Mark E. Epstein

MTS Health Partners LP provides strategic and financial advisory services to healthcare companies from global corporations to venture backed businesses. Its strategic advisory alternatives include mergers, acquisitions, company sales, divestitures, recapitalizations, restructurings, general strategic advisory, financing oversight and oversight opinions. The firms financing solutions include traditional private convertible preferred issuances, cross-over focused convertible transactions, common stock and structured/convertible PIPEs, registered direct and acquisition financings, secondary sales, special situations, structured debt financings and royalty monetization. The company was founded by Curtis Scott Lane in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. provided wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services. Merrill Lynch was a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Windrose Health Investors LLC (Windrose) is a private equity subsidiary of MTS Health Partners LP founded in 2000 by Curtis Scott Lane. The firm is headquartered in New York City.