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Mayer Brown LLP

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw advises Nationwide on 133.6 million Euros financing for London & Capital's acquisition of a real estate portfolio from Provinzial
International law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP has advised Nationwide Building Society on its provision of loans totalling 133.6 million Euros to multi-asset investment manager London & Capital as part of the financing for its purchase of a portfolio of commercial property from Provinzial-Versicherung, a state-owned German Insurance company. The total acquisition value of the portfolio is over US$210 million.

This loan contributes to Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's expanding and recognised expertise in pan-European commercial real estate financings and demonstrates how the firm is able to provide its domestic and international financial institution client base with seamless international expertise, in this case, in Germany.

The Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw team advising Nationwide on this transaction was led by London finance partner Nigel White assisted in London by Abigail Hooks and in Germany by real estate partner Jörg Lang with finance specialist Dirk-Peter Flor assisted by real estate associates Matthias J. Meckert and Gorana Tokic Herrmann.

11-30-2006

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Lane Powell PC

Lane Powell President Passes Torch to Horowitz, Riley Elected Vice President
Lane Powell's President, Mark Rossi, recently announced his move from Firm President to Firm client. Effective at the end of 2006, Rossi, who has focused his practice on banking and creditor rights, will move to Honolulu to become a Vice Chairman of the Bank of Hawaii, Lane Powell's newest client.

11-30-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding Helps Earn Complete Defense Verdict for Welding Rod Manufacturers in Product Liability Case
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that it has earned a significant victory for current and former welding rod manufacturers Lincoln Electric, Hobart Brothers, Union Carbide, Praxair and ESAB Group in a case in which the plaintiff alleged injury from welding rod fumes. After less than three hours of deliberation, the jury in Galveston, Texas returned a complete defense verdict for King & Spalding's clients, finding that the plaintiff had not sustained an injury from exposure to welding rod fumes.

This is another in a string of important victories for these and other current and former welding rod manufacturers. The manufacturers have been very successful in defending these cases and have won all but one of them to go to trial so far. Additionally, many other cases have been dismissed.

King & Spalding represents the same group of clients in similar litigation pending in Georgia, and the firm was part of the trial team that successful defended clients in a similar trial in Texas in 2005.

The King & Spalding team that successfully represented the defendants in this case included the following lawyers in the firm's Houston office:

Bruce Hurley, Partner
Reagan Simpson, Partner
Tracey Robertson, Counsel
Chris Garza, Associate
Ben Pollock, Associate
Sarah Clark, Legal Assistant

King & Spalding opened its Houston office in 1995 with three litigation attorneys; today the office has grown to more than 100 attorneys focusing on a diverse array of litigation and transactional law.

11-30-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding Advises Total System Services on Joint Venture with Merchants Group Limited
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, advised Total System Services in its joint-venture agreement with The Merchants Group Limited, a subsidiary of Dimension Data Holdings PLC, to deliver a comprehensive range of managed services to financial institutions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Both parties to the joint venture are leaders in the field of credit card processing services in Europe.

The new venture will be called TSYS Managed Services EMEA, and will combine the call-center capabilities of Merchants with TSYS' special business unit known as TSYS Managed Services, both of which specialize in customer-servicing operations, including back-office, cross-selling and up-selling activities for financial institutions engaged in card issuing and merchant acquiring.

The lead partners on the King & Spalding team representing Total System Services are the following:

Kevin Conway, Partner (London)
John Keffer, Partner (London)
Other members of King & Spalding’s TSYS team include the following:

Sam Moore, Associate (London)
Mark Robinson, Associate (London)
Pulina Whitaker, Associate (London)
Paul White, Associate (London)
Marcus Young, Associate (London)

11-30-2006

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King & Spalding

King & Spalding Establishes International Arbitration Capability In Washington, D.C. With Addition of Consultant Margrete Stevens
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today the expansion in Washington, D.C., of its highly regarded international arbitration practice with the planned arrival early next year of consultant Margrete Stevens, who will step down at year's end as acting lead counsel of the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Stevens brings to the firm's Washington office the new capability of investment-treaty arbitration, which rounds out the firm's existing international arbitration practice in Atlanta, Houston, London and New York.

"We are very excited to welcome Margrete to King & Spalding and look forward to the contributions she will make to the continued expansion of our arbitration group," said R. Doak Bishop, the leader of King & Spalding's international arbitration practice. "Our clients increasingly are turning to ICSID for the resolution of international disputes, and Margrete's 17 years of unsurpassed experience at this important arbitral body will add greatly to our ability to help them address the legal challenges they face around the world."

Stevens, who announced her resignation earlier this month as senior counsel and acting lead counsel of ICSID, managed the organization's 25-member legal and support staff and supervised its rapidly expanding caseload, which now consists of cases under the ICSID Convention, the ICSID Additional Facility Rules, Chapter 11 of NAFTA and the European Energy Charter Treaty. The work of the Centre involves screening and registration of new requests, appointment of tribunals, case administration and rendering of decisions and awards. In addition, Stevens advised the ICSID Secretary-General on procedural challenges and other issues.

Stevens earned an LL.M. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Cand. Jur. degree from the University of Copenhagen.

"I am very happy to be joining King & Spalding's well-respected international arbitration practice and helping expand the capabilities the firm is providing to clients around the world," Stevens said.

King & Spalding has one of the leading international arbitration practices in the world, specializing in oil, gas and energy disputes, foreign investment disputes involving governments and disputes involving Latin American projects. The firm's lawyers are highly experienced in handling international arbitrations for clients in every major forum-ICSID, ICC, LCIA, AAA and UNCITRAL-and across a wide range of industries including energy, construction, utilities, telecommunications, technology, data processing, insurance and water services. In the second-largest ICSID arbitration award ever granted, King & Spalding in August 2006 obtained $185 million against the government of Argentina.

11-30-2006

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Hodgson Russ LLP

Hodgson Russ partner Robert N. Gottfried faculty speaker at New York City Bar CLE program
Robert N. Gottfried, a partner in Hodgson Russ LLP’s Immigration Practice Group, was a faculty speaker at “Employment and immigration law: Overlaps, conflicts, and intersections,” a New York City Bar Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program.

The CLE focused on the intersection of immigration and employment law, and Mr. Gottfried’s section was called “Representing companies that hire immigrant workers.” He gave an overview of the laws and regulations controlling the hiring and firing of foreign nationals and discussed how attorneys should advise corporate clients regarding H1B visas.

Mr. Gottfried has 29 years of immigration law experience in the New York City area. His clients are individuals and corporations, including an international airline and numerous area hospitals. Mr. Gottfried also represents United Nations employees and the diplomatic community in U.S. immigration cases. Mr. Gottfried obtains work visas, permanent resident status, and U.S. citizenship for his clients. Mr. Gottfried has obtained permanent residence for world-famous artists, photographers, athletes, scientists, and authors based on their extraordinary ability in their chosen profession.

11-30-2006

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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, L.L.P.

Fried Frank Represents Tishman Speyer in Largest American Real Estate Deal Ever
Fried Frank represented Tishman Speyer Properties and its partner, BlackRock Inc., in their $5.4 billion agreement to purchase Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, adjacent apartment complexes on 80 acres along the East River in New York City comprising 110 buildings and over 11,000 apartments. This deal is being noted as the largest American real estate deal ever. Tishman Speyer controls some of New York City's most notable buildings, such as Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building. The deal announcement culminated months of speculation about how high the price would go for the iconic Manhattan complex.

11-30-2006

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