Brown Gibbons Lang & Company, a leading national middle market investment bank, announced today the addition of Aaron A. Witalec as an associate to the firm.

Witalec joins BGL’s Cleveland office from PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was a manager in the Transaction Services and Corporate Finance group in Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China.

Witalec has several years of experience in public accounting and previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Transaction Services group in Detroit before his tenure in China, primarily working on buy-side due diligence projects. He has played key roles in leading engagements for both private equity and strategic buyers, including multiple cross-border deals. Witalec has also contributed insights and analysis on the global automotive industry on a quarterly basis to Automotive News through PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Automotive Shareholder Value analysis.

Prior to his experience in mergers and acquisitions, Witalec was employed for a Japanese automotive supplier in the Detroit area providing value-added activities in the engineering design and manufacturing process.

In addition to his global experience, Witalec has worked closely with the Guangzhou Municipal Board for International Investment (Invest Guangzhou), a professional institution engaged in promoting international investment in Guangzhou set up by the Guangzhou Municipal Government.

“Aaron will be a valuable addition to this firm. He is a talented individual with superior academic and engineering credentials. These skills combined with his extensive automotive experience will strengthen BGL’s global automotive practice,” said Michael E. Gibbons, senior managing director and principal at BGL.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity placements, and financial restructurings. BGL is the U.S. partner firm in Global M&A, one of the world’s leading partnerships of top-tier, mid-market, cross-border investment banks. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.

About Global M&A

Global M&A is the world’s leading partnership of top-tier independent financial advisory firms focusing on mid-market cross-border transactions with values between $25 and $500 million. The Global M&A partnership consists of 32 members in financial centers spanning the globe. Members have completed more than 700 transactions with an aggregate deal value exceeding $20 billion since 2000. Global M&A was named 2005 Investment Bank of the Year by The M&A Advisor, a leading publication dedicated to middle market merger and acquisition activity. For more information, please visit www.globalma.com.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is proud to announce the addition of eight talented professionals to its investment banking team.

Joining the Chicago office are Brian E. O’Reilly as associate, and Zachary A. Biderman and Jonathan A. Adams as analysts. O’Reilly completed his M.B.A. at Duke University this May after working as an investment banking summer associate at Morgan Stanley. Biderman graduated with a B.S.B.A. from Georgetown University and has prior industry experience. Adams graduated in June with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from Northwestern University.

Joining the Cleveland office as analysts are Brandon M. Ellert, Dean L. Schmitt and Michael T. Vinciguerra. Ellert and Vinciguerra recently graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Schmitt earned his B.S. from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University.

The three analysts join additional recent Cleveland hires James B. Mooney and Lawrence A. Vincek as associates. Mooney, a cum laude M.B.A. graduate of University of California at Berkeley, served as director, sourcing and corporate development at OM Group, Inc. Vincek was director of finance & operations at Conlon & Company. He earned his M.B.A. from University of Chicago prior to joining BGL.

“We have greatly benefited from our intensive recruiting program over the past few years by hiring well-qualified candidates who meet the demanding needs of our growing firm,” stated Michael Gibbons, BGL senior managing director & chairman.

BGL will visit Indiana University, Miami University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan and University of Notre Dame during October and November to recruit analysts and associates.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company
Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity placements, and financial restructurings. BGL is the U.S. partner firm in Global M&A, one of the world’s leading partnerships of top-tier, mid-market, cross-border investment banks. Global M&A was named 2005 Investment Bank of the Year by The M&A Advisor. For more information, please visitwww.bglco.com.

The M&A Advisor, a leading publication dedicated to middle market merger and acquisition activity, recently announced the finalists for the 4th Annual M&A Advisor Awards.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) was named as a finalist for International/Cross Border Deal of the Year for the acquisition of Polypipe Building Products, Ltd. (Polypipe) from IMI plc by Castle Harlan Partners IV; as a finalist for Turnaround Deal of the Year for the sale of Stuart C. Irby Company to Sonepar USA; and, as a finalist for Manufacturing-Industrial Deal of the Year for the sale of Victor Oolitic Stone Co. to Audax Group. Other finalists include Petters Group’s acquisition of Polaroid Corp. and the acquisition of PEC Solutions by Nortel Networks.

This marks the third consecutive year that BGL has been honored. In 2003, Michael Gibbons and Scott Lang were named Middle Market Deal Makers of the Year and in 2004, the recapitalization of Corrpro Companies Inc. by Wingate Partners was selected as the Turnaround Deal of the Year.

