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Stephens, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm was founded in 1933 and is a subsidiary of Susi Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Stephens Financial Services LLC. Stephens provides comprehensive securities sales and trading services, including customized solutions for clients in North America and abroad.

Credit Suisse Group AG is a holding company, which engages in the provision of financial services. It operates through the following four divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Bank, Swiss Bank and Asset Management and four geographic regions: Switzerland, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific, and Americas. The Wealth Management division offers comprehensive wealth management and investment solutions, tailored financing, and advisory services to ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) and high net-worth (HNW) individuals and external asset managers. The Investment Bank division offers a broad range of financial products and services focused on client-driven businesses and also supports Credit Suisse’s Wealth Management division and its clients. The Swiss Bank division offers comprehensive advice and a wide range of financial solutions to private, corporate, and institutional clients in Switzerland. The Asset Management division offers investment solutions and services globally to a broad range of clients, including pension funds, governments, foundations and endowments, corporations, and individuals. The company was founded by Alfred Escher on July 5, 1856 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

TSG Consumer Partners LLC (TSG Consumer Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Charles Howard Esserman. The firm is headquartered in Larkspur, California.

Industrial Renaissance, Inc. is an Independent Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Eric Hamburg. Industrial Renaissance, Inc. is headquartered in Westport.

Sanders Morris Harris LLC (Investment Management) (SMH-IM) is the investment management division of Sanders Morris Harris LLC, a registered broker/dealer firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2000 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tectonic Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: TECTP). SMH-IM provides advisory services to individuals, pooled investments, plan sponsors, trusts, estates, corporations, institutions, and other businesses.