Solera Capital was founded in 1999 with an all-female staff led by CEO Molly Ashby. The firm emphsizes its diversity, with 14 of its 17 professionals being women from backgrounds as diverse as Singapore and Ethiopia. Solera Capital is a private equity investment firm that typically invests between $10 million and $40 million in its target companies. Its portfolio includes natural and organic food company Annie's, consumer health care provider The Little Clinic, and publisher Latina Media Ventures.

Fred Alger Management was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Jersey City, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts. Fred Alger Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of Fred Alger & Company Incorporated. The firm provides its services primarily to individuals. It also caters to investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations, endowments and foundations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm primarily invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

Cash America International, Inc. provides specialty financial services to individuals primarily in the United States and Mexico. Cash America International, Inc. operates in three segments: Pawn Lending, Cash Advance, and Check Cashing. The Pawn Lending segment offers pawn loans through its pawn lending locations, which operate under the names Cash America Pawn and SuperPawn in the United States, and Prenda Facil in Mexico. This segment also sells previously-owned merchandise acquired from customers who do not redeem their pawned goods, as well as sells items purchased from third-parties or customers. The Cash Advance segment offers unsecured cash advances in selected lending locations that are operated under the names Cash America Payday Advance and Cashland in the United States; and short-term cash advances over the Internet under the names CashNetUSA in the United States, QuickQuid in the United Kingdom, and DollarsDirect in the Canada and Australia. Cash America International, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

DN Partners LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. DN Partners is an investment banking and merchant banking firm. It focuses on mergers and acquisition advisory, capital raising projects, and in selected leveraged acquisitions. DN Partners LLC provides strategic advice on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and partnering relationships including joint ventures. DN Partners LLC also performs targeted acquisition programs, reorganizations, restructurings, fairness opinions, defense strategies, and other strategic considerations.

Quilter & Co. Limited company, which is part of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, provides investment management services to private clients, trusts, and charities. Quilter has nearly $6 billion ($10 billion) in assets under management and operates through 10 offices in the UK, Channel Islands, and Ireland. Its offerings include discretionary accounts and managed portfolios with a variety of investment strategies, as well as Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs), Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), and Personal Equity Plans (PEPs). Citigroup bought the company from Morgan Stanley in 2007. However, the two firms merged their wealth management units two years later.

KKR Financial Holdings LLC is a specialty finance company with focus in a range of asset classes. The Company invests in financial assets consisting primarily of below investment grade corporate debt, including senior secured and unsecured loans, mezzanine loans, high yield corporate bonds, distressed and stressed debt securities, marketable and non-marketable equity securities and credit default and total rate of return swaps. The corporate loans invested in are referred to as syndicated bank loans, or leveraged loans, and are purchased, through assignment or participation in either the primary or secondary market. The Company is externally managed and advised by KKR Financial Advisors LLC (the Manager), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (Fixed Income) LLC. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (Fixed Income) LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR).

Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. was founded in 1974. Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in management-led buyouts, growth capital, turnarounds, special situations, industry consolidations, and recapitalizations for growth companies. It also provides bridge loans. The firm seeks to invest in media and telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, industrial, distribution, manufacturing, consumer and retail, business and information services, education, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment sectors. It targets companies based throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. The firm typically invests between $100 million and $400 million, but will consider equity commitments starting at $25 million. For buyouts, it targets companies with annual sales between $5 million and $3 billion and transaction values ranging between $50 million and $3 billion. The firm seeks to acquire substantial ownership positions and board seat in its portfolio companies. It generally, makes investments for five years and exit through outright sales, public offerings, recapitalizations, and joint ventures.

Westar Capital LLC is a private investment firm established in 1987 that provides capital to acquire established growth companies in partnership with management. In special situations, Westar also provides equity financing for corporate expansion, restructurings or acquisitions and will purchase significant equity positions from large shareholders seeking liquidity.Westar collaborates with existing management to grow promising middle market companies into industry leaders over a five-to-ten year period. In all cases, we arrange for management to own a significant share of the equity. At Westar we believe superior investment performance is best achieved when a company is jointly owned by its managers and experienced investors who have the financial resources, long-term perspective and expertise to build highly successful businesses.

Artemis Investment Management was established in 1997 by Mark Tyndall, John Dodd, Derek Stuart, and Lindsay Whitelaw, who maintain executive positions with the company. Artemis Investment Management offers unit trusts (similar to US mutual funds), hedge funds, institutional investment portfolios, and a venture capital trust. Artemis Investment Management company serves private and institutional investors in the UK; however, it does offer limited products and services to investors in other parts of Europe. It has some $10 billion ($16 billion) of assets under management. US-based Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) acquired a majority of the firm in 2010; Artemis' management retained a stake.

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.

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