Ken Johnson

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP provides legal services. Its practice areas include antitrust, bankruptcy and restructuring, corporate governance and investigations, crisis advisory and management, employee benefits, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, media, real estate, tax, and trusts. The company was founded by Joseph P. Cotton, George S. Franklin, William G. McAdoo and Francis McAdoo in 1919 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.

ClearBridge Investments LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc., ultimately held by Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN). The firm was founded in 2005 as ClearBridge Advisors, which operated through Citigroup Asset Management NA, and was acquired by Legg Mason that year. They changed their name to ClearBridge Investments LLC in 2012. ClearBridge Investments manages separate accounts for both institutional and retail clients. The firm also acts as adviser or sub-adviser to the ClearBridge Funds which are part of the Legg Mason family of mutual funds.

NLG Capital, Inc. is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. It was founded in 1968 and formerly known as Sentinel Asset Management, Inc. They became NLG Capital, Inc. in 2022. The firm is wholly-owned by NLV Financial Corp., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Life Holding Co. NLG Capital offers discretionary investment advisory services to various types of institutional clients, focusing on fixed income investments.