2 Safe Harbor Statement Forward-Looking Statements This presentation may contain statements, estimates or projections that constitute “forward-looking statements” as defined under U.S. federal securities laws. In some cases, one can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “will,” “expect,” “plan,” “lead,” “project” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from Mirant’s historical experience and our present expectations or projections. These risks include, but are not limited to: (i) legislative and regulatory initiatives relating to the electric utility industry; (ii) changes in, or changes in the application of, environmental or other laws; (iii) failure of our assets to perform as expected, including due to outages for unscheduled maintenance or repair; (iv) changes in market conditions or the entry of additional competition in our markets; (v) the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger with RRI Energy, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of required stockholder, governmental and regulatory approvals that may reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the merger; the ability of the parties to arrange debt financing in an amount sufficient to fund the refinancing contemplated in, and on terms consistent with, the Merger Agreement; the diversion of management’s time and attention from our ongoing business during the time we are seeking to complete the merger; the ability to maintain relationships with employees, customers and suppliers; the ability to integrate successfully the businesses and realize cost savings and any other synergies; and the risk that credit ratings of the combined company or its subsidiaries may be different from what the companies expect; and (vi) those factors contained in our periodic reports filed with the SEC, including in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2010. The forward-looking information in this document is given as of this date only, and Mirant assumes no duty to update this information. Non-GAAP Financial Information The following presentation includes certain “non-GAAP financial measures” as defined in Regulation G under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. A schedule is attached hereto and is posted on the Company’s website at mirant.com (in the Investor Relations - Presentations section) that reconciles the non-GAAP financial measures included in the following presentation to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. In addition, the Company has included a more detailed description of each of the non-GAAP financial measures used in this presentation, together with a discussion of the usefulness and purpose of these measures as Exhibit 99.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K furnished to the SEC with its earnings press release. |