Barry Leaper

Stifel Nicolaus Europe Ltd. (SNEL) is a brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1999 and do-business-as Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Ltd. (KBW). They are a subsidiary of Stifel Europe Holdings Ltd., ultimately owned by Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) in the US. SNEL provides Pan-European equity research and sales and trading products for their institutional clients.

Part of RF Capital Group, Inc., FirstEnergy Capital LLP is a brokerage firm. The company is based in London, UK. The British company was founded in 2009 by Stephane Foucaud.

Lloyds Bank Plc provides banking and financial services. It operates through the following segments: Retail and Commercial Banking. The Retail segment offers financial service products, including current accounts, savings, mortgages, motor finance and unsecured consumer lending to personal and small business customers. The Commercial Banking segment provides a range of products and services such as lending, transactional banking, working capital management, risk management and debt capital markets services to SMEs, corporates and financial institutions. The company was founded on June 3,1765 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Bank of Scotland Corporate Integrated Finance (BOSCIF), based in London, is a private equity firm specializing in corporate financing. Established in 2000, they are part of Edinburgh-headquartered HBOS Plc. (LSE: HBOS), the banking group created in 2001 following the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland. BOSCIF provides corporate funding solutions to mid-market MBOs in the UK. They cater to individual, corporate or private equity houses as well as family businesses.