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Nicholas Investment Partners LP (NIP) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The firm is owned by NIP 3 LP and was co-founded by Catherine and Art Nicholas in 2006 as Wagonhound Investments LP. NIP provides investment advice to individuals, banks or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, or charitable organizations, corporations or business entities, UMA accounts and private investment vehicles.

Life Technologies Corp. provides products in the areas of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. Its brands include Invitrogen, Applied Biosystems, Gibco, Molecular Probes, Noves, Ambion and Ion Torrent. The firm’s portfolio includes the most cited products and technologies in qPCR, capillary electrophoresis sequencing, nextgeneration sequencing, molecular diagnostics, forensics, cell culture and analysis, and agriculture research. The company was founded on November 21, 2008 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.

Silver Point Capital LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded in 2002 by Edward Mule and Robert O'Shea. The firm serves as the management company with discretionary trading authority to private pooled investment vehicles. Their flagship funds include: Silver Point Capital Fund, L.P. (the Domestic Flagship Fund), Silver Point Capital Offshore Fund, Ltd. (the Offshore Flagship Fund) and Silver Point Capital Offshore Master Fund, L.P. (the Master Flagship Fund).

Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC (TCP) is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Capital Investment Advisors LLC, ultimately owned by Blackrock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK), which acquired them in 2018. TCP manages assets for pooled investment vehicles, US-registered investment companies, business development companies and private investment funds.

Oaktree Capital Management LP (Oaktree) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Howard Marks, Bruce Karsh, and Sheldon Stone in 1995 as an LLC and was reorganized as an LP in 2007. They are a subsidiary of Oaktree Capital Management GP LLC, ultimately held by Brookfield Corp. (NYSE, TSE: BN) in Canada. Oaktree provides advisory services to clients with separately managed accounts and to private limited partnerships and other pooled investment vehicles for which either Oaktree or an affiliate acts as general partner and/or investment manager. The firm is a socially responsible investor and a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

JPMorgan Private Investments, Inc. (JPMPI) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1991. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase Holdings LLC and ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase and Co. (NYSE: JPM). JPMPI acts as a sub-adviser and adviser to open-end and closed-end registered investment companies; provides investment advice and/or administrative functions for private investment funds organized as limited partnerships, limited liability companies or offshore companies; and provides discretionary investment management services in various wrap fee programs offered through an affiliate, JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS).

Part of WCW Capital LLC, First Turn Management LLC is a company that provides investment advice. The company is based in Del Mar, CA.