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Goodwin Procter LLP, with 850 attorneys and offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., provides corporate law, litigation and real estate services, with a focus on matters involving private equity, technology companies, REITs and real estate capital markets, financial services, intellectual property and products liability.

Greenberg Traurig's 1,800 plus lawyers in 33 offices worldwide provide clients a global scope of resources complemented by local market knowledge and experience. Greenberg's PIPEs practice is a top ranked group in the League Tables published by PrivateRaise and PlacementTracker, based on the number of 2010 PIPEs transactions for investors and issuers. Greenberg was also named USA Law Firm of the Year by Chambers and Partners in 2007.

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is a full-service law firm with offices in the nation's largest centers of business, government, finance and technology and an associated entity in London, England. Katten Muchin Rosenman's 600 attorneys in more than 40 practice areas provide timely and cost-effective counsel to clients in numerous industries. Katten Muchin Rosenman is a business advisor and advocate for a wide range of public and private companies from entrepreneurial, emerging-growth, and middle market firms to global Fortune 100 corporations as well as government entities and major universities, museums and other charitable and cultural organizations.

Loeb & Loeb LLP, is a multi-service law firm with more than 300 attorneys in five offices in the US, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Nashville, and Washington, DC, as well as a representative office in Beijing. We are a widely recognized leader in corporate and securities transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) offerings and acquisitions, and private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions. Our PIPE experience includes transactions involving many types of pooled investment vehicles such as middle-market equity sponsor groups, mezzanine funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, funds of funds, real estate opportunity funds and film funds. For more information, vist http://www.loeb.com/pipespractice/

Lowenstein Sandler PC is a nationally recognized law firm with more than 270 attorneys. The firm's Specialty Finance practice handles mergers and acquisitions, acquisition financing, PIPEs, SPACs and other corporate finance matters for a wide array of investment funds, leading national investment banks, and issuers, in deals worldwide. In 2007, the group assisted in more than $1.9 billion in transactions and ranked first in the nation (by dollars raised) and second in the nation (by number of transactions) for representing placement agents in PIPE transactions, and third in the nation (by number of transactions) for representing investors in PIPEs, according to The PIPES Report and PrivateRaise.com.

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP represents investors and investment banks in PIPE transactions and related products, such as reverse mergers, SPACs, equity lines, registered direct and Rule 144A offerings, and in numerous cross-border deals involving firms in the United States, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Asia. SRZ has been ranked the No. 1 most active investor counsel in the PIPEs market for each of the past five years by both PrivateRaise and PlacementTracker. The firm's 450 lawyers provide advice and representation across all major practice areas, including investment management, finance, mergers & acquisitions, securities litigation and business reorganization.

Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP provides experienced, professional representation in all matters involving the securities industry, as well as in all general corporate and litigation matters. SRFF's clients range from start-ups to established, listed companies. They include private and public corporations, partnerships, broker-dealers, bank-affiliated broker-dealers, investment advisors, registered personnel, public and corporate customers and investors, partnerships and other entities. SRFF also advises institutional investors on transactions involving complex securities law considerations. The firm's practice includes the representation of clients located in the United States and throughout the world, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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Gottbetter Capital Management, LP is a management company founded in 2006 which makes structured investments in public companies and to private companies as part of a committed going public transaction. They rely on a variety of structures including convertible securities, equity line financings, and at-the-market offerings for opportunistic, event-driven companies to meet their working capital and acquisition financing needs. Although Gottbetter Capital is one of few new managers to emerge in recent months, the team has 26 years experience in sourcing, structuring, documenting and financing PIPE transactions. Gottbetter Capital provides the investment banking and legal services necessary to efficiently and effectively close financings.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a firm of more than 700 lawyers, with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests, who collaborate with clients to help them conquer their most critical legal challenges and business goals. Our long-standing clients include many of the largest publicly and privately held corporations and financial institutions in the United States and throughout the world. We continue to serve as counsel to numerous start-up companies and investment funds, and over the years have nurtured many through their growth into industry players. While Paul, Weiss is widely recognized as having leading litigation and corporate capabilities, the firm has developed equally strong practices in the areas of bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, employee benefits and executive compensation, intellectual property, personal representation, real estate and tax law.

