Acknowledgments.

TEI gratefully acknowledges the support of the following firms that, as of September 1, had become sponsors of the Institute's 65th Annual Conference:

Platinum

Bingham McCutchen LLP

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Ernst & Young LLP

Grant Thornton LLP

KPMG LLP

Mayer Brown LLP

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

Thomson Reuters

Vertex, Inc.

Gold

ADP

Baker & McKenzie LLP

Ballentine Barbera Group

BDO USA, LLP

Bureau Van Dijk

Ceteris

CORPTAX, Inc.

Crowe Horwath LLP

DuCharme, McMillen & Associates

Duff & Phelps Corporation

Fenwick & West LLP

Jefferson Wells

Longview Solutions

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

McGladrey

True Partners Consulting LLC

White & Case LLP

Silver

Alston & Bird LLP

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Baker Hostetler

BNA/Tax & Accounting

Covington & Burling LLP

Ivins, Phillips & Barker

Latham & Watkins LLP

Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Pepper Hamilton LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Gold

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams

& Martin