William Blair is the premier global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management. We provide advisory services, strategies, and solutions to meet our clients’ evolving needs. As an independent and employee-owned firm, together with our strategic partners, we operate in more than 20 offices worldwide.* *Includes strategic partnerships with Allier Capital, BDA Partners, and Poalim Capital Markets. Social Media Disclaimer: williamblair.com/Disclosures#social

As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing provider in the world, which offers clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort®. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk in both listed and over-the-counter derivatives markets.

Cboe Global Markets (Cboe) is the leading exchange network for global derivatives, foreign exchange, digital asset and securities trading solutions. We’ve been building trusted, inclusive markets for over 50 years, but we’ve only just begun. We inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters: providing the financial infrastructure that helps power the global economy. We create the space for investors of all backgrounds to participate in our markets as well as opportunities for our people to grow while pursuing big ideas. Our solutions help people build a sustainable financial future. And our people are making that future brighter, not only through their work but in the ways they give back to their communities.

First Trust Portfolios L.P. and First Trust Advisors L.P.("First Trust"​) were founded in 1991 with a mission to offer investors a better way to invest. We are single-minded about providing trusted investment products and advisory services. We're inspired every day by how financial advisors and their customers use our products and services to define goals, solve problems and develop long-term strategies. Everyone in our company is encouraged to work diligently and respectfully to deliver superior products, services and results that will contribute to the prosperity of our clients. Our approach is simple, and our company was built with these core principles in mind: - Know What you Own - Invest for the Long-term - Employ Discipline - Re-balance - Control Taxes We are committed to providing original ideas, inventive products and the highest level of service. Disclaimer: This content is for information purposes only and should not be considered an offer to purchase or sell any security. There are risks involved with investing and investors should consult their investment advisors before investing in any financial product. A "like"​ is not to be considered to be a testimonial, a recommendation, or an indication of any investor's experience with any of First Trust's products or services. Third party posts are not adopted or endorsed by First Trust, do not reflect the views of First Trust and have not been reviewed by First Trust for completeness or accuracy.

Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a highly analytical, team oriented derivatives trading firm that employs a dynamic, disciplined approach to trading across a variety of products and strategies. We take decisive action to position ourselves at the forefront of the financial markets. We actively trade in a broad spectrum of asset classes that include Equities, Interest Rates, and Commodities. We have grown dramatically since our inception in 1995. Recognized as a leading provider of liquidity and pricing on numerous derivatives exchanges globally, we trade more than 20 hours a day, six days a week. With offices in Chicago and London, our success and rapid growth are due to our market experience, state of the art technology, risk management capabilities, and financial engineering expertise.

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), named Risk Magazine’s 2022 Clearing House of the Year, is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 20 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

At DRW, we identify and capture trading and investment opportunities globally. What sets us apart is our diversified approach—trading across many asset classes and instruments, in markets around the world, with horizons from seconds to years. We succeed by leveraging technology, research and risk management. We offer the best of both worlds: the opportunity and spirit of a startup and the benefits and stability of an established, experienced firm. Our employees work hard to solve interesting problems, and their results are rewarded. We value continuous learning—from our outcomes, from the environment and from each other. It’s a place of high expectations, deep curiosity, and constant collaboration, with some of the smartest, most passionate people you’ll meet. // Chez DRW, nous identifions et saisissons les opportunités de négociation et d'investissement au niveau mondial. Ce qui nous différencie, c'est notre approche diversifiée : nous négocions sur de nombreuses classes d'actifs et d'instruments, sur des marchés du monde entier, avec des horizons allant de quelques secondes à plusieurs années. Nous réussissons en nous appuyant sur la technologie, la recherche et la gestion des risques. Nous offrons le meilleur des deux mondes: les opportunités et l'ésprit d’une entreprise en démarrage, et les avantages et la stabilité d'une entreprise établie et expérimentée. Nos employés travaillent dur pour résoudre des problèmes intéressants et leurs résultats sont récompensés. Nous valorisons l'apprentissage continu – de nos résultats, de l’environnement et de chacun de nous. C’est un lieu où les attentes sont élevées, la curiosité est profonde et la collaboration est constante, et où l’on retrouve quelques-uns des individus les plus intelligents et les plus passionnés que vous puissiez rencontrer.

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a diversified global investment firm founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny, Scott Schroeder, and Taylor O'Malley. With over $20 billion in assets under management, BAM employs more than 1,900 people across 20 offices in the U.S. and Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The firm’s 165 investment teams span six strategies, including Equities Long/Short, Equities Arbitrage, Macro, Commodities, Systematic, and Growth Equity. Balyasny’s mission is to deliver to its investors absolute, uncorrelated returns in all market environments.

Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago with offices around the world, we serve clients through a personal, custom approach to reaching financial goals and acting as a force for social good. With capabilities spanning Global Investment Management, Capital Markets & Investment Banking, and Advisory Services, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities and our culture. To learn more, visit www.mesirow.com and follow us on LinkedIn. Mesirow was also recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by the Chicago Tribune and one of the Top Places to Work by Crain’s Chicago Business.

Enabling your growth in alternative investments through end-to-end expertise and technology. Driven by a deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in the alternatives market, Alter Domus have developed an unmatched offering to meet and anticipate the ever-changing needs of investment managers and asset owners worldwide. Everything we do is sharply focused on mitigating risks, reducing costs, creating efficiencies, and ultimately driving growth. It starts with the expertise of our people; experienced in every aspect of alternative investments, across multiple geographies and jurisdictions, we know first-hand the technical complexities and operational challenges you face and importantly how to overcome them to drive growth. And when it comes to technology, whether we’re enabling operational efficiencies, providing intuitive platforms to manage products, or offering the latest data and analytics solutions to enhance decision-making, we turn what some see as facts, figures, or data points into competitive advantage for some of the biggest names in alternatives.

Hilco Global is a privately held diversified financial services company and the world’s preeminent authority on maximizing the value of assets for both healthy and distressed companies. Our financial services leverage a unique blend of deep restructuring, and principal investing. We deliver customized solutions to undervalued, high potential companies to resolve complex and stressed situations and enhance long-term enterprise value. Hilco Global operates as a holding company comprised of over twenty specialized business units that work to help companies understand the value of their assets and as needed monetize the value. Hilco Global has almost 4 decades of a successful track record of acting as an advisor, agent, investor and/or principal in any transaction. Currently, the company has $3 Billion in assets under management. Hilco Global is based in Northbrook, Illinois and has 800 professionals operating on five continents with US offices located in Boston, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and internationally in Australia, Canada, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico and throughout Asia. Our core solutions: - Valuation Solutions: Our asset valuation solutions leverage the combined expertise of an integrated platform of specialty practices, each with a distinct specialty in one or more tangible or intangible asset categories. - Monetization Solutions: Our monetization expertise extends across a wide range of disposition methodologies, including: on-site, online and live webcast auctions, as well as private treaty negotiated sales. - Advisory Solutions: We offer bespoke advisory solutions to help companies navigate complex financial situations. - Capital Solutions: Whether the goal is reorganization, recapitalization, or growth, Hilco Global professionals have the knowledge and insight to quickly and efficiently deliver a capital solution tailored to our clients’ critical needs.