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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Fulbright Awarded Equal Access Grand Championship for a Large Law Firm
The Houston Bar Association awarded Fulbright & Jaworski with the Equal Access Grand Championship Award for going above and beyond its pro bono commitment for bar year 2006-2007.

Achieving more than double the number of cases that Fulbright initially agreed to take on when signing its Equal Access Commitment Form, Fulbright was the only large law firm to a be given this award.

Fulbright’s Jim Sales, current chair of the Texas Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission, accepted the award on the firm’s behalf.

Corporate Grand Champions included CenterPoint Energy, ExxonMobil and Shell Oil.

05-21-2007

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Cozen O' Connor

Cozen O’Connor Attorney Jennifer A. Brandt Serves as Course Planner and Moderator for PBI Family Law Course
Cozen O’Connor member Jennifer A. Brandt recently served as a course planer and moderator for a new course sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) called “Sophisticated Issues in Family Law.” Brandt moderated the Philadelphia course. The program was also presented in Pittsburgh and Mechanicsburg.

Brandt practices from the firm's Philadelphia and Cherry Hill offices, where she concentrates in family law litigation, focusing on divorce, custody and support matters at both the trial court and appellate levels. She also assists clients in adoptions and in family matters concerning incapacitated persons.

Brandt serves as a family law expert on numerous media programs, including KYW Newsradio; WPVI, WCAU and KYW television in Philadelphia; and CN8 The Comcast Network. She has been quoted in Main Line Today magazine and The National Law Journal. She has also served as a course instructor at Haverford Township Adult School and at Main Line School Night for Adult Learners.

Brandt serves as a family law expert on numerous media programs, including KYW Newsradio, WPVI and WCAU and KYW television in Philadelphia, and CN8 The Comcast Network. She has been quoted in Main Line Today magazine and The National Law Journal. She also serves as a course instructor at Haverford Township Adult School and at Main Line School Night for Adult Learners.

Brandt was named as one of American Lawyer Media’s 2004 “Lawyers on the Fast Track” and served as a judge for the 2005 “Lawyers on the Fast Track” competition.

Brandt is a member of the family law sections of the American, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations. She is former chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s membership committee, a former member of its executive committee and previously served as editor of the family law section newsletter. She is a member of the Thomas J. Forkin American Inn of Court in Family Law.

A resident of Wynnewood, Pa., Brandt earned her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University (B.A., with highest honors, 1991) and her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1994), where she was senior editor of the Journal of International Business Law and an Arthur Littleton Fellowship Instructor in legal research and writing. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

05-21-2007

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Covington & Burling, P.C.

Eugene Lambert Named Emeritus Trustee for GWU
The George Washington University Board of Trustees on May 18, 2007 named Covington & Burling LLP senior counsel Eugene I. Lambert an emeritus trustee.

Lambert served as an alumnus trustee for six years. His contributions to the University include serving as chair and vice chair of the Audit Committee; vice chair of the Committee on Development and Alumni Affairs; vice chair of the Medical Center Committee; and as a member of the Committee on Student Affairs.

At Covington, Lambert has represented clients in all of the areas of the firm’s food and drug practice, including the regulation of advertising and promotional activities, for over forty years, with a recent emphasis on food, dietary supplements and food and drugs “for animals other than man.” In addition to corporate clients, he has worked with a wide range of trade associations in the food, dietary supplement, OTC drug, and animal food and drug industries. In these representations, he has also been involved in counseling on and shaping legislative developments affecting each of these industries.

05-21-2007

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Covington & Burling, P.C.

Covington Advises UBS on Atlas Energy Deal
Atlas Energy Resources, LLC announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire DTE Gas & Oil Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of DTE Energy Company, for $1.225 billion in cash. Covington & Burling LLP advised UBS Investment Bank, financial advisor to Atlas Energy, on the transaction, which is expected to close on or about June 30, 2007.

Atlas Energy Resources, LLC is an energy company focused on the development and production of natural gas and, to a lesser extent, oil principally in the Appalachian Basin. DTE is a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. UBS provides investment banking and securities, wealth management, asset management, and retail and corporate banking services worldwide.

The Covington team included New York partner J. D. Weinberg and associate Andrew Ment.

05-21-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie LLP Advises Rio Tinto PLC on Joint Venture with BP Plc to Build Hydrogen Energy Power Plants
Baker & McKenzie LLP has advised Rio Tinto Plc (Rio Tinto) on the formation of Hydrogen Energy, a joint venture equally owned by BP Plc (BP).