BGL has also been named a finalist for U.S. Middle Market Deal Maker of the Year for the Polypipe transaction and is honored to be the U.S. partner in Global M&A, a finalist for Investment Banking Firm of the Year.

“We are humbled by such a high-level consecutive recognition for the quality of international middle market M&A services we provide,” said Scott Lang, senior managing director and CEO of BGL.

The winners will be announced at a black-tie awards dinner December 5th, 2005 at The New York Athletic Club in New York City.

About Brown Gibbons Lang and Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements, and financial restructurings. BGL is the U.S. partner in Global M&A, the world’s leading partnership of top-tier independent financial advisory firms focusing on mid-market cross-border transactions. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.

About The M&A Advisor

The M&A Advisor is a newsletter, website, and conference publisher delivering services that provide executives, M&A professionals, and others about the intricate world of buying and selling middle market companies. For more information, please visit www.maadvisor.com.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) today announced the establishment of a dedicated cross-border transaction research resource. Chicago analyst Fletcher Boyle has assumed the position effective immediately.

As the U.S. partner in Global M&A, one of the world’s leading partnerships of top-tier, mid-market, cross-border investment banks, BGL is the primary source of U.S. corporate and private equity intelligence to its 25 partners around the world. The Global M&A desk will serve as the main portal for cross-border deal opportunities.

“Global M&A partners have more than tripled their cross-border deal activity in the past twelve months,” said Michael Gibbons, chairman of BGL and Global M&A. “Establishing a committed research resource for our partners will only serve to increase the amount of deal flow. Fletcher is a brilliant and enthusiastic young professional who will serve the partnership well.”

“Nearly one third of our transactions today are cross-border,” said David Sulaski, BGL managing director and principal. “Both our clients and our partners will benefit from this commitment in many tangible ways.”

Boyle will work closely with Gibbons, Sulaski, and all BGL professionals on the myriad opportunities the firm faces with its global investment banking partners. Inquiries can be directed to [email protected].

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements, and financial restructurings. BGL is the U.S. partner in Global M&A, one of the world’s leading partnerships of top-tier, mid-market, cross-border investment banks. For more information, please visit www.bglco.com.

About Global M&A

Global M&A is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading working partnerships of independent mid-market advisory firms focusing on cross-border, mid-market transactions with values between $25 and $500 million. The partnership consists of 26 members in financial centers spanning the globe. Members have completed over 600 transactions with an aggregate deal value exceeding $15 billion since 2000. For more information, please visit www.globalma.com.

Global M&A, the worldwide partnership of top-tier mid-market investment banks, chose Michael Gibbons as its new chairman at a partnership meeting today in Venice, Italy.

Gibbons, 53, founded and chairs Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL), based in Cleveland and Chicago. BGL has been a member of Global M&A since 2001.

“I am very gratified and appreciative of this vote of confidence. I am excited to lead Global M&A because I believe we provide unique services in the cross border middle-market,” Gibbons said.

Gibbons is the first American to lead Global M&A, which was established in Europe in the 1990s. Members execute deals, mainly mergers and acquisitions, on a partnership basis. The partnership has 27 member firms in as many countries, with offices in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. Three firms, in Poland, Finland and the Czech Republic, joined the partnership today. Global M&A partner firms have executed more than 500 transactions with a total value of more than $12 billion since 2000.

Global M&A head Carlo Montenovesi, chair of Italian partner, Cross Border, supported Gibbons as his successor.

“The last two years have been focused on extending territorial reach, particularly outside Europe. But the most significant results have been achieved in the level of interaction and teamwork within the Global M&A partnership. In particular, our U.S. partners have increasingly participated in joint projects with most of our other partners, and with their thought leadership in the M&A area,” Montenovesi said.

“That’s why passing the leadership of Global M&A to Mike is very logical. I am very proud to pass the lead to Mike, founder of Brown Gibbons Lang & Co., whom I admire both for his professional capability and integrity.”

Gibbons pointed to the partnership’s growth under Montenovesi as his signature contribution.

