Allan J. Rimland

Stephens, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. The firm was founded in 1933 and is a subsidiary of Susi Holdings, Inc., which is owned by Stephens Financial Services LLC. Stephens provides comprehensive securities sales and trading services, including customized solutions for clients in North America and abroad.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.

AdCare Health Systems, Inc. operates as a healthcare real estate investment company that invests primarily in real estate purposed for long-term care and senior living. Its business consists of leasing and subleasing such facilities to tenants, which operate the facilities. Its facilities provide a range of healthcare and related services for both long-term and short-stay patients and residents. The company was founded by David A. Tenwick, J. Michael Williams and Gary L. Wade on August 14, 1991 and is headquartered in Suwanee, GA.

Healthcare Group, founded by John Gordon Freund, is a legal firm that specializes in providing legal advice to medical practices. The firm is based in Plymouth Meeting, PA. The private company offers a range of services including drafting new doctor employment agreements, advising on salary, bonus, benefits, and buy-in provisions, developing buy-in models, creating partnership agreements, advising on corporate counsel, sale or merger, hospital contracts, government regulations and compliance, practice valuation, and retirement plans and employee benefits. The firm has over 40 years of experience in the industry and has helped numerous medical practices with their legal needs.