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D. A. Davidson & Co. is a dually SEC-registered investment adviser and FINRA broker-dealer headquartered in Great Falls, Montana. The firm was founded in 1935 and is a subsidiary of D.A. Davidson Companies, a financial service holding company. They provide liquidity and execution in small & mid-cap stocks to a wide range of institutional investors, including mutual fund and money managers around the world.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

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.

Part of Rothschild & Co. The company is based in New York, NY. Continuation Holdings AG, L.F. Rothschild & Co., Inc. is a company that provides banking services.

C. E. Unterberg, Towbin is a global investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices in California and Israel. The firm provides investment banking, research and investment management services to emerging growth companies and investors in the technology, health care and defense, security and diversified technology sectors. C. E. Unterberg was founded in 1932 by Clarence Unterberg. In 1977, the firm merged with L. F. Rothschild to form L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin. In 1990, the firm again became privately owned and independent when Clarence Unterberg's son, Thomas I. Unterberg, re-launched the firm as a full-service investment bank.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.