Los Angeles, CA, March 2013– The M&A Advisor announced the winners of the 7th Annual Turnaround Awards on Wednesday, March 6 at the 2013 M&A Advisor Awards Gala to a lively, sold-out crowd at the black tie affair at The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, FL. BMC Group was named winner for Turnaround Product/Service of the Year. The event was hosted by Bloomberg Chief National Correspondent Carol Massar.

“Since 2002, we have been honoring the leading turnaround transac¬tions, companies and dealmakers. BMC Group was chosen from over 120 nominations and over 300 participating companies to receive the award. It gives us great pleasure to recognize BMC Group and bestow upon our highest honor for distressed investing and reorganization firms and professionals,” said David Fergusson, Senior Managing Director, The M&A Advisor.

“BMC Group represents the best of the turnaround industry in 2012 and earned these honors by standing out in a group of very impressive finalists,” said Roger Aguinaldo, CEO and Founder of The M&A Advisor.

The gala is the premier celebration of the year for the industry’s leading Dealmakers and is held in conjunction with the 2013 Distressed Investing Symposium that featured over 150 of the industry’s leading distressed professionals participating in exclusive interactive forums led by over 40 turnaround, media, academic, and political stalwarts. In addition to the 2013 award winners, the ceremony honored the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award winner – William C. Repko, Senior Advisor and Co-Founder of Restructuring and Debt Advisory Group, Evercore Partners and the winner of the 2013 Leadership Award – Corinne Ball, Partner and Co-Head of the New York Office’s Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice, Jones Day for their outstanding achievements and accomplishments in the industry.

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BMC Group sets the industry standards of information management in insolvency and restructuring matters, mergers & acquisitions, class actions and mass tort cases. Our dynamic information management solutions are flexible to accommodate the ever-changing needs of the businesses and professionals we support.

BMC Group’s global network, superior technology, collaborative approach, precision and experience reduces turnaround times, ensures effective communication, eliminates redundancies and cuts administrative costs without sacrificing quality. We deliver critical information with speed and accuracy to empower decision makers. With more than 200 professionals throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, BMC Group is committed to your success.

About BMC Group

BMC Group is a leading global provider of financial, legal, and corporate information management services. BMC Group clients are leading investment banks, private equity firms, government agencies, insurance carriers, healthcare providers, and Fortune 1000 corporations. With more than 200 professionals throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, BMC Group is committed to service excellence.

About The M&A Advisor

Since 1998, The M&A Advisor has been the preeminent organization facilitating connections and recognizing achievement in the top performers of the M&A, turnaround and financing industries through its leading Awards, Summits, M&A ALERTS™ newsletters, M&A LINKS ™ social network, M&A MARKET INTEL™ research and publishing service and M&A CHINA CONNECTS™ business development services. For more information, please visit www.maadvisor.com.

BMC Group works with both debtor and creditor professionals to ensure timely, accurate and actionable information management. Cost-effective, award-winning service and technology ensures maximum value.

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Global M&A Network honored the winners from the restructuring, distressed M&A and turnaround communities in fifty-four awards categories, consisting of diverse restructuring styles and sizes. “The Turnaround Atlas Awards is an opportunity to acknowledge some of the hard-work completed by the restructuring communities that have revitalized many companies and saved other companies in part or whole through asset sales. Winners should take pride for effecting number of successful restructurings, demonstrating their creativity, patience and professional talents.” said, Shanta Kumari, managing partner and chief executive officer of Global M&A Network. BMC Group was awarded Bankruptcy Solutions Provider of the Year for 2012.

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A proposed settlement with Skechers U.S.A. has been reached in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Skechers “toning” shoes. BMC Group Class Action Services has been selected claims administrator in the consumer settlement, Grabowski v. Skechers U.S.A, Inc. BMC Group is the only class action consulting firm in the United States with an online claims submission process approved by the FTC.

BMC Group’s certified data center is equipped to securely receive high volumes of class member claims. When the FTC first announced the Skechers settlement, BMC Group’s technology center in Chanhassen, MN received 16,000,000 hits to our website, processed over 300 claims per minute and has since handled over 250,000 online claims.

