Richard Victor Silver

Virtus Event Opportunities Trust operates as an open-end management investment company that provides risk-adjusted returns with relative volatility in virtually all market environments. The fund invests in event-driven stocks of companies involved in publicly announced mergers, takeovers and other corporate reorganizations, asset sales or other divestitures, restructurings, re-financings, recapitalizations, reorganizations and other special situations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Valhalla, NY.

Equitable Life Insurance Co. provides investment advice. Its products include life insurance, retirement, retirement plans for employers and investments. The company was founded by Henry Hyde in 1859 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

AXA Financial, Inc. provides financial advisory and insurance services. The company operates in two business segments: The Financial Advisory/Insurance and The Investment Management. The Financial Advisory/Insurance segment offers a variety of term, variable and universal life insurance products, variable and fixed-interest annuity products, mutual funds and other investment products and asset management, financial planning and other services principally to individuals, small and medium-size businesses and professional and trade associations. The Investment Management segment is principally comprised of the investment management business. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company of America provides life insurance product. It offers variety of fixed and variable life insurance policies which offer policy features. It issues Market Stabilizer Option (MSO), an investment option available under certain variable life insurance policies. The company was founded on March 6, 1969 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Equitable Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment adviser and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Equitable Distribution Holding Corp., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). Equitable Advisors provides investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, banks or thrift institutions, corporations and other business entities, and pension and profit-sharing plans.

The Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Canada (ELIC) is an independent fund of funds manager headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1920. ELIC provides individual life and critical illness insurance, group life and health coverage, annuities, retirement savings, pension plans, and segregated fund investments.

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.