Bay Area Middle Market Banking Venture Services Group

• Formed in 2002; A local team of industry experts focused on delivering comprehensive banking solutions to Venture Firms and Portfolio companies in Life Sciences and Technology, as well as access to Banc of America Securities (BAS) investment banking professionals.
• Leading providers of global treasury management solutions (including blocked account agreements), foreign exchange strategies, trade services and commercial credit cards. Arrange for personalized banking services to the founders/executives of our corporate clients. Collaborate with known non-bank venture-stage lenders to deliver credit products to clients that are in a pre-profit stage.
• Comparative advantages: Can take companies from start-up stage to liquidity event; world-wide treasury management platform; access to BAS; foreign exchange and foreign trade capabilities, e-commerce initiatives, private & public capital raising and M&A. Wealth management solutions for employees, partners and executives.

Comerica Bank's Technology and Life Sciences Division is one of the nation's leading technology banking practices, offering a wide range of financial services tailored to corporate customers, entrepreneurs and professionals. Veteran bankers provide credit and financial services and products to young, growing, professionally backed technology and life sciences companies, as well as their more mature counterparts. The Technology and Life Sciences Division serves all major U.S. technology centers from offices coast-to-coast and its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Comerica Bank is a subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), a financial services company headquartered in Detroit, which is the 21st largest banking company in the nation, with $53.5 billion in total assets at March 31, 2005.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, as well as the public and private capital markets that finance them. The firm has established its reputation by having an unmatched knowledge of its clients' industries and deep and long-standing contacts throughout the technology and life sciences sectors.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's commitment to the entrepreneur and venture capital community spans over four decades, during which time they have played an integral role in the creation of many of today's groundbreaking technologies and companies. The firm consistently represents more companies that receive venture financing than any other law firm and its attorneys specialize in the following areas of law critical to the success of most start-up ventures:

• Corporate Formation
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Finance
• Intellectual Property
• Employee Benefits & Compensation
• Employment Law
• Litigation