Please contact us for all of your settlement administration services including pre-settlement consulting services, class notification, claims administration, and treasury management & distribution services.

Los Angeles, CA – BMC Group, a leading global provider of financial, legal, and corporate information management services, announced today that the company has been awarded a 10-year contract by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to facilitate claims administration services for the DOJ, Treasury, and Homeland Security agencies involved in federal seizure and forfeiture activities, including overseeing restitution funds established under criminal prosecutions.

BMC Group was one of three companies chosen from an extensive group of interested suppliers and vendors that submitted various proposals to the DOJ for consideration. The Department determined that BMC’s settlement administration services provided exceptional overall value for taxpayer dollars and government needs. Specifically, the DOJ noted that in previous project work involving investor fraud settlements, “BMC Group has produced high quality work products and has implemented thorough quality control processes.”

Please contact us for all of your settlement administration services including pre-settlement consulting services, class notification, claims administration, and treasury management & distribution services.

About BMC Group, Inc.

BMC Group, Inc. (www.bmcgroup.com) is a leading global provider of information management solutions for securely exchanging documentation between legal, financial, and corporate professionals. Our solutions facilitate critical business transactions for mergers and acquisitions, distressed business strategies, post-merger integration, and class actions and mass torts administration. With more than 200 professionals throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, BMC Group is committed to service excellence.

LONDON, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — BMC Group, a leading global provider of financial, legal, and corporate information management services, announces a strategic partnership with Codex Global as a value-added service to SmartRoom™, an award-winning powerful cloud-based deal management solution for secure document exchange. SmartRoom is used by financial and legal professionals for due diligence, M&A deals, portfolio management, fundraising, post-merger integration, and secure document collaboration. Codex provides a unique combination of print, translation, and research services and the addition of its capabilities to the SmartRoom offering will further strengthen BMC Group’s commitment to delivering customized deal management solutions to clients worldwide.

Delivering leading virtual data room services, SmartRoom supports buy-side and sell-side deal owners with highly secure document collaboration. The partnership between BMC Group and Codex provides SmartRoom managers with the ability to conduct financial transactions and share multi-language due diligence information online – between global parties – in one central secure location. Codex’s traditional services include printing of financial and legal documentation, typesetting international examination papers, and overseeing employee security rights’ selection. With SmartRoom, Codex clients will be able to securely share and store sensitive financial and legal documentation. SmartRoom provides secure file sharing between mandated parties and does not allow unauthorised forwarding, downloading, or printing of shared files – a critical security measure for highly sensitive deal handling.

Codex has more than 25 years of experience in language services, market research, and secure printing – and has a team of more than 5,000 linguists working in over 150 languages worldwide. With its support for internationalisation, SmartRoom provides an unparalleled multi-language interface platform ensuring a synergistic partnership with an established partner like Codex.
“Our strategic alliance with Codex in Europe will continue to expand our global reach and deliver a superior platform to customers and prospects,” said Jeff Kalina, executive vice president of BMC Group’s SmartRoom division. “Together, we will be able to offer them versatility and unmatched transactional security. I am confident our joint clients will strategically benefit from our unified value proposition.”

“Combining SmartRoom with Codex’s leading services will provide our clients with the ability to securely, quickly, and easily open new data rooms all around the globe and share sensitive documentation online,” said Rupert Foster, sales and marketing director for Codex. “Codex will be able to offer SmartRoom as a ‘best of breed’ technology’ offering that further extends our strong printing, translation, and research services platform.”

About SmartRoom™

SmartRoom (www.smartroomservices.com) is a powerful cloud-based deal management solution for due diligence, M&A deals, portfolio management, fundraising, post-merger integration, secure document collaboration, restructuring, legal settlements, and medical records analysis. SmartRoom is available in nine languages, and is accessed in over 50 countries. With over 20,000 organizations and 250,000 users having utilized a SmartRoom, over $525 billion in transactions have been managed using a SmartRoom.

About BMC Group, Inc.

