Patrick Huvane

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Standard Diversified, Inc. is a holding company, which owns and operates subsidiaries in a variety of industries, including other tobacco products, insurance, and outdoor advertising. It operates through the following segments: Smokeless Products, Smoking Products, and NewGen Products. The Smokeless Product segment manufactures and markets moist snuff and contracts for and markets chewing tobacco products. The Smoking Products segment imports and markets cigarette papers, tubes, and related products; imports and markets finished cigars, MYO cigar tobaccos, and cigar wraps; and processes, packages, and markets pipe tobaccos. The NewGen Products segment trades e-cigarettes, e-liquids, vaporizers, and other related products; and distributes a wide assortment of vaping products to non-traditional retail outlets via VaporBeast and Vapor Shark. The company was founded by Martha C. Reider, Anne Cavanaugh and Richard C. Birkmeyer in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Based in New York City, Fletcher Asset Management, Inc. (FAM), is the investment advisor for U.S. and non-U.S. investment funds open to outside investors. The firm also advises Fletcher International, Ltd., the central investment vehicle for the Fletcher funds. Founded by Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. in 1991, the funds FAM advises span a variety of different investment objectives, with characteristics tailored to U.S. individual investors, U.S. tax-exempt organizations and non-U.S. individuals and organizations.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Formerly known as Lincoln Capital Fixed Income Management Co. LLC, Lehman Brothers Asset Management LLC (LBAM) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LEH)