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Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Truist Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded in 1894 as SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. In 2020, the firm was renamed following the integration of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corp. (NYSE: TFC) and is an active market maker in equity and fixed-income products. Truist Securities delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, and financing solutions, as well as a dynamic suite of sales, trading, and research services in both fixed-income and equity. Their strategies are carefully tailored to meet the needs and vision of their clients.

Pennington Biomedical Research Center is a medical research center affiliated with Louisiana State University. The center is located in state-of-the-art research facilities on a 222-acre campus. The non-profit company is based in Baton Rouge, LA. The center conducts basic, clinical, and population research to understand the triggers of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and dementia. With over 500 employees, the research enterprise includes a network of 40 clinics, research laboratories, and 13 highly specialized core service facilities.

Blue Victory Holdings, Inc. private equity firm. Its principal business is management and ownership of real estate properties and restaurants. The company current operations include opening, managing, rehabilitating, buying and disposing of restaurants. Blue Victory Holding was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Lafayette, LA.

T3 Trading Group LLC operates as a securities brokerage dealer. The firm specializes in technical analysis to develop trading strategies. The company was founded by Sean Hendelman, Scott Redler, Marc Sperling, Nadav Sapeika and Evan Lazarus and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1987, Johnson Rice & Co. LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, the firm began offering investment banking services. Johnson Rice & Co. focuses primarily on the energy and specialty retail sectors

B. Riley Wealth Management, Inc. (B. Riley), formerly Wunderlich Securities, Inc., is a full-service brokerage firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, founded in 1996. The firm is a subsidiary of Wunderlich Investment Co., Inc. B. Riley provides comprehensive wealth management and brokerage services to individuals and families, corporations and non-profit organizations, including qualified retirement plans, trusts, foundations and endowments. In 2001, they expanded their business to include investment advisory services. The firm is duly registered with the SEC.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS) was created in 1946 to provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries.

Founded in 2009, IBERIA Financial Services LLC is a broker/dealer located in Lafayette, Louisiana. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBERIABANK Corp. (NasdaqGS: IBKC). The firm offers securities and other financial products to IBERIABANK Corp.'s clients' needs. Through their own subsidiary, Finesco LLC, IBERIA Financial Services offers insurance premium financing to retailers and other commercial customers.

Juniper Capital Management LLC (Juniper Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Bryan L. Grabowsky and Louis J. Grabowsky. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Newport Global Advisors LP (Newport Global Advisors) is a private equity subsidiary of NGA HoldCo LLC founded in 2005 by Timothy Thomas Janszen and Ryan Lee Langdon. The firm is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

D-O-R Engineering, Inc. provides petroleum consulting engineering services. Its services include reserve estimates, revenue forecasts and fair market values, expert witness reports and testimony, log analysis, evaluation of prospects, data collection, organization and analysis, special projects, mineral management for landowners, and seismic repository. The company was founded by M.E. McDonald in 1971 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. provides petroleum engineering services. The non-profit company is based in Allen, TX and has subsidiaries in United States, India and Canada.

Fortune 45 LLC is an independent registered investment advisor headquartered in Gonzales, Louisiana. The firm was founded by Jesse B. Rodrigue in 2014. Fortune 45 provides services to individuals, families, small businesses, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities.

Dentgroup Group LLC, do-business-as Dent Wealth Advisors (DWA), is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The firm was founded by Fred Dent III in 1997. DWA provides advisory services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations and corporations or other businesses.

Resource Environmental Solutions LLC provides ecological offsets to local government and corporate clients. The firm offers restoration and maintenance of wetlands, streams, and habitats. It supplies species of native coastal grasses and plants, such as giant cut grass, black mangrove, seaoats, and marshlay cordgrass. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA.

Rotunda Capital Partners LLC (Rotunda Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by John M. Fruehwirth and Dan Lipson. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.

NewEdge Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. The firm was founded by Gerald Goss in 1980 and is a subsidiary of NewEdge Capital Group LLC, ultimately owned by EdgeCo Investor Holdings LP. NewEdge Advisors specializes in wrap and non-wrap comprehensive portfolio management, financial planning and consulting, retirement plan consulting, referrals to third-party money managers and, through certain investment adviser representatives (IARs), offers LPL sponsored advisory program services.

Caiman Energy II LLC engages in the provision of natural gas energy services. The company was founded by Danny L. Thompson, Jack M. Lafield, Stephen L. Arata, and Richard D. Moncrief in 2012 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.