Riverside Management Group, LLC.

Selected Transactions


Company:	Allied Resource Corporation
Industry:	Alternative Energy
Transaction:	$53,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	RMG was the sole advisor securing several indications of interest before Allied eventually chose PCG Capital Partner
Business Overview:	Allied Resource Corporation is a global climate technology group operating and servicing energy related businesses worldwide. Their operations are based on proprietary technologies for the production of synthetic gases, reduction of CO2, NOx and sulphur emissions, the refining of waste oils into high quality oil products, the treatment of industrial waste water - as well as the incineration of sludge and pelletized residues. All of their technologies are proven on industrial large scale operations. They build and operate waste oil re-refining plants under an exclusive licensing agreement from UOP, Chicago; they are the technology provider and co-owner of the largest manufacturer of catalysts for the removal of NOx in China; they provide engineering solutions for the reduction of nitrogen oxides, sulphur and particulate emissions as well as for waste water treatment and incineration plants by applying technologies acquired from Lurgi, Degussa/E.ON and ThyssenKrupp-EnCoke. In addition, they are developing large scale coal gasification plants using our proprietary BGL (British Gas Lurgi) technology.
Website:	www.alliedresourcecorp.com


Company:	Biopure
Industry:	Biotech
Transaction:	$20,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	Joint Advisor securing financing through RMG’s institutional investor network
Business Overview:	The mission of Biopure Corporation (NASDAQ: BPUR) is to introduce revolutionary new drugs that deliver lifesaving oxygen. Using it's patented and proprietary technology, Biopure has pioneered the development and manufacture of oxygen therapeutics, a new class of pharmaceuticals that are intravenously administered to deliver oxygen to the body's tissues. The company's products represent a new Oxygen Bridge™ treatment approach for managing patients' oxygen requirements in potential medical applications associated with ischemia or acute anemia.
Website:	www.biopure.com


Company:	Horsehead Industries, Inc.
Industry:	Metals Recycling and Environmental Services
Transaction #1:	$50,000,000 Senior Debt Facility
RMG's Role:	Co-Advisor Securing facility with JP Morgan, CIT, Fleet, and LaSalle Bank.
Business Overview:	Horsehead Industries is the largest zinc producer in the United States and the leading manufacturer of value-added zinc products including zinc oxide and zinc powder. Leading the industry as an integrated producer as well as the world's largest producer of zinc from recycled sources, Horsehead's electrothermic smelting facility, the only one of its type in the Western Hemisphere, provides unique capabilities allowing it to utilize the most diverse range of zinc-bearing feed materials. Horshead's facilities process hundreds of thousands of tons per year of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust generated by the steel industry. EAF dust is a listed hazardous waste. It contains approximately 20% zinc from galvanized scrap melted by steel mini-mills. Horsehead's Waelz kiln technology has been designated by the U.S. EPA as the "Best Demonstrated Available Technology" for processing EAF dust.
Website:	www.horsehead.net


Company:	Horsehead Industries, Inc.
Industry:	Metals Recycling and Environmental Services
Transaction #2:	$125,000,000 Debt Restructuring
RMG's Role:	Co-Advisor securing facility with Mitsui & Co. LTD, TIAA CREF, AND VIACOM.
Business Overview:	Horsehead Industries is the largest zinc producer in the United States and the leading manufacturer of value-added zinc products including zinc oxide and zinc powder. Leading the industry as an integrated producer as well as the world's largest producer of zinc from recycled sources, Horsehead's electrothermic smelting facility, the only one of its type in the Western Hemisphere, provides unique capabilities allowing it to utilize the most diverse range of zinc-bearing feed materials. Horshead's facilities process hundreds of thousands of tons per year of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust generated by the steel industry. EAF dust is a listed hazardous waste. It contains approximately 20% zinc from galvanized scrap melted by steel mini-mills. Horsehead's Waelz kiln technology has been designated by the U.S. EPA as the "Best Demonstrated Available Technology" for processing EAF dust.
Website:	www.horsehead.net


Company:	Horsehead Industries, Inc.
Industry:	Metals Recycling and Environmental Services
Transaction #3:	$86,000,000 Sale
RMG's Role:	Co-Advisor conducting a sales process resulting in sale of substantially all assets to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc.
Business Overview:	Horsehead Industries is the largest zinc producer in the United States and the leading manufacturer of value-added zinc products including zinc oxide and zinc powder. Leading the industry as an integrated producer as well as the world's largest producer of zinc from recycled sources, Horsehead's electrothermic smelting facility, the only one of its type in the Western Hemisphere, provides unique capabilities allowing it to utilize the most diverse range of zinc-bearing feed materials. Horshead's facilities process hundreds of thousands of tons per year of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust generated by the steel industry. EAF dust is a listed hazardous waste. It contains approximately 20% zinc from galvanized scrap melted by steel mini-mills. Horsehead's Waelz kiln technology has been designated by the U.S. EPA as the "Best Demonstrated Available Technology" for processing EAF dust.
Website:	www.horsehead.net


