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Leerink Partners LLC is a full-service brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Jeffrey Leerink in 1995 and formerly known as SVB Securities LLC. They rebranded as Leerink Partners in 2023. The firm is a subsidiary of SVB Securities LLC. Leerink Partners provides institutional sales, equity research, institutional trading, and corporate finance and asset management services to the healthcare and technology industries. They offer superior execution capabilities in common stock, convertibles and derivatives with a singular focus on healthcare and a knowledge-led approach.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Harris Corp. engages in the provision of technology-based solutions for tactical communications, geospatial systems and services, air traffic management, avionics and electronic warfare, and space and intelligence. It operates through the following business segments: Communication Systems, Electronic Systems, Space and Intelligence Systems, and Corporate. The Communication Systems segment services markets in tactical communications and defense products, including tactical ground and airborne radio communications solutions and night vision technology, in public safety networks. The Electronic Networks Systems segment provides electronic warfare, avionics, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance solutions for the defense industry and air traffic management solutions for the civil aviation industry. The Space and Intelligence systems provides intelligence, space protection, geospatial, complete earth observation, universe exploration, positioning, navigation and timing, environmental solutions for national security, defenses, civil and commercial customers, using advanced sensors, antennas and payloads, as well as ground processing and information analytics. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Melbourne, FL.

Brean Capital is an independent investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1973 and provides equity research, corporate finance and advisory investment banking, equity institutional sales and trading, and asset management to institutional investors and corporate clients. Their fixed income business provides sales, trading, research and banking services on a wide range of mortgage and asset-backed, US Treasury and government agency securities, structured products, corporate bonds, and municipal debt. The fixed income sales team employs a highly analytical approach to bond selection, trade execution, and overall bond portfolio management. Under the guidance of fixed income strategists, the fixed income team uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses to create custom investment portfolios and develop targeted, executable bond trading strategies to complement their clients? balance sheets.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

Pura Vida Investments LLC (Pura Vida) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2012 by Efrem Kamen, Frank Litvack and Doron Junger. Pura Vida provides discretionary investment advisory services to private pooled investment vehicles, intended for institutional and other sophisticated investors, pooled investment vehicles the firm sub-advises, and managed accounts.

Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AllianzGI US) is an investment advisory firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 as Allianz Global Investors Capital LLC. In 2022, Voya Investment Management Co. LLC, which is ultimately owned by Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), acquired the firm from Allianz SE (ETR: ALV). AllianzGI US provides portfolio management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients as well as certain Wrap Fee Programs.

TimesSquare Capital Management LLC (TimesSquare) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 by Grant Babyak, Ian Rosenthal, and Stephen Green. They are a subsidiary of TimesSquare Manager Member LLC, which is owned by Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). TimesSquare provides investment advisory services to various types of institutional investors as well as certain high net-worth individuals and in limited instances to modeled portfolios.