“I salute and thank Carlo Montenovesi for his leadership. Under Carlo, we added partners in six countries. We will continue to grow because Global M&A’s service is unique. Our “best of breed’ investment banks work in unison for our clients in the middle-market and multinational corporate world. That regional expertise and sector depth they get nowhere else,” Gibbons said.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements, and financial restructurings. BGL is the U.S. partner in Global M&A, the world’s leading working partnership of investment banking boutiques. More information on Brown Gibbons Lang & Company can be found at www.bglco.com.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (“BGL”), a leading investment banking firm serving middle-market companies, today announced that its corporate finance advisory work has been nominated for three M&A Advisor Awards.

“We are very proud that our work is nominated in three of the five M&A Advisor major award categories. Each of these transactions was of vital importance to our clients. Recognition of the results is very gratifying,” said Michael Gibbons, BGL senior managing director and principal.

BGL-assisted transactions were nominated in these categories:

U.S. Middle Market Deal of the Year — BGL advised Advanced Lighting Technologies, Inc., a publicly traded major manufacturer of halide lighting products, in a major corporate reorganization that allowed the firm to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, strengthen its balance sheet and dedicate new resources to expanding its markets.

International / Cross-Border Deal of the Year — BGL advised Rockford, Illinois-based machine tool maker Ingersoll International, Inc. in maximizing the value of its international holdings while successfully exiting from the ailing U.S. machine tool market.

Turnaround Deal of the Year — BGL advised Corrpro Companies, Inc., the world’s leading provider of corrosion control engineering services, in recapitalizing the company, renegotiating its loan agreements with its existing bank group, divesting two companies and managing other complex domestic and international financial transactions.

“Each of these transactions yielded significant financial value to our clients and demanded the most of our bankers,” said Scott Lang, BGL senior managing director and principal.

The M&A Advisor, a leading journal serving the investment banking industry, will present the awards in New York City on December 13. For more information, please click here.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements, and financial restructurings. BGL is the U.S. partner in Global M&A, the world’s leading working partnership of investment banking boutiques. More information on Brown Gibbons Lang & Company can be found at www.bglco.com.

On the heels of a similar growth announcement made in June, Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (“BGL”) is pleased to announce it has added four more talented professionals to the international investment banking firm.

Joining the Chicago office are N. Craig Wynn as Associate and Joseph R. Boleski as Analyst. Wynn joins BGL after serving as a management consultant for Accenture. He earned his M.B.A. from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Boleski is a recent graduate of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

Joining the Cleveland office as Analysts are Erin L. Rogalski and Andrew P. Molinari. Rogalski joins BGL from LaSalle Bank N.A. where she was a Commercial Banking Officer. She earned her B.S. from Case Western Reserve University. Molinari recently earned his B.S., magna cum laude, from Kent State University.

“We continue to hire professionals to support the growth needs of our firm,” said Andrew K. Petryk, Managing Director and Principal. “For the first time in our firm’s 15 year history, we are instituting a full-scale recruiting program that will commence this fall with visits to more than a dozen top business universities.”

BGL plans visits to Indiana University, Miami University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame and Washington University during October and November to recruit analysts and associates to its ever-strengthening team.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements, and financial restructurings, and were named 2003 U.S. Deal Makers of the Year by The Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor. BGL is the U.S. partner in Global M&A, the world’s leading working partnership of investment banking boutiques. For more information, please visit us at www.bglco.com.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (“BGL”) announced today the addition of Morten G. Jorgensen, a veteran of 12 years of global merger and acquisition experience, as Vice President in its Chicago office.

Jorgensen, a previous Vice President in the Global Industrial and Services Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse First Boston, brings to BGL broad advisory and capital raising experience in the diversified industrial, surface transportation and business services sectors.

“I am excited about the opportunity to build upon the tremendous success of BGL in the U.S. and internationally through its affiliation with Global M&A, the world’s premier collection of investment banking boutiques,” said Jorgensen, himself of Danish descent. “BGL provides the highest quality global execution capabilities to its clients. This is unique and increasingly important among leading U.S. middle market advisory firms.”

Jorgensen started his corporate finance career as an investment banking analyst with Morgan Stanley in London, UK. From there he served as Director, European Finance, for Exide Holding Europe S.A. (“Exide”) where he was a member of the senior financial management team. Showcasing his entrepreneurial spirit and M&A expertise, Jorgensen later founded MGJ Advisory Group, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm focused on corporate divestitures.

