Updata Partners was founded in 1998. Updata Partners is an investment arm of Updata Capital, Inc. specializing in growth capital, expansion capital, acquisition financing, buyouts, recapitalizations, and corporate spin-offs investments. The firm also provides finance for founder and investor liquidity. It typically invests in information technology sector with a focus on software and information services businesses. Within the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in application software and software-as-a-service, internet, digital media and e-commerce, infrastructure software, and business and information services. The firm invests between $5 million and $20 million in companies with revenue between $5 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be a lead or co-lead investor. It seeks to co-invest in its portfolio companies.

Rutland Partners provides UK-based businesses with funding for acquisitions, restructurings, and expansions. Rutland typically targets underperforming companies that have underpinning assets (including market position, intellectual property, and physical assets) that can be capitalized upon. Rutland Partners company usually funds businesses that are valued from £20 million to £150 million. Past investments include pigments and coating manufacturer Wolstenholme Rink (sold to Altana), musical instruments leader The Music Group Limited, and health care database provider Advantage Healthcare Group.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

Founded in 1977, Matrix Partners venture capital firm primarily funds startups in the software, Internet infrastructure, communications equipment, and semiconductor markets. Matrix Partners company likes to get in on the ground floor of a new business, and it enjoyed success even during the tech wreck because it generally stays away from dot-coms. Its Matrix Partners India fund invests in a range of industries (not just tech) in that country. Matrix, which typically invests more than $10 million per company in a series of stages, has offices in the high-tech hotbeds of the Silicon Valley and Boston. It opened an office in Beijing in 2008.

SV Life Sciences Advisers LLP was founded in 1993. SV Life Sciences Advisers LLP is a venture capital firm specializing in investments start-up, early stage, and expansion capital. The firm seeks to invest in the human life sciences sectors. Within these sectors, it prefers to invest in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, medical devices and instruments, and healthcare information technology and services sectors. The firm seeks to invest in equity or near equity securities in private businesses. It usually takes a lead investor position in its portfolio companies. The firm primarily invests in North America and Western Europe, but will consider investment opportunities in other regions. It seeks to invest between $1 million to $40 million in equity investments. The firm takes a board seat in its portfolio companies.

HKEx is the holding company of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited. It brings together the market organisations which have transformed Hong Kong's financial services industry from a domestically focused market to become a central market place in Asia attracting investment funds from all over the world. HKEx was listed in June 2000 following the integration of Hong Kong's securities and derivatives markets. As a market-driven organisation, answerable to its shareholders, HKEx competes vigorously for opportunities in the region and around the world.HKEx's operations are organised into focused units, directly supervised and controlled by management and the board of directors. The board, the highest decision-making body, determines HKEx’s objectives, missions, strategies, policies and business plan and monitors their implementation by management. In its role as the operator and frontline regulator of the central securities and derivatives marketplace in Hong Kong, HKEx regulates listed issuers; administers listing, trading and clearing rules; and provides services, primarily at the wholesale level, to customers of the exchanges and clearing houses, including issuers and intermediaries – investment banks or sponsors, securities and derivatives brokers, custodian banks and information vendors – who service the investor directly. These services comprise trading, clearing and settlement, depository and nominee services, and information services.

Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho’s three operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada and Rho Fund Investors. Founded in 1981, Rho began its private equity activities as a family investment office. Today, Rho is a leading private equity firm that manages a series of funds, under each of its three divisions, backed by a broad group of institutional investors that include endowments, foundations, families, pension funds, and other financial institutions. Across all of Rho’s activities and strategies, our teams are committed to investing in growth and building companies over the long-term. Unique among private equity firms, Rho’s three divisions are each managed by dedicated teams who invest separate funds, yet all benefit from actively cross-leveraging other divisions’ networks to generate differentiated perspectives and insights.

Henderson Investment Limited, through its subsidiaries, primarily invests in infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company is a subsidiary of Henderson Development Limited. Infrastructure The company's infrastructure business mainly comprises interests in Hangzhou Qianjiang Third Bridge and a highway in Maanshan City, Anhui Province. They are both located in the Yangtze River Delta. Associated Company - The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited: The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited supplies piped gas in Hong Kong. Its core businesses comprise production and distribution of gas, marketing of gas and gas appliances, and after-sales services. It serves approximately 1.6 million local customers throughout Hong Kong, Kowloon peninsula, some new towns in the New Territories, as well as North Lantau Island including the Hong Kong International Airport. It also operates water supply projects in Wujiang, Jiangsu province and in Wuhu, Anhui province, and manages an integrated water supply and wastewater joint venture in Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu province. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the ECO Energy Company Limited, Hong Kong and China Gas has diversified into various green businesses including Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) vehicle filling stations and the utilization of landfill gas. ECO is operating a total of five LPG filling stations, which are strategically located in Chai Wan, Mei Foo, Tuen Mun, West Kowloon and Wan Chai.

North European Oil Royalty Trust was founded in 1975 and is based in Red Bank, New Jersey. North European Oil Royalty Trust (the Trust) is a grantor trust, which, on behalf of the owners of beneficial interest in the Trust (the unit owners), holds overriding royalty rights covering gas and oil production in certain concessions or leases in the Federal Republic of Germany. The rights are held under contracts with German exploration and development subsidiaries of Exxon Mobil Corp. (Exxon Mobil) and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (Royal Dutch/Shell Group). Under these contracts the Trust receives various percentage royalties on the proceeds of the sales of certain products from the areas involved. As of October 31, 2009, it received royalties for sales of gas well gas, oil well gas, crude oil, distillate and sulfur. The Trust does not conduct any active business activities or operations.

Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited represent the combined operations of Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited in their sale to RHJ International SA. As of July 1, 2010, Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited and Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited were acquired by RHJ International S.A. Kleinwort Benson Private Bank Limited provides banking and wealth management service. The company is based in London, United Kingdom. Kleinwort Benson Channel Islands Holdings Limited provides banking and financial service. Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Ltd. company is based in Westbourne, Channel Islands.

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