Lee Erik Brown

Visium Asset Management LP is an independent hedge fund management firm founded by Jacob Gottlieb in 2005. Headquartered in New York City, the firm provides discretionary investment advisory services and sub-advisory services for various long/short equity, credit, event-driven and multi-strategy private investment funds, registered investment companies, an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities organized under European Union Directors, and separately managed accounts.

Highland Capital Management LP (Highland) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by James (Jim) Dondero and Mark Okada in 1993. They are owned by the Highland Claimant Trust. Highland acts as an investment adviser or sub-adviser to structured product vehicles (which include but not limited to CLOs and Collateralized Debt Obligations unregistered investment funds, and single Client accounts).

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is the SEC-registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in New York City. In 2010, Banc of America Securities LLC merged with MLPFS and the firm uses the trade name Bank of America Merrill Lynch. MLPFS's global strategy and economics team serves institutional and individual investors using a wide range of macroeconomic disciplines. Their analysis of global issues provides clients with investment ideas, market forecasts, macro overviews and specific sector recommendations across asset classes, regions and disciplines. Their equity research team conducts fundamental analysis on companies globally and provides institutional and retail clients with industry-specific and in-depth research and analysis on numerous industries. The firm's global fixed-income and equity-linked research focuses on fixed-income and equity derivatives, fixed-income strategy, convertibles, commodities, high-yield, mortgages, municipals and global foreign exchange.