P. Joan Beck

Part of HSBC Holdings Plc, HSBC Investment Bank Plc provides stock broking services. The company is based in London, UK.

Merrill Lynch International (MLI-UK) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of ML UK Capital Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) in the US. MLI-UK provides brokerage services to individual and retail clients.

Morgan Stanley International Ltd. provides diversified financial services abroad. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Dealogic (Holdings) Ltd. develops and markets software analytical products for the financial industry. The firm offers an integrated research tool covering global capital markets and corporate finance activity. It provides technology, content, and support used by investment banks to manage the critical components of their business including, strategy, coverage, origination, execution, sales and compliance. The company was founded on August 22, 2001 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Poweo SA engages in the production of gas and electricity. The business is organized into two divisions the production and trading division which consist of power generation plants and gas processing infrastructure services, commercial division concerns the supply of electricity and gas. Poweo implements a vertical integration strategy in order to benefit from the existing synergies between the production and sale of energy. The company was founded by Charles Beigbeder and Frédéric Granotier on June 7, 2002 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Gottex Market Neutral Trust Ltd. operates as a closed-end investment fund/investment trust. Its investment objective is to generate consistent medium term returns with low beta to major equity and fixed income benchmarks. The fund principally invests in underlying funds, each of which must be independently market neutral in that they substantially hedge out any direct exposure to major equity and bond market movements. It is managed by Gottex Fund Management SARL. The company was founded on 19 February 2007 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd. (Credit Suisse Europe) is the Great Britain-based brokerage subsidiary of Credit Suisse Investment Holdings (UK), itself a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1966 and formerly known as Credit Suisse First Boston (Europe) Ltd. Headquartered in London, Credit Suisse Europe arranges financing in international capital markets, provides financial advisory services and acts as a dealer in securities, derivatives and foreign exchange on a principal and agency basis for corporate and institutional investors.