Leerink Swann LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Leerink Swann LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services to the healthcare industry. The firm offers private placements, initial public offerings, PIPEs, valuation and fairness opinions, due diligence, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Additionally, it provides institutional sales and trading management, cash management, company transformation, turnaround management, and marketing strategy development services.

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.

Co-chairman Lawrence Lawson III and Robert Barr, president of North American operations, founded the company in 1996. Lincoln International LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory; private placements; fairness opinions; valuations; Initial Public Offerings (IPO); and financial restructuring services. Lincoln International is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Paris, France.

Abingworth Management Limited was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Menlo Park, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; and Cambridge, United Kingdom. Abingworth Management Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early and late-stage venture financing, growth equity, expansion capital, VIPE, and acquisition financing. The firm also provides financing for recapitalizations, build-ups, and growth buyouts. The firm also seeks to invest in undervalued public companies. It invests in healthcare services and information technology with a focus on providers, payors, specialty services, software, and related services and on life sciences with a focus on specialty pharmaceuticals, medical products and devices, lab instrumentation, and consumables. The firm also invests in platform and enabling technologies, healthcare services, biomedical, biotechnology, and companies developing therapeutics.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation was founded in 1784 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) is a global financial services company. The Company’s two principal banks are The Bank of New York Mellon, which houses its institutional businesses, including Asset Servicing, Issuer Services, Treasury Services, Broker-Dealer and Advisor Services and the bank-advised business of Asset Management, and BNY Mellon, National Association (BNY Mellon, N.A.), a nationally chartered bank, which houses its Wealth Management business. Its United States bank subsidiaries engage in trust and custody activities, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. As of December 31, 2009, it had two United States trust companies: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association and BNY Mellon Trust Company of Illinois. The Company operates in seven segments: Asset Management, Wealth Management, Asset Servicing, Issuer Services, Clearing Services, Treasury Services and Other.

Alltrue Investments wants investors to trust (and entrust) in them. Alltrue Investments PLC, which offers stock market-related financial services and investment advice, operates primarily through its Falcon Securities and Montague Pitman Stockbrokers subsidiaries. Falcon offers a variety of stock-related brokerage and investment management services to private individuals and small- to midsized companies. Montague, on the other hand, serves as retail broker that provides market reporting and investment management to a variety of clients ranging from first-time investors to day traders. Alltrue Investments and its subsidiaries primarily serve clients in the UK.

Execution Noble (formerly Noble Group) seeks noble returns and higher placements. The investment bank performs underwriting and M&A advisory services for companies in Europe, North America, and Asia. Execution Noble also provides research and brokerage services for large and midcap equities. Execution Noble company serves institutional investors including hedge funds, pensions, and insurance companies. Noble Group was acquired by Execution Holdings in 2010, allowing Execution to gain Noble's Indian equities research capabilities. The combined firm is owned by its employees and managers.

BB BIOTECH AG is a Switzerland-based investment company, which principal activity is to invest in companies active in the biotechnology industry. BB BIOTECH AG invests mainly in companies operating in such sectors as oncology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s portfolio comprised 23 companies, including Actelion, Gilead, Celgene, Genentech, Biogen Idec, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Elan, Basilea Pharmaceuticals and Roche Holding GS, among others. The investments are held through its wholly owned subsidiaries, which include Biotech Focus NV, Biotech Invest NV, Biotech Target NV and Biotech Growth NV.

Thomas Cressey Bravo is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in growth capital, family business or other recapitalizations, going-private transactions, roll-overs of a portion of existing equity, management buyouts (full or partial), buy and build, and industry consolidations. The firm invests in business services, software, healthcare, consumer products and services, education, and media sectors. Within consumer products and services, it invests in food and beverages; health, wellness and beauty aids, and services; automotive aftermarket; sports, leisure, entertainment and hobby products, and services; catalog and internet retailing; house wares, home repair and home furnishings; gardening and crafts; and pet care. In the healthcare sector, the firm invests in healthcare services (including hospitals, outpatient services, and managed care); pharmaceutical products and services (including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, marketing services, and specialty distribution); medical products and technologies (including disposables/consumables, medical technologies, and durable medical equipment); life-science instruments (including analytical instruments, consumables/reagents, and services).

School Employees Retirement System of Ohio was formed in 1937 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS) provides pension, survivor, disability, and post-retirement health care benefits active and retired non-teaching public school employees of Ohio. As a limited partner, School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is a public pension fund with $8 billion in assets under management. The fund engages in the following alternative investment strategies: buyouts/corporate finance, international private equity, and venture capital. It has a net internal rate of return target of the S&P 500 + 3%. The fund allocates 1% to 5% of its total assets to alternative investments.

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