EZCORP, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, lends or provides credit services to individuals to meet their short-term cash needs. EZCORP, Inc. offers pawn loans, which are non recourse loans collateralized by tangible personal property, including jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments. EZCORP, Inc. also provides signature loans consisting of payday loans, installment loans, auto title loans, or fee-based credit services to customers seeking loans. In addition, EZCORP provides credit services, including advice and assistance to customers in obtaining loans from unaffiliated lenders. As of September 30, 2009, EZCORP, Inc. operated a total of 910 locations consisting of 369 the U.S. pawnshops, 62 pawnshops in Mexico, 477 the U.S. short-term loan stores, and 2 short-term loan stores in Canada. EZCORP, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Morgan Stanley & Co. (MS&Co.) has their investment banking needs covered. A subsidiary of Morgan Stanley and part of its Global Wealth Management Group, MS&Co. also provides its individual, business, institutional, and government customers with brokerage and investment advice through products such as annuity, insurance, and credit vehicles. After Morgan Stanley merged Morgan Stanley DW into MS&Co. in early 2007, the unit became Morgan Stanley's primary US broker-dealer. The following year MS&Co. merged with government broker Morgan Stanley Market Products.

DMG Information was founded in 1997 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in Milford, Connecticut; Santa Monica, California; and Waltham, Massachusetts. DMGI is a division of the Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), a UK-based media company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The firm prefers not to invest in early stage, pre-revenue companies unless closely aligned with the firm current activities or active in the market area. It seeks to invest in information driven companies with focus mainly on two areas: Business-to-Business and Careers. Within career division, the firm seeks to invest in education and student division. It prefers to invest in insurance, real estate, financial, mapping and geographical, medical or healthcare information sector. The firm primarily seeks to invest in companies with revenue of at least $50 million, with pre-tax profit margin of 20% to 30% or more. It typically invests for control but can take minority stake in early stage companies.

VenCap® was founded in 1987, and has over 20 years of experience of selecting and participating in investment vehicles launched by top tier venture capital firms. As a result, we are one of the longest-established and most experienced fund-of-funds managers in the private equity industry today. In addition, due to our long-term presence in the private equity industry, we have many long-term relationships with highly regarded US venture capital firms that have helped to generate strong returns over the past 20 years.VenCap® is supported by a select group of high-quality institutional investors that includes leading endowments, pension funds and insurance companies from across the globe. We currently have US$2.0 billion in funds under management, spread across twelve fund-of-funds, the most recent of which was a US$450 million investment vehicle raised in 2007.VenCap® is based in a single office location in Oxford, United Kingdom. Our team, which has over 196 years of private equity experience, is led by Michael Ashall, who founded the firm in 1987. Our six-strong investment team is led by Tim Cruttenden, who has been active in the venture capital market for over fifteen years.

HM Capital Partners LLC was founded in 1989 and is based in Dallas, Texas. HM Capital Partners LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market and mature companies. It seeks to invest in, the acquisition of under-managed, under-capitalized or under-appreciated assets and their transformation into strategically relevant assets; acquisition of divisions or products that have no management; acquisition of divisions or assets of large corporations; acquisition of distressed businesses going either through a restructuring or bankruptcy process; acquisition or recapitalization of privately owned or publicly traded businesses; and growth opportunities. The firm seeks to make control investments in companies operating in the, media sector, with a focus on new media technologies and companies offering multiple exit strategies; consumer products sector; energy sector, with a focus on on-shore United States natural gas value chain (both upstream and downstream) and new capital projects or strategic acquisitions that will generate returns in varying commodity price environments; food and beverages sector, with a focus on undermanaged or no management situations, as in the case of a divestiture of a single brand or product line and businesses that have an inappropriate cost structure with opportunity for savings by rationalizing expenses; financial services sector; information services sector; and niche manufacturing sector.

Hargreaves Lansdown was founded in 1981 and is based in Bristol, the United Kingdom. Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of investment products, investment services, and financial planning and advice to private investors in the United Kingdom. Its flagship service, Vantage, is a direct-to-private investor fund supermarket and wrap platform. Vantage offers clients the administrative convenience of being able to hold and manage their investments, including unit trusts, OEICs, equities, bonds, investment trusts, and cash. The company also provides investment management, independent financial advisory, and stock broking services to private investors, and advisory services to companies in respect of group pension schemes.

Highland Capital Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Lexington, Massachusetts with additional offices in Bethesda, Maryland; Geneva, Switzerland; Shanghai, China; and Menlo Park, California. Highland Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, later stage, growth stage, venture buyouts, spin-outs, and recapitalizations investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, consumer, communications, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Within the information technology sector, it seeks to invest in Internet, digital media, new media, emerging media, e-commerce, online business, software, services, software-as-a-service, open source software, low-cost telesales, online marketing, payment systems, emerging broadband, interactive television, and media technologies. In the communications sector, the firm typically invests in networking and communications infrastructure, mobile, wireless technologies, telecom services, service opportunities, cable infrastructure, and semiconductor opportunities. Within the healthcare sector, it prefers to invest in medical technology, software, services, medical devices, and biotechnology.

Sun Capital Partners, Inc. is a leading private investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in market-leading companies that can benefit from its in-house operating professionals and experience. Sun Capital affiliates invest in companies which typically have the number one or two market position in their industry, long-term competitive advantages, and significant barriers to entry. Sun Capital has offices in Boca Raton, Los Angeles and New York, and affiliates with offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Luxembourg, Shanghai and Shenzhen.Sun Capital affiliates have invested in more than 230 companies worldwide since Sun Capital’s inception in 1995, with combined sales in excess of $40 billion and more than 170,000 employees. On a consolidated basis, Sun Capital's affiliated portfolio companies would rank in the top 100 of Fortune Magazine's listing of the 500 largest companies in the United States.Industries targeted for investment are broad and diverse, with no particular industry excluded from consideration. Investments have included companies in paper and packaging, food and beverages, metals and mining, automotive after-market parts, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, media and communications, building products, telecommunications, technology, retailing and catalogs, restaurants, manufacturing and industrial, among others.

City Capital Corporation operates as a professional management and diversified holding company. It manages various assets and holdings, including real estate developments; self-enrichment companies; and the buying, selling, and drilling of oil and gas properties. City Capital Corporation company owns an apartment building in Cleveland, Ohio. It was formerly known as Synthetic Turf Corporation and changed its name to City Capital Corporation in December 2006.

The Pullman Group issues bonds secured by the future royalties of popular songs. The group garnered attention in 1997 when it launched "Bowie Bonds," which securitized future royalties of 300 David Bowie songs, including "Ziggy Stardust." Bonds have been issued for such artists as James Brown, the Isley Brothers, Motown hitmakers Holland-Dozier-Holland, and for TV and movie libraries. The Pullman Group also handles the sales and securitization of other intellectual properties such as trademarks and patents.

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