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NIRI Activism Tier 1 List Activist Investor Project Tier 1 List: Top 200 Activist Hedge Funds Activist Holder Name City State Contact Name (Title) Address Telephone Fax Email Situations 399 Park Avenue Gabe Hoffman Accipiter Capital Management, LLC 5 New York NY 38th Floor 212-705-8700 (Principal) New York, NY 10022-8113 180 North Stetson Avenue Brien M. O'Brien Advisory Research Inc. 1 Chicago IL Suite 5500 312-565-1414 312-565-2002 (President & CEO) Chicago, IL 60601-6716 Charles T. Akre Jr. 2 West Marshall Street Akre Capital Management LLC 1 Middleburg VA 540-687-8928 540-687-3899 [email protected] (CEO) Middleburg, VA 20118-2602 301 Commerce Street Amalgamated Gadget LP 3 Fort Worth TX Geoffrey Raynor Suite 3200 Fort Worth TX 76102 8500 Station Street Richard M. Osborne AMG Investments LLC 2 Mentor OH Suite 113 Steven A. Calabrese Mentor OH 44060 AmTrust Capital Management, Inc. 10451 Mill Run Circle 1 Owings Mills MD Jan Loeb 410-654-3315 (Barry Zyskind) Owings Mills, MD 21117 2000 Auburn Drive Denis J. Amato CFA, MBA Ancora Advisors LLC 1 Cleveland OH Suite 300 216-825-4000 216-825-4011 [email protected] (Executive Vice President) Cleveland, OH 44122-4328 50 Battery Place Jonah Meer ANS Investments LLC 2 New York NY Suite 7F (CEO) New York, NY 10280 26 Main Street David Tepper MBA Appaloosa Management LP 2 Chatham NJ 1st Floor 973-701-7000 973-701-7055 (President) Chatham, NJ 07928-2402 333 Earle Ovington Blvd. Arbor Realty Trust 1 Uniondale NY Kyle A. Permut Suite 900 Uniondale, NY 11553 c/o Olympia Capital Ireland Ltd. Asset Managers Int'l, Ltd Lewis Chester 1 Dublin Harcourt Center, 6th Floor Block 3, (Pentagon CM) Jafar Omid Harcourt Road Dublin 2, Ireland 122 East Tillman Avenue Atlantic Blue Group, Inc. 1 Lake Wales FL JD Alexander 863-679-9595 Lake Wales, FL 33853 888 Seventh Avenue James A. Mitarotonda MBA Barington Capital Group LP 7 New York NY 17th Floor 212-974-5701 212-586-7684 (Chairman & CEO) New York, NY 10106-0001 885 Third Avenue Steven A. van Dyke CFA Bay Harbour Management LLC 1 New York NY 34th Floor 212-371-2211 212-371-7497 [email protected] (Managing Principal) New York, NY 10022-4834 3060 Peachtree Road BBAC LLC 1 Atlanta GA Reid M. Zeising 404-495-7400 Atlanta, GA 30305 402 Railroad Avenue Timothy P. Bacci BlueLine Partners LLC 2 Danville CA Suite 201 925-236-9790 925-743-1170 (Managing Director) Danville, CA 94526-3876 909 Montgomery Street Rich ard C . Bl um MBA Blum Capital Partners LP 1 San Francisco CA Suite 400 415-434-1111 415-434-3130 [email protected] (Chairman) San Francisco, CA 94133-4625 15 East 5th Street Charles M. Gillman Boston Avenue Capital LLC 1 Tulsa OK Suite 2660 918-361-3168 918-512-4143 [email protected] (Principal) Tulsa, OK 74103-5021 Richard C. Breeden 100 Northfield Street Breeden Capital Management LLC 2 Greenwich CT 203-618-0065 203-618-0063 (CEO) Greenwich, CT 06830-4618 600 Lexington Avenue William Lawrence Collins MBA Brencourt Advisors LLC 1 New York NY 8th Floor 212-313-9700 212-313-9789 [email protected] (Chairman & CEO) New York, NY 10022-6005 421 N Beverly Drive Brener International Group LLC 1 Beverly