Jefferies Financial Group Inc JEF

Jefferies Financial Group Inc., formerly Leucadia National Corporation, incorporated on May 24, 1968, is a diversified holding company focused on return on investment and long-term value. The Company's segments, based on requirements, are Jefferies, and Corporate and other. The Company's financial services businesses include Jefferies Group LLC (investment banking and capital markets), Leucadia Asset Management (asset management), Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, LLC (commercial mortgage banking and servicing), FXCM Group, LLC (a publicly traded company providing online foreign exchange trading), HomeFed Corporation (HomeFed) (a publicly traded real estate company) and Foursight Capital and Chrome Capital (vehicle finance). The Company also owns and has investments in an array of other businesses, including HRG Group, Inc. (HRG), Vitesse Energy, LLC and Juneau Energy, LLC (oil and gas exploration and development), Linkem (fixed wireless broadband services in Italy), Conwed Plastics and Idaho Timber (manufacturing) and Golden Queen Mining Company, LLC (a gold and silver mining project).

Jefferies Group LLC (Jefferies) is a global full-service, integrated securities and investment banking company. Jefferies provides its clients service equities research, sales and trading capabilities across securities markets. Jefferies main product lines within the regions are cash equities, electronic trading, derivatives and convertibles. Jefferies clients are institutional market participants, such as mutual funds, hedge funds, investment advisors, pension and profit sharing plans, and insurance companies. Jefferies Equity Finance business provides financing, securities lending and other prime brokerage services. Jefferies offers prime brokerage services in the United States that provide hedge funds, money managers and registered investment advisors with execution, financing, clearing, reporting and administrative services. Jefferies finances its clients' securities positions through margin loans that are collateralized by securities, cash or other acceptable liquid collateral. Jefferies also operates a matched book in equity and corporate bond securities, whereby Jefferies borrows and lends securities versus cash or liquid collateral and earns a net interest spread. Jefferies provides wealth management services to net worth individuals, their families and their businesses, private equity and venture funds and small institutions.

Jefferies provides its clients with sales and trading of investment grade corporate bonds, the United States and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, whole loans, leveraged loans, high yield and distressed securities, emerging markets debt and derivative products. Jefferies provides its clients across the world with a range of equity capital markets, debt capital markets and financial advisory services. Jefferies provides a range of equity financing capabilities to companies and financial sponsors. These capabilities include private equity placements, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, block trades and equity-linked convertible securities. Jefferies provides a range of debt financing capabilities for companies, financial sponsors and government entities. Jefferies provides mergers and acquisition, and restructuring and recapitalization services to companies, financial sponsors and government entities. In the mergers and acquisition area, Jefferies advises sellers and buyers on corporate sales and divestitures, acquisitions, mergers, tender offers, spinoffs, joint ventures, strategic alliances and takeover and proxy fight defense. Jefferies provides investment management services to pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors.

Leucadia Asset Management (LAM) is an investment advisor, through which the Company is developing alternative asset management businesses. LAM provides advisory, portfolio management and operational services to accredited investors and/or qualified purchasers. Its asset management strategies primarily include Folger Hill Asset Management LLC (Folger Hill), a multi-manager discretionary long/short equity hedge fund platform; Topwater Capital (Topwater), a first-loss hedge fund; 54 Madison Capital, LLC, which targets real estate projects, and its investment in CoreCommodity Management, LLC, an asset manager that focuses on commodity strategies. FXCM is a global online provider of foreign exchange trading and related services. Its services include contract for difference trading, spread betting and related services. HomeFed Corporation is a developer and owner of residential and commercial real estate properties in California, New York, Florida, Virginia, South Carolina and Maine.

Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC (Berkadia) is a commercial real estate company. Berkadia provides capital solutions, investment sales advisory, research and servicing for multifamily and commercial properties. Berkadia originates commercial real estate loans. Berkadia also originates and brokers commercial/multifamily mortgage loans, which are not part of the government agency programs. In addition, Berkadia originates loans for its own balance sheet. Berkadia also provides a unified, national sales and investment platform that is focused on the multifamily industry. This business provides services related to the acquisition and disposition of multifamily real estate projects, including brokerage services, asset review, market research, financial analysis and due diligence support. Berkadia is a servicer of commercial real estate loans in the United States, performing primary and special servicing functions for the United States Government agency programs, commercial mortgage-backed securities transactions (CMBS), banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions. Foursight Capital and Chrome Capital is a vehicle finance company. Foursight Capital and Chrome Capital purchases automobile installment contracts originated by franchised and independent dealerships in conjunction with the sale of new and used automobiles and services these loans throughout the life cycle.

Vitesse Energy, LLC (Vitesse) is a non-operating owner of oil and gas properties in the core of the Bakken field. As of December 31, 2018, the Company owned 96% of Vitesse, which acquires producing and undeveloped leasehold properties in North Dakota and Montana. As of December 31, 2018, Vitesse acquired approximately 21,000 net acres of Bakken leasehold and had an interest in 1,329 producing wells (35 net wells) and 428 gross wells (15 net wells) that are drilling or permitted for drilling. Juneau Energy, LLC (Juneau) engages in the exploration, development and production of oil and gas from onshore, unconventional resource areas. Linkem S.p.A (Linkem) is a fixed wireless broadband service provider in Italy. As of December 31, 2018, Linkem's network included base stations deployed on over 2,000 wireless towers.

Conwed Plastics manufactures and markets lightweight plastic netting used for building and construction, erosion and sediment control, packaging, agricultural purposes, carpet padding, filtration, consumer products and other purposes. Golden Queen Mining Co., Ltd. (Golden Queen) is engaged in developing the Soledad Mountain Project, a fully-permitted, open pit, heap leach gold and silver project located in Kern County, California. The project uses conventional open pit mining methods, cyanide heap leach and Merrill-Crowe processes to recover gold and silver from crushed, agglomerated ore. Idaho Timber manufactures and distributes a range of wood products to markets across North America. Its activities include remanufacturing dimension lumber; remanufacturing, bundling and bar coding of home center boards for retailers, and production of pine dimension lumber.