Saratoga Partners is an independent, New York-based merchant banking firm making alternative asset investments in private equity and debt in partnership with management across the industrial manufacturing, business service and information service sectors. Saratoga primarily pursues investments in U.S.-headquartered, middle-market companies that it believes have opportunities for enhanced growth and productivity. Saratoga’s investment strategy includes a special focus on “special situation” middle-market investments involving complexity or inefficiencies – including restructurings – that present attractive value combined with active, “hands-on” post-investment involvement to achieve revenue and productivity enhancements.

Kirtland Capital Partners was founded in 1977 and is based in Beachwood, Ohio. Kirtland Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition and recapitalization of middle market and mature companies. The firm also provides capital to capitalize on growth oppurtunities. It does not invest in real estate, gaming, oil and gas exploration, and retail sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the, niche manufacturing; distribution; business services; energy; medical and healthcare; infrastructure and building products; infrastructure truck, trailer, and equipment; packaging; and business-to-business service sectors. Within the energy sector, the firm seeks to invest in coal production and coal powder. Within the medical and healthcare sectors, it invests in health and beauty, cosmetics, OTC skin care, prescriptions, medical, dental, and veterinary lab, diagnostic, and testing equipment. Within the infrastructure and building products segment, the firm invests in, manufacturing, distribution, and supply. In the infrastructure truck, trailer, and equipment sector, it invests in mobile medical, fire, rescue, broadcast, homeland security, defense, construction, and infrastructure.

DN Partners LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. DN Partners is an investment banking and merchant banking firm. It focuses on mergers and acquisition advisory, capital raising projects, and in selected leveraged acquisitions. DN Partners LLC provides strategic advice on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and partnering relationships including joint ventures. DN Partners LLC also performs targeted acquisition programs, reorganizations, restructurings, fairness opinions, defense strategies, and other strategic considerations.

Solium Capital Inc. provides technology and services for the administration of equity-based incentive and savings programs for public corporations in Canada and the United States. The company services its clients through a Web-based, realtime application called Shareworks. Shareworks is an online solution that integrates the management of multiple equity plan types, including stock options, share appreciation rights (SARs), share units, restricted stock awards, and employee share purchase and holdings plans on one platform. As of December 31, 2008, the company had approximately 8,998 participants. For corporate clients, Shareworks streamlines an administrator’s workflow with regards to the issuance of incentives, the exercise of incentives, reporting of incentives, and day-to-day maintenance of the incentives database. It provides constant online access to reports for securities regulators, internal management, and financial disclosure purposes. Shareworks empowers plan participants by providing direct access to the financial markets through its national online brokerage partners. StockVantage StockVantage is a Web-based solution, which uses the company’s Shareworks technology to deliver solutions for companies with smaller stock option plans.

ncam (short for innovative capital management) is an asset management firm that acts as a middleman between more than 800 financial planning outfits and individual investors in Germany. Incam's revenue comes from commissions from sales of and referrals to funds managed by such firms as Templeton Global Strategic Services, Pioneer Funds Distributor, Nordea Bank, and AllianceBernstein Holding (formerly Alliance Capital Management). Incam also manages a mutual fund partnership, Fonds Spezial Depot, which allows access to funds with minimum purchase prices that individual investors typically cannot meet.

Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP was founded in 1934 and is headquartered at London, United Kingdom with an additional office at Paris, France. Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP is a private equity firm specializing in buyout investments. The firm prefers to invest in industrial and commercial sectors with a focus on business service companies, financial services, leisure, support services, healthcare, and consumer brands. It targets companies based in Europe with a focus on Western Europe, Northern Europe, Continental Europe, United Kingdom, and Spain. The firm participates in companies with debt free worth between €400 million ($518.64 million) and €4 billion ($5.1864 billion). It seeks to invest between €100 million ($148.58 million) and €1000 million ($1296.6 million) and can make higher level of equity investments with their fund investors. The firm holds its investments for approximately five years. It prefers to invest as a sole equity sponsor in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies.

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. provides risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. It operates in two segments, RiskMetrics and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The RiskMetrics segment provides multi-asset, position-based risk, and wealth management products and services. Its RiskManager mark-to-market risk system integrates consistently-modeled market data with analytical models and processing capabilities to address its clients’ risk reporting requirements. This segment’s clients license RiskManager as a secure, interactive Web-based application service or as an outsourced risk reporting service. It provides clients with solutions based on credit-event risk through its CreditManager application, as well as solutions for financial advisors at private banks through its WealthBench application. The ISS segment provides corporate governance and specialized financial research and analysis services to institutional investors and corporations. It offers an outsourced proxy research, voting, and vote reporting service to assist clients with their proxy voting responsibilities.

Premier Asset Management manages funds and provides customized asset management services for individual and institutional investors in the UK and Ireland. Its products include individually managed mutual funds, multi-asset and subadvised funds, investment trusts, and professionally managed investment portfolios. In 2009 the company agreed to buy 10 former Credit Suisse mutual funds from Aberdeen Asset Management to increase its assets under management to more than $2 billion (more than $3 billion). Electra Private Equity and the management of Premier Asset Management bought the firm in 2007.

Founded in 1982 as a subsidiary of Marshall & Ilsley, the firm became independent in 1998. It has completed more than 80 transactions in its history; its current portfolio consists of about 10 firms. Mason Wells focuses its buyout efforts on middle-market firms in the Midwest that are involved in engineered products, specialty paper and packaging, and outsourced business services. Target companies typically have annual revenues ranging from $25 million to $250 million. Mason Wells prefers to be the lead investor and majority shareholder in its portfolio companies; it usually holds onto investments for four to seven years.

The Goldfarb Corporation is an investment holding company. The Goldfarb Corporation Company’s operations reside entirely in Canada. Its long-term investments comprise long-term floating-rate notes (MAV 2) (formerly non-bank, asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP)), and are designated as held for trading. As of December 31, 2009, short-term investments consisted of redeemable guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) with original maturities of 365 days or less bearing interest at rates ranging 0.3% to 0.7%.

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