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Palladium Capital Advisors LLC is a premier boutique investment bank that specializes in pipes, reverse mergers, M&A, private equity, and LP equity for CRE. Palladium Capital Advisors is based in New York, NY. The company facilitates financing for various businesses and serves as a sole placement agent for private placements. Joel Eugen Padowitz has been the CEO of the company since 2003.

SmartStop Self Storage, Inc. provides self storage real estate investment and management solutions. It focuses on acquisition, advisory, asset management and property management services for self storage properties. The firm may also invest in other storage related properties such as storage facilities for automobiles, recreational vehicles, and boats. The company was founded on August 14, 2007 and is headquartered in Ladera Ranch, CA.

Part of Newmark Group, Inc., Grubb & Ellis Securities, Inc. is a private company that provides secondary market services. The company is based in Santa Ana, CA. Grubb & Ellis Securities was acquired by NNN Realty Advisors, Inc., part of Newmark Group, Inc. on December 20, 2006.

Strategic Storage Holdings LLC offers property management services. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Ladera Ranch, CA.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Triple Net Properties LLC provided real estate investment and asset management services. The company was headquartered in Laguna Niguel, CA.