CAPITAL MARKETS

With attorneys in major fi nancial centers across the U.S. and in AM LAW 100 SINCE 2001 the UK, Asia and the Middle East, Duane Morris routinely advises • More than 800 LAWYERS in offi ces in the clients on securities law and governance issues. Our lawyers assist U.S., UK and Asia with preparing and fi ling registration and proxy statements, annual, quarterly and current reports and other SEC fi lings, as well as private • 12 consecutive years of revenue growth placement memoranda and related private offering materials. We • 133 PARTNERS have chosen to join also handle complex business transactions—M&A, equity offerings Duane Morris in the past 5 years and debt fi nancings—and leverage our industry knowledge and contacts with investment banks, placement agents, investment INDUSTRIES funds and other industry participants to identify possible partners • BANKING AND FINANCE • LIFE SCIENCES AND to help our clients grow their businesses. • CANNABIS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES • CONSTRUCTION AND • PRIVATE EQUITY SERVICES ENGINEERING • REAL ESTATE/REITs • SHAREHOLDER • IPO s & OTHER OFFERINGS • EDUCATION • RETAIL/CONSUMER ACTIVISM GUIDANCE • FINANCINGS • ENERGY/ PRODUCTS • RESTRUCTURING & • COMPLIANCE & REPORTING ENVIRONMENTAL • TECH-ENABLED REORGANIZATION • FINTECH SERVICES • MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS • ENTITY FORMATION • GAMING • TRANSPORTATION, • GOVERNANCE AUTOMOTIVE AND • INSURANCE/ LOGISTICS REINSURANCE OFFICE LOCATIONS & REACH CHAMBERS USA 2021 • Ranked by Chambers USA, Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacifi c 2021 • Rankings for Corporate/M&A & Private Equity in ; Corporate/M&A: Domestic, Singapore; and Corporate/M&A, Vietnam • Multiple partners recognized with citations for excellence in Corporate/M&A and Private Equity law UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL Los Angeles Myanmar Atlanta Hanoi U.S. NEWS-BEST LAWYERS BEST Shanghai Austin Miami Ho Chi Minh City LAW FIRMS 2021 Baltimore New York London Singapore • U.S. News-Best Lawyers Best Law Firms 2021 Boca Raton Newark awarded Duane Morris a Top-Tier national Boston > Also satellite offi ces, including ranking in Corporate law and numerous Bangor and Portland, Maine; Cherry Hill Top-Tier regional rankings in Corporate, and Seattle, Washington Chicago San Diego Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity. > Alliances in Mexico and Sri Lanka Dallas San Francisco > Leadership position with Houston Silicon Valley THEDEAL international network of Lake Tahoe Washington, D.C. independent law fi rms • Ranked as Top 5 At-the-Market Offering Selling Agent Counsel, Las Vegas Wilmington aggregating $3.6 billion of total commitment, for 2021 1 REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS Financings Public Offerings – Issuers • Represented QUANTA SERVICES, INC. (NYSE: PWR), a leading • Represented ANNOVIS BIO, INC. (NYSE American: ANVS), a integrated infrastructure solutions provider, in connection with clinical stage, drug platform company addressing the treatment of an amendment of its $1.8 billion senior secured revolving credit neurodegenerative diseases, in connection with its initial public offering. facility with Bank of America, as administrative agent, and a syndicate of lenders. • Represented THE LOVESAC COMPANY (Nasdaq: LOVE), a technology-driven modular furniture designer and manufacturer, • Represented DIAMOND OFFSHORE DRILLING, INC. (NYSE: DO) in connection with its entry into a new $950 million senior revolving in its $64 million initial public offering, followed by its 2.5 million- credit facility with Wells Fargo Bank, as administrative agent, and a share secondary offering that raised close to $100 million. syndicate of lenders, which will mature in 2023. • Represented DIAMOND OFFSHORE DRILLING, INC. (NYSE: DO) in • Represented STONEMOR PARTNERS (NYSE: STON), a leading connection with its underwritten registered public offering of $500 owner/operator of cemeteries and funeral homes in multiple states million of its 7.875% senior notes due 2025. and Puerto Rico, in its $447.5 million recapitalization transaction • Represented UNITIL CORPORATION (NYSE: UTL), an interstate ($385 million private placement of 9.875% Senior Secured Notes electricity and natural gas utility servicing New Hampshire, and concurrent private placement of $62.5 million of liquidation Massachusetts and Maine, in its $33.3 million underwritten public value of Series A Convertible Preferred Units of the Partnership). offering of common stock. Governance and Shareholder Activism Public Offerings – Underwriters • Regularly advise public company boards and management teams • Represented B. RILEY FBR, INC. (Nasdaq: Riley), as joint book- regarding developments in corporate governance and strategies to running manager of a $132.25 million underwritten public offering address shareholder activism, including shareholder nominations of 6.375% Senior Notes due 2025 with $17.25 million issued and proposals. pursuant to exercise of underwriter’s option. • Served as counsel to a U.S.