C. J. Martin

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC provides corporate advisory, capital market, and asset management services. The company was founded on April 13, 1992 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1989, Petrie Parkman & Co., Inc. is an investment bank headquartered in Denver, Colorado with additional offices in Houston and London. The offer investment banking services, equity research, sales and trading and underwriting in the capital markets area. Their research analysts focus on the energy sector. Their research coverage extends from small oil companies to large integrated major oils, pipeline, midstream and downstream companies. Petrie Parkman is a member of the NASD and the SIPC. They are a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER).

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Contrarian Capital Management LLC (Contrarian) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1995 by Jon Bauer, Janice Stanton and Gil Tenzer. Contrarian provides advisory services on a discretionary basis to institutional investors and pooled investment vehicles.