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Foley & Lardner

Foley & Lardner Continues Strategic Expansion With Opening of Downtown Los Angeles Office
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that it will expand services in Los Angeles by opening an office downtown in addition to its existing Century City office. The establishment of a second Los Angeles office is the latest phase of the firm's strategic plan to increase presence in key markets consistent with its national practice strategy.

“Our west side office is of strategic importance to the growth of our IP and entertainment practices, and it continues to flourish. But after serving clients in Los Angeles for more than a decade, we determined the expansion of our corporate and litigation practices would benefit from a downtown location, particularly in light of the area's tremendous growth and importance as a hub to the business and legal communities ” said Ralf Boer, chairman and CEO of Foley.

“Having two offices to serve these needs will strengthen the foundation to expand our national platform in this important market,” Boer said.

The firm will initially occupy 52,722 square feet on two floors in City National Plaza at 555 S. Flower Street, with expansion options to accommodate future growth. Jack Lasater, who currently serves as managing partner of the Century City office, will also manage the downtown office which is expected to open this fall. Foley currently has approximately 70 attorneys in Los Angeles.

The firm's plans to expand its litigation and corporate practices in Los Angeles are already underway with news of Assistant United States Attorney Jaime Guerrero and Business law attorney Craig Wood both joining Foley last month.

Foley has had a presence in Los Angeles since 1996 when the firm merged with Weissburg and Aronson, Inc. The addition of the downtown office brings the firm's worldwide office total to 20 with seven offices in California. The firm also recently announced plans to open a Shanghai office.

City National Plaza is owned by Thomas Properties Group. In the transaction Lisa St. John, Peter Best and Steve Steinmeyer of Jones Lang LaSalle represented Foley.

02-15-2007

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Fennemore Craig, P.C.

Laurel Davis Joins Fennemore Craig Las Vegas Office
Laurel Davis has joined the Fennemore Craig law firm as a shareholder and director in the firm’s Las Vegas office. Davis practices in the areas of business bankruptcy, debtor rights, creditor remedies, commercial litigation, workouts and restructures. Since 1993 she has been Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification.

“Laurel Davis is a wonderful addition to the firm. Her law practice brings even greater litigation strength to our office and we value her considerable community and state bar nvolvement,” sai John Mowbray, managing partner of Fennemore Craig’s Las Vegasest Lawyers in America® for bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law. She also has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” for the year 2007 by the Nevada Business Journal. She received the same accolade in 2002, when she was recognized as one of 16 “Super Lawyers” in a statewide survey by the Nevada Business Journal. In 2005 she made the In Business Las Vegas list of “Who’s Who in Professional Business Services in Southern Nevada.”

Firm-wide, Fennemore Craig has 46 attorneys named to Best Lawyers in America® 2007. Davis, a 1987 graduate of the University of San Diego Law School, frequently writes and lectures on bankruptcy, debtor rights and creditor remedies. Prior to joiningFennemore Craig, she was a shareholder in the litigation department of Lionel
Sawyer & Collins.

02-15-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie Advises a Top Leader Bank in Ukraine on One of the Largest Eurobond Offerings
Baker & McKenzie announced today that it has recently acted as English and Ukrainian law counsel to a top leader in national bank ranking Commercial bank “PrivatBank” with respect to its US$500 million five-year Eurobonds offering.

The transaction was structured as an offering of 8% guaranteed notes due in 2012, which are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange. This is the third Eurobond offering by PrivatBank since its debut and pioneering issue in 2003.

Commenting on the offering, Serhiy Chorny, the Kyiv Office’s banking and capital markets Partner, said: “We are proud that our client entrusts us its most significant and remarkable transactions. Baker & McKenzie has by now assisted PrivatBank to draw over US$750 million in the international markets. We feel that we have contributed a bit to the success and fast growth of our client.”

Serhiy continued: “We remain to be the leader among Ukrainian legal advisers, having advised on over US$3 billion of Eurobond issuances on behalf of Ukrainian businesses, in addition to sovereign and municipal issues."

The Baker & McKenzie team was led by Partners Chris Hogan in London and Serhiy Chorny in Kyiv, with significant input from associates Glib Bondar, Vsevolod Volkov, and junior attorney Victoria Ischenko in Kyiv, and Federico Salinas and Iryna Nagayets in London.

UBS was the lead manager of the issue.

02-15-2007

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Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P.

Collignon Receives Denver Bar "Volunteer Lawyer" Award
Denver associate Casie Collignon has been selected as the Denver Bar Association’s "Volunteer Lawyer of the Year." This prestigious award is the result of her long standing commitment to the Denver Bar Association (DBA), as well as her involvement in the Denver legal community in general.

The award recognizes that, in addition to her diverse litigation practice at Baker, Ms. Collignon has been an active participant in the Denver legal community since she began practicing law. She is currently the Chair-Elect of the Young Lawyers Division (YLD) of the DBA and has served on the Executive Committee of the YLD for the past year and a half.

