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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie Acts on Debut Eurobond Offering for XXI Century Public Investments Limited
Baker & McKenzie has acted for XXI Century Public Investments Limited (XXI Century) on its debut US$175 million Eurobond listed on Luxembourg Stock Exchange's Euro MTF Market.

XXI Century Public Investments Limited is one of Ukraine's leading real estate investment, development and property management companies. In December 2005, it completed its initial public offering of shares on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange and remains Ukraine's only publicly listed real estate company listed on the AIM Market. Baker & McKenzie also acted for XXI Century on its IPO.

XXI Century will use the net proceeds from the issue of the Notes primarily to finance the development and construction of its existing projects as well as expand its business through selective acquisitions of individual land plots and property portfolios in Kyiv and in other major cities throughout Ukraine, and to reduce its existing indebtedness.

Baker & McKenzie Capital Markets partner, Peter Magyar, said: ''Following the success of its IPO, we are delighted to have acted for XXI Century on its debut Eurobond transaction. Real estate is a booming sector in the CIS and this is one of a series of real estate capital market transactions on which we are advising in the region.''

The Baker & McKenzie team in London consisted of Peter Magyar and Chris Hogan (Partners), Kate Rea (associate) and Natalie Ball (trainee solicitor). The Baker & McKenzie team in Kyiv was led by Serhiy Chorny (Partner) and assisted by Glib Bondar (associate) and Mykola Stetsenko (associate).

ING acted as sole bookrunner and manager of the offering, and was advised by Linklaters LLP as to English law and Sayenko Kharenko as to Ukrainian law.

05-25-2007

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Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P.

Stamboulidis Appointed Monitor of Mellon Bank by DOJ
The United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania has selected New York partner George Stamboulidis to serve as the outside independent monitor of Mellon Bank, N.A. (Mellon).

Stamboulidis, along with New York partners Lauren Resnick and John Carney, will be responsible for oversight of Mellon's compliance with the terms and conditions of an August 2006 settlement agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office and will conduct annual assessments of that compliance, providing detailed written reports to the United States Attorney.

The team of Stamboulidis, Resnick and Carney also currently serves as the Independent Examiner for The Bank of New York, which has announced it will merge with Mellon later this year.

Stamboulidis is the former government appointed monitor for Merrill Lynch in the Enron matter and is head of the firm's White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations Practice. He also serves as monitor for Siemens and the Town of Brookhaven (the second largest town in New York State).

Resnick is a former chief of the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section at the United States Attorney's Office in Brooklyn with significant private sector corporate compliance experience and Carney is a former Securities Fraud Unit Chief who prosecuted major international money laundering cases.

Many Baker attorneys have worked on these various monitorships, including: Anagha Apte, Dennis Cohen, Brian Esser, Jimmy Fokas, Steven Goldberg, Jim Mercadante, Jeff Paravano, Andy Reich, Justin Shigemi and Ona Wang.

In the August 2006 agreement, Mellon accepted responsibility for any criminal conduct by its employees in the firm's dealings with Financial Management Service and the Internal Revenue Service regarding the April 2001 destruction of more than 77,000 tax returns and payments at the Mellon Client Service Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

05-25-2007

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Wiggin and Dana LLP

Wiggin and Dana Attorney Dale Carlson Named Second Vice-President of NYIPLA
Dale L. Carlson, a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association ("NYIPLA") for the past three years, is newlynamed second vice-president of that association for a term running until May 2008. The NYIPLA is the largest regional IP law association in the country with approximately 1500 members.

Dale is on the board of the Gateway Community College Foundation where he is chair of the nominating committee. He is also an adjunct professor of law at Quinnipiac University where he teaches courses in patent law and advanced patent law.

Dale is a partner at Wiggin and Dana's New Haven office and chair of the firm's patent practice group. Wiggin and Dana serves clients from offices in Connecticut, New York and Philadelphia. The firm’s expertise includes venture capital, information technology, biotechnology, securities, mergers and acquisitions, all forms of litigation and dispute resolution, white collar, antitrust, appellate, complex corporate and real estate transactions, health care, utilities, environmental, franchise and distribution, taxation, intellectual property, estate planning, and labor, employment and benefits.

05-25-2007

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Weber, Gallagher, Simpson, Stapleton, Fires & Newby, LLP

Richard S. Ranieri Recertified as Civil Trial Attorney
The law firm of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP is pleased to announce that Richard S. Ranieri has become recertified, both locally and nationally, as a civil trial attorney. Mr. Ranieri was certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney and by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocate, both for second five-year terms.

