Calera Capital was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Calera Capital is a private equity firm specializing in investments in public or private middle market companies, family-controlled enterprises, and corporate divestitures. It seeks to invest in buyouts and PIPES. The firm invests across a wide variety of industries, including building and forest products, food and consumer products, healthcare and medical devices, distribution and business services, specialty packaging, financial services, electrical products and industrial manufacturing. The firm considers investments in corporate spin-offs, take-private transactions, leveraged re-capitalizations of privately held companies, restructurings, and companies seeking capital to facilitate growth or acquisitions. It focuses on companies with enterprise values of up to $1 billion, typically deploying a minimum of $75 million in each transaction.

Credit Saison Co., Ltd. is one of Japan's leading credit card companies, issuing Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and affinity cards carrying its Saison brand to some 26 million cardholders. In addition to issuing plastic, Credit Saison provides financial services and products including insurance and asset management. Subsidiary Saison Fundex issues loans, while Atrium provides loan servicing. Other subsidiaries and affiliates provide ticket sales, and collection and staffing services. Credit Saison was founded in 1951 as a retailer specializing in payment plan sales. Credit Saison is merging its credit card operations with Seven & i Holdings.

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.

MPM Capital Limited Partnership firm targets biotechnology, specialty pharmaceutical, and medical technology companies. With more than $2 billion of committed capital in four funds, it invests in all stages of a firm's development, typically offering between $5 million and $50 million per transaction, and takes a long-term approach. MPM Capital's portfolio includes about 60 firms, including Affymax, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Oxagen, and Surface Logix. Most of MPM Capital's investments are in US concerns, but the company also seeks opportunities in Europe, and more recently, Asia and Australia.

Cavanagh Group is an independent financial advisor providing investment advice to private clients and businesses. With offices across the UK, the firm provides financial counseling for executives, employee benefit arrangement, pension structure advice, asset management, and development assistance. About a third of its business comes from corporations. Cavanagh has grown its client base and geographic reach through several acquisitions including Ernst & Young Financial Management (EYFM), the independent financial advisory arm of Ernst & Young L.L.P., in 2003, and Scottish corporate adviser JRG Financial Consulting in 2007.

PEAK6 Investments, L.P. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Peak6 Investment, LP, an online stock and option broker, provides options trading, risk management, and hedge fund services. It also operates a news network that provides market analysis, trading floor interviews, trading strategies, education, and news feeds regarding options. In addition, the company operates a Website that provides information about the stock market, as well as enables to trade in real stocks under real market conditions with fake money.

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.

Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A. was founded in 1981 and is based in Turin, Italy. Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, provides various private banking services in Italy and internationally. It offers a range of asset management services, including discretionary accounts, mutual funds, and SICAVs, as well as alternative investment funds or hedge funds. The company also engages in the trading of Italian and foreign securities, derivatives, and currencies; and securities placing through mandates or participation in underwriting and/or placing syndicates. In addition, Banca Intermobiliare provides personal financial advisory services that offer clients with constant updates on the correspondence of their investment goals and asset allocation; and insurance brokerage services. Further, the company involves in the restructuring of groups, placing assets in management holdings/funds, intellectual property management, and the conveyance and protection of assets through instruments, such as trusts. Its lending services comprise lines of credit for stock market transactions or to provide flexible liquidity; mortgage loans for real-estate investments; loans related to the structuring of corporate debt or aimed at facilitating generational transition; and performance bonds, as well as project financing and syndicated loans.

Stephens was founded in 1933. Stephens Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Stephens Holding Company. Stephens Inc. offers investment banking and financial advisory services to corporations, state and local governments, financial institutions, and individual investors. The company’s services include merger and acquisition advisory, private placement of debt and equity, municipal and corporate securities underwriting, equity sales and trading, general securities brokerage, research, wealth management, investment advisory, and mutual fund services.

Weatherly Asset Management provides financial services such as investment advice, insurance, tax planning, and trust services to individual investors and to institutions such as charities, trusts, and pension and profit-sharing plans. It offers a range of investment strategies, including equity management, asset allocation, fixed-income management, and commodity investments. Founded in 1994, Weatherly Asset Management has more than $100 million in client assets under management. President Carolyn Taylor owns a majority of the firm.

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