Newtek is one of the premier providers of business services and financial products to small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States. Since 1999, Newtek has helped business owners realize their potential by providing them with the essential tools they need to manage and grow their business.Newtek's suite of business solutions provides business owners with the high-quality services and top-level customer care that have traditionally only been affordable by larger companies. Whether a business is a startup or well-established, Newtek can help them reach their business goals.The U.S. Small Business Administration estimates that there are 26.8 million small businesses in the United States, which in total represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms, generate 60 to 80 percent of all new jobs annually and generate more than 50 percent of non-farm private gross domestic GDP. Newtek is a direct distribution channel into this market.

TPG Capital, also known as Texas Pacific Group, has staked its claim on the buyout frontier. The firm, which does not get involved in the day-to-day operations of its portfolio companies, usually holds onto its investments for at least five years, although consistent moneymakers may be kept indefinitely. It is not picky about the industries in which it invests. Acting in concert with other private equity firms, TPG has stakes in notable enterprises such as Avaya, Biomet, Energy Future Holdings, Freescale Semiconductor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Neiman Marcus, Sabre Holdings, SunGard Data Systems, Univision, and Aleris International.

Since 1988 the ELCA has comprised the American Lutheran Church, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, and the Lutheran Church in America, which together represent almost 11,000 congregations. Although its members are looking forward to a more lasting reward, the ELCA Board of Pensions tries to help them toward a little heaven on earth during their retirement years. The Board of Pensions of The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America (or ELCA Board of Pensions) provides health, retirement, and other benefits and services for some 50,000 pastors, employees, and their families connected to the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America.

Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. was founded in 1995. Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in special situation investments in middle-market companies in the form of buyouts, debt restructurings, asset consolidations, and growth capital. The firm invests in a variety of industries. It typically invests in companies based in United States and Israel. The firm prefers to invest between $20 million and $75 million in its portfolio companies, but it considers smaller and larger investments. It invests in companies experiencing financial stress, legal problems or operational challenges; businesses or assets whose value has been impacted by discrete events (e.g., a shareholder dispute, product recall, or cyclical downturn); and businesses or assets involved in bankruptcy proceedings. In Israel, the firm seeks to invest in water, renewable energy, and homeland security technology companies.

RFE Investment Partners was founded in 1979. RFE Investment Partners is a private equity firm specializing in acquisition of smaller middle market companies. The firm typically invests in platform and add-on acquisitions, management led buyouts, and recapitalizations. It does not invest in turnaround situations and businesses whose products or services are subject to a substantial risk of rapid technological obsolescence. The firm prefers to invest in business services, niche manufacturing, and healthcare service sectors. It typically makes equity investments between $5 million and $30 million in companies with at least $5 million of annual cash flow. The firm seeks to hold a majority ownership position in the portfolio companies. It prefers to be a lead investor however the firm can also invest in transactions led by another equity group or as part of a syndicate.

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners is an independent investment firm that invests in middle market companies located in the United States. LLCP manages approximately $5 billion of institutional capital on behalf of itself and its worldwide network of investors. These investors include state and corporate pension plans, insurance companies, fund of funds, family offices, foundations and endowments. Established in California in 1984 by Arthur E. Levine and Lauren B. Leichtman, the Firm has expanded geographically with offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, and New York. The Firm has a proven business philosophy of investing along side entrepreneurs who believe in their company’s growth and want substantial equity ownership.LLCP’s private equity activities are conducted through Levine Leichtman Capital Partners III, L.P. (Structured Equity Fund), Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Deep Value Fund, L.P. (Distressed Debt Fund) and Levine Leichtman Capital Partners California Growth Fund (California focused Small Cap Fund). LLCP’s leveraged finance activities include the management of bank loans, high yield bonds and special situation investments through structured investment products. LLCP’s ability to invest senior floating rate debt through common equity provides us the flexibility to finance the entire capital structure thereby shortening the investment process and bringing more certainty to transaction closings.

EUROFIMA European Company for the Financing of Railroad Rolling Stock is a supranational organization located in Basel, Switzerland. It was established in 1956 based on an international treaty signed by 25 European sovereign States so far. EUROFIMA fulfils a non-profit maximizing mission to support the development of rail transportation in Europe. It supports its shareholder railways as well as other railway bodies in renewing and modernizing their equipment.

Founded in 1977, Matrix Partners venture capital firm primarily funds startups in the software, Internet infrastructure, communications equipment, and semiconductor markets. Matrix Partners company likes to get in on the ground floor of a new business, and it enjoyed success even during the tech wreck because it generally stays away from dot-coms. Its Matrix Partners India fund invests in a range of industries (not just tech) in that country. Matrix, which typically invests more than $10 million per company in a series of stages, has offices in the high-tech hotbeds of the Silicon Valley and Boston. It opened an office in Beijing in 2008.

Antarchile SA is a Chile-based investment company primarily engaged in the acquisition of shares in other companies, properties and diversified goods. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company is involved in the forestry, fuel distribution, fishing, mining and energy sectors. The Company owns such subsidiaries as Empresas Copec SA, a holding company active in the energy and natural resources sectors, and Astilleros Arica SA, which specializes in the construction and repair of industrial ships, as well as manufactures equipment for the fishing industry. It also holds interests in Pesquera Iquique-Guanaye SA, Empresa Pesquera Eperva SA, Sigma SA and Servicios Corporativos SerCor SA. In addition, the Company has operations established in Argentina and Brazil. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s majority shareholder was Inversiones Angelini y Compania Limitada, with 63.4% of its interests.

Macquarie Private Wealth (formerly Blackmont Capital) provides equity sales, trading, and research, as well as capital raising and financial advisory services for corporate and institutional clients. Its research division focuses on the technology, media, communications, metals and minerals, energy, real estate, and financial services sectors. Macquarie Private Wealth company's wealth management activities include private client services and support for investment advisors. Products include money market instruments, bonds, public venture capital, retirement plans, and tax-free savings accounts. Australia-based Macquarie Group acquired Blackmont Capital from CI Financial at the end of 2009.

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