Founded in 1981, Harvest Partners is a leading New York-based private equity investment firm, pursuing management buyouts and growth financings of profitable, middle-market companies.  Harvests targets well-positioned consumer products, light manufacturing, value-added distribution, and specialty services businesses headquartered in North America.  Harvest has over 25 years of experience investing in domestic as well as multinational companies.  Currently, Harvest has over $1.6 billion of invested and committed capital under management from its limited partners.  For more information on Harvest Partners, please visit the web site at www.harvpart.com.
 

Together RBS and RBS Greenwich Capital constitute one of North America's leading fixed income firms. The Bank provides institutional banking and capital markets services for many of the world's most prominent corporations and financial institutions, ranging from investment managers, hedge funds, insurance companies and banks to multinational corporations, government-sponsored enterprises and central banks worldwide.  For borrowers, RBS offers customized financing solutions and a global distribution network that is consistently ranked among the world's best.  For all of our clients, we are pleased to serve as a primary source of liquidity and fixed income expertise. RBS was founded in Edinburgh in 1727 by royal charter. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has remained ranked among the top ten largest banking groups in the world by market capitalization for the past several years.  Visit www.rbs.com.

GE Antares Capital is a leading provider of innovative financing solutions to middle market private equity firms for leveraged transactions including buyouts, acquisitions, growth funding and recapitalizations.  Products and services include cash flow and asset-based financing, first and second lien senior loans, global cross-border funding, lease financing, structured equity, project financing, and healthcare finance. GE Antares’ lending capabilities are strongly complemented by GE’s knowledge and experience as a global industrial company. GE Antares Capital is a unit of GE Commercial Finance - Global Sponsor Finance with over $8 billion in assets, and offices in Chicago, Dallas, London, New York, and San Francisco. Visit www.geantares.com.