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Shearman & Sterling LLP

Infogrames Entertainment's Exchange Tender Offer
Shearman & Sterling represented Infogrames Entertainment in its exchange tender offer for OCEANE (bonds convertible and/or exchangeable into new or existing shares) launched in February 2007. This offer is the last step of Infogrames's debt restructuring plan, which also included in particular a capital increase with preferential subscription rights and a free allocation of warrants reserved to existing shareholders and some funds carried out in December 2006.

Attorneys included partners Hervé Letréguilly (PA-CM/MA) and Manuel A. Orillac (PA- PDF/CM) and associate Laurent Beauvoit (PA-CM).

02-14-2007

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McDermott Will & Emery

Southern California Super Lawyers Named
McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that a number of its Los Angeles and Orange County partners have been named Southern California Super Lawyers by Law & Politics. Super Lawyers identified the top five percent of the lawyers in Southern California based on a survey and research conducted by Law & Politics. The McDermott partners named Southern California Super Lawyers are as follows:

Timothy P. Blanchard (Los Angeles) - Health Care
Richard J. Frey (Los Angeles) – Employment & Labor
Donald A. Goldman (Los Angeles) - Health Care
David Gould (Los Angeles) - Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Gordon A. Greenberg (Los Angeles) - Criminal Defense: White Collar
Russell Hayman (Los Angeles) - Criminal Defense: White Collar
Phyllis Kupferstein (Los Angeles) – Employment & Labor
Eric N. Landau (Orange County) – Securities Litigation
Jonathan C. Lurie (Los Angeles) - Estate Planning/Trusts
Robert P. Mallory (Los Angeles) - Antitrust Litigation
Douglas M. Mancino (Los Angeles) - Health Care
Fay E. Morisseau (Orange County) – Intellectual Property Law
Terese A. Mosher Beluris (Los Angeles) – Health Care
James L. Sanders (Los Angeles) – Securities Litigation
Allan L. Schare (Los Angeles) – Business Litigation

The 2007 Super Lawyers is based on a survey of more than 47,000 lawyers across the region. The lawyers were selected from the top five percent of Southern California attorneys in more than 60 practice areas.

Law & Politics performs the polling, research and selection of Super Lawyers in a process designed to identify lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers is a comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys, representing a wide range of practice areas, firm sizes and geographic locations.

02-14-2007

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Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P.

Levy Receives Volunteer of the Year Award
Jones Walker partner, Debra M. Levy, received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Galleria Chamber of Commerce. Levy is currently a member of the Galleria's Board of Directors, and a former member of their Executive Committee. The Galleria Chamber of Commerce is a dynamic business alliance serving the business and cultural interests of the Houston area and has over 750 members.

02-14-2007

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Jenner & Block LLP

Resnick Elected as Member of Chicago Central Area Committee
Jenner & Block Partner Donald I. Resnick was recently elected as a member of the Chicago Central Area Committee, a group of prominent business leaders and professionals that work to promote the interest of business and institutions located in the central core of Chicago.

Through initiating the necessary research and studies, the group helps to develop sound long-range planning for the Central Area of Chicago and considers the effects and potential problems upon the Area due to new developments, plans and proposals involving other portions of the Chicago Region.

Mr. Resnick, the Chair of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice and Co-Chair of the Firm's Real Estate Securities Practice, represents clients in connection with all types of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, joint ventures and like-kind exchanges involving office buildings, multi-family apartment projects, retail projects, hotels and industrial facilities.

02-14-2007

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Jenner & Block LLP

Steege Comments on Creditors' Concerns in Delta Air Lines Bankruptcy
In an article published this December in the Daily Report, Jenner & Block Partner Catherine L. Steege discussed the factors influencing the members of a creditors’ committee as it helped determined the fate of Delta Air Lines, which is currently reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

In a follow up article last week, the Daily Report revealed that US Airways has dropped its hostile bid for Delta after its creditors’ committee threw its support behind Delta’s plan to emerge from bankruptcy on its own. According to the report, the committee approved the terms of the $2.5 billion in financing that Delta has secured to emerge from bankruptcy protection.

