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Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP

Weil Gotshal Involved in Landmark Case Concerning Same-Sex Partnerships
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, on behalf of the New York City Bar Association's Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives, provided pro bono counsel in an important case that could impact same-sex partnership rights across the globe. The firm drafted an amicus brief for submission to the Constitutional Court of Colombia that demonstrated that since 1996, courts and human rights bodies throughout the world have struck down measures that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in the provision of economic benefits.

This week, the Constitutional Court ruled that same-sex couples are entitled to register their domestic partnerships and receive certain economic benefits on equal terms with opposite-sex couples. The decision overturned a 1990 law establishing domestic partnership benefits but limiting such benefits to opposite-sex couples by defining a "partnership" as existing only between a man and a woman.

The Weil Gotshal team working on this matter consisted of Carrie Davenport and Caryn Lederer.

02-09-2007

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Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

Paul Hastings Advises HSBC and Deutsche Bank in Yen 40 billion Passenger Ticket Receivables Securitisation
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, has represented HSBC as a joint arranger and Deutsche Bank as trustee and transaction administrator in a ¥40 billion (US$331 million) passenger ticket receivables securitisation for Korean Air Lines ("KAL").

The transaction, which closed on 1 February, is backed by Yen receivables arising from the sale in Japan of airline tickets by KAL on their routes between Japan and Korea. The floating rate Notes issued by KAL Japan ABS 3 Cayman Limited are supported by a credit facility from The Korea Development Bank.

Neil Campbell, partner and co-head of Paul Hastings' Asian securitisation practice commented, "We are very pleased to have advised on a third future flow securitisation for KAL. We had to adapt the structures that we used in KAL's 2003 and 2005 securitisation deals but still completed the transaction in under four months."

A team of English and Japanese qualified lawyers from Paul Hastings securitisation groups in the Hong Kong and Tokyo offices worked on the deal. The team, led by Neil Campbell, included partners Nori Hashimoto and Alex Regan and associates Junji Shiraki, Michelle Shek, Heidi Pang and Frankie Tong.

02-09-2007

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O'Melveny & Myers, LLP

Culvahouse Writes on "A Capital Idea For Preserving Markets' Edge"
O'Melveny partner and chair A.B. Culvahouse, Jr. co-authored the article "A Capital Idea For Preserving Markets' Edge" with William Daley, chairman of the Midwest for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. They are co-chairs of the Commission on the Regulation of U.S. Capital Markets in the 21st Century, an independent, high-level, bipartisan commission organized to consider the appropriate legal and regulatory framework for the U.S. capital markets in the 21st century.

The article, published in Investor's Business Daily, looks at the three significant challenges facing U.S. capital markets, including

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How do we ensure that we have the most efficient capital markets in the world?
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How do we keep the cost of capital low?
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How do we make certain that our legal and regulatory frameworks governing capital markets protect investors without choking investment?

02-09-2007

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Jennifer Zucker to Become Managing Attorney for Texas Attorney General's Office
Jennifer Zucker, former senior associate in the Family Law section, has left Fulbright to become the Managing Attorney for the Texas City branch of the Attorney General Child Support Division.

02-09-2007

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Fulbright Serves as Bond Counsel for Nebraska Power Upgrade
Fulbright is bond counsel on an upcoming issue of $94 million in taxable auction-rate revenue bonds from Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD). The bonds will be used to fund upgrades to the Cooper Nuclear Station. James Marlin, partner in the Fulbright New York office, is handling the transaction.

The deal reflects a trend among municipal power agencies in the Midwest that are issuing bonds to improve their outdated infrastructure and to meet growing demand for electricity. NPPD plans to issue the bonds on February 20, 2007.

The Fulbright public finance practice was ranked among the nation’s top bond counsel, underwriter counsel and disclosure counsel in Thomson Financial’s recently released rankings for 2006. Fulbright regularly handles more than $15 billion a year in infrastructure financing.

Fitch Ratings assigned its A-plus rating to the upcoming NPPD sale and affirmed the A-plus rating on $1.4 billion of outstanding general revenue bonds. Moody's and Standard & Poor's affirmed their ratings on the NPPD debt at A1 and A, respectively.

02-09-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie LLP Named TMT Team of the Year in Legal Business Awards 2007
Lawyers at Baker & McKenzie LLP have been named as TMT Team of the Year in the prestigious Legal Business Awards 2007.

Legal Business selected the team based on its work, which was judged to demonstrate a high degree of quality, energy and client commitment.

Reference was made to the team's work for Accenture, and Mobile Network Operator consortium of 02, Orange, Vodafone and T-Mobile.

Baker & McKenzie LLP was also short-listed in the Private Client Team of the Year category.

02-09-2007

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Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P.

Resnick Speaks at D.C. Roundtable
New York partner Lauren Resnick spoke at a roundtable session in Washington, D.C., on January 10, 2007. The roundtable, sponsored by DOAR Litigation and Anne Kersh & Associates, both of which are litigation consulting groups, was organized to inform in-house counsel of the implications of the Proposed Evidence Rule 502 which is in a public comment period.

The event was well attended with representatives from the Association of Corporate Counsel, Lawyers for Civil Justice, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ron Tempas of the DOJ (who oversees white collar investigations for the DOJ), along with in-house lawyers from many of the firm’s clients, including Exxon, Boeing, and Sprint.

02-09-2007

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