BURLEY & ASSOCIATES PRINCIPAL WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 17, 2004 --

Montgomery Village, MD � May 17, 2004 � Burley & Associates, a leading mergers and acquisitions firm specializing in small and mid-size technology companies, announced today that one if its principals, Martin J. Lattman, has recently won the 2003/2004 Above and Beyond award from the Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Professional Studies. Chosen by the university�s students each year to honor the Graduate Department of Marketing�s top instructor, Mr. Lattman earned this award for his work in the classroom and for his efforts advising the school�s business students. Mr. Lattman serves as a member of the Practitioner Faculty at Johns Hopkins.

John Burley, the President and founder of Burley & Associates, was pleased to see Mr. Lattman�s marketing expertise acknowledged in this manner. �One of the keys to our success has been our ability to truly understand our clients� market position and then properly establish them in the M&A marketplace. Mr. Lattman plays the lead role for our firm in providing this type of guidance to our clients, and this award proves that our confidence in his abilities is well-founded�, commented Burley. This further supports one of our key value drivers, which is that we provide strategic M&A advisory services in addition to transaction management. Our clients require this level of service, and we provide it for them�, Burley added.

Burley & Associates is a full-service mergers and acquisitions firm headquartered in the metropolitan Washington, DC region with a significant focus on small to mid-size technology companies. The firm offers services on both the buy-side and sell-side of a transaction, including the sourcing of buyers and sellers, contract negotiation, due diligence, business valuation, financing, capital raising, and other consulting and advisory services. Burley & Associates� vision, from its inception, was to pioneer the delivery of large M&A firm services to small and mid-size businesses.