Robert Joseph Welch

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

The FXCM Group provides online foreign exchange, or FX, trading and related services. It operates as a holding company. The firm operates through two segments: Retail Trading and Institutional Trading. The company was founded by David Sakhai, Kenneth A. Grossman, Dror Niv, Eduard Yusupov and William Ahdout in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (Investment Management) (Jefferies-IM) is the asset management division of Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1968 as Talcott National Corp. and became Leucadia National Corp. in 1980. They change their name into Jefferies Financial Group in 2018. Jefferies-IM offers predominantly institutional clients an innovative range of investment strategies through its affiliated asset managers.

Part of Jefferies Financial Group, Inc., Jefferies High Yield Holdings LLC is a private equity fund. The company is based in Stamford, CT. The CEO of the company is Richard Brian Handler.

Waterfall Asset Management LLC (Waterfall) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and global alternative investment manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Tom Capasse and Jack Ross in 2005. Waterfall provides investment advice to private investment funds and other clients, which are generally insurance companies, state, municipal or corporate pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, or other institutional investors.