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Laurence Isaacson, leader in the CDO arena, brings team of lawyers to broaden the firm’s structured finance offerings

New York, NY, June 25, 2003 -- Laurence B. Isaacson, former head of structured finance and securitization at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, today announced that he is joining McKee Nelson LLP. This move reunites Isaacson and his former mentor and partner, Edward M. De Sear, who joined McKee Nelson a month ago. De Sear was most recently chairman of the structured finance group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Joining Isaacson in McKee Nelson’s New York office will be partner Andrew S. Kwok and their team of associates. Eric Rubenfeld, formerly of Fried Frank’s Washington, D.C. office, will join McKee Nelson’s D.C. office as a Counsel.

Isaacson and Kwok concentrate their practice in structured finance, particularly in the development, offering and sale of collateralized debt offerings, structured investment vehicles and other structured products. Isaacson’s and Kwok’s clients have included Bank One, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and other institutional participants in the structured finance market.

McKee Nelson already has a significant presence in capital markets and securitization, having ranked #1 by number of deals in Thomson Financial’s 2002 year-end rankings in the representation of underwriters for both mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities. For the first quarter of 2003, it ranked first as underwriters’ counsel for all U.S. debt, equity and equity-related securities combined.

Remarking on the addition of Isaacson and Kwok, Reed Auerbach, managing partner of McKee Nelson’s New York office, said, “Larry is known throughout the industry for his creativity, market leadership and commitment to client service. Larry, Andrew and their team add to the breadth and depth of our practice and will help further our commitment to provide our clients with the highest level of service across all asset types.”

Isaacson credits his decision to the passionate commitment of McKee Nelson to build a market-leading capital markets practice. “We are joining McKee Nelson because of its market leadership in asset-backed securities and structured finance. It will be an exciting platform to expand and diversify our practice. This is going to be fun.”

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