Mariner’s Business MIG, a Delaware limited liability company, is an alternative asset management firm found in December 1992 by William J. Michaelcheck. Mariner provides discretionary portfolio management and advisory services to institutional clients which are primarily privately-offered pooled investment vehicles (each, a “Fund,” or together the “Funds”) and, to a lesser extent other types of institutional investors such as insurance companies, endowments, foundations and plan sponsors via managed account agreements.1 Mariner is currently wholly owned by MIG Holdings, LLC, which is 100% owned by Mariner Employees2. Advisory Services Mariner serves as investment adviser to numerous funds (the “Mariner Funds3”) and separately managed accounts (the “Accounts”) (Collectively, Mariner Funds and Accounts are referred to herein as “Investment Advisory Accounts”). Mariner generally tailors its advisory services to the individual needs of its clients in Accounts and manages the Mariner Funds in accordance with the investment strategy of each and not based upon the individual needs of the investors in the Mariner Funds. Mariner Funds Mariner acts as investment adviser to several types of Mariner Funds, including:
• Hedge funds (the “Hedge Funds”) and private equity funds (the “Private Equity Funds”) that use various investment strategies to invest in securities and other investments (such as bonds, stocks, loans and derivatives); and,
• Funds for which portfolio managers (or traders) trade a separate account or “book” for those Funds in a multi-strategy, multi-trader format (collectively, the “Multi-Strategy Funds”). Please see Item 8 for information about the Mariner Funds’ investment strategies, investments in which those Funds invest, and risk factors associated with those strategies and investments. Each of the Mariner Funds rely on the exception from the definition of an “investment company” provided

by Section 3(c) (7) of the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), except for Mariner Opportunities Fund, L.P. which relies on the exception from the definition of an “investment company” provided by Section 3(c) (1) of the 1940 Act and which is not currently being offered for new investment. Accounts Mariner also serves as investment manager to a limited number of Accounts for institutional investors, which Mariner usually manages side-by-side with Mariner Funds. 1 Mariner currently advises a few managed accounts on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis. 2 “Mariner Employees” include certain employees, their family members and trusts set up by such person. 3 “Mariner Funds” include feeder funds and master funds and may be referred to herein as Fund, Funds, Feeder Funds, Master Funds or Mariner Funds. Sub-Adviser Mariner serves as a sub-adviser to other investment advisers, including in limited cases Investment Managers to SEC registered comingled investment vehicles (e.g., mutual funds where MIG via a managed account arrangement serves as a sub-adviser). Client Restrictions Mariner generally permits its clients to impose restrictions on their Accounts (i.e., separately managed accounts) with respect to: (i) the specific types of investments or asset classes that Mariner will or will not purchase for their Accounts; (ii) the nature of the issuers of investments that Mariner will or will not purchase for their Accounts; and/or (iii) the risk profile of instruments Mariner will or will not purchase for their Accounts, or the risk profile of the Accounts as a whole. Client Assets As of December 31, 2023 (the “Reporting Date”), Mariner manages approximately $126 billion in Regulatory Assets Under Management (“RAUM”) and of that RAUM figure, Mariner manages $126 billion on a discretionary basis and approximately $3 million on a non-discretionary basis. As of the Reporting Date, Mariner’s Assets Under Management (“AUM”) was approximately $7.1 billion, and of that AUM figure, $7.1 billion was being managed on a discretionary basis and $3 million was being managed on a non-discretionary basis.