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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.

CapLease, Inc. is a diversified real estate investment trust, which invests primarily in single tenant commercial real estate assets subject to long-term leases to high credit quality tenants. It focuses on properties that are subject to a net lease, or a lease that requires the tenant to pay all or substantially all property operating expenses, such as utilities, real estate taxes, insurance and routine maintenance. The company provides owners of single tenant real estate with a full range of equity, debt and mezzanine financing options. It has two complimentary business lines: owning single tenant properties and making first mortgage loans and other debt investments on single tenant properties. CapLease was founded by Paul H. McDowell, Shawn P. Seale and William R. Pollert in 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.