Established in 1998, NYPPEX is one of the world's leading technology-based secondary private equity transfer administrators for interests in private equity partnerships, shares in private companies and their respective derivative instruments. The Company provides access to private market liquidity for interests in private partnerships (e.g. buyout, venture, natural resources, real estate, hedge funds etc.), unregistered equity and debt related securities in private companies and their respective derivative instruments. The NYPPEX QMS Platform™ and its specialized professionals match buy and sell orders, anonymously and at low transaction cost, via a secure issuer-controlled platform. Since 2004, the NYPPEX QMS™ has been recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (through private letter ruling PLR-111165-04) as a Qualified Matching Service for private partnerships under Internal Revenue Code §1.7704. NYPPEX is regulated in the U.S. by the SEC and FINRA Member SIPC.