Actis Capital, LLP was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Africa, China, Latin America, South Asia, Mumbai, India; Singapore, and South East Asia. Actis Capital, LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion capital, PIPEs, replacement capital, acquisitions, industry consolidation, management buyouts, going private transactions, property development finance, and mezzanine finance investments in emerging and growing companies. The firm primarily seeks to invest in business services, consumer services, financial services, industrials, infrastructure, logistics, and real estate. It also invests in the energy sector through the Actis Energy Fund.

MTS HEALTH PARTNERS, L.P. offers strategic advisory and capital raising services as well as private equity capital distinguished by unparalleled healthcare experience, senior level attention and a unique perspective as both an advisor as well as a principal. As an industry-focused merchant bank, MTS is free from the pressure to satisfy the competing institutional constituencies of a typical investment bank. The principals of MTS have spent their careers focused on the healthcare industry, with over 100 years of experience in acquiring, operating, advising, financing and selling healthcare companies. As such, MTS is uniquely positioned as the premier global healthcare-focused merchant bank.

Union painters who don't want to find themselves painted into a corner come retirement time probably need to know about IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The pension fund is sponsored by and serves the members of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, or IUPAT. Union members include floor- and wall-covering installers; display workers; convention and show decorators; drywall finishers; and painters. Some 7,000 US and Canadian employers participate in the IUPAT Industry Pension Fund. The union, which represents more than 140,000 workers, is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

Vestar Capital Partners is on a quest to invest. Specializing in management buyouts, growth capital investments, and recapitalizations, the firm targets middle-market firms (valued between $250 million and $3 billion) in the consumer products, financial services, media and communications, health care, and manufacturing sectors. It typically invests up to $700 million per transaction. An active, long-term investor that partners with the management of its portfolio companies, Vestar company oversees some $7 billion of committed equity capital on behalf of financial institutions, endowments, foundations, funds of funds, and public and private pension plans.

Union Financiere de France Banque SA Company offers asset management services to nearly 128,000 individuals and nearly 18,000 companies in France. Union Financiere de France Banque SA company employs more than 1,000 advisors throughout the nation. Union Financiere de France Banque has been increasing its marketing efforts toward upper-income individuals: It has employed such slogans as the bank which makes you long to be a capitalist and has used images of Karl Marx and Mao Tse-tung in capitalist garb for its advertising. Life insurer Aviva Vie (part of Aviva) owns more than three-quarters of Union Financiere de France Banque.

Vining-Sparks IBG wants to help institutional investors kindle an investment blaze. Operating as Vining Sparks, the firm provides broker/dealer services to institutional investors including financial companies, money managers, funds, insurance firms, and municipalities. Through its alliance with Howe Barnes, Vining-Sparks IBG offers investment banking services including debt and equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions advisory. Headquartered in Memphis, far from the capital of capital centers, Vining Sparks has more than a dozen offices in the US and another in London. Chairman James Vining founded Vining-Sparks IBG to serve community banks in 1981.

Since its founding in 1990, CapStreet has led or co-led investments in 29 portfolio companies, which have completed more than 250 add-on acquisitions. CapStreet is located in Houston, Texas. The CapStreet Group is a lower middle market private equity firm committed to delivering above-market investment returns to its partners. CapStreet typically makes control investments in companies with enterprise values of less than $150 million. CapStreet primarily invests in businesses that were previously owned by entrepreneurs, families or other non-institutional investors. In many cases, the sellers retain an equity stake, and are looking for a partner with the expertise to help them take the business into its next phase of growth. CapStreet also backs experienced management teams with a track record of success within a specific industry.CapStreet targets companies with recurring and growing revenues, high operating margins and proven cash flows, operating in industries with significant barriers to entry or opportunities for consolidation. CapStreet looks for opportunities to partner with a management team to accelerate growth and improve profitability. CapStreet adds value by: Setting strategic direction and financial objectives, Ongoing involvement in operational improvements, Building out experienced management teams and aligning interests, Attracting industry-knowledgeable outside directors, Leading acquisitions and business integration, Developing multiple exit opportunities.

United Planners' Financial Services wants to unite its clients with financial success. The securities broker/dealer provides brokerage, insurance, and investment advisory services to more than 300 independent registered investment advisors that offer such services to individual investors and small businesses across the US. United Planners also provides back-office, technology, and compliance support and training. Clearing services are offered through a pact with Pershing. Founded in 1987, United Planners was acquired by Pacific Life later that year. United Planners' Financial Services of America became independent when its management bought back Pacific Life's stake in 2007.

The Operating Engineers Funds are, in fact, for operating engineers not the kind who run trains, but those who operate other large machinery. Operating Engineers Funds company administers employee benefits, including pensions, health, welfare, vacation, and holiday benefit, for more than 35,000 active or retired members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (I.U.O.E.), Local 12, as well as their beneficiaries and dependents. The union consists of individuals in construction-related trades, including heavy equipment operators, soil testers, concrete pumpers, inspectors, and surveyors.

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.

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