Kenneth Donald Fuller

Western Asset Middle Market Debt Fund, Inc. acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust. Its primary investment objective is to provide income and secondary investment objective, the Fund seeks capital appreciation. The fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing, under normal market conditions including loans, issued by middle market companies. Western Asset Middle Market Debt Fund is headquartered in New York, NY.

Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor LLC (LMPFA) is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2006 and is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc., which is owned by Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN). LMPFA offers investment advisory services to institutional separate account clients who may include US and non-US government institutions, agencies and authorities, sovereign wealth funds, banks, insurance companies, corporations, public and private pension funds, foundations, endowments, family offices and trusts, and other types of institutional clients.

Permal Hedge Strategies Fund is a newly organized, non-diversified, closed-end management and investment company. Its investment objective is to seek long-term capital appreciation while attempting to reduce risk and volatility. The fund invests primarily in the Portfolio Funds, with access to a broad range of investment strategies with a global fixed income focus, which may include, but are not limited to, global fixed income strategies, global event-driven strategies and global macro strategies and, to a lesser extent, equity long/short strategies. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Western Asset Middle Market Debt Fund, Inc. acts as Closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust. Its primary investment objective is to provide income and secondary investment objective, the Fund seeks capital appreciation. The fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives by investing, under normal market conditions including loans, issued by middle market companies. Western Asset Middle Market Debt Fund is headquartered in New York, NY.