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Robert Willens is a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisition department at Lehman Brothers, Inc., in New York. Mr. Willens specializes in tax and accounting issues and in this capacity advises most areas of the firm regarding the optimal structures for corporate capital transactions. In addition, he has been instrumental in developing certain financial products with a view towards insuring that these products will provide clients with the desired tax and accounting results. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers (in 1987), Mr. Willens was a tax partner in the New York office of what was then known as Peat Marwick. Mr. Willens is a prolific author and has written Taxation of Corporate Capital Transactions, as well as over 200 articles for various professional journals. Each year of the past 10 years, Mr. Willens has been named to Institutional Investor's "All American Research" Team. For the past 4 years, Mr. Willens was named by Accounting Today as one of the 100 Most Influential Accountants in the United States. Mr. Willens serves as an Adjunct Professor (Finance Department) at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business where he teaches the course titled "Investment Banking Tax Factors." He is a member of the Board of Advisers of Columbia Capital Management. | 