Rick Chance, Head of Special Situations Advisory Group, will participate in a breakfast seminar at KPMG's Portland Office

June 25, 2009

Rick Chance, managing director and group head of the Special Situations Advisory Group with KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, will be speaking at a breakfast seminar entitled, “Restructuring Approach to Enhance Value in Today’s Challenging Markets," on June 25, 2009 from 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. at KPMG's office in Portland, Oregon.

The last few years have seen record levels of worldwide mergers and acquisitions. It is a trend that was driven by several factors, including an ever-expanding GDP, low interest rates, high leverage, enhanced competition, and the immediate impact of increased scale that a merger or acquisition can bring. However, the M&A environment has fundamentally changed. New approaches must be considered in order to determine prior investments that are being impacted by the precipitous economic downturn and to capitalize on future acquisition opportunities.

Professionals from KPMG's M&A, Restructuring, and Tax will present on the following topics:

 • The state of the capital markets, various liquidity options, and approach    to help companies survive during this challenging economic environment

 • The current economic crisis and emerging economic and financial trends    with a focus on how management can respond to the downturn

 • Liquidity issues and concerns, reduced access to capital, covenant    breaches, management turmoil, cross-border issues, and the importance    of information flow will be discussed in an open forum

• Debt restructurings and tax attribute preservation issues for solvent,    insolvent, and bankrupt taxpayers

About KPMG Corporate Finance LLC

KPMG Corporate Finance provides a full suite of investment banking and advisory services to its domestic and international clients. Our professionals have the experience and depth of knowledge in global M&A and project finance to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestitures, buy-outs, financings, debt restructurings, fairness opinions, equity recapitalizations, infrastructure project finance, and other advisory initiatives. In addition, we remain independent of financing sources, helping to ensure that our efforts are objective and aligned with the goals of KPMG’s firms’ clients.

Operating in 62 countries, KPMG’s Corporate Finance practice comprises more than 2,200 professionals who are able to meet the needs of KPMG’s firms’ clients across the globe. In 2008, as a leading financial adviser, KPMG’s Corporate Finance practice completed 390 deals totaling US$51.5 billion, according to Thomson Financial’s global M&A league tables.