Marshall Stoddard Appointed as Chairman of Commercial Finance Association's Education Fund

10 November 2005

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP partner Marshall Stoddard, Jr., has been named Chairman of the Commercial Finance Association's Education Foundation which funds education and research programs for the asset-based financial services industry. CFA's educational mission includes developing curriculum to enhance existing schools, seminars and workshops and to create new worldwide educational programs. The foundation supports creation of new standardized course lesson plans, use of media and computer-based educational program delivery, and engages recognized economists and adjunct professors of business to conduct educational programs for CFA. Mr. Stoddard will serve a two-year term as chairman. He also currently serves as General Counsel of the Los Angeles chapter of CFA. In 2004, Mr. Stoddard received CFA's Harry H. Chen Memorial Instructor Award of Excellence. Mr. Stoddard focuses his practice in the areas of commercial law, banking, bankruptcy, and finance. He has extensive experience in senior debt financing, commercial lending, asset-based lending, cash flow lending, mezzanine financing and syndications involving recapitalizations, refinancing, acquisitions, divestitures, restructures, consolidations and reorganizations. Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is among the 10 largest law practices in the world with more than 1,300 lawyers practicing in seven U.S. cities and six European cities. About CFA Education Foundation "CFA founded the publicly supported CFA Education Foundation, Inc. during the 1980's for the purpose of funding educational and research programs for the asset-based financial services industry. The Foundation is funded principally through grants and contributions from industry service providers including accountants, appraisers, attorneys, MIS vendors, turnaround consultants and managers, and other individuals and businesses with close ties to the asset-based financing industry, as well as from CFA members and employees. Foundation contributions are deductible as charitable gifts pursuant to applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code." About Commercial Finance Association "Founded in 1944, the Commercial Finance Association is the trade group of the asset-based financial services industry, with members throughout the U.S., Canada and around the world. Members include the asset-based lending arms of domestic and foreign commercial banks, small and large independent finance companies, floor plan financing organizations, factoring organizations and financing subsidiaries of major industrial corporations. CFA membership is by organization, not by individual."

Source: PR Newswire

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