Hills CA Gabriel Brener Suite 300 310-553-7009 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 10990 Wilshire Boulevard S Bristol Capital Advisors LLC Paul L. Kessler 1 Los Angeles CA uite 1410 310-696-0333 310-696-0334 [email protected] (Bristol Investment Fund Ltd) (Principal) Los Angeles, CA 90024-3900 724 Fifth Avenue Neal C. Bradsher CFA Broadwood Partners LP 1 New York NY 9th Floor 212-508-5735 212-508-5756 [email protected] (President) New York, NY 10019-4106 Phillip Goldstein Park 80 West Bulldog Related Entities 28 Saddle Brook NJ Andrew Dakos 201-556-0092 Saddle Brook, NJ 07663 Timothy Brog 100 Northfield Street Burton Capital Management LLC 1 Greenwich CT Robert G. Burton, Sr. 203-595-3000 Greenwich, CT 06830-4618 One S.W. Columbia Campbell Group LLC 1 Portland OR John Gilleland Suite 1700 503-275-9675 Portland, OR 97258 111 South Wacker Drive Carpe Diem Capital Management LLC 2 Chicago IL John Ziegelman Suite 3950 312-803-5010 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Hammond House 117 Piccadilly Bruno Sangle-ferriere Carrousel Capital Ltd. 1 London 5th Floor 44-20-7493-6518 44-20-7491-3641 [email protected] (CEO) London, LO W1J 7JU 100 Mill Plain Road Catalyst Fund LP 1 Danbury CT Steven Bronson 203-791-3944 Danbury, Connecticut 06811 500 Park Avenue Peter D'Angelo Caxton Associates LLC 1 New York NY 9th Floor 212-593-7700 212-371-9185 [email protected] (President) New York, NY 10022-1606 575 Lexington Ave. Centennial Energy Partners LP 1 New York NY Peter Seldin 33rd Floor 212-753-5150 New York, NY 10022 4510 Executive Drive Chadwick Capital Management LLC James M. Chadwick 1 San Diego CA Suite 200 858-458-5113 858-480-2849 (Monarch Activist Partners LP) (Managing Partner) San Diego, CA 92121-3023 222 North Sepulveda Boulevard Robert L. Chapman Jr. Chapman Capital LLC 6 El Segundo CA Suite 1322 310-662-1900 310-662-1917 [email protected] (Managing Partner) El Segundo, CA 90245-5659 Childrens Investment 7 Clifford Street 2 London Christopher Hohn 44-20-7440-2330 Fund Management (UK) LLP London W1S 2WE, United Kingdom 237 Park Ave. Clarus Capital Group Management LP 1 New York NY Ephraim Fields Suite 900 212-808-7330 New York, NY 10017 9 West 57th Street George E. Hall MBA Clinton Group, Inc. 4 New York NY 26th Floor 212-825-0400 212-825-0079 [email protected] (President & CEO) New York, NY 10019-2600 237 Park Avenue Wayne M. Cooperman Cobalt Capital Management Inc. 1 New York NY Suite 900 212-808-3756 212-808-3737 [email protected] (President) New York, NY 10017-3140 1 North Wacker Drive Clint Derek Coghill MBA Coghill Capital Management LLC 2 Chicago IL Suite 4350 312-422-8154 312-422-8156 [email protected] (President) Chicago, IL 60606-2828 420 Boylston Street Costa Brava Partnership III LP 3 Boston MA Seth Hamot 617-595-4400 Boston, MA 02116 10 East 53rd Street Eric S. Rosenfeld MBA Crescendo Advisors LLC 7 New York NY 35th Floor 212-319-7676 212-379-0706 (President & CEO) New York, NY 10022-5057 1 Activist Holder Name City State Contact Name (Title) Address Telephone Fax Email Situations 444 Fifth Avenue SW Crescent Capital VI LLC 1 Calgary AB Jeffery Gow Suite 1700 403-531-2658 403-264-5844 Calgary, AB T2P 2T8 CA 120 West 45th Street Tower 45 Dr. David E. Shaw PhD D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. 