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Encourage Capital LLC is a private equity firm founded in 2014 by Ricardo Bayon, Adam Wolfensohn and Jason Scott. The firm was formed through the merger of Wolfensohn Fund Management, LP and EKO Asset Management Partners, LLC. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Founded by James Wolfensohn in 2007, Wolfensohn Capital Partners is a private equity fund manager located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Wolfensohn & Co. LLC, a private equity and investment advisory firm with offices in New York City, London and New Delhi.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is the SEC-registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in New York City. In 2010, Banc of America Securities LLC merged with MLPFS and the firm uses the trade name Bank of America Merrill Lynch. MLPFS's global strategy and economics team serves institutional and individual investors using a wide range of macroeconomic disciplines. Their analysis of global issues provides clients with investment ideas, market forecasts, macro overviews and specific sector recommendations across asset classes, regions and disciplines. Their equity research team conducts fundamental analysis on companies globally and provides institutional and retail clients with industry-specific and in-depth research and analysis on numerous industries. The firm's global fixed-income and equity-linked research focuses on fixed-income and equity derivatives, fixed-income strategy, convertibles, commodities, high-yield, mortgages, municipals and global foreign exchange.