BAADER BANK AG

Baader Bank Aktiengesellschaft, an investment bank, trades in financial instruments in Europe. The company trades in equities, bonds, funds and exchange traded funds, and securitized derivatives; and engages in the over-the-counter trading activities. It also provides electronic trading services, including automated order execution in shares, bonds, ETPs, and derivatives for clients on the national and international stock exchanges and trading platforms; and sales trading/execution services, such as the receipt and execution of client orders and orders of the bank's own clients, as well as flow and news management, portfolio trading, trading strategy advice, sponsoring, CSA and prime brokerage, and clearing services, as well as sells research products and trading ideas. In addition, the company offers capital market services, such as advice in financing and capital market transactions; structuring and execution of equity or debt transactions; reallocations of stocks; project financing; and technical trading services comprising support for capital measures, capital increases, and decreases, as well as for the purchase of shares, squeeze-out procedures, and withdrawal of invalid physical share certificates. Further, it provides banking services that include account and custody account management, fund-based savings plans, securities and derivatives trading in accounts, custody accounts, and execution of orders, as well as other banking-related services and trade/order entry applications. Additionally, the company engages in the portfolio management of fund products, including UCITS and special funds, offshore funds, and derivative overlay mandates; and equity research activities. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in Unterschleissheim, Germany. Baader Bank Aktiengesellschaft is a subsidiary of Baader Beteiligungs GmbH.