Jesup & Lamont, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides securities brokerage, investment banking, market making research, investment advisory, asset management services, and order execution services to retail and institutional customers primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Jesup & Lamont, Inc. offers brokerage services, including ancillary services, such as market data and financial information, portfolio tracking and records management, account security, and cash management services directly to retail customers, including individuals, and small to mid-sized institutions, such as banks, credit unions, hedge funds, money managers, mutual funds, and pension funds.Jesup & Lamont, Inc. also provides municipal bond and corporate/high yield bond trading, and certificate of deposit underwriting services; and market making and order execution services, which include filling orders received from independent broker dealers to buy or sell domestic or foreign securities for affiliated and unaffiliated broker dealers and institutions. In addition, Jesup & Lamont, Inc. offers investment advisory services, including investment portfolio planning, recommendations and separate account manager and mutual fund research and due diligence, portfolio performance review and reallocation, and wrap accounts for registered investment advisors. Jesup & Lamont, Inc. was formerly known as Empire Financial Holding Company and changed its name to Jesup & Lamont, Inc. in January 2008. Jesup & Lamont was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. (“EBC”) is a registered broker-dealer and member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., Municipal Securities Rule Making Board, and Securities Insurance Protection Corporation. EBC is a boutique investment bank that has developed an expertise in working with smaller capitalization companies, special situation investments and Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs™), a new concept we pioneered and developed that involves publicly-traded, industry-specific acquisition funds. EBC has two main goals: to provide innovative, creative investment banking services to EBC corporate clients, and to provide EBC high net-worth and institutional clients with access to proprietary investment opportunities. EBC achieve both goals by applying innovative solutions to achieve corporate strategies and by linking successful entrepreneurs and businesses with the capital they need to continue growing. EBC is a small team of specialists. EBC take pride in EBC professionalism and expertise, which is best measured by the number of transactions that EBC participate in that reach completion and their performance thereafter.

ARQUES Industries AG was founded in 2003 and is based in Munich, Germany. ARQUES Industries AG is a private equity firm specializing in the acquisition, turnaround, and restructuring of companies in distress or generating losses. The firm seeks to invest in the acquisition of companies in special situations such as unresolved successor issues, modernization, and corporate spin-offs. It also invests in situations such as successional issues, technological change: economic problems due to neglect of important investments in the modernization of the enterprise, and classical turnaround situations due to inefficient structures/processes or incorrect management. The firm prefers to buy and build companies in difficult transitional situation through direct or indirect equity investments in corporate spinoffs and though the acquisition of small to medium sized companies. It has no specific industry preference and seeks to invest in relevant opportunities in all industries. The firm prefers to invest in companies with revenues between €30 million ($39.64 million) to €1000 million ($1321.58 million).

Citi has had a presence in the United Kingdom since 1902. Smith Barney opened its first office in London in 1968, and Salomon Brothers established its U.K. headquarters in London in 1971. In 1997, Smith Barney merged with Salomon Inc. to form Salomon Smith Barney. Citigroup Global Markets Limited is an investment banking and securities brokerage firm providing investment banking services to supranationals, governments, financial institutions and large- and mid-capitalization corporate clients. The company was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in London with additional offices in Amsterdam, Budapest, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Warsaw and Zurich. Citigroup acquired Schroders' Investment Banking business. As a result of this acquisition this unit is known as Schroders Salomon Smith Barney. As of 05/01/2000, Citigroup Global Markets Limited was a subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc. It now operates as a subsidiary of Citigroup Global Markets Europe Limited.

Oak Hill Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle-market companies. The firm seeks to invest in basic industries; business and financial services; consumer, retail, and distribution; media and telecom; healthcare; and technology. Within basic industries, it focuses on aerospace and defense; packaging; construction and infrastructure; and transportation and automotive. In business and financial services sector, the firm targets companies in the outsourced global services; logistics and supply chain management; niche insurance and reinsurance; specialty finance; and education and earning services sectors. Within the consumer, retail, and distribution sector, it invests in strong consumer brands; branded and private label strategic suppliers to retail channel; multi-channel direct-to-consumer business models; specialty retailers; and value-added distributors. In media and telecom sector, the firm focuses on cable and satellite television; television, radio broadcasting, and networks; filmed and musical content; publishing; online, interactive content, and gaming; outdoor and other place-based media; and wireless and wireline communications.

RA Capital Advisors, formerly known as Relational Advisors, LLC, was founded in 1988 and is based in San Diego, California. RA Capital Advisors LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, fairness opinions, valuations, proxy solicitations, divestitures, and Initial Public Offering (IPO) services. Additionally, it provides structured financing, operational repositioning, and restructuring services. The firm caters to aerospace, automotive, energy, healthcare, technology, mining, and pharmaceuticals industries.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing (GSEC) provides trade execution and clearing services to institutional clients such as corporations, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, central banks, and other broker-dealers. Through the company's Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading affiliate, customers can trade equities, options, currencies, futures, and commodities, and view prices and positions in real time. Its services are performed both electronically and by brokers. The company also offers algorithmic trading. GSEC is active in the US, Europe, and Asia. In 2008 parent Goldman Sachs converted from an investment bank to a bank holding company.

Collins Stewart has offices in New York City and San Francisco. Boutique investment banking firm Collins Stewart LLC (formerly C.E. Unterberg, Towbin) is the US arm of UK brokerage Collins Stewart plc. Serving more than 700 financial institutions and hedge funds, the company trades in and conducts research on US equities and derivatives. Collins Stewart LLC also manages IPOs for technology and health care companies, makes markets in American Depositary Receipts, and trades foreign stocks and currency. Its research division focuses on the technology, health care, defense, and energy sectors.

Bain Capital was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Bain Capital, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early to late stage, growth capital, emerging growth, corporate divestitures, spin offs, management buyouts, industry consolidations, and family/founder situations. It focuses its investments in information technology, including information data, software, hardware, and Internet; communications, including telecommunications, broadcasting, and media; healthcare, including devices and equipment, distribution and information, providers, and other medical products; industrial and manufacturing including, automotive, steel and non-ferrous metals, industrial equipment, engineered components, and business services. The firm also seeks to invest in retail and consumer products including, traditional retailers, on-line merchandising, consumer products, food and restaurants, and consumer services and finance including banking, credit cards, insurance, mortgage, brokerage, exchanges, transaction processing infrastructure and software, and information.

U.S. Venture Partners was founded in 1981. U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies. It typically invests in information technology, life science and technologies for adapting to or mitigating climate change with a focus on energy-related products and services, components, software, systems, semiconductors, web-enabled services for businesses and consumers, storage, wireless communication, sustainable agriculture, the Internet version 2.0, biomedical devices, and new drugs with profound social benefits. The firm seeks to invest in markets with revenue potential in excess of $1 billion and rarely invests in companies focusing on a market smaller than $300 million. It prefers to avoid investing in companies that compete directly with each other. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies and typically invests for a period of three to ten years.

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