Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. was founded in 1989 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in restructurings, public to private transactions, recapitalizations of privately held companies, growth capital, acquisitions, turnarounds, and acquisitions of divisions and assets from large corporations. The firm seeks to invest in established companies. It invests in a range of industries including retail, consumer products, distribution, media, business services, and healthcare. The firm focuses its investments in North America. It prefers to invest between $500 million and $2 billion per transaction, in enterprise value, but can complete transactions in excess of $5 billion in enterprise value, as well. It seeks to invest in companies which have an ability to grow by at least 50 percent over a five year period.

Credit Solutions was established in 2003. Credit Solutions helps consumers dig their way out of debt. One of North America's largest for-profit debt management companies, Credit Solutions offers programs that enable people to lower their monthy bills and, in many cases, get out of debt in three years or less. It also offers a built-in savings plan to help families reach their long-term financial goals, with no home ownership or credit check required. Credit Solutions has more than $1.7 billion of unsecured debt under management for about 80,000 active clients.

Sigma Partners was founded in 1984. Sigma Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage companies. The firm typically invests in the software, communications, semiconductors, storage, mobile computing, electronics, infrastructure, and Internet services sectors. It primarily invests in companies based in the United States. The firm seeks to invest between $2 million and $8 million. It is typically the first venture investor and also takes a board seat in its portfolio companies.

The Operating Engineers Funds are, in fact, for operating engineers not the kind who run trains, but those who operate other large machinery. Operating Engineers Funds company administers employee benefits, including pensions, health, welfare, vacation, and holiday benefit, for more than 35,000 active or retired members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (I.U.O.E.), Local 12, as well as their beneficiaries and dependents. The union consists of individuals in construction-related trades, including heavy equipment operators, soil testers, concrete pumpers, inspectors, and surveyors.

China Cinda Asset Management Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, China. China Cinda Asset Management Corporation, along with its subsidiaries, engages in non-performing asset undertaking, management, and disposal. Its services include acquiring and operating non-performing asset in local and foreign currencies stripped off from CCB and the state development bank; debts collection; assets leasing, transferring, and restructuring; swapping debts into equity and temporarily holding the equity; sponsoring stock listing and underwriting relevant bonds or stocks within its managed assets; non-performing asset securitization upon approval; issuance of financial bonds and borrowing from financial institutions; and financial/legal advisory services and asset evaluations. The company serves various industries, including real estate, coal, chemical, construction materials, textile, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, construction, and power industries.

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.

Hamilton BioVentures is a venture capital firm (with $100 million under management) investing in talented entrepreneurs bringing new Life Science technology enterprises to market. Hamilton BioVentures invests in companies developing dramatically better treatments (biopharmaceuticals and medical devices) for major human diseases and other medical conditions. Hamilton BioVentures investments generally take the form of direct equity in early-stage companies located on the West Coast. Hamilton's management team possesses decades of real-world experience across a broad base of in-depth entrepreneurial, managerial, technical, scientific and financial roles. Hamilton's principals actively support and collaborate with the entrepreneurs in Hamilton portfolio. Hamilton typically take seats on the Boards of our portfolio companies, and “roll up our sleeves” to deliver the value of Hamilton relationships and experience to help these firms succeed.

Acorn Capital Partners provides corporate finance services to growing companies. Acorn Capital also advises on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, regulatory compliance, and flotations on the PLUS and AIM stock markets. The firm has worked with companies in the business services, technology, communications, and real estate industries. Affiliate Acorn Fund Management offers three funds that invest in real estate (mainly in the European Union) to pension schemes and high-net-worth individuals. Acorn Capital Partners was co-founded by chief executive Ian Templeton and director Graham Norfolk.

Cohen & Steers, Inc. (CNS), together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, manages income-oriented equity portfolios specializing in United States and international real estate securities, large cap value stocks, listed infrastructure and utilities, and preferred securities. CNS also manages alternative investment strategies, such as hedged real estate securities portfolios and private real estate multimanager strategies for qualified investors. It serves individual and institutional investors through a range of investment vehicles. The Company manages three types of accounts: open-end mutual funds, closed-end mutual funds and institutional separate accounts. The 14 open-end mutual funds, for which it is the investment advisor offer and issue shares continuously as funds are invested and redeem shares when funds are withdrawn.

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