The London Stock Exchange is at the heart of the global financial market and is home to some of the largest, most successful and dynamic companies in the world. The Exchange has built on a long history of integrity, expertise and market knowledge to become the world's most international stock exchange. In October 2007 the Exchange merged with Borsa Italiana, creating Europe's leading diversified exchange business, London Stock Exchange Group. The LSE includes the main market, the Professional Securities Market (or PSM, listed debt securities), and the Alternative Investment Market (or AIM, which lists new and growing companies). The LSE is also a leader in international IPOs. Borse Dubai owns around 21% of the exchange; Qatar Investment Company owns about 15%.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Berkshire) is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and a reinsurance basis. Berkshire also owns and operates a large number of other businesses engaged in a variety of activities. Berkshire’s insurance and reinsurance business activities are conducted through approximately 70 domestic and foreign-based insurance entities. Berkshire’s insurance businesses provide insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty risks world-wide and also reinsure life, accident and health risks world-wide. Berkshire’s insurance underwriting operations are comprised of sub-groups: GEICO and its subsidiaries, General Re and its subsidiaries, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. On February 12, 2010, the Company acquired all of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF).

Saratoga Partners is an independent, New York-based merchant banking firm making alternative asset investments in private equity and debt in partnership with management across the industrial manufacturing, business service and information service sectors. Saratoga primarily pursues investments in U.S.-headquartered, middle-market companies that it believes have opportunities for enhanced growth and productivity. Saratoga’s investment strategy includes a special focus on “special situation” middle-market investments involving complexity or inefficiencies – including restructurings – that present attractive value combined with active, “hands-on” post-investment involvement to achieve revenue and productivity enhancements.

ABRY Partners, LLC was co-founded in 1989 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. ABRY Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in late stage; total buy-outs of financial investors, families, publicly-traded or strategic owners; acquisition roll-ups, platform acquisitions; leveraged buyouts; industry consolidations; add-on acquisitions; mezzanine, recapitalizations, turnaround; and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in media, communication, business services, education, entertainment, healthcare services, information services, and online media industries with a focus on television and radio broadcasting, cable television, business-to-business, magazine publishing, newsletter publishing, conventions/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, consumer magazine publishing, recorded music libraries, proprietary database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertising. The firm typically invests between $25 million and $150 million of equity in case of the private equity fund or between $15 million and $50 million of mezzanine/senior equity capital in its portfolio companies.

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.

Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C. was founded in 1993. Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in partnering with management teams to invest in middle market buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidations, growth equity investments, acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, and ownership transitions of family owned businesses. The firm does not invest in turnarounds and companies in the biotechnology, high technology, hotels, oil and gas exploration and production, real estate, and restaurants sectors. It prefers to invest in business and consumer services, healthcare services, specialty distribution, and value-added manufacturing companies. Within these sectors, the firm prefers to invest in food and kindred products, textile mill products, apparel and other finished products, lumber and wood products, furniture and fixtures, paper and allied products, printing and publishing, chemicals and allied products, rubber and miscellaneous plastics, stone, clay and glass products, primary metal industries, fabricated metal products, industrial machinery and equipment, electronic and other electronic equipment, transportation equipment, instruments and related products, trucking and warehousing, U.S. postal services & transportation services.

Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technologies and business models in emerging and high-growth markets, across a broad range of sectors including software, technology-enabled services, communications and emerging technology.El Dorado has a two-decade track record of successful early-stage technology investing, including early investments in Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies, including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens and Texas Instruments.With more than $750 million in capital under management, EDV has a stable group of institutional investors, most of whom have invested with EDV for more than a decade. EDV's limited partners also include a select group of successful entrepreneurs and other technology luminaries, known as EDV's Technology Partner Network, who play an active role as strategic consultants to EDV and its portfolio companies.

The Permian Basin Royalty Trust’s (the “Trust”) principal assets are comprised of a 75% net overriding royalty interest carved out by Southland Royalty Company (“Southland”) from its fee mineral interest in the Waddell Ranch properties in Crane County, Texas (“Waddell Ranch properties”), and a 95% net overriding royalty interest carved out by Southland from its major producing royalty properties in Texas (“Texas Royalty properties”). The interests out of which the Trust’s net overriding royalty interests were carved were in all cases less than 100%. The Trust’s net overriding royalty interests represent burdens against the properties in favor of the Trust without regard to ownership of the properties from which the overriding royalty interests were carved. The net overriding royalties above are collectively referred to as the “Royalties.” The properties and interests from which the Royalties were carved and which the Royalties now burden are collectively referred to as the “Underlying Properties.”

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. was founded in 1935. William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is an employee-owned financial services firm that offers investment banking, equity research, institutional and private brokerage, and asset management to individual, institutional, and issuing clients. The firm’s services include portfolio management, sales and trading, investment banking services, mutual funds, and venture capital financing. In addition, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. also makes private equity investments through its investment arm William Blair Capital Partners.

Roark Capital Group was named after Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's classic The Fountainhead. For much of the book, Roark's unwavering commitment to his style of architecture put him at odds with the people in power and thus the people who influenced public opinion. While many of his peers altered their architectural designs to gain public approval and fame, Roark was always true to himself and his work, refusing to succumb to conventional wisdom. By the end of the book, the former architectural elite are exposed as frauds, and Howard Roark is discovered as a true visionary.Integrity, according to Ayn Rand, is commitment to one's own thinking and one's own mind. If a man sincerely believes a claim to be true, then he must hold to this belief even though society opposes him. He must think independently and form values that he never sacrifices. Howard Roark's life exemplified the true nature of this independence and integrity.Roark Capital Group's investment style and business philosophy is meant to emulate the life of Howard Roark. Roark Capital hope to invest in outstanding companies in partnership with exceptional operating executives, regardless of conventional wisdom or the latest trend. Further, Roark Capital Group will support its portfolio companies and its management partners, in good times and bad, as long as the fundamental long-term opportunity remains intact. In the end, this patient, independent approach, will generate superior risk adjusted investment returns for Roark Capital Group.

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