KPMG Corporate Finance LLC Names Edwin Crooks as a Managing Director in its Global Infrastructure Projects Group

January 4, 2007

KPMG Corporate Finance LLC Welcomes Edwin Crooks

Ed Crooks has joined KPMG Corporate Finance LLC’s Baltimore office as a Managing Director with its Global Infrastructure and Projects Group.  Mr. Crooks and his team will be responsible for providing advisory services to public and private sector clients seeking to develop and finance major infrastructure projects using public-private partnerships.  These advisory services encompass project development, structuring, financing, and procurement.

Prior to joining KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, Mr. Crooks was Vice President of Bechtel Enterprises Holdings, the finance, development, and investment arm of the Bechtel Group, where he was involved in a variety of project development and limited recourse financing activities as well as corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions.  Prior to joining Bechtel, he was a project engineer for a consulting civil engineering firm.  Mr. Crooks has extensive experience in transportation infrastructure projects and includes commercial structuring, forming development joint ventures, financial analysis, arranging limited recourse financing, and managing public-private partnerships. He also possesses project experience in water and wastewater, airports, natural resources, power, toll roads, and commuter rail throughout Russia, Poland, Bolivia, the United Kingdom, China, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Romania, Argentina, Italy, and the United States.

Mr. Crooks holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University, and an Associate of Applied Science degree from Purdue University.  He is also a registered professional engineer in Texas.

About KPMG Corporate Finance LLC

KPMG Corporate Finance LLC is a leading financial adviser serving domestic and international clients. KPMG Corporate Finance offers a full suite of investment banking and advisory services and the experience and depth of knowledge in global M&A and project finance to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestitures, buy-outs, financings, restructurings, fairness opinions, infrastructure project finance and other advisory initiatives. Operating in 52 countries, KPMG's Corporate Finance practice comprises more than 1,600 professionals who are able to meet the needs of KPMG's firms’ clients across the globe. In 2005, KPMG's Corporate Finance practice was ranked the number one financial adviser for completing the highest number of transactions globally (429 deals totaling US$40.3 billion), according to Thomson Financial’s global M&A league tables, and in 2006 it was named global financial advisor of the year by Infrastructure Journal.

Contact Information
Edwin Crooks
Managing Director
KPMG Corporate Finance LLC
111 S. Calvert St.
Baltimore, MD 21202

Tel: 410-949-8741
ecrooks@kpmg.com

www.kpmgcorporatefinance.com