Blue Wolf Capital Management LLC –New York-based Blue Wolf Capital Management LLC is a private equity firm that invests in companies in which effective management of relationships with complex constituencies, such as government and labor, can change organizations and create value. Recent Blue Wolf investments include Montauk Energy Holdings, the leading U.S. producer of high- and medium-BTU gas from landfill methane, and Finch Paper Holdings LLC, a leader in the premium uncoated printing paper market.

Blum Capital Partners, L.P. –With more than 25 years of experience, San Francisco-based Blum Capital Partners primarily uses strategic block transactions to invest in public companies and then works with management to further enhance the businesses.

Carmel Partners, Inc. –Carmel Partners is a private real-estate investment firm based in San Francisco that specializes in multifamily transactions within the United States. Carmel Partners is currently pursuing value-add apartment properties, condo reversions, ground-up developments and joint venture deals in its core markets of Northern and Southern California, Seattle, Denver, Washington, D.C., and Hawaii.

CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC –As a premier private equity firm, CCMP Capital has invested approximately $12 billion in buyout and growth equity transactions since 1984. The team has developed deep, sector-focused expertise in: consumer/retail/ services, energy, healthcare infrastructure, industrials and media/telecom. The firm targets equity investments globally of $100 million to $500 million in companies from $500 million to more than $3 billion in size and is typically the lead investor. CCMP Capital has offices in New York, Houston and London. Through active management, global resources and powerful value creation model, CCMP Capital
has established a reputation as a world-class investment partner.

Clearlake Capital Group - Clearlake Capital Group is a private investment firm integrating private equity, leveraged finance, and special situations in both private and public market opportunities. The firm has a flexible mandate to invest across the capital structure. Clearlake Capital's founding principals, Steven Chang, Behdad Eghbali, and Jose E. Feliciano, have led over 30 investments totalingmore than $3 billion of capital across a broad array of sectors.

Colony Capital, LLC – Founded in 1991 by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Barrack Jr., Colony Capital is a private, international investment firm focusing primarily on real estate-related assets, securities and operating companies. The firm has invested approximately $39 billion in more than 8,500 assets through various corporate, portfolio and complex property transactions. Colony is headquartered in Los Angeles, with 14 offices around the world.

Conduit Capital Partners - Conduit Capital Partners, LLC is a private investment firm focused exclusively on infrastructure investment and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through its management of the Latin Power Funds, Conduit has made investments in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Jamaica, Honduras and Guatemala. Founded in 1993, Latin Power I was the first private equity fund exclusively dedicated to infrastructure investments. Conduit is presently investing its $393 million Latin Power III fund.

Gryphon Investors - Based in San Francisco, Gryphon Investors focuses on leveraged acquisitions of and growth investments in middle-market companies in partnership with experienced management. Having managed more than $1 billion of discretionary equity capital, Gryphon has an extensive track record of investing $25 million to $75 million of its own capital in companies with sales ranging from $25 million to $250 million.

Harvest Partners – Harvest Partners - Founded in 1981, Harvest Partners is a New York-based private equity investment firm that specializes in leveraged buyouts and growth financings in the general industrial, business services, and consumer/retail sectors. For more than 25 years, Harvest Partners has worked with select middle-market companies to create value through capital investment, operational improvements, geographic expansion or strategic repositioning.

Liquid Realty Partners –Liquid Realty Partners is the global leader in real estate secondary investing, specializing in acquiring interests in private real estate private equity funds, partnerships and trusts on a secondary basis worldwide. With more than $1 billion of closed equity investments, Liquid Realty is the largest and the only dedicated buyer of real estate private equity interests on a secondary basis. The firm’s investments range from small, single-fund interests, to large, multi-fund portfolios; span all global geographic markets; include unfunded and primary commitments; and encompass core, core-plus, value-added and opportunistic styles. Liquid Realty is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in New York.

