IDB Holdings Corporation Ltd. (IDB Holding) part of the IDB Group is an Israel-based company engaged in diversified investment, financial and other related operations. IDB Holding Corporation owns a 100% interest in IDB Development Corporation Ltd., which holds and centralizes the Group’s investment activities. Through its interest in IDB Development, IDB Holding’s business interests include insurance through Clal Insurance, financial activities through Credit Suisse and Clal Finance, communications through 013 NetVision and Cellcom Communications, technology through several of its subsidiaries, industry through Makhteshim Agan Industries, Nesher, Taavura and several other companies, real estate development through Property & Building Corp. and Gav-Yam, and retail trade and tourism through Shufersal, Golf & Co. and Clal Tourism.

Invesco Aim Management Group is a mutual fund and investment management subsidiary of Invesco. Serving both institutional and retail investors in the US, the firm manages approximately 70 mutual funds that focus on domestic and international equities and, to a lesser extent, bonds and other fixed-income products. It also offers about 100 exchange-traded funds (under the Invesco PowerShares banner), as well as separately managed accounts, annuities, and retirement and college savings plans. Invesco Aim mainly distributes its products through third parties such as broker-dealers, financial advisors, and 401(k) plans. It has more than $60 billion of assets under management.

Affinity Capital Management was founded in 1993 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Affinity Capital Management is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in all phases of company’s development including start-up, seed, and growth capital investments. The firm invests in health care with a focus on the medical device, biotech, health care service, and health care information technology sectors. It seeks to invest in United States with a focus on companies located in the Upper Midwest.

Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust collects the proceeds attributable to the Royalty Interests (the overriding royalty interests conveyed to the Trust pursuant to the Overriding Royalty Conveyance (the Conveyance), dated effective June 1, 1994, from the Company to the Trust), entitling the holder thereof to 65% of the Gross Proceeds derived from the Company Interests (the Company's interest in natural gas properties in which the Company has an interest located in Alabama), as of June 1994, not burdened by the Royalty Interests) and makes cash distributions to Unitholders. Gross Proceeds are the aggregate amounts received by the Company Interests Owner (the Company while it owns all or part of the Company Interests and any other person or persons who acquire all or any part of the Company Interests or any operating rights therein other than a royalty, overriding royalty, production payment or net profits interest) attributable to the Company Interests from the sale of Subject Gas.

Sigma Capital Group plc (Sigma), together with its subsidiaries is a specialist asset management and advisory company focused on venture capital, property and the commercialization of university intellectual property (IP). The Company’s property activities are carried out through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strategic Investment Management Holdings Ltd (SIMH) and its subsidiary companies, which establish and operate limited partnerships investing in commercial property in the United Kingdom. As of December 31, 2009, the Company manages, and is an investor in four venture funds and two university funds, the Sigma Technology Venture Fund (the Venture Fund), the Sigma Innovation Fund (East of Scotland) (the Innovation Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energies Fund (the Sustainable Energies Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II (the Sustainable Energy Fund II), the RGU Ventures Investment Fund (the RGU Fund), and the University of Dundee Venture Fund (the Dundee Fund).

Terry McDaniel & Company provides tailored investment counseling and portfolio management services for individuals, charitable foundations, and employee benefit plans. The investment advisory firm, which was founded in 1985, has more than $400 million in assets under management. Terry McDaniel & Company focuses on equity investing, but also invests in some fixed-income securities. It concentrates on companies that offer essential products and services, and it invests in them long term.

Barclays established its investment banking division in 1986; today, Barclays Capital has offices in more than 30 countries around the world. Barclays Capital is the investment banking arm of venerable European bank Barclays. It provides financing and risk management services for corporate, institutional, and government clients around the world. Barclays Capital is one of the world's most prolific underwriters of fixed-income securities; it provides services for all asset classes. Barclays Capital is also active in private equity, typically committing between $10 million and $200 million per transaction; it has invested in more than 350 companies.

Nomura Securities International has its eye on fixed income, and we're not talking Social Security. The US-based division of Nomura Holdings, a top Japanese brokerage, provides securities research and trading, asset management, and capital markets services to individual, institutional, corporate, and government clients. Nomura Securities International, Inc. is a leading seller of Japanese equities in the US. Nomura Securities International, Inc. fixed income division underwrites and trades government bonds and derivatives. Nomura Securities International, Inc. ceased trading mortgage-related securities in 2007. Nomura Securities International opened its first US office in New York in 1927, and has expanded its reach to entail all of North and South America.

In 1977, Morgan Stanley opened its European headquarters in London, where it now has over 5,000 staff. More than 3,000 further people are located in the firm's other European offices in Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Stockholm and Zurich.Both in the UK and in Europe generally, Morgan Stanley is one of the preeminent financial services firms, with longstanding client relationships and a leading role in many landmark transactions. Morgan Stanley offer a full range of services covering mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, fixed income and equity financing, as well as secondary trading, research, foreign exchange, commodities, securities lending, asset management and prime brokerage.

Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

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