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Perkins Coie LLP

Perkins Coie Continues its Expansion in California With the Addition of Three New Partners
Perkins Coie announced that partners Arthur Kolios and James Cowan have joined its Energy and Finance groups. Kolios will practice in Perkins Coie's Seattle office. Cowan will practice in the firm's San Francisco office. In addition, the firm is equally pleased to welcome Harold DeGraff, who joins the firm from Greenberg Traurig as a partner in its national Business practice. DeGraff will practice in Perkins Coie's Menlo Park office.

Kolios' practice focuses on the development, acquisition and financing of public-private partnerships, energy projects and infrastructure projects. He has extensive experience structuring and negotiating project development agreements, construction agreements, product off-take and supply arrangements, operating, management and maintenance contracts, and other project development arrangements. In addition, he regularly negotiates and advises clients on financing arrangements customarily required for such projects.

Cowan's practice focuses primarily on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on the infrastructure and energy sectors. He represents borrowers, project sponsors, and other parties in a variety of transactions including project finance, commercial lending, and public and private equity offerings. In Cowan's mergers and acquisitions practice, he represents both acquirers and targets in mergers and stock and asset acquisitions.

"We are always searching for opportunities to add talent so that we can better serve our clients," said Jay Rossiter, San Francisco office managing partner. "Arthur's and James' combined experience with business clients, particularly in the public-private partnership, infrastructure and energy sectors, presents that type of opportunity. We are delighted that they have decided to join us."

Kolios earned his law degree from New York University School of Law, and his undergraduate degree from Amherst College. Cowan earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, his graduate degree from Oxford University, and his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Harvard University. They joined Perkins from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner.

DeGraff's practice includes representing private and public companies on a wide range of matters, including the formation and financing of start-up companies, the counseling of public companies on disclosure and governance issues (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance), mergers and acquisitions, and private and public financings. He also represents private equity funds in a variety of matters including strategic transactions, portfolio company investments and recapitalizations.

"We are thrilled to have Harold on board," said Ed Wes, Menlo Park managing partner. "The strategic growth of our California practices through the addition of high-caliber lawyers will further enhance the legal services we can provide our clients."

DeGraff received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He received his M.S. from Stanford University and his B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

07-10-2007

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Perkins Coie LLP

Perkins Coie Names Nancy Williams Seattle Office Managing Partner
Perkins Coie announced that its Executive Committee has appointed Nancy Williams to the new position of Seattle office managing partner. She will also succeed Graham Fernald as personnel partner. Fernald recently retired after 45 years of service with the firm.

Williams joined the firm in 1981 and has served in numerous leadership positions, including on the firm's Executive Committee, Partner Compensation Committee, and Personnel Committee and as head of the Seattle Labor practice. A partner in the firm's national Labor & Employment practice, she has been representing companies in labor and employment law for more than 25 years. She counsels employers and represents them in litigation on equal employment opportunity, discipline and discharge, and a wide variety of other employment issues.

"Nancy is a talented lawyer and a natural leader," said Bob Giles, firmwide managing partner. "We are confident that she will do well in managing these two new roles while maintaining an active practice. We also want to thank Graham for his many years of service. For the past 20 years, he has played an integral role in the management of the firm."

Williams is an active member in the American Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association, especially in the labor and litigation areas. She is also just starting a term as Central District trustee for the King County Bar Association (KCBA), and she just completed a term as Chair of the KCBA Labor & Employment Law Section.

"I have always appreciated the many opportunities I have had to grow my career at Perkins Coie," said Williams. "I look forward to playing a vital role in the ongoing growth of the firm, particularly in Seattle."

07-10-2007

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Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar P.A.

Tom Lewis, Pennington Special Consultant, Receives Florida Architects Top Government Honor
Tom Lewis, Special Consultant for the Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar law firm, was awarded the Charles W. Clary Government Service Award by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The award will be presented at the 2007 AIA Florida Annual Convention that is being held in Orlando, Florida on July 14, 2007.

