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• Palm Tree LLC (“Palm Tree”), the modern M&A advisor that provides integrated investment banking and consulting services for private equity firms and businesses worldwide, today announced that investment banking icons Tracy Albert and David M.V.
• “We are excited to share the appointment of a storied dealmaking partnership in the M&A and sponsor communities to our investment banking team,” said Pardis Nasseri, Chief Executive Officer and President of Palm Tree.
• Tracy Albert joins as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and will lead client coverage and business development initiatives to support Palm Tree’s continued growth.
• Albert previously held several senior investment banking roles, most recently at JD Merit and Company, where he was Vice Chairman and responsible for planning and strategic direction of the firm.

• Particularly striking in Atomic Power is that leading figures play themselves, including Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves and even Albert Einstein.
• This film, which offers a unique window on the dawn of the Atomic Age, resonates with its 2023 counterpart.
• Atomic Power was released when only 44,000 US households had television, so millions saw it in cinemas.

Nuclear messages on film

• Other critics, however, have suggested the film “skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb”.
• In contrast to 2023, the world did not yet have nuclear-armed rockets, nuclear-powered submarines, nor even commercial nuclear power stations.
• At that time, the US was the only country with nuclear weapons – only 11 bombs in 1946, deliverable by propeller-driven B-29 bombers.
• But the film largely focuses on communicating the technological triumph of creating an atomic bomb.

Surreal moments

• Oppenheimer is noted for its sometimes surreal and “artful” depictions.
• Atomic Power’s dramatisation, though seemingly more conventional, offers equally surreal takes.
• Most striking is a scene involving Vannevar Bush and James B. Conant, who both played significant government oversight roles in the Manhattan Project.
• Conant’s own account, written the day after the real event, conveyed a great sense of fear when facing the bomb.
• Groves’s only line, having led the project, is cautioning an unnamed scientist to be careful with a $50m plutonium test-tube.

• Investors have until June 5, 2023 to apply to the Court to be appointed as lead plaintiff in the lawsuit.
• On November 4, 2021, the Company completed its acquisition of Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza & Wings (“Anthony’s”) for $156.6 million (the “Anthony’s Acquisition”).
• On August 11, 2022, during pre-market hours, BurgerFi issued a press release announcing the Company’s second quarter (“Q2”) 2022 results.
• Then, on November 16, 2022, during pre-market hours, BurgerFi issued a press release announcing the Company’s third quarter (“Q3”) 2022 results.

• SAN DIEGO, May 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shareholder rights law firm Johnson Fistel, LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors of BurgerFi International, Inc. (“BurgerFi” or the “Company”) f/k/a Opes Acquisition Corp. (“OPES”) (NASDAQ: BFI; BFIIW; OPESU; OPES; OPESW).
• The class action is on behalf of shareholders who purchased BurgerFi securities between December 17, 2020 and November 15, 2022, inclusive (the “Class Period”).
• A lead plaintiff will act on behalf of all other class members in directing the BurgerFi class-action lawsuit.
• An investor's ability to share any potential future recovery of the BurgerFi class action lawsuit is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.