Masakazu Takeda

SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd. (SPARX) is the wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of SPARX Group Co., Ltd. (TYO: 8739) in Japan. The firm was founded by Shuhei Abe in 2006. Headquartered in Tokyo, SPARX provides portfolio management services and manages client accounts and funds.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

SBI Shinsei Bank Ltd. engages in the business of banking services. It operates through the following segments: Institutional Business, Global Market and Individual Business. The Institutional Business segment provides corporate and syndicated loans, acquisition finance, ship finance, healthcare finance, finance for startups, private equity, renewable energy finance, real estate non-recourse finance, project finance and rehabilitation finance services. The Global Market segment provides financial products and services for financial institutions, foreign exchange, derivatives, and other capital markets. The Individual Business segment provides unique products that are not offered by any other bank such as comprehensive accounts, home mortgages, investment trusts, unsecured personal loans, shopping credit cards and loans secured by real estate. The company was founded in December 1952 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.