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With 3,500 lawyers in 29 countries and 67 offices throughout the U.S., U.K., Continental Europe, Middle East and Asia, DLA Piper helps companies around the world succeed by meeting their legal needs wherever they do business. DLA Piper practices in commercial, corporate, finance, human resources, litigation, real estate, regulatory and legislative, and technology, media and communications law. DLA Piper's clients range from multinational, Global 1000 and Fortune 50 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry leading technologies.

Fairhills Group, an accredited institutional investor domiciled in Delaware and headquartered in White Plains, New York, is the family office of Edward Bronson, which makes direct equity investments, free of constraints inherent to many financing companies, into publicly traded companies trading across a wide range of global exchanges, including US, Hong Kong, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Tel Aviv and Frankfurt. Financings vary in strategy, complexity and specific terms but have consistently proven to be a continuous and valuable solution to small public companies in rapidly evolving markets. Mr. Bronson, one of the most active individual investors in structured equity transactions, has invested in over 800 separate financings to more than 200 different companies through his investment vehicle, Fairhills Capital Management and affiliated entities.

GBH CPAs, PC is an SEC audit firm located in Houston, Texas. Our focus is delivering audit, tax and advisory services to small and medium publicly-traded and private companies. We demonstrate professional excellence through the high quality of services we perform for our clients. Our audit focus delivers a cost-effective audit through professionals trained to meet your specific reporting requirements. We can assist you in a broad range of services through our professional alliance referral network. Our management team began their careers with the Big 4 accounting firms and maintain the same level of professional standards, service and relationships in our firm.

Hunter Taubman Weiss is a boutique full service corporate law firm. Our practice areas include Corporate, Trademark, Securities, Real Estate, Investment Adviser Compliance, Commercial Arbitration/Litigation, Securities Arbitration/Litigation, Hedge Fund Compliance, Capital Acquisition and Human Resources. We offer services specifically designed to enable businesses to grow successfully & consistently. We primarily represent small to medium sized companies focused on increasing revenue and maintaining growth. Clients in a variety of industries and across all stages of development benefit from the sophisticated legal solutions and astute business acumen provided by the attorneys at our firm.

JMJ Financial is a privately held investment firm that specializes in PIPE financing for small cap emerging equities. JMJ is not a broker or finder- the firm invests its own capital into transactions designed to build long term working relationships with a focused group of innovative companies. With a long and highly successful track record, JMJ is one of the most active, reliable, and successful PIPE investors in the space.

Ranked among the top 15 firms in the nation, Marcum LLP offers the resources of more than 1,100 professionals, including more than 150 partners, in 23 offices throughout the United States, Grand Cayman and China. The Firm's presence runs deep with full service offices strategically located in major business markets. In addition to traditional accounting, assurance and tax, Marcum's professional services include extensive SEC services such as internal and external audits, reviews, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance, due diligence, agreed-upon procedures and other attest work, and IPO assistance. Marcums Alternative Investment Group services domestic and offshore hedge funds, private equity funds, and funds of funds, as well as complex entities with hard to value investments such as PIPE funds, life settlement funds, ABL funds and credit strategies.

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM) operates the world's largest electronic marketplace for broker-dealers to trade unlisted stocks. Our OTC Link™ platform supports an open network of competing broker-dealers that provide investors with the best prices in over 10,000 OTC securities. As of October 2010, securities on OTC Link traded over $196 billion in dollar volume (vs. $144 billion in all of 2010), making it the 3rd largest equity trading venue in the U.S. after NYSE and NASDAQ. We categorize the wide spectrum of OTC-traded companies into three tiers - OTCQX (the quality-controlled marketplace for investor-friendly companies), OTCQB® (the U.S. reporting company marketplace for development stage companies), and OTC Pink™ (the open trading marketplace for broker-dealers to source best execution for their customers) - so investors can identify the level and quality of information companies provide. To learn more about how OTC Markets Group makes the OTC market more transparent, informed, and efficient, visit www.otcmarkets.com.

Proskauer Rose LLP is one of the nation's largest law firms, providing a wide variety of legal services to major corporations and other clients throughout the United States and around the world. Founded in 1875 in New York City, the firm employs attorneys in seven domestic offices (New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Boston, Boca Raton, Newark and New Orleans) Paris and So Paulo. The Firm has wide experience in all areas of practice important to businesses, including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, bankruptcy and reorganizations, taxation, litigation, trusts and estates, intellectual property, and labor and employment law.

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