MCG Capital Corporation is a solutions-focused commercial finance company that provides capital and advisory services to middle-market companies throughout the United States. The Company is an internally managed, non-diversified, closed-end investment company. It conducts some of its activities through wholly owned, special-purpose financing subsidiaries. Its investment portfolio is composed primarily of middle-market companies in which it has made up to $75 million of debt and equity investments. Typically, these middle-market companies have $20 million to $200 million in annual revenue. As of December 31, 2009, it had debt and equity investments in 59 portfolio companies. Its diversified investment portfolio spans 30 industries. Approximately 40% of its portfolio is composed of investments in industries that consist less than 5% of its portfolio.

Mutual of America Life Insurance was founded in 1945 and is based in New York, New York with regional offices in the United States. It has satellite offices in Alaska and Hawaii. Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, a registered broker-dealer, provides pension and retirement-related products, programs, and services in the United States. Mutual of America Life Insurance company provides group and individual variable accumulation annuities, and related services for the pension, retirement, and long-range savings. The company also offers universal life insurance, group life insurance, and group disability products. It also operates equity, retirement, fixed income, asset allocation, and balanced funds.

Remgro Limited (Remgro) is a South African investment holding company. Remgro Company’s interests consist mainly of investments in banking and financial services, printing and packaging, glass products, medical services, mining, petroleum products, food, wine and spirits, media, technology and various other trade mark products. Remgro Company’s activities are concentrated on the management of investments and the provision of support rather than on being involved in the day-to-day management of business units of investees. Remgro Company has eight divisions: tobacco interests, financial services, industrial interests, mining interests, corporate and other, media interests, technology interests and other.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

VantagePoint Management company (aka VantagePoint Venture Partners) provides long-term capital to primarily technology and health care companies ranging in development from start-up to pre-IPO. VantagePoint is organized around its target markets: information technology, health care, clean technology (which focuses on the application of technology to energy, water, and materials), and Asia. The firm has a dedicated clean tech investment team and oversees one of the largest active venture capital efforts in the sector with more than $1 billion in investments.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices across United States. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies at all stages of development from seed and emerging growth to expansion and established stages of development, which include select publicly listed companies and lower middle market companies. The Company primarily finances privately-held companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms and also may finance certain select publicly-traded companies that lack access to public capital or are sensitive to equity ownership dilution. HTGC sources its investments through its principal office located in Silicon Valley, as well as its additional offices in the Boston and Boulder.

Standard & Poor's is the gold standard of credit reporting, albeit slightly tarnished by the credit crisis of 2008. Standard & Poor's (commonly known as S&P) is a business segment of publishing house McGraw-Hill. With operations in some 20 countries, Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC provides the investment community with independent credit ratings on such financial vehicles as stocks, mutual funds, corporate bonds, and municipal bonds. In addition to its credit ratings, risk management, investment research, data, and valuations, Standard & Poor's is known for its indexes, including the S&P 500 index. Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC roots reach back to 1860; S&P was acquired by McGraw-Hill just over a century later.

Allegis Capital was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Santa Monica, California and San Francisco, California. Allegis Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early-stage startup companies. The firm also provides incubation services. It typically invests in developing enabling technology and infrastructure, which serve emerging information technology markets with a focus on enabling hardware devices, enterprise software solutions, broadband and wireless delivery technologies, wired and wireless communications, digital media and commerce enablers, internet delivery platforms and services, security, and information services. The firm prefers to invest in the western region of United States and selected investments in Asia. It seeks to invest between $3 million and $5 million in its first investment to acquire an initial 20 % ownership stake in companies and provides capital support for subsequent financings. The firm typically acts as the lead investor and will partner with other venture capital firms. It prefers a board seat on its portfolio companies.

Founder and CEO Tom Gores, who started Platinum Equity in 1995, is the brother of Alec Gores, who founded another investment firm, Gores Technology Group. Platinum Equity typically seeks to acquire private companies, public firms that want to become private, and units that large corporations are looking to divest; these companies usually have established brands and customer bases, and most importantly, recurring revenues. Platinum Equity also looks for acquisitions as strategic add-ons to its portfolio companies, which have operations worldwide. It focuses on such sectors as manufacturing, distribution, technology services, and communications.

Melrose PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an engineering company. The Dynacast segment supplies die-cast parts and components for computing, consumer electronics, healthcare, automotive, and telecommunications industries. The Energy segment provides energy industrial products, such as turbogenerators, transformers, and switchgear units. This segment serves gas turbine producers and specialist generators; and oil and gas, mining, defense, telecommunications, utilities, and industrial contracting sectors. The Lifting segment manufactures wire and rope solutions, such as crane, fishing, marine, mining, and oil and gas wire and fiber ropes; and high carbon wire and construction products. This segment also provides accessories used in the lifting and material handling industry. It serves onshore and offshore oil and gas, deep shaft and surface mining, petrochemical, alternative energy, general industrial, construction, fishing and marine, and material handling industries. The Other Industrial segment offers window hardware, and storm and screen door hardware; automated material handling solutions for airports, post and parcel distribution facilities, manufacturing and warehouse operations, and library automation; and designs, manufactures, and supplies scrap processing and recycling equipment for ferrous, non-ferrous, and paper industries.

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