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Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

CBLH IP Brochure Earns International Recognition in Marketing
On June 27, 2007, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP received an Award of Distinction in The Communicator Awards 2007 Print competition. The Communicator Awards is an international awards competition that recognizes exceptional work in the communication field. Entries were judged by industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talents exceed a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the marketing industry.

As a result of this achievement, CBLH joins an exclusive list of professionals who are recognized as the best within their industries.

CBLH’s winning brochure focuses on IP services. It is multi-functional with a unique design that includes a business card holder, a pocket to hold papers and a very distinctive European exterior design.

06-29-2007

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Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP

Weil Gotshal Leads Corporate Control Alert Top Ten List
In the July 2007 issue of Corporate Control Alert, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP achieved the highly unusual feat of being named as counsel in the top four deals announced in the period between May 16, 2007 and June 10, 2007. Weil Gotshal is acting as counsel to the acquiror in the top two deals and advised the seller in the third and fourth ranked deals. Specifically, Weil Gotshal counseled GS Capital Partners (GSCP) in the $27.5 billion sale of Alltel Corp. to GSCP and TPG Capital. The firm advised Lehman Brothers in the $22.2 billion sale of Archstone-Smith Trust to Lehman Brothers and Tishman Speyer. Weil Gotshal represented GE in the company’s $11.6 billion sale of GE Plastics to Saudi Basic Industries Corporation and the firm counseled Avaya Inc. in its $8.2 billion sale to the Blackstone Group.

06-29-2007

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Paul, Weiss Ranks Sixth in The American Lawyer's 2007 "A-List" of U.S. Law Firms
Paul, Weiss once again was honored by The American Lawyer as a "first-tier law firm," rising to sixth place among Am Law 200 firms nationwide in its 2007 A-List. The list represents a compilation of the nation's top twenty firms based on core professional values including revenue, pro bono scores, associate satisfaction and diversity. The firm is noted as one of only seven firms to have been named to the A-List in each of the five years of its existence.

06-29-2007

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Carlton Fields

Carlton Fields Shareholder Re-Appointed to Chair of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation's Community Relations Council
Carlton Fields Miami Shareholder Steven J. Brodie was recently re-appointed to serve a third term as Chair of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation’s Jewish Community Relations Council. As Chair, he will also serve on the Federation’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

Brodie will help lead the Community Relations Council in its mission of bringing together Jewish community leaders and representatives of Jewish organizations to discuss and take action on a broad range of local, national and international issues, including Israel and the Middle East; anti-Semitism and civil rights and civil liberties. He will also help organize seminars and other programs to keep the community up to date on important issues.

Brodie is a commercial litigator in state and federal courts. His practice includes civil and regulatory litigation and commercial transactions and he has extensive experience in insurance-related litigation, including coverage and defense. He also serves as outside general counsel for several companies. He received his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Miami and his undergraduate degree with high honors from Tulane University.

06-29-2007

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Thompson & Knight LLP

T&K Attorneys Support New Market-Oriented Designation for Chinese Imports
The U.S. Department of Commerce should consider granting individual private Chinese enterprises "market-oriented enterprise" status in antidumping proceedings, according to comments filed with the Commerce Department by attorneys with the international law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP. Applying individual treatment would result in more accurate calculations of dumping margins, thereby providing comfort to foreign investors in China who engage in fair business practices, says Richard Malish, an attorney in Thompson & Knight's New York office and member of the Firm's China Practice.

Last month the Commerce Department requested comments on whether it should consider granting market-economy treatment to individual respondents in U.S. antidumping proceedings involving China and the conditions under which individual Chinese firms should be granted such treatment. Due to China's status as a non-market economy, Commerce currently uses an industry-specific test (the market-oriented industry, or "MOI" test) to determine whether available information in China permits the use of market economy antidumping methodology. No industry in China has been granted MOI status in fifteen years, and the evolution of China's economy has led Commerce Department officials to consider changes to its methodologies. Meanwhile, the current MOI test has prevented some Chinese companies from adequately defending antidumping suits based on individual circumstances.

Thompson & Knight's experience advising on Chinese corporate matters was instrumental in advocating for its client. "It is clear that China's reforms, including the recent Property Rights Law, have had the overall effect of propelling free-market private initiative in China on a company-specific, as opposed to an industry-wide, basis," states Malish. "The majority of Chinese private companies, especially foreign-invested enterprises, operate independent of any Chinese governmental control, and Chinese law provides clear guidelines for the Commerce Department to determine such independence." Furthermore, "the costs incurred by many private companies are generally transparent as many of their components are imported into China from market economies or purchased from other Chinese FIEs."

"If the Commerce Department agrees with our proposed methodology, it would have tremendous benefits for private companies exporting into the U.S. from China."

Thompson & Knight commented on behalf of Cheng Meng Furniture, which processes furniture in China through a Chinese subsidiary. The team was led by Malish, assisted by L. James Berglund II and Michael C. Titens of the Firm's Dallas office. Craig R. Giesze, principal of CRG Consulting Ltd and a former attorney advisor at the Commerce Department, also advised Cheng Meng Furniture.

A copy of the comments is available upon request.

06-29-2007

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Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, L.L.P.

Orco in Quadruple-Listed Share Offering
Cleary Gottlieb advised Citigroup Global Markets Limited as underwriter in the €172.5 million Regulation S offering of new shares by Orco Property Group, which closed on June 18. Orco listed the shares on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the Budapest Stock Exchange, in addition to its existing listings on Eurolist by Euronext Paris and the Prague Stock Exchange. Orco is the only company to be listed on each of these exchanges.

Orco Property Group, a Luxembourg company, is a leading investor, developer, and asset manager in the Central European real estate market. Its property portfolio has been valued by an independent appraiser at €1.3 billion, including over 40% in the Czech Republic, 20% in Germany and about 10% each in Poland and Croatia. The company develops and invests in residential and commercial properties, and also manages The Endurance Real Estate Fund for Central Europe, which invests in residential, office, retail and hospitality properties in Central and Eastern Europe.

06-28-2007

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Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, L.L.P.

Crédit Agricole S.A. in Simultaneous $1.5 Billion and $3.25 Billion Offerings
Cleary Gottlieb represented Crédit Agricole S.A. in a $1.5 billion Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of deeply subordinated notes constituting Tier 1 capital, as well as in a simultaneous $3.25 billion Rule 144A/Reg. S offering in two tranches of senior unsecured floating rate notes. Calyon Securities (USA) Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated acted as joint book-running managers for both offerings. The offerings closed on May 31.

Tier 1 transactions involve issuing securities with debt-like features, which are counted as core capital under regulations requiring banks to maintain minimum capital levels as a percentage of their risk-adjusted assets.

Crédit Agricole is the lead bank of the Crédit Agricole Group, France’s largest banking group and one of the largest in the world. The offerings are Crédit Agricole’s first issuance of medium- and long-term debt in the U.S. markets.

06-28-2007

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