Ms. Steege, who has represented retiree committees in several airline bankruptcies, had told the Daily Report in December that creditors’ committees adopt their own bylaws to govern their proceedings and voting procedures. The result of this vote determines what recommendation a committee will make to the class of general unsecured creditors.

In the article, Ms. Steege had said that while Delta’s committee would consider the overall viability of the plans submitted by Delta management and US Airways, the specific interests of individual creditors would potentially influence their votes.

For example, she noted, retirees would want to know whether the reorganized entity would continue to pay the benefits they are entitled to receive. After its second bankruptcy, US Airways terminated its benefits for retirees, while Delta had said it would continue to pay retiree benefits on a reduced basis, Ms. Steege told the Daily Report.

Ms. Steege indicated that Delta’s suppliers were also likely to be concerned with how they would be affected in the event of a merger, and whether their contracts would be renewed or supplanted by US Airways’ suppliers, said the article.

Ms. Steege, a member of the Firm’s Bankruptcy, Workout and Corporate Reorganization Practice and Chair of the Firm’s Finance Committee, currently represents the Section 1114 Committee of Retirees in the Northwest Airlines Chapter 11 case.

Ms. Steege also represented the Section 1114 Salaried and Management Retiree Committee in United Airlines' Chapter 11 proceedings.

02-14-2007

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Hogan & Hartson LLP

Hogan & Hartson Represents Cytyc Corporation in Acquisition of Adeza Biomedical Corporation
Lawyers with Hogan & Hartson LLP are representing Cytyc Corporation (NASDAQ: CYTC), a leading provider of surgical and diagnostic products targeting women's health and cancer diagnostics, in its acquisition of Adeza Biomedical Corporation (NASDAQ: ADZA). Adeza manufactures and markets innovative products for women's health.

The acquisition will be conducted by means of a tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Adeza. Completion of the tender offer is expected before the end of March 2007, subject to customary closing conditions. The purchase price is $24 per share, or approximately $452 million for all of the outstanding equity interests.

The Hogan & Hartson team was led by Washington, D.C. partners Joseph E. Gilligan and Joseph G. Connolly, Jr., with assistance from associates Eun Ah Choi, Brian O'Fahey, and Kyle McNamara, also from the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

Other members of the firm’s interdisciplinary team working on the acquisition included Jonathan Kahan and Jeff Shapiro (food, drug, medical device, and agriculture); Liz Dunst and Stuart Langbein (health care regulatory); Scott Reisch and Jenny McClister (environmental); Bill Neff and Carin Carithers (employee benefits); Michele Harrington, Leigh Oliver, and Mariabruna Fimognari (antitrust); Celine Crowson and Tom Edman (intellectual property); Susan Cook (litigation); Ben Hammond and Rette Lopp (lending); and Dan Davidson (tax).

02-14-2007

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Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Chadbourne Represented Golden Telecom in Purchase of 65% of Fortland Limited
Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented Golden Telecom, Inc., a leading facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, in the acquisition of a 65% interest in Fortland Limited.

The purchase price of the acquisition is approximately $51 million, with the first installment of $38.6 million to be paid by April 5, 2007. The deal closed on February 8.

Fortland owns 100% of Kolangon-Optim LLC, which holds licenses to offer digital television services in several of the largest cities of Russia and is expected to target other major Russian cities. These licenses will be used by the Company to provide customers with various services, including a greater number of digital television channels, higher quality picture and access to pay-per-view programming, all using the Digital Video Broadcast ("DVB") standard in MPEG-4 coding.

Working for Chadbourne on the deal were Moscow partners Laura Brank and Konstantin Konstantinov and New York partner William Greason.

02-14-2007

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