Brian Rabinovitz achieves CM&AA certification - the "gold standard"

for middle market corporate financial advisors

For immediate release

Los Angeles--December 10, 2008 - CM&AA certification has been granted to Brian Rabinovitz,

CPA, principal and business advisor at Stonefield Josephson, a California-based certified public

accounting firm. In the first and only advanced, national educational certificate program of its

kind for business leaders and advisory professionals, the Alliance of Merger and Acquisition

Advisors (AM&AA) has partnered with Loyola University Chicago's Executive Education to offer

this certification in the middle marketplace arena of mergers and acquisitions.

"The goal of the CM&AA certification is quite simple, but lofty," explains Rabinovitz. "It is to

maintain the highest recognized standards of professional excellence for corporate advisory

and transaction services, while providing a recognized standard of professional expertise

within that overall body of knowledge."

Since AM&AA's formation in 1998, its members have formed an international alliance of

independent accountants, attorneys, investors, and financial advisors whose focus is on serving

the special corporate financial advisory and transaction needs of privately held, middle market

businesses. AM&AA's network of nearly 500+ member firms specialize in offering a wide

variety of merger & acquisition and other related corporate financial advisory services.

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"CM&AA certification is important," adds Rabinovitz, ?because it recognizes an individual's

professional achievement and competence, serves as a tool to both attract and better serve

clients, provides identification with other professionals in the field, and stimulates career

advancement." For more information about M&A and transactional activities for middle market

businesses, contact Brian Rabinovitz at 310-453-9400 or brabinovitz@sjaccounting.com.

Stonefield Josephson, Inc. (www.sjaccounting.com) is a California-based certified public

accounting firm founded in 1975. The full-service firm serves public and privately held clients

throughout the United States and internationally from these locations: Los Angeles, Orange

County, San Francisco, East Bay, Silicon Valley and Hong Kong.

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