The Manager of the Company is Graphite Capital Management LLP (“Graphite Capital”). Graphite Capital is one of the leading UK mid-market private equity firms and manages over £1.2 billion of funds from investors worldwide. It has a team of 18 professionals with an average of 11 years’ experience in private equity investment and who are based in London. In addition to managing Graphite Enterprise, Graphite Capital is a long established direct private equity investor. It has managed a variety of both quoted funds and limited life partnerships through several economic cycles.

Graphite Enterprise is the largest investor in Graphite Capital’s most recent limited life fund, Graphite Capital Partners VII, which had a single closing in May 2007 with total commitments of £555 million. The fund will invest in mid-market companies with headquarters in the UK and which are valued at £25 million to £200 million. The fund is structured as a main fund with £475 million of total commitments, and a Top Up Fund with £80 million of commitments. The latter invests alongside the main fund in selected larger transactions. Graphite Enterprise committed £50 million to the main fund and £20 million to the Top Up Fund. The fundraising was heavily oversubscribed with high levels of demand from investors in the UK, continental Europe, the US and Japan.

We believe that our direct private equity experience puts us in an advantageous position when selecting the managers of third party funds.

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