Matthew S. Lilling

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.

MTS Health Partners LP provides strategic and financial advisory services to healthcare companies from global corporations to venture backed businesses. Its strategic advisory alternatives include mergers, acquisitions, company sales, divestitures, recapitalizations, restructurings, general strategic advisory, financing oversight and oversight opinions. The firms financing solutions include traditional private convertible preferred issuances, cross-over focused convertible transactions, common stock and structured/convertible PIPEs, registered direct and acquisition financings, secondary sales, special situations, structured debt financings and royalty monetization. The company was founded by Curtis Scott Lane in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Permian Investment Partners LP (Permian) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Dallas, Texas with an additional office in New York City. The firm was founded in 2008 by partners Alex Duran, Scott Hendrickson and former partner Cara Goldenberg. Permian provides discretionary investment management services and design, structure, and implement investment strategies for the Permian Funds and separately managed accounts (SMAs).