TRANSACTION SUMMARY

On 26 July 2010, SRL Global announced that it had completed a £7.5m capital raise, following investment by Augmentum Capital, a private equity fund backed by RIT Capital Partners plc, and the hedge fund platform, Revere Capital Advisors.

SRL GLOBAL

SRL Global is a technology partner offering a turn-key service to Asset Owners and Asset Allocators. Operating as an out-sourced extension to client investment teams, SRL provides its people and market leading investment data infrastructure to deliver an end-to-end investment data management solution meeting 100% of client requirements for data collection/aggregation, data warehousing and data analytics. Initially established in 2007 as a trading and technology joint venture with Man Group plc to develop a proprietary enterprise wide investment platform for the company, SRL Global was spun out by the management team as an independent operating entity in July 2009.

AUGMENTUM CAPITAL

Augmentum Capital was formed by Tim Levene and Richard Matthews in 2009. Its first fund is backed solely by RIT Capital Partners plc, the London listed investment trust whose substantial investor is Jacob Rothschild and family. Augmentum Capital focuses on dynamic, growth businesses that are break-even or profitable in the e-commerce and technology sectors. Geographically its prime areas of focus include the UK and Hong Kong.

REVERE CAPITAL ADVISERS

Revere Capital Advisors LLC is a New York, London and Singapore based hedge fund platform and Investment Company that obtains revenue shares and/or equity interests in hedge funds and related businesses and leads the sales, marketing and distribution of their products as well as providing operational and corporate advisory services. As at July 2010, Revere portfolio managers had over US$1.5bn of assets under management.

ROLE

SHP acted as financial adviser to SRL Global on its strategic options, which culminated in the capital raise.