Through her position as Chair-Elect, Ms. Collignon sits on the DBA’s Budget Committee and will sit on the DBA’s Board of Trustees for the year 2007. She has also served as a facilitator and presenter at the DBA’s Bench Bar Retreat and has been on the executive committee for the Barrister’s Ball, the gala for the benefit of Denver’s Metro Volunteer Lawyers.

In addition to her leadership roles at the DBA, Ms. Collignon participates in a variety of volunteer activities such as the Law Explorers program, through which lawyers meet with high school students to demystify the experience of becoming a lawyer; "Legal Nights at Mi Casa" where she provides legal advice to indigent clients; "Attorney’s Night Out," a fundraiser for The Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People; "Winterfest," a benefit for Denver’s foster children; "Lawsuit Days," an event that collects professional attire for Denver’s homeless community, and various other pro bono matters.

Ms. Collignon also contributes to the community outside of the DBA. She has been heavily involved in starting an Urban Debate League (UDL) in Denver. The UDL is a national education reform movement which seeks to develop debate programs in underprivileged urban schools throughout the nation. As part of her commitment to promoting debate in high school, she has served as a debate coach at East High School.

The Denver Bar Association will hold a reception in Ms. Collignon’s honor this June at the Denver Public Library.

02-15-2007

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Fisher & Phillips LLP

Fisher & Phillips Ranks in Top 10 in Employment Law Surveys
Fisher & Phillips LLP ranked in the Top 10 law firms nationally in separate surveys covering federal employment litigation, federal discrimination lawsuits, and federal wage-hour litigation. Additionally, the firm was ranked in the Top Five for growth in handling discrimination suits and in the Top Five for growth in handling ERISA litigation.

The surveys were conducted by Employment Law 360, a newswire for legal professionals in the employment industry that covers developing stories in litigation, law, and regulation. The survey reviewed the legal work of the 300 largest law firms in the United States.

The survey report includes this information from Fisher & Phillips Chairman Roger K. Quillen: While the firm has had success litigating cases at the trial court and appellate court levels, the firm pursues the solution that best suits the client, rather than always pursuing the most aggressive and expensive litigation strategy.

02-15-2007

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Damon & Morey LLP

Damon & Morey Attorney Virginia C. McEldowney Named As Vice President of the Healthcare Executive Forum of Western New York
Damon & Morey LLP is pleased to announce that Virginia C. McEldowney has been named as Vice President of the Healthcare Executive Forum of Western New York, an independent, non-profit, professional membership organization and affiliate of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Ms. McEldowney is Special Counsel for Damon & Morey where she is a member of the Business and Corporate Department as well as the firm’s Health Care Group. Her practice is focused on the areas of health law, corporate law, information technology, and ERISA/employee health benefits. She represents hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, physicians and other health care providers, insurance brokers, third party administrators, municipal health plans and not-for-profit organizations. She also counsels clients on patient care issues, medical ethics, regulatory compliance, HIPAA privacy and security, information technology issues, network formation and governance, contracting, billing and reimbursement matters, as well as claims appeals.

Prior to joining Damon & Morey, she served as Deputy Counsel for Independent Health Association and Vice President and General Counsel of North AmeriCare.

Ms. McEldowney is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the New York State Bar Association, Bar Association of Erie County, and the Western New York Chapter of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York.

02-15-2007

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Katten Muchin Rosenman Represents Satellite Healthcare, Inc. in Acquisition of Capital Dialysis
"The law firm of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to have served as legal counsel to Satellite Healthcare Inc., a leading researcher and treatment provider in the area of chronic kidney disease, in its recent acquisition of Capital Dialysis of Texas, an Austin-based physician-owned dialysis provider. The transaction closed late last year.

Under the terms of the deal, Satellite acquired all of Capital Dialysis’ assets, including its five existing dialysis centers, which treat approximately 600 end-stage renal disease patients in Austin and the surrounding communities. In addition, Capital Dialysis’ 11 physicians will join Satellite.

John J. Molloy, III, a Los Angeles-based attorney in Katten’s Corporate Practice, served as lead counsel to Satellite in the acquisition. Other Katten attorneys involved in the deal included partners Eric A. Klein and Jon S. Grizel, and associate Caitlin Wheeler, all based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office.

Last year, Katten also served as legal counsel to Satellite in its acquisition of Peninsula Nephrology Inc., a dialysis company based in the San Francisco Bay area.
Katten’s Corporate Practice encompasses mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, public and private debt and equity offerings, institutional lending, securitizations, leveraged leasing, structured finance, start-up and venture capital financing, leveraged buy-outs, joint ventures and other strategic alliances, real estate finance and partnership tender offers and roll-ups."

02-14-2007

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