SODALES

Strategic advisory services relating to business management, business operations, corporate growth strategy, sales methods, sales management, sales improvement, sales programs, sales targeting and sales focus methods, business marketing, and human resources management; business consultation in the field of start-up and established companies; business management advisory services, consultancy, and information; economic forecasting services; business acquisition and merger consultation

Capital investment consultation, namely, providing venture capital and private equity to companies, providing public and private equity financing, financial management assistance and consultation, and investment brokerage in the nature of providing venture capital and private equity investment opportunities to investors; private equity fund investment advisory services; private equity fund investment consulting services; financial portfolio management; financial services, namely, operation and management of hedge funds, commodity pools and other collective investment vehicles, and trading for others of securities, options, futures, derivatives, debt instruments and commodities; financial services, namely, proprietary trading in commodities, securities, options, futures, equities and fixed income products in the United States and overseas market securities; financial services, namely, providing information in the fields of foreign currency, commodities, financial derivatives, interest rate products, and equities via the internet and intranet systems; financial services, namely, providing for the exchange of foreign currency, commodities, financial derivatives, interest rate products, and equities via the internet and intranet systems; financial services, namely, the trading of financial instruments, securities, shares, options and other derivative products; private placements of private equity funds, securities and derivatives for others; venture capital services, namely, providing financing to start-up and established companies and entrepreneurs; private equity fund investment services; financial investment analysis and stock research; business brokerage services and related consulting pertaining to business sales, mergers, acquisitions and business valuations; business financing procurement services; information, advisory, consultancy and research services relating to finance and investments; financing of loans; private investment and acquisition-related activities, namely, investment of funds of others and investment management; financial services, namely, private equity fund investment services, investing in securities and other financial instruments of companies including debt and equity for others; financial services related to corporate acquisitions, divestitures, expansions, restructurings and buyouts, namely, business valuation services, financing services, due diligence, capital structuring advisory services and financial transaction advisory services for stocks, bonds, securities and equities; financial investment management services, investment advisory services, financial asset management services and loan origination services; strategic financial advisory services