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IBM Italia SpA, Cyprus Branch

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Contact: Mr. Kyriakos Kokkinos, General Manager
42 -44 Griva Dighenis Avenue
1080 Nicosia
Phone: +357-22-841100
Fax: +357-22-666372
Email: kokkinos@N0SPAM.cy.ibm.com
Web: http://www.ibm.com/cy

IBM Cyprus

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM serves the needs of enterprises and institutions worldwide and seeks to deliver clients success by enabling their own capacity to innovate, so that they may differentiate their organizations to create a unique competitive advantage.

To help its clients achieve growth, productivity, efficiency, and the realization of greater value through innovation, IBM draws upon the world’s leading systems, software and services capabilities to turn enterprises of all sizes, in every major industry, into on demand businesses.

IBM is present in Cyprus since 1963 and has a long standing business and technological heritage in the country. The company is committed to innovation and helping its clients transform their businesses so as to dynamically address new opportunities, enhance flexibility, speed execution and ultimately achieve profitable growth.

IBM focuses on the intersection of business insight and technological innovation for enterprise clients. Over the past decade, IBM has been a leader in the IT market’s shift of focus from selling hardware, software and services, to the creation of solutions to clients´ business problems.

In all its activities, IBM focuses on the following basic priorities:

- to create, develop and lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry’s most advanced information technologies and

- to translate these advanced technologies into real business value for its customers through its professional solutions, services and consulting businesses worldwide.

SFS Group Public Company Ltd

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Contact: Mr. Philip Larkos, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
6, Theotoki Street
P.O. Box 22379
1521 Nicosia
Phone: +357-22-554000
Fax: +357-22-343680
Email: larkosp@N0SPAM.sharelink.com.cy
Web: http://www.sfsnet.com

Cyprus-based SFS Group Public Company Ltd. (CSE symbol:SFS) is one of the oldest and largest financial groups on the island, offering the full range of financial services, except Bank deposits. It is listed on the Cyprus Stock Exchange ("CSE") Main Market as of 1999 and has been included in the CSE FTSE-20 since its inception. More information, including current Quarterly reports, previous years' Annual Reports and financial services licenses can be downloaded from the Group's web-site.

Zomenis & Leontiou

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Contact: Mr. Gregoris Leontiou, Managing Partner
67 Kennedy Avenue
4th Floor
Office 401
1076 Nicosia
Phone: +357-22-441722
Fax: +357-22-879057
Email: admin@N0SPAM.leontioulaw.eu

ZOMENIS & LEONTIOU is a partnership of lawyers, Nicos L. Zomenis and Gregoris Leontiou. The law firm is based in Nicosia and practices all fields of Cyprus law with strong specialization in the areas of Company Law, Taxation Law, Banking and Finance, Financial Services Law, Commercial Law, Shipping Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buy-Outs, Competition Law, Internet Law and Regulation, the Law of Trusts, Agency Law, Insurance Law, Property Law, Administrative Law and Arbitration Law. The firm draws from its wide and long experience in the legal profession (the founding partner practicing as a lawyer since 1955) and also houses a team of professionals coming from the fields of finance and tax that give expert advice on corporate structures, restructuring and tax optimization. Both partners and all lawyers of the firm are Barristers-at-Law educated in the U.K. (both their first degrees and their professional qualification at the English Bar) and members of the Inns of Court in London (Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn) as well as registered advocates of the Supreme Court of Cyprus. The firm practices both under the English and the Greek languages fluently.

The firm’s corporate practice includes, the set-up and registration of local and international business companies both for trading, investment, tax planning-optimization, set up of companies regulated under the Financial Services law, e.g., Asset Management, Foreign Exchange transactions etc., group restructuring, mergers and acquisitions the registration of charges and mortgages, shareholders' agreements, share option agreements, legal audits and due diligence, share and bond issues, directors' powers, winding-up procedures and general company litigation. The above services coupled with the firm’s long experience in Banking and Finance, Corporate Law, Financial Services Law, Taxation Law, Mergers and Acquisitions and Leveraged Buy-Outs, allows the firm to give comprehensive advice and tailor made solutions to clients on a pro-active rather than a re-active basis. The firm represents a number of international Companies and has acted abroad both for private clients and governmental institutions.