Transaction Summary

McColl Partners, LLC acted as financial advisor to one of the nation's largest independent online providers of mortgages and home equity products, eSmartloan.com, in its $155 million sale to Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF), a Fortune 500 provider of credit card products, consumer lending and deposit products, and automobile and other motor vehicle financing services.

About eSmartloan.com

eSmartloan.com, headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, operates the most efficient and profitable online mortgage origination site on the Internet. The Company provides a diversified offering of full-service mortgage and home equity products, including standard conforming and nonconforming loans, which are marketed and delivered directly to home owners.

About McColl Partners, LLC

McColl Partners is an independent investment banking firm specializing in the needs of management and owners of middle-market companies.  With significant experience working with private equity groups, entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, public companies, financial institutions, and divisions of large companies, the firm is dedicated to offering strategic advice and assistance to its clients regarding mergers and acquisitions and private capital raising assignments.

For more information about our Financial Services Group, please contact Phil Colaco at (704) 333-0525.  More information about McColl Partners can be found at www.mccollpartners.com.