William Nichols

AmWINS Group, Inc. engages in the provision of insurance products and services. It offers property, casualty, professional lines, small business, personal lines, standard lines, group benefits, and underwriting programs. The firm serves the public entity, construction, energy, environmental, transportation, healthcare, hospitality and entertainment, manufacturing and distribution, professional and financial services, and real estate industries. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

The Dun & Bradstreet Corp. engages in the provision integrating data and insights services. It offers product to finance, sales and marketing, master data, supplier management, and compliance. The company was founded on July 20, 1841 and is headquartered in Short Hills, NJ.

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.