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Metropolitan West Asset Management LLC (MWAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1996 by Tad Rivelle, Laird Landmann and Stephen Kane. They are wholly-owned by TCW Asset Management Co. LLC, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The TCW Group, Inc. MWAM offers fixed income portfolio management services to institutional investors, as well as individual investors through the Metropolitan West Funds.

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

Western Asset Management Co. (Western Asset) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc., which is owned by Franklin Resources, Inc. Western Asset provides discretionary investment management services to primarily institutional clients.

Countrywide Estate Agents provides property sale services. It offers conveyance, lettings and financial services. The company was founded on January 27, 1964 and is headquartered in Milton Keynes, the United Kingdom.