Hirtle, Callaghan & Co., Inc. provides investment management services for endowments, foundations, pension funds, health care organizations, and wealthy families, and takes pride in its assemblage of independent chief investment officers. Its services include global investment strategies, risk management, and access to alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity. Founded in 1988, Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. has more than $17 billion in assets under management. The company has six US offices.

Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is an operating subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is a private equity firm specializing in small and middle market transactions. The firm prefers to acquire businesses and assets from financially distressed sellers and through divestitures from large corporations. It seeks to invest in management buyouts, private company recapitalizations, corporate orphans, distressed debt, complex structural situations, special situations, partnerships with fundless sponsors and industry executives, corporate lift-outs, difficult or non-traditional deal situations, and asset pool purchases. The firm seeks to invest in specialty finance, retail, consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare services and facilities, and business services. It invests between $10 million and $250 million in companies having enterprise values of $30 million to $500 million. The firm makes control investments as a sole investor or co-investor in transactions.

Founded in 1992 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Investors Capital Corporation (ICC) is the dually-registered, premier independent broker dealer of publicly-traded Investors Capital Holdings, Ltd. (AMEX: ICH). ICC is a full-service firm that, today, supports the ongoing needs of practically any type of business model: independent registered representative, independent registered investment advisor, or OSJ.Investors Capital Corporation partners with nearly 700 registered representatives nationwide. We take great pride in providing them with the concierge-level service, superior back-office support, full financial planning and brokerage capabilities, practice management and marketing expertise, powerful technology, superb advisory platform, and complete range of financial products and services they need to achieve true independence and help them exceed the expectations of their clients.

Stonehenge Partners, Inc. was founded in August 1999. Stonehenge Partners, Inc. is a private equity arm of Stonehenge Financial Holdings, Inc. specializing in private equity and mezzanine capital transactions. The firm typically invests in management and leveraged buyouts, leveraged acquisition, recapitalizations, and expansion and growth capital of middle market companies. It primarily invests in manufacturing, distribution, business services, and healthcare companies. The firm does not invest in real estate, oil and gas, high technology, and industries that are susceptible to a high degree of cyclicality. It seeks to invest in companies based in the United States with a focus on the Midwest region. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues exceeding $10 million and cash flow in excess of $2 million. It seeks to invest between $3 million to $15 million in its portfolio companies. The firm can invest in control and minority equity positions in the form of common stock or preferred stock as well as coupon only mezzanine with or without warrants. It also seeks to make co-investments in the form of mezzanine with common stock.

Sinopia Asset Management was founded in 1989 and is based in Paris, France. Sinopia Asset Management SA is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to investment companies. It primarily manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It employs quantitative analysis to create its portfolio. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments. It operates as a subsidiary of HSBC CCF Asset Management Group SA.

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.

GFI Group is an inter-dealer hybrid brokerage that acts as an intermediary for more than 2,000 institutional clients such as banks, large corporations, insurance companies, and hedge funds. GFI Group Inc. deals primarily in over-the-counter derivatives, which tend to be less liquid and thus harder to trade than other assets. GFI Group Inc. also offers market data and analysis on credit, equity, commodity, and currency derivatives, and other financial instruments. Other products include foreign exchange options, freight, and energy derivatives including electric power, coal, and carbon emissions options. GFI has about 20 offices in North and South America, Europe, and Australasia.

Sigma Capital Group plc (Sigma), together with its subsidiaries is a specialist asset management and advisory company focused on venture capital, property and the commercialization of university intellectual property (IP). The Company’s property activities are carried out through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strategic Investment Management Holdings Ltd (SIMH) and its subsidiary companies, which establish and operate limited partnerships investing in commercial property in the United Kingdom. As of December 31, 2009, the Company manages, and is an investor in four venture funds and two university funds, the Sigma Technology Venture Fund (the Venture Fund), the Sigma Innovation Fund (East of Scotland) (the Innovation Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energies Fund (the Sustainable Energies Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II (the Sustainable Energy Fund II), the RGU Ventures Investment Fund (the RGU Fund), and the University of Dundee Venture Fund (the Dundee Fund).

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.

Lightyear Capital Inc. is an investment banking firm that focuses on small and mid-cap companies. The firm provides merger and acquisition, fairness opinions, sourcing and valuation, turnaround and divestiture, privatization, management buyout (MBOs), initial public offering, secondary financing, private placement, private equity and venture capital financing, reverse take over (RTO) transaction, reorganization and re-capitalization, and strategic advisory services. It also offers investment research, institutional sales and brokerage, and private client services.

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