Company:	Horsehead Industries, Inc.
Industry:	Metals Recycling and Environmental Services
Transaction #4:	$6,000,000 sale of commercial real estate
RMG's Role:	SSole Advisor conducting a sales process resulting in sale of commercial real estate in New York.
Business Overview:	Horsehead Industries is the largest zinc producer in the United States and the leading manufacturer of value-added zinc products including zinc oxide and zinc powder. Leading the industry as an integrated producer as well as the world's largest producer of zinc from recycled sources, Horsehead's electrothermic smelting facility, the only one of its type in the Western Hemisphere, provides unique capabilities allowing it to utilize the most diverse range of zinc-bearing feed materials. Horshead's facilities process hundreds of thousands of tons per year of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust generated by the steel industry. EAF dust is a listed hazardous waste. It contains approximately 20% zinc from galvanized scrap melted by steel mini-mills. Horsehead's Waelz kiln technology has been designated by the U.S. EPA as the "Best Demonstrated Available Technology" for processing EAF dust.
Website:	www.horsehead.net


Company:	Horsehead Industries, Inc.
Industry:	Metals Recycling and Environmental Services
Transaction #5:	$27,000,000 Sale of Mine Property and Fixed Assets
RMG's Role:	Sole Advisor conducting a sales process resulting in sale of Mine Property and Fixed Assets in New York.
Business Overview:	Horsehead Industries is the largest zinc producer in the United States and the leading manufacturer of value-added zinc products including zinc oxide and zinc powder. Leading the industry as an integrated producer as well as the world's largest producer of zinc from recycled sources, Horsehead's electrothermic smelting facility, the only one of its type in the Western Hemisphere, provides unique capabilities allowing it to utilize the most diverse range of zinc-bearing feed materials. Horshead's facilities process hundreds of thousands of tons per year of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust generated by the steel industry. EAF dust is a listed hazardous waste. It contains approximately 20% zinc from galvanized scrap melted by steel mini-mills. Horsehead's Waelz kiln technology has been designated by the U.S. EPA as the "Best Demonstrated Available Technology" for processing EAF dust.
Website:	www.horsehead.net


Company:	IcueTV
Industry:	Media/Content Management Software
Transaction:	$1,695,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	Sole Advisor securing financing via RMG's Venture/High Net-worth network. Additionally, RMG introduced current CEO.
Business Overview:	IcueTV is actively engaged in the development of iCueTV™ - the most advanced interactive media service that helps leverage existing digital solutions to provide advertisers and producers with instant opportunities for direct consumer merchandising.
Website:	www.icuetv.com


Company:	Puralube
Industry:	Energy
Transaction:	$20,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	Joint Advisor securing financing through RMG's institutional investor network
Business Overview:	Puralube was formed by Formed by Allied Resource Corporation in 1995 to create a series of specialty refineries producing high quality specialty lube oils from used lube oil by utilizing a breakthrough technology developed by UOP LLC (“UOP”). The UOP technology, known as the HyLube™ Process, efficiently converts used lubricating oils into high quality base oils. Puralube maintains an exclusive worldwide license (except in selected countries in North Africa and the Middle East) to commercialize the HyLube™ Process. UOP, a joint venture between Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, NJ) and Union Carbide Corporation (Danbury, CT), is a leading international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, absorbents, process plants, and technical services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries.
Website:	www.alliedresourcecorp.com


Company:	Tango Networks
Industry:	Telecom
Transaction:	$20,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	RMG's Role Joint Advisor in securing financing through it’s high net worth individual network
Business Overview:	Business Overview Tango Networks develops mobility solutions that enable the convergence of enterprise and public carrier networks to deliver valuable new service capabilities across legacy & next generation packet networks. Tango Networks is a privately held software company headquartered in Plano, Texas. Founded in 2005, Tango is developing unique mobility solutions that enable the convergence of enterprise and public carrier networks to deliver valuable new service capabilities across legacy & next generation packet networks. The company’s core team comes from the major telecom network vendors and is situated near the Richardson Telecom Corridor.
Website:	www.tango-networks.com


Company:	Summit Group Incorporated
Industry:	Hospitality
Transaction #1:	$88,000,000 7 Year Fixed Rate Debt Financing
RMG's Role:	Sole Advisor securing indications of interest offering various refinancing alternatives before Summit eventually chose Lehman Brothers.
Business Overview:	The Summit Group, Inc. is a premier owner and manager of quality upscale lodging properties. For over a decade, The Summit Group, Inc. has focused on developing, managing and owning upscale lodging properties nationwide. With over 25 years of experience, Summit’s seasoned management team has knowledge and experience in hotel development, financing, marketing and operations. Their unique approach to management has resulted in properties focused on sales and operating efficiencies, making us them of the most efficient in the industry at delivering bottom-line results.
Website:	www.thesummitgroupinc.com


