Scottish Enterprise (SE) provides business consulting services. It offers early stage business growth advisory, financial planning, business strategy development, taxation planning, and market research services. Additionally, the company provides business performance improvement, financial assistance, international networking, recruitment, and work-based training services. It caters to aerospace, chemicals, digital media, electronics, energy, financial services, food and beverage, and life sciences industries.

Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is a global alternative asset manager that raises, invests and manages private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Fund investors provide the capital for these funds, which it invests and manages on their behalf. Fortress earns management fees based on the size of its funds, incentive income based on the performance of its funds. Its offering of alternative investment products includes private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Hedge funds allow periodic contributions and redemptions of capital by investors and make relatively shorter-term, more liquid investments. Hybrid funds share certain of the characteristics of both private equity and hedge funds. It refers to these investment products, collectively, as the Fortress Funds. As of December 31, 2009, it managed alternative assets in three core businesses: Private Equity, Liquid Hedge Funds and Hybrid Funds.

BGL was founded in 1989 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Brown Gibbons Lang & Company LLC (BGL) is an investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. It focuses on middle market companies with enterprise values between $25 million and $500 million. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, private placements of equity and debt securities, initial public offerings, valuations and fairness opinions, and financial restructuring advisory services. Additionally, it offers due diligence, transaction negotiation, and document preparation services. The firm caters to automotive, business services, chemicals, construction materials and building products, consumer products, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, metals processing, plastics, and packaging industries.

Clal Industries and Investments Ltd. (CII) is an Israel-based investment company, controlled by IDB Development Corporation Ltd. The Company is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the establishment, acquisition, development and upgrading of companies in various industries. The Company is active in a variety of industries, including cement through Nesher Israeli Cement Enterprises Ltd.; the textile industry through Golf & Co. Group Ltd. and Kitan Consolidated Ltd.; high-technology and venture capital funds through Saifun Semiconductors Ltd., Fundtech Ltd., Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd., Clal Venture Capital Fund and several other companies; biotechnology operations, which are conducted through Clal Biotechnology Industries Ltd.; real estate operations, which are conducted through KBA Townbuilders Group Ltd.; communication services through mainly Netvision Ltd. and Clalcom Ltd.; and commerce and related services through Taavura Holdings Ltd.

Frazier & Company was founded in 1991. Frazier & Company provides venture and growth equity capital through its Frazier Healthcare Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures units. The former provides early-stage capital to companies in the biopharma, medical devices, and healthcare services sectors, while the latter funds companies in such markets as wireless technology, software, and networking. The companies in which Frazier Healthcare primarily invests in major health care hubs in California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington. Combined, the firms have more than $1.3 billion under management.

Wind Point Partners is a private equity investment firm that acquires middle market businesses with growth potential and a clear path to value creation. Wind Point manages $2 billion in commitments from pension funds, endowments and individuals and has invested in more than 80 companies since 1984. Wind Point identifies and invests in partnerships with top caliber CEOs and executives who have a record of success within their industry and the vision to build a market-leading enterprises via acquisition and organic growth. Wind Point align Wind economic interests closely with those of company management teams through significant equity participation.

Shattuck Hammond Partners, a division of Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., is an investment banking and financial advisory firm with more than forty investment banking professionals and offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago. Founded in 1993 as a boutique focused on healthcare services, the Firm has steadily grown over the last decade and extended its expertise and success to meet the needs of clients across a variety of industry sectors, including hospitals, senior living, managed care, pharmaceuticals, medical distribution and outsourcing, healthcare information technology, real estate, higher education and specialty not-for-profit organizations.Shattuck Hammond provides comprehensive investment banking and financial advisory services, including: strategic advisory, merger & acquisition advisory; placements of debt and equity; taxable and tax-exempt debt underwriting and financial advisory; derivatives and reinvestments; and real estate transaction services. In the last ten years, Shattuck Hammond has completed more than 160 M&A transactions totaling $10.8 billion in transaction value, and has served as underwriter, placement agent, financial advisor or bid agent on capital markets transactions totaling more than $13.8 billion.

AAC Capital Partners was founded in 1982 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and Stockholm, Sweden. AAC Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing specializes in investments in buyouts and management buyouts of middle market companies. It does not invest in property development, financial services, and defense. The firm seeks to invest in the consumer, industrial and services sectors with a focus on healthcare, retail, food and consumer products, printed media and leisure, transport and logistics, industrial engineering, support services, information technology, media and telecom, and life sciences. It prefers to invest in companies based in the Netherlands, Nordic region, and the United Kingdom. The firm typically invests in companies with an enterprise value ranging between €50 million ($66.70 million) and €500 million ($667.01 million). It seeks majority stakes and prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Management Limited was founded in 1881 and is based in Edinburgh, Midlothian. Martin Currie Investment Management Limited is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to financial institutions, charities, foundations, endowments, pension funds, family offices, government agencies, investment trusts, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, and corporations. It manages separate client focused equity portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity markets across the globe. The firm invests in growth oriented value stocks employing a thematic investment approach. It employs fundamental analysis with a combination of bottom-up and top-down stock picking approach to create its portfolios. The firm makes use of both internal and external research to make its investments. It operates as a subsidiary of Martin Currie Limited.

Established in 2008, the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) is a specialist investment company mandated to focus primarily on the global advanced technology sector. ATIC's sole shareholder is the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. To deliver superior financial returns to our shareholder by responsibly and sustainably investing in, and building, leading technology companies around the world. ATIC approach is fundamentally different to that of other technology-focused investment organizations. Recognizing that real change takes time, and that value creation is more about sustainable wealth generation than short-term profit creation, we are committed to a long-term investment horizon. This patient capital approach ensures that our investments are strategic and transformational rather than tactical and opportunistic and, as a result, can deliver superior returns to both our portfolio companies and our shareholder. Initially focused on the semiconductor industry, ATIC's potential scope is global and will focus on leading technology companies and centers in Europe, the U.S. and Asia.

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