CIBC Mellon was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Calgary, Halifax, London, Montreal, and Vancouver. CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services Company is a 50-50 joint venture between Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Mellon Canada Holdings Company. CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services Company provides asset servicing, issuer, multicurrency accounting, information delivery, securities lending, and foreign exchange services in Canada. Its services include safekeeping, cash management and trade settlement, full service investment fund accounting, fund valuation and unit holder record keeping, transition management, pension fund administration and benefit payment, multinational, and securities lending and borrowing. The company also provides transfer agency, corporate trust, corporate actions, and employee share purchase plan services. CIBC Mellon Global Securities serves pension funds, investment funds, insurance companies, foreign insurance trusts, governments, corporations, foundations and endowments, and financial institutions.

The Clearing Corporation (TCC) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continuously matched throughout the day, TCC substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts. The independent clearinghouse serves major dealers and participants in the worldwide derivatives market, most of which are stockholders. The company was formed in 1925 as The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation and became the first independent clearinghouse for futures markets in the US. TCC was bought by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2009.

Antarchile SA is a Chile-based investment company primarily engaged in the acquisition of shares in other companies, properties and diversified goods. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company is involved in the forestry, fuel distribution, fishing, mining and energy sectors. The Company owns such subsidiaries as Empresas Copec SA, a holding company active in the energy and natural resources sectors, and Astilleros Arica SA, which specializes in the construction and repair of industrial ships, as well as manufactures equipment for the fishing industry. It also holds interests in Pesquera Iquique-Guanaye SA, Empresa Pesquera Eperva SA, Sigma SA and Servicios Corporativos SerCor SA. In addition, the Company has operations established in Argentina and Brazil. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s majority shareholder was Inversiones Angelini y Compania Limitada, with 63.4% of its interests.

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.

The Baxi Partnership Trust was set up as an employee benefit trust (EBT) by Philip Baxendale and his cousin Joan Caselton in 1983 when they sold their gas-boiler manufacturing company to the trust for only one tenth of its value; a massive gift to the employees. The aim of the EBT was to enable the employees of the boiler manufacturing company to keep the company independent and to share in the wealth they had helped to create. Over the next 16 years the company grew to £200m sales and was highly productive and profitable.

Hokanson Associates, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is controlled by president Neil Hokanson. Hokanson Associates company provides financial planning services and manages diversified stock and bond investment portfolios. It primarily serves a clientele of wealthy individuals in the San Diego area; it also serves institutional investors including pension plans, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations. Hokanson Associates has approximately $295 million of client assets under management.

Fortune Industries, Inc. company, formerly known as Fortune Diversified Industries, Inc., was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Fortune Industries, Inc. is a holding company, engaged in providing human resources outsourcing services through co-employment relationships with their clients. On November 30, 2008, the Company completed a transaction to sell all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the wholly owned subsidiaries James H Drew Corporation, Nor-Cote International, Inc., Fortune Wireless, Inc. and Commercial Solutions, Inc. On November 30, 2008, the Company sold or discontinued operations in its Wireless Infrastructure, Transportation Infrastructure, Ultraviolet Technologies and Electronics Integration segments. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company’s operating segment was Business Solutions segment.

The Veritas Capital was founded by president Robert McKeon in 1992. The Veritas Capital is a private-equity firm that invests in established companies through buyouts, growth capital investments, and leveraged recapitalizations. The Veritas Capital focuses on public and private middle-market companies in the aerospace and defense, government services, telecommunications, and specialty manufacturing industries. Its current portfolio includes holdings in government contractors McNeil Technologies and Vangent, and electronic components manufacturer Aeroflex, which filed to go public in 2010.

Integral Capital Partners was founded in 1991 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in Baltimore, Maryland. Integral Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies and buyout opportunities. The firm typically invests in all stages of a company’s development, beyond the start up phase. It also seeks to invest in venture and public stages of a company. The firm prefers to invest in companies in the life sciences and information technology sectors. Within the life sciences sector, it focuses on investments in emerging medical technologies, health care information systems, and companies targeting the cardiology and oncology markets. In the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in the Internet, software, software as a service, information security, computer services, and consumer technology markets. It also makes investments based on the themes communications-centric computing, real-time computing, and mobility.

Quilter & Co. Limited company, which is part of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, provides investment management services to private clients, trusts, and charities. Quilter has nearly $6 billion ($10 billion) in assets under management and operates through 10 offices in the UK, Channel Islands, and Ireland. Its offerings include discretionary accounts and managed portfolios with a variety of investment strategies, as well as Self-Invested Personal Pensions (SIPPs), Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), and Personal Equity Plans (PEPs). Citigroup bought the company from Morgan Stanley in 2007. However, the two firms merged their wealth management units two years later.

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