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Piper Rudnick, L.L.P.

DLA Piper hires financial law expert Koen Vanderheyden
DLA Piper is pleased to announce the appointment of leading financial law expert, Koen Vanderheyden, as a partner in its Finance & Projects Group.

Koen has an established reputation for advising a range of domestic and foreign organisations on legal and regulatory issues related to the provision of financial services. This includes financial and non-financial institutions, companies and public authorities. He advised the Romanian Central Bank and the Russian supervisory authority with the writing of financial legislation; including the reform, the creation and implementation of central payments, stock dispatching systems and of the capital market infrastructure. Koen will complement the existing skills of the team in Brussels led by partner Yves Brosen, which focuses on transactional matters.

Koen said: "It is extremely important that clients in Belgium have access to strong legal advisers with local knowledge and at DLA Piper each office around the world is built upon the reputation and local knowledge of its lawyers. The combination of DLA Piper's global footprint and its range of legal services means it is able to serve the needs of both local and international clients."

Yves Tavernier, Regional Managing Partner Belgium said: "I am delighted Koen chose to join our team. His arrival is a vote of confidence in our strategy of developing strong expertise across a wide range of legal disciplines. Koen will enable us to build one of the leading finance law practices in Belgium. His skills will complement the existing team and I look forward working with him."

06-28-2007

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Lewis and Roca LLP

Lewis and Roca LLP Partners With Beckley Singleton To Become One of the Largest Law Firms in Nevada
Lewis and Roca LLP, a 170-lawyer firm with offices in Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico, is pleased to announce the expansion of its existing practice in the Las Vegas and Reno metro areas.

Lewis and Roca LLP is joining with the lawyers of Beckley Singleton, one of the oldest law firms in the State. The 34-lawyer firm has extensive capabilities in both business law and litigation. Together, the enlarged firm will enhance its established services to its regional and national clients with business needs in Nevada, and to better serve Nevada-based clients.

As of August 1, 2007, the combined entity will begin doing business in Nevada under the name of Lewis and Roca LLP. The Nevada firm presence will include 57 attorneys and one principal, making it one of the largest attorney firms in the State as measured by Nevada business publications (number of local attorneys).

The fifteen shareholders of Beckley Singleton will join Lewis and Roca as partners. Two attorneys will join as Of Counsel, with the remaining seventeen attorneys joining the firm as associates.

“Lewis and Roca is pleased to join forces with the members of Beckley Singleton,” said Ken Van Winkle, Jr., managing partner of Lewis and Roca LLP. “This union both complements and expands the services we offer our clients throughout the markets in which we practice.”

Tom Ryan, a Lewis and Roca LLP partner and Chair of the Nevada offices added, “This partnership has so many benefits. In addition to increasing the depth and breadth of our resources in a variety of practice areas, it will strengthen our ability to service our clients' needs. The partnership will also solidify Lewis and Roca's commitment to the State of Nevada and the Southwest. Most importantly, it will bring to our firm additional talented lawyers of ability and dedication.”

According to Lawrence Epstein, managing partner of Beckley Singleton, “We have tremendous respect for the lawyers of Lewis and Roca LLP, and their presence in the Southwest. Our clients and the business community will benefit from the expanded scope and depth of services we can offer, both in Nevada and elsewhere.”

06-28-2007

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

Foster Named a Young Leadership Council 2007 Role Model
The law firm of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre, L.L.P. is pleased to announce that partner Janice Martin Foster has been named a 2007 Role Model by the Young Leadership Council (YLC) of New Orleans.

The YLC’s 2007 Role Models were selected by a committee of past Role Model award winners and YLC board members. The 2007 Role Model honorees will be presented at the 21st Annual Role Model Gala on Saturday, August 11, 2007, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.

Ms. Foster was named a 2007 Role Model along with 24 other outstanding community leaders. According to the YLC, Role Models are selected on the basis of “promoting a positive attitude and an unyielding desire to enhance our quality of life, striving to unite our community in collaborative efforts for its future prosperity, serving as an exemplary role model to young people of the community, taking an effective and vigorous leadership role in the community, and making significant contributions in their specific fields of endeavor.”

06-28-2007

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Jones Day, P.C.

Jones Day Obtains Summary Judgment for Nestle Holdings, Inc. in Putative Class Action
Robert Faxon, Jeff Saks, and Andrew Fiorella recently obtained summary judgment for Nestle Holdings, Inc. in a putative class action brought by a shareholder who claimed he and all book entry shareholders were entitled to interest on merger consideration from Nestle's December 2001 merger with Ralston Purina. On May 15, 2007, the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas issued an order granting Nestle's motion for summary judgment on all of plaintiffs' claims, including breach of contract, unjust enrichment, a violation of Missouri statutory law, conversion and constructive trust. Plaintiff had sought damages in excess of $15 million on behalf of a world-wide class. Ruschel v. Nestle Holdings, Inc., Case No. 488932, Cuyahoga County C.P.

This ruling capped a lengthy process in which plaintiff initially filed a complaint in state court, voluntarily dismissed and filed in federal court, and then sought leave to amend his complaint to delete the lone federal claim so that the federal court would dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, permitting plaintiff to re-file in state court. In connection with that amendment, Nestle successfully moved the district court to condition plaintiff's leave to amend his complaint upon his paying a portion of Nestle's attorneys' fees incurred as a result of seeking multiple amendments and other litigation tactics, which the Sixth Circuit affirmed.

06-28-2007

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Jones Day, P.C.

