Gary A. Herrmann Joins Premier Private Investment Funds Practice in Move to Morgan Lewis

San Francisco, February 13, 2006 — Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is pleased to announce that Gary A. Herrmann has joined Louis H. Singer, Jedd H. Wider and Georgette A. Schaefer as they bring their nationally recognized and highly ranked private investment funds practice to the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Mr. Herrmann is a senior tax partner who has played a significant role in the group’s involvement in the formation of over 150 funds in 2005 and in their representation of a considerable number of the largest and most active global institutional investors in private investment funds. Mr. Herrmann further enhances the recent addition of the fund formation and investment counseling group to Morgan Lewis’ existing private funds capabilities, making the firm one of the preeminent providers of legal services in this area. Mr. Herrmann, also formerly of Orrick, joins the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner effective immediately.

Mr. Herrmann recently has represented a number of sponsors of real estate funds with respect to tax issues, including those relating to structuring of the funds and of their investments. His practice includes advice concerning the special issues faced by different classes of real estate investors, such as public and private pension funds, foundations, endowments, REITs and non-U.S. investors. He regularly advises public pension plans with respect to the special tax considerations affecting such plans and the structuring and restructuring of their investments, both with respect to private equity funds and real estate investments.

With over twenty years of experience in a broad spectrum of federal and state tax issues, Mr. Herrmann’s practice also has included the tax aspects of corporate reorganizations, spin-offs, and other restructurings and corporate finance and financial products, as well as advice to many corporations and partnership entities, ranging from start-ups to major public companies, as to stock option and other employee and executive compensation issues.

About Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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