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Carlton Fields

Steven A. Capriati Joins Carlton Fields in the Tallahassee Office
The law firm of Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that Steven A. Capriati has joined the Tallahassee office as an Associate in the Firm’s Government Law & Consulting and Sports Law Practice Groups. He practices in the areas of land use, administrative law, and government consulting as well sports & entertainment law.

Prior to joining Carlton Fields, Capriati worked as a Policy Analyst for the Charlie Crist Gubernatorial Campaign where he was responsible for policy and political research, drafting specific policy proposal points, conducting legal research, organizing debate briefings and speech preparation, and responding to constituent policy questions. While in law school, he worked for the Office of the General Counsel for Governor Jeb Bush where he assisted in all legal aspects such as constitutional issues affecting the Executive Office, Cabinet affairs, legislative analysis, and constituent legal issues.

Capriati received his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law in 2006 and his B.A. from University of Arizona in 2003.

04-02-2007

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Attorney Elected to Princeton Area Community Foundation
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney shareholder Mary Sue Henifin was recently elected to the board of the Princeton Area Community Foundation (PACF). She has been actively involved with community philanthropy through her work for nonprofits both as a board member and as pro bono counsel.

PACF builds community by promoting and encouraging philanthropy across central New Jersey. Created in 1991, PACF manages more than 165 individual, family, and corporate funds as well as nonprofit agency endowments totaling more that $33 million. Last month, PACF celebrated its 16-year history with its first community-wide luncheon, featuring Joe Paterno as the keynote speaker.

Located in Buchanan's Princeton office, Henifin's clients include pharma, technology, energy, manufacturing and real estate development companies. She was recently named by Governor Corzine to the Board of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and is awaiting Senate Confirmation. She has served the community through service as a board member of various nonprofits including Isles and MentorPower, and has served as chair and is a member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey. She is a trustee of the Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey. Henifin received a J.D. degree with honors from Rutgers University School of Law, where she served as research editor of the Law Review. She graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, with a bachelor of arts degree in biology, and she holds a master's of public health from ColumbiaUniversity.

04-02-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie Advises on US$175 Million Eurobond Offering by Absolut Bank
Baker & McKenzie announced today that it acted as English and Russian counsel to the joint lead managers, Dresdner Kleinwort and UBS, on a US$175 million eurobond offering by Absolut Bank, a Russian commercial bank. The bonds were listed on the London Stock Exchange.

The transaction was structured as an offering of 9.125% loan participation notes due 2010 by Absolut Finance S.A., a Luxembourg special purpose vehicle, to fund a loan to Absolut Bank. Absolut Bank will use the net proceeds of the loan to fund its lending activities and for general banking purposes.

Absolut Bank is a full-service bank that has 38 branches and outlets located in 11 regions of the Russian Federation. As of 31 December 2006 it was the 25th largest bank in Russia based on total assets.

Commenting on the offering, capital markets partner Carter Brod said: “Absolut Bank is one of the fastest growing banks in Russia, and this offering is part of a continuing wave of banks from the CIS region accessing the international capital markets for funding in order to grow their businesses. This is the 12th closed international securities offering by a CIS bank on which we have acted since the beginning of 2006.”

The Baker & McKenzie team consisted of Carter Brod, associate Roy Pearce and trainee solicitor Alex Roberts in London, and partner David Scott, and associates Mikhail Turetsky and Elizaveta Bacheyeva in Moscow.

04-02-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie LLP Addresses Need to Slow Global Warming with Groundbreaking Change Climate Report
Baker & McKenzie LLP, together with Stark Investments, a firm specializing in alternative asset management, and the Milken Institute, a non-partisan economic policy think tank, authored a report titled, “A Cap-and-Trade Program Design for Greenhouse Gases: Achieving Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness in Tackling Climate Change,” advocating a cap-and-trade approach to reduce U.S. emissions.

According to the report, a cap-and-trade approach encouraging emissions sources to buy and sell a fixed pool of emissions allowances in free markets offers the best prospect for meeting emissions targets at the lowest cost and with the least government intrusion. The report offers key insight into the design elements for a practical program. It also serves as a primer on the capital-market aspects of cap-and-trade, defining the concepts involved and demonstrating the projected impact on emissions of various proposed bills.

“A properly designed cap-and-trade program will not only achieve the necessary reductions at the lowest cost but will encourage private capital investment in low carbon technologies,” said Richard Saines, chair of Baker & McKenzie’s North American Climate Change practice, and one of the authors of the report. “If the program is carefully designed, appropriately structured and well-functioning, the cap-and-trade system might even increase economic productivity and further U.S. competitiveness beyond the initial goal of curbing global warming.

04-02-2007

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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie, John Conroy Receives Northwestern Alumni Merit Award
Global law firm Baker & McKenzie is pleased to announce that John Conroy, Chairman of the Firm’s Executive Committee, received the 2007 Alumni Merit Award from the Northwestern Alumni Association.

The Alumni Merit Award honors alumni for “high achievements in a profession or field of endeavor.” The award was presented at a banquet reception on March 31 in Chicago.

