ACA Compliance Group (ACA) provides expert compliance consulting services to investment advisors, private fund managers, commodity trading advisors, investment companies, and broker-dealers. ACA also provides GIPS® verification and a wide variety of compliance-related educational services.

ACA was founded in 2002 by former federal and state regulators to deliver the highest quality compliance consulting services with unquestionable integrity and unmatched dedication to clients. ACA's professionals include former SEC, FINRA, FSA (now FCA), NYSE, NFA, and state regulators, as well as former senior in-house compliance managers from prominent financial institutions.

ACA operates from 10 offices in the United States and has international offices in London and Hong Kong.

Samson Capital Advisors LLC (Samson) is a global fixed income investment management boutique. Samson's mission is to provide clients with the highest quality of customized service and performance. Samson's culture emphasizes integrity, teamwork, excellence, and innovation.

Samson was founded in the spring of 2004 by senior investment professionals from OFFITBANK, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, and MSD Capital. Samson manages over $7 Billion in assets as of December 31, 2012.

Samson operates out of its primary office in New York City.

Mercury Capital Advisors is a leading global private fund raising and investment advisory firm. Most of the seasoned professionals of Mercury Capital Advisors are former members of the Merrill Lynch Private Equity Funds Group.

Established in 2009 and continuing efforts that began at Merrill Lynch in 1981, Mercury Capital Advisors assists private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, distressed, mezzanine, secondary and other third-party managers in the capital raising process.

Mercury operates from offices in New York, London, Boston, Dubai, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C., and maintains an exclusive distribution partnership in Latin America. The firm maintains strong relationships with a broad range of the world’s pre-eminent institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public pension plans, insurance companies, endowments, family offices, foundations, funds of funds, and consultants.

Essex National Securities, LLC (ENSI), member FINRA/SIPC, is an independent broker/dealer, Insurance Agency and Registered Investment Advisor dedicated to creating and supporting “best in class” investment programs for leading Financial Institutions.

ENSI provides its registered representatives and program managers with world class technology and a wide range of financial products including fixed and variable annuities, discount brokerage, mutual funds, managed money programs, all types of life insurance and long-term care. ENSI has built a reputation for providing outstanding marketing support, unparalleled training and exceptional customer service.

ENSI was established in 1989, and is located in Napa, California.

Southern Restaurant Hospitality Group, LLC (SRHG) was established in 2006 to purchase the assets of two Burger King franchisees in suburban Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia. Today SRHG operates units across both markets.

SRHG is operated by Carl Payton, a veteran manager in the quick-service restaurant industry whose experience includes operations roles at McDonald's Corporation as well as senior finance roles at Taco Bell and Hardee's franchisees.

EnergySolutions Inc. is a national energy services company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company is the leader in the treatment and disposal of low-level and mixed (commingled radioactive and hazardous) waste, and through its acquisitions of BNG America and Duratek, has expanded its service offering to include cost estimation, nuclear fuel services (including management of spent nuclear fuel), transportation and logistics, decontamination and decommissioning and on-site project management for the Department of Energy and commercial utilities.

Kinder Morgan, Inc. is one of the largest energy transportation, storage and distribution companies in North America. The Company owns an interest in or operates approximately 41,000 miles of pipelines that primarily transport natural gas, crude oil, petroleum products and CO2, and more than 155 terminals which store, transfer and handle products like gasoline and coal.

OneWest Bank, formerly known as IndyMac Federal Bank FSB, is a regional savings and loan bank based in Southern California. A predecessor of Brooklawn participated via co-investment with a private equity sponsor as part of a consortium that acquired IndyMac from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in a government-assisted transaction.

Royalty Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company that acquires revenue-producing intellectual property – principally royalty interests – in marketed and late stage development biopharmaceutical products. Royalty Pharma does not discover, develop, manufacture or market products. Instead, the Company provides liquidity to royalty owners and assumes the future risks and rewards of ownership.

Royalty Pharma has been working with research institutions, inventors and biotechnology & pharmaceutical companies since 1996.

Madison International Realty, LLC ("Madison") is a real estate private equity firm providing equity capital to commercial real estate owners and investors seeking liquidity. Madison acquires positions through secondary market purchases of direct interests in real estate ownership vehicles such as closed-end funds, limited partnerships, joint ventures, limited liability companies, thinly traded property companies, and other existing capital structures owning class A properties and portfolios.

Madison manages over $1 billion from global institutional investors in core quality commercial real estate transactions across the U.S., U.K. and Western Europe and maintains a team of more than 40 professionals. Madison is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London and Frankfurt.

Founded in 2009, LL Funds, LLC (“LL Funds”) is an independent investment manager focused on opportunistic investments in special situations fixed income. LL Funds is the Subadvisor of the Permit Capital Mortgage Fund, L.P.

LL Funds has raised over $1.3 billion to acquire over $9 billion of outstanding face value of RMBS securities with distressed collateral. LL Funds’ value-oriented investment philosophy focuses on finding opportunities with asymmetrically positive return profiles.

Whitebox Advisors LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser founded in 2000 by Andrew Redleaf, manages and advises private investment funds, separately managed accounts and mutual funds. Whitebox has offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Austin, Texas; London and the Asia-Pacific region.