Matthew Luchini

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC engages in the provision of pharmaceutical products. It discovers, develops, produces and markets innovative therapies. The firm extensive research and development efforts are focused on health care challenges in cardiology, oncology and internal medicine, as well as metabolic diseases, central nervous system disorders, ophthalmology and vaccines. The company is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ.

Front Line Strategic Consulting, Inc. provides consulting services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The firm's skill set include corporate strategy, financial analysis and forecasting, in-licensing and business development, market research and analysis, mergers and acquisition, new product planning, operations, manufacturing and packaging, project management, statistical analysis and econometric modeling and technical feasibility. The company was founded by Daniel J. Aguiar in 1992 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Forest Laboratories, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of branded forms of drug products. Its products include Bystolic, which is used to decrease heart rate and myocardial contractility; Daliresp, which is used to reduce the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation; Linzess, which is used in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and chronic idiopathic constipation; and Namenda, which is used in the treatment of moderate to severe dementia. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in New York, NY.