January 20, 2010 — Loan Pricing Corporation's Year-End 2009 Syndicated Finance League Tables ranked V&E as one of the leading U.S. firms in the syndicated loan market, naming the firm in the top 10 in the following U.S. categories: 

• #1 Lender Leveraged by Number of Deals
• #2 Overall Leveraged by Numbers of Deals
• #2 Overall by Number of Deals
• #4 Borrower by Number of Deals
• #4 Lender by Number of Deals
• #6 Lender Leveraged by Volume
• #6 Borrower Leveraged by Volume
• #6 Borrower Leveraged by Number of Deals
• #6 Overall Leveraged by Volume
• #9 Overall by Volume
• #9 Lender by Volume
• #10 Borrower M&A by Number of Deals
• #10 Lender M&A by Number of Deals