Goldstein Golub Kessler Joins McGladrey & Pullen

Newly integrated firm strengthens McGladrey & Pullen New York market presence with enhanced expertise and superior service for middle-market companies

NEW YORK, October 10, 2007 — McGladrey & Pullen LLP (M&P) announced today that the partners of Goldstein Golub Kessler LLP (GGK) have joined M&P’s Tri-State Operating Unit. The integration of these two New York auditing practices strengthens M&P’s already extensive sector expertise and talent in the metro New York area.

“The addition of GGK further enhances our deep industry expertise and service capabilities for middle-market clients,” said Donald Lipari, managing partner of M&P’s New York office. “Working together, we will strengthen existing practice areas, such as hedge funds, and grow targeted sectors, such as banking, real estate and technology with investments and new hires.”

GGK has provided audit and attest services in the metro New York area, nationally and internationally, for more than 43 years. The firm is a leader in serving hedge funds, broker-dealers, investment partnerships, healthcare entities, not-for-profits and many other commercial enterprises. The hedge fund practice is among the leaders in auditing several categories of hedge funds, including US funds, offshore funds, fund-of-funds and emerging markets funds.

M&P’s Lipari and Steven J. Mayer, GGK managing partner, will co-lead the newly integrated business, which will have more than 850 employees and continue to operate on the West side at 1185 Avenue of the Americas and on the East side at 750 Third Avenue. Clients will be served by the same engagement teams while benefiting from an expanded professional talent base and increased portfolio of services.

“We have continually provided proactive client service since our founding in 1964, and we are proud to continue the legacy in this new era as an integral part of M&P,” said Mayer. “This brings together several synergies as we share substantial experience working with hedge funds, not-for-profits and healthcare. Also, we are now better-positioned to expand our service lines and our international network.”

About McGladrey & Pullen LLP and RSM McGladrey
McGladrey & Pullen LLP (a partner-owned CPA firm) delivers audit and attest services. It operates in an alternative practice structure with RSM McGladrey, a leading professional services firm providing accounting, tax, and business consulting services to middle-market businesses. Through separate and independent legal entities, they work together to serve clients’ business needs. Together the companies rank as the fifth largest U.S. provider of accounting, tax and business consulting services (source: Accounting Today), with 8,000 employees in nearly 100 offices. McGladrey & Pullen LLP and RSM McGladrey Inc. are member firms of RSM International, an affiliation of independent accounting and consulting firms.

About Goldstein Golub Kessler LLP
Goldstein Golub Kessler LLP (“GGK”) is an audit firm focused on providing attest services to public, public non-reporting, private, and not-for-profit companies in the New York region, across the country, and around the world. In addition to financial statement compilations, reviews and audits, GGK provides other attest-related services, including consulting and other “agreed upon” procedures.
GGK traces its origins back to 1964, when the founding GGK partners started an accounting firm based on the premise that businesses need high-quality, technical financial management skills to help run their operations, and that business owners want responsive, personal, proactive attention to their fiscal needs.

RSM McGladrey Inc. and McGladrey & Pullen LLP have an alternative practice structure. Though separate and independent legal entities, the two firms work together to serve clients' business needs.