Rothschild North America was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York. It has over 40 offices in 30 countries. Rothschild North America Inc. is the U.S. arm of the Rothschild financial services group. Rothschild North America Inc. provides corporate and resource banking, treasury, fund management, private banking, and trust services to governments, corporations, and individuals. The company also provides investment banking services, which includes corporate advisory, public and private, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, privatizations, bid defenses, capital raisings, strategic alliances, project finance, and underwriting of international equity offerings.

First Quadrant was founded in 1988 and is based in Pasadena, California with an additional office in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. First Quadrant L.P. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional investors. It also caters to high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, state or municipal government entities, investment companies, charitable organizations, and foreign governments. The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It makes its investments in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm seeks to invest in alternative investments markets including currencies, global index options, and options on future contracts. It employs currency management arbitrage, tactical asset allocation, policy allocation control, and long/short strategies to make its investments.

Corporacion Financiera Alba SA is a Spain-based investment holding company. Corporacion Financiera Alba Company is engaged in the real estate sector and its activities include the acquisition, management, promotion and lease of non-residential and commercial properties located in Madrid and Barcelona. As of December 31, 2008, the Company’s properties had a combined floor area of approximately 82,000 square meters. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Alba Participaciones SA, the Company holds interests in such entities as Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (ACS), Acerinox SA, Prosegur Compania de Seguridad SA, Clinica Baviera SA, Antevenio SA and Deya Capital SCR. In addition, the Company is a member of Grupo March.

Founded in 1998 by Bill Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co is a financial services firm committed to using technology and auction processes to provide open and fair access to financial markets for all its clients. The firm’s impartial auctions have dramatically changed the traditional investment banking landscape by allowing the market to determine pricing and allocations.The OpenIPO® auction, for example, levels the playing field in initial public offerings, allowing individuals and institutional investors to bid online for shares of an IPO. All investors end up paying the same price – a price determined by the auction. The OpenBook® auction for corporate bonds, is an online system that offers transparent, real-time price discovery. OpenFollowOn® auction extends the transparency and real-time price discovery of the OpenBook auction to follow-on equity offerings allowing interactive bidding and gives investors a view into the book as it builds.WR Hambrecht + Co continues to identify markets where auctions will benefit investors and issuers. WR Hambrecht provide underwriting and advisory services for technology and emerging growth companies, as well as technology driven institutional agency brokerage and a fully electronic retail brokerage platform for individual investors. WR Hambrecht + Co is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. WR Hambrecht Canadian affilliate, WR Hambrecht + Co Canada, is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Merchant House Group, which formerly provided support services to companies in the transportation industry, now offers corporate finance and investment advisory services. Merchant House Group Plc underwent a reorganization in 2006 after two straight years of losses. Merchant House Group now has six subsidiaries: Merchant Capital, Aldermary Secretaries, Merchant House Securities, Merchant House Finance, Merchant Legal, and Merchant Wealth Management, which was formed in January 2008. Merchant House Finance arranges leasing for private jets, race horses, and yachts. All of Merchant House Group Plc subsidiaries operate on a revenue-sharing basis.

Alta Berkeley LLP is a venture capital firm that targets information technology, communications, and life science startups, primarily in Europe and Israel. It has raised six funds and has invested in more than 100 businesses since 1982. Invested companies (both past and present) include analogue semiconductor designer Elantec Semiconductors, digital consumer semiconductor manufacturer Frontier Silicon, clinical software designer Araccel, imaging systems provider Camero, and wireless devices technology manufacturer Cambridge Positioning Systems.

Vision Capital's focus is clear: finance high-tech firms looking to go global. The venture capital firm specializes in funding European technology companies wanting to expand into the US and vise-versa. It focuses on the communications, semiconductor, software, and Internet sectors. Active investors who prefer to take seats on the boards of portfolio companies, Vision Capital's multinational, multilingual team looks for high-growth ventures, which it defines as greater than 35% compound annual growth, before it sinks its typical $3 million to $8 million in any given firm.

Founded in 1989, the firm is 65% employee-owned. Strategic Investment Group Ventures owns the remaining 35%. LM Capital Group offers asset management services to corporations, public agencies, foundations, endowments, and other institutional investors. The firm offers several fixed-income investment strategies for clients, including Short Term, Intermediate, Core, and Opportunistic Core. All of its portfolios consist of about 50 securities consisting of treasuries, agencies, investment-grade corporate issues, and mortgage-backed securities. It relies heavily on its analysis of international political and monetary factors when investing.

MPM Capital Limited Partnership firm targets biotechnology, specialty pharmaceutical, and medical technology companies. With more than $2 billion of committed capital in four funds, it invests in all stages of a firm's development, typically offering between $5 million and $50 million per transaction, and takes a long-term approach. MPM Capital's portfolio includes about 60 firms, including Affymax, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Oxagen, and Surface Logix. Most of MPM Capital's investments are in US concerns, but the company also seeks opportunities in Europe, and more recently, Asia and Australia.

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.

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