EBL&S Development and affiliates have operated as real estate development, acquisition and management companies under the control of a senior leadership team that has been in place continuously for over 35 years. Over the past three and a half decades, the EBL&S group of companies has developed, redeveloped, managed, financed, refinanced and/or restructured over 200 commercial projects. During the height of the real estate market from 2004 through early 2008, EBL&S was an active seller of properties, disposing of holdings at the highest prices in the company's history.

First Potomac Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the ownership, development, redevelopment, and operation of industrial properties and business parks in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, and other markets in Maryland and Virginia. As of March 31, 2008, it owned approximately 11.4 million square feet. The company qualifies as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. First Potomac Realty Trust was founded in 1997 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Innkeepers USA Trust is a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT) that primarily invests in upscale and extended-stay hotel properties. (IT also invests in full-service hotels and mid-priced lodgings.) The REIT owns stakes in about 75 hotels with some 10,000 rooms in more than 20 states. Nearly all are leased by management company Island Hospitality. About half of its hotels are operated under the Residence Inn by Marriott brand. Other brands include Hampton Inn and Summerfield Suites. Laden with more than $1 billion in debt, the REIT filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2010.

C&R is a co-investing property asset manager. This means that we manage property assets for funds and joint ventures in which we hold a significant stake Capital & Regional has properties in towns large and small. The company's funds co-invest in and manage UK property assets, including shopping malls, retail parks, and leisure properties.

G&L Realty ("GLR") is a real estate developer and investor that owns, acquires, develops, manages and leases healthcare properties. G&L was founded in 1975 and has become one of the leading Medical Office building landlords in Southern California. GLR currently consists of investments, made either directly or through joint ventures, in medical office buildings ("MOB"), assisted living facilities ("ALF") and skilled nursing facilities ("SNF"). GLR owns over 1,000,000 square feet of "class A" MOB's in California, with a high concentration of "trophy" buildings in the heart of Beverly Hills, CA, two blocks from World famous Rodeo Drive.

Brookfield Properties is making big ripples in the commercial property market. Doing business as Brookfield Office Properties, the company owns stakes in about 100 commercial properties around the world. It primarily invests in properties in large cities including Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Calgary, Toronto, and Washington, DC. The company's portfolio totals some 70 million sq. ft. and includes most of Manhattan's World Financial Center; Brookfield also has a handful of properties in the development pipeline. Tenants include Merrill Lynch, CIBC, JPMorgan Chase, and Target Corporation. Brookfield plans to spin off its residential property assets to concentrate on expanding its global office portfolio.

Saul Centers, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust in the United States. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership, operation, management, leasing, acquisition, renovation, expansion, development, and financing of community and neighborhood shopping centers, and office properties, primarily in the Washington, DC/Baltimore metropolitan area. As of December 31, 2007, it operated 43 shopping center, 5 office operating properties, and 5 non-operating development properties. The company qualifies as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income taxes, if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. Saul Centers, Inc. was founded in 1892 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Walker & Dunlop, LLC, a real estate finance, and delegated underwriting and servicing company, provides advisory, financing, and investment services to commercial real estate investors, owners, and developers in the Mid-Atlantic region. The company offers multifamily loans, including conventional, affordable, manufactured, student, seniors, refinance, supplemental, and small loans on various multifamily assets, such as market-rate apartments, affordable apartments, manufactured housing developments, seniors housing, and student housing; and specialty loans, which comprise structured transactions, forward commitments, and affordable housing finances. It also provides loan securitization; acquisition financing or stabilized properties refinancing; healthcare financing solutions, including fixed-rate or variable-rate, and balloon or amortizing loans for seniors properties; financing solutions for office, retail, hospitality, and industrial real estate properties; and debt financing, investment sales, and principal investments solutions. The company was founded in 1937 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland with additional offices in Walnut Creek, California; Plano, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; and New York, New York.

Transwestern Commercial Services has offices in some 25 cities throughout the US and manages a portfolio of approximately 900 office, health care, retail, and multi-family residential properties (more than 170 million sq. ft. of space). Transwestern also provides agency leasing, property management, tenant representation, and property development services, as well as financing and advising to institutional investors. The firm has expanded its portfolio of sustainable projects by promoting green building practices and energy conservation. Chairman Robert Duncan founded Transwestern in 1978.

Childress Klein develops, owns, leases, and manages commercial real estate in the southeastern US. It owns some 20 million sq. ft. of office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use space, mostly in the Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, metropolitan areas. (Nearly 60% of its portfolio is office buildings and business centers.) The company's projects include Atlanta Galleria and LakePointe Corporate Center as well as the Wachovia Center, a two-block office, residential, and hospitality complex in downtown Charlotte.

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