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The Yucaipa Cos. LLC is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Ronald Wayne Burkle. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

AEA Investors LP (AEA Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1968 by Rockefeller, Mellon & Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co, a subsidiary of AEA Holdings LLC. The firm is headquartered in New York.

General Atlantic LLC (General Atlantic) is a private equity firm founded in 1980 by Charles F. Feeney. The firm is headquartered in New York.

JANA Partners LLC (JANA) is a hedge fund manager and holding firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Barry Rosenstein in 2001. JANA provides investment advisory services to private investment vehicles and separately managed accounts. Investors include high net-worth and financially sophisticated individuals, institutional investors, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, banking or thrift institutions, corporations, private and public pension plans, foundations and endowments, fund of funds and government plans.

Quinn Foods LLC operates online snacks food stores. Its snacks include microwave and popped popcorn, pretzels, real butter tastes better and popping kernels. The company was founded by Kristy Lewis and Coulter Lewis and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Riskmetrics Group LLC provides financial risk management services. The firm provides financial analytics and wealth management solutions to different financial institutions, corporations and central banks. It consists of three primary business units–risk management, governance services and financial research. The company was founded by Ethan M. Berman in 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bain Capital Credit LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor and global credit specialist headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jonathan Lavine in 1998 and was formerly known as Sankaty Advisors LP. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Bain Capital LP, owned by Bain Capital Holdings LP. Bain Capital Credit provides investment advisory services across a diverse range of credit strategies.

Greywolf Capital Management LP (Greywolf Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund firm headquartered in Purchase, New York. The firm was founded in 2003 by Bob Miller, Jonathan Savitz, William Troy and James Gillespie. Greywolf Capital provides investment advisory services to (i) private investment funds that are primarily offered to institutional investors and financially sophisticated high net worth individuals and (ii) separately managed accounts, primarily for the foregoing types of investors.

The Blackstone Group, Inc. provides marketing research services. It provides custom market research services for clients in industries as consumer packaged goods, financial services, healthcare and technology. The firm's clients include eBay, Harris Bank and Pfizer. The company was founded by Ashref A. Hashim in 1987 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Oak Hill Advisors (Europe) LLP (OHA Europe) is the alternative investment management subsidiary of Oak Hill Advisors LP, which is owned by T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROW) in the US. Headquartered in London, OHA Europe was founded in 2005 and provides credit asset management for sophisticated individual and institutional clients.

Part of Icahn Associates Holding LLC, CVR GP LLC is a company that manufactures and supplies fertilizer. The company is based in Sugar Land, TX. Mark A. Pytosh has been the CEO of the company since 2011.

UBS Investment Bank provides investment banking and securities brokerage services. Its clients include institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, governments, and hedge funds. The firm also provides merger and acquisition advisory, private placement, investment research, foreign exchange, equity, and leverage finance advisory services. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1996 and they are a subsidiary of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE: HLI). Houlihan Lokey Capital provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They also have the ability to serve as underwriter or bookrunner with respect to traditional debt and equity offerings, including leveraged loans and public offerings of debt, equity-linked, and equity securities.

Malk Organics LLC provides food and beverage services. Its products include maple pecan and unsweetened vanilla almond malk. The company was founded by August Vega in 2014 is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Dawn Anderson LLC retails home furnishings. It specializes in consumer packaged goods, whole food superfood bars, certified vegan, certified gluten free, nongmo, organic and natural healthy food production. The company was founded by Dawn Anderson in 2013 and is headquartered in Kihei, HI.

Part of Helen of Troy Ltd., Recipe Products Ltd. is a haircare brand that offers complete regimes for all hair types, with a focus on textured and curly hair care. The company is based in London, UK. The brand began as an online community in 2018, offering haircare content on YouTube and Instagram, and has since grown to become synonymous with clean, curly haircare. The brand's premium product lines include moisture, scalp care, strength, and hair makeup recipes, with vegan and cruelty-free products. The essential moisture shampoo and conditioner are the latest addition to the Curlsmith family, with benefits such as increasing moisture by 87% and providing long-lasting frizz control. The products include food-inspired staple ingredients such as betaine, avocado, coconut, sunflower oil, and andiroba, shea butter, resurrection flower, and a blend of aloe, sage, rosemary, pepper, and basil extracts. The British company was founded in 2015 by Michal Mariusz Berski, who has been the CEO since then. Recipe Products was acquired by Helen of Troy Ltd. on April 25, 2022 for $192.64 million.

ZitSticka, Inc. operates as an evidence-based skincare brand that focuses on acne treatment. It offers KILLA patch that provides acne-fighting ingredients. The company was founded by Robbie Miller and Robbie Miller and Daniel Kaplan on February 19, 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Herbivore Botanicals LLC provides cosmetics products. Its products include natural skin-care, body-care, and grooming. The company was founded by Julia Wills and Alexander Kummerow in 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Boulder Food Group LLC (Boulder Food Group) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Tom Spier. The firm is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Part of Apollo Global Management, Inc., Stone Tower Capital LLC is a company that provides investment services. The company is based in Dover, DE.

Transact Campus, Inc. designs and develops software applications for education, government and business industry. The company is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Sura Asset Management España SL operates as a holding company with interests in pensions, insurance, savings and investment funds services. The company is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Reverence Capital Partners LLC (RCP) is an independent private equity firm founded in the year 2013 by Milton R. Berlinski, Peter C. Aberg and Alexander A. Chulack. The firm is headquartered in New York.