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New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

New Jersey State Bar Association operates as a not-for-profit organization. It educates the public to enhance awareness of the legal system. The company was founded in June 1899 and is headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ.

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.

Founded in 1995, Knight Equity Markets LP is a broker/dealer located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The firm is a subsidiary of Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG), a leading market maker providing liquidity both on- and off-exchange in US and European equities, options and foreign exchange. Knight Equity Markets provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research

Payward, Inc., also known as Kraken, is a cryptocurrency platform that offers spot trading, staking, regulated derivatives, and index services. The company is based in San Francisco, CA, and has subsidiaries in Australia, United Kingdom, and United States. Kraken's mission is to accelerate the adoption of crypto to achieve financial freedom and inclusion. The platform is trusted by over 10 million individuals, traders, and institutions worldwide, and offers professional 24/7/365 client support. Kraken has set the industry standard for transparency and client trust, and was the first crypto platform to conduct proof of reserves audits. The company was founded in 2011 by Karsten Nilsen and Jesse William Powell, and the CEO is David Ripley.