The AIA Florida Design and Honor Awards Program is Florida’s most prestigious award program for the architectural profession. The Charles W. Clary Service Award, named in honor of Senator Charles W. Clary, FAIA, of Destin, a member of the Florida Senate, is given to an AIA Florida architect who has advanced the cause of good design and planning and contributed to the dignity and value of the architectural profession as an elected, appointed or employed government official.

07-10-2007

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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C.

Mintz Levin Attorney Eddie Rodriguez Named Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmaker
Eddie Rodriguez, a Member in Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.'s San Diego office, has been named to Lawdragon's "500 Leading Dealmakers in America" list. According to Lawdragon, the 500 Leading Dealmakers in America list features the nation's top mergers and acquisitions, corporate and real estate dealmakers in the United States who have had the greatest recent impact on the legal world, representing less than one-half of one percent of the legal profession and placing them among the most elite group of legal professionals.

More than 5,000 attorneys were nominated for the Leading Dealmakers list by their peers and by the Lawdragon editorial staff. The Lawdragon 500 list highlights the practitioners that general counsel want on their side of the negotiating table. Selection for the list was based upon extensive research by a staff of award-winning journalists who interviewed thousands of lawyers nationwide, a survey of lawyers and general counsel who nominated and voted for their peers online, and a review of practice accomplishments.

Mr. Rodriguez is a member in the firm's San Diego office, practicing in the Business and Finance Section. His practice focuses on a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, venture financing, technology licensing, and general business counseling. He has extensive experience with counseling public and private companies in the life science, telecommunications, software, hardware, e-commerce and information technology industries in a broad range of transactional matters. Mr. Rodriguez has represented clients in more than 200 mergers and acquisition transactions, investors and private companies in numerous private equity financings valued in excess of $200 million, and clients in numerous securities offerings. He was recently selected for the 2007 list of San Diego Super Lawyers. In 2006, he was included in Lawdragon's Lawdragon 500 New Stars, New Worlds, a guide that recognizes "the freshest faces in American law," and The Daily Transcript's "Transcript Ten," a list of San Diego's top attorneys across all practice areas. He was also named to The Daily Transcript's "Top Influential People" in San Diego in 2006.

He received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. He was the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law and the articles editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.

07-10-2007

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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C.

Mintz Levin Advises SpectraSensors, Inc. in Completion of $14 Million C-Round Investment
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that it represented SpectraSensors, Inc., a leading manufacturer of optically based gas analyzers and moisture analyzers, in its completion of a $14 million C-round investment. Lead investor Nomura International, one of the world's largest investment banking and securities firms, was joined by SpectraSensors' three earlier investors, American River Ventures, Blueprint Ventures and Nth Power Corporation, as well as new investor Chevron Technology Ventures in the transaction.

The Mintz Levin team was led by Carl A. Kukkonen, III, SpectraSensors' former in-house counsel who is now a Member specializing in intellectual property law in the firm's San Diego office. Jeremy Hayden and Evelyn Lee, attorneys practicing in the Corporate Section of the San Diego office, also played key roles in the transaction.

Since 2006, Mintz Levin's Energy and Clean Technology Practice has completed more than 25 mergers & acquisitions, venture capital financings and public offerings with a combined value of nearly half a billion dollars. A representative list of these transactions includes:

* Represented EnerNoc, Inc., a leading provider of technology-enabled total energy management solutions, in a $100 million IPO.
* Represented a syndicate consisting of General Catalyst Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, VantagePoint Venture Partners and Atlas Venture Partners in the $30 million Series B financing of Mascoma Corporation, a leader in cellulosic biomass-to-ethanol development and production.
* Represented CoalTek, Inc., a clean coal technology company, in its Series C financing totaling $33 million.
* Represented EnerNOC, Inc. in its acquisition of Celerity Energy Partners.
* Represented New Energy Capital in a $30 million financing by VantagePoint Venture Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
* Represented FutureFuel Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company ("SPAC"), in its listing on AIM, a market of the London Stock Exchange plc. The transaction was underwritten by CRT Capital LLC.

07-10-2007

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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo P.C.

Mintz Levin Continues Growth of Public Finance Practice with IRS Enforcement Expert Jeremy A. Spector
Jerry Spector, a nationally recognized expert in public finance tax law and a former Partner with Blank Rome LLP, has joined the New York office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. as a Member in the firm's Public Finance Section.

Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Mr. Spector was the head of Blank Rome's public finance tax law practice. In addition to his general expertise in the federal tax laws related to tax exempt bonds, Mr. Spector has a particular expertise in counseling issuers, borrowers, bondholders, bond trustees, underwriters and bond counsel before the IRS concerning audits, enforcement actions and voluntary compliance agreements. He advises clients on a range of tax issues in public finance transactions, including derivative products and ruling requests in all sectors including infrastructure finance, housing, industrial development and healthcare. His clients have included state and local governments, agencies and authorities, non-profit corporations, institutional investors, service providers, bond trustees and underwriters.

Mintz Levin's public finance practice is nationally recognized for its quality, breadth and high commitment to client service. The practice, made up of more than 20 professionals in the firm's Boston, New York and Washington offices, represents bond issuers, underwriters, institutional investors, borrowers, trustees and credit enhancers in various industries including health care, senior housing, manufacturing, museums, hotels, airlines and human service providers across the country. For 2006, The Bond Buyer ranked Mintz Levin fifth among bond counsel in the Northeast Region, with a total dollar volume of $4.359 billion. The practice has been involved in numerous high profile transactions including the New York City Industrial Development Agency's sale of $967 million in bonds for a new stadium for the Yankees - a deal recognized by The Bond Buyer as "Deal of the Year".

"Mintz Levin has established an outstanding reputation for handling complex and innovative public finance transactions, both in New York and nationally," said Richard H. Moche, Manager of the Public Finance section. "Jerry's experience in helping clients navigate the intricate IRS process for an audit of tax exempt bonds and his ability to efficiently develop strategies for concluding the audit in a way that meets the client's needs, will be particularly helpful. Combining Jerry's expertise with our colleague Mike Solet's years of experience and familiarity with the IRS will allow us to offer an even greater breadth and depth of services to clients, most particularly in the areas of enforcement and compliance."

Over the course of his career, Mr. Spector has handled more than 2,500 transactions with an aggregate dollar volume greater than $75 billion. These include representation of: an issuer in an IRS audit of pool bonds, financially distressed states and cities in the federal tax aspects of billions of dollars of tax-exempt working capital financings, as well as state issuers on the federal tax aspects of tax-exempt financings for first-time homebuyers and developers of residential rental projects.

Mr. Spector presently serves as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Tax Exempt Financing Committee (2007-2009) after completing a three-year term on the faculty of the National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) Bond Attorneys' Workshop. Because of his extensive involvement in NABL and the ABA, Mr. Spector regularly submits comments to the IRS on proposed regulations involving tax exempt bonds. In 2006 he was elected as a Regular Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He is a frequent lecturer and has authored numerous articles on public finance tax law.

Mr. Spector holds a Masters of Law degree in taxation from New York School of Law, a law degree from the University of Miami School of Law, and a Master of Business Adminstration degree in accounting and finance from New York University Graduate School of Business. He graduated cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in politics. He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania and maintains his accreditation as a Certified Public Accountant.

07-10-2007

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LeClairRyan

LeClair Ryan Opens Boston Office
"To support its client-driven business strategy, the law firm of LeClair Ryan has established an office in Boston, extending its reach regionally from the mid-Atlantic through the Northeast. Recognizing an excellent synergistic opportunity, the firm will be adding ten highly rated and respected Boston partners to practice from the new office. These attorneys include Kevin Kenneally, who will serve as Office Leader, and:

Jeffrey L. Alitz
Paul G. Boylan
Michael P. Giunta
Jay S. Gregory
A. Neil Hartzell
Warren D. Hutchison
Janet Barringer Pezzulich
Christopher J. Supple
Michael B. Weinberg

The office, which will initially be located at 2 International Place, officially opens July 23.

“This represents an excellent opportunity for our clients to have a much greater depth of representation in a significant financial market,” said Chairman Gary D. LeClair. “The addition of the Boston office and its exceptionally talented attorneys and staff will build upon our corporate law and nationally established litigation team and provide our clients with access to a greater breadth of services in construction litigation, professional defense, products liability and financial services.”"

07-10-2007

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