Olympus Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut. Olympus Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing late stage venture capital, expansion capital, mature and middle market management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, senior and subordinated debt, growth capital, turnarounds, private financings of public companies, going private transactions, and divestitures. The firm does not invest in seed or early stage. It prefers to invest in business services, healthcare manufacturing and services, logistics and transportation services, consumer products and services, consumer and restaurant, software and information technology services, and financial services. The firm typically invests $20 million for venture capital and growth capital deals to $300 million or more for buyouts. It can either take a controlling stake or a minority ownership position in a company depending on capital and liquidity requirements of the company. The firm seeks to take Board seats in the portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments between three years and seven years.

Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. was founded in 1989 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in restructurings, public to private transactions, recapitalizations of privately held companies, growth capital, acquisitions, turnarounds, and acquisitions of divisions and assets from large corporations. The firm seeks to invest in established companies. It invests in a range of industries including retail, consumer products, distribution, media, business services, and healthcare. The firm focuses its investments in North America. It prefers to invest between $500 million and $2 billion per transaction, in enterprise value, but can complete transactions in excess of $5 billion in enterprise value, as well. It seeks to invest in companies which have an ability to grow by at least 50 percent over a five year period.

Cowen Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Cowen and Company, represents the firm's investment banking and brokerage practice, which mainly entails strategic advisory and corporate finance services for small to midsized companies in the alternative energy, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, health care, media, technology, and real estate industries. Cowen Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; and San Francisco, California.

FBR Capital Markets Corporation is a full-service investment banking, institutional brokerage and asset management company. In addition, it makes principal investments, including merchant banking investments. The Company’s subsidiaries are FBR Capital Markets & Co. (FBR & Co.), FBR Capital Markets International, Ltd. (FBRIL), Financial Services Authority (FSA), and FBR Fund Advisers, Inc. (FBR Fund Advisers). Its segments include capital markets, which include investment banking and institutional brokerage and research; asset management, and principal investing, which includes merchant banking. The Company’s capital markets business is conducted by its investment banking and institutional brokerage professionals through its United States and United Kingdom broker-dealer subsidiaries. The Company’s investment adviser subsidiaries principally manage a family of mutual funds. On August 31, 2009, the Company acquired Watch Hill Partners LLC.

Carter Financial Management was founded in 1976 by company president Bill Carter (also no relation to President Carter nor his beer-branding brother Billy). Former US President Jimmy Carter doesn't have anything to do with Carter Financial Management, but Carter Financial Management has a lot to do with dead presidents (if not live ones). Carter Financial Management company offers asset management, tax, legal, and philanthropic services to high-net-worth individuals, as well as families, professionals, and business owners. Affiliate Carter Advisory Services performs financial planning services for estates worth $2 million to $100 million, while brokerage services are carried out by Raymond James Financial.

Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management was founded in 1984 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management, LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, endowments, foundations, public funds, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe and fixed income markets of the United States. It invests in stocks of small-cap, small/mid-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm invests in high-quality intermediate maturity fixed income government, municipal, and corporate securities. It employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach.

Hamon Investment Group believes in Asia's potential to provide investors with long-term capital growth, and it wants to put your money where its mouth is. Hamon is an independent asset management firm specializing in Asian investments. It offers open-ended funds and individual discretionary accounts to corporations, family trusts, financial institutions, pension funds, and private investors. Its flagship fund, Hamon Asian Market Leaders Fund, invests in regional Asian companies and emerging blue chip growth companies. The Hamon Selected Asian Portfolio fund makes strategic equity investments in listed Asian growth companies. Its Asian iTech Fund invests in listed equities of Asian IT and electronics companies.

Founded in 1988 by President Kay Chandler, the firm has some $2 billion under management. Chandler Asset Management is an investment adviser specializing in the management of fixed-income portfolios for institutional investors. The firm offers portfolio management, analysis, and accounting as well as cash flow modeling, compliance reporting, and client training. Its investment strategies include short-term fixed income, core fixed income, and 1-5 year fixed income. Public agencies, healthcare companies, foundations, endowments, and corporations make up Chandler's customer base.

Dinamia Capital Privado, Sociedad de Capital Riesgo, S.A. is a Spain-based holding company. Dinamia Capital Privado SCR SA is engaged in private equity, which consists of the acquisition and sells of equity investments in unlisted companies with the ultimate goal of generating capital gains over the medium to long term. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s investments portfolio included Gestion Integral Novolux Internacional SL, The Beauty Bell Chain SL, High Tech Hotels & Resorts SA, Enfasis Billing & Marketing Services SL, Saint German Grupo de Inversiones SL, Colegios Laude SL, Hortus Mundi SL, TBBC Helena Investments SL, Limestone Spain SL, Miser SL, Leucorodia SL, Ronda Corporate SL and Helena Debtco, among others. In addition, the Company is 16.71%-owned by Ventos SA.

JAFCO Ventures focuses its attention on the US and invests venture capital in development-stage information technology companies, generally as a secondary investor. Portfolio companies include systems integrator Infinera, online security services provider Voltage Security, broadband wireless services provider Aperto Networks, wireless software designer Devicescape Software, and semiconductor designer Xambala. With the advantages of its parent company, JAFCO Ventures utilizes financial professionals and advisers in Asia to forge relationships and partnerships with potential clients as well.

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