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Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin P.L.

Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin Attorneys Close Sale of Pan American Hospital Corporation To Metropolitan Community Health Services, Inc. For $34.0 Million.
Attorney Michael Segal and Attorney Heather Siegel

· Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin bankruptcy attorneys Robert P. Charbonneau and Jacqueline Calderin represented Pan American Hospital Corporation through Chapter 11 Bankruptcy proceedings which culminated in the negotiation and sale of its assets to Metropolitan Community Health Services, Inc. for approximately $34.0 million cash and $6.0 million in accounts receivable. Metropolitan was the winner of a Bankruptcy Court auction held in November 2006.

Following a long drawn out battle on behalf of Pan American Hospital in Bankruptcy Court which included an attempted plan of reorganization with the goal of returning most of what is owed to the unsecured creditors, Charbonneau and Calderin negotiated the final deal with Metropolitan, and assisted on bankruptcy related matters during the closing.

Member Dale S. Bergman, associate Karyl Argamasilla, and paralegal Marie Chavarri of Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin’s Business & Real Estate Transaction practice handled the transaction closing. The transaction included both a real estate component in the sale of Pan American’s real estate property and a corporate component in the sale of its other assets.

“The transaction was further complicated by the overlay of Bankruptcy Court protection for Pan American, which included the court-imposed closing deadline of February 8, 2007, and the regulated nature of being a hospital, including employee staffing and license compliance matters,” explained Bergman.

Pan American, a nonprofit hospital founded by Cuban exiles in 1963 to serve other Cuban expatriates, got into financial trouble after acquiring 17 clinics from United Healthcare Insurance Co. for $65 million and agreeing to pay a percentage of the clinics’ proceeds. The hospital filed for bankruptcy protection in March 2004.

Metropolitan Health Community Services Corp, SSM operates eight hospitals in Puerto Rico under the Metropolitano and Pavia Health Management names, plus 10 satellite clinics, pharmacies, labs, and a radiation oncology center. Metropolitan had been looking at the Miami market, and Pan American Hospital in particular, for several years.

02-15-2007

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Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

Baker Donelson Ranked Among Top Law Firms in Marketing and Communications
The marketing department of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC has been ranked among the top in the country by Marketing the Law Firm, a national newsletter published by Law Journal Newsletters. In "The Second Annual Marketing the Law Firm 50: The Top Law Firms in Marketing and Communications," Baker Donelson was ranked number 11 on the list of 50 law firm marketing departments, receiving recognition for the creation and implementation of two attorney training programs.

The first program, PracticeAdvance, is a joint initiative of the Firm's Marketing and Professional Development departments. The program offers year-round training classes covering a variety of topics, including the delivery of excellent client service, time management and business development. A more comprehensive eight-session course is also offered with classes that focus on areas such as the importance of creating a life/work balance, developing individual attorney marketing plans and handling initial client meetings.

"By creating PracticeAdvance, the Firm's Marketing and Professional Development departments have invested in the Firm's greatest, client-focused assets: Baker Donelson attorneys," said Laura Hine, Baker Donelson's Chief Marketing Officer. "Participants gain the tools necessary to be more effective, efficient attorneys, while allowing them to prioritize and achieve real satisfaction in their practice and lives. The Firm's attorneys are the Baker Donelson brand, and the PracticeAdvance program builds upon the strength of that brand."

The response to PracticeAdvance was so positive that an extension of the program was introduced. The "20 Over 40" program is geared toward attorneys aged 40 and up. After being organized into groups of 20, the participating attorneys within each group begin with a retreat to set goals, and then are held personally responsible for those goals by the other attorneys in their group. "When the 20 Over 40 program was announced, we thought we would start with only one group of 20," said Tea Hoffmann, Baker Donelson's Director of Client Development. "The response was so overwhelming that more groups were created. Now, 78 of the Firm's attorneys are participating in the program.

02-15-2007

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding’s William Bates to Discuss Emerging M&A Trends At 19th Annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute
E. William Bates II, a senior partner in the corporate practice of King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, will be a panelist at Tulane University Law School’s 19th annual Corporate Law Institute in New Orleans, March 29 and 30. Bates will discuss developments in public company mergers and acquisitions.

The topics Bates’s panel will address include the following:

* The no shop/go shop debate
* Deal jumps
* Majority owner squeeze-outs
* Antitrust certainty clauses
* MAC remedies
* The effectiveness of the new 14d-10 amendments
* The future of tender offers

Bates, King & Spalding’s senior M&A partner in the New York office, has significant experience representing buyers and sellers in mergers and stock and cash acquisition transactions. He routinely advises clients on corporate and corporate governance matters, including the application by boards of directors of their fiduciary duties. He also has significant experience representing companies in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities. Representative clients include Jefferson-Pilot, Serologicals, GE, Sprint Nextel, Embarq and Caremark.

02-15-2007

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Kelley, Drye & Warren, LLP

Kelley Drye Partner Glenn Manishin Argues Appeal in Landmark Internet Regulation Case
Kelley Drye attorney Glenn B. Manishin argued a monumental Internet regulation case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Mr. Manishin is representing the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a high-tech trade association, one of two petitioners in Vonage & CCIA v. FCC, Nos. 06-1776, 06-1317.

"This is likely the most significant telecommunications and Internet regulatory appeal in the past decade," Mr. Manishin explained. "The court's decision will have an enormous impact on whether legacy telephone regulations apply to emerging Internet technologies merely because bureaucrats, not Congress, think that is appropriate public policy."

