Veteran Self-Storage Executives Launch Davies Ingersoll Capital Partners

Company Provides Capital Market and Investment Advisory Solutions To Self Storage Industry

NEWPORT BEACH, CA, July 6, 2009 – Jim Davies, (top right photo) one of the nation’s leading finance experts in the self storage industry, and Peter Ingersoll, (top left photo) a premier self storage investment broker, have joined forces to launch Davies Ingersoll Capital Partners, a national firm providing debt and equity solutions to commercial real estate and self storage operators and investment opportunities to sophisticated investors throughout the United States.

Joining Jim Davies and Peter Ingersoll as a corporate officer is Ricki Ingersoll.

Davies Ingersoll Capital Partners is located at 5000 Birch Street, Suite 3000 in Newport Beach, Calif.

Davies Ingersoll Capital Partners offers complete capital stack solutions including debt, equity and note purchase financing nationwide. The company arranges equity, including JV and preferred equity investments, and structured financing. Davies Ingersoll also represents an elite aggregation of self storage and commercial real estate owners and investors.

“During this challenging economic and commercial real estate market, it is important to be a forward-thinking advisory firm that proactively provides solutions to our clients’ needs while being on the look-out for compelling investment opportunities,” said Davies, the firm’s President.

“This is one reason why our corporate strategy has a strong focus on matching our clients’ equity with the prudent acquisition of commercial real estate and self storage.”

With 28 years of commercial real estate experience, Davies previously served as senior vice president and shareholder of Buchanan Street Partners, and was a co-founder and principal of Buchanan Storage Capital which was the nation’s leading storage finance firm.

Davies has closed more than $3.5 billion in self storage financing and disposition transactions during the past 15 years with Buchanan Storage Capital, FINOVA Realty Capital and Belgravia Capital.

Davies serves on the Board of Directors of the California Self Storage Association and founded the “Self Storage Owner’s Summit”, of which the 5th Annual event hosted by the California Self Storage Association and Davies Ingersoll Capital Partners will take place on July 16th at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach.

Ingersoll has more than 22 years of commercial real estate experience specializing in the acquisition and sale of self storage properties.

Currently, he serves as the firm’s CEO and is also a Managing Director of Sperry Van Ness/Davies Ingersoll where he has been one of the company’s top producing advisors for several years. Additionally, Ingersoll serves with Davies on the Board of Directors of the California Self Storage Association.

“As a Sperry Van Ness franchise owner, we are able to create local teams of experts throughout the U.S. by partnering with the company’s 1,000 advisors in approximately 160 offices,” said Ingersoll. “Sperry Van Ness provides a valuable platform from which to source property acquisitions and note purchases, and maintain access to local market knowledge.”

Ingersoll went on to say that, “Our real estate services and capital market platform is a perfect compliment to our co-investment strategy of matching investor equity with the best real estate operators.”

For more information, please visit http://www.daviesingersoll.com/.

Contact: David Ebeling, Ebeling Communications, (949) 278-7851, david@ebelingcomm.com