“The addition of Morten to our firm serves as yet another example of our continuing commitment to enhance our international leadership in middle market corporate finance advisory services by making key, strategic hires,” said Scott H. Lang, Senior Managing Partner and Principal at BGL. “We look to Morten’s investment banking expertise and multi-lingual skills to help maximize the growth of our increasingly global practice.”

Jorgensen earned his M.B.A and B.S. from Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements, and financial restructurings, and were named 2003 U.S. Deal Makers of the Year by The Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor. BGL is the U.S. partner in Global M&A, the world’s leading working partnership of investment banking boutiques. For more information, please visit us at www.bglco.com.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (“BGL”), a leading middle market investment banking firm, is pleased to announce it has added four talented investment banking professionals to its growing team. “It is an exciting time for BGL. We needed to increase our staff to maintain the level of quality services we promise our clients,” said Mike Gibbons, Senior Managing Director and Principal. “And we aren’t done yet.”

Joining the firm’s Cleveland office as an associate is Effram Kaplan who recently completed his MBA at the University of Chicago. Lydia Kosc and Justin Jow join Cleveland as senior analysts. Prior to joining BGL, Lydia was in the Energy Investment Banking group at Keybanc Capital Markets. Justin was most recently an investment banking analyst in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions and Global Natural Resources group at J.P. Morgan Securities.

Joining the firm’s Chicago office as an analyst is Mickey Arabelovic, formerly a corporate and investment banking analyst with Keybanc Capital Markets. “We are always in the market for the right people to help us serve our clients and impact the growth objectives of our firm,” said Scott Lang, Senior Managing Director and Principal. “Expect us to continue adding experienced professionals in Chicago and in new markets as well.” Also in Chicago, BGL continues to acknowledge the contributions of its current banking professionals and has promoted Steve Miles to Managing Director. BGL has grown at a rate of 20% for each of the last five years.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements, and financial restructurings, and were named 2003 U.S. Deal Makers of the Year by The Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor. BGL is the sole full partner representing the U.S. in the Global M&A Network, the world’s most active partnership of investment banking boutiques. For more information, please visit us at www.bglco.com.

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (“BGL”), a leading middle market investment banking firm, will host the 1st Annual Global M&A Cross-Border Conference, “The Middle Market Goes Global” on May 26-27, 2004 at The Peninsula Hotel in Chicago, IL. “This will be an unprecedented forum for international networking and relationship building with leading cross-border M&A practitioners,” said Global M&A Chairman, Carlo Montenovesi of Cross Border (Italy).

The Conference will bring together over 300 business owners, investors, and transaction professionals from 23 countries throughout the world. “For owners of middle-market businesses, a global outlook has now become vital to a successful business strategy,” said Scott Lang, Senior Managing Director and Principal at BGL. “The message is clear: think globally, because your competitors are.” Members and the invited guests of Global M&A, the world’s leading consortium of middle market investment banking firms from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia, will discuss the continued globalization of transaction activity for deals with values between $25 million and $250 million.

Jay Jordan, a cross-border transaction pioneer, and the Founder and Managing Principal of The Jordan Company, L.P.-a leading middle market buyout company, will be the keynote speaker. Other participating experts include: Jeffrey Abbott, Director of Corporate Strategy for Brown Forman Corporation (U.S.), George Dorkham, CEO, Ingersoll (Germany), Richard Kohn, Managing Partner of Goldberg Kohn (U.S.), Binoy R V Meghraj, Director, Meghraj Corporate Finance (India), Howard Morgan, Managing Director of Castle Harlan Partners (U.S.), and David Roberts, President and CEO of Adobe Air, Inc. (U.S.).

For more information about this invitation only and complimentary event, please go to www.bglco.com/GlobalMAConference.asp

About Global M&A

Global M&A is the world’s most active network of investment banking boutiques focusing on middle market transactions with values between $25M and $250M. Each Global M&A member is a leading investment banking firm in its respective country. This network consists of 20 members with offices in 22 countries, including Europe, North & South America, Asia and Australia. Global M&A members have completed 450 transactions with an aggregate deal value approaching $10 billion since 2000. Please visit www.globalma.com.

About Brown Gibbons Lang & Company

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL’s professionals are experts in mergers & acquisitions, debt & equity placements and financial restructurings, and were named 2003 Middle Market Deal Makers of the Year by The Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor. BGL, the sole partner representing the U.S. in Global M&A, was originally selected to join the network because of the firm’s expertise in cross-border transactions and recommendations from its international clients. Please visit us at www.bglco.com