The question before the three-judge panel is whether providers of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services—essentially telephone calls placed from a DSL, cable modem or other broadband Internet connection—must pay into the Universal Service Fund (USF). The USF subsidizes phone services in rural and "high cost" areas of the country by taxing traditional telephone companies at a rate of nearly 10 percent of gross revenues. Since June 2006, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has forced VoIP providers to contribute to the USF fund, although only traditional telephone companies, such as Verizon and AT&T, are permitted to receive USF subsidies.

Mr. Manishin argued to the court that the FCC's actions constituted "the most sweeping, unilateral extension of FCC jurisdiction" since passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and that the agency's USF rationale would permit any or all elements of common carrier telecommunications regulation to be applied to "information service providers"—such as ISPs, answering services and the like, as well as VoIP—without constraint. Given the "25 years of consistent precedent" distinguishing regulated telecommunications from unregulated information services, this result "violated the plain meaning of the Act" and resulted in "absurd" consequences, Manishin explained.

Kelley Drye Partner Jon Canis and Associate Stephanie Joyce assisted Mr. Manishin on the briefs for CCIA. An opinion from the court of appeals is expected in three to six months.

02-15-2007

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Hunton & Williams, LLP

Biggs Speaks at Emerging Energy Technologies Symposium
Jo Ann Biggs, a regulated-industries lawyer in the Dallas office of Hunton & Williams LLP, joined leading academics, consultants, practitioners and government officials at the University of Texas School of Law for the Second Annual Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law CLE Symposium on February 15-16, 2007. The Symposium addressed the legal implications of emerging energy technologies including wind, wave, solar, hydro, and nuclear energy, liquefied natural gas, biodiesel, and renewable diesel. Biggs addressed issues in nuclear power.

02-15-2007

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Hodgson Russ LLP

Hodgson Russ LLP approved to provide Public Authorities Accountability Act training
Hodgson Russ has been certified by the New York State Authority Budget Office as one of only a few approved providers of training for New York’s Public Authorities Accountability Act.

Under the recently enacted law, board members and executive officers of industrial development agencies, governmentally affiliated nonprofit corporations, public authorities, urban renewal agencies, and other entities covered by the Public Authorities Accountability Act (each a “covered entity”) must participate, within one year of their appointment to the board, in approved training regarding their legal, fiduciary, financial, and ethical responsibilities as members or officers of such covered entities.

Hodgson Russ will begin providing Public Authorities Accountability Act training on March 16, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency in Buffalo, New York. The program will also offer 5 hours of Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit, including 1.5 hours of ethics credit. For more information or to register, see our Web site, www.hodgsonruss.com. The firm is also offering customized programs in which attorneys will travel by request to provide private training. For more information, contact George W. Cregg, a partner in the Municipal Law and Real Estate & Finance Practice Groups, at gcregg@hodgsonruss.com or 518.465.2333.

Board members serving on a covered entity board at the time the act took effect should participate in training by the end of the authority’s fiscal year that began in 2006. While the executive officers of a covered entity are not required to receive training under the Act, it has been listed as a best practice by the Authority Budget Office.

As the Authority Budget Office begins to conduct its on-site compliance reviews, it is imperative that board members and executive officers of covered entities who have not received Public Authorities Accountability Act training to do so. Lists of agencies identified by the New York State Comptroller and Authority Budget Office as subject to the act are available online at http://www.osc.state.ny.us and http://www.abo.state.ny.us.

Hodgson Russ recently celebrated its 16th anniversary of serving the Albany business community and last year relocated to the new office building at 677 Broadway. The firm continues to expand its Albany presence to provide increased depth in important niche practice areas, including bond counsel, municipal law, and other real estate and finance areas; federal, state, and local taxation; bankruptcy and commercial litigation; estate planning and administration; torts, insurance, and products liability; and corporate and business law.

02-15-2007

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Frost, Brown & Todd, L.L.C.

Price to Join Frost Brown Todd
Glenn A. Price, has announced today that he will be joining the Louisville office of Frost Brown Todd LLC, starting February 16, 2007. Formerly a Partner with Greenebaum, Doll & McDonald, Price cites FBT’s strong regional presence, its involvement in numerous major local development projects and its size as factors in his move.

Price’s legal practice promises to blend nicely with FBT’s award-winning Real Estate Practice Group. Also known for its New Market Tax Credits ancillary business, Commonwealth Management Services, Inc., FBT has had a hand in bringing $225 million in NMTC allocations for urban development not only locally, but across the country. This NMTC funding has supported local projects such as the Muhammad Ali Center, the Downtown Residence Inn, and the Central Station Office Building.

According to Price, joining FBT provides the platform from which he can expand his practice. “I want to work on the biggest and most exciting projects in the region,” said Price. “Frost Brown Todd’s large regional presence makes it the best place for me to do that.”

Price will be becoming a Member of FBT, bringing with him a strong practice in Land Use Law. He has extensive experience in representing developers and businesses in obtaining re-zonings, development plan and design plan approvals, subdivision approvals, conditional use permits and variances, Mr. Price has assisted a variety of clients in matters relating to regulatory takings. He has published numerous articles and has presented on land use and development topics over the past decade and holds several leadership positions in growth, planning and development organizations. Most recently, he co-authored the “Land Use and Zoning” chapter of Murphy and Price’s Kentucky Real Estate Law and Practice, Third edition, 2007, which is used by the Univeristy of Kentucky as its continuing legal education practice handbook.

02-15-2007

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