Brian Friedman

K-Sea Transportation Partners LP provides marine transportation, distribution and logistics services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in East Brunswick, NJ.

Telex Communications Intermediate Holdings LLC engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of audio and communications products. The company's clients include the broadcasters, college, and high school football teams, aerospace, and industrial organizations. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Burnsville, MN.

Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc. engages in the operation of restaurants under the Burger King and Popeyes brands. It serves flame-broiled whopper sandwich, hamburgers, chicken and other specialty sandwiches, fries, salads, breakfast items, smoothies, frappes, and other snacks. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Syracuse, NY.

K-Sea GP Holdings LP provides marine transportation, distribution, and logistics services. It provides marine transportation services for refined petroleum products. The company operates a fleer of 73 tank barges, one tanker, and 59 tugboats that serves the oil customers. The firm was founded in December, 2007 and is headquartered in East Brunswick, NJ

Leucadia Asset Management LLC (LAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2002 as Jefferies Private Client Advisers LLC. They changed their name to Jefferies Investment Advisers LLC in 2006 and to Leucadia Asset Management LLC in 2021. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). LAM provides advisory services to high net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, foundations, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz provides advisory and legal services. It specializes in mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, takeovers and takeover defense, corporate and securities law, and corporate governance. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc. provides wireline local exchange telecommunications services. It offers network access services to the interexchange carriers for the origination & termination of interstate and intrastate long distance phone calls on its network. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Newton, IA.

Jefferies Capital Partners (Jefferies Capita Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Jefferies LLC founded in 1994 by Brian P. Friedman. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Real Mex Restaurants, Inc. owns and operates a chain of restaurants. It manufactures and distributes Mexican food products to service restaurants, casual dining, retail, and foodservice channels. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Cypress, CA.

The FXCM Group provides online foreign exchange, or FX, trading and related services. It operates as a holding company. The firm operates through two segments: Retail Trading and Institutional Trading. The company was founded by David Sakhai, Kenneth A. Grossman, Dror Niv, Eduard Yusupov and William Ahdout in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Patara Oil & Gas LLC engages in acquisition, development and production of natural gas and crude oil properties. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Founded in 2005, Jefferies Capital Partners LLC is a hedge fund manager located in New York City.

BW Epic Kosan Ltd. is an investment holding company, which engages in owning and operation of fleet of pressurized gas carriers. It provides seaborne services for the transportation of liquefied petroleum gas and petrochemicals. The company was founded on December 12, 2012 and is headquartered in Singapore.

STRIVE International provides employment, fatherhood, and youth programs.

Euronext FX, Inc. provides electronic communication network for foreign exchange trading services. The firm’s products include Fastmatch ECN, disclosedMatch, manageMatch, algoMatch,midMatch and safeMatch. The company was founded by Dmitri Galinov in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Vitesse Energy LLC engages in the acquisition and development of non-operated oil and gas assets. The company was founded in April 2014 and is headquartered in Centennial, CO.

Patara Holdings LLC explores and produces oil and gas. The company was founded on August 7, 2008 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Vitesse Oil LLC engages in acquisition and development of non-operated oil and gas assets. It acquires and develops leasehold properties and converts undeveloped drilling locations into cash flow producing assets by partnering with operators. The company was founded in August 2013 and is headquartered in Centennial, CO.