Walter Berchtold

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.

Credit Suisse First Boston LLC provides global investment banking services in the United States. It provides private banking and financial advisory services and banking products. Its businesses include securities underwriting, sales & trading, investment banking, private equity, alternative assets, financial advisory services, investment research and asset management. It is headquartered in New York, NY.

Falcon Private Bank AG (Falcon-PB) was previously known as AIG Private Bank Ltd. and was a subsidiary of New York-based American International Group, Inc. until 2009 when they were renamed Falcon upon acquisition by Aabar Investments PJSC (AD: AABAR), an investment company based in Abu Dhabi and majority-owned by the sovereign wealth fund IPIC-International Petroleum Investment Co. Established in 1965, Falcon-PB is based in Zurich with branch and representative offices in Geneva, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Singapore and London. Falcon-PB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aabar and provides wealth management services for an international clientele of high-net worth private individuals, family offices, asset management firms, private label partners and institutions. They offer personalized and structured private banking solutions, tailored to the individual needs of their clients.

Credit Suisse AG is an investment management firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm was founded in 1856 and was acquired by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG) from Credit Suisse Group AG in 2023. Credit Suisse manages global and regional portfolios, mutual funds, and other investment vehicles for governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide. They also offer private banking and wealth management, investment banking, and corporate and business support services.

virt-x Ltd. develops screen based electronic trading systems for the secondary trading market. It is an electronic communications network focusing on blue chip UK and European stocks. The company is a subsidiary of SWS Group and is headquartered in London, UK

Alpine Select AG is a closed-ended holding company, which engages in the investment in securities, quoted or non-quoted, and Swiss or foreign corporations. It offers institutional and individual investors the key benefit of investing into a diversified alternative investment portfolio with core investment strategies: discount-, risk-arbitrage, tactical exploitation of under-researched companies/situations, short-term opportunities, and liquid hedge funds. The company was founded on September 17, 1997 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Credit Suisse AG (Private Banking) (CSPB) is the Zurich-based private banking division of Credit Suisse AG, itself a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (VX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Established in 1856, CSPB provides comprehensive advice and a range of investment products and services to private, corporate and institutional clients. The firm is a leading provider of innovative alternative investment products. Their wealth management solutions include tax planning, pension planning, life insurance solutions, wealth and inheritance advice, trusts and foundations.

SWX Swiss Exchange AG provides securities and commodities trading services. It organizes, operates and regulates various aspects of capital market, including cash market operations, information products, development and operation of electronic trading platforms and admission of securities to trading. The company engages in the trading of shares, bonds, traditional investments, exchange traded funds and securitized derivatives. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Eurex Zuerich AG engages in electronic trading with financial market products such as options, futures, securities lending, and repurchase agreements. It also provides services in electronic stock exchange trading, particularly in the area of software development, as well as processing and provision of financial data. The company was founded on December 19, 1986 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.