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Montanaro Asset Management Ltd. (Montanaro) is an independent Great Britain-based specialist asset management firm founded in 1991. The firm is headquartered in London and provides asset management services to a range of professional or institutional investors including pension funds, insurance companies, family offices, wealth managers and charities. Montanaro is a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and believes that ESG related issues are essential to valuing companies, being a good investment manager and in being a better investor.

Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG (BJB) is the private banking subsidiary of Julius Bär Gruppe AG (SWX: BAER) in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, BJB was founded in 1890 and provides personal wealth management advice to private clients and family offices.

MIV Asset Management AG (MIV-AM) is an independent asset management firm previously known as Suter, Zülle & Partner AG. The firm was established in 1997 and is based in Zurich. MIV-AM is the dedicated manager of the MIV Global Medtech Fund, formerly known as MicroValue AG, which is a compartment of the Luxemburg-domiciled Variopartner SICAV. Their clients are private individuals and institutions.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Kepler Cheuvreux SA (Switzerland) (Kepler Cheuvreux Switzerland) is the Swiss broker/dealer division of Kepler Cheuvreux SA in France. The firm was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Zurich. Kepler Cheuvreux Switzerland provides execution services platform that supports Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, ETFs, and Convertible Bonds.

Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Pvt Ltd. (GS India) is the India-based broker-dealer subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Securities Co. Ltd., ultimately held by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) in the US. Headquartered in Mumbai, GS India was founded in 2006 and provides execution services to corporate and institutional clients.

Barclays Securities (India) Pvt Ltd. (BSIPL) is a brokerage firm headquartered in Mumbai, India. The firm was founded was founded in 2007 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Capital Securities Mauritius Ltd., which is owned by Barclays PLC (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. BSIPL offers various securities market related services in India that cater to the needs of both institutional and non-institutional client segments.

Heitman International Real Estate Securities Pty Ltd. (HIRES) is the Australian real estate investment subsidiary of Heitman LLC in the US. Headquartered in Melbourne, the firm was founded in 2010 and provides advisory and sub-advisory services to institutions. They provide investment advice and investment management services with respect to investments in equity, convertible and debt instruments of publicly traded real estate related companies, including real estate investment trusts (REITs), REIT-like entities and real estate operating companies (REOCs).

Niederer & Partners AG is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Wangen, Switzerland. It was founded by Martin Niederer in 2007. The firm manages assets of individual and institutional clients.

Heitman International HK Ltd. is the Hong Kong-based real estate management subsidiary of Heitman LLC, a global real estate investment headquartered in the US. The firm manages property portfolios for institutions, pension plans, foundations and corporations and individual investors.