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Law Offices of Jonathan Stein Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP
Jonathan Stein David B. Shemano
Email:  jstein@jsteinlaw.com Email:  dshemano@pwkllp.com
Office:  310-587-2277 Office:  310-712-0051
Cell:  310-968-4455 Cell:  310-621-9621
  Website:  www.pwkllp.com

Law Offices of Jonathan Stein and the widely respected business bankruptcy firm Peitzman Weg & Kempinsky LLP are collaborating to offer restructuring and bankruptcy advice to investors, gaming companies and Indian tribes affected by the current and unprecedented gaming industry recession.

Jonathan Stein has been a leading lawyer and CEO in the gaming industry since 1998. His clients include Paramount Digital Entertainment, GameTech, Mississippi casino legend Rick Schilling, and the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe. Mr. Stein is a member of the Board of Governors for 4,000-lawyer Beverly Hills Bar Assn and chairs its 800-lawyer Litigation Section. As a litigator, Mr. Stein has won 49 cases and lost 5 in the past 17 years. As a CEO for the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe, he helped raise $21 million for the tribe. The April 2009 edition of Global Gaming Business includes Mr. Stein’s article, Swapping Out Debt: Solving The Riddle Of Debt-Asset Swaps And Triangular Deal Structures.

Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP has been recognized by Chambers USA as a premier bankruptcy, restructuring and business litigation law firm. Their client list, which includes some of the most prominent companies in the United States, can be found at www.pwkllp.com. Recent restructuring clients include Halcyon Holding Group, which produced the motion picture Terminator: Salvation and owns all future rights to the Terminator franchise, and Namco Capital Group, which controlled a commercial real estate portfolio with an estimated value of more than $1 billion. Gaming restructuring clients have included the Boyd Group (manager of the Gold River Hotel & Casino), Societe Generale (lender to the Stratosphere), and Natixis (lender to Green Valley Ranch Resort and Hollywood Casino Shreveport).

By combining Jonathan Stein’s extensive experience in the gaming industry with Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP’s extensive experience providing restructuring and bankruptcy advice, the firms are each in position to assist gaming clients as the clients address the problems and opportunities created by the current economic environment.

For further information, please feel free to contact Jonathan or David at the addresses above.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Law Offices of Jonathan Stein and Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP are separate law firms that are willing to serve as co-counsel on specific matters. The retention by a client of one of the firms, however, will not create an attorney-client relationship with the other firm unless the client and that firm enter into a written engagement letter. This press release or any other public announcement jointly made by the firms is not intended to create or imply any legal relationship or association between the firms, including any “Of Counsel” relationship, other than a mutual willingness to serve as co-counsel on specific matters in which the client has executed a separate, written engagement letter with each firm.

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