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NEW YORK, Dec. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- GMAC Financial Services today announced that it has consummated its separate private exchange offers and cash tender offers to purchase and/or exchange certain of its and its subsidiaries' (the "GMAC offers") and Residential Capital, LLC's (the "ResCap offers") outstanding notes specified in the tables below (the "GMAC old notes" and the "ResCap old notes", respectively). Approximately $17.5 billion in aggregate principal amount (or 59%) of the outstanding GMAC old notes were validly tendered and accepted in the GMAC offers and approximately $3.7 billion in aggregate principal amount (or 39%) of the outstanding ResCap old notes were validly tendered and accepted in the ResCap offers.

Consummation of the GMAC offers will result in the issuance of approximately $11.9 billion aggregate principal amount of new GMAC senior guaranteed notes of various series and approximately $2.6 billion aggregate liquidation preference of new GMAC cumulative perpetual preferred stock.

The table below shows, for each series of existing GMAC notes, the aggregate principal amount tendered and accepted and the related aggregate principal amount of new senior guaranteed notes that will be issued.

                                                         Principal Amount of
                                                         Related New Senior
                                    Principal Amount       Guaranteed Notes
         Series of Old Notes      Tendered and Accepted        Issued
    Euribor + 1.250% Notes due 2009  EUR 309,193,000       USD 323,103,000
    4.750% Notes due 2009            EUR 225,680,000       USD 211,885,000
    6.500% Notes due 2009            USD 149,677,000       USD 126,982,000
    7.750% Notes due 2010            USD 1,181,709,000     USD 778,854,000
    5.750% Notes due May 2010        EUR 36,734,000        USD 34,327,000
    5.750% Notes due Sept. 2010      EUR 456,475,000       USD 448,949,000
    6.625% Notes due 2010            GBP 51,833,000        USD 48,830,000
    7.250% Notes due 2011            USD 1,202,931,000     USD 802,159,000
    6.000% Notes due Apr. 2011       USD 174,284,000       USD 122,605,000
    5.375% Notes due 2011            EUR 594,069,000       USD 570,441,000
    6.875% Notes due 2011            USD 4,347,883,000     USD 3,087,771,000
    6.000% Notes due Dec. 2011       USD 871,998,000       USD 562,268,000
    7.000% Notes due 2012            USD 544,784,000       USD 357,492,000
    6.625% Notes due 2012            USD 613,701,000       USD 407,348,000
    6.000% Notes due 2012            EUR 136,772,000       USD 129,264,000
    6.875% Notes due 2012            USD 1,198,666,000     USD 784,677,000
    6.750% Notes due 2014            USD 1,194,091,000     USD 764,653,000
    Libor + 2.200% Notes due 2014    USD 471,615,000       USD 294,768,000
    8.000% Notes due 2031            USD 3,034,460,000     USD 1,995,021,000

Consummation of the ResCap offer will result in the issuance of approximately $688 million aggregate principal amount of new GMAC 7.50% senior notes due 2013 and approximately $483 million aggregate principal amount of new GMAC 8.00% subordinated notes due 2018.

The table below shows for each series of existing ResCap notes the aggregate principal amount tendered and accepted.


                                                       Principal Amount
                   Series of Old Notes               Tendered and Accepted
    Libor + 3.10% Floating Rate Notes due April 2009   USD 6,225,000
    Libor + 3.83% Floating Rate Subordinated Notes
     due April 2009                                    USD 15,000,000
    Libor + 3.10% Floating Rate Notes due May 2009     USD 12,940,000
    8.500% Senior Secured Guaranteed Notes due 2010    USD 830,511,000
    8.375% Notes due 2010                              USD 429,211,000
    Euribor + 3.45% Floating Rate Notes due 2010       EUR 18,100,000
    8.000% Notes due 2011                              USD 9,372,000
    7.125% Notes due 2012                              EUR 12,295,000
    8.500% Notes due 2012                              USD 15,089,000
    8.500% Notes due 2013                              USD 401,417,000
    8.375% Notes due 2013                              GBP 3,965,000
    9.875% Notes due 2014                              GBP 1,000,000
    9.625% Junior Secured Guaranteed Notes due 2015    USD 1,889,828,000
    8.875% Notes due 2015                              USD 38,728,000

The cash elections for each of the GMAC offers and the ResCap offers were oversubscribed. As a result, each eligible holder who made a cash election in the GMAC offers will have approximately 23.2% of the amount of old notes it tendered accepted for cash, and the balance of old notes each such holder tendered that was not accepted for purchase for cash will be exchanged into new securities, in the amount determined pursuant to the applicable new securities exchange ratios, as if such holder had made a new securities election with respect to such balance of old notes. Furthermore, each eligible holder who made a cash election in the ResCap offers will have approximately 47.8% of the amount of old notes it tendered accepted for cash, and the balance of old notes each such holder tendered that was not accepted for purchase for cash will be exchanged into new securities, in the amount determined pursuant to the applicable new securities exchange ratios, as if such holder had made a new securities election with respect to such balance of old notes.

To determine the consideration paid, the principal amounts of old notes denominated in Euros and Sterling have been converted to U.S. dollars at currency exchange rates set on December 24, 2008 of $1.3964/EUR and $1.4673/GBP.

About GMAC Financial Services

GMAC Financial Services is a global finance company operating in and servicing North America, South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. GMAC specializes in automotive finance, real estate finance, insurance, commercial finance and online banking. As of Dec. 31, 2007, the organization had $248 billion in assets and serviced 15 million customers. Visit the GMAC media site at http://media.gmacfs.com/ for more information.

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