Essex Woodlands Health Ventures was founded in 1985 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in New York, New York, The Woodlands, Texas, and London, United Kingdom. Essex Woodlands Health Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in the healthcare sectors. The firm typically invests across all stages of company development including early stage, late stage, growth equity, and PIPE transactions. In the healthcare sector it seeks to invest in drug, device and service companies, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, medical devices, healthcare services, managed care, and health information technology. The firm prefers to invest in companies throughout the world including east coast, west coast, and mid-west of United States with a focus on North America, Europe, and Asia. It typically invests growth capital in mature companies having revenues between $20 million and $100 million.

Parallax Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Laguna Hills, California. Parallax Capital Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyout, management buy-outs, private companies, public-to-private, recapitalization, corporate divestiture, spin-off, build-up, and turnaround transactions in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in the software and related services; semiconductor; telecommunication equipment and services; computer hardware and components; healthcare and pharmacy services; information technology services; media content and delivery; aerospace and defense; catalog industry; consumer products; distribution and logistics; transportation; specialty manufacturing; business services; travel and leisure; and food processing and distribution sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The firm typically invests in companies with revenues between $5 million and $500 million. It takes an active management role in its portfolio companies.

A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan’s members include 175,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 114,000 pensioners, and 69,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada’s largest payrolls with $4.4 billion in benefits paid to plan members, and $2.7 billion received in total contributions from teachers, the provincial government and designated employers in 2009.Before 1990, the plan was administered by the Ontario government and restricted to investing in non-marketable Province of Ontario debentures. In 1990, the government established the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board as a corporation overseen by a nine-member board.With $96.4 billion in net assets at December 31, 2009, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada. An independent organization, it invests the pension fund’s assets and administers the pensions of 289,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.

Morgan Stanley & Co. (MS&Co.) has their investment banking needs covered. A subsidiary of Morgan Stanley and part of its Global Wealth Management Group, MS&Co. also provides its individual, business, institutional, and government customers with brokerage and investment advice through products such as annuity, insurance, and credit vehicles. After Morgan Stanley merged Morgan Stanley DW into MS&Co. in early 2007, the unit became Morgan Stanley's primary US broker-dealer. The following year MS&Co. merged with government broker Morgan Stanley Market Products.

Crosspoint Venture Partners was founded in 1970 and is based in Woodside, California. Crosspoint Venture Partners is no longer investing. It is a venture capital firm specializes in investments in early stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in e-business services; and software and broadband infrastructure industries. It invests in companies based in the Western United States. The firm invests up to $40 million per project and can also provide up to an additional $10 million in follow-on financings. It takes a board seat and prefers an equity participation of 20 percent or more in its portfolio companies.

Coimex Empreendimentos e Participações (know as Coimexpar) is a holding company which operates, through subsidiaries, primarily in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Its foreign trade business, Coimex Trading, deals in such commodities as coffee, sugar, and ethanol. Its logistics arm, which includes subsidiary Coimex Logistica Integrada, provides storage, distribution, and transportation services to customers in the auto, IT, and telecom industries among others. Coimexpar's other investments include a thermal electricity plant, a highway concession, and auto and real estate financing provider. Its latest venture is Embraport, a $180 million project which will expand the port of Santos.

Established in 1990, Aberforth is a private investment firm that invests exclusively in small, UK-quoted companies. The firm manages three mutual funds -- Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust (ASCoT), Aberforth Geared Capital & Income Trust (AGCiT), and Aberforth UK Small Companies Fund (the Fund). ASCot holds about 125 investments, collectively worth about £480 million. Worth about £81 million, AGCiT encompasses about 100 investments. The Fund, managed by Aberforth subsidiary Aberforth Unit Trust Managers, oversees about 110 companies with a collective worth of some £340 million. Shares for ASCoT and AGCiT are traded on the London Stock Exchange.

Beluga NV is a Belgium-based investment trust that specializes in the acquisition and management of a diversified portfolio of shares with a focus on private equity investment. As per December 31, 2009, the Company’s portfolio consisted entirely of private equity participation in various companies, including Network Global Management, BNLfood Investments, IT-Partners, Lamifil, TRG, PR Pharmaceuticals and Technowledge. As of that same date Beluga had two subsidiaries: Distribution d’Eau de la Troupette (La Troupette), a real-estate investment holding, and Comptoir Houiller Bruxellois, a real-estate society that was wholly owned by La Troupette.

Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc., through its principal subsidiary, Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, provides investment banking services to public and private companies operating in the life science/healthcare, energy, metals/mining, financial services, and cleantech sectors in the United States and China. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. offers corporate finance in a range of financing alternatives, including private placements, private investments in public equity, registered direct offerings, and underwritten public offerings. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. also provides strategic advisory services on a range of transactions comprising mergers, acquisitions, and asset sales, as well as provides sales and trading, and equity research services. In addition, Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. designs investment conferences that bring together companies, institutional investors, business development executives, and experts. Further, the company makes principal investments in early-stage biotechnology and life sciences companies. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

The Adams Express Company was founded in 1840 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Adams Express Company (the Fund) is a closed-end investment company. The Fund is an internally managed fund, whose investment objectives are preservation of capital, the attainment of reasonable income from investments and an opportunity for capital appreciation. The Fund invests in various sectors, which includes consumer, energy, financial, healthcare, industrials, information technology, materials, telecom services and utilities. The Fund invests in common stocks and convertible securities, non-controlled affiliate, short-term investments and securities lending collateral.

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