NEEDHAM

Business acquisitions and merger consultations; mergers and acquisition services, namely, exclusive sale assignments, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate partnering and restructuring, leveraged and management buyouts, tender offers, financial advisory assignments, takeover defenses, exclusive sale assignments, acquisitions, divestitures and fairness opinions in relationship thereto; advisory services in connection with the formation and operation of investment funds and offshore funds

Financial services, namely, investment management, investment advice, mutual fund investment, financial advisory services, capital management services, initial and secondary public offerings, investment of funds for others; portfolio management services; investment banking, corporate financial services, namely, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, convertible debt and preferred offerings, underwritten calls, private placements and stock repurchases; initial public offering services, namely, follow-on equity and equity equivalent offerings, private placements of equity, private placements of debt, fairness opinions, namely, financial valuations of business assets; and financial advisory services