Ballista Securities was an electronic liquidity pool for equity options and delta-neutral transactions. Specifically designed to aggregate both public and passive liquidity, Ballista offered clients unprecedented efficiency in block option trade execution.

Metropolitan led the Company's first preferred round of financing in conjunction with a group of strategic individuals. During this time, we provided the Company operational support as interim executives of the Company and led the financial strategy and execution of an investment by a consortium of strategic institutions. The Company was sold to the IntercontinentalExchange (NYSE: ICE) in 2011.

NetDelta is a post-trade platform that allows participants to minimize and diversify their counterparty exposure while continuing to trade bilaterally in the over the counter credit derivatives market. NetDelta addresses a primary concern of both regulators and market participants by reducing counterparty risk concentration through the use of pooled credit and standardized credit derivative contracts. An alternative to a central counterparty, NetDelta allows financial institutions to maintain their own risk controls, collateral requirements and diversifies risk rather than concentrating exposure in a single entity.

Metropolitan principals were early backers of the business and assisted the Company in securing a control equity investment from Knight Capital Group (Nasdaq: NITE). Subsequent to closing the investment, Metropolitan provided strategic guidance to the business.

Capital Payments is a leading provider of merchant and electronic payment solutions. The Company is uniquely focused on working with trusted advisors to help them navigate their business clients through the increasing complex world of electronic payments. The company provides transparent and competitive pricing, very fair terms and conditions, and best of breed payment products and services to its merchants. Capital Payments is led by industry veterans with decades of experience in working with small and midsize businesses and their CPAs, Attorneys, Banks, and other trusted advisors.

Bridge Investment:
On September 1, 2009, Metropolitan funded a working capital bridge loan and provided strategic guidance to assist the Company navigate events related to the Company's acquisition strategy. On November 9, 2009, Financial Partners Funds, a private equity fund of Citibank provided Capital Payments with capital to acquire two companies and repay Metropolitan's bridge. As part of the consideration for the bridge loan, Metropolitan was provided with warrants that will be collectable when the Company is sold.

On June 8, 2011, Metropolitan made third investment into Capital Payments in preparation for and support of near-term events.

Growth Equity:
On December 21, 2009, Metropolitan funded Capital Payments with additional capital to support the Company's acquisition strategy.

EyeLock is an advanced identity management technology solutions company focused on developing next-generation systems for the global access control and identity market. The Company's solutions represent a game changing, paradigm shift that will redefine the way the world works, in every interaction, everyday. The Company has developed a revolutionary portfolio of hardware, software and services that utilize iris biometric technologies to enable governments, businesses and consumers around the world overcome the extreme challenges of identity management.

Metropolitan successfully exited the investment in April 2010. While the duration of the investment was longer than originally anticipated, Metropolitan adapted its approach with the Company to support an expanded business strategy without risking the protection of hard asset value. After restructuring the investment, Metropolitan exited the original investment and maintained residual equity upside in the form of warrants. Metropolitan recently converted those warrants for Preferred Stock, pari passu to the last growth capital round.

Chelsea 10011 is a financing vehicle that provided a collateralized investment to an established and well reputed real estate development firm undergoing a special situation.

Metropolitan was sole investor and provided subsequent financial structuring advice. Metropolitan successfully exited the investment.

CreditMax is a leading financial services company specializing in the purchase and sale of charged-off credit card and consumer receivables. CreditMax offers leverage financing to its approved buyer and reseller clients to enable them to buy portfolios with financing not typically offered in today's market.

Aria International Holdings, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Aria International Incorporated, a Nevada corporation ("Aria International") (OTC BB: ARAH), focuses on providing specialized surveillance and communications solutions to a global customer base.

Metropolitan successfully exited the collateralized investment in December 2010 and maintains residual equity upside in the form of warrants.

FinCo Management purchases deep subprime automotive Retail Installment Contracts (RICs) from car dealers wishing to extend credit to consumers for the purchase of a motor vehicle. The dealer participates in the profits and losses of each RIC. FinCo's unique and innovative platform allows even low volume dealers to take advantage of the very best tools and services in the industry while enabling lenders to invest in high-yield loans with minimized risk.

Metropolitan designed and established a stand-alone finance vehicle to provide a secured credit facility. Metropolitan's team conducts real-time monitoring of the lending performance, directly interfaces with 3rd party servicers and controls all cash management related to lending activity.

Professional Merchant Advance Capital ("ProMAC") is a specialty finance company that factors future electronic payment receivables. The Company has innovated the traditional merchant cash advance ("MCA") financing to fulfill the working capital needs of healthcare practices by leveraging predictable streams of electronic payments. The short term capital is typically used by medical practices for expansion, to purchase equipment, advertising and/or hiring needs.

Metropolitan provided the company a secured credit facility to expand its financing activity.

Reed Energy was formed to acquire oil and natural gas producing properties in Southeastern Ohio, including drilling rights in the Utica/Point Pleasant Shale. Reed recently acquired underdeveloped property that produces oil and gas from conventional wells. As part of Metropolitan's investment strategy, Reed Energy plans to recomplete and significantly improve the current production through work overs, infield drilling and downzone/upzone completions. Metropolitan overfunded the initial purchase of acreage in order to facilitate additional purchases of deep drilling rights contiguous to its property.

Metropolitan provided a multi-draw senior secured note and also retained a large common equity stake in Reed Energy.

Code name: "Tribeca Financial" is a financial services company that provides benchmarks, data sets and analytics to financial institutions that issue customized structured products and related instruments. The company has experienced rapid growth since being founded in 2008.

Despite strong positive cash flow, the company required a capital injection to make a special distribution to a shareholder. Metropolitan provided a senior secured note which was further collateralized by non-correlated assets.

JH Capital Group ("JH") is a leader in the distressed consumer debt purchasing and collection industry with a strong track record acquiring and monetizing debt that is "charged off" (i.e. written down) by banks and credit card companies. Metropolitan provided the Company with structured debt financing to enable it to acquire a portfolio of charged-off consumer debt.

Code name: "Project Debt Settlement" is a full-service debt resolution company providing settlements of credit cards and other unsecured debts.

Metropolitan provided the company with structured debt financing to accelerate the growth of its customer base.

Green Owl Capital is a hedge fund that uses fundamental US equity analysis and combines it with probabilistic option trade structuring, thereby monetizing the discrepancy between the implied probability of a stock price, as expressed by the option market, and Green Owl's fundamental view.

Metropolitan provided Green Owl with both LP capital as well as GP capital through this seed investment. Context Capital Partners was a co-investor.