Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., L.L.C. ("BRS") is a New York-based private equity investment firm with approximately $1.4 billion in funds under management. Founded in 1995 by former senior executives of Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd., BRS specializes in management buyouts and recapitalizations of high quality, middle market companies with strong market positions and/or growth potential. BRS's philosophy is to back the management of its portfolio companies, allowing them operational freedom with long-term equity incentives and support. BRS provides expertise to portfolio companies in the areas of financing, acquisitions and strategic long-term planning focused upon realization of value.The founders of BRS have had extensive experience since the mid 1980's in initiating, negotiating, financing, closing and overseeing numerous private equity investments in diverse industries throughout a range of economic cycles and financial market conditions. They have undertaken management buyouts of public companies, private companies, and divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of closely held companies providing both liquidity and continual ownership to existing owners; build-ups of significant enterprises through acquisitions; and equity investments in growth companies.

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

Named after a 17th century war ship, Brigantine Advisors wants to help its clients navigate the vast investment world. The firm provides investment research and advisory services to corporations, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and a variety of funds (i.e. mutual, hedge, bonds). It conducts research and analysis of technology, retail, and energy companies on behalf of its clients, focusing on market analysis, mergers and acquisitions, product development, financing, and investor relations. In addition, the firm provides trading services through a partnership with a third-party company. Brigantine Advisors operates offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.

NBGI Private Equity Limited is a private equity arm of NBG International Limited specializing in investments in small to medium sized businesses. It seeks to invest in management buyouts and buyins, institution led buyouts, growth capital, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. The firm does not invest in startups and early stage companies. It seeks to invest in consumer and leisure, manufactured, industrial and building products, and business and support services. It prefers to invest in the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in a deal size between £5 million ($9.40 million) and £50 million ($94.09 million) with an equity investment between £2 million ($3.2 million) and £15 million ($24.05 million). It invests in private and public companies. The firm also invests in further rounds of financing for acquisition and growth in its portfolio companies.

Noble Fund Managers manages funds for a worthy list of institutional and retail customers. Noble Fund Managers invests in UK small- and mid-cap equities and engages in venture capital financing. Among its investment vehicles are venture capital trust Noble AIM VCT, CF Noble UK Smaller Companies Fund, and Noble Health Fund VCT. Noble Fund Managers also offers investment advisory services and offers operator services for more than 75 third-party managed funds. Noble Fund Managers is a subsidiary of investment bank Noble Group, which operates in the UK and India.

Melrose PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an engineering company. The Dynacast segment supplies die-cast parts and components for computing, consumer electronics, healthcare, automotive, and telecommunications industries. The Energy segment provides energy industrial products, such as turbogenerators, transformers, and switchgear units. This segment serves gas turbine producers and specialist generators; and oil and gas, mining, defense, telecommunications, utilities, and industrial contracting sectors. The Lifting segment manufactures wire and rope solutions, such as crane, fishing, marine, mining, and oil and gas wire and fiber ropes; and high carbon wire and construction products. This segment also provides accessories used in the lifting and material handling industry. It serves onshore and offshore oil and gas, deep shaft and surface mining, petrochemical, alternative energy, general industrial, construction, fishing and marine, and material handling industries. The Other Industrial segment offers window hardware, and storm and screen door hardware; automated material handling solutions for airports, post and parcel distribution facilities, manufacturing and warehouse operations, and library automation; and designs, manufactures, and supplies scrap processing and recycling equipment for ferrous, non-ferrous, and paper industries.

FAF Advisors, Inc. is an asset management arm of U.S. Bank National Association. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. It also manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in value and growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. It employs a fundamental and quantitative analysis to make its investments. The firm was formerly known as U.S. Bancorp Asset Management, Inc. FAF Advisors, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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.

Vista Equity Partners was founded in 2000. Vista Equity Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in management and leveraged buyouts, growth and acquisition financings, recapitalizations, restructurings, spinouts, divestitures, special situations, and going private transactions. The firm seeks to invest in software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), technology enabled business services, and technology enabled information services. It also seeks to invest in technology-enabled companies which have a proven and defensible technology that can be leveraged to build new products, solutions, and services; mature companies in which opportunities exist to create value through embracing and leveraging technology; and new or existing companies which have developed proprietary technologies that address specific niche markets. The firm seeks to acquire a majority stake in the portfolio companies.

Centerline Capital Group operates as a real estate finance and investment company in the United States. The company provides equity and debt capital to the affordable multifamily housing industry. Its asset management group comprises construction monitoring, primary servicing, special servicing, and portfolio oversight. Centerline's commercial real estate group provides financing and investment products for affordable multifamily, conventional multifamily, retail, office, mixed use properties, and industrial properties. The company also offers institutional investment products, such as tax credit funds, direct loan funds, high-yield CMBS funds, and real estate equity funds. It offers financing at each level of a property's capitalization, including equity, mezzanine capital, B-notes, bridge and first mortgage loans. Centerline Capital Group focuses on providing credit intermediation, primarily in the form of credit default swaps to the affordable multifamily housing industry.

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