Thomas Cressey Bravo is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in growth capital, family business or other recapitalizations, going-private transactions, roll-overs of a portion of existing equity, management buyouts (full or partial), buy and build, and industry consolidations. The firm invests in business services, software, healthcare, consumer products and services, education, and media sectors. Within consumer products and services, it invests in food and beverages; health, wellness and beauty aids, and services; automotive aftermarket; sports, leisure, entertainment and hobby products, and services; catalog and internet retailing; house wares, home repair and home furnishings; gardening and crafts; and pet care. In the healthcare sector, the firm invests in healthcare services (including hospitals, outpatient services, and managed care); pharmaceutical products and services (including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, marketing services, and specialty distribution); medical products and technologies (including disposables/consumables, medical technologies, and durable medical equipment); life-science instruments (including analytical instruments, consumables/reagents, and services).

Established in 1982, the firm owns and operates two offices and has about $10 billion in assets under management. In early 2010 SEAMARK joined forces with fellow Canadian asset manager GrowthWorks to create a new holding company parent in Matrix Asset Management. It now operates as a division of Matrix. SEAMARK Asset Management provides investment counseling services to pension, insurance, retirement, endowment, mutual fund, and wealthy clients across the country.

Toyo Cotton (Japan), originally established in 1920, has been a part of Toyota Tsusho Corporation since 2007 when that company acquired TOMEN Corporation, a Japanese general trading company. Toyo Cotton (Japan) Co. is a supplier of cotton to cotton gins, spinning mills, and cotton producers located primarily in Japan and Southeast Asia. Its Dallas, Texas-based Toyo Cotton subsidiary is a supplier of cotton to mills in the US. Toyo Cotton (Japan) also has operations throughout Asia and in South America.

ABS Capital Partners was founded in 1990 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices in San Francisco, California and Waltham, Massachusetts. ABS Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion financings, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of mid to late stage growth companies. The firm prefers to invest in strong growth companies that have moved beyond the start up phase favored by venture capital firms, but which are not yet on the radar screens of later stage buyout firms. It seeks to invest in the healthcare, technology, business services, software, media, and communication sectors. The firm typically invests between $10 million and $30 million in a company. It typically invests in companies based in the United States. The firm prefers to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies and leads the financing rounds. It makes both majority and minority stake investments.

Butterfield Bank (UK) Limited was founded in 1938 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Butterfield Bank (UK) Limited operates as a subsidiary of Bank Butterfield & Son Ltd. Butterfield Bank (UK) Limited provides private banking services for individuals, intermediaries, and corporate and institutional clients in the United Kingdom. The company offers lending, investment management, financial planning, foreign exchange, and pension services, as well as treasury operations. Its services also include fixed term deposits, commercial and residential mortgages, development and refurbishment loans, probate loans, and derivatives.

Allied Group Limited Company is primarily an investment holding company, with a stated strategy of focusing its management and financial resources on its core businesses of property investment and development together with financial services. The Company's interests in property investment and development in Hong Kong are mainly held through its 74.36% holding in Allied Properties (H.K.) Limited ("Allied Properties") and in respect of property investment and development in The People's Republic of China, through Tian An China Investments Company Limited, being an associate held by Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited ("Sun Hung Kai"). The Company's financial services business is mainly conducted through Allied Properties' 62.31% holding in Sun Hung Kai as well as Sun Hung Kai's effective 58.18% holding in United Asia Finance Limited ("UAF"). Quality HealthCare Asia Limited ("QHA"), a 64.16% subsidiary of Allied Properties, is engaged in the business of provision of healthcare services. SHK Hong Kong Industries Limited, which became a subsidiary of the Company in 2009, is engaged in investments in listed and unlisted securities.

The Evolution Group plc operates as a holding company for Evolution Securities Limited; Christows Limited; Evolution Securities China Limited; and Evolution Securities (US) Incorporated. The company operates as a financial service group in United Kingdom. It operates in investment banking, retail stockbroking, asset management and private equity divisions. It also has interests in IP2IPO, a company whose strategy is to exploit intellectual property created by academic institutions. The company's principal operating businesses are: Evolution Securities - Investment Banking and Christows - Private Client Stockbroking & Fund Management. EVOLUTION SECURITIES Evolution Securities is the investment banking business of Evolution Group plc providing equity research, institutional sales and trading and corporate finance advice. Evolution Securities Limited is an independent financial services group comprising investment banking, private client asset management and IP exploitation. The company provides investment banking services, advising a major number of clients across a variety of sectors. It works with entrepreneurs and growing companies to help them to develop their own strategies as businesses.

Lazard Ltd. company was founded in 1848 and is based in New York, New York. Lazard Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm worldwide. Lazard Company's Financial Advisory segment offers a range of services regarding mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory matters, restructurings and capital structure advisory services, capital raising, and various other corporate finance matters, which include evaluating potential acquisition targets, providing valuation analyses, evaluating and proposing financial and strategic alternatives, rendering opinions, assisting in the negotiating and closing the acquisition, and assisting in executing an acquisition by acting as a dealer-manager in transactions structured as a tender or exchange offer. This segment primarily serves consumer; financial institutions; financial sponsors; healthcare and life sciences; industrial; power and energy/infrastructure; real estate; and technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

AXA Financial, Inc. is a subsidiary of AXA S.A. AXA Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides financial advisory, insurance, and investment management products and services. It operates in two segments, Financial Advisory/Insurance and Investment Management. The Financial Advisory/Insurance segment offers variable and interest-sensitive life insurance products, variable and fixed-interest annuity products, mutual funds and other investment products, asset management services, and financial planning and other services principally to individuals, small and medium-size businesses, and professional and trade associations. This segment provides its products on a retail and wholesale basis in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico through financial professionals, national and regional securities firms, independent financial planning and other broker-dealers, banks, and brokerage general agencies. The Investment Management segment offers investment products and services, such as separately managed accounts, subadvisory relationships, structured products, collective investment trusts, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other investment vehicles to its institutional clients.

JAFCO Ventures focuses its attention on the US and invests venture capital in development-stage information technology companies, generally as a secondary investor. Portfolio companies include systems integrator Infinera, online security services provider Voltage Security, broadband wireless services provider Aperto Networks, wireless software designer Devicescape Software, and semiconductor designer Xambala. With the advantages of its parent company, JAFCO Ventures utilizes financial professionals and advisers in Asia to forge relationships and partnerships with potential clients as well.

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