John Howard Pace

MacKay Shields LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The original predecessor to the firm, MacKay-Shields Economics, was founded in 1938 as an economic consulting firm and it became MacKay Shields Financial Corp. (MSFC) in 1969. In 1984, MSFC was purchased by New York Life Insurance Co. (NYLIC). NYLIC established New York Life Investment Management Holdings LLC (NYLIM Holdings) in 1999 and transferred ownership of MSFC to NYLIM Holdings. In 1999, MSFC was converted to MacKay Shields LLC. The ownership, control and management of MacKay Shields did not change as a result of this conversion. The firm is wholly owned by NYLIM Holdings, which is wholly-owned by NYLIC. MacKay Shields provides discretionary investment management services primarily to institutional clients. The firm is a signatory of the United Nation Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Symetra Investment Management Co. (SIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 2019 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Symetra Financial Corp., which is owned by Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. in Japan. SIM offers advisory services to institutional clients, which include certain of its affiliates and also may include other third-party institutions or entities such as insurance companies and trusts.

Stone Harbor Investment Partners LLC (Stone Harbor) is a registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Peter Wilby in 2006 and was acquired in 2022 by Virtus Partners, Inc., a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partner, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS), from SHIP Capital Partners LP. Stone Harbor provides portfolio management services to a wide variety of US and non-US institutional accounts. In addition, the firm is the investment adviser or sub-adviser to various pooled investment vehicles including US registered investment companies (open-end and closed-end funds), collective investment trusts, private funds and registered offshore funds such as Irish UCITS and Irish qualifying investor funds.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides legal services. It specializes in the areas of corporate law, securities, corporate, litigation, mergers, real estate, pro bono, investment management and taxation. Their clients include industrial, commercial, financial, private funds, governmental, educational, charitable and cultural enterprises and entities. The company was founded by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell in 1879 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Citigroup Asset Management is a registered investment advisor located in New York City with an additional office in Washington, DC. The firm is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C)