Ashmore Group plc (Ashmore) is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in providing investment management services. The Company is a fund manager across six core investment themes, such as external debt, local currency, special situations, equity, corporate high yield and multi-strategy. The external debt theme comprises principally United States dollar and other hard currency denominated instruments, which may include derivatives, investing in mainly sovereign bonds. The local currency investment theme comprises local currency and local currency denominated debt instruments. The special situations theme comprises investments in debt and/or other instruments. The equity investment theme comprises public equity and equity-related securities. The corporate high yield investment theme comprises investments in corporate debt within emerging markets.

NGP Capital Resources Company was founded in 2004 and is based at Houston, Texas. It is a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management. NGP Capital Resources Company is a financial services company, which invests in debt securities of small and mid-size private energy companies. It is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company (BDC). A focus area for its investments in the energy industry is domestic upstream businesses that produces, develops, acquires and explores for oil and natural gas (E&P) companies. The Company’s investments range in size from $10 million to $50 million. Its investments consist of debt instruments, including senior and subordinated loans combined in one facility, sometimes with an equity or property-based participation right component, and subordinated loans, sometimes with equity components. The Company also invests in preferred stock and other equity securities on a stand-alone basis.

CenterPoint Ventures was founded in 1996 and is based in Dallas, Texas with an additional office in Austin, Texas. CenterPoint Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early stage, mid venture, and late venture investments. It typically invests in privately held companies developing information technology-based products for the firm’s target industries and markets. The firm also invests in communications infrastructure including wireless, enterprise software and business applications, semiconductors, hardware, and Internet-enabled business models. It does not invest in companies engaged in pure-science inventions and in mature markets. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in Texas and Southwest region. It typically invests between $5 million and $10 million with follow-on funding over two to three rounds per company. The firm invests at the first or second-round of venture capital financing and act as lead investor in the initial venture round. It invites co-investment on early-stage deals and syndicates larger, late-stage investments with co-investors and seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its investment within five years via an IPO, merger, or acquisition.

Founded in 1969, Macquarie employs more than 14,600 people in approximately 70 office locations in 28 countries. Macquarie Group Limited (MGL) acts as a non-operating holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it provides banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. The Company operates in five operating groups and two operating divisions, which include Macquarie Securities Group, Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Funds Group, Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities, Corporate and Asset Finance Division, Real Estate Banking Division, Banking and Financial Services Group and Corporate. Effective November 30, 2009, the Company acquired Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller (FPK). Effective December 31, 2009, MGL acquired Blackmont Capital Inc. from CI Financial Corp. In January 2010, the Company acquired Delaware Management Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (Delaware Investments) from Lincoln National Corporation. In January 2010, the Company announced the launch of Macquarie Mexican Infrastructure Fund.

Investment bank Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin soldiers on for mergers on the economic front. Operating as Houlihan Lokey, the firm provides advisory services for primarily mid-market companies involved in M&A deals and corporate restructurings, including the sale of distressed assets and other turnaround situations. Houlihan Lokey also raises private and public equity for midsized private and small-cap public companies. The company is among the top M&A advisors in the US, especially for deals valued at less than $1 billion. Houlihan Lokey operates about 15 offices in the US, Europe, and Asia. Japanese financial services company ORIX acquired control of the company in 2007.

Laird Norton Tyee Trust Company (LNTyee) caters to the ultra-wealthy. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company grew out of the private asset management efforts of the Laird and Norton families, northwestern timber-industry pioneers and founders of forest products firms such as General Timber Company and Potlach Lumber. Laird Norton Tyee Trust company (categorized as a multi-family office, or MFO) provides wealth management services, along with such necessities as family governance, financial education, and charitable gift planning. The firm has more than $4 billion in assets under advisement for some 430 clients.

TA Associates, Inc. was founded in 1968. TA Associates, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed investments, management buyouts, leveraged recapitalization or liquidity with leverage for shareholders, purchasing stocks from owners, technology buyouts, growth capital, and acquisitions transactions. The firm primarily invests in private companies with a focus on consumer and retail, technology, financial services, business services, and healthcare businesses. However, it may also consider investments in other areas. The firm targets investments in companies based in North America, Europe, India, and other emerging markets. It may also consider opportunities in other parts of the world. The firm typically invests between $60 million and $600 million in equity and between $10 million and $75 million in subordinated debt transactions in the companies with values between $200 million and $5 billion. It can also make larger investments through its limited partners. The firm usually takes majority or minority positions, with ownership position ranging between 15 percent and 90 percent but never takes operating control of its portfolio companies.

Founded in 1987, Walden International Investment Group has more than $1.9 billion under management. Walden International Investment Group seeks utopia in global venture capital. The firm focuses on financing early stage companies in the communications, electronics, software and IT services, emerging technologies, and semiconductor industries. Portfolio investments include broadband communications equipment provider EndWave, software developer InQuira, supply chain services provider Velosel, and about 150 more. Walden International Investment Group has offices around the globe and is affiliated with WaldenVC, a venture-capital firm based in San Francisco focused on digital media, e-commerce, and technology-enabled services.

Rho Capital Partners is the parent company to Rho’s three operating divisions, Rho Ventures, Rho Canada and Rho Fund Investors. Founded in 1981, Rho began its private equity activities as a family investment office. Today, Rho is a leading private equity firm that manages a series of funds, under each of its three divisions, backed by a broad group of institutional investors that include endowments, foundations, families, pension funds, and other financial institutions. Across all of Rho’s activities and strategies, our teams are committed to investing in growth and building companies over the long-term. Unique among private equity firms, Rho’s three divisions are each managed by dedicated teams who invest separate funds, yet all benefit from actively cross-leveraging other divisions’ networks to generate differentiated perspectives and insights.

Gulf Capital Partners, Inc. was formed in 1995 as a Houston based investment banking firm specializing in financial and strategic advisory services for middle market companies, both public and private. The primary focus of GulfCap is mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and strategic advisory services. The majority of Gulf Capital Partners investment banking clients are middle market companies whose business concept or products are established and are candidates for industry consolidation or complementary acquisition by larger companies.GulfCap is distinguished by the high level of financial and operational experience of Gulf Capital Partners founding Principals, all of whom have started and run their own businesses. With Gulf Capital Partners combined financial and operational experience, Gulf Capital Partners bring a practical and focused approach to both entrepreneurs and high level corporate management that leads to exceptional results for Gulf Capital Partners clients. Whatever the client's motivation for seeking assistance, Gulf Capital Partners begin each assignment at the same place - fully understanding the dynamics of Gulf Capital Partners client's business, as wells as our client's core objectives and constraints. Then, realistic plans can be formulated and pursued. In order to accomplish these goals, Gulf Capital Partners develop meaningful relationships with all of Gulf Capital Partners clients.

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