Founded in 1983, Accel Partners traditionally has made early-stage investments in two sectors, software and networking, and has some $3 billion under management. Accel Partners company's investment history includes a who's who of tech powerhouses such as Macromedia, Riverbed, and Facebook. Based in Silicon Valley, Accel also has offices in China, London, and India. Accel looks to invest in companies that were founded by entrepreneurs but are run by experienced management teams. Accel provides strategic financing, recruiting, and business development, among other services.

Wells Fargo Securities, formerly Wachovia Capital Markets, provides investment banking and capital markets services for businesses. Offerings include financial and corporate advisory services, private capital and debt placement, underwriting, and equity investing. It also offers real estate financing, risk management services, and structured products such as asset-backed finance products. The firm has expertise with municipalities and in the retail, aerospace, financial services, energy, health care, real estate, media, and technology industries. Wells Fargo Securities and its former parent, Wachovia Corporation, were acquired by Wells Fargo in late 2008.

Gelber Group was founded in 1982 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Gelber Group provides trade execution, clearing, and risk management services for all major global electronic exchanges. The firm also offers market analysis, business operations consulting, facilities and data management services, and asset management for international banks, hedge funds, and independent professional traders in the US, Europe, and Asia. The company's GelberConnect electronic network provides individual and institutional traders with real-time exchange information, trade execution, and clearing services.

Since 1984, VENTANA has led multiple syndicates comprised of both domestic and internationally recognized venture investors. VENTANA creates value for Ventana investors using the know-how and know-who accumulated over more than two decades of doing business around the world. VENTANA works very closely with portfolio companies using a disciplined, value-added approach to drive each investment toward the best possible liquidity event, in the shortest time possible.VENTANA's experienced Team bring to the firm their in-depth domain knowledge and reputation as innovators. These individuals contribute proprietary advantages to VENTANA, resulting from active and successful investing in one of the largest and fastest growing technology centers of the world. With its corporate office in Orange County, California, VENTANA is in an ideal location – entrepreneurially positioned within Southern California’s burgeoning entrepreneurial “knowledge economy.” In addition to the sheer number of technology businesses located in this region, it is one of the very few in the world with leadership positions across alternative energy/cleantech, information technology, and life sciences sectors. Given its nearly 30-year history in the region, VENTANA is in an ideal position to benefit from this rich local universe of outstanding opportunities

ABS Capital Partners was founded in 1990 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices in San Francisco, California and Waltham, Massachusetts. ABS Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion financings, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of mid to late stage growth companies. The firm prefers to invest in strong growth companies that have moved beyond the start up phase favored by venture capital firms, but which are not yet on the radar screens of later stage buyout firms. It seeks to invest in the healthcare, technology, business services, software, media, and communication sectors. The firm typically invests between $10 million and $30 million in a company. It typically invests in companies based in the United States. The firm prefers to take a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies and leads the financing rounds. It makes both majority and minority stake investments.

Palladium Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 1997. Palladium Equity Partners, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm primarily invests in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate spinouts, growth financings, and restructurings. It also invests in late venture companies and may invest in mature businesses. The firm typically invests in business services, financial services, consumer and retail, food, beverage, and restaurants, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, media and entertainment, and telecommunication companies. In the business services sector, it focuses on business process outsourcing; transaction processing; and engineering services. Within the financial services sector, the firm invests in transactional services; money transfer; consumer and specialty finance; and casualty, life, and health insurance; and financial services targeting underserved segments.

The TCW Group, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; New York City; and Houston, Texas. The TCW Group, Inc. operates as a privately owned investment manager. It provides its services to corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, foreign investors, and high net worth individuals. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in the growth and value stocks of small cap, mid cap, and large cap companies while making its equity portfolios. The firm also invests in fixed income securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage backed securities, and floating rate debt obligations. For its alternative investing, it also does mezzanine investing and invests in special situations, energy, and infrastructure sectors.

Since 1984, Onex has acquired and built great businesses as a private equity investor. Onex Corporation (Onex) is an investment firm. The Company focuses on investing its active ownership approach of acquiring and building businesses in partnership with management teams. Onex invests through Onex Partners, its private equity platform. Onex also invests through ONCAP, its mid-market private equity platform, Onex Real Estate Partners and Onex Credit Partners. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had invested approximately $7.5 billion. As December 31, 2009, it had completed more than 260 acquisitions. In October 2009, the Company sold its interest in Celestica Inc. In August 2009, it sold its interest in Emergency Medical Services Corporation (EMSC). In April 2009, it also sold its interest in Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company acquired Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

Lazard Middle Market LLC is an investment banking firm that represents sellers of public and private middle-market businesses in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. The services provided by the firm include mergers and acquisitions, distressed company, and private placement advisory services; and valuations and opinions services. It offers a range of domestic and cross-border transactions including sales, mergers, and partnerships and joint ventures. Goldsmith provides financial advisory services to distressed companies in both Chapter 11 court-supervised proceedings and in out-of-court workouts. Its valuation services include strategic alternative assessments; fairness opinions and analyses; equity placements; purchase price allocations and goodwill impairment opinions; management incentive compensation plans; estate and gift tax planning; and litigation support. The firm caters to various industries including consumer, food & beverage, healthcare, industrial products and manufacturing, natural resources and environment, publishing, printing, media, technology, telecom, transportation and business services.

Globis Capital Partners was created in 1999 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Globis Capital Partners is the venture capital and private equity investment arm of Globis Corporation. It specializes in early stage, growth capital, later stage, incubation, mezzanine, corporate spin-offs and management buyouts. The firm prefers to invest in the service, technology, and IT industries. It primarily invests in Japan but exceptions are made where the Japan subsidiary is incorporated in Japan and operates with autonomy from the parent company. The firm typically invests between ¥1 million ($.01 million) to ¥ 1.8 billion ($18.78 million) in its portfolio companies. It generally does not invest in seed stage companies.

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