Unicorn to advise superheroes at Teshkeel Media Group

Notes and media contacts

About Teshkeel Media Group, KSC
Teshkeel Media Group, KSC is one of the Middle East's leading developers of comics and children's entertainment. Based in Kuwait, and with offices in New York, the Company's mission is to fill a significant void in positive, high-quality children's content in the region, including in print and electronic media, film and television. In addition to working with global publishers, TMG is also developing its own properties, including its new superhero concept, 'The 99', which it launched in the region in 2006.

www.the99.org

About Unicorn Investment Bank
• Unicorn Investment Bank commenced operations on 5 May 2004 in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
• In its first eight months of business, UIB achieved revenues of US$36.4m and a net profit of US$17.1 m.
• In 2005 (its second year of operation), UIB reported full year revenues of US$52.6m and a net profit of US$24.2m.
• Unicorn recently announced half-year results for the six months ended 30 June 2006 of US$43.4m revenues and US$23.8m net profit.
• UIB has also doubled its capital to US$233 million following a successful round of fund raising in July 2006.
• UIB has achieved a number of "firsts" in Islamic banking. In November 2005, the Bank closed the "KSA Real Estate Fund-1", the first ever equity fund to allow non-Saudi nationals to invest in the growing Saudi Arabian property market via an innovative financial and legal structure.
• UIB began raising capital in May 2006 for a US $150m Sharia-compliant private equity fund to target private equity investments globally, the world's first global Islamic private equity fund. The Fund will invest in selected geographical locations and sectors in order to benefit from cyclical upturns around the globe while diversifying risk.
• In May 2006, UIB launched "Gulf Springs", the first pan-GCC real estate fund, in partnership with leading real-estate developers in each GCC market, who as founding investors, bring local knowledge and investment opportunities.
• UIB has recently closed "KSA MBS 1 International Sukuk," the GCC's first Sharia-compliant asset-backed security: a debt product designed for home financing companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (akin to a mortgage-backed security) in partnership with a multilateral organisation and underwritten by a global institution.
• Since its inception, UIB has already advised, structured and successfully placed deals with a total value in excess of US$1 billion.

www.unicorninvestmentbank.com

Media contacts:
Unicorn Investment Bank
Mark Lunn of Gavin Anderson & Co, London
Bahrain Tel: +973 17 566 000
UK Tel +44 (0) 20 7554 1400

George Tucker of Gavin Anderson & Co, London
Bahrain Tel: +973 17 566 000
UK Tel +44 (0) 20 7554 1400

Teshkeel Media Group, KSC
Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa
965-9618666