Mendes Junior Engenharia S.A.

Mendes Júnior Engenharia SA, a publicly-held company headquartered in Belo Horizonte (MG), is engaged in the heavy civil construction industry and other related commercial activities. Its shareholding control is exercised by Edificadora SA, which holds 95.36% of the Company's total capital. The company was founded in 1953 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil. Mendes Júnior Trading e Engenharia S.A. operates as a subsidiary of JMJ Participações Ltda. Currently, the Company's management is awaiting the favorable outcome of lawsuits in progress, highlighting the ordinary collection action corresponding to credit rights with Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São Francisco - CHESF, a company of the Federal Government, supported by a claim in a declaratory action , the latter in a unanimous, final and unappealable decision, described in note 4 of its complete annual financial statements as of December 31, 2009. The measures that have been taken by the Company's management have favored the satisfactory evolution in the conduct of credit-related issues with federal government bodies and state governments. Mendes Júnior Trading e Engenharia S.A. is engaged in the provision of engineering and heavy construction services in Brazil and internationally. The company operates in Infrastructure, Industrial, and Oil and Gas segments. Its Infrastructure segment is engaged in building highways, expressways, bridges and viaducts, intermodal terminals, railways, airports, hydroelectric power plants, ports, subway systems, and general sanitation projects. The company’s Industrial segment is engaged in providing industrial building and assembly services for steelmaking, mining, and thermoelectric industries, as well as intelligent industrial complexes; and building and maintaining oil extraction and processing platforms, steelmaking plants, and oil and gas industrial units. The Oil and Gas segment provides engineering solutions in integrated projects to build and expand refineries, terminals, and petrochemicals processing units and pipelines.