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    1. Granite Intelligence 2 Granite Intelligence provides sophisticated Granite Intelligence business intelligence, investigations and risk provides comprehensive management services for its clients. With investigative services, considerable experience in finance, business research and analysis for intelligence and law enforcement, the firm’s clients worldwide principals are committed to providing their clients business intelligence with discretion, imagination and integrity. Our clients benefit from the principals’ personal involvement and creativity, global network and experience, and professionalism and industry expertise. Granite Intelligence is dedicated to building long- term relationships and client trust by providing superior results, demonstrable value and independent objective analysis. The firm’s principals are fully invested in each matter. We respond to clients needs worldwide, drawing on a global network of resources and our experience in having successfully completed engagements around the world.
    2. 3 Granite Intelligence Granite Intelligence provides business We provide financial institutions, Granite Intelligence intelligence specifically relevant to our corporations and law firms with an provides comprehensive array of services designed to help clients’ requirements. It has been our investigative services, assess strategic opportunities and experience that each individual due research and analysis for mitigate corporate risks through diligence or investigation is distinctly clients worldwide. timely intelligence and analysis. We unique, and this requires a defined provide a dedicated, experienced approach to each and every case, due diligence and investigations understanding each client’s unique team tailored to our clients’ specific objectives. objectives. Fortunately, we bring significant experience in the execution of a wide array Granite Intelligence provides of due diligence and investigative processes, comprehensive investigative and we recognize the most sophisticated services, research and analysis for clients worldwide: methods to provide our clients with the most effective business intelligence. Due Diligence Business Investigations Granite’s approach is to provide our clients with Litigation Support & Intelligence personalized investigative services tailored to their objectives: Accounting Due Diligence & Complement existing due diligence or Forensic Accounting research process Provide intelligence that meets our clients’ objectives Clearly articulate methodology, expected timeframe and budget Report information as required or dictated by our clients
    3. Granite Intelligence 4 Granite Intelligence has assembled a highly- Granite Intelligence experienced and qualified team with a successful provides comprehensive track record in complex investigations, both investigative services, domestically and abroad. With significant research and analysis for professional backgrounds in finance, accounting clients worldwide. and law, the principals have collaborated with each other as business colleagues and partners in a variety of investigations for more than 25 years, bringing significant experience in managing complex investigations for a number of clients worldwide. We also have the ability to complement the due diligence support team with experts in diverse areas to meet specific requirements. We have access to broad array of financial, accounting and investigative professionals that strengthen our David McDonough clients’ due diligence efforts on a global basis. Principal Jeffrey Mueller Principal Eric Saucedo Director Richard Jacobson Director
    4. 5 Granite Intelligence Background Granite Intelligence Granite Intelligence provides senior- provides comprehensive level investigative resources to law A law firm served as lead counsel in a lawsuit filed firms and corporate counsel against a major financial institution involved in the investigative services, worldwide. In complex litigation structuring and underwriting of complex structured research and analysis for matters, thorough preparation is products, including mortgage-backed securities, clients worldwide. critical, and that process requires collateralized debt obligations (“CDOs”), and gathering, collating and analyzing collateralized default swaps. data to support the primary Objective objectives. Our clients recognize that The client needed a firm with knowledge of the capital we have the unique professional markets to identify and interview hundreds of experience to add value to significant confidential witnesses, and they needed a firm that was litigation matters. familiar with the structuring, analytics and capital Business & Financial Litigation markets operations of the defendant. Fraud Investigations Solution Granite Intelligence was able to identify and conduct Intellectual Property confidential inquiries with numerous senior-level White-Collar Crime professionals knowledgeable of the defendant’s operations, allowing the client to effectively focus its discovery process in the case.
    5. Granite Intelligence 6 The GreensLedge Group is a financial Granite Intelligence Law firms have the opportunity to work with a advisory firm established by industry provides comprehensive significant number of investigators in the due diligence experts in the structured products process of an important legal action. However, few investigative services, market. Managing Partners Jim Kane investigators understand the intricacies of such research and analysis for and Brian Zeitlin previously led the transactions, because they simply do not have the clients worldwide. Global Structured Credit business at background or experience in the financial markets. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Together Our clients know us and work with us because we have they have successfully originated, worked in the financial markets. We know the issues, structured and distributed over $125 and we understand how we will add significant value to billion in debt and equity capital an existing due diligence process. Our principals and through a diverse array of network of professionals bring the unique legal and Collateralized Debt Obligation financial experience to maximize the due diligence (“CDO”) and Collateralized Loan objectives of our clients. Obligation (“CLO”) structures. We routinely supplement our due diligence teams with GreensLedge professionals serve as experts in diverse areas to meet the specific trusted senior advisors to participants requirements of our clients. We have access to broad in the structured products universe, array of financial, accounting and investigative advising clients in complex litigation professionals that strengthen our clients’ due diligence as well as issues pertaining to efforts on a global basis, ultimately providing a distinct valuations, acquisitions, divestitures, competitive advantage to our clients. transaction recapitalizations and restructurings.
    6. 7 Granite Intelligence Defendant Clients Law Firm Jurisdiction Date Status Massachusetts Pension Reserves Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll LLP UK & US 2009 Pending Investment Management Board Labaton Sucharow LLP (MassPRIM); Mississippi Public Wolf & Popper LLP Employees Retirement System (PERS) Norfolk County Retirement System Labaton Sucharow LLP US 2009 Pending State of Michigan Barrack, Rodos & Bacine LLP UK & US 2008 Pending Operative Plasterers & Cement Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & US 2008 Pending Masons International Associate Local Check LLP 262 Annuity Fund Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board Bernstein Litowitz Berger & US 2008 Pending Grossmann LLP Arkansas Teacher Retirement Systems Bernstein Litowitz Berger & US 2006 Settled 2007 Grossmann LLP $28.5 million Mississippi Public Employees' Barrack, Rodos & Bacine LLP US 2006 Pending Retirement System Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP Pacific Investment Management Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Austria, UK & 2006 Pending Company LLC Grossmann LLP US RH Capital Associates LLC Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A. The Teachers' Retirement System of Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A. US 2006 Settled 2008 Louisiana $3.2 billion Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System The Teachers' Retirement System of Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A. US 2005 - 2006 Pending Louisiana Public Employees' Retirement System Bernstein Litowitz Berger & US 2005 - 2006 Settled 2008 of Mississippi Grossmann LLP $322.0 million Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A. Nix, Patterson & Roach, LLP City of Philadelphia Board of Pensions Barrack, Rodos & Bacine LLP US 2005 Settled 2008 and Retirement Bernstein Litowitz Berger & (Puerto Rico) $51.0 million The General Retirement System of the Grossmann LLP City of Detroit Public Employees' Retirement System Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Germany, 2005 Settled 2008 of Mississippi Grossmann LLP Switzerland & Avalon Holdings, Inc. Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll LLP US Arkansas Teachers' Retirement Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Canada & US 2004 Settled 2006 System Grossmann LLP $10.0 million Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Canada & US 2004 Settled 2006 Grossmann LLP $2.7 billion
    7. Granite Intelligence 8 32 East 31st Street Suite 9A New York, NY 10016 www.graniteintelligence.com Jeffrey J. Mueller Principal 212.401.4070 jmueller@graniteintelligence.com Eric Saucedo Director 212.401.4068 esaucedo@graniteintelligence.com Richard Jacobson Director 212.401.4068 rjacobson@graniteintelligence.com
    8. 32 East 31st Street | Suite 9A | New York, NY 10016 Tel: 212.401.4070 | www.graniteintelligence.com
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