Specifically, we will seek to capitalize on the extensive experience of Daniel C. Herz, Jonathan Z. Cohen and David Heikkinen in the energy sector, including in upstream, midstream, and minerals and royalties.

Mr. Cohen was a co-founder of Atlas America, Inc., later renamed Atlas Energy, Inc., and responsible for its initial public offering in 2004. Through Atlas Energy, members of our management team were some of the early pioneers in the Marcellus Shale, where they drilled some of the first horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale. In 2011, Atlas Energy was sold to Chevron for $4.3 billion. Mr. Cohen was also a co-founder of Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P., and responsible for its initial public offering in 2000. As an executive of Atlas Pipeline and its general partner along with Mr. Herz, they oversaw the growth of the company from a $40 million enterprise organization at Atlas Pipeline’s IPO to its collective sale to Targa Resources for $7.7 billion in 2015. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Herz oversaw the operational growth of the company, including its industry leading Permian Basin midstream assets. Mr. Cohen and Mr. Herz founded and took public Atlas Pipeline Holdings, L.P., the general partner of Atlas Pipeline, in 2006 with an enterprise value of $400 million and sold this company for approximately $2 billion in 2015 to Targa Resources.

Mr. Herz is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of WhiteHawk Income Corporation, a natural gas mineral and royalty company that completed its initial public offering in June 2026, after which it was renamed Whitehawk Minerals Corp. (collectively, “Whitehawk Energy”). Mr. Herz is also a director of Presidio Production Company, an independent energy company.

Mr. Heikkinen is currently Chief Development Officer of Whitehawk Energy, and he was the Founder and CEO of Heikkinen Energy Advisors, a top-tier independent research and investment advisory platform that served institutional investors during the U.S. shale revolution. Prior to founding Heikkinen Energy Advisors, he served as Head of E&P Equity Research at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., and began his career as a production engineer and facilities engineer at Shell.

Our management team has extensive experience in taking companies public, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate sales, and equity and debt capital markets transactions. Since 2000, our management team is responsible for the successful listing and initial public offerings of eight energy companies. Additionally, they have overseen over $31 billion of energy transactions across the upstream, midstream, and minerals and royalty value chain. Also, our management team has been responsible for developing bank relationships worldwide, that have provided billions of dollars of committed capital to their companies. Our team has experience investing across a variety of commodity price cycles and a track record of identifying high-quality assets and businesses with significant resources, capital and optimization potential.