-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Mzd7ANQ+KuwysUFXFEAu6f+opLbcc/X3myPkVSwWtw/phv85I6ZLXllhHG46ZhQ9 m/GIy5yWnmMWJbSBSuPqrQ== 0001181431-05-059546.txt : 20051103 0001181431-05-059546.hdr.sgml : 20051103 20051103204045 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-05-059546 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20051101 FILED AS OF DATE: 20051103 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20051103 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001084961 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SHORT-TERM BUSINESS CREDIT INSTITUTIONS [6153] IRS NUMBER: 481090909 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 8875 AERO DRIVE, SUITE 200 CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92123 BUSINESS PHONE: 8007590327 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 8875 AERO DRIVE, SUITE 200 CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92123 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MCM CAPITAL GROUP INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990430 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MIDLAND CORP OF KANSAS DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19990423 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: BROOKER GEORGE CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001179118 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-26489 FILM NUMBER: 051178439 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5775 ROSCOE CT CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92123 BUSINESS PHONE: 8583096932 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC STREET 2: 8875 AERO DRIVE, SUITE 200 CITY: SAN DIEGO STATE: CA ZIP: 92123 4 1 rrd96265.xml BROOKER FORM 4 110105 OPTION & RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD X0202 4 2005-11-01 0 0001084961 ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC ECPG 0001179118 BROOKER GEORGE 8875 AERO DRIVE, SUITE 200 SAN DIEGO CA 92123 0 1 0 0 Vice President - Finance Common Stock 2005-11-01 4 A 0 4050 A 4050 D Employee Stock Option (right to buy) 16.19 2005-11-01 4 A 0 9900 0 A 2015-11-01 Common Stock 9900 9900 D Grant of performance-based restricted shares under the Encore Capital Group, Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan. Grant under the Encore Capital Group, Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan, vesting in three equal annual installments commencing on November 1, 2006. /s/ Robin R. Pruitt, Attorney-in-Fact for George R. Brooker 2005-11-03 EX-24. 2 rrd83113_93446.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd83113_93446.html 

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


Know all men by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints J. Brandon Black, Paul Grinberg, Robin R. Pruitt and Daniel Murphy,
and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of Encore Capital Group, Inc. (the "Company"), any
and all reports and forms required to be filed by the undersigned in accordance
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder,
including but not limited to all Forms 3, 4 and 5;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such report or form
and timely file the same with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission and any stock exchange or similar trading market; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of
the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in the form and
shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in
his or her discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her
substitute or substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of
this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file reports or forms pursuant to
Section 16 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions
in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned
in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of the 1st day of November, 2005.





                                             /s/ George R. Brooker
                                             ___________________________
                                             By:  George R. Brooker
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