BMC Group, Inc. (www.bmcgroup.com) is a leading global provider of information management solutions. Based on the company’s resourcefulness, creativity, and tenacity in completing an impressive array of transactions, BMC Group received the prestigious Asia-Pacific M&A Atlas Award for M&A Technology Services Provider of the Year in December 2011 for SmartRoom. BMC Group clients are leading investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, government agencies, insurance carriers, healthcare providers, and Fortune 1000 corporations. With more than 200 professionals throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, BMC Group is committed to service excellence.

About Codex

With over 25 years’ experience in language services, market research, and secure printing, Codex Global is Europe’s leading integrated translation, print and research company. This unique combination of services allows Codex to offer clients the very highest levels of customer service, project integration, and data security from offices in London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Milan, Barcelona, and Doha.

LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — BMC Group, a leading global provider of financial, legal, and corporate information management services, announces a strategic partnership with CLS Communication Asia Pacific as a value-added service to SmartRoom™, an award-winning powerful cloud-based deal management solution for secure document exchange. SmartRoom is used by financial and legal professionals for due diligence, M&A deals, portfolio management, fundraising, post-merger integration, and secure document collaboration. CLS Communication provides translation, writing, and editing services across many industries including banking, finance, insurance, life science, and legal and is one of the largest language services providers in the world with offices in Europe, Asia, and North America.

SmartRoom supports both buy-side and sell-side deal owners with faster, more efficient and more secure collaboration capabilities. The partnership between BMC Group and CLS Communication gives SmartRoom deal owners the ability to share multi-language due diligence information online between global parties in one central secure location. SmartRoom provides secure file sharing between mandated deal parties and does not allow unauthorized forwarding, downloading or printing of shared files — a critical security measure for highly sensitive deal handling.

CLS Communication has over 600 in-house language and subject matter experts as well as 3,000 external partners who write, edit, and translate texts in any language. With its support for internationalization, SmartRoom provides an unparalleled multi-language interface platform ensuring a synergistic partnership with a reputable translation partner like CLS Communication.

“We are excited about the strategic partnership with CLS Communication in Asia,” said Jeff Kalina, executive vice president of BMC Group’s SmartRoom division. “This partnership will allow our clients to securely, quickly, and easily open new data rooms all around the globe and share translated documentation. Additionally, SmartRoom technology and services make it easy for clients to be up and running in real-time — enabling them to keep up with the demanding pace of business in their respective industries.”

“Combining SmartRoom with CLS Communication’s leading Asian language capabilities creates a very strong platform – one that helps clients to process multilingual documentation much faster and more accurately,” said Florian Faes, CEO of CLS Communication Asia Pacific. “This should dramatically expand our clients’ ability to reach multiple parties in various markets.”

About BMC Group, Inc.

BMC Group, Inc. is a leading global provider of information management solutions. Based on the company’s resourcefulness, creativity, and tenacity in completing an impressive array of transactions, BMC Group received the prestigious Asia-Pacific M&A Atlas Award for M&A Technology Services Provider of the Year in December 2011 for SmartRoom. BMC Group clients are leading investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, government agencies, insurance carriers, healthcare providers, and Fortune 1000 corporations. With more than 200 professionals throughout North America, Europe, and Asia including Japan and Tokyo, BMC Group is committed to service excellence.

About SmartRoom™

SmartRoom is a powerful cloud-based deal management solution for due diligence, M&A deals, portfolio management, fundraising, post-merger integration, secure document collaboration, restructuring, legal settlements, and medical records analysis. SmartRoom is available in nine languages, and is accessed in over 50 countries. There are over 20,000 organizations and 250,000 users who have utilized a SmartRoom. Over $500 billion in transactions have been managed using a SmartRoom. www.smartroomservices.com

About CLS Communication AG

CLS Communication is one of the largest language services providers in the world. Offices in Europe, Asia, and North America give the company global flexibility round the clock. CLS’s core business is translation( http://www.cls-communication.com/en/services/translating ), writing and editing in the banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications, life sciences and legal industries. Over 600 in-house and 3,000 external language and subject matter experts write, edit and translate texts in any language. The latest technology ensures the highest levels of security and confidentiality and CLS’s team of dedicated project managers provide exceptional client service.