4 New York NY 39th Floor 212-478-0000 212-478-0100 [email protected] (President & CEO) New York, NY 10036-4041 130 Cheshire Lane Colin L. Smith Deephaven Capital Management LLC 1 Minnetonka MN Suite 102 952-249-5700 952-249-5320 (CEO) Minnetonka, MN 55305-1052 200 Park Avenue Ralph Fabian Dellacamera Jr. DellaCamera Capital Management LLC 3 New York NY Suite 3300 212-808-3590 212-808-3591 (Managing Member) New York, NY 10166-3399 745 Fifth Avenue Mark N. Diker MBA Diker Management LLC 2 New York NY Suite 1409 212-904-0321 212-308-6891 [email protected] (Managing Member) New York, NY 10151-1406 20 Marshall Street Robert K. Citrone Discovery Capital Management LLC 2 Norwalk CT Suite 310 203-838-3188 203-354-1450 (Principal) Norwalk, CT 06854-2256 Donald T. Netter 96 Cummings Point Road Dolphin Ltd. Partnership I LP 2 Stamford CT 203-358-8000 (Senior Managing Director) Stamford, CT 06902-7912 Alan S. Parsow 2222 Skyline Drive Elkhorn Partners LP 2 Elkhorn NE 402-289-3217 (General Partner) Elkhorn, NE 68022-1745 101 West Kirkwood Avenue James M. Elliott Elliott & Associates, Inc. 3 Bloomington IN Suite 230 812-332-5259 812-333-6918 [email protected] (President) Bloomington, IN 47402-6134 1120 Avenue of the Americas Charles I. Frumberg Emancipation Capital 1 New York NY Suite 1504 212-626-2640 212-626-2645 [email protected] (Managing Member) New York, NY 10036-6700 405 Lexington Avenue Endurance Capital Investors LP 1 New York NY Edward Yeo 26th Floor 212-956-2234 New York, NY 10174 500 Fifth Avenue Andrew L. Sole Esopus Creek Management 1 New York NY Suite 2620 212-302-7214 (Portfolio Manager) New York, NY 10110-2600 Curt Van Hill 5805 South 86th Circle Everest Funds Management LLC 7 Omaha NE 402-593-4548 402-537-6141 [email protected] (Chief Investment Officer) Omaha, NE 68127-4145 300 Drakes Landing Road Fairview Capital Investment Management Andrew Mathieson MBA 1 Greenbrae CA Suite 250 415-464-4640 415-464-0290 [email protected] LLC (Managing Member) Greenbrae, CA 94904-3125 1 Maritime Plaza Thomas F. Steyer Farallon Capital Management LLC 1 San Francisco CA Suite 2100 415-421-2132 415-421-2133 [email protected] (Senior Managing Member) San Francisco, CA 94111-3503 441 Vine Street Financial Stocks Capital Partners IV L.P. 1 Cincinnatti OH John Stein 513-241-6166 Cincinnati, OH 45202 40 West 4th Street Scott Galloway MBA Firebrand Partners 1 New York NY Suite 904 646-262-9076 212-842-2355 [email protected] (Chief Investment Officer) New York, NY 10012-1106 650 Madison Avenue Flag Luxury Riv LLC 1 New York NY Paul Kanavos 212-776-8181 New York, NY 10022 Jonathan Michael Starr 44 Brattle Street Flagg Street Capital LLC 1 Cambridge MA 617-876-6080 617-876-6081 [email protected] (Portfolio Manager) Cambridge, MA 02138-3741 1035 Powers Place Formation Capital, LLC 1 Alpharetta GA Arnold Whitman 707-754-9660 Alpharetta, GA 30004 2968 Cherokee Road Four Leaf Management, LLC 1 Birmingham AL Jonathan Kimerling Birmingham, AL 35223 502 Carnegie Center Neil A.
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