Labranche & Company Incorporated operates in the Security brokers and dealers sector. LaBranche & Co. Inc. is the parent company of LaBranche Structured Holdings, Inc. (LSHI), the holding company for a group of entities that are market-makers in options, futures and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) traded on various exchanges. LSHI's subsidiaries are LaBranche Structured Products, LLC (LSP), LaBranche Structured Products Europe Limited (LSPE), LaBranche Structured Products Hong Kong Limited (LSPH), LaBranche Structured Products Direct, Inc. (LSPD) and LaBranche Structured Products Specialists LLC (LSPS). As of December 31, 2009, LSPS was dormant. The Company's business principally operates in two separate segments: the Market-Making segment and the Institutional Brokerage segment. On January 22, 2010, the Company completed the sale of LaBranche & Co. LLC's designated market maker operations on the NYSE and all of its net designated market maker positions to Barclays Capital Inc., a division of Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays). In
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