Loughlin Meghji + Company –Loughlin Meghji + Company, founded in 2002 by two former Arthur Andersen restructuring partners, is one of the top restructuring and bankruptcy advisory firms in the United States. The firm represents stakeholders in distressed situations – including lending institutions, corporations and private equity sponsors – on operational and financial restructuring matters and also works with corporate managements to execute successful restructuring programs. The firm’s recent engagements include large, complex matters such as: Dan River, Delphi, HealthSouth, Interim HealthCare, Kmart, Krispy Kreme, USGen New England, and Werner Ladder.

MTS Health Partners, L.P. –MTS is one of the preeminent healthcare merchant banks, providing strategic advisory and capital raising services as well as private equity capital to companies in the global healthcare industry. The principals of MTS have spent their careers focused on the healthcare industry, with more than 100 years of experience in acquiring, operating, advising, financing and selling healthcare companies.

Pearl Street Capital Group - Pearl Street Capital Group is a leading specialty asset management firm that creates and manages private-equity fund investment vehicles that are designed to provide superior returns with reduced risk. Pearl Street’s strategies and unparalleled, proprietary database enable the firm to outperform across all market conditions. Recent Pearl Street-designed offerings include Flatiron I Preferred LP, a private equity fund-of-funds that will invest in limited partnership interests – either primary or secondary – and can include venture, corporate growth, buyout, mezzanine, and special situations funds.

Pharos Capital Group, LLC –Based in Dallas and Nashville, Pharos has approximately $600 million in capital under management through three private equity funds. Pharos' latest partnership is a $400 million fund focused on providing later stage equity funding for internal growth, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts or recapitalizations across industry sectors, with particular focus on healthcare, business services and technology. Pharos is typically a lead investor, and targets undercapitalized businesses in underserved regions across the nation.

Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. –Rockpoint is a global real estate investment management firm with offices located in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Rockpoint targets a broad range of real estate-related investments across all asset classes and geographic regions, with particular focus on value creation and distressed/restructuring opportunities. Rockpoint invests primarily on behalf of public and private pension funds, endowments and financial institutions.

Rockwood Capital LLC –With offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and White Plains, NY, Rockwood is a privately held real estate investment company that invests in all property types, including office, residential, retail and hotel. Rockwood manages funds on behalf of high-net-worth individuals and more than 40 institutional investors, including public and private pension funds, endowments, foundations, and insurance companies. The firm takes calculated risks to enhance quality and increase income and value, based on the belief that quality projects in strong locations, particularly mixed-use environments that bring work, housing, and amenities closer together, will create rising and enduring value regardless of market direction.

StepStone Group, LLC - StepStone Group, LLC - StepStone Group provides private equity asset management and advisory services through its offices in La Jolla, California, Princeton, New Jersey and Beijing, China. Using a proprietary research-focused approach, StepStone manages private equity portfolios for a many of the world’s leading private equity investors, helping them optimize exposure to top performing investment strategies, geographies and managers, utilizing a combination of fund investments, direct co-investments and secondary investments.

TPG –TPG manages one of the world’s largest private investment firms with approximately $45 billion of assets under management. The firm was founded in 1992 and is led by David Bonderman and Jim Coulter. Through its investment platforms, TPG Capital and TPG Growth, the firm has extensive experience with acquisitions, restructurings and growth investments throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, with 16 offices in 10 countries around the world.

Trimaran Capital Partners –New York-based Trimaran Capital Partners is a leading middle-market private equity investor. Since 1995, the firm has invested $1.6 billion of equity in 59 portfolio companies in transactions totaling in excess of $10 billion.

Vestar Capital Partners - Vestar Capital Partners is a leading international private equity firm, with $7 billion in assets under management, specializing in middle-market management buyouts and growth capital investments. The firm targets companies with valuations of $100 million to $5 billion in the U.S., Europe and Japan, focusing on five key industry sectors: consumer/services, diversified industries, healthcare, media/communication, and financial services. Since the firm’s founding in 1988, the Vestar funds have completed more than 60 investments in companies with a total value of approximately $22 billion.