Menlo Ventures has the means to keep the American entrepreneurial spirit alive and kicking. The venture capital firm, which was founded in 1976, provides long-term capital and management services primarily to development-stage technology companies in such areas as communications, semiconductors, enterprise software, security, and mobile and Internet services. It has a focus on US companies and typically offers between $5 million and $30 million per transaction. Portfolio companies include Broncus Technologies, Bluesocket, 3Par , and nCircle Network Security. An active investor, Menlo has stakes in more than 80 companies and has some $4 billion under management.

Evercore Partners Inc. (Evercore), incorporated on July 20, 2005, is an independent investment banking advisory firms in the world based on the dollar volume of announced worldwide merger and acquisition (M&A). The Company provides advisory services to multinational corporations on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings and other strategic corporate transactions. Evercore also includes an Investment Management business through which it manages institutional assets for institutional investors, provide wealth management services for net-worth individuals, provide specialized investment management, independent fiduciary and trustee services to employee benefit plans of large corporations and manage private equity funds.The Company operates in two business segments: Advisory and Investment Management. In April 2010, the Company announced that the acquisition of MJC Associates, a commercial real estate advisory boutique.

Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A. is a subsidiary of Commerzbank AG. Dresdner Bank Luxembourg S.A. provides banking products and services in Luxembourg. The company offers advisory services, including investment advice, portfolio management, financial planning, estate planning, wealth management, financial solutions, and family office services. It also provides fund-linked life insurance, fiduciary transactions, loans and advances, international lending, money and foreign exchange transaction, precious metals, and asset management services, as well as deposits comprising call and time deposits in all convertible currencies. In addition, the company offers financial instruments, such as financial futures, FRAs, caps, floors, interest rate swaps, and CCIRS/EONIA swaps; and administrative and representative services, including investment advisory services and asset management, custody and administration of securities, rental of safe deposit boxes, trustee services, agency services, and underwriting services.

3i Group Plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in private equity, buyouts, venture capital, and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in business services, healthcare, consumer, media, oil, gas, power, technology, general industries, financial services, infrastructure, and regional sectors. The firm also seeks to invest in family owned business. It seeks to invest in media businesses at all stages of development and on selective basis, it also makes early-stage venture investments in oilfield technologies. The firm typically makes growth capital investments in medium-sized businesses in the healthcare, financial services, food and drink, media, IT services, support services, and oil and gas sectors. It prefers to invest in buyouts across a broad range of sectors with a particular focus on healthcare, business services, telecommunication, media, consumer, and oil, gas and power. The firm typically invests in business services with a focus on blue collar services (including cleaning, security, repair and maintenance, and facilities management); white collar services (including consultancy services including engineering, environmental, and recruitment and training and process outsourcing); distribution; and rental services (including hire of equipment and other non consumables).

Lion Capital is a consumer-focused investment firm that seeks to make control investments in mid and large-sized, consumer-oriented businesses in Europe and North America. The Firm aims to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns through the application of deep investment and operating expertise in the consumer sector. Lion’s senior team has over 200 years of collective experience investing in and operating consumer businesses, providing an effective base from which to lead successful investments in the industry. Our focus on the consumer sector differentiates us from other investment firms and gives us a number of advantages in our pursuit of value-creation strategies in the companies in which we invest.Within Lion Capital’s partnership are long-standing professional relationships that extend back over seventeen years in some cases, and certain of the Lion Partners have been investing in Europe since the early 1990s. Over this time, Lion’s Partners have led the investment of over €4.5 billion in companies representing €17 billion of enterprise value. Lion Capital is currently managing two active pools of investment capital: Lion Capital Fund I (formed in 2004) and Lion Capital Fund II (formed in 2007), which combined give Lion over €2.8 billion of assets under management.

EQT is a group of leading private equity funds with investments in Northern and Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. Activities focus on buyouts, growth financing and infrastructure. In our view, the funds have a unique industrial approach. EQT has raised approximately EUR 13 billion since its establishment and invested some EUR 8.5 billion in more than 75 companies.EQT’s strategic vision is to provide the most successful investment organization and network of industrialists in those markets in which the funds operate by combining entrepreneurship, industrial thinking and financial discipline. The funds invest in companies in which EQT can act as a catalyst for change and growth and to transform companies into global or regional leaders by making genuine and sustainable improvements.The approach of the Equity, Expansion Capital and Infrastructure funds is to acquire or finance high-quality, market-leading, medium-sized companies in growth industries with a potential for top-line growth and to contribute to their industrial acceleration.All EQT funds are advised by EQT Partners. EQT Partners has more than 200 employees in 11 countries, of which approximately 100 are investment professionals with a broad industrial and financial background. EQT Partners has offices in Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Munich, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Warsaw and Zurich.

Sterling Investment Partners was founded in 1991 and is based in Westport, Connecticut. Sterling Investment Partners is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions and consolidations of middle market companies. The firm also seeks to invest in international expansions and joint venture investments. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the, outsourcing and business services; niche manufacturing and industrial companies; transportation and logistics; unique distribution; technology-related companies; energy services; and consumer products and services industries. The firm seeks to invest in companies with revenues between $50 million and in excess of $300 million and EBITDA between $10 million and in excess of $40 million.

North Castle is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on consumer-driven product and service businesses that benefit from two long-term trends: (i) "Healthy Living" or the desire to live healthier, longer and more active lives, and (ii) the "Aging" of the Baby Boomer generation, which is expected to foster strong growth in segments of the consumer industry. These predictable and irreversible trends are fueling consumer interest and significant growth in our target markets. North Castle makes control private equity investments in consumer-driven product and service companies located in North America, with enterprise values ranging from $50 million to $500 million. Our target markets often include industries that are highly fragmented providing opportunities to build market leaders and create value through leveraged buyouts, growth capital infusions and strategic acquisitions.North Castle is a hands-on, value-added investor. We utilize our cumulative knowledge and network, which results from our industry focus, to partner with management and entrepreneurs to create market-leading companies. The strength of our focused approach yields significant benefits to our partners and portfolio companies. North Castle is led by a seasoned team of managing directors, who have spent more than 10 years working together, and are supported by six additional investment professionals. In addition, North Castle has sixteen outside operating advisors that provide relevant experience in North Castle's areas of focus, actively participate in management of the portfolio and supplement North Castle's operating and sourcing capabilities. This unique mix of senior resources differentiates North Castle and gives it a distinct competitive advantage in developing and generating new opportunities for its portfolio companies.

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for United Bank (the Bank). United Mutual Holding Company is a mutual holding company and owns 53.6% of United Financial Bancorp. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its main office in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and its 12 branch offices located in Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Springfield, Northampton and two offices in Westfield, Massachusetts, and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, as well as in home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and industrial loans, automobile loans, other consumer loans, and investment securities. During the year ended December 31, 2006, United Bank acquired Levine Financial Group.

FirstLink Investments Corporation Limited began in 1973 as Singatronics Pte Ltd, a manufacturer of consumer electronic products, such as pocket calculators, toys and games. On 5 October 1978, Singatronics (Singapore) Pte Ltd was incorporated as a private limited company to take over the entire undertakings of Singatronics Pte Ltd. The Company was converted to a public company, known as Singatronics Limited on 7 September 1987 and listed on the Secondary Board of the Singapore Stock Exchange, SESDAQ on 19 October 1987. It was subsequently upgraded to the Main Board on 5 November 1990. The principal activity of the Company is investment holding. The principal activities of the corporations in the Group consist of the mining of the salt, manufacturing and distribution of edible salts & food seasonings and industrial salts.

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