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Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, LLP

Patterson Belknap Recognized in Best Lawyers in America 2008
Best Lawyers in America® 2008 has named 15 firm partners in 10 practice areas to its just-released list. In addition, our Trusts & Estates group was ranked number one in both New York City and New York State.
Christopher C. Angell Trusts and Estates
Susan F. Bloom Trusts and Estates
William F. Cavanaugh Anittrust Law
Commercial Litigation
Gregory L. Diskant Commercial Litigation
David W. Dykhouse Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Phillip R. Forlenza Commercial Litigation
Legal Malpractice Law
Andrew L. Herz Real Estate Law
Dana Hiscock Trusts and Estates
Rochelle Korman Non-Profit/Charities Law
Ellen M. Martin Labor and Employment Law
Thomas C. Morrison Advertising Law
Gloria C. Phares Appellate Law
Robert M. Safron Real Estate Law
John P. Sare Trusts and Estates
Steven A. Zalesin Advertising Law

09-04-2007

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Le Boeuf, Lamb, Greene & McRae, L.L.P.

LeBoeuf Lamb Grows Asia Practice with Opening of Hong Kong Office; Addition of New Managing Partner
The international law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP has announced the expansion of its Asia practice with the opening of a Hong Kong office. The office is co-managed by partners William C. Marcoux and Daniel Liew.

The new office will operate in affiliation with Arthur Marriott & Associates, a Hong Kong law firm. A team of twenty lawyers will be in place by the end of 2007 practicing US, English, and Hong Kong laws and will focus on energy, insurance, corporate and finance, and dispute resolution matters.

"The explosive growth and economic globalization in the Pan-Asian market makes this the perfect time for LeBoeuf Lamb to continue expanding its footprint," said firm Chairman Steven H. Davis, "Daniel's leadership and market knowledge will be great assets as we expand on the success of our first office in Asia located in Beijing."

Prior to joining LeBoeuf Lamb as a managing partner, Mr. Liew was head of the energy and infrastructure practice in Asia for an international law firm and an elected member of the partnership board of such firm. He represents clients in the energy, electricity, utilities, water, telecommunications, infrastructure, and insurance sectors, and regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions, project development, project finance and corporate finance.

Commenting on his move, Mr. Liew said, "LeBoeuf Lamb's culture of global integration together with its worldwide coverage presents significant opportunities to provide clients with seamless, multi-jurisdictional counsel. I look forward to contributing to the firm's continued success and providing legal counsel in Asia to our clients."

09-04-2007

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Alston & Bird LLP

Alston & Bird Opens Dallas Office
Alston & Bird LLP, a leading national law firm, announces the opening of an office in Dallas, Texas. The firm also announces the acquisition of Dallas-based Crews, Shepherd & McCarty LLP, a highly regarded litigation firm. The Dallas office will immediately enhance three of the firm’s preeminent practices -- complex commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, and corporate transactions and compliance.

“Alston & Bird has been serving clients in Dallas and throughout Texas for many years, so this is a natural and logical step for us,” said Richard R. Hays, deputy managing partner and managing partner-elect of Alston & Bird. “This move is part of a national effort to better serve clients in the areas in which we are experiencing substantial growth. On any given day, teams of our attorneys are likely present in Dallas or in the region. With a Dallas office and with the addition of partners, beginning with the Crews, Shepherd firm, we are in a position to offer additional support on those matters and expand our practice.”

“Texas courts are already active venues for many Alston & Bird clients in the area of complex litigation,” notes Hays, “and given the firm’s historical and highly credentialed expertise in the area of intellectual property, a presence in Dallas further bolsters our significant IP litigation practice. We also currently represent a number of Dallas-based Fortune 500 companies in corporate matters, and these clients have responded very positively to an Alston & Bird Dallas office.”

“Alston & Bird is a great firm and joining them was an easy decision,” said John R. Crews. “We were attracted to the firm’s legal talent, depth and breadth of experience, and equally to their culture, which has been recognized nationally for a number of years. Opening the Dallas office with a combination of our existing litigation practice with other of Alston’s finest practices gives us a great start and makes Alston an immediate competitive force in the region.”

About Alston & Bird’s Core Dallas Practices

Complex Commercial Litigation
Alston & Bird’s 280 litigators have handled complex commercial disputes for domestic and international corporations in every state in the U.S. and numerous foreign jurisdictions, serving as national counsel, regional counsel or national class action counsel in high-visibility, landmark litigation. For the last two years, Corporate Counsel magazine has named Alston & Bird among the top 10 law firms in the U.S. mentioned by corporate counsel as their go-to law firm for litigation matters. Most recently a team of Alston & Bird’s litigators, with co-counsel in Oregon, led efforts on an international fraud case that resulted in a verdict subsequently ranked as #1 among the largest U.S. verdicts for 2006 by The National Law Journal. Thirty-eight of the firm’s litigators have been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for a number of years.

