Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

Exponent is a private equity firm that invests in UK headquartered businesses. We invest in successful companies with an enterprise value of between £75m-£350m. Exponent do this by finding the right companies, identifying their potential and working with great people to develop them. Exponent raised an initial fund of £400m from some of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions. Having deployed this in nine investments, Exponent raised a second fund of £800m. Exponent currently investing from this second fund.Exponent tightly knit team of private equity experts is both well connected in the market and well funded. Exponent’s strong team ethos and personable style are underpinned by 135 years of collective experience. This allows us to take bold decisions and deliver high returns. Because of Exponent extensive experience and because Exponent understand what it means to be owners, Exponent shrewd providers of capital. Exponent aims are to make excellent returns for Exponent investors and deliver profitable relationships for Exponent managers in a committed and personable way.

Imperial Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Imperial Capital Group, Inc., a holding company, operates as an independent, full-service investment bank offering an integrated platform of diverse products and services. The company, through its subsidiary, Imperial Capital, LLC, engages in institutional sales and trading, investment banking and restructuring, and institutional research activities. Its institutional sales and trading activities provide sales and trading services for bank debt, debt securities, hybrid securities, preferred and common equity, and special situation claims to institutional investors. These operations also cover thinly-traded, illiquid, and bankruptcy and post-bankruptcy securities. The company’s investment banking and restructuring activities offer debt and equity financing, merger and acquisition, restructuring, and other strategic advisory services for corporate, private equity, and institutional investor clients by advising on, and implementing value enhancing solutions and transactions. Its institutional research operations publish company-specific reports, macro-economic industry reports, and real-time desk analysis with a focus on 14 industry sectors.

Kohlberg & Company, L.L.C. is a leading U.S. private equity firm which acquires "middle market" companies (valued from $100 to $500 million). Since its inception in 1987, the firm has organized six private equity funds, through which it has raised $3.7 billion of committed capital. The firm’s objective has been to realize substantial capital gains through control investments in a diversified portfolio of companies. The firm has completed approximately 100 platform and add-on acquisitions with an aggregate value of more than $6 billion. Kohlberg & Company invests in companies where it can work in partnership with senior management to identify growth opportunities and implement fundamental operating and strategic changes, resulting in substantial increases in revenue and cash flow. The firm’s use of moderate amounts of debt financing in acquiring companies affords them the financial flexibility necessary to attain these corporate objectives.

Stodir is a holding company which owns a 99,9% share in Tryggingamidstodin (TM) and a 40,3% share in Refresco, Europe's largest manufacturer of private label fruit juice and soft drinks. Stodir is also a holder of stakes and interests in various companies and projects in Iceland as well as abroad. These companies include Royal Unibrew, Glacier Renewable Energy Fund (Geysir Green Energy), Nordicom and Inspired Gaming.Stodir has a shareholder base of more than 100 shareholders which mostly consists of Icelandic and foreign financial institutions. The Company's current shareholders acquired their shares in the Company in June 2009, following Stodir's composition with creditors and the financial restructuring of the Company.Stodir's primary owners are Glitnir, NBI-Landsbankinn and Arion bank. Stodir's Board of Directors is comprised of Eirikur Elis Thorlaksson (Chairman), Sigurdur Jon Bjornsson and Sigurjon Palsson. Stodir's Chief Executive Officer is Julius Thorfinnsson.

Invesco Asset Management (doing business as Invesco Perpetual) provides asset management services -- primarily to customers in the UK. One of the largest fund managers in the country, the subsidiary of Invesco Ltd. oversees more than 40 funds that are invested in European, Asian, and international equities, including funds specifically invested in shares of companies in the UK, the US, Japan, and emerging markets. It also manages fixed-interest funds. Other products include ISAs, pensions, and offshore funds. Invesco Perpetual serves both private and institutional investors, as well as financial advisers.

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.

The Baxi Partnership Trust was set up as an employee benefit trust (EBT) by Philip Baxendale and his cousin Joan Caselton in 1983 when they sold their gas-boiler manufacturing company to the trust for only one tenth of its value; a massive gift to the employees. The aim of the EBT was to enable the employees of the boiler manufacturing company to keep the company independent and to share in the wealth they had helped to create. Over the next 16 years the company grew to £200m sales and was highly productive and profitable.

MTN Capital Partners is a private investment firm that focuses on middle-market companies valued at less than $100 million. It targets profitable and rapidly growing firms, but also considers those that are unprofitable or are up for auction. Often investing along side other firms, MTN typically seeks out opportunities in the specialty retail, consumer products, media, automotive, and manufacturing sectors. Some of the firm's co-investments/co-sponsorships include New Jersey high-end grocery store chain Kings Super Markets and Canada-based custom footwear maker The Orthotic Group.

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.

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