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The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a state-owned pension fund manager headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm was founded by the Texas Legislature in 1937 to provide service and disability retirement benefits to teachers and administrators of the public school systems of Texas, which include institutions of higher education. In 1949, legislation expanded membership eligibility to include all employees of public education institutions. In 1985, TRS was assigned responsibility to administer health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm invests funds under its stewardship and delivers benefits to members as authorized by the Texas Legislature.

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.

CSIdentity Corp. provides identity protection and fraud detection solutions. Its protection solutions include identity validation, comprehensive background screenings, identity theft protection and data breach management. The firm also provides government solutions, including international identity verification and fraud detection, domestic identity verification and fraud detection, breach mitigation, and integrated identity and risk framework methodology. Its products encompass CSIdentity Security Suite, CSIdentity SAFE, CSIdentity Breach and CSIdentity Protector. The company was founded by William E. Morrow, Joe C. Ross and Harold Gottschalk in 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Founded in 2007, Moelis & Co. LLC is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC), a global investment bank that provides financial advisory, capital raising and asset management services to corporations, institutions and governments. Moelis & Co. LLC provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Confédération Nationale du Crédit Mutuel SA provides commercial and investment banking services. It offers mutual fund, personal loans, insurance, asset management, and home loans. The company was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Quad-C Management Inc (Quad- C Management) is a private equity firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.

H2 Equity Partners BV (H2) is an independent Dutch private equity firm which was founded in 1991 by Gert Jan van der Hoeven and Age Hollander. H2 Equity Partners BV is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Housatonic Management Co. Inc (Housatonic Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1994 by William Nicholas Thorndike, Michael C Jackson and Eliot Wadsworth. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Norwest Equity Partners is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Norwest Partners founded in 1961 by John E. Lindahl. The firm is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Z Capital Group LLC (ZCG) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and alternative investment manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by James Zenni in 2006. ZCG serves as an investment manager and provides discretionary advisory services to pooled investment vehicles and private investment partnerships.

Groupe Socomec designs and manufactures industrial switching and protection, and power supply systems. It offers load break switches, transfer switches, fuse protection, electronic protection, enclosures and accessories, networking and data center UPS solutions, UPS and power conversion solutions, and photovoltaic switching and protection. The firm offers solutions to the data centers, medical facilities, public electricity distribution, smart solutions, railway applications, and renewable energies. The company was founded by Joseph Siat on April 22, 1922 and is headquartered in Benfeld, France.

Socomec SA designs and manufactures industrial switching and protection systems. It offers energy measurement and management, insulation check, reactive energy compensation, cutting and sectioning, fuse protection, source switching, inverters, UPS management, and energy conversion and storage solutions. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Benfeld, France.

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.

Beteiligungsgesellschaft Leitzgen mbH is an investment services provider. The private company is based in Nohfelden, Germany. and has subsidiaries in Germany. The German company was founded in 1989.

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.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Brink Group BV engages in the development and production of tow bars. It offers racks, containers, carriers, and storage units for cars, trucks, and recreational vehicles. The company is headquartered in Staphorst, the Netherlands.

Salm Hispanica SL is a Spanish company that wholesales porcelain and glassware products. The private company is based in Madrid, Spain.

Société Karl Leitzgen is a private company based in Paris, France that provides fund management services.

Louisa Sg is a French company that specializes in the retail of furniture. The private company is based in Lièpvre, France.

Schmidt Küchen GmbH & Co. KG engages in the design and production of fitted kitchens and home furniture. It offers tables, chairs, cabinets, dressers, drawers, bedframes, storage spaces for towels, and shelves. The company was founded by Hubert Schmidt in 1934 and is headquartered in Nohfelden, Germany.

Geschäftsführungsgesellschaft Schmidt Küchen mbH is a management services company based in Nohfelden, Germany. The German company provides management services. The private company was founded in 1989 and is led by CEO Wolfgang Richard Thorwart.

Salm SAS is a manufacturing company. It offers kitchen and bathroom fittings. The company is headquartered in Liepvre, France.

AV Capital Holdings LLC (AV Capital Holdings) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 by Vernon Bryant and Dave Alter. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.