Company:	Summit Group Incorporated
Industry:	Hospitality
Transaction #2:	$50,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	Joint Advisor in securing financing through RMG’s high net worth individual network.
Business Overview:	The Summit Group, Inc. is a premier owner and manager of quality upscale lodging properties. For over a decade, The Summit Group, Inc. has focused on developing, managing and owning upscale lodging properties nationwide. With over 25 years of experience, Summit’s seasoned management team has knowledge and experience in hotel development, financing, marketing and operations. Their unique approach to management has resulted in properties focused on sales and operating efficiencies, making us them of the most efficient in the industry at delivering bottom-line results.
Website:	www.thesummitgroupinc.com


Company:	Summit Group Incorporated
Industry:	Hospitality
Transaction #3:	$75,000,000 Growth Capital
RMG's Role:	RMG was the sole advisor securing indications of interest offering various financing alternatives before Summit eventually chose Fortress.
Business Overview:	The Summit Group, Inc. is a premier owner and manager of quality upscale lodging properties. For over a decade, The Summit Group, Inc. has focused on developing, managing and owning upscale lodging properties nationwide. With over 25 years of experience, Summit's seasoned management team has knowledge and experience in hotel development, financing, marketing and operations. Their unique approach to management has resulted in properties focused on sales and operating efficiencies, making them one of the most efficient in the industry at delivering bottom-line results.
Website:	www.thesummitgroupinc.com


Company:	Virxsys
Industry:	Biotech
Transaction:	$25,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	Joint Advisor in securing financing through it’s high net worth individual network
Business Overview:	VIRxSYS’ mission is to become the leading technology company for delivering biologic and gene therapies into cells. The Company has created a lentiviral gene delivery technology, which is the critical link to delivering genetic medicines for the treatment of a broad range of life-threatening diseases such as HIV/AIDS and cancer. The Company expects that its genetic medicines will provide dramatically improved patient outcomes, including disease remission and possibly permanent cures. While VIRxSYS' initial focus is on cellular therapies for HIV/AIDS and various cancers, the Company's numerous collaborations include work towards vaccines for those terrible diseases. Eventually, the Company intends to apply the Company's technology to other diseases as well as possibly to countering bioterrorism and functional genomics.
Website:	www.virxsys.com


Company:	WorldGate
Industry:	Communications Hardware
Transaction #1:	$10,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	Joint Advisor securing financing through RMG’s institutional investor network.
Business Overview:	WorldGate Communications, Inc. was founded in 1995. Taking advantage of its creative and technological assets, WorldGate completed the development of Ojo, the world's first personal full-motion videophone for end users. Ojo blends industry-standard technology with WorldGate’s unique patent-pending enhancements to achieve jitter-free two-way video calls, with synchronized voice audio. Ojo also features WorldGate’s distinctive ergonomic human design, which makes Ojo the first videophone ever that lets people communicate ‘face to face’, instead of ‘chin-up’
Website:	www.wgate.com


Company:	WorldGate
Industry:	Communications Hardware
Transaction #2:	$7,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	Joint Advisor completing warrant exercise through RMG’s institutional investor network.
Business Overview:	WorldGate Communications, Inc. was founded in 1995. Taking advantage of its creative and technological assets, WorldGate completed the development of Ojo, the world's first personal full-motion videophone for end users. Ojo blends industry-standard technology with WorldGate’s unique patent-pending enhancements to achieve jitter-free two-way video calls, with synchronized voice audio. Ojo also features WorldGate’s distinctive ergonomic human design, which makes Ojo the first videophone ever that lets people communicate ‘face to face’, instead of ‘chin-up’
Website:	www.wgate.com


Company:	Zounds
Industry:	Medical Devices
Transaction:	$20,000,000 Private Placement
RMG's Role:	RMG's Role Joint Advisor in securing financing through it’s high net worth individual network
Business Overview:	Business Overview Zounds™ designs, manufactures, and markets high performance hearing aids for use with mild, moderate, and moderate/severe hearing impairments. The Company's technology enables break-throughs in product performance, price, purchase process, distribution channels, and marketing. Zounds utilizes a combination of internally developed technology and exclusive, licensed technology developed by Acoustic Technologies, where Sam Thomasson was the former CEO and President. Acoustic Technologies is a 7 year old company that markets high performance semiconductor chips and related software with low power usage algorithms that dramatically improves voice and sound quality in cell phones, video phones, desktop phones, conference call phones, and automotive communication systems. For Sam, it was a logical extension to leverage Acoustics' superior technology at Zounds. Zounds' mission is to offer a portfolio of hearing aids and wireless devices that provide the world's best performing technology at an affordable price to anyone who has a hearing impairment.
Website:	www.zoundshearing.com