October 29, 2007

Boca Raton, Florida—Imperial Finance & Trading, LLC, a leader in premium finance for life insurance, announces the appointment of Drew McMullen as vice president of credit. He will oversee the firm’s team of financial analysts, analyze and approve individual deals, and monitor the overall asset portfolios. He will also work closely with the financial institutions that provide credit facilities to Imperial.

McMullen brings over nine years of financial industry experience to Imperial. He was most recently employed with M&T Bank, where he was an executive associate with the Credit Administration Group, working in the Collateral & Documentation and Risk Management divisions. He received the M&T Bank Fellowship while completing his MBA from SUNY Buffalo. McMullen also worked at Lehman Brothers in New York, New York where he was instrumental in the development, launch, and support of LehmanLive, the firm's online ecommerce presence. McMullen began his career with A.B. Watley, Inc., where he helped build and sell the firm's proprietary sales trading platforms.

About Imperial
Imperial Finance & Trading, LLC is a specialty finance company focused on the premium finance and life settlement industries. Premium financing is a service which enables individuals to secure a life insurance policy without liquidating their current assets for establishing estate planning. A life settlement is the sale of an existing life insurance policy to an unrelated investor for an amount greater than the policy's cash surrender value but lower than the face amount of the policy. Imperial is located in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information visit www.imprl.com.

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