Simon French

Founded in 2004, Cenkos Securities is an independent London-based securities firm that focuses on UK small and mid-cap companies. They offer advisory, sales and research service to growth companies, across an array of jurisdictions and sectors including leisure, technology, support services, engineering, healthcare, financials, environmental and business services. The firm's natural resources team provides analysis and commentary on the UK mining, oil and alternative fuel sectors. They offer access to the full list of the LSE, but a large part of their concentration is on the AIM market in London. Cenkos' dedicated research team covers a range of sectors, including but not limited to technology, biotechnology and real estate. Their Equity Capital Markets team acts as the interface between corporate clients and institutional investors, specializing in raising capital for special opportunities. Cenkos' Investment Funds team focuses solely on listed investment companies. The firm has an excellent record of raising capital for new and existing listed funds in asset classes ranging from equities to property and hedge funds to private equity. Their Institutional Equities team provides research-driven investment ideas and a full execution service to institutional clients. Cenkos has particular expertise in the areas of retail, food retail, technology, building/construction and banks. They offer a full execution service in UK and European large and mid-cap shares. Cenkos makes markets in over 200 stocks including over 100 stocks where they are broker or Nomad. Cenkos is a member of the LSE. They provide liquidity to the market via their Retail Service Providers and facilitate institutional business in both small and large cap-equities. The sales trading desk covers the whole UK market and has access to other global markets. The desk services UK and global institutional clients. They work closely with equity sales and provide a complete execution service for their clients.

Panmure Gordon (UK) Ltd. (PGL) is the stockbroking subsidiary of Panmure Gordon & Co. Ltd. in Great Britain. Headquartered in London, the firm was founded in 2003 and provides corporate finance advice, distributes and trades securities and produces investment research to UK small and mid-cap corporates and investment companies. PGL has access to capital markets via a range of equity and equity-linked products such as IPOs, accelerated book buildings, placings, rights issues, and bought deals. The firm's institutional equities department provides UK-focused research, sales and trading services to institutional investors in the UK, US and Europe.

UBS Ltd. (Broker) is the Great Britain-based brokerage division of UBS Ltd.,the wholly-owned subsidiary of Switzerland-based UBS AG (SWX: UBSN; NYSE: UBS). Established in 1975, the firm is located in London. UBS Ltd.'s business is organized in three departments: fixed-income, rates and currencies; equity and investment banking. UBS Ltd. (Broker) engages in equity trading, equity derivatives and equity-linked products. The equity research department covers a diverse range of sectors globally and also supplies macroeconomic analysis, quantitative and derivative research. The fixed-income, rates and currency business covers credit, rates, commodities including energy and metals, municipal bonds, Forex and cash and collateral trading globally. Their investment banking activities include analysis, structuring, transaction negotiation and communication.

Numis Securities Ltd. is an institutional brokerage firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1988 and is a subsidiary of Numis Corp. Plc in (LON: NUM). Numis Securities serves as a corporate broker to several clients across all their sectors, ranging from FTSE 100 to FTSE small-cap companies and AIM-listed companies.

Canaccord Genuity Ltd. (CGL) is the brokerage subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc. (TSE: CF). The firm is headquartered in London and was founded in 1983. CGL provides brokerage services to their clients.