Jason R. Spaeth

Värde Partners, Inc. provides investment advisory services. It serves foundations and endowments, pension plans, insurance companies, other institutional investors and private clients. The company was founded by George G. Hicks, Gregory Scott McMillian and Marcia Lynn Page in 1993 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Continental Bank (Salt Lake City, Utah) engages in the provision of commercial banking solutions. It offers services relating to business owners, vendors and dealers, financial institutions, financing options, and brokers and lessors. The company was founded by Nathan J. Morgan in 2003 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Part of VPE BL LLC, Varde Partners Europe Ltd. is a British company that provides investment advice. The private company is based in London, UK. The company was founded in 2004 by George G. Hicks, Marcia Lynn Page. Bradley Philip Bauer has been the CEO of the company since 2019.