Ron Geffner, Partner at Sadis & Goldberg LLP, overseas the Financial
Services Group. He is an expert in hedge funds and securities laws and
provides legal services to several hundred hedge funds and private equity
funds in the United States and offshore. He structures, organizes and
counsels private investment vehicles, investment advisory organizations,
broker-dealers, commodity pool operators and other investment fiduciaries.
Mr. Geffner's broad background with federal and state securities laws and
the rules and regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority of
Security Dealers, Commodities Futures Trading Commission and various other
regulatory bodies, enables him to provide strategic guidance to a diverse
clientele.

Mr. Geffner is often interviewed as a legal expert in the securities
industry and has been interviewed extensively on Bernard Madoff. He has
appeared on Fox News, CBS Morning Show, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,
Squawk Box and Power Lunch on CNBC, The BBC, Bloomberg Radio, and is
regularly quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg
News, Barron's, Barron's Online, Reuters, Dow Jones, Financial Times, New
York Newsday, London Daily News, TheStreet.com, Private Equity Week and
other national and international publications. In 2005, Mr. Geffner was
invited to speak to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in
Washington D.C. as a panelist on the CPO and Commodity Pool Roundtable in
connection with recent developments in the hedge fund industry. In
addition, he has published a number of leading industry and legal
articles.