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.

Asset Acceptance Capital tries to help creditors accept the things they cannot change and to have the courage to pay off the debt they can. Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. buys portfolios of written-off consumer debt (credit cards, consumer loans, utilities) at a deep discount, then attempts to collect on them. About half of the value of its portfolio is made up of Visa, MasterCard, and Discover card receivables. Asset Acceptance Capital focuses on debt in the primary, secondary, and tertiary markets, which means between one and three collection agencies have already had a go at them; these portfolios are often the cheapest to acquire but are the hardest to collect on. Tertiary accounts make up about half of its portfolio.

Thoma Bravo LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buy-outs, recapitalizations, roll-overs of a portion of existing equity, management buy-outs, growth equity, industry consolidation, acquisitions, buy and build, and take-private transactions. It does not invest in start-ups and distressed businesses. The firm prefers to invest in the companies based in United States, but can consider opportunities globally as well. It seeks to invest in business services, enterprise and infrastructure software, education, distribution, financial services, and consumer goods and services. In the business services sector, the firm invests in financial services, information services, and transaction processing. In education, it prefers to invest in postsecondary education; early childhood learning, K-12 schools; educational products manufacturing and distribution; behavioral schools; and corporate training. Within consumer products and services, the firm 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.

Experian Information Solutions, also known as Experian Americas, is the US-based arm of global credit reporting agency Experian plc. The unit provides credit reporting and lead generation services utilizing its database of more than 215 million US consumers and some 15 million US businesses. Clients include retailers, financial services firms, utilities, not-for-profits, and small businesses. Experian Information Solutions, Inc. also provides addresses for more than 20 billion pieces of promotional mail every year. Services include skip tracing and collections, direct marketing, sales prospecting, demographic information, and more. Experian Americas has about a dozen offices across the US.

Aberdeen Development Capital PLC is an investment trust company. Aberdeen Company’s assets are invested in a diversified portfolio of unlisted securities spread across a range of industries within the United Kingdom. It is the investment policy of the Company to invest no more than 15% of its gross assets in other listed investment companies (including listed investment trusts). Aberdeen Company does not have any investments in other investment companies. As of May 31, 2009, the Company’s top 10 investments included Tennants Consolidated, Pilgrim Systems, Cash Bases, Brookhouse Holdings, IFC Holdings, Transys Projects, PLM Dollar Group, Oliver Kay Holdings, Enpure Holdings and TLA Holdings. Aberdeen Company's investment manager is Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited. In May 2010, Aberdeen Company disposed its two portfolio holdings, Homelux Nenplas Limited and Oliver Kay Holdings Limited. In April 2010, Aberdeen Company announced the disposal of portfolio company, Norson Holdings Limited.

Mavinwood plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the document handling business in the United Kingdom. It provides document management solutions, including document and asset management consultancy, project management, scanning and data integration, system delivery, contract personnel assignments, archive compression, and facilities management services for oil and gas, railways, civil engineering, power, and shipping/ship building sectors. The company also offers near and deep storage, off-site tape storage, document scanning, file and asset tracking and management, and secure destruction services, as well as specialized storage products primarily for accountancy, corporate, financial, insurance, law, and media firms, as well as local authorities and hospital trusts. In addition, it provides rising damp and damp proofing, timber preservation, structural waterproofing, basement conversion, dry rot and wet rot control, resin repairs, condensation control, wall anchors and stabilization, bird control, and remedial wall ties services for home owner and commercial markets, including surveyors/architects, property owners and managers, local authorities and contractors, and commercial and public buildings.

Founded in 1999, Agave Capital is fully invested and has not been pursuing new opportunities. The venture capital firm has holdings in high-tech companies, including Internet, telecommunications, networking, semiconductor, and software startups. Portfolio companies include personal computing systems maker ClearCube Technology and software maker Surgient. Past investments included TippingPoint (acquired by 3Com) and DiscoveryCom (acquired by Nokia).

In 1980, GTCR pioneered and investment thesis founded on the principle of growth through committed relationships with management partners. GTCR manages more than $8 billion in equity and mezzanine capital invested in a wide range of companies and industries. The firm principally invests in high-growth industries, including financial services and technology, healthcare, and information services and technology. Growth strategies are driven by industry dynamics and generally include a combination of acquisitions and internal growth.Capital under management is primarily provided by pension funds, endowments, and foundations. Portfolio company executives and the principals of GTCR have made significant investments in each of GTCR's funds. The firm's principals have invested in more than 100 companies, and are recognized for their ability to create value consistently throughout the investment life cycle.

Austin Ventures has corralled themselves a heapin' helpin' of a whole different breed -- the nerd herd. The venture capital firm offers funding mainly to software, computer hardware, semiconductor, communications, and business services startups. Focused on investment opportunities in the Southwest (and still with a heavy Texas concentration despite looking outward), Austin Ventures typically invests from $100,000 to $20 million per transaction, usually holds its investments long-term, and almost always takes a seat on the acquired firm's board. Austin Ventures also assists clients in hiring management, setting up compensation plans, and going public.

Lyceum Capital Partners LLP was founded in 1999 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Lyceum Capital Partners LLP is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. It seeks to invest in mid-sized businesses. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions. The firm seeks to invest in business and consumer service industries with a preference for healthcare, education and human capital, business outsourcing and technology, financial services, and media services companies. It selectively also invests in specialist consumer, retail, and industrial services. The firm seeks opportunities in companies based in the United Kingdom. It typically invests between £5 million ($9.76 million) and £40 million ($78.10 million) in companies with enterprise values between £10 million ($19.52 million) and £75 million ($146.44 million). The firm prefers a board seat in its portfolio companies.

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