AIMA / Simmons & Simmons Report on Activist Investment Managers

February 25, 2015

As we endeavor to continue to provide the latest guidance to our clients in the activist arena, annexed please find a report on The Role of Activist Alternative Managers prepared by AIMA and our investment management law firm alliance partner, Simmons & Simmons. This report and our recently distributed premiere edition of the Shareholder Activism Bullet Report demonstrate the increasing role of activist investors in today’s marketplace. If you have any questions about either report, or know of others who may be interested in being added to our mailing list, please contact your primary attorney in Seward & Kissel’s Investment Management Group.

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If you have any questions regarding the matters covered in this memo, please contact any of the partners and counsel listed below or your primary attorney in Seward & Kissel’s Investment Management Group.