The new venture will develop decarbonised energy projects around the world, working with governments to determine appropriate policies and regulatory regimes, and develop and operate the projects, with partners where appropriate.

Hydrogen Energy will initially focus on hydrogen-fuelled power generation, using fossil fuels and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to produce large-scale supplies of clean electricity.

Rio Tinto is one of the world's leading mining and exploration companies and its expertise and world-class assets in coal extraction and supply will be a significant advantage to the new venture.

The Baker & McKenzie team was led by Baker & McKenzie's Global Head of M&A and London Partner, Tim Gee (corporate) and senior associate, Richard Kelly (corporate), assisted by associate, Charlotte Moore (intellectual property) and San Francisco Partners Shane Byrne and Emery Mitchell who advised on the US aspects of the deal.

Commenting on the transaction, Tim said: "This is a highly significant UK deal as it will accelerate the development and deployment of new technologies and projects within the emerging clean power market.

"It has been a great pleasure for us to work with Rio Tinto's excellent in-house legal team, represented by Adrian Lumley-Smith on this transaction. Rio Tinto has been a client of the Firm for a while and this is the first time we have advised the company on a corporate transaction."

Adrian Lumley-Smith of Rio Tinto said: "We have used Baker & McKenzie's London competition law team, led by Samantha Mobley, for a number of years and made a decision to use the Firm's expertise more widely for this transaction. We are delighted with the result. This deal is of great importance to Rio Tinto and represents our long-term commitment to investing in alternative energy to combat climate change."

Herbert Smith LLP (partner, John Geraghty and senior associates, Simon Tysoe and Lewis McDonald) advised BP on the transaction.

05-21-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie Advised on Unicredit Group Consolidation in Ukraine
Baker & McKenzie announced today that it recently acted as the legal advisor to Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (HVB) with respect to approximately EUR85 million sale of 100% of the shares in Joint Stock Commercial Bank “HVB Bank Ukraine” to Bank Pekao S.A. Both HVB and Bank Pekao S.A. are members of UniCredit Group. The transaction further integrates the Ukrainian banks under the UniCredit brand name and consolidates the group’s assets in Ukraine after the cross-border merger of HVB and UniCredit initiated in spring 2006.

Baker & McKenzie team was led by Partner Serhiy Chorny with assistance from senior associate Ihor Olekhov, and associates Vsevolod Volkov and Andriy Nikiforov in Kyiv.

UniCredit Group is one of the largest banking and financial services groups in Europe with a network of 7,200 branches and strong local roots in 20 countries. Currently the Group owns two Ukrainian banks: HVB Bank Ukraine and UniCredit Bank Ukraine. The concentration of two Ukrainian banks in the hands of one owner will facilitate their merger, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2007. Once concluded, this will be the first major post M&A integration project in the Ukrainian banking sector.

Commenting on the transaction, Baker & McKenzie Banking and Finance Partner Serhiy Chorny said: “We consider UniCredit Group as one of our strategic clients, and are glad to assist its members in Ukraine and in other countries in consolidating and developing their global business. We believe that, as a global law firm, we are the best fit for this job.

05-21-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie LLP Advises Shanghai Automotive on the Establishment of its First UK Technical Centre Through the Acquisition of Ricardo 2010 Limited
Baker & McKenzie LLP has advised Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) in relation to the establishment of its UK Technical Centre through the acquisition, by its subsidiary, SAIC Motor UK Holding Co. Limited, of Ricardo (2010) Consultants Limited, now renamed SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre Limited.

The cross-practice Baker & McKenzie team that advised SAIC was led by London corporate Partner, James Burdett and included London associates Richard Jones (Corporate), Vanya Bromfield (Commercial), Ben Farnell (IP/IT) and Colin Leckey (Employment). The London office worked closely with the Firm's Shanghai and Hong Kong offices to close the transaction.

Commenting on the transaction, James Burdett said: "We are delighted to have worked with Shanghai Automotive on this deal which is an important milestone in the development of its global business. This transaction is another example of our offices in China and London working closely together to deliver a transaction to an exacting standard and timetable."

SAIC, China's largest state-owned car manufacturer, is a long-standing client of Baker & McKenzie. In 2006 it achieved a sales volume of 1.34 million units and entered the Fortune 500 with revenues of $14.36 billion.

05-21-2007

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