PRESS RELEASE

DALLAS, Texas - July 29, 2010

Wick Phillips Gould & Martin, LLP, a full-service business law firm, is expanding its bankruptcy and litigation practice groups with the hire of Jonathan Covin, a bankruptcy, restructuring, and creditors' rights specialist.

Mr. Covin has extensive experience in corporate restructuring and bankruptcy litigation representing a variety of constituencies, including debtors, trustees, unsecured creditors' committees, bank groups, secured creditors, financial institutions, indenture trustees, and purchasers of assets from distressed companies. He has handled contested plan confirmation hearings, preference, fraudulent transfer, and equitable subordination actions, automatic stay litigation, non-dischargeability actions, claims objections, post-confirmation litigation, and other bankruptcy-related matters.

"Jonathan brings a deeper level of expertise to the Wick Phillips practice, developing innovative solutions on behalf of clients dealing with the challenges of corporate restructuring and bankruptcy," said Todd Phillips, a founding partner of Wick Phillips. "An important member of the team, Jonathan adds a new dynamic to the firm that enables us to better serve our expanding client base."

In Mr. Covin's federal and state court litigation practice, he has worked on a broad array of complex commercial litigation matters, including director and officer liability, professional malpractice cases, and oil and gas disputes.

With a unique business background, Mr. Covin marketed equity derivative products to corporate clients for Goldman Sachs in New York. He also served as chief financial officer of a high-technology startup in Cambridge, Mass. Before joining Wick Phillips, Mr. Covin was a partner with the law firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP in Dallas, and with Shore Freeman Mills PC, located in Tyler, Texas.

"Wick Phillips gives clients more personal attention and a higher level of value-added services than is typical for most corporate law firms," said Covin. "Staffed with some of the best and brightest talent hand-picked from a number of the nation's leading law firms, I look forward to working with a dedicated group of attorneys that give clients big firm expertise with small firm efficiency."

Mr. Covin attended Stanford Law School, where he graduated with honors with a JD. He also attended Princeton University, where he graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. degree.

About Wick Phillips Gould & Martin, LLP

Wick Phillips is a business law firm that specializes in Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment, Corporate and Transactional work, Bankruptcy, and Regulatory and Securities Litigation.