GEROVA Financial Group Announces Conference Call and Webcast with Investors

MANCHESTER, England, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GEROVA Financial Group, Ltd. ("GEROVA") (NYSE Amex: GFC), a specialty reinsurance company, announced that it would hold a conference call and webcast with investors on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 10:00am EDT to discuss the outcome of the Company's extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to be held on May 12, 2010.

To join the conference call, please use the dial-in details below:

The webcast can be accessed at: www.gerova.com.

A replay of the call will be available on the same day at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time until May 20, 2010.  To listen to the replay, please use the dial in details below:

About GEROVA Financial Group, Ltd.

GEROVA Financial Group, Ltd. is a specialty reinsurance company, based in Manchester, England, that was recently established to take advantage of investment opportunities arising from recent financial market dislocations. GEROVA underwrites insurance risks that it believes will produce favorable long-term returns on shareholder equity. In January 2010, GEROVA issued approximately $742 million in preferred equity in consideration for the acquisition of various assets. GEROVA believes it has opportunities to deploy shareholder capital to acquire high quality assets at less than market value and opportunities to gather additional assets by providing reinsurance capacity to primary insurers that are under writing capacity pressure.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding the Company, the target acquisitions and the Company's business after completion of the proposed transactions. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements, which are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the management of the Company, are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from the forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the Forward-Looking Statements: (i) material reductions in the value of a substantial portion of the Company's assets acquired in connection with the business combinations consummated in January 2010; (ii) officers and directors allocating their time to other businesses or potentially having conflicts of interest with the Company's businesses; (iii) success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, the Company's officers, key employees or directors following the transactions; (iv) the potential liquidity and trading of the Company's public securities; (iv) the Company's revenues and operating performance; (vi) changes in overall economic conditions; (vii) anticipated business development activities of the Company following consummation of the transactions described above; (viii) risks and costs associated with regulation of corporate governance and disclosure standards (including pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002); and (ix) other relevant risks detailed in the Company's filings with the SEC and those factors that will be listed in our Proxy Statement under "Risk Factors". The information set forth herein should be read in light of such risks. Neither the Company nor any target companies or funds we intend to acquire assumes any obligation to update the information contained in this release.

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