Leslie Foley

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

The Gabelli Convertible & Income Securities Fund, Inc. operates as a closed-end, diversified management investment company whose investment objective is to seek a high level of total return on its assets. The company was founded on December 19, 1988 and is headquartered in Rye, NY.

Gabelli Equity Trust, Inc. is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. Its primary objective is long term growth of capital with income as a secondary objective. The fund will invest at least 80% of its assets in equity securities under normal market conditions. The company was founded on May 20, 1986 and is headquartered in Rye, NY.

Gabelli Utility Trust is a closed-end diversified investment management company, which seeks long term growth of capital and income. It invests in companies that provide products, services, or equipment for the generation of electricity, gas, and water. The company was founded on July 9, 1999 and is headquartered in Rye, NY.

Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust is a non-diversified closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek consistent level of after-tax total return for its investors with an emphasis on qualified dividends by investing its assets in equity securities and income producing securities of domestic and foreign companies involved in the utilities industry and other industries that are expected to pay dividends periodically. The company was founded on March 8, 2004 and is headquartered in Rye, NY.

The GDL Fund is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The company's primary investment objective is to achieve absolute returns in various market conditions without excessive risk of capital. It invests in securities of companies involved in publicly announced mergers, takeovers, tender offers and leveraged buyouts and to a lesser extent in corporate reorganizations involving stubs, spin-offs, and liquidations to achieve its objective. The company was founded on October 17, 2006 and is headquartered in Rye, NY.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP provides legal services. Its practice areas include labor and employment, litigation, tax, and transactions. The firm serves high-tech companies in the areas of legal advice related to software licensing, intellectual property, and venture capital investments. The company was founded by Henry William O'Melveny in 1885 and is headquartered in Los Angeles. CA.

Dewey Ballantine LLP is a law firm, which provides legal services in areas of corporate transactions, litigation and tax matters, M&A, private equity, project finance, corporate finance, corporate reorganization and bankruptcy, antitrust, intellectual property, sports law, structured finance and international trade. Its Industry specializations include energy and utilities, healthcare, insurance, financial services, media, consumer and industrial goods, consumer electronics, technology, telecommunications and transportation. It is founded in 1909 and is located in New York, NY