AlixPartners is a firm of seasoned business professionals who solve complex challenges and create bottom-line results for our clients. Since 1981, we have earned a reputation for our hands-on problem-solving skills based on real-world operational, financial and analytical expertise.

Our business model is to serve our clients' needs through senior teams, aligned incentives and a total commitment to getting results. Our model delivers responsive service and insights in which our clients can have a high degree of confidence. We have over 25 years of success in "changing the outcome" for our clients and their stakeholders.

AlixPartners is a global company with a "one-stop-shop" suite of services ranging from operational performance improvement and financial restructuring across all major corporate disciplines (manufacturing, supply chain, IT, sales and marketing), to financial advisory services (including financial reporting, corporate governance and investigations) to technology-enabled restructuring and claims management. Headquartered in metropolitan Southfield, Michigan, the firm has more than 500 employees, and has offices in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Düsseldorf, London, Los Angeles, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco and Tokyo. It is on the Web at www.alixpartners.com.

For more than 20 years, Alvarez & Marsal has set the standard for working with organizations to solve complex problems, boost performance and maximize value for stakeholders.

As the leading, independent global professional services firm, we draw on a deep operational heritage and hands-on approach to deliver a comprehensive suite of performance improvement, turnaround management and corporate advisory services to clients ranging from international enterprises to middle market companies to public sector entities.

Whether partnering with management in an advisory capacity or serving in an interim management role, our team of seasoned professionals based in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America focuses on producing results, driving change and affecting outcomes. For more information, please visit www.alvarezandmarsal.com.

American Capital is the largest U.S. publicly traded alternative asset manager with $12 billion in capital resources under management.

American Capital provides senior debt, mezzanine debt and equity to fund growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and securitizations. We:

• Are a financial partner in management and employee buyouts,
• Provide senior debt, mezzanine and equity financing for buyouts led by private equity firms,
• Provide capital directly to early stage and mature private and small public companies, and
• Manage debt and equity companies through its asset management business.

Bingham McCutchen LLP is a 950-attorney law firm with 13 offices worldwide, including a joint enterprise with Sakai & Mimura, a Japanese firm known internationally for its financial restructuring strength. Bingham is renowned for its cross-border restructuring and insolvency practice. Many of the world's largest hedge funds, proprietary desks, institutional investors, fund managers, financial services companies, and private equity funds come to us for advice in out-of-court restructurings, in-court proceedings and distressed M&A transactions. We also have market-leading bankruptcy litigation, investment management, fund formation, product structuring and compliance practices, making Bingham McCutchen one of the very top "go to" service providers for the investment community.
"Bingham McCutchen LLP has been recognized as the world's leading firm in the field of insolvency and restructuring." - 2006 Who's Who Legal Awards.

Miller Buckfire & Co. is a leading restructuring firm focused on providing strategic and financial advisory services in distressed situations. Based in New York, the boutique investment bank has significant experience with advising on complex restructuring transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt financing. Past and current clients include: Kmart Corp, Calpine Corp, Dana Corp, Interstate Bakeries Corp, The Spiegel Group, Interstate Bakeries Corp, Sunbeam, Polaroid, Sirius Satellite Radio and Huntsman Corporation. Miller Buckfire was founded in July 2002 by Henry Miller and Kenneth Buckfire, who previously led the restructuring groups at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Wasserstein Perella & Co. Miller Buckfire is an independent firm owned entirely by its employees, which means we can advise and represent our clients without any conflicts of interest and pursue a single-minded goal of maximizing value for our clients. To learn more about Miller Buckfire and our clients, please visit our website at www.millerbuckfire.com.

BSI was founded in 1991 when its executives experienced Chapter 11 firsthand. Frustrated with the lack of responsiveness and impersonal service throughout the process, they created BSI and laid the foundation for a company committed to the highest standards of quality, responsiveness and personalized services. The BSI team has over 100 combined years of service in the claims management industry, having worked on the largest, most high-profile and complex chapter 11 cases ever filed, including: Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing, Adelphia Communications, Tower Automotive, G&G Retail, Combustion Engineering, Consolidated Freightways Corporation, United Airlines, Inc., Delta Air Lines and Northwest Air Lines. BSI is a business unit of EPIQ Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPIQ), the nation's leading supplier of technology products and services for bankruptcy administration. As a member of the EPIQ family of companies, BSI is able to draw on its affiliated companies to offer comprehensive, customized support and end-to-end services that include noticing, schedule preparation, claim docketing, creditor hotlines, web design, claims reconciliation, imaging and document management, virtual due diligence rooms, creditor committee services, and vote tabulation and disbursement services. These companies include Bankruptcy Advisory Services (previously known as Novare, Inc. and Gazes LLC), which provides preference analysis, claims reconciliation, liquidating trustee/plan administrator services and other ancillary and related services for both reorganization and liquidating debtors, and Financial Balloting Group LLC, which is the industry leader in providing Chapter 11 solicitation and tabulation services with respect to publicly traded debt and equity securities.

Chrysalis Capital Partners, L.P. is a private equity firm managing $300 million of committed capital and focused on control investments in distressed and other special situations involving middle-market companies in a wide variety of industries across the United States.

Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for 45 years. Headquartered in New York, with more than 25 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. The firm is a leading provider of trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible and international securities for institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF; www.jefferies.com).

Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin is an international investment banking firm that provides a wide range of services, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, financial restructuring, and financial opinions and advisory services. Houlihan Lokey has one of the largest worldwide financial restructuring practices of any investment bank, has been ranked among the top 10 M&A advisors in the U.S. for the past six years, and has been the No. 1 provider of M&A fairness opinions for six consecutive years. The firm has over 700 employees in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Dallas, London, Paris and Frankfurt. It serves more than 1,000 clients annually, ranging from closely held companies to Fortune 500 corporations. For more information, visit Houlihan Lokey's Web site at www.hlhz.com.

Rothschild Inc. is an investment bank and leading corporate finance advisory firm that specializes in mergers & acquisitions, corporate restructurings and private placements. Rothschild Inc. is part of the London and Paris-based Rothschild Group, which is the world's largest independent international merchant and investment bank. The Group has over 30 offices in more than 23 countries with over 3,000 employees worldwide. Rothschild Inc. is an established leader in the telecommunications, financial institutions, natural resources, media, IT services, consumer products/retail/apparel, chemicals, utilities and diversified industrials. The Rothschild Groups strong international presence has made Rothschild Inc. a leader in executing large, complex cross-border transactions.

Established in 1991, Blackstone's Restructuring and Reorganization Advisory Services group has advised companies, creditors and financial sponsors in more than 150 distressed situations, both in and out of bankruptcy proceedings, involving some $350 billion of total liabilities. The group is one of the most experienced on Wall Street and its senior professionals have well over 150 years of combined experience in restructuring assignments.

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania - founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school - is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The School has more than 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 8,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of more than 81,000 graduates.