Ares Management LLC was founded in 1997 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom. Ares Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in managing assets in both the private equity and leveraged finance markets. It seeks to invest in assets across capital structures, from senior floating rate debt to common equity. The firm makes investments through its three subsidiaries: ARES Capital Management LLC, Ares Capital Markets Group, and Ares Private Equity Group. ARES Capital Management LLC specializes in providing finance to private middle market companies. Ares Capital Markets Group manages senior secured bank loans, high yield bonds, mezzanine, and other special situation investments. Ares Private Equity Group makes investments through Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund, L.P. and provides flexible, junior capital to middle market companies.

Scottish Health Innovations Ltd works in partnership with NHS Scotland to protect and develop new innovations that come from healthcare professionals. By developing these ideas, SHIL creates new products and technologies that will improve patient care and generate income for NHS Scotland. SHIL services include: Project management, Market Research, Sourcing of funding, Intellectual property protection, Sourcing of development partners & Spinout set up. SHIL was set up in 2002 by NHS Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to provide this support to NHS innovation. It was recognised that there was a wealth of potential in the knowledge of NHS employees in terms of how to improve care and that there was no means of support out there to make the most of this. Since SHIL came in to existence they have successfully developed many ideas and projects that have come from NHS staff. These vary from basic ideas to more complicated research projects. If you work in healthcare and you have an idea for a new product SHIL wants to hear from you.

Argent Trading, Inc. was founded in 1958 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Columbia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Argent Trading Inc., a corporate trading company, purchases underperforming assets using its trading currency, Asset Purchase Credits (APC's) in the United States and internationally. The company provides trading solutions, including real estate and remarketing solutions, as well as helps clients to use trade credits in various media vehicles. Its client companies use their APC's towards the purchase of budgeted goods and services, including media, manufacturing materials, capital equipment, packaging, transportation, distribution, and sales and administrative expenses.

Shenzhen Expressway Company Limited was established on 30 December 1996. It is principally engaged in the investment, construction, operation and management of toll highways and roads. The Company aims at enhancing the ability of wealth creation by improving the quality of operation, obtaining reasonable returns through providing high-quality service to the society, and achieving satisfaction of customers, employees, shareholders and related parties by balancing their interests, so as to foster the Company’s sustainable development. Currently, the Company will maintain its market orientation, focus on the expressway industry, actively explore and engage in new investments in the industry for a synergistic growth in both its scale and efficiency.

Sprott Physical Gold Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end mutual fund trust. The Trust was created to invest and hold substantially all of its assets in physical gold bullion. The Trust seeks to provide an exchange-traded investment alternative for investors interested in holding physical gold bullion. The Trust invests primarily in long-term holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical gold bullion and will not speculate with regard to short-term changes in gold prices. Sprott Asset Management LP (the Manager) is the manager and RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust (RBC Dexia), a trust company, is the trustee of the Trust. As of December 31, 2009, the Trust held 97% of its total net assets in physical gold bullion in London Good Delivery bar form. The Trust does not invest in gold certificates or other financial instruments that represent gold or that may be exchanged for gold.

Medallion Financial Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty finance company in the United States. Medallion Financial Corp. engages in originating, acquiring, and servicing loans that finance taxicab medallions and various commercial businesses. Medallion Financial Corp. also originates consumer loans for the purchase of recreational vehicles, boats, motorcycles, and trailers, as well as provides other debt, mezzanine, and equity investment capital to companies in various industries. In addition, Medallion Financial Corp. originates commercial loans that finance the purchase of the equipment and related assets necessary to open a new business or the purchase or improvement of an existing business; and loans to small businesses for the purpose of financing inventory and receivables. Further, it raises deposits and conducts other banking activities. Medallion Financial Corp. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Burns, Philp & Company Pty Limited and its subsidiaries engage in the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of food ingredients, and consumer branded food and related products primarily in New Zealand. Its products include snack foods, such as salty and nutritious snacks; baking products, such as packaged loaf bread, other baked goods, and frozen meals; and spreads and oils, including fats and oils, bulk and retail flour, margarine and spreads, cake mixes, mayonnaise, dressings, chickens, and ice cream. Burns, Philp & Company’s customers include supermarket chains and convenience stores in New Zealand.

NIBC Bank N.V. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands with additional offices in Brussels, Frankfurt, London, and Singapore. NIBC Bank N.V. is a subsidiary of NIBC Holding N.V. NIBC Bank N.V. provides merchant banking and specialized financial services to mid-cap companies, financial institutions, institutional investors, financial sponsors, family offices, and high net worth entrepreneurs/owners in Europe, North America, and the south-east Asia. The company’s Merchant Banking segment advises, finances, and co-invests with mid-cap clients in the Benelux and Germany. This segment offers various products and solutions, such as merger and acquisition advisory, financing, derivative products, and mezzanine and equity investments. Its M&A services include evaluating and recommending financial strategic alternatives; identifying potential transaction opportunities; advising on and assisting with negotiations and valuation issues; and providing fairness opinions. This segment’s investment management products and services comprise direct investments; third party funds in private equity/mezzanine, real estate, and infrastructure; and leveraged loans securitizations.

Liontrust Asset Management PLC (Liontrust) is an investment holding company. Liontrust provides portfolio management services, which are targeted primarily at professional investors and advisers. It manages unit trusts, individual savings accounts, offshore funds, absolute return funds, pooled pension funds, and segregated institutional accounts. The Company’s subsidiaries include Liontrust Investment Funds Limited, Liontrust Investment Services Limited, Liontrust European Investment Services Limited, Liontrust International (Guernsey) Limited, and Liontrust International (North America) Inc.

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.

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