GIMV NV was founded in 1980 and is based in Antwerp, Belgium with additional offices across the Europe. GIMV NV is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts, growth capital, and venture capital investments. It prefers to invest in infrastructure and innovative as well as in marketing and communication services companies. Within buyouts and growth capital, the firm seeks to invest in mid-sized established companies in Belgium, France, and Netherlands. In Belgium, it seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses and typically invests in the following transactions; succession issues in family-owned companies, financial shareholders seeking liquidity, corporate divestitures, and companies in need of financial means to accelerate growth. The firm invests in equity and mezzanine transactions in all sectors. Additionally, it seeks to invest between €5 million ($6.72 million) and €40 million ($53.79 million) in companies with enterprise values up to €150 million ($201.73 million). In France, the firm seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses and typically invests in the following transactions; succession issues in family-owned companies, financial shareholders seeking liquidity, corporate divestitures, and companies in need of financial means to accelerate growth. It typically invests between €5 million ($6.72 million) and €25 million ($33.62 million) in companies with enterprise values of up to €150 million ($192.46 million).

Tudor Ventures is the venture capital and private equity arm of Tudor Investment Corporation, an internationally recognized, $10 billion in assets, diversified investment management firm. Tudor has been investing in venture capital and other private equity opportunities since the early 1990's. Over this time, Tudor and its principals have invested in over 75 companies, with a strong record of investment success, and currently manage over $700 million in capital commitments. Tudor Ventures announced the closing of our third fund, Tudor Ventures III L.P., in June 2007 with $262 million in capital commitments. Limited partners in this fund include large institutional, endowment, fund of funds, and high net-worth individual investors along with significant investments from Tudor's proprietary capital and the Tudor Ventures' principals.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation was founded in 1784 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) is a global financial services company. The Company’s two principal banks are The Bank of New York Mellon, which houses its institutional businesses, including Asset Servicing, Issuer Services, Treasury Services, Broker-Dealer and Advisor Services and the bank-advised business of Asset Management, and BNY Mellon, National Association (BNY Mellon, N.A.), a nationally chartered bank, which houses its Wealth Management business. Its United States bank subsidiaries engage in trust and custody activities, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. As of December 31, 2009, it had two United States trust companies: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association and BNY Mellon Trust Company of Illinois. The Company operates in seven segments: Asset Management, Wealth Management, Asset Servicing, Issuer Services, Clearing Services, Treasury Services and Other.

Founded in 1889, Bank of Bermuda was bought by British banking giant HSBC in 2004. The Bank of Bermuda Limited provides fund administration, trust, custody, asset management, and banking services globally. The bank operates through four divisions: Global Fund Services, Private Client Services, Corporate Banking, and Community Banking. The Global Fund Services division provides fund administration products, banking, and global custody services, including hedge funds, emerging market funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds to investment industry. The Private Client Services division provides private trust and investment services to high net worth individuals and families. The Corporate Banking division provides cash management services to offshore insurance management companies, multinational corporations, and local Bermuda-based companies.

Industrivärden was established in 1944; Ericsson was its sole original investment. Industrivärden's roster reads like a who's who of Nordic entrepreneuralism. The holding company invests in midsized and large public Nordic companies with an emphasis on industrial manufacturers and financial services. (Industrivärden is a Swedish word meaning "industrial value".) It owns stakes in companies including financial services group Handelsbanken, telecom company Ericsson, toolmaker Sandvik, and paper products maker Svenska Cellulosa. AB Industrivärden company prefers to take long-term significant stakes in companies in which it can take an active ownership role.

Jefferies Group (along with its main subsidiary Jefferies & Company) raises capital, performs securities trading and research, and provides advisory services for small and midsized companies in the US. Serving about 2,500 institutional clients worldwide, Jefferies Group, Inc. also trades derivatives and commodities and makes markets for some 5,000 US and international equities. Jefferies Group also oversees more than $3 billion on behalf of investors and private clients. Jefferies made a move into the municipal business in 2009 and now serves national and local governments. Jefferies Group, Inc. has about 25 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

The Ayco Company was founded in 1971 and is based in Saratoga Springs, New York with additional offices in Albany, New York; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Parsippany, New Jersey; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Troy, Michigan. The Ayco Company, L.P. is an asset management arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. It primarily provides its services to corporate executives and employees, high-net-worth individuals and families, banking or thrift institutions, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client – focused equity portfolios. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The firm conducts in-house research to make its investments.

American Capital, Ltd. (American Capital) is an equity firm and a global asset manager. The Company invests in private equity, private debt, private real estate investments, early and late-stage technology investments, special situation investments, alternative asset funds managed by the Company and structured finance investments. On April 1, 2009, the Company completed the combination of three portfolio companies within its Financial Services Group to create Core Financial Group, a diversified commercial finance holding company. On July 13, 2009, American Capital completed the sale of its portfolio company, People Media to Match.com. On September 15, 2009, it completed the sale of its portfolio company, Axygen BioScience Inc., including its subsidiaries Axygen Inc. and Sorenson BioScience Inc. On October 13, 2009, the Company completed the sale of its portfolio company, Imperial Supplies Holding Inc.

Muscatine Foods (formerly Varied Investments, Inc.) heard what you were sayin'. Muscatine Foods' name now better reflects what it does -- the Muscatine, Iowa-based company invests in various midwestern ag businesses. Among the units owned by the holding company are the Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), Kent Feeds (which also owns animal food maker Evergreen Mills), and Blue Seal Feeds. Muscatine's Precision Foods has acquired Connecticut-based hot beverage manufacturer Alternative Channels. Muscatine Foods is owned by the families of GPRC founders Gage Kent and S.G. Stein.

Atlas Venture LLP was founded in 1980 and is headquartered at Waltham, Massachusetts. Atlas Venture LLP is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early-stage, and select late stage investments. It seeks to invest in the technology and life sciences sectors. Within the technology sector, the firm focuses on components, including silicon, MEMs, nanotechnology, and new materials; systems, including enterprise storage and security appliances, networking and wireless systems, alternative energy and clean-tech, and consumer electronics devices that are created from components and software; software, including business applications, infrastructure, tools, and software for vertical industries like communications, healthcare, and consumer markets; and services for businesses and consumers, typically on the Internet and including E-commerce and digital media. In the life sciences sector, it focuses on: pharmaceuticals; product companies with clinical candidates or molecules in the clinic; drug discovery companies with best in class technologies to accelerate and improve lead generation and optimization, make new targets accessible to drug intervention, and shorten the path to the clinic or change the overall cost equation; select medical device, technology, and tool companies.

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