Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales has privatized numerous state holdings since it was established in 1995 through private equity sales, IPOs, and other transaction. SEPI's Cofivacasa arm is responsible for winding down companies that are no longer viable enterprises, such as steel concerns Sofesa and ENSIDESA. Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI) is the holding company for all businesses owned or partially owned by Spain's government. Its portfolio includes Latin America media company Agencia EFE, tobacco grower Cetarsa, and commercial financing firm Sodian. Other assets have included energy, real estate, infrastructure, aerospace, and ship building businesses.

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.

Goldman Sachs Group Holdings (U.K.) company's London office, opened in 1970, serves as the regional headquarters for Goldman's European business. In September 2008, Goldman Sachs converted to a bank holding company. Goldman Sachs Group Holdings is the UK subsidiary of US investment banking power Goldman Sachs. The unit is one of the top mergers and acquisitions advisors in Europe and provides a range of capital markets services, as well as brokerage and asset management services to corporations, governments, and wealthy individuals.

KBW, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment bank specializing in the financial services industry in the United States and Europe. KBW, Inc. provides various investment banking services, including mergers and acquisitions and other strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income securities offerings, and mutual thrift conversions; and equity and fixed income sales and trading. KBW, Inc. also offers research services comprising fundamental and objective analysis that identifies investment opportunities and assists investor to make investment decisions; and asset management services consisting of investment management and other advisory services to institutional clients, private high net worth clients, and various investment vehicles. KBW, Inc. serves bank and thrift holding companies, banking and insurance companies, thrift institutions, broker-dealers, mortgage banks, asset management companies, mortgage and equity real estate investment trusts, consumer and specialty finance firms, financial processing companies, and securities exchanges. KBW, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Fox Paine & Company, LLC was founded in 1996 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Fox Paine & Company, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, public-to-private transactions, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in mature companies. The firm primarily invests in financial services and insurance; semiconductors; agribusiness, including seeds and food and agriculture; healthcare, including healthcare services and medical devices; energy, oil, and gas; telecommunications; industrials; and consumer goods. It prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies.

Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) is an independent, privately-owned investment house. it manages funds and trusts for a host of extremely wealthy clients and advises on their direct investments. FF&P manages some $5 billion ($8 billion) in assets and trusts for affluent families, including the Fleming family; individuals, charities, and institutional investors. FF&P was set up in 1873 as the investment business of Scottish financier Robert Fleming. It was sold to Chase Manhattan Bank in 2000 and was established as FF&P. Fleming's grandson, Ian Fleming, authored the famous James Bond novels; FF&P manages part of his estate. In addition to the UK, FF&P has offices in Moscow, Zurich, and Liechtenstein.

Credit Acceptance Corporation provides auto loans to consumers primarily in the United States. Credit Acceptance Corporation primarily provides the portfolio and purchase programs. Credit Acceptance Corporation portfolio program comprises advancing money to dealer-partners in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loan; and the purchase program includes buying the consumer loan from the dealer-partner and keeping various amounts collected from the consumer. Credit Acceptance Corporation offers its products through a network of automobile dealers. Credit Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.

Interactive Brokers Group serves investors who interact with world markets, focusing on the use of technology in securities trading. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. does business through electronic market-maker Timber Hill, as well as its Interactive Brokers brokerage subsidiaries; it executes some 1 million trades daily in stocks, options, futures, foreign exchange, and corporate bonds. Customers may trade on about 80 exchanges and market centers worldwide. Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. caters to experienced individual and institutional investors. Large banks and brokerages can also provide the company's interface to their customers through a white-label arrangement. Founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy controls Interactive Brokers Group.

Kennet Partners Limited was founded in 1997 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Foster City, California. Kennet Partners Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, divestitures, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, leveraged buyout, management buy-out, spinouts, management buy-ins, and acquisition financing. It prefers to invest in the technology, services, and digital media sectors. Within technology, the firm invests in enterprise software, information technology services and solutions, communication technologies, and semiconductor products. It typically invests in companies based in Europe and North America. The firm invests between $10 million and $20 million for growth investments and $20 million and $100 million for buyouts in companies with revenues of between $4 million and $50 million. It seeks to be a lead investor in its portfolio companies. The firm also co-invests with other investment partners.

GSV, Inc. was founded in 1994. GSV, Inc. manages investments in oil and gas wells. Louisiana Interests The company holds working interests in two oil and gas wells in the state of Louisiana. Texas Interests The company, through its subsidiary Cybershop, L.L.C., owns interests in certain oil and gas properties in Texas and an undivided one-third interest in Century Royalty LLC, which manages the oil and gas properties in Texas. Through Cybershop, the company also owns an additional interest in the two Louisiana oil and gas wells. Century Royalty also holds the rights to certain geological studies. Wells and acreage As of March 18, 2009, the company owned non-operated working interests in two oil and gas producing wells on 746 gross (62 net) acres covered by state leases in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. The properties are operated by Chroma Operating, Inc. As of December 31, 2008, the wells produced 1,940 net barrels of oil and 57,420 Mcf net natural gas. As of March 18, 2009, the company owned non-operating working interests in one producing well on 1243 gross (148 net) acres covered by the leases in Liberty County, Texas. The property is operated by Century 2000 LLC, a Texas limited liability company that is partially owned by other members of Century Royalty.

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