Unique Strategic Partnership Provides Value-Added Services To High-Growth Companies Throughout The Company Lifecycle



BOSTON, LONDON, SAN FRANCISCO, COPENHAGEN - June 13, 2008.

Building upon recent joint success, McNamee Lawrence & Co. LLC (MLC), a leading international investment banking firm, and 1st Corporate Technologies (1CT), a leading international business development advisory firm to growth companies, announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership to provide their clients with cross-border, end-to-end, value-added business development and financial services. By leveraging each others complementary advisory strengths and extensive international experience, MLC and 1CT will enable their clients to plan, prepare and affect each step of the company life-cycle in order to maximize exit value upon a sale, merger or public offering.

Highly successful exits and stakeholder value creation very rarely happen by chance. While few entrepreneurs think beyond creating a great product, smart entrepreneurs understand the need to leverage external growth, internationalization and financial experience to maximize the value of their companies and position them for greatness.

The combined services of MLC and 1CT can lead a company from humble beginnings through high growth, internationalization and significant partnerships to a successful value creating exit.

For more than 15 years, the key people of 1CT have been providing European-based technology and media companies with invaluable business development services, including identifying, developing and negotiating the international commercial partnerships that lie at the core of a successful growth strategy. 1CT has leveraged its international experience and network of experts to enable both European- and U.S.-based organizations to develop international networks of OEMs, resellers and channel partners that subsequently lead to the most logical merger or acquisition.

MLC has spent the past 6 years developing a high-value, cross-border M&A and fundraising advisory practice that capitalizes on the notion that good technology, businesses and transactions know no boundaries. MLC has extensive experience working with a vast network of the leading investors and businesses in the technology, media and clean energy sectors.

1CT and MLC will act as complementary exclusive advisors to smart growth companies looking to grow their businesses in the short-term, proactively plan for a successful exit in the long-term and then affect a high-value merger or sale process. 1CT and MLC will leverage each others vast network of contacts at the business development and corporate development levels of some of the largest and most influential players in the technology, media and clean energy areas. Their joint expertise lies in the combination of MLC’s knowledge of what these major players have on their short and long term partnership and acquisition agendas and 1CT’s ability to develop innovative growth companies to correspond to these agendas.

“1CT has the proven ability to set a growth company on a path that attains both operating success and positions them for a high value exit,” said Giles McNamee, managing director, MLC, “Today’s announcement merely formalizes an established and successful working relationship with 1CT in which we have jointly achieved great outcomes for our clients through the M&A markets.”

“Through our partnership with MLC, we know that we can create a viable growth strategy with a client that, when it grows to scale, will have a world-class investment banking firm to help that client realize its full value upon a sale or merger,” said Søren Jonas Bruun, Founding Partner, 1CT.

In January 2008, MCL and 1CT completed the sale of Thinstall, a San Francisco based desktop application virtualization company to VMware, the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter.

About MLC
McNamee Lawrence & Co. LLC (MLC) is a leading international investment banking firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco and London. Founded in 2002, MLC focuses on providing growth-oriented technology, media and clean energy companies with merger and acquisition, private placement, and strategic advisory services, employing a unique understanding of industry dynamics and key players, deep domain expertise, international presence and seamless execution to achieve optimal outcomes. MLC conducts its investment banking business through McNamee Lawrence & Co. Securities Inc., a member of the FINRA, SEC and SIPC, and through McNamee Lawrence & Co. Ltd., a member of the FSA. http://www.mlcllc.com

About 1CT

1CT is a partnership of international executives and entrepreneurs with operational, exit, M&A and consulting experience. Since 2005, we’ve been based in the UK with offices in the Nordic Region, US and Asia. We work closely with more than 100 international Project Partners (experts and coaches) to offer tailored resources and access to strategic players. 1CT engages with promising growth companies and through funding and hands-on support drives growth and strategic positioning leading to high stakeholder returns and successful exits. 12 exits have been secured in 3 years. http://www.1corptech.com

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For further information, please contact:

Giles McNamee, MLC, or +1-617-638-2601
Søren Jonas Bruun, or +45-33-22-07-00