Hudson Advisors LLC

Hudson Advisors LLC and its global subsidiaries (collectively, "Hudson") is a globally integrated asset management company that performs due diligence and analysis, asset management, and other support services for Lone Star Funds ("Lone Star"), a leading private equity firm that invests globally in distressed assets. Formed in 1995, Hudson (formerly known as Brazos Advisors, LLC) is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and has subsidiary offices in New York, Montreal, San Juan, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Luxembourg, Dublin, Madrid, Paris and Tokyo. Hudson and its subsidiaries collectively employ approximately 800 professionals. Both Hudson Advisors LLC and its subsidiary, Hudson Americas LLC, are investment advisers registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commisssion. Hudson has significant expertise in loan servicing and asset management, providing a full range of services that include due diligence and valuation, financial services and reporting, income and property tax compliance, currency and interest rate hedging, risk management, information technology development and systems support. Certain of the Hudson subsidiaries are rated primary and/or special servicer by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's Rating Services. Hudson has direct experience in workouts of distressed loan portfolios, corporate restructurings/turnarounds, rehabilitation and repositioning of real estate assets across a variety of property types, land and real estate development and servicing a variety of debt instruments. Since the establishment of its first fund in 1995, Lone Star has organized twelve private equity funds (the "Funds") with aggregate capital commitments totaling over $45 billion. Since that time, Hudson has provided due diligence and analysis, asset management and other support services to approximately 807,000 assets with an aggregate purchase price of more than $110 billion (including acquisition financing and co-investor equity). Hudson maintains strategic oversight of specialty management firms that are owned by a Fund or Funds to service certain assets requiring specific management expertise.