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Davis Polk & Wardwell

SCOR Bids for Converium
Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan plc as financial advisers to Converium Holding AG, in connection with SCOR’s unsolicited tender offer for all of Converium’s outstanding shares. Based in Switzerland, Converium is an independent international multi-line reinsurer. SCOR, headquartered in Paris, is France’s leading reinsurer.

According to the terms of the proposed bid, SCOR will offer Converium’s non-U.S. shareholders 0.5 SCOR ordinary shares and 4 Swiss francs in cash for every share in Converium. The transaction values Converium’s issued share capital at 3.1 billion Swiss francs.

The Davis Polk corporate team includes partner Joseph Rinaldi of the Paris office, and partner Nigel D. J. Wilson and associate Wilfred J.A. Pereira, both of the London office.

04-20-2007

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Robinson & Cole LLP

Robinson & Cole Co-Sponsors a Merger and Acquisition Seminar Series: Executing the Winning Deal on May 15 and June 12, 2007
Sam Mullin , Eric J. Dale, Richard A. Krantz, J. Michael Wirvin, and Christine E. Bromberg, members of Robinson & Cole's Business Section, are participating in the American Electronics Association's "Merger and Acquisition Series." The seminar series, co-sponsored with Newbury Piret & Co., will focus on how to evaluate today's M&A landscape and how capital markets are impacting corporate growth.

04-20-2007

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Fulbright Claims Seats in Best Lawyers in Dallas
Fulbright partners Rodney Acker, Barry Cowan, Glen Hettinger and Tom Hughes were voted by their peers in the legal community as Best Lawyers in Dallas, which appears in the May 2007 issue of D Magazine.

The list was compiled on nominations from Dallas attorneys including co-counsel, lawyers observed in court, and opposing counsel in different areas of practice.

Acker focuses his practice on civil trial law. His experience includes trying cases in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels across the United States. He has experience in all areas of civil commercial litigation, including securities litigation and arbitrations, oil and gas, antitrust, breach of contract/fraud, banking and general commercial litigation.

Cowan represents clients in a broad spectrum of sophisticated employee benefit issues. He has extensive experience in representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on voluntary compliance, plan reporting, plan termination, and government investigation matters. Additionally, he represents clients in complex ERISA litigation matters, including fiduciary breach issues.

Hettinger has a broad range of experience including representing public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions; debt and equity financings; technology joint ventures; and restructurings. He has served on the board and audit committee of a public corporation and has counseled boards of directors on corporate governance and fiduciary duties. Hettinger also advises clients on public reporting requirements under federal securities laws, internal investigations, and Sarbanes-Oxley rules governing attorney reporting obligations. At Hettinger’s prior firm, he headed up the corporate and securities practice.

Hughes heads Fulbright’s Dallas corporate, banking and business department. His corporate and securities practice includes extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and the representation of issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. He also counsels issuers with respect to venture capital financings and debtors in connection with financial restructures. Additionally, he advises on securities regulatory and corporate governance matters.

04-20-2007

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Covington & Burling, P.C.

Covington Advises Providence Equity Partners on $1.2 Billion Acquisition of Clear Channel
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Television Group to Providence Equity Partners Inc. for approximately $1.2 billion. The sale includes 35 full power television stations located in 24 markets across the United States. Included in the sale are the stations’ associated web sites, the Television Operations Center, and Inergize Digital Media, which manages the Television Group’s online and wireless initiatives. Covington & Burling LLP served as special communications regulatory counsel to Providence Equity Partners in the transaction, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2007.

Clear Channel Communications is a global media and entertainment company specializing in "gone from home" entertainment and information services for local communities and premiere opportunities for advertisers. Providence Equity Partners is the leading global private equity firm specializing in equity investments in media, entertainment, communications and information companies around the world.

The Covington team included partners Mace Rosenstein and Eric Greenberg and associate Enrique Armijo.

04-20-2007

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Adds Litigation Attorney in Miami Office
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney announced the addition of litigation associate Matthew J. Feeley in its Miami office, bringing the number of attorneys in the firm's South Florida offices to 23. Feeley, who spent the past three years as a litigator for White & Case LLP, focuses his practice on commercial litigation with particular emphasis in contract, environmental, trademark and white-collar law.

Feeley graduated from Boston College Law School, cum laude, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review. He then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard W. Goldberg in the United States Court of International Trade. He previously completed internships serving as a foreign legal intern for a law firm in Madrid, Spain, and as a law intern in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston.