-BASED CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT • Represented JONESTRADING INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES LLC, FIRM as it addressed an unsolicited offer to purchase the company CANACCORD GENUITY INC., D.A. DAVIDSON & CO., FBR and interest from an activist investor; advised executive officer team CAPITAL MARKETS & CO., JMP SECURITIES LLC and NATIONAL and board of directors on takeover protection strategies, defense of SECURITIES CORPORATION, acting as agents in a $150 million proxy contest and defense of expedited litigation seeking to enjoin at the market offering of common stock for Preferred Apartment holding the company’s annual meeting. Communities, Inc. (NYSE: APTS), a Maryland corporation formed • Advised the special committee of the board of directors of a primarily to acquire and operate multifamily properties in select NASDAQ-TRADED GLOBAL MANUFACTURER, MARKETER AND targeted markets throughout the United States. DISTRIBUTOR OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS on a strategy that • Represented COWEN AND COMPANY, LLC, as sales agent, in a defeated a hostile-takeover effort by activist fund and included the $40 million at the market equity offering of common stock for HTG board’s adoption of a “poison pill.” Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM), a commercial stage • Represented the special committee of the board of directors of life sciences company focused on advancing precision medicine. QUEST SOFTWARE in its stock-option-backdating investigation and • Represented STIFEL, NICOLAUS & COMPANY, acting as sales agent the related derivative and class-action litigation and government in a $50 million at the market equity offering of common stock for investigations. Endologix Inc. (Nasdaq: ELGX), which develops, manufactures, markets and sells medical devices for the treatment of aortic disorders. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Public Company M&A DARRICK MIX • Represented DUPONT (NYSE: DD), a global innovation leader 215.979.1206 with technology-based materials, in its $110 million acquisition [email protected] of Evoqua’s Memcor business, which includes ultrafiltration and DEAN M. COLUCCI membrane bio-filtration technologies. 973.424.2020 • Represented FLRISH, INC. d/b/a HARBORSIDE (CSE: HBOR), [email protected] a vertically integrated California cannabis company, in its $250 million reverse takeover of Canada-based Lineage Grow Company JAMES T. SEERY (CSE:BUDD), enabling FLRish to complete an inversion transaction 973.424.2088 and a contemporaneous private placement Regulation S offering. [email protected] • Represented FIRMENICH, one of the world’s largest producers of RICHARD A. SILFEN flavors and fragrances, in its $80 million all-cash tender offer of 215.979.1225 U.S. public company Senomyx, Inc., a leader in taste innovation and [email protected] sweet, cooling and bitter solutions (Nasdaq: SNMX). SHELTON M. VAUGHAN • Represented CATALENT, INC. (NYSE: CTLT), a drug delivery 713.402.3906 technology company, in its $140 million all cash acquisition via [email protected] tender offer of Juniper Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR), including its U.K.-based Juniper Pharma Services division. This publication is for general information and does not include full legal analysis of • Represented the special committee of the board of directors of the matters presented. It should not be construed or relied upon as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The invitation to contact the JAVELIN MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CORP. (NYSE: JMI) in a $900 attorneys in our firm is not a solicitation to provide professional services and should million merger in which ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. (NYSE: ARR) not be construed as a statement as to any availability to perform legal services in any jurisdiction in which such attorney is not permitted to practice. acquired JAVELIN through a cash tender offer followed by a second step merger. www.duanemorris.com | © Duane Morris LLP 2021 | August 2021 2