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Imperial Capital, LLC is a full-service investment banking firm offering sophisticated institutional sales and trading, a wide range of investment banking advisory, capital markets and restructuring services, and institutional research. Imperial Capital provides debt and equity financing, sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions advisory, financial restructuring and recapitalization advisory, and fairness opinions. Imperial Capital’s Security Team is focused on providing middle market companies with sound advice and superior execution and is active in all sectors of Security including Homeland Security, Information Security and Commercial Security, Aerospace & Defense, and Government Services markets. Imperial Capital, LLC is a member of FINRA ( www.finra.org) and SIPC (www.sipc.org). For more information about Imperial Capital please visit www.imperialcapital.com or call (800) 929-2299.

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Capital One Bank, one of the nation’s top 10 largest banks based on deposits, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Our team of security industry finance professionals is committed to providing financing solutions to meet the unique needs of physical security, information security, and government services businesses. Please contact Bill Polk at Bill.Polk@capitalone.com or Tom Pagnani at Thomas.Pagnani@capitalone.com to learn more about our Security, Defense, and Technology Group and how we can help your business grow.

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CapitalSource Security Lending holds $800 million in committed financing and provides creative debt and equity to security companies that are capital-intensive with high growth potential in the government and public safety sectors. An on-balance sheet lender, our loans are generally originated, managed and serviced internally due to our depth of knowledge and expertise. For more information, please visit www.capitalsource.com.



The Chertoff Group is a global security advisory firm that provides consulting, business development, and M&A advisory services for clients in the security, defense and government services industries. Founded by former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, the firm assists clients in areas related to counter-terrorism, cyber security, border protection and surveillance, aviation security, identity management, defense procurement, law enforcement, fraud and supply chain security. In the past 18 months, The Chertoff Group has acted as a strategic advisor on several M&A transactions totaling more than $2.6 billion. The firm is based in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, New York and San Francisco. For more information about The Chertoff Group, please visit www.chertoffgroup.com.

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