Montagu Private Equity participates in management-led buyouts, buyins, and other private equity deals. It invests in mid-market European companies in the retail, manufacturing, and consumer services industries. Montagu Private Equity has some E3 billion of assets and funds under management; deals are typically valued at between E100 million and E1 billion. Among the firm's investments are funeral services provider Dignity and electronics retailer Maplin Electronics. Montagu Private Equity has offices in France, Germany, Sweden, and the UK. HSBC owns a minority stake in Montagu Private Equity LLP.

SCM Advisors LLC was founded in 1989 and is based in San Francisco, California. SCM Advisors LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to foundations, endowments, corporations, multi-employer plans, private clients, high net worth individuals, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, and structured financial products. It manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm invests in the growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. For its micro-cap equity portfolios, it invests in companies with market capitalization of $500 million and below. For its fixed income investments, the firm invests in tax advantaged bonds, government securities, investment grade corporate bonds, municipal bonds, mortgages, asset-backed securities, high yield securities, and non-U.S. bonds. It employs fundamental analysis with a combination of top down macro-economic analysis and bottom up issue research to create its portfolios.

Alliance Technology Ventures IV, L.P. specializes to make early, seed, and start up investments. It seeks to invest in communications, semiconductor, and life science companies with a focus on devices, systems, infrastructure, networks, and applications. It prefers to invest in broadband access and infrastructure with focus on wireless, cable, xDSL, and optical and in companies helping to advance Moore's Law. In life sciences, it seeks to invest in later-stage drug development programs, nanotech-based diagnostic and therapeutic innovations, and targeted protein-based therapeutics. The fund prefers to invest in the companies based in south-eastern U.S. It does not invest in publicly traded companies or companies located outside of the continental U.S. The fund typically invests between $1 million and $5 million in its portfolio companies.

Brainspark plc is a United Kingdom-based investment company. The Company is engaged in creating a portfolio of companies within the leisure, entertainment, interactive media and financial services sectors. The Company carries on its business in three geographical locations: the United Kingdom, Italy and Israel. The Company’s top 10 investment portfolios are Mediapolis (22.09%), Ondaland (20.0%), Indian Restaurant Group plc (29.9%), Bibop (50.5%), Filmmaster TV (10.0%), Geosim (13.0%), Vyke Communications plc (11.56%), Ancona (44.8%), Daniel Stewart & Co plc (5.7%), and Cogeme SET SpA (6.12%). The Company’s subsidiaries include Brainspark Associates Limited, Brainspark Services Limited and Gordons 153 Limited.

ITEX Corporation was founded in 1901. ITEX Corporation, through its independent licensed broker and franchise network, operates an exchange for cashless business transactions (the ‘Marketplace’) in the United States and Canada. The company’s business services and payment systems enable member businesses (‘members’) to trade goods and services without exchanging cash. These products and services are instead exchanged for ITEX dollars which can only be redeemed in the Marketplace (ITEX dollars). It administers the Marketplace and acts as a third-party record-keeper for its members’ transactions. Marketplace Transactions The Marketplace provides a forum for members to purchase from and sell their products and services to other members using the currency ‘ITEX dollars’ instead of the U.S. dollars (USD). An ITEX dollar is an accounting unit used to record the value of transactions as determined by the members in the Marketplace. The company issues, on a case by case basis, ITEX dollar credit lines to certain members. Members with positive ITEX dollar account balances or those within their ITEX dollar credit line may use available ITEX dollars to purchase products or services from other members and may sell their products or services to other members. Those members with negative ITEX dollar account balances are obligated to sell their products or services to other Marketplace members to offset their negative account balance.

Scotia Waterous (formerly Waterous & Co.) provides investment banking services to companies in the energy industry. The firm offers support for mergers & acquisitions and divestitures, private placements, and other corporate finance services. In 2005, The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) acquired Waterous, combining Scotiabank's Scotia Capital division with the global financial counseling business of Waterous. Scotia Waterous owns and operates facilities in Canada, Latin America, Singapore, the UK, and the US. Scotia Waterous company maintains offices in Calgary, Houston, Denver, London, Latin America, Singapore, and Beijing.

Torch Energy Royalty Trust (“Trust”) is a grantor trust which provides unit holders with quarterly cash distributions from a 95% net profits interest (“Net Profits Interest”) in proved developed oil and gas properties in Texas, Alabama and Louisiana. The Trust was formed effective October 1, 1993 under the Delaware Business Trust Act pursuant to a trust agreement among Wilmington Trust Company as trustee for the Trust (“Trustee”), Torch Royalty Company (“TRC”), Velasco Gas Company, Ltd. (“Velasco”) and Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated (“TEAI”) as grantor. TRC and Velasco created a Net Profits Interest which burdens certain oil and gas properties (“Underlying Properties”), and conveyed such interest to TEAI. TEAI conveyed the Net Profits Interest to the Trust in exchange for an aggregate of 8.6 million units of beneficial interest (“Units”). Such Units were sold to the public through various underwriters in November 1993. The Units of the Trust are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TRU.The Underlying Properties constitute working interests in the Chalkley field in Louisiana, the Robinsons’ Bend field in the Black Warrior Basin in Alabama, fields that produce from the Cotton Valley formations in Texas and fields that produce from the Austin Chalk formation in Texas. On January 29, 2008, holders of more than 66 2/3% of the outstanding units of beneficial interest in the Trust affirmatively voted for a proposal to terminate the Trust in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement. Accordingly, the Trust is currently in the wind up and liquidation process.

EZCORP, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, lends or provides credit services to individuals to meet their short-term cash needs. EZCORP, Inc. offers pawn loans, which are non recourse loans collateralized by tangible personal property, including jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments. EZCORP, Inc. also provides signature loans consisting of payday loans, installment loans, auto title loans, or fee-based credit services to customers seeking loans. In addition, EZCORP provides credit services, including advice and assistance to customers in obtaining loans from unaffiliated lenders. As of September 30, 2009, EZCORP, Inc. operated a total of 910 locations consisting of 369 the U.S. pawnshops, 62 pawnshops in Mexico, 477 the U.S. short-term loan stores, and 2 short-term loan stores in Canada. EZCORP, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Wilh. Werhahn KG engages in extracting and producing aggregates and asphalt construction materials for the construction industry. It also involves in producing ready-mixed concrete and gravel, recycling secondary materials, and land filling inert excavated soil, as well as supplying slate for roofing and siding applications. In addition, the company manufactures knives, scissors, pots, and utensils for kitchen; cutlery; beauty products, such as manicure and pedicure items; and baking products, such as industrial and bakery flours, baking convenience products, and retail-brand products. Further, it finances a range of mobile business assets, including vehicles, machinery, furnishings, telecommunications and information technology equipment, exercise gear, and tanning systems, as well as provides factoring services for small and medium-sized businesses; and manages and optimizes commercial property holdings, as well as offers consulting in corporate real estate management.

Partech International was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Ile-de-France, France and Kfar Shemaryahu, Israel. Partech International is a venture capital firm specializing in seed investments, creation and post creation development in software and Internet, healthcare information technology, energy, chemistry , financial services, media, and communications sector. In the software and Internet sector, the firm seeks to make investments in infrastructure technologies, data management, Internet, electronics, software services, and open source software. In the communications and components sector, it seeks to back start ups and focuses on communications systems; communications software and applications; components; and materials and process technologies. The firm prefers to invest in France, Europe, and North America. It invests between €0.3 million ($0.45 million) to €10 million ($15.1 million) in its portfolio companies.

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