Mr. Conroy was elected Baker & McKenzie’s Chairman in October 2004. In his first two years as chair, Baker & McKenzie pursued a global strategy that has generated an increase in world-wide revenues of 24% to $1.522 billion and an increase in net profits of 41% to $565 million. In addition to improving overall profitability, the other implementation priorities of the strategy focus on strengthening the quality of the Firm’s talent and their performance, deepening major client relationships, enhancing core practices and target industries, and building the Firm’s position in key financial centers and geographic markets.

In its quality initiative, Baker & McKenzie is pursuing a state of the art talent management strategy that comprehensively addresses the three key dimensions of talent quality: recruitment, development and performance management. In order to deepen relationships with major clients, the Firm has a key account program and a firm-wide initiative to support more pro-active management of these relationships. In terms of practice development, the Firm is prioritizing global investment in the transactional practice areas of M&A, securities, private equity and banking & finance, as well as several other practice and industry concentrations.

With respect to geographic markets, the Firm has realized substantial growth in the money center jurisdictions of New York, London, Hong Kong/China and Tokyo with the most notable being New York, where the Firm has more than doubled its presence over the past two years. Over the same time period, the Firm has added a highly regarded securitization/structured finance and capital markets group in London with related acquisitions in New York and Tokyo. Most recently, the Firm has added a large group of high profile talent to its Tokyo office to build on its current leading position in the Tokyo market among law firms with integrated Japanese and non-Japanese legal talent.

Mr. Conroy is a frequent speaker on topics in relation to the globalization of the legal profession. A member of the Business Advisory Group of the International Organization for Migration and the advisory committee of Georgetown University’s Law Firm Pro Bono project, Mr. Conroy is also the only law firm leader to serve on the mayor of Beijing’s International Business Leaders Advisory Council.

A Partner of the Chicago office since 1987, Mr. Conroy was elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the International Firm in 1998. He also served as North American Managing Partner from 1999 to 2004. A distinguished Banking & Finance lawyer, Mr. Conroy has held other significant management roles related to his area of practice including Chairman of the Global Banking & Finance Practice Group and Chairman of the Global Major Projects Practice Group. As North American Managing Partner, he led the introduction of a new business model and compensation system in the region.

Mr. Conroy received his J.D. degree in 1979 from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was the Managing Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. Prior to attending Northwestern, Mr. Conroy completed graduate studies at the Institute of High European Studies at the Universite de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France. His undergraduate studies were completed at the University of Notre Dame where he received an A.B., summa cum laude in 1975.

Though Mr. Conroy heads the world’s most global law firm, he is proud to be a husband and father to four sons and three daughters, who range in age from 8 to 21.

04-02-2007

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Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP

Malfitano Certified by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
Chief Judge Stuart M. Bernstein of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recently certified Joseph A. Malfitano for inclusion on the Register of Mediators.

Malfitano, a licensed attorney in Delaware and New York, has mediated various chapter 11 appellate disputes as an active member of the Bankruptcy Appellate Mediation Panel for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and is also a certified mediator for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and the Delaware Superior Court. Malfitano will conduct mediations at any location that is convenient to the parties.

Malfitano is an attorney in the bankruptcy and corporate restructuring section at Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP. The firm's bankruptcy and corporate restructuring section is the largest in Delaware and one of the largest in the mid-Atlantic region. The section typically represents debtors, creditors committees, purchasers, plan sponsors, future asbestos claimant representatives and liquidation trustees or plan administrators.

04-02-2007

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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Expands Clean Technology Practice
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, today announced that it has hired John Pierce and Peter Mostow as partners. Pierce and Mostow bring to the firm a nationally recognized practice representing developers and financing sources involved in renewable energy and biofuel projects in the U.S. and abroad. Both join Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from Stoel Rives.

"Our clean technology clients increasingly are focused on developing, proving, and deploying new renewable energy and biofuel technologies. In order to meet their needs, it was critical that we add specialized project development and finance expertise," said CEO John Roos. "John and Peter's knowledge and experience in this area adds significantly to our existing clean technology practice and is highly synergistic with our intellectual property, venture capital, and capital markets practices. We are confident they will help us build the leading clean tech practice in this important growth market."

Pierce concentrates on the representation of project sponsors and investors in connection with the development and finance of projects involving wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass energy, as well those involving alternative fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel. His practice is both domestic and international in scope, with extensive experience in Southeast Asia, China, and the Middle East. At Stoel Rives, Pierce served as a leader of the renewable energy practice and chair of the biofuels practice. He received his J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1993 and a B.S. from San Francisco State University in 1990.

Mostow focuses on energy, natural resources, and environmental law, guiding clients through federal, state, and local siting and environmental permitting processes for wind, geothermal, solar, ocean, and hydroelectric power plants and biofuel facilities. He also represents clients in permitting and environmental matters that arise in sales and financing transactions. Among other associations, Mostow serves as vice-chair of the American Bar Association's Energy Facilities and Siting Committee. At Stoel Rives, Mostow chaired the renewable energy practice. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1993 and was a Fulbright Scholar at J.W. Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1989-90.

Pierce will be located in the firm's Seattle office, and Mostow will be based in the firm's San Francisco office.

04-02-2007

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