Four Jones Day Lawyers Author New Survey Of The Federal Circuit's And Supreme Court's Patent Cases
Four Jones Day litigators with extensive experience litigating patent cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have authored the centerpiece article of the just-released May 2007 issue of the American University Law Review, which is that publication's annual survey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Washington Partners Greg Castanias, Larry Rosenberg, and Mike Fried, and New York Associate Todd Geremia, are the authors of Survey of the Federal Circuit's Patent Law Decisions in 2006: A New Chapter in the Ongoing Dialogue With the Supreme Court. This article includes an overview of the Supreme Court's treatment of the patent decisions of the Federal Circuit since that latter court was created by Congress in 1982; a survey of all of the Federal Circuit's patent jurisprudence for the year 2006; and a statistical compendium of the Federal Circuit's 2006 decisions, including reversal rates and average time between oral argument and decision.

In the article, the authors remark on the Supreme Court's recent review (and reversals) of a number of the Federal Circuit's recent patent cases: "As 2006 ends, we appear to be in the midst of a 'third wave' in the ongoing dialogue between the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit over the content of U.S. patent law—a wave marked by more aggressive Supreme Court review of the substance of patent law and patent procedure and less deference to the Federal Circuit's views of what the content of U.S. patent law should be. This change in the Supreme Court's approach to the Federal Circuit’s patent cases may well portend real and significant changes for the Federal Circuit—and perhaps for the Federal Circuit's bar as well."

Castanias, Rosenberg, Fried, and Geremia are all members of Jones Day's Issues and Appeals practice, and they also participate in the work of the Firm's Intellectual Property practice as part of the Firm's Federal Circuit and IP Appeals service.

06-28-2007

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Jones Day, P.C.

Managing Partner Issues Statement on Jones Day's Worldwide Commitment to Pro Bono Service
Jones Day has had a long history of pro bono work, public service and community involvement in all the locations in which we practice and we continue to increase year after year the pro bono legal services we provide to those in need. You will see within this year's annual report more examples of this tradition of giving back to the community. All 30 offices of the Firm now have a partner in charge of pro bono to further develop the reach of our pro bono program and to fulfill our commitments in all our locations. Our work has ranged from complex litigations with broad precedential impact to representations in local courts and administrative tribunals that are vital to so many needy individuals. Among our most important recent efforts has been litigation on behalf of clients who have unfairly become caught up in the "war on terror." These cases raise compelling issues about the balance between protecting our most basic constitutional principles and the executive branch's authority to declare and take unilateral action against claimed threats to our national security.

As we look to the future, we must see and respond to the new demands for service that will be presented by an increasingly integrated world. The process of globalization is transforming not only the world’s economy but the legal world as well. In fact, it is the single most important development in the practice of law in generations. But if globalization is to be the force for human development that we all hope it will be, the advancement of the rule of law must be at the center of that process.

Many of our legal institutions play a critical role not only protecting economic transactions but also assuring that the costs and benefits of globalization are more equitably distributed. Although emerging markets are creating enormous new wealth, we have to recognize that only a small segment of the world's population is currently benefiting from globalization. The poor are becoming more numerous not only in underdeveloped countries but also in developed nations as people are displaced by the effects of globalization. This is true even in more mature economies, including in the Midwest of the United States, where our good fortune has its roots.

Jones Day has been at the forefront of the process of globalization and it has benefited enormously from the capital flows that it is creating. The opportunities ahead for the Firm around the globe are extremely exciting, both professionally and financially. But with privilege comes responsibility, and those responsibilities have now acquired a worldwide dimension. In a Firm governed by a commitment to teamwork and the advancement of institutional achievements, a mission of broad and deep service to all of the communities in which we practice -- including a focus on the authentic advancement of the rule of law -- is an essential part of our commitment to the profession and to the law. This institutional opportunity and responsibility of the Firm is as critical to our character as are the professional achievements on behalf of paying clients that give us our financial strength. I hope that, as our global reach extends further and deeper, each lawyer will look for new and creative ways to increase our contribution to serving and improving all of the communities that are now being so good to the Firm.

06-28-2007

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Jones Day, P.C.

Jones Day Successfully Defends Techsnabexport Against Claim for Nearly 1 Billion USD in Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration
Jones Day acted as co-counsel to Techsnabexport (TENEX), a Russian state-owned company, in defense of a claim by Globe Nuclear Services and Supply (GNSS) for alleged lost profits amounting to almost USD 1 billion. On June 11, 2007, the panel of arbitrators acting under the rules of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce rejected GNSS’s claim against TENEX. The arbitrators also ordered GNSS to pay TENEX more than USD 6 million in reimbursement of TENEX’s costs of arbitration.

TENEX and GNSS had concluded a contract in 2000, pursuant to which TENEX would sell natural uranium (UF6) to GNSS. This contract was related to a treaty concluded by the United States and Russia in 1993 (the HEU Agreement) that established the “Megatons to Megawatts” program, by which low enriched uranium (LEU), derived from the highly enriched uranium (HEU) in Soviet-era nuclear warheads, is sold by Russia to the United States. TENEX acts on behalf of the Russian Government in the implementation of the HEU Agreement and sells, pursuant to certain inter-Governmental agreements and commercial contracts, stipulated quantities of the natural uranium component of the LEU.

In 2004, TENEX was obliged to terminate sales of natural uranium to GNSS, in order to protect the continued implementation of the HEU Agreement. GNSS contested this termination in the arbitration. GNSS’s claim was dismissed, and TENEX has now been vindicated.

The Jones Day team was led by Sigvard Jarvin in Paris with assistance from Carroll Dorgan.

06-28-2007

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