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ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION</b> </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     GLG Partners, Inc. (the “Company”) is a global asset management company offering its clients a wide range of performance-oriented investment products and managed account services. The Company’s primary business is to provide investment management advisory services for various investment funds and companies (the “GLG Funds”). The Company derives revenue primarily from management fees and administration fees charged to the GLG Funds and accounts it manages based on the value of assets in these funds and accounts, and performance fees charged to the GLG Funds and accounts it manages based on the performance of these funds and accounts. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     On April 3, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of Société Générale Asset Management Group Ltd.’s share capital to acquire Société Générale Asset Management UK (“SGAM UK”), Société Générale’s UK long-only asset management business, for £4.5 million ($6,450) in cash. The results since acquisition are included in the consolidated results of the Company. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with US generally accepted accounting principles (“US GAAP”) have been condensed or omitted pursuant to the SEC’s rules and regulations. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated and combined financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009. </div> <div align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">     The Company operates in one business segment, the management of global funds and accounts. The Company uses a multi-strategy approach, offering investment funds and managed accounts across a diverse range of strategies and products. The Company does not own a substantive controlling interest in any of the GLG Funds it manages and as a result none of the GLG Funds are consolidated by the Company. </div> </div>  <!-- Begin Block Tagged Note false false false us-types:textBlockItemType textblock Description containing the entire organization, consolidation and basis of presentation of financial statements disclosure. 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