PROXY SOLICITATION

In today's highly charged corporate governance environment, we realize it is more urgent than ever for corporations to have an experienced, knowledgeable advisor to guide them through the proxy solicitation process. To help our clients overcome these challenges, we provide:

• Experience: We have the strength of a team of professionals who are fully competent to address the myriad issues surrounding the highly fluid corporate governance environment. Our executives have worked on over ten thousand annual and special shareholder meetings and have been involved in the telephone solicitation of millions of shareholders.

• Innovation: Our professionals take the time to look at each situation and devise a unique strategy to meet each client's individual objectives. We provide the insight and facts to help you make intelligent decisions.

• Service: In contrast to other major proxy firms, our executives do not face the burden of each handling close to 100 assignments a year. As a firm that chooses to focus on a select number of assignments, we deliver a hands-on solution giving our clients proactive attention and unlimited access to any member of our team.

• Understanding: It's simply not enough to be aware of the changes that the regulatory and corporate governance arenas are undergoing. The Altman Group understands how these changes affect the solicitation process and impact the potential outcome of the vote on your important proposals.

• Follow-Through: The success of a proxy solicitation campaign frequently rests on the implementation of a strategy that has been agreed to by the client and the proxy solicitor. As a firm that is driven by performance, The Altman Group is not simply satisfied to pass your agenda. We constantly strive to deliver the highest voting responses our clients have ever achieved.

• Institutional Contact: Relying on institutional holders to vote simply doesn't work. Through our network of contacts, we will ensure that the institutional vote is delivered and provide an early warning of any unanticipated opposition that needs to be addressed.

• Corporate Governance Consulting: Experience, constant research and trend tracking provide the building blocks for our advice on equity compensation plans, Sarbanes-Oxley considerations, anti-takeover proposals and other thorny issues. We provide the insight to help our clients make informed decisions, anticipate opposition and implement strategies to pass a tough agenda.

• Vote Projections: Looking at the voting tendencies of each shareholder constituency allows us to accurately predict the eventual response to a proposal. This insight is a key component to developing a successful solicitation road map.

• Technology: We employ the latest communications technology to intelligently employ our massive phone capabilities on behalf of our clients. Phone voting, call recording, up-to-date reporting and smart dialing methodologies are run by a team of dedicated telephone technology specialists.