Intellectual Property Litigation
Alston & Bird has one of the largest IP practices among general practice law firms in the United States, with 130 attorneys practicing IP law 100 percent of the time. The firm’s IP practice is consistently ranked by major publications, including Fortune, The Best Lawyers in America, the Guide to the World’s Leading Trademark Law Practitioners, IP Worldwide, Managing Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Today. In 2006 IP Law and Business reported the firm was ranked 4th among all U.S. law firms by the Fortune 250 in the category of intellectual property litigation.

Corporate Representation
With more than 270 corporate attorneys throughout the firm, Alston & Bird handles an array of business, corporate governance, finance, M&A, private equity, and securities matters for both domestic and foreign clients across all industries. Alston & Bird was ranked among the top 30 law firms for 2006 by both Mergerstat and Thomson Financial.

About Crews, Shepherd & McCarty LLP

Crews, Shepherd & McCarty’s commercial litigation experience focuses on securities, antitrust, consumer class actions, insurance coverage and bad faith, accountant liability, banking, business torts, contracts, real estate and construction, labor and employment, trade secret, and intellectual property matters. Previously, the Crews, Shepherd attorneys were with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, practicing in the firm’s Dallas office.

John R. Crews: John Crews, a commercial litigator for the past 20 years, has been recognized as one of the best corporate/business litigators in Dallas. Mr. Crews previously practiced with Gibson, Dunn and has a national litigation practice, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout the United States. Mr. Crews has represented clients in a variety of industries including travel and transportation, accounting, computer and information technology, chemical, real estate, and insurance. He has represented a number of individuals, corporations, and professional services firms in a variety of governmental investigations, including investigations conducted by the United States Securities & Exchange Commission, the office of the New York Attorney General, the Internal Revenue Service and the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy.

Jon G. Shepherd: Jon Shepherd, also recognized as one of the best corporate litigators in Dallas, focuses his practice on commercial litigation, with an emphasis in antitrust litigation and counseling. His extensive antitrust experience includes a number of notable civil and criminal matters. Among others, Mr. Shepherd participated in American Airlines' defense against claims that it engaged in predatory pricing and attempted to monopolize certain markets, as well as claims in a separate lawsuit that it conspired to fix the commissions paid to travel agencies. He also has represented companies involved in class actions pending throughout the U.S., including a managed care company defending claims asserted by hundreds of thousands of physicians, companies, officers and directors; accounting firms facing securities law claims asserted by shareholders; and companies facing claims asserted by classes of consumers.

Darren L. McCarty: Darren McCarty’s practice focuses on commercial litigation, with an emphasis on complex financial disputes. He has represented some of the nation's largest corporations and most prestigious private firms. Mr. McCarty services clients in a variety of industries including technology, travel, telecommunications, energy, health care, public accounting, and insurance. He has represented directors, officers and other individuals in a number of actions. His litigation experience extends to securities, antitrust, accountant malpractice, banking, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious interference, cross-border disputes, RICO, non-compete and other employment agreements, real property, and insurance coverage and bad faith. He has also represented clients before a number of state and federal appellate courts.

C. Glen Morris: Glen Morris has a wide range of trial and appellate experience, including complex litigation matters involving securities, intellectual property, trade secrets, professional liability, health care, and other commercial matters. He has represented numerous officers, directors, and corporations in shareholder class actions, shareholder derivative actions, SEC enforcement actions, and SEC investigations based on allegations of securities fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Mr. Morris also has represented health care clients in a variety of matters including False Claims Act and RICO litigation.

Sarah R. Vollbrecht: Sarah Vollbrecht is an associate with a variety of litigation experience, which includes shareholder actions, antitrust matters, and commercial contract disputes. Additionally, Ms. Vollbrecht has represented indigent criminal defendants in federal court as part of the Criminal Justice Act program.

09-04-2007

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Sherin & Lodgen LLP

Kurt James quoted on Chapter 40B petition in Banker & Tradesman
Kurt James, partner in the firm's Real Estate and Business Departments and chair of the firm’s Affordable Housing and Community Development practice, was quoted in “The Teller: Chapter and Re-Verse,” which appeared in Banker & Tradesman on September 3.

The article discusses a petition to Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley intended to repeal the state’s comprehensive permitting law, also known as Chapter 40B. Chapter 40B requires at least 20 percent of residential units to be reserved for lower-income households. The statute has been used by developers to build mixed-income housing in communities where less than 10 percent of the housing stock is affordable.

The petition doesn’t block developers who already have obtained 40B permits, but it would hinder those without local building permits.