Mr. Ranieri devotes his practice to the defense of general liability, construction and product liability matters on behalf of self-insured entities, insurance companies and third-party administrators.

05-25-2007

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Holland & Hart, L.L.P.

Holland & Hart Leads Two New Diversity Initiatives
Holland & Hart LLP announces a Summer Associate Diversity Scholarship and an Academic Year Diversity Law Clerk Program.

Holland & Hart is the first firm in the Rocky Mountain region to offer a $10,000 Summer Associate Diversity Scholarship for second year law students. This scholarship will be available to students at the University of Colorado School of Law and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law beginning summer 2008. Each year the firm's Diversity and Recruitment Committees will choose a student who will receive $10,000 to be applied toward law school tuition or other expenses. Additionally, the scholarship recipient will work as a paid 2008 summer associate. This new Summer Associate Diversity Scholarship is in addition to the firm's current Diversity Scholarships, which are offered to incoming first year law students at both the University of Colorado and University of Denver and have recently increased to an award of $7500 at each school.

Holland & Hart has also established an Academic Year Diversity Law Clerk Program, which will be launched at the beginning of the 2007-2008 academic year. Clerks hired through this program will work part-time at the firm during their second or third year of law school. Selection criteria include strong academic credentials, ethnic and racial background, sexual orientation, disability, and previous career experience.

"These two new initiatives illustrate our commitment to stay on the cutting-edge of diversity recruitment efforts," said firm Chair, Paul Phillips. "We see this as a business necessity because we recognize the strength of talent and breadth of perspective that come from a diverse workforce."

"We share Holland & Hart's concern for making the legal profession more diverse, better reflecting the client community and the state as a whole," said David Getches, Dean of the University of Colorado School of Law. "The opportunities in this new program will be invaluable to our students."

Dean Beto Juarez from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law states, "This program is a concrete demonstration of Holland & Hart's continuing commitment to diversity in the legal profession. The firm's acknowledgement of diversity as a vital component of our profession will greatly benefit our students and our society."

Holland & Hart has been a long-time leader in diversity initiatives. The firm was the first to adopt the Colorado Pledge to Racial and Ethnic Diversity. It also led 23 other Denver law firms of all sizes to sign and adopt the pledge in 1993 and again in 2000.

05-25-2007

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Gray, Plant & Mooty

15 Gray Plant Mooty Attorneys Named “Best Lawyers in Minnesota”
Gray Plant Mooty is pleased to announce that 15 attorneys were named to the 2007 “Best Lawyers in Minnesota” list and recognized in the June 2007 issue of Minnesota Monthly.

Working with Woodward/White Inc., publishers of The Best Lawyers in America® since 1983, the editors of Minnesota Monthly contacted every local attorney who appeared in the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and asked the simple question: “If you had a close friend or relative who needed a lawyer, and you couldn’t handle the case yourself—for reasons of conflict of interest or time—to whom would you refer them?” The results provide a reliable and useful directory of the state’s most respected attorneys.

05-25-2007

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Garrigues, LLC

GARRIGUES NAMED ‘TAX FIRM OF THE YEAR’ IN SPAIN FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE YEAR
Garrigues has been named ‘Tax Firm of the Year’ in Spain for the third year running by the International Tax Review at the third annual European Tax Awards, which aim to reward excellence at European tax firms over the last year. The Firm was also nominated in the “Best Transfer Pricing Firm in Spain” category. Garrigues Portugal received nominations in both categories.

The awards panel evaluated the body of tax-related work performed by Garrigues in 2006, including the provision of advisory services in major deals, such as the takeover of Arcelor by Mittal Steel, for which Garrigues was awarded the IFLR prize for the “M&A Deal of the Year” in March.

Garrigues’ tax practice currently has more than 540 professionals, of whom 74 are partners. Alongside the practice’s reputation, the panel looked at the international expansion of the Firm over the last year. The opening of an office in Warsaw, the consolidation of Garrigues’ international offices, and the growth and profile of the Affinitas international alliance and the Taxand network all contributed to achieving the award.

Taxand
In addition to Garrigues, two other Taxand member firms were also named “Tax Firm of the Year” in their respective countries: Bech-Brunn (Denmark) and Atoz (Luxembourg). Taxand, the independent tax network of which Garrigues is a founding member, currently has 38 member firms across five continents, with over 1,500 professionals, 300 of whom are partners.

05-25-2007

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