Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP is a New York City-based law firm comprised of more than 35 professionals, offering its clients legal services in a broad range of business related matters. Founded in 1992, the Firm specializes in many areas of commercial law: Corporate, Securities, Private Investment Funds, Broker-Dealer Regulation, Real Estate, Litigation, Arbitration, Tax and Estate Planning.

Ogilvy Renault LLP is a full-service law firm with close to 450 lawyers and patent and trade-mark agents practising in the areas of business, litigation, intellectual property, and employment and labour. The firm was voted Best Law Firm in Canada two years in a row at the 2008 and 2009 International Legal Alliance Summit & Awards.

Lowenstein Sandler PC is a nationally recognized law firm with more than 270 attorneys. The firm's Specialty Finance practice handles mergers and acquisitions, acquisition financing, PIPEs, SPACs and other corporate finance matters for a wide array of investment funds, leading national investment banks, and issuers, in deals worldwide. In 2007, the group assisted in more than $1.9 billion in transactions and ranked first in the nation (by dollars raised) and second in the nation (by number of transactions) for representing placement agents in PIPE transactions, and third in the nation (by number of transactions) for representing investors in PIPEs, according to The PIPES Report and PrivateRaise.com.

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a full-service law firm with 450 lawyers in New York, Washington, D.C., and London, has one of the nation's leading activist investing practices. The firm represents entrepreneurial and institutional investors, activist-only investors and "occasional activists" on federal securities law, state corporate law, proxy rules, Hart-Scott-Rodino requirements and related matters. The firm also handles investigations and litigation arising out of activist activity. SRZ has been involved in some of the highest-profile campaigns in recent years, including CSX Corp., Time Warner Inc., H.J. Heinz Co., Kerr-McGee Corp., Target Corp. and The New York Times Co. Additionally, the combined expertise of the business transactions, securities and litigation attorneys comprising the firm's corporate governance team makes SRZ well-qualified to advise on the full spectrum of corporate governance issues.

The Institutional Limited Partners Association is a not-for-profit association committed to serving limited partner investors in the global private equity industry by providing a forum for facilitating value-added communication, enhancing education in the asset class and promoting research and standards in the private equity industry. ILPA has over 215 institutional member organizations that collectively manage approximately $1 trillion of private equity assets. For a copy of the ILPA Private Equity Principles or for more information about ILPA, please visit our website.

Trusted Insight, Inc is an on-line community and classifieds dedicated to alternative investments. The site allows qualified institutional investors to review, source, and comment on managers. We are the leading user generated content site for financial information on global alternative investments.

Hedge Fund Solutions, LLC (HFS) provides investment research, strategy and stakeholder communications consulting to companies and investors interested in, or involved with, shareholder activist campaigns. Since 2001 HFS has become the trusted advisor to numerous institutional investors, CEOs and board members worldwide. The firm publishes The Catalyst Equity Research Report™, a free weekly report highlighting the companies being targeted by activist investors, and the Catalyst Investment Research™ report, a fee-based research product that combines company-specific shareholder activism research with deep value investment analysis. In addition, HFS administers The Official Activist Investing Blog™, the definitive source for activist shareholder information.

Preqin is the leading source of information for the alternative assets industry, providing data and analysis via online databases, publications and bespoke data requests. Preqin also works with fund managers to identify and approach institutional investors for new vehicles via its flagship Fundraising Support Service.

For over twenty years, IR magazine has been an essential business resource for anyone involved in raising capital for companies and those who communicate regularly with analysts and investors. Readership includes IROs, CEOs, CFOs, and corporate communications practitioners within public companies. IR magazine produces over ten events around the world each year, as well as a monthly print and digital publication, plus regular online content

Corporate Secretary magazine is the leading publication for governance, risk, compliance and ethics professionals. Corporate Secretary magazine offers issue-specific supplements, an online archive of articles, and events such as Corporate Secretary's Think Tank forums, conferences and the Corporate Secretary Magazine Awards.

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Eurekahedge is world’s largest independent data provider and research house dedicated to alternative investments. Maintaining coverage of over 20,800 funds across all strategies and asset classes, Eurekahedge is the most widely used and quoted alternative research house worldwide. Eurekahedge has produced a market-leading research data suite from which our hedge fund and Islamic fund indices are derived; an array of region-specific hedge fund, private equity fund, Islamic fund, real estate fund, enhanced equity fund (SRI) and socially responsible investment fund (SRI) databases; as well as a collection of educational guides for both funds and investors. Founded in 2001, Eurekahedge has offices in London, New York and Singapore.

Eureka Private Equity is a comprehensive online portal providing one-stop service for private equity and venture capital professionals. This portal provides daily news stories about the global private equity and venture capital industry. In addition to the free news service, Eureka Private Equity also has a global suite of private equity fund databases covering over 7,400 funds across all regions in this alternative investment universe – a significant increase of over 250% since it was first launched in 2005. Eureka Private Equity is a subsidiary of Eurekahedge, the world’s largest independent alternative fund data provider and research house, covering over 20,800 funds across all strategies and asset classes. Our global alternative research encompasses hedge funds, funds of funds, Islamic funds, real estate funds, long-only absolute return funds, enhanced equity funds (130/30) and socially responsible investment funds (SRI).