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Marcum LLP Recognized in National Ranking of SEC Audit Firms

Firm Added to ANR's Prestigious List of "Non-Big Four National Auditing Firms"

PR Newswire

NEW YORK, May 23, 2011

NEW YORK, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Marcum LLP, one of the largest
independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation, today
announced that it has been added to the listing of "non-Big Four national
auditing firms" by Accounting News Report's (ANR) Auditor Rankings, Marcum's
first-ever addition to the prestigious national firm individual breakout
group. ANR also publishes quarterly Auditor Change Rankings which evaluate the
Big Four and the other seven national auditing firms based on their changes in
auditing publicly-traded companies for the calendar year.

"The current era of increasing regulatory scrutiny has created an undeniable
drive for auditor quality," said David Bukzin, Partner-in-Charge of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Assurance Practice at Marcum LLP.
"Our inclusion by ANR among the nation's 'non-Big Four national auditing
firms' is validation for what our clients have known all along: that Marcum's
SEC assurance services are among the nation's best in terms of
quality-of-service, efficiency, integrity and technical expertise."

The ranking is a direct reflection of the quality of Marcum's growing
practice, the ninth largest SEC practice in the nation among the top 100 firms
according to AuditAnalytics.com. During the first quarter 2011, Marcum won
four new SEC client engagements.