James J. Kearney

Sterling Bancshares, Inc. provides commercial banking services. It provides services to small and mid-sized businesses. Its activities are carried out through two segments including Commercial Banking and Mortgage Banking. The Commercial Banking segment provides retail and commercial banking services including demand, savings and time deposits. The segment provides commercial, real estate and consumer loans, merchant credit card services, letters of credit, cash and asset management services. The Mortgage Banking segment originates, sells and services single family residential mortgages. In addition, the Bank facilitates sales of mutual fund and insurance products.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Sterling Bank provides consumers and commercial banking services. It offers business banking products and services including loans, lines of credit, multi-party checking, treasury management, automated clearinghouse functions, account analysis, investment sweep accounts, merchant credit card processing, international banking including letters of credit, export-import financing, investment portfolio management, trust and succession planning. The company was founded in 1974.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Stellar Bank operates as a state chartered commercial bank. Its services include treasury management, business checking, and financial education. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Allegiance Bancshares, Inc. operates as a bank holding company. It engages in the provision of commercial banking services primarily to Houston metropolitan area-based small to medium-sized businesses and individual customers. The company was founded by George Martinez and Steven F. Retzloff in 2007 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

First Community Bank, NA is a nationally chartered commercial bank. The company is based in Sugar Land, TX. First Community Bank, NA (Sugar Land, Texas) was acquired by Pioneer Bancshares, Inc. (Texas), part of FirstSun Capital Bancorp from April 01, 2022 on February 29, 2016.