The article also quotes an August 30 letter to the Office of the Attorney General written by Kurt and another member of REBA (Real Estate Bar Association). “The holders of comprehensive permits have invested reasonably in these permits, and this proposal would destroy the value of their investment by invalidating the permits…it is highly unlikely that either the general court or the municipalities will be willing to provide such substantial compensation for takings they did not authorize,” the attorneys wrote in their letter.

09-03-2007

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Dickstein Shapiro LLP

The Best Lawyers In America Recognizes 24 Dickstein Shapiro Attorneys
Dickstein Shapiro LLP is pleased to announce that 24 of the firm’s attorneys are recognized in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

The Best Lawyers in America is compiled through a peer-review survey in which thousands of the top lawyers in the United States confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

09-03-2007

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Brown & Brown

Brown Rudnick to Be Primary Supporter of Seedcamp, the Recently Launched Technology Business Plan Competition in Europe
Brown Rudnick, a premier international law firm, today announced that its Corporate Practice Group will be a founding supporter of Seedcamp in Europe. In addition to providing financial support to Seedcamp, members of the firm’s Corporate Team in London will serve as mentors and coaches to participating entrepreneurs. Other Seedcamp supporters include Index Ventures, Atomico Investments, Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital, TAG and Forsyth Group.

The mission of Seedcamp is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs in Europe by providing the money, mentoring and media to help propel their great ideas. At the end of the week-long event, Seedcamp will invest €50K in each of the final five teams and provide ongoing mentorship and support for three months in preparation for the companies’ formal rounds of financing.

In it’s first year, Seedcamp received 268 applications from entrepreneurs in more than 40 countries. Seedcamp Week, scheduled for September 3-7, 2007 in London, will provide the top 20 teams with the opportunity to showcase their ideas for building Europe’s next global technology company.

The idea for Seedcamp came from Mr. Saul Klein, currently a venture partner at Index Ventures and the former Global VP of Marketing and e-Commerce for Skype. In a recent interview with e-consultancy.com, Mr. Klein commented “Seedcamp is about energizing the next generation of European entrepreneurs to think big and take risks. Everyone who has been successful in the European technology scene or wants to nurture further success is keen to see this happen. So, the response has been enthusiastic, to say the least.” Brown Rudnick’s Emerging Companies Team provides strategic advice and guidance to business organizations through all phases of their growth, from start-up, to enhancing and managing growth, through the execution of an exit strategy. Drawing from the full menu of capabilities, this practice group has established enduring relationships with these corporate “life cycle” clients.

Facilitating access to seed and growth capital, Brown Rudnick represents investors and companies seeking financing. Clients include emerging growth companies, angel investors, strategic corporate investors, domestic and offshore venture capital funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, commodity pools and similar investment vehicles. London team members continue to define industry standards in the venture capital sector in the UK and across Europe. And as long-time supporters of both BVCA and EVCA, the firm has had the opportunity to contribute significantly to the development of this sector.

As evidence of the firm’s contribution to the emerging growth market, Brown Rudnick has been short-listed for the Investor Allstars’ 2007 Service Provider of the Year Award. This award is open to specialist advisory firms across all disciplines that serve the venture capital industry.

Brown Rudnick is also a continuing sponsor of programs and initiatives that support the entrepreneurial community, such as the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, MIT Enterprise Forum, Harvard Biotechnology Club Business Plan Competition, Babson College’s Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition and Rocket Pitch, Boston University’s Entrepreneurial Management Institute, Connecticut Venture Group, Brown Venture Group and Slater Center for Interactive Technologies

09-03-2007

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Gide, Loyrette & Nouel, PC

Gide Loyrette Nouel, legal counsel to Ohran on its acquisition of Nobel Plastiques:
Gide Loyrette Nouel (New York, Paris, Istanbul and Prague Offices) advised the Turkish family-owned group, Ohran Holding, on the acquisition of the “fluids and tubes” business sold by the US vehicle parts manufacturer Dana Corporation (with a staff of 35 000 employees and gross sales of US$ 8.5 billion). This transaction relates particularly to Nobel Plastiques, a company specialising in the manufacture of tubing (fuel, water, brake and power steering fluid) for motor vehicles. The value of the transaction is approximately EUR 70 million.

Legal counsel to Ohran Holding:
Gide Loyrette Nouel (Marianne Rosenberg and Jil Davidson, M&A aspects, Robert C. MacDonald and Vanessa Tollis, tax issues, for the New York Office, Nadège Nguyen, M&A aspects and Evelyne Bagdassarian, tax issues, for the Paris Office, Bertrand Bülent Ozdirekcan for the Istanbul Office and François Veit for the Prague Office)

Legal counsel to Dana Corporation:
Hunton & Williams (Robert Acosta Lewis and Kenneth J. Alcott for the M&A aspects and William Richardson for the tax issues)

09-03-2007

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