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Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Chartwell Investment Partners LLC (Chartwell) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded by Timothy Riddle in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Carillon Tower Advisers, Inc. (dba Raymond James Investment Management), which is owned by Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) in Great Britain. Chartwell provides investment supervisory services on a continuous basis to a variety of individual, institutional, investment company, private fund and corporate clients. The firm is a sub-adviser to investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (Duff & Phelps) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was established in 1979, evolving from the Duff & Phelps investment research firm founded in 1932. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Partners, Inc., which is wholly-owned by Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS). Duff & Phelps provides investment advisory services to institutional clients, mutual funds, closed-end funds, and other pooled investment vehicles as well as to retail clients. Duff & Phelps is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

Shikiar Asset Management, Inc. (Shikiar) is an independent registered investment advisor and wealth manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Stuart Shikiar in 1995. Shikiar provides portfolio management services to high net worth individuals, families, corporations, trusts, foundations and tax-exempt portfolios.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp. engages in the provision of brokerage services. It offers commercial banking, corporate and institutional banking, asset management, fleet services, and real estate. The company was founded on September 7, 1984 and is headquartered New York, NY.

A.G.P. / Alliance Global Partners Corp. (AGP) is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. Formerly known as Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., the firm was founded by Peter Schiff in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Alliance Global LLC. AGP provides prime brokerage services to hedge funds, family offices, professional traders and top tier small/mid-cap investment funds. It offers multi-clearing, cloud based, high-touch client service solutions tailored to each client’s business needs.

Berenberg Capital Markets LLC (BCM) is a broker-dealer firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Berenberg Americas LLC, ultimately held by Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG in Germany. BCM provides equity execution services to institutional and corporate clients.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Bank of Ireland provides banking and financial services. It operates through the following segments: Retail Ireland, Bank of Ireland Life, Retail UK, Corporate & Treasury and Group Centre and Other. The Retail Ireland segment offers a comprehensive range of banking products and related financial services to the personal and business markets including deposits, mortgages, consumer and business lending, credit cards, current accounts, money transmission services, commercial finance, asset finance and general insurance. It serves customers through a distribution network of branches, central support teams, ATMs and through direct channels. The Bank of Ireland Life segment includes the wholly owned subsidiary, New Ireland Assurance Co., through which the group offers a wide range of pension and life products, including life assurance, life protection, pensions and investment products to the Irish market. The Retail UK segment comprises consumer and business banking via a branch network in Northern Ireland, its UK residential mortgage business, and the business partnerships with the UK Post Office. The Corporate & Treasury segment comprises the group's corporate banking and global markets activities across the Republic of Ireland, UK and international jurisdictions. The Group Centre and Other segment is responsible for delivering services to each division and includes group manufacturing, group finance, group credit and market risk, group governance risk, and group human resources. The company was founded in 1783 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Riverside Partners LLC /New York/ (Riverside Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1988 by Bela Szigethy. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the globe.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Founded in 2001, Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Ltd. (ASX: MBL). They provide coverage of the following industries: resources, healthcare, security/defense, transportation, financial services, retail/consumer products, TMET (telecommunications, media, entertainment and technology), oil & gas, diversified manufacturing/distribution and infrastructure/utilities. Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a member of FINRA.

Altair Advisers LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in Chicago, IL. The company was founded in 2002 by Brett Rentmeester. Rebekah L. Kohmescher has been the CEO of the company since 2002.

Shandong Luye Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. researches, develops, produces, and sells pharmaceutical drugs. The company was founded on June 8, 1994 and is headquartered in Yantai, China.

Netrix LLC provides information technology services. It designs, implements and manages networks, systems, applications, websites hardware, software and call center infrastructure. The firm's services include change communication, end user computing and mobility, custom application development, managed services, online productivity, network infrastructure, security services, systems services, unified communications and web, and creative services. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Bannockburn, IL.

Parkway Capital Investors LLC (Parkway Capital Investors) is a private equity subsidiary of Calvert Street Capital Partners, Inc. founded in 2000 by J. Drexel Knight, Christopher A. Pope and Scott Franzblau. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Wolfe Research LLC is a FINRA-registered sell-side research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Edward Wolfe in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Wolfe Holdco LLC. Wolfe Research provides bespoke research of various stocks in every major GIC sector for institutional clients. The firm has established a reputation for macro research underpinning coverage in Industrials, Utilities/Energy, Consumer/Retail, Financials/REITS, Healthcare and TMT.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Newlight Partners LP (Newlight Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Fort Point Capital LLC (Fort Point Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Brooke Ablon, Paul Lipson and James Spencer. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ardian US LLC (Ardian US) is a private equity subsidiary of Ardian SA founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Sanofi, Sanofi US Services, Inc. engages in the research, production and distribution of pharmaceutical products. The company is based in Bridgewater, NJ.

Cash Flow Management, Inc. manufactures software providers and cash automation hardware. Its technology include CFM S4, iQ, NORM, RTA, and hardware certification. The company was founded by Nathan Moore and J. C. Chen in 2006 and is headquartered in Chandler, AZ.

Nephron Research LLC provides investment research. The private company is based in New York, NY.

Silver Lake Management Co. LLC (Silver Lake Management) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Silver Lake Group LLC founded in 1999 by Jim Davidson and David Roux. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Lionpoint Group LLC provides strategy, technology and operations consulting services to alternative investment managers, investors and advisors. The company was founded by Nick Moore and Jonathan Balkin in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

OceanSound Partners LP (Oceansound Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2018 by Joe Benavides, Jeff Kelly, and Theodore Coons. The firm is headquartered in New York.

RMA Group, Inc. is a leading provider of professional services in environmental consulting, geosciences, and materials testing and inspection for critical public and private infrastructure assets. RMA Group, Inc. is based in Glendale, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's team of engineers, geologists, inspectors, and technicians help infrastructure asset owners, engineering firms, and construction companies maintain compliance with strict regulatory and operating requirements through a range of geotechnical, environmental, and materials testing services. The company was founded in 1962 by E. Duane Lyon and Richard Mills. The CEO is Ruben Babayan.

Guggenheim Securities LLC (Research) (Guggenheim Securities-RE) is the investment research division of Guggenheim Securities LLC, a financial services firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Links Holdings LLC, which is owned by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Guggenheim Securities-RE offers equity research for institutional investors in their research focus sectors: Consumer, Energy & Power, Healthcare, and Technology & Media.

Archetype Management LLC (Archetype Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Ash Egan. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Dymedex Consulting LLC provides market development consulting services. It specializes in market analysis, strategic consulting and corporate integration. The company was founded in 2007 by Joseph Galatowitsch and Ross Meisner and is headquartered in St. Paul, MN.

Onex Credit Partners LLC (Onex Credit) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Michael Gelblat and Stuart Kovensky in 2006 as GK Capital. They are a subsidiary of OMI Partnership Holdings Ltd., which is owned by Onex Corp. (TSE: ONEX) in Canada. Onex Credit serves as an investment manager of and offers advisory services on a discretionary basis to its clients, which include pooled investment vehicles and managed accounts intended for sophisticated investors and institutional investors and structured debt vehicles that consist of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs).

Graycliff Partners LP (Graycliff Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Clinton Investment Management LLC (CIM) is an independent wealth management firm and registered investment advisor headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Andrew Clinton in 2007. CIM manages tax-exempt fixed income portfolios in the form of separately managed accounts for wealthy private clients and institutional investors.

Dreamit Ventures LLC (Dreamit Ventures) is a venture capital and accelerator firm founded in 2008 by David Bookspan, Michael Levinson and Steve D. Welch. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA with an office in New York, NY.