ISE Assets Sold in Court-Approved Bankruptcy Sale

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwire - March 8, 2011) - ISE Limited (TSX:ISE) announced today that substantially all of the assets of its principal operating subsidiary, ISE Corporation (a California corporation), were recently sold to a group of purchasers unaffiliated with and unrelated to ISE or any of its directors, officers or stockholders, following a public auction and competitive bidding process overseen by the bankruptcy court presiding over ISE Corporation's previously-disclosed bankruptcy case. The aggregate gross proceeds received by ISE Corporation pursuant to the winning auction bid were US$3,721,000. The bankruptcy court has approved the sale. Proceeds of the sale will be distributed pursuant to the priority scheme of the bankruptcy laws, subject to any further orders of the bankruptcy court. Generally, proceeds are applied first against bankruptcy administrative and priority expenses and then against the outstanding general unsecured claims of creditors as dictated by the United States Bankruptcy Code. At this time, ISE does not believe that any proceeds from the sale transaction or otherwise will be available thereafter for distribution to the stockholders of ISE Limited. 

As a result of its financial position, ISE does not have the available resources or capacity to have its auditors conduct a review engagement of its financial statements or to prepare management-prepared financial statements, nor does it believe that management-prepared financial statements would be appropriate in the circumstances. Accordingly, ISE will be unable to meet its periodic filing obligations under applicable securities regulatory authority rules for the foreseeable future.

Directors Gerd-Dieter A. Goette, Michael E. Sears and Richard J. Sander have resigned from the board of directors of ISE since the consummation of the above-described sale transaction. 

Following the distribution of all available proceeds against bankruptcy administrative and priority expenses and the outstanding claims of creditors as dictated by the United States Bankruptcy Code, ISE intends to commence the formal dissolution of ISE Limited and ISE Corporation.

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