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Year 2011 Buy-outs

Company Symbol We Bought at $ Agreed upon
Buyout Price $
by [X] =completed
Goodrich Corp.                 GR $123.00 $127.50 United TEchnologies (UTX)            
Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates                 VSEA $62.20 $63.00 Applied Materials (AMAT)            
X
Loopnet                 LOOP $17.70 $18.90 =($16.50 in cash + .03702*CSGP) CoStar Group (CSGP)            
Pennichuck                 PNNW $28.05 $29 City of Nashua, NH            
Cephalon                 CEPH $79.98 $81.50 Teva Pharmacetuticals (TEVA)            
X
Voltaire Ltd                 VOLT $8.67 $8.75 Mellanox Technologies (MLNX)            
X

Year 2010 Buy-outs

Company Symbol We Bought at $ Agreed upon
Buyout Price $
by [X] =completed
National Coal NCOC $0.97 $1.00 Ranger Energy Partners
X
Alloy Media Marketing ALOY $9.70 $9.80 Zelnick Media
X
ADC Telecomunications ADCT $12.60 $12.75 Tyco
X
Maine and Maritimes MAM $43.90 $45 Emera
X
3COM COMS $7.46 $7.90 Hewlett-Packard
X

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  • Year 2009 Buy-outs

    Company Symbol We Bought at $ Agreed upon
    Buyout Price $
    by [X] =completed
    Starent Networks STAR $33.80 $35.00 Cisco
    X
    Budweiser BUD $73.20 $75.00 In Bev
    X

    Year 2008 Buy-outs

    Company Symbol We Bought at $ Agreed upon
    Buyout Price $
    by [X] =completed
    ChoicePoint CPS $48.77 $50.00 Reed Elsevier
    X
    Darwin Professional Underwriters DR $30.91 $32.00 Allied World Assurance Co.
    X
    Safeco SAF $66.45 $68.25 Liberty Mutual Insurance
    X
    Excel Technology XLTC $30.22 $32.00 GSI Group (GSIG)
    X
    NDS Group NNDS $58.50 $60.00 News Corp. & Permira
    NAVTEQ NVT $76.81 $78.00 Nokia
    X
    Radyne Corp. RADN $11.13 $11.50 Comtech Telecommunications
    X
    Performance Food Group PFGC $31.17 $34.50 Blackstone Group and
    Wellspring Capital Management
    X


    Year 2007 Buy-outs

    Company Symbol We Bought at $ Agreed upon
    Buyout Price $
    by [X] =completed
    Avaya AV 17.02 17.5 Capital and Silverlake Partners
    X
    Checkfree CKFR 46.71 48 Fiserv
    X
    SunCom Wireless TPC 25.57 27 T-Mobile
    X
    Solectron SLR 3.75 3.89 Flextronics
    X
    (We sold at $3.99)
    Digene DIGE 56.25 61.25 Qiagen
    X
    Ceridian CEN 35.0 36.0 Thomas Lee Partners
    X

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  • Year 2006 Buy-outs

    Company Symbol We Bought at $ Projected Buyout Price $ by [X] =completed
    CNS CNXS 36.8 37.50 GlaxoSmithKlein
    X
    JLG Industries JLG 27.51 28 Oshkosh Truck Corp.
    X
    Open Solutions OPEN 37.25 38 Carlyle Group
    X
    Intrawest IDR 34.2 35 Fortress Investment Group
    X
    Saxon Capital SAX 13.88 14.10 Morgan Stanley
    X
    (We sold at 14.21)
    Aramark "B" RMK 32.5 33.80 CEO and an investment group
    X
    Reynolds & Reynolds Co REY 38.75 40 Universal Computer Systems
    X
    Beverly Enterprises BEV 12 12.50 Fillmore Strategic Investors
    X
    Tommy Hilfiger TOM 16 16.80 Apax Partners
    X
    Intellisync SYNC 5.19 5.25 Nokia
    X
    IPAYMENT IPMT41.50 43.50 CEO Gregory S. Daily
    X
    ENTERASYS Networks ETS13.25 13.92 Investment groups Gores and Tennenbaum
    X
    CAP ROCK ENERGY RKE21 21.75 Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer
    X

    Year 2005 Buy-outs

    Company Symbol We Bought at $ Projected Buyout Price $ by [X] =completed
    Siebel SEBL 10.3 10.66 Oracle
    X
    Instinet Group INGP 5.22/4.90 5.44/5.10 NASDAQ
    X Before/after dividend of $0.32
    Mylan Laboratories MYL 16.75 20 To be Determined;
    Carl Icahn buying shares
    X (We sold at 19.56)
    MCI MCIP22.5 26.5 Verizon
    X (We sold at 26.65)
    Bonus: dividend $0.40

    Year 2004 Buy-outs

    Company Symbol We Bought at $ Projected Buyout Price $ by [X] =completed
    Peoplesoft PSFT 20.5 26.5 Oracle
    X(sold at 26)
    AT&T Wireless AWE11.125 15 Cingular
    X

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