Michael Robert Apfel

Siguler Guff & Co. LP (Siguler Guff) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by George William Siguler, Andrew Joseph Guff and Donald Paul Spencer. The firm is headquartered in New York.with additional offices Boston, Houstan, London.

MidOcean Credit Fund Management LP (MidOcean) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2009 and is a subsidiary of MidOcean US Advisor LP. MidOcean provides investment advice with respect to private investment funds, CLOs, separately managed accounts and sub-advised accounts.

CIFC Investment Management LLC (CIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1993 as Deerfield Capital Management LLC and became CIFC Investment Management in 2018. They are wholly owned directly by CIFC Capital HoldCo LLC, which is an indirect subsidiary of CIFC LLC. CIM primarily provide investment management services to pooled investment vehicles that are CLOs and to private funds and investors that invest in corporate and structured credit.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Acupay System LLC provides securities-related tax services. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 2005 by Michael Robert Apfel.