04-20-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie Advises KBC Group on the Acquisition of a Majority Stake in Absolut Bank
Baker & McKenzie has advised KBC Group on its acquisition of at least 92.5 percent of Absolut Bank. The deal values the bank at US$1 billion (€761 million) and is subject to regulatory approvals.

KBC Group is one of the leading financial groups in Europe, catering mainly for retail and private banking customers, and small and medium-sized enterprises. Absolut Bank is a full-service bank with 38 branches and outlets in 11 regions of the Russian Federation, and its acquisition is part of KBC Group's long-term strategic expansion plans in emerging Europe.

Gordon Low, Corporate Partner at Baker & McKenzie, London, said: "At Baker & McKenzie we aim to provide our clients with a powerful combination of local knowledge and international transactional expertise. These skills are at a premium when dealing in a highly regulated sector, and when transactional deadlines are tight. We are pleased to have assisted KBC Group in bringing in the deal it wanted, when it wanted."

Sergei Voitishkin, Corporate Partner at Baker & McKenzie, Moscow said: "This was a very dynamic deal done to tight deadlines, and we are pleased to have assisted our client on this major acquisition in the Russian banking sector."

Luc Popelier, General Manager KBC Strategy and Corporate Development said: “The acquisition of Absolut Bank constitutes a logical and important step in KBC’s international expansion. Having established a strong presence in a number of first- and second-wave EU-accession countries, KBC is now entering a new emerging European market through Absolut Bank, one of the leading independent mortgage lenders in Russia. KBC is really pleased with the service and support it received from Baker & McKenzie in preparing and successfully closing this deal. The excellent professional skills, know how and experience of Baker & McKenzie in the field of mergers and acquisitions provided real added value during the due diligence and negotiations phase.”

The Baker & McKenzie team was led by Corporate Partners Gordon Low (London) and Sergei Voitishkin (Moscow), assisted by associates Ekaterina Afinogenova (London), and Dmitry Marchan (Moscow).

04-20-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie Advises MacarthurCook on the Successful Launch of its First Pan-Asian Industrial REIT
Baker & McKenzie's Asia Pacific REIT team has assisted MacarthurCook, one of Australia’s emerging international real estate investment managers, on the successful acquisition of 12 Singapore industrial properties for S$316.2 million (US$208 million). The properties formed the initial portfolio of the MacarthurCook Industrial REIT (“MI-REIT”), which commenced trading on the Main Board of Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (the “SGX-ST”) yesterday. It is intended that more industrial properties will be acquired in Asia for the MI-REIT.

Baker & McKenzie's Asia Pacific REIT team for this transaction was co-led by the partners Ai Ai Wong in Singapore and Lewis Apostolou in Melbourne who worked collaboratively with support from lawyers in Singapore and Australia.

Commenting on the deal in Singapore, Ai Ai Wong said: “This is a very exciting time for MacarthurCook particularly as the new MI-REIT will enable our client to achieve their principal investment objective of owning and investing in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate located throughout Asia.” Lewis Apostolou, in Melbourne, Australia, added: “We are delighted to have had the opportunity to continue our collaboration with MacarthurCook, and to assist them as they successfully expand their investment management business internationally.”

This is the second time Baker & McKenzie has acted for MacarthurCook in connection with a Singapore offering, having concluded the secondary listing of the MacarthurCook Property Securities Fund on the Singapore Stock Exchange in December 2006. On that occasion, Baker & McKenzie acted as Australian legal counsel, and Colin Ng & Partners as local counsel in Singapore.

The new MI-REIT contributes to the growing track record that Baker & McKenzie’s Asia-Pacific REIT team has built over the last 18 months, with the team acting on a number of strategic REIT deals including:

• Advising ARA Asset Management (Prosperity) Limited, the Manager of Prosperity REIT, on its IPO, listing and post IPO property acquisitions in Hong Kong.

• Advising Guangzhou Investment Company Limited (GZI) on the establishment and listing of GZI REIT - the first listed REIT with PRC mainland properties on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

• Advising GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad on the establishment and IPO of the Tower REIT on the Malaysian Stock Exchange.

• Acting for the issuer Fubon Financial on the IPOs and listings of both the Fubon No.1 and No. 2 REITs on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.

• Advising the underwriter of the Tokyo Growth J-REIT which consists of 46 offices and residential properties and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Baker & McKenzie’s Global REIT team is also active in other REIT markets around the world including in Europe, where new REIT legislation continues to be introduced by European governments.

04-20-2007

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