Brandywine Realty Trust Names Thomas E. Wirth Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management

RADNOR, Pa., Nov. 17  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brandywine Realty Trust (NYSE:BDN) announced today that it has named Thomas E. Wirth Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management.

Mr. Wirth will be responsible for directing Brandywine's portfolio management activities, including working with our regional and corporate executive team to formulate capital allocation tactics for the company's existing portfolio.  In this role, Mr. Wirth will also assist in the company's capital raising initiatives, including joint venture evaluation, and transaction structuring.  Additionally, Mr. Wirth will spearhead Brandywine's relationship management and investment committee activities.

Mr. Wirth joins Brandywine Realty Trust from Feldman Mall Properties, where he most recently served as President.  From 1997 to 2004, he served as the Vice President of Finance, and later, Chief Financial Officer, of SL Green, a publicly held office REIT.  Mr. Wirth will join Brandywine effective December 7.

"We are delighted to welcome Tom to our Brandywine executive team," said Gerard H. Sweeney, President and Chief Executive Officer.  "His strong financial, capital markets and operational experience will enable him to effectively contribute to the successful execution of our portfolio management initiatives and capital raising activities."

About Brandywine Realty Trust

Brandywine Realty Trust is one of the largest, publicly traded, full-service, integrated real estate companies in the United States.  Organized as a real estate investment trust and operating in select markets, Brandywine owns, develops and manages a primarily Class A, suburban and urban office portfolio aggregating approximately 36.1 million square feet, including 25.6 million square feet which it owns on a consolidated basis.  For more information, visit our website at http://www.brandywinerealty.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this release constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.  Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, achievements or transactions of the Company and its affiliates or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or transactions expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  Such risks, uncertainties and other factors relate to, among others, the Company's ability to lease vacant space and to renew or relet space under expiring leases at expected levels, the potential loss of major tenants, interest rate levels, the availability and terms of debt and equity financing, competition with other real estate companies for tenants and acquisitions, risks of real estate acquisitions, dispositions and developments, including cost overruns and construction delays, unanticipated operating costs and the effects of general and local economic and real estate conditions.  Additional information or factors which could impact the Company and the forward-looking statements contained herein are included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events. 

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