San Juan Basin Royalty Trust was established in November 1980 by Trust Indenture between Southland Royalty and The Fort Worth National Bank. Pursuant to the Indenture, Southland Royalty conveyed to the Trust a 75% net overriding royalty interest (equivalent to a net profits interest) carved out of Southland Royalty's oil and gas leasehold and royalty interest in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. This net overriding royalty interest (the "Royalty") is the principal asset of the Trust.Under the Trust Indenture, Compass Bank (successor trustee) as Trustee, has the primary function of collecting monthly net proceeds ("Royalty Income") attributable to the Royalty and making the monthly distributions to the Unit holders after deducting administrative expenses and any amounts necessary for cash reserves. The San Juan Basin Royalty Trust is a New York Stock Exchange-listed entity, with Units trading under the symbol "SJT."

Pond Venture Partners, known for its hands-on management style, was founded by chairman Charles Irving (based in Europe) and CEO Richard Irving (based in California). Pond Venture Partners invests in high-tech companies from both sides of the pond. The venture capital firm targets early-stage communications infrastructure companies based in Europe, including the UK. Pond Venture Partners is focused on funding startups developing networking hardware and software, optical components, and wireless products. Its portfolio includes chip technology manufacturer picoChip, digital content management products supplier SealedMedia, and software integrator Transitive Corporation.

Apax Partners is an independent global private equity advisory firm. Funds advised by Apax Partners (‘Apax Funds’) typically invest in companies with a value of between €1bn and €5bn. The Funds invest in five growth sectors: Tech & Telecom, Retail & Consumer, Media, Healthcare and Financial & Business Services.Apax Funds commit capital on behalf of a diverse range of investors, which include public and private pension funds, insurance companies, university endowments and other financial institutions. Apax Funds buy both majority and minority stakes in large companies that have strong, established market positions and the potential to expand. Apax Funds back excellent management teams to create efficient and sustainable businesses that have a strong track record of growing by investing in research and development, exports, sales and employment.

GAM Holding isn't afraid to gamble on risky bets. The asset management firm offers private clients, institutional investors, and intermediary clients such investment vehicles as equity, fixed income, private-label funds, and alternative investment funds, as well as portfolio management. GAM Holding was spun off in late 2009 from Swiss private banker Julius Baer. Now its own separate, public entity, GAM Holding comprises GAM, Swiss & Global Asset Management, and a 28% stake in Artio Global Investors. (Swiss & Global focuses on traditional investments, while GAM is known for alternative and absolute-return strategies, such as hedge funds). GAM Holding has assets under management of CHF$124 billion ($119 billion).

Laird Norton Tyee Trust Company (LNTyee) caters to the ultra-wealthy. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company grew out of the private asset management efforts of the Laird and Norton families, northwestern timber-industry pioneers and founders of forest products firms such as General Timber Company and Potlach Lumber. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company (categorized as a multi-family office, or MFO) provides wealth management services, along with such necessities as family governance, financial education, and charitable gift planning. The firm has more than $4 billion in assets under advisement for some 430 clients.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform that allows investment industry professionals to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. multi-dealer trading platform allows its institutional investor clients to request executable bids or offers from its broker-dealer clients and execute trades with the broker-dealer of their choice. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. offers its broker-dealer clients a solution that enables them to reach its institutional investor clients for the distribution and trading of bonds. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. also provides its clients the ability to trade the United States high-grade corporate bonds, European high-grade corporate bonds, and emerging markets bonds, as well as crossover and high-yield bonds, agency bonds, and credit default swaps. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. DealerAxess trading service enables dealers to trade fixed-income securities and credit default swaps with each other on its platform. In addition, MarketAxess Holdings Inc. provides Corporate BondTicker, an information services product, which offers fixed-income market data, analytics, and compliance tools that help clients in making trading decisions; and Financial Information eXchange message management tools, connectivity solutions, and ancillary technology services that facilitate the electronic communication of order information between trading counterparties. Further, it offers Application Programming Interface services to broker-dealer clients for pre-trade, trade negotiation, and post-trade services for straight-through processing. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. serves institutional investor clients, including investment advisers, mutual funds, insurance companies, public and private pension funds, bank portfolios, broker-dealers, and hedge funds, as well as broker-dealers in fixed-income trading. MarketAxess Holdings was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Managing partners Alan E. Goldberg and Robert D. Lindsay founded Lindsay Goldberg in 2001. Currently, the firm has about 80 companies in its portfolio. Growing businesses that want to bring in additional capital may choose to add Goldberg Lindsay & Co. (Lindsay Goldberg) to their ownership rosters. The private equity firm targets family-owned businesses and entrepreneurships in various industries for long-term investment. Often remaining in investments for 10 to 20 years, Lindsay Goldberg typically partners with management by installing board members at companies its invests in. Through various affiliates, the firm has a national presence in the US, as well as in Germany and Norway.

Shattuck Hammond Partners, a division of Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., is an investment banking and financial advisory firm with more than forty investment banking professionals and offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago. Founded in 1993 as a boutique focused on healthcare services, the Firm has steadily grown over the last decade and extended its expertise and success to meet the needs of clients across a variety of industry sectors, including hospitals, senior living, managed care, pharmaceuticals, medical distribution and outsourcing, healthcare information technology, real estate, higher education and specialty not-for-profit organizations.Shattuck Hammond provides comprehensive investment banking and financial advisory services, including: strategic advisory, merger & acquisition advisory; placements of debt and equity; taxable and tax-exempt debt underwriting and financial advisory; derivatives and reinvestments; and real estate transaction services. In the last ten years, Shattuck Hammond has completed more than 160 M&A transactions totaling $10.8 billion in transaction value, and has served as underwriter, placement agent, financial advisor or bid agent on capital markets transactions totaling more than $13.8 billion.

Ariel Capital Management was founded in 1983 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Ariel Capital Management, LLC (ACM) is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to high net worth individuals. It also provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable and non-profit organizations, corporations, state and municipal government entities, Taft-Hartley plans, and public organizations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It primarily invests in value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to make its investments. It obtains external research to complement its in-house research.

A.M. Best is a credit rating organization specializing in the insurance industry. Founded in 1899 by insurance professional Alfred M. Best, the company rates the creditworthiness of, and publishes analytical reports on, insurance companies. A.M. Best Company, Inc. also provides debt ratings of financial instruments offered by insurance companies, including bonds, notes, and securitization products. In addition to providing data on the insurance industry, A.M. Best provides ratings and analysis of financial institutions and health care systems. A.M. Best Company, Inc. operates in the US, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region through offices in New Jersey, London, and Hong Kong.

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