Stuart Henderson

TMC Bonds LLC operates as a fixed income market alternative trading system. It builds customized desktop applications for registered investment professionals and the retail investors. The firm offers voice support, analytics, compliance solutions, book manager, bond insurance, integrations and STP, disaster recovery and privacy and data integrity. The company was founded by Thomas Vales in May 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

Founded in 1992, Utendahl Capital Partners LP is a broker/dealer located in New York City. Along with their affiliates in merchant banking, mezzanine finance and asset management, the firm offers a full range of investment banking products including equity, fixed-income, research, corporate finance and capital markets. Their research team focuses on small- to mid-cap companies in the business services, capital goods, consumer discretionary, consumer finance, consumer products, industrial machinery, media and entertainment and specialty finance sectors. The firm is a subsidiary of Utendahl Capital Group LLC.