Lightyear Capital Inc. is an investment banking firm that focuses on small and mid-cap companies. The firm provides merger and acquisition, fairness opinions, sourcing and valuation, turnaround and divestiture, privatization, management buyout (MBOs), initial public offering, secondary financing, private placement, private equity and venture capital financing, reverse take over (RTO) transaction, reorganization and re-capitalization, and strategic advisory services. It also offers investment research, institutional sales and brokerage, and private client services.

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.

Focus Strategies, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Austin, Texas. Focus Strategies, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt private placements, and corporate finance advisory services. Additionally, it provides recapitalization and restructuring advisory, fairness opinions, and valuation services. The firm caters to insurance, healthcare, telecommunication, real estate, oil and gas, industrial manufacturing, technology, consumer products, and financial services sectors.

NYSE Euronext, through its subsidiaries, provides securities listing, trading, market data products, and software and technology services worldwide. The company offers products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions to issuers, investors, financial institutions, and market participants. It operates NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, which lists various debt and equity structured products, such as capital securities, mandatory convertibles, and repackaged securities; and NYSE Arca, an electronic exchange for equities, exchange traded funds, exchange traded notes, exchange-traded vehicles, certificates, and options. The company also operates Euronext that lists various securities, including domestic and international equity securities, convertible bonds, warrants, trackers, and debt securities, including corporate and government bonds. In addition, it operates NYSE Liffe that trades futures and options contracts; NYSE Arca Europe, which offers electronic, low latency trading platform for blue chip stocks; NYSE Alternext operates its European markets for emerging growth companies; NYSE Amex, which lists various classes of companies that are qualified for listing on NYSE; NYSE Liffe US that trades full and mini-sized gold and silver futures and options on futures contracts; and SmartPool, a European dark pool dedicated to the execution of institutional order flow.

West Midlands Enterprise Ltd was founded in 1982 as a venture capital provider. 1986 saw the establishment of its consultancy arm, which initially served the UK but then branched out into mainland Europe and other parts of the world. Most recently, the company has established an IT consultancy and has hived down its UK economic development consultancy activities into a separate company, Consulting Inplace Limited.WM Enterprise* is a privately owned consultancy and fund manager. It delivers IT and business consultancy in the UK and economic and regional development consultancy internationally. Its fund management activities are concerned with the provision of venture capital, primarily to small and medium sized enterprises. WM Enterprise also provides management support and business services.

Home BancShares, Inc. (HBI) is a bank holding company. Home BancShares Company is primarily engaged in providing a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its wholly owned community bank subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank). Home BancShares Company is engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The Bank has locations in central Arkansas, north central Arkansas, southern Arkansas, the Florida Keys and southwestern Florida. As of December 31, 2009, it conducted business through 45 Arkansas branches located in central Arkansas, two branches in north central Arkansas, two branches in southern Arkansas, nine branches in the Florida Keys and three branches in southwestern Florida. In March 2010, Home BancShares, Inc. and Centennial Bank announced that the bank has assumed substantially all deposits and purchased certain assets of Key West Bank.

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.

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.

Nuveen Investments was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Nuveen Investments, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, insurers, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors. It manages closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth stocks of large-cap companies and value stocks of multi-cap companies with a focus on large-cap and small-cap companies. It in invests in national and state-specific municipal securities to make its fixed income investments.

Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs more than 14,600 people in approximately 70 office locations in 28 countries. Macquarie Group Limited (MGL) acts as a non-operating holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it provides banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. The Company operates in five operating groups and two operating divisions, which include Macquarie Securities Group, Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Funds Group, Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities, Corporate and Asset Finance Division, Real Estate Banking Division, Banking and Financial Services Group and Corporate. Effective November 30, 2009, the Company acquired Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller (FPK). Effective December 31, 2009, MGL acquired Blackmont Capital Inc. from CI Financial Corp. In January 2010, the Company acquired Delaware Management Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Delaware Investments) from Lincoln National Corporation. In January 2010, the Company announced the launch of Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund.

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