vCap Investments LLC company was founded as Alexander Securities in 1998 by David Granzotti, who launched the company's first hedge fund the following year. vCap Investments is an asset management firm that specializes in four areas: asset management for clients who need investment and financial planning; the private client group, through which is focuses on high-net-worth clients; alternative investments, such as hedge funds; and capital introductions, best described as introducing hedge fund managers to investors. It also offers futures and currency trading.

Capital Southwest Corporation was founded in 1961 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Capital Southwest Corporation (CSC) is a business development company. The Company’s investment interests are focused on expansion financings, management buyouts, minority recapitalizations, industry consolidations and early-stage financings in a range of industry segments. The portfolio is a composite of companies, in which it has interests, as well as a number of developing companies and marketable securities of publicly-traded companies. The Company makes available managerial assistance to the companies, in which it invests. As of March 31, 2010, the 12 largest investments the Company owned represented 90.3% of the value of its consolidated investment portfolio. Capital Southwest Management Company (CSMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of CSC, is the management company for CSC and Capital Southwest Venture Corporation (CSVC). In June 2010, NorthStar Memorial Group, LLC acquired the Company’s wholly owned portfolio company, Lifemark Group.

Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP"), based in Chicago, is one of the most experienced and successful private equity investment firms in the United States. MDP has raised over $18 billion of capital since its formation in 1992. Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of private or publicly held companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held companies; balance sheet restructurings; acquisition financings; and growth capital investments in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in basic industries, communications, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and real estate sectors. Within the basic industries sectors, it focuses on energy and power, paper, packaging and forest products, chemicals, building products, metals and mining, diversified industrial, natural resources, automotive, food, refining, and general manufacturing industries. In the communications sector, the firm invests in media including broadcast television, radio station groups, and publishing companies; wireless communications sector including mobile telephone operators, paging service providers, high-capacity data and voice transmission service providers, and satellite service providers; and wireline telecommunications including local exchange carriers, rural telephone operators, and cable television system operators.

AssetCo is in the thick of things. The integrated services company specializes in providing support for emergency response and homeland security agencies in the UK and some 145 countries around the world. Primarily serving the public-service sector, AssetCo offers an array of services including training, fire reserve, emergency vehicle assembly and management, infrastructure support, equipment supply, and technology and information management. Customers include the London Fire Brigade and all other fire and rescue organizations in Great Britain. AssetCo also has an international office in Abu Dhabi, which specializes in serving the civil defense, emergency services, airport and military sectors.

Kelso & Company was founded in 1971 and is based in New York, New York. Kelso & Company is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged acquisitions and management buyouts and purchase of significant ownership of private companies, divisions, or subsidiaries of public or private companies; public companies through recapitalizations or going private transactions. The firm also seeks to purchase significant blocks of stock from public or private companies seeking equity capital or persons seeking liquidity. It does not pursue hostile transactions, substantial dismantling or liquidation of companies, and break-up opportunities. The firm invests for a period of over five years and exits its investments through an IPO, recapitalization, or strategic sale. It takes a board seat and usually has control through majority ownership in its portfolio companies. The firm can also make minority investments in conjunction with board representation or other significant shareholders' rights, or may join with other investors as a member of a control group.

Founded in 1988 by President Kay Chandler, the firm has some $2 billion under management. Chandler Asset Management is an investment adviser specializing in the management of fixed-income portfolios for institutional investors. The firm offers portfolio management, analysis, and accounting as well as cash flow modeling, compliance reporting, and client training. Its investment strategies include short-term fixed income, core fixed income, and 1-5 year fixed income. Public agencies, healthcare companies, foundations, endowments, and corporations make up Chandler's customer base.

Federated Investors, Inc. (Federated), together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. The Company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including mutual funds and Separate Accounts (which include separately managed accounts, institutional accounts, sub-advised funds and other managed products). Federated provided investment advisory services to 145 Federated-sponsored funds (the Federated Funds) as of December 31, 2009. Federated markets these funds to banks, broker/dealers and other financial intermediaries. Of the 145 Federated Funds, as of December 31, 2009, Federated’s investment advisory subsidiaries managed 50 money market funds totaling $281.5 billion in assets, 47 fixed-income funds with $28.4 billion in assets and 48 equity funds with $21.0 billion in assets.

Brewin Dolphin Holdings owns Brewin Dolphin Limited (formerly Brewin Dolphin Securities), which is one of the UK's largest investment and brokerage firms. Founded in the 18th century, Brewin Dolphin serves more than 130,000 private, corporate, and institutional clients and has more than 1,100 representatives. The company's primary services include discretionary or representative investing, tax efficiency savings accounts, financial planning, and advisory services. Brewin Dolphin has nearly 40 offices around the UK and manages more than $33 billion for its clients.

First Manhattan Co. was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. First Manhattan Co. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to high net worth individuals. It also caters to individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, other pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. It typically makes its equity investments in value stocks of companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

Founded in 1982, Investcorp has enjoyed a track record of consistent innovation and performance, having arranged investments with a combined value of approximately $43 billion. Investcorp Bank is a Bahrain-based holding company that provides investment and advisory services related to money market operations, corporate, real estate and managed funds. The Company acts as an intermediary by bringing global alternative investment opportunities to its clients, and acts as a principal investor by co-investing with its clients in each of its investment products. It provides its products primarily through three investment asset classes: Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Real Estate. The Private Equity asset class offers three main products, namely US and European Buyouts, Technology Small Cap investments and Gulf Grown Capital. The Hedge Funds class undertakes diversified investment activities in hedge funds and managed accounts.

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