Barrier Advisors is pleased to announce the addition of Jeffrey A. Jones to its Corporate Restructuring team

DALLAS (January 23, 2007) - In our ongoing promise to provide our clients with differentiated excellence, Barrier Advisors is pleased to announce the addition of Jeffrey A. Jones to its Corporate Restructuring team.

Jeffrey Jones, a recognized expert in the valuation, financing and sale of healthy, underperforming and distressed public and private companies, will now ply his more than 20 years of experience as an investment banker and restructuring advisor to the benefit of our clients at Barrier Advisors.

Since 2003, Jeff has been managing the Midwest office and the Mergers & Acquisitions practice of the New York restructuring firm Loughlin Meghji+Company. Prior to this role, he was co-head of McDonald Investments’ Restructuring Services Group and prior to that was a Managing Director in McDonald Investments’ Mergers & Acquisitions Group.

His clients have ranged from large-cap public clients such as Exelon and British Petroleum (BP America) to mid-cap companies such as Vista Eyecare and Homeland Stores.

Out-of-court restructurings completed by Jeff include PTCAlliance, AT Plastics, Woods Equipment, Norstan, Heartland Pork and Clearly Canadian.

Creditor clients have included the senior lenders in Robotic Vision Systems (RVSI), AT Plastics as well the lenders to numerous private companies. Jeff has represented the Official Committees of Unsecured Creditors in Orthodontics Centers of America, Bethlehem Steel, Tokheim and Divine.

In all, Jeff has completed more than 100 financings, M&A transactions and restructurings.

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