THANK YOU TO OUR CONFERENCE SUPPORTERS:
This conference offers an outstanding opportunity to increase your company’s visibility, and leadership role in this industry. To learn more about the business development opportunities available for your company or organization, contact:

Rita Karsadi, Senior VP Business Development, iiBIG at 704-999-9806 or ritak@iibig.com

Mayer Brown LLP, a leading global law firm, has over 100 structured finance lawyers located throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe with experience in securitizing virtually every asset type. In the area of student loans, we represent finance companies, commercial banks and investment banks as sellers, purchasers, lenders, issuers and underwriters in securitizations of student loans. Our work includes the regulation and financing of student loans, conduit transactions and term transactions (both public and Rule 144A). We have significant experience with both FFELP student loans and private student loans, including those subject to private guaranty arrangements. We have extensive experience with repurchases of and tender offers for auction rate securities and refinancing the student loans released from the related trusts. We also created Straight-A Funding, LLC, the student loan asset backed commercial paper conduit, and have represented Straight-A in all of its student loan financings. www.mayerbrown.com Morgan Stanley's student loan team has a broad range of experience underwriting taxable and tax-exempt transactions backed by FFELP and private loan collateral for new money and restructuring purposes. Our team has developed innovative solutions for our clients to restructure existing debt, across a spectrum of securities classes, through repurchases, tender offers, debt exchanges, Straight-A financings, and asset-backed offerings. Since 2006, our team has managed 37 issues totaling over $34 Bn in par amount including $5.6 Bn in restructurings over the past year. Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 37 countries. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com The Financial Instruments and Credit Group consists of over 200 professionals, based in New York, Washington, DC, London, Sydney, and other key locations throughout the world. PwC's Financial Instruments and Credit Group has assisted our clients in virtually every aspect of the capital markets business, and has earned a distinguished reputation for professional excellence and leadership by developing innovative, cost-effective solutions to complex problems. Our diverse, multi-disciplined team is unique in its approach to blending and managing all of the skills necessary to service this dynamic and fast changing market. Our Team has experience in all aspects of securitization – accounting, tax, finance, servicing, valuation, asset analysis and due diligence, structuring alternatives, transaction closings and issuance, trustee and bond administration operations, investor reporting, financial reporting, compliance, Regulation AB reporting, technology, transaction surveillance, and risk assessment and management. RBC Capital Markets - is A Premier Investment Bank. Our strengths in providing focused expertise, superior execution and insightful thinking have consistently ranked us among the top 20 global investment banks. With over 3,000 employees, we provide our capital markets products and services from 75 offices in 15 countries and work with clients through operations in North America, Europe, the UK, Asia and Australia. We are part of the Royal Bank of Canada , one of the world's strongest global financial institutions. As one of just five banks globally with a Moody's Aaa, RBC is the 15th largest bank in the world and the 6th largest bank in North America by market capitalization. www.rbccm.com

	BMO Capital Markets - is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider, with over 2,200 employees operating in 15 North American offices and 28 worldwide, offering corporate, institutional and government clients access to a complete range of investment and corporate banking products and services. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$373 billion total assets and more than 36,000 employees as at January 31, 2010. www.bmocm.com
	First Marblehead - is a leading provider of private student loans for lenders, credit unions, and schools. We help meet the growing demand for education financing by offering clients a complete and integrated suite of outsourced services for private student loans, including underwriting, loan origination, and portfolio risk management. www.firstmarblehead.com
	Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company, (“M&T Bank”) - is one of the top twenty largest bank holding companies in the nation with combined assets of over $60 billion. Corporations, municipalities, and financial institutions have relied on M&T Bank for over seventy-five years to provide superior and cost-effective corporate trust services. M&T Bank prides itself on meeting and exceeding the typical selection criteria: cost, quality of services, and experience, while having the flexibility required to meet the changing demands of today’s market. M&T Bank has extensive experience in fixed rate, variable rate and auction rate securities, as well as extensive experience servicing Delaware Statutory Trusts, ABS, Leveraged Lease, and Student Loan transactions. We are committed to providing the highest quality corporate trust services, based out of our regional offices in Baltimore, Maryland; Wilmington, Delaware; Buffalo, New York; and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. www.mtb.com
	Sidley Austin LLP’s student loan finance team has significant experience in a broad range of student loan finance matters, including: SEC-registered public offerings and shelf registrations; commercial paper conduit and bank warehouse financings; tax exempt and other exempt offerings for public sector entities; private placements; representations of investors purchasing subordinated tranches of student loan asset-backed securities; regulatory matters; workouts and restructurings; representations of parties in TALC matters involving student loan assets; and the representation of issuers and lenders to issuers in connection with Straight-A Funding and other DUE-sponsored put and participation facilities. For more info, please visit www.sidley.com.
	Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP - With more than 700 lawyers and other professionals in 13 offices in the U.S. and Europe, and a global reach throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Sonnenschein serves the legal and public interest needs of many of the world's best-known and most admired businesses, nonprofits and individuals. Founded in 1906, Sonnenschein is a leader in innovative legal services, serving our clients through integrated, inter-office cooperation and teamwork among practice groups to provide efficient, effective and timely legal services and business counseling. For more info, please visit www.sonnenschein.com.
	Standard & Poor’s Structured Finance Ratings offers globally a range of rating services, which help investors, bankers, issuers and other constituents benchmark the credit quality of securitized assets. Our coverage includes asset-backed, mortgage-backed, and commercial mortgage-backed securities, in addition to structured credit products such as collateralized debt obligations and non-traditional assets. We also provide servicer evaluations and deliver extensive on-going asset performance and collateral information through the web. Standard & Poor’s unmatched understanding in all structured finance markets, our absolute commitment to quality service and our long-standing reputation for objectivity, openness, integrity, and credibility has made us a forward thinking leader worldwide. For additional information, visit our website at www.standardandpoors.com.