Transportes Aeromar,S.A. de C.V,doing business as Aeromar,was a Mexican airline that operated scheduled domestic services in Mexico and international services to the United States,and Cuba. Its main base was Mexico City International Airport.
Credit Suisse Group AG is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich,it maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world and provides services in investment banking,private banking,asset management,and shared services. It is known for strict bank–client confidentiality and banking secrecy. The Financial Stability Board considers it to be a global systemically important bank. Credit Suisse is also a primary dealer and Forex counterparty of the Federal Reserve in the United States.
High-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a term used by some segments of the financial services industry to designate persons whose investible wealth exceeds a given amount. Typically,these individuals are defined as holding financial assets with a value greater than US$1 million. "Very-HNWI" (VHNWI) can refer to someone with a net worth of at least US$5 million. As of December 2022,there were estimated to be just over 15 million HNWIs in the world according to the World's Wealthiest Cities Report 2023 by Henley &Partners. The United States had the highest number of HNWIs of any country,whilst New York is the wealthiest city with 340,000 HNWIs.
Jefferies Group LLC is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company that is headquartered in New York City. The firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services,institutional brokerage,securities research,and asset management. This includes mergers and acquisitions,restructuring,and other financial advisory services. The Capital Markets segment also includes its securities trading and investment banking activities.
An auction rate security (ARS) typically refers to a debt instrument with a long-term nominal maturity for which the interest rate is regularly reset through a Dutch auction. Since February 2008,most such auctions have failed,and the auction market has been largely frozen. In late 2008,investment banks that had marketed and distributed auction rate securities agreed to repurchase most of them at par.
Jed Saul Rakoff is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The Hartford Financial Services Group,Inc.,usually known as The Hartford,is a United States-based investment and insurance company. The Hartford is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in its namesake city of Hartford,Connecticut. It was ranked 160th in Fortune 500 in the year of 2020. The company's earnings are divided between property-and-casualty operations,group benefits and mutual funds.
Joseph Grundfest is an American academic. He is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He joined Stanford's faculty in 1990 after having served for more than four years as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission,a position to which he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Stifel Financial Corp. is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company created under the Stifel name in July 1983 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange on November 24,1986. Its predecessor company was founded in 1890 as the Altheimer and Rawlings Investment Company and is headquartered in downtown St. Louis,Missouri.
Fortress Investment Group is an American investment management firm based in New York City. Fortress was founded as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wes Edens,Rob Kauffman,and Randal Nardone. When Fortress launched on the NYSE in February 2007,it was the first large private equity firm in the US to be traded publicly. In December 2017,Fortress was fully acquired by SoftBank Group,was delisted,and returned to being a privately held company. Fortress manages $44.7 billion of assets under management as of June 30,2023,on behalf of over 1,900 institutional clients and private investors worldwide across a range of credit and real estate,private equity and permanent capital investment strategies. In May 2023,Mubadala Investment Co agreed to acquire a majority stake in Fortress from Softbank for an undisclosed sum.
Taylor,Bean &Whitaker was a top-10 wholesale mortgage lending firm in the United States,the fifth-largest issuer of Government National Mortgage Association securities. Their slogan was "Perfecting the Art of Mortgage Lending".
UBS Group AG is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich,it maintains a presence in all major financial centres as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world. UBS client services are known for their strict bank–client confidentiality and culture of banking secrecy. Because of the bank's large positions in the Americas,EMEA,and Asia Pacific markets,the Financial Stability Board considers it a global systemically important bank.
John P. Costas is an American businessman,banker,and trader. He is the former chairman and CEO of UBS Investment Bank,where he oversaw the growth of the Swiss bank's investment banking franchise globally from 2000 to 2005. From 2005 through 2007,Costas was the chairman and CEO of Dillon Read Capital Management,a UBS proprietary trading unit and alternatives management company.
Ronnie Abrams is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Vivint Smart Home,Inc. is a smart home company in the United States and Canada,and a subsidiary of NRG Energy. It was founded by Keith Nellesen and Todd Pedersen in 1999. In 2012,The Blackstone Group acquired Vivint for more than $2 billion. In January 2020,the company completed a merger and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
Avianca Group International Limited is a pan-regional Latin American multinational airline holding company with its registered office in St Albans,England,and its global headquarters in Bogotá,Colombia. It was formed in February 2010 after a merger agreement between Avianca and TACA Airlines,the flag carriers of Colombia and El Salvador respectively,when Avianca and TACA became wholly owned subsidiaries of Avianca Holdings. TACA Airlines shareholders were given 29% and Avianca Airlines shareholders were given 71% of the shares in the new company.
Robert "Bob" J. Giuffra Jr. is an American attorney. He is Co-Chair and a partner of Sullivan &Cromwell in New York,and is a member of their Management Committee.
Ligand Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company located in San Diego,California. Founded in 1987 as Progenix Inc.,the company went public in 1992. Initially focused on developing its own drugs,a period of turbulence in the early 2000s culminated in its CEO being ejected by the shareholders and provoked a change in focus to the acquisition of existing drugs and forming partnerships to develop them further.
Bradley J. Bondi is an American lawyer,law professor,and partner at Paul Hastings LLP,where he is the Global Co-Chair of the firm's Investigations and White Collar Defense practice. He has also served on the executive staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and was appointed to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis to investigate its causes.
Citadel Securities LLC is an American market making firm headquartered in Miami. It is one of the largest market makers in the world,and is active in more than 50 countries. It is the largest designated market maker on the New York Stock Exchange. Citadel Securities is a separate entity from the hedge fund Citadel LLC,although both were founded and are majority owned by American hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin. Citadel Securities is expected to eventually move its headquarters from Chicago to Miami,having bought land there to build its new headquarters.
