Morgan Stanley was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals worldwide. It operates in three segments: Institutional Securities, Global Wealth Management Group, and Asset Management. The Institutional Securities segment provides financial advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations, spin-offs, exchange offers, and leveraged buyouts and takeover defenses, as well as shareholder relations; capital raising; corporate lending; investments; and sales, trading, financing, and market-making activities, including equity trading, commodities, and interest rates, credit, and currencies, as well as financing services, including prime brokerage, consolidated clearance, settlement, custody, financing, and portfolio reporting services.The Global Wealth Management Group segment offers brokerage and investment advisory services covering various investment alternatives comprising equities, options, futures, foreign currencies, precious metals, fixed income securities, mutual funds, structured products, alternative investments, unit investment trusts, managed futures, separately managed accounts, and mutual fund asset allocation programs; financial and wealth planning services; annuity and insurance products; credit and other lending products; cash management services; retirement services; and trust and fiduciary services. The Asset Management segment offers products and services in equity, fixed income, and alternative investments, which include hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate, private equity, and infrastructure to institutional and retail clients through proprietary and third party distribution channels. This segment also involves in investment activities.

MTI has been investing since 1983, helping entrepreneurs realise their visions and stakeholders create value. MTI’s hands-on approach ensures that it is a leader in the field of technology venture capital. MTI team, consisting of proven business builders and experienced leaders in the technology sector, are all technically qualified, making sure that MTI all have the knowledge and skill set to help realise latent potential. MTI takes a highly proactive stance towards its portfolio, guiding and assisting companies through all of the challenges that every rapidly growing business faces, at every stage.Headquartered in the UK, and with a US office in Boston, the portfolio of investments includes global companies in the Materials Technology, ITEC and Medical Technology sectors. MTI can invest at any stage of a company’s growth cycle, and across all geographies. Its typical investment over the life of a portfolio company is £5m/$10m, an amount that is multiplied by our ability to lead a syndicate.

Capital Southwest Corporation was founded in 1961 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Capital Southwest Corporation (CSC) is a business development company. The Company’s investment interests are focused on expansion financings, management buyouts, minority recapitalizations, industry consolidations and early-stage financings in a range of industry segments. The portfolio is a composite of companies, in which it has interests, as well as a number of developing companies and marketable securities of publicly-traded companies. The Company makes available managerial assistance to the companies, in which it invests. As of March 31, 2010, the 12 largest investments the Company owned represented 90.3% of the value of its consolidated investment portfolio. Capital Southwest Management Company (CSMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of CSC, is the management company for CSC and Capital Southwest Venture Corporation (CSVC). In June 2010, NorthStar Memorial Group, LLC acquired the Company’s wholly owned portfolio company, Lifemark Group.

ARCH invests primarily in companies co-founded with leading scientists and entrepreneurs, concentrating on bringing to market innovations in life sciences, physical sciences, and information technology. ARCH enjoy special recognition as a leader in the successful commercialization of technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. ARCH currently manages seven funds totaling nearly $1.5 billion and has invested in the earliest venture capital rounds for more than 120 companies. ARCH investors include major corporations, pension funds, endowment funds, financial institutions, and private investors. The partnership is led by six managing directors and a team of venture partners, principals, associates, and technology specialists.

Established in 1987, The Carlyle Group is a private global investment firm that originates, structures and acts as lead equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings.The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with more than $90.5 billion under management. With 67 funds across four investment disciplines (buyouts, credit alternatives, growth capital and real estate), Carlyle combines global vision with local insight, relying on a top-flight team of 400+ investment professionals operating out of offices in 19 countries to uncover superior opportunities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America.While open to opportunities wherever they can be found, Carlyle focuses on sectors in which it has demonstrated expertise: aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, real estate, technology & business services and telecommunications & media.

Sandler O'Neill was founded in 1988. Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. is an investment banking firm that provides financial advisory, balance sheet management, brokerage, and research services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, capital raising, stock conversion and demutualization, fairness opinions, and leveraged buyout services. Additionally, it provides business planning, interest rate risk management, equity research, and securities sales and trading services.

Encore Capital Group, Inc. purchases and manages charged-off consumer receivable portfolios. Encore Capital Group, Inc receivable portfolios include unsecured, charged-off domestic consumer credit cards, auto loan deficiency, and telecom receivables purchased from national financial institutions, major retail credit corporations, telecom companies, and resellers. Encore Capital Group, Inc, through its subsidiary, Ascension Capital Group, Inc., also provides bankruptcy services to the finance industry, including negotiating bankruptcy plans, monitoring and managing the consumer's compliance with bankruptcy plans, and recommending courses of action to clients. Encore Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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.

iStar Financial Inc. operates as a finance company focusing on the commercial real estate industry. iStar Financial Inc. provides custom-tailored financing to high-end private and corporate owners of real estate. iStar Financial Inc. financing products include senior and mezzanine real estate debt, senior and mezzanine corporate capital, corporate net lease financing, and equity. iStar Financial Inc. also involves in corporate tenant leasing business, which provides capital to corporations and others who control facilities leased primarily to single creditworthy customers. As of December 31, 2008, iStar Financial owned 362 office, industrial, entertainment, hotel, and retail facilities in 39 states. iStar Financial Inc. qualifies as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. iStar Financial Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.

Saratoga Partners is an independent, New York-based merchant banking firm making alternative asset investments in private equity and debt in partnership with management across the industrial manufacturing, business service and information service sectors. Saratoga primarily pursues investments in U.S.-headquartered, middle-market companies that it believes have opportunities for enhanced growth and productivity. Saratoga’s investment strategy includes a special focus on “special situation” middle-market investments involving complexity or inefficiencies – including restructurings – that present attractive value combined with active, “hands-on” post-investment involvement to achieve revenue and productivity enhancements.

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