We are pleased to announce the two most recent members of the firm. Peter A. Seitz and Daniel J. Flaherty are joining the firm on June 1, 2005. Mr. Seitz was most recently Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Union Bankshares Corporation, a forty-three office banking company with $1.7 billion in assets headquartered in Bowling Green, Virginia. Prior to Union Bankshares, Peter, who is 42, was employed for twelve years with FNB Corporation, a $1.4 billion community bank in Christiansburg, Virginia, where he rose to Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel. He is an honors graduate of the University of Virginia, the Washington and Lee School of Law and the ABA Stonier School of Banking. Peter, who will be located in the firm’s North Carolina office, will advise the firm’s clients on a variety of matters, including regulatory and securities compliance and systems conversion and integration, as well as the firm’s traditional mergers and capital raising advisory services.

Dan Flaherty completed his undergraduate studies at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts and recently finished an MBA at the University of Tampa. Dan will be working in the firm’s Florida office as a financial analyst.