KENT SWIG ATTENDS THE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE ANNUAL GALA IN HONOR OF BLACKSTONE CHAIRMAN PETER G. PETERSON

NEW YORK – January 13, 2011 – On January 10, 2011, Kent Swig, President of Swig Equities, LLC, joined nearly 200 guests at the Museum of American Finance Annual Gala in honor of Blackstone Group chairman emeritus Peter G. Peterson, who was presented with the 2011 John C. Whitehead Award for Distinguished Public Service and Financial Leadership. The gala dinner took place at 48 Wall Street, home of the Museum and a landmark building owned by Swig Equities.

The Museum of American Finance, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institute, annually presents the John C. Whitehead award to a person who has demonstrated a high order of achievement and leadership in the field of finance, and also served with notable distinction in the public sector. The Museum is the nation’s only public museum dedicated to finance, entrepreneurship and the open market system. With its extensive collection of financial documents and objects, its seminars and educational programming, its publication and oral history program, the Museum portrays the breadth and richness of American financial history achievement and practices.

About Swig Equities
Swig Equities, LLC is a real estate development, investment and management firm based in New York City with offices in San Francisco. The firm is an active purchaser and developer of prime residential and commercial buildings as well as operating companies and securities. Over the past few years, Swig Equities has purchased and/or developed in excess of $3 billion of properties, which includes 110 William Street, a 32 story, 900,000 square foot commercial office building; 90 Broad Street, a 25-story, 400,000 square foot office building; 80 Broad Street, a 36 story, 400,000 square foot office building; 48 Wall Street, a 34 story, 324,000 square foot office building; 44 Wall Street, a 350,000 square foot office building; 5 Hanover Square, a 325,000 square foot office building; 770 Lexington Avenue, a 20-story, 155,000 square foot commercial office building in Midtown Manhattan; and 450 Sansome Street, a 140,000 square foot office building in downtown San Francisco.

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