north central Arkansas, southern Arkansas, the Florida Keys and southwestern Florida. As of December 31, 2009, it conducted business through 45 Arkansas branches located in central Arkansas, two branches in north central Arkansas, two branches in southern Arkansas, nine branches in the Florida Keys and three branches in southwestern Florida. In March 2010, Home BancShares, Inc. and Centennial Bank announced that the bank has assumed substantially all deposits and purchased certain assets of Key West Bank.

Avanti Capital Plc is a United Kingdom-based company. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company was engaged in private equity and ancillary services. The principal activity of Eclectic Bars Limited, one of the Company’s subsidiaries, was as an operator of bars and night clubs. It has two segments: Investment and ancillary services, which provides management services in respect of the investment market, and bar and night clubs segment, which relates to the United Kingdom late-nights, entertainment-led venues and restaurants. Its subsidiaries include Avanti Holdings plc, Avanti Partners (UK) Limited and Avanti Partners NV.

PLUS Markets plc ('PLUS') is a new small & mid-cap stock exchange for London, seeking to create the deepest pool of small & mid-cap liquidity in Europe. It is a Recognised Investment Exchange in the UK and a Market Operator under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ('MiFID'), authorised to operate both secondary (trading) and primary (listing/quotation) markets.PLUS is fully committed to the principles of competition and choice for trading and listing equity securities in London. Indeed, PLUS introduced competition to small & mid-cap trading in London in December 2005 in response to customer demand, a full two years ahead of the implementation of MiFID in November 2007.PLUS is itself a smaller quoted company, with some 50 employees covering all core exchange functions including Business Development, Information Technology and Regulation. Based in the heart of the City of London, it meets stringent Financial Services Authority requirements in order to offer efficient access to the London investment community.

Auriga Partners was founded in May, 1998 and is based at Paris, France. Auriga Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage companies. It prefers to invest in the information technology, industrial technology, and life sciences sectors. The firm primarily invests in the European Union, with a minor focus on North America, France, and Israel. It typically invests between €0.5 million ($0.74 million) and €8 million ($11.87 million) in its portfolio companies. For investments outside France, the firm participates in the funding along with its extensive global network of local venture capitalists.

Kim Eng Holdings is one of Southeast Asia's foremost brokerage houses. Kim Eng Holdings Limited provides securities trading and investment banking services such as IPO underwriting, corporate advisory, and financing. Kim Eng Holdings Limited also provides asset management services through KE Capital Partners, a joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, as well as through associate firm Republic Investment Management. Subsidiary Emfore Capital Partners manages private equity funds. Kim Eng also performs stock research; its KE Live division specializes in event-driven strategies for retail investors. Kim Eng has a presence in eight countries in Asia (it entered Vietnam and India in 2007), in addition to sales offices in New York and London.

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