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 – CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC is a global private equity firm specializing in buyout and growth equity investments in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The firm targets equity investments of $100 million to $500 million in companies from $500 million to $3 billion in size where it can exert control, typically as the lead investor. CCMP Capital has offices in New York and London, and is affiliated with CCMP Capital Asia which has offices in Australia, China, Japan and Korea.

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 many offices around the world.

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 – Founded in 1981, Harvest Partners is a leading New York-based private equity investment firm, pursuing management buyouts and growth financings of profitable, medium-sized businesses.

Liquid Realty Partners – Liquid Realty Partners is the global leader in real estate secondary investing and specializes 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 is opening a New York office in 2008.

Loughlin Meghji + Company – Loughlin Meghji + Company, one of the top restructuring advisory firms in the United States, provides an array of consulting and interim management services, focused on underperforming and distressed companies facing complex financial and operational challenges. LM+Co was founded in 2002 by two former Arthur Andersen restructuring partners, each with more than 20 years of broad restructuring experience. The firm’s mix of operational and financial skills and experience is called on for a variety of assignments, representing the various stakeholders in distressed situations – including lending institutions, corporations and private equity sponsors – on operational and financial restructuring matters. 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.

Pharos Capital Group, LLC – Based in Dallas and Nashville, Pharos has approximately $500 million in capital under management. Pharos primarily invests $10 million to $20 million in companies seeking later stage equity funding for internal growth, acquisitions, management buyouts or recapitalization across industry sectors, with particular focus on healthcare, business services and technology.

Rockpoint Group, L.L.C. – Rockpoint is a global real estate investment and management firm with 21 professionals located in Boston, Dallas, San Francisco and Tokyo.

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 the current market direction.

Root Markets – Founded in 2006, Root Markets Inc. is led by Chairman Lewis Ranieri and CEO Marcia Myerberg. Root Markets operates RMI Lender Search, a web-based trading platform, which provides a real-time, direct link between homebuyers and direct lenders. Headquartered in New York City, Root Markets currently has offices in San Francisco and Costa Mesa, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

TPG – TPG is a private investment partnership that was founded in 1992 by David Bonderman, Jim Coulter and Bill Price, and has more than $50 billion of assets under management. Through its investment platforms, TPG Capital and TPG Growth, the firm has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, joint ventures, growth investments and restructurings. The firm has offices in Fort Worth, San Francisco, London and 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.