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July 1, 2003 – NEW YORK – Thacher Proffitt & Wood announced today that the Firm has elected Matthew Dyckman to the partnership, effective July 1, 2003. He is resident in its Washington, DC office. In addition, Allison W. Berman was named counsel in its White Plains, NY office and Gene A. Haldeman was named counsel in the New York, NY office, both effective June 1, 2003. Matt practices in the Firm’s Corporate and Financial Institutions Department, while Allison is in the Real Estate Department and Gene is in the Firm’s Structured Finance Department.

“We are delighted to welcome Matt into the partnership, and congratulate our new counsel, Allison and Gene,” said Paul Tvetenstrand, managing partner of Thacher Proffitt. “They each already have contributed tremendously to their respective practice areas and the Firm as a whole, and I am looking forward to their continued successes.”

Matthew Dyckman joined Thacher Proffitt in 1997 as an associate. Matt’s practice includes experience in corporate finance and securities, banking and financial services, and mergers and acquisitions. Matt has represented numerous financial institutions and investment banking firms in securities, general corporate and financial services regulation matters. He has extensive experience in general corporate and securities matters for public and private companies, including holding company formations, mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, trust preferred securities and conversions of thrift institutions from mutual to stock form. Matt also has worked with many public companies in preparing their periodic securities law filings, proxy statements and related shareholder meeting materials, insider trading and other securities law compliance materials and related disclosure matters, and has advised these clients on various corporate governance matters, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In addition, Matt has represented a variety of public and private technology-based companies on their corporate and securities work, including corporate organization, first and second round financing, initial public offerings, securities law filings and general corporate work.

Matt graduated from Duke University School of Law with a J.D. in 1994 and received his B.A. with High Distinction from the University of Virginia in 1991. Matt is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is admitted to practice in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC and is a member of the American Bar Association.

Allison Berman joined Thacher Proffitt & Wood in 1995 as an associate in the White Plains office. Her practice is concentrated in Real Estate and Commercial Lending. She has experience representing savings banks, commercial banks and other financial institutions in loan transactions secured by portfolios consisting of loans, equipment, aircraft, accounts, interests in hedge funds and other partnerships. Allison represents clients in purchasing, selling and financing commercial property and secured and unsecured portfolios from banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions. She has represented clients in the development and utilization of whole loan and securitization lending programs secured by franchises and in addition has represented tenants and landlords in general leasing matters.

Allison graduated cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1990. Prior to entering law school she received an A.B. from Duke University in 1987. She is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Gene Haldeman joined Thacher Proffitt & Wood as an associate in the Structured Finance Department in 1993. His practice is concentrated in residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and includes issuer and underwriter representation of investment banking firms as well as representation of asset originators, servicers, financial guaranty insurers and others involved in the securitization industry. He assists clients in domestic and off-shore, public and private, pass-through and debt securitization and resecuritization transactions involving on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet accounting treatments, multiple class structures and a variety of credit enhancement features. Prior to coming to Thacher Proffitt, Gene practiced in New York and Connecticut in the areas of corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, aircraft finance and project finance.

Gene is a 1988 J.D. graduate of Boston University School of Law, where he served as an editor on The Boston University Law Review, and is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the State of Connecticut and the State of Washington. Gene graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 with a B.A. in English.

Thacher Proffitt & Wood advises domestic and global clients in a wide range of areas including corporate and financial institutions law, structured finance, swaps and derivatives, cross-border transactions, global finance, real estate, employee benefits and compensation, insurance, admiralty and ship finance, litigation and dispute resolution, technology and intellectual property, taxation, trusts and estates, bankruptcy, reorganizations and restructurings. Founded in 1848, the Firm has approximately 200 lawyers located in New York City, NY, Washington, DC, White Plains, NY, Summit, NJ and Mexico City, Mexico.

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