Michael Aldridge

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.

Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was engaged in development, marketing and sale of prescription drugs. It operated as a biopharmaceutical company which focuses on the treatment of patients with serious, difficult-to-treat autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. The company's primary product was H.P. Acthar Gel, an injectable drug for the treatment of proteinuria in the nephrotic syndrome of the idiopathic type, or NS, the treatment of acute exacerbations of multiple sclerosis, or MS, in adults, the treatment of infantile spasms, or IS, in infants and children under two years of age, and the treatment of certain rheumatology related conditions, including the treatment of the rare and closely related neuromuscular disorders dermatomyositis and polymyositis. Questcor Pharmaceuticals was founded in September 1992 and was headquartered in Anaheim, CA.

Peplin, Inc. develops drugs and pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by James Harrison Aylward in 1998 and is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

S.G. Warburg Group Plc provides investment banking services. The company is focusing on mergers and acquisitions. It was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.