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Part of Avado Brands, Inc., DF&R Restaurants, Inc. is a full-service restaurant operator. The company is based in Bedford, TX. DF&R Restaurants was acquired by Avado Brands, Inc. on November 27, 1995 for $208 million.

Quest Software, Inc. engages in the design, development, and distribution of enterprise systems management software products. It offers consulting, educational, and support services including Microsoft Platform, data protection, unified endpoint management, performance monitoring, and database management services. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Winstead PC provides legal services. Its services include appellate, banking and credit transactions, biotechnology, intellectual property, commercial litigation, construction, insurance, telecommunications, and transportation. The firm has offices in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Life Partners, Inc. provides viatical settlement services. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

IDERA, Inc. operates as a B2B (business to business) software company. its products include DESIGN Models and Databases; MONITOR Database Performance; PROTECT Database Integrity; and MANAGE IT Performance. The company was founded by Richard Jan Pleczko, Michael J. Clark, and Roderick Endo in 2000 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops innovative, advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. HGST addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage needs by delivering intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate hardware and software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California.

K&L Gates LLP engages in the provision of legal services. The firm represents corporations, growth and middle-market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and individuals. The company was founded by Kirkpatrick Lockhart in 1946 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Life Insurance Settlement Association, Inc. operates as life settlement market. Its membership consists of brokers, financing entities and service providers to the industry. The firm focuses on standards of practice and professional development for the industry. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Winter Park, FL.

Dykema Cox Smith provides legal services. It specializes in legal services, corporate and securities, banking law, bankruptcy and creditor's rights, employee benefits, estate planning and trusts, healthcare law, immigration law, labor and employment, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas, products Liability, real estate law. The company is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Life Partners Position Holder Trust operates online platform to provide information on investment and life insurance policies. The company's primary purpose is to liquidate the assets of its predecessors in a manner calculated to conserve, protect and maximize the value of the assets, and to distribute the proceeds thereof to the beneficiaries. The company was founded on December 9, 2016 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Catlyn Capital Corp. provides real estate services. The private company is based in Dallas, TX.

Part of Coventry First LLC, AVS Underwriting LLC provides insurance underwriting services. The company is based in Kennesaw, GA. AVS Underwriting was acquired by Coventry First LLC on September 23, 2022. The company was founded by Philip R. Loy.

Davis & Loy Insurance, Inc. provides insurance services. The private company is based in Atlanta.

Longevity Holdings, Inc. is based in Minneapolis, MN. The private company's focus is on preparing for a world where people live beyond 100. Kurt Gearhart has been the CEO of the company since 2012.