Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

CITIC Pacific Limited was founded in 1990. CITIC Pacific Limited engages in the special steel manufacturing and iron ore mining operations primarily in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The company’s segments include Special Steel, Iron Ore Mining, Property, Aviation, Power Generation, Civil Infrastructure, Communications, and Marketing and Distribution. Special Steel CITIC Pacific Special Steel operates as a special steel manufacturer in China. Special Steel is used in a range of industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The major products are bearing steel, gear steel, spring steel and seamless steel tubes. These are used in a range of different industries, including auto components, machinery manufacturing, oil, petrochemicals, transportation, energy, railways and shipping. The company’s three operating plants, Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel, Xin Yegang Steel and Shijiazhuang Steel, are ideally located to cover the main markets for special steel in eastern, central and northern China. Special steel refers to steel that has added or extra benefits, such as heat resistance, anti corrosion and anti fatigue. Categorised by shape, special steel includes bar steel, plate, strip steel, tube steel and wire steel. Customers: The company’s customers include Jiangsu Zhenda Seamless Tube; Pangang Group Chengdu Iron and Steel; Yangzhou Chengde Steel Tube; Dongfeng Motor; and Jiangxi Hongdu Steelworks. Iron Ore Mining The Sino Iron project is the most advanced magnetite development in Australia. CITIC Pacific has rights to two billion tonnes of resource.

InnoCal could almost be short for "in or around California," which is where the venture capital firm focuses on investing in early- and expansion-stage information technology companies. The company tends to focus on businesses involved with enterprise software and hardware, semiconductors, wireless and Internet technologies, and broadband communications. The firm's criteria for investing, besides geography, includes strong management teams, exclusive proprietary technologies, and market-dominating potential. InnoCal generally invests between $1 million and $5 million per company, and it limits the number of investments it makes in order to focus its attention on developing strategies for portfolio companies.

GS Capital Partners V, L.P. specializes in investments in mature companies, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth investments to fund acquisitions or expansions. The fund prefers to invest $50 million or less in Chinese private businesses and participates in ownership reorganization in Chinese state-owned enterprises with investments above $200 million each.

University College London is one of the premier universities in the UK for research and innovation, and is dedicated to harnessing its exceptional research for positive social and economic benefit. To this end it has created UCL Business PLC. A wholly-owned subsidiary of University College London, UCL Business has been formed to help industry and business make the most of UCL innovations. Through licensing technologies & innovations, engaging consultancy services, creating shared-risk joint-venture businesses, and utilising UCL’s specialist Subsidiaries, UCL Business promotes and supports the transfer into industry of expertise and knowledge over a wide range of disciplines.

Penson Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Penson Worldwide, Inc. (Penson) is a holding company. The Company is a provider of a range of critical securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services to the global financial services industry. The Company’s products and services include securities and futures clearing and execution, financing and cash management technology and other related offerings. The Company conducts business, through its wholly owned subsidiary SAI Holdings, Inc. (SAI). SAI conducts business, through its principal direct and indirect operating subsidiaries, Penson Financial Services, Inc. (PFSI), Penson Financial Services Canada Inc. (PFSC), Penson Financial Services Ltd. (PFSL), Nexa Technologies, Inc. (Nexa), Penson GHCO (Penson GHCO), Penson Asia Limited (Penson Asia) and Penson Financial Services Australia Pty Ltd (PFSA).

New Enterprise Associates was founded in 1978 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices across United States, India, and China. New Enterprise Associates is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in venture growth equity at all points of developments with a 60 percent focus on seed and start-up stage through IPO. The firm prefers to invest in the information technology sector with a focus on consumer internet, consumer mobile, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise services, communications, software and services, and electronics industries; healthcare sector with a focus on biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, healthcare services, and healthcare information technology industries; and energy technology. It invests across the world with a focus on United States, China, and India. The firm initially invests between $200,000 and $40 million in a company and typically sponsors subsequent finance rounds.

Lazard Ltd. company was founded in 1848 and is based in New York, New York. Lazard Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm worldwide. Lazard Company's Financial Advisory segment offers a range of services regarding mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory matters, restructurings and capital structure advisory services, capital raising, and various other corporate finance matters, which include evaluating potential acquisition targets, providing valuation analyses, evaluating and proposing financial and strategic alternatives, rendering opinions, assisting in the negotiating and closing the acquisition, and assisting in executing an acquisition by acting as a dealer-manager in transactions structured as a tender or exchange offer. This segment primarily serves consumer; financial institutions; financial sponsors; healthcare and life sciences; industrial; power and energy/infrastructure; real estate; and technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

Dubin Clark & Company, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm whose sole activity is buying and building businesses in partnership with their management teams. Dubin Clark & Company long-term investors, dedicated to creating value by helping our companies grow. Dubin Clark do this through a coordinated approach that includes providing the capital necessary to support internal growth, completing add-on acquisitions to build market share, and helping to develop new strategies for the future, while protecting the independence, culture and values that made the company successful in the first place.

Baker Capital, founded in 1995, is a New York-based private equity firm with $ 1.5 billion under management. Baker Capital invests in growth companies at all stages of development in both Europe and North America. The partners of Baker Capital have extensive private equity and operational experience, allowing the firm to provide its portfolio companies with not only capital but also strategic thinking and relationships.

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