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02/15/24


CLARION CAPITAL PARTNERS COMPLETES INVESTMENT IN NARRATIVE STRATEGIES

New York, NY – February 15, 2024 – Clarion Capital Partners, LLC (“Clarion”) has
completed a strategic investment in Narrative Strategies, LLC (“Narrative”) – an
integrated public affairs and corporate reputation agency. The new partnership
will facilitate Narrative’s M&A opportunities and expand its geographic reach.
Narrative’s executive partners will maintain a significant ownership stake in
the company and continue leading operations, with founding partner Ken Spain
serving as CEO.

Clarion has a long and successful history of investing in the media,
entertainment, and technology space. With Clarion’s deep industry knowledge and
focus on creating long-term partnerships, Narrative will diversify its
offerings, enhance existing capabilities, and expand into new markets.

“The Narrative team and the business they have established fully aligns with our
investment approach, market interests, and the value we place on collaboration,
creativity, and discipline,” said David Ragins, a managing director at Clarion.
“Narrative’s best-in-class team and exceptional growth trajectory – especially
in the financial services, healthcare and life sciences sectors – attracted us
to the business. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Narrative and bring
additional resources to fully own the strategic communications process for their
clients, from inception to execution.”

Founded in 2019 by a team of former corporate communications professionals,
journalists, political operatives, and PR agency leaders, the firm is now home
to more than 65 practitioners working on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, trade
associations, nonprofits, and law firms. Narrative’s founding partners include
Patrick O’Connor, Ed Mullen, Ken Spain, and Katie Mitchell, with Rosemarie
Calabro Tully and Andrew Fimka named partners in 2023. A full-service agency,
Narrative’s services include strategic communications, media relations, content
development, creative design, video production, digital marketing, coalition
management, and research and analysis.

“In today’s complex media and political environment, a company’s ability to
maintain its license to operate requires a more sophisticated approach than it
did even two years ago,” said Ken Spain, founding partner of Narrative
Strategies. “As businesses face increased challenges to their reputations, the
existing public relations firm model simply isn’t built to navigate competing
interests and audiences. Before, companies had the luxury of worrying primarily
about a single audience – customers. Today, they must balance the interests of
politicians, regulators, activists, employees, and investors. This partnership
with Clarion will accelerate our ability to navigate this new terrain
successfully with additional capabilities, talent, and geographies.”

Narrative Strategies was represented by BrightTower, a New York
City-headquartered investment banking and M&A advisory services firm, which
served as the exclusive financial advisor to Narrative Strategies in this
transaction. Williams & Connolly LLP represented Narrative Strategies on all
legal matters. Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP represented Clarion.

About Narrative Strategies, LLC

Narrative is a full-service strategic communications firm creatively solving
today’s most demanding reputational and public affairs challenges at the
convergence of business, media, and politics. Narrative is a premier partner for
the world’s most influential brands by building upon our deep experience
synthesizing complex issues and executing public affairs, media and public
relations, crisis response, and other mission-critical initiatives. Our
expertise spans industries and issue sets, including biopharmaceuticals,
consumer products, energy, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, tax,
trade, technology, and more. We are powered by an award-winning team of senior
strategists, detail-oriented practitioners, and imaginative creators who provide
premium-level counsel and integrated service offerings that shape the
ever-evolving communications landscape. To learn more, visit
www.narrativedc.com.

About Clarion Capital Partners, LLC

Founded in 1999, Clarion is a New York based investment manager operating two
primary business segments: Private Equity (launched in 2000) and Structured
Credit (launched in 2018). Clarion’s private equity business seeks to make
primarily control investments in a diversified portfolio of lower middle-market
companies generating $7.5-30.0 million of EBITDA. Clarion focuses on growth
companies in industries such as Media, Entertainment and Technology, Business
and Healthcare Services, Financial Services and Consumer. Additional information
on Clarion can be found at www.clarion-capital.com.

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