Stephen Vakil

Quilter & Co. Ltd. (Quilter) is the investment management subsidiary of Quilter Cheviot Ltd., itself a subsidiary of Quilter Cheviot Holdings Ltd. in Great Britain. The firm, which traces their ancestry back to 1777, was acquired by Morgan Stanley in 2007 and in 2012, the firm's management and private equity firm, Bridgepoint, partnered to purchase them from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. The firm is headquartered in London and has a network of regional offices around the UK, Jersey and Ireland including Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jersey, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Salisbury. They provide discretionary portfolio, managed portfolio, stockbroking, SIPP and ISA services to a range of clients including private investors, charities and trusts, pension funds, corporate bodies and life insurance companies.

Quilter Cheviot Ltd. is the investment management subsidiary of Quilter Cheviot Holdings Ltd., ultimately held by Quilter Plc (LON: QLT) in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1985 as Quilter Goodison & Co. In 2013, they merged with Cheviot Asset Management Ltd. Headquartered in London, Quilter Cheviot provides bespoke investment portfolios for individuals and families for generations.

NB Distressed Debt Investment Fund Ltd. operates as a closed-end investment fund. It intends to provide investors with risk-adjusted returns through long-biased, opportunistic stressed, distressed and special situation credit-related investments while seeking to limit downside risk by, amongst other things, focusing on senior and senior secured debt with both collateral and structural protection. The company was founded on April 20, 2010 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, the United Kingdom.