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Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

DAVID MALONE JOINS NORTHERN KENTUCKY OFFICE OF TAFT, STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER
David Malone has joined the Northern Kentucky office of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP as Of Counsel in the Public Finance Practice Group. Malone joins Taft as it expands its services to private and public clients for traditional governmental bonds, revenue bonds, economic development bonds, and tax increment financings. Prior to joining Taft, Malone was the General Manager of the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky and formerly a Partner of Peck, Shaffer & Williams LLP. Malone served as underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s counsel, and bond counsel in various types of tax-exempt and taxable financing.

Malone serves on the Board of Advisors for the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and Kentucky Bar Association.

A resident of Fort Thomas, Malone received his B.A. from Hanover College and his J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law. He serves as Co-counsel to Trustees for the Bowling-Pfizer Heart Valve Settlement Funds.

Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Northern Kentucky. The firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.

03-13-2007

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Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP

Simpson Thacher Represents Blackstone in $2.1 Billion Sale of German Residential Portfolio
Simpson Thacher represents Blackstone in connection with a sale of a majority of its interests in the Vitus Group which owns a portfolio of 31,000 apartments in Germany. The parties have reached a definitive agreement and the transaction is expected to close in April. Simpson Thacher represented Blackstone in its initial acquisition and subsequent refinancing of the Vitus Group.

The Simpson Thacher team working on the sale includes Farhad Karim, Alex Benjamin, and Nate Hagerman (Real Estate); Stephen Short and Clare Cottle (finance); Meredith Jones and Jenifer Marsh (Tax); and Jeanne Annarumma (Benefits).

03-13-2007

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Piper Rudnick, L.L.P.

DLA Piper appoints leading construction partner
DLA Piper is pleased to announce the appointment of Stuart Jordan as a partner in its Construction and Engineering Group. Stuart was previously a partner at Campbell Hooper where he founded their Major Projects Group.

Stuart has extensive experience in the drafting and negotiation of development agreements and construction contracts and a thorough grasp of Private/Public Sector procurement. Historically he was involved in a variety of construction projects at Campbell Hooper including the Greenwich Millennium Village, oil refinery work in the Middle East and leisure and development projects in Russia.

The arrival of a second new partner (Cecily Davis joined in November 2006 from Shadbolts) with significant experience of working with developers participating in major urban regeneration projects augments the already very substantial national business and represents another step in the continued growth of the team. The London business now comprises 3 partners, 2 associates and 4 assistants. Stuart's appointment is also in line with the firms plans to expand its regeneration practice.

Graeme Bradley, the national head of DLA Piper's Construction and Engineering Group, commented: "We are delighted to have Stuart on board. His skill-set is a natural fit for us and his arrival further strengthens our capability at a time when we are seeing a burgeoning workload from major clients across the industry."

Stuart Jordan commented: "It is an exciting time to join DLA Piper. The firm is really making its mark in the UK and international construction markets. DLA Piper has a global reach like no other firm. We are exceptionally well placed to build up the provision of international construction expertise to the emerging markets.

03-13-2007

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Piper Rudnick, L.L.P.

Lawyer picks up prestigious legal award for loyalty to Sheffield
DLA Piper trainee solicitor Robyn Palmer has been awarded the Sidney Herbert Clay (Sheffield) Trust (1940) Prize by the Sheffield District Incorporated Law Society at their annual general meeting.

The annual award of £150 is presented to the most successful candidate on the Diploma in Legal Practice who undertakes their training contract with a law firm within 20 miles of Sheffield.

Award assessors chose Robyn (26), who graduated from the course in June 2006, as the worthy winner after she picked up five distinctions in modules including Business Law and Practice, Property Law and Practice, Litigation, Commercial Property and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Robyn's award follows two other prizes from the University of Sheffield. As a Law and Spanish student she won the Vaughan Bevan Memorial Award for her exceptional performance in the final Law examination and also the Nicholas Round Prize in Hispanic Studies to recognise her outstanding performance in practical interpreting skills.

Robyn, who is currently based in the real estate group at DLA Piper in Sheffield, said: "I am honoured to have won this award and delighted to be training in the city with one of the most respected legal providers in the region."

Duncan Mosley, partner at DLA Piper added: "Congratulations go to Robyn on her award. There are huge opportunities for young lawyers in this area and the Sidney Herbert Clay Award recognises those who stay and demonstrate their potential.

03-13-2007

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Piper Rudnick, L.L.P.

DLA Piper celebrates the opening of its office in Sofia
DLA Piper celebrated the official opening of its office in Sofia with a night of jazz at the city's historic Military Club.

Over 300 guests form international organisations were welcomed by Dr Karl Diem, Head of the Austrian Embassy in Bulgaria and Doyen of the Corps Diplomatique in Bulgaria; Michael B Humphreys, Head of the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria; as well as General Joseph W Ralston, Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Ivo Deskovic, Regional Managing Partner for the CEE, explained that there has been a strong interest from international companies which do business in Bulgaria and said: "Thanks to the enormous demand for our services, we expect the number of employees in Sofia to double within the next 18 months. Although our office has opened only recently, we have already managed to secure clients such as Warner Brothers, Carrefour and Salamanca Capital."

The Sofia office will strengthen the presence of DLA Piper's 11 other offices across Central and Eastern Europe ("CEE") and the Commonwealth of Independent States ("CIS").

Peter Valert, DLA Piper's Office Managing Partner in Sofia said: "Bulgaria's EU-accession opens a new market not only for us but also for our clients. By establishing our own office in Sofia we are able to make sure that our clients are provided with high-quality advice in the most cost effective way directly on location."

Further guests at the opening celebration were: James Rigassio, of US Commercial Services in Bulgaria; Marc C Johnson of the US embassy in Bulgaria and Jurai Melioris of the embassy of the Czech Republic in Bulgaria.

03-13-2007

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Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

Noted Outsourcing Lawyer Rory Graham Joins Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis is pleased to announce that Rory Graham has joined the firm's London office as a partner in the Business and Finance Practice. Mr. Graham represents clients in complex technology-driven transactions, such as outsourcing, telecommunications, and other innovative, business-critical matters. He joins the firm with leading associate Simon White.

"The firm has seen significant growth in the number of major global outsourcing transactions that we have been involved in for our clients," said Phillip H. Werner, Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis. "Rory is an internationally recognized outsourcing, information technology, and telecommunications lawyer whose experience will help us further the growth of our outstanding outsourcing practice," he continued.

"Rory is one of the most highly regarded outsourcing, technology, media, and telecom attorneys in the United Kingdom and the world, having acted in the last 16 years on over 100 transactions in the U.K., U.S. and globally, with an aggregate value exceeding $25 billion," adds Robert A. Goldspink, Managing Partner of the firm's London office.

Mr. Graham's clients include FTSE 100/ Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions, as well as technology startups. His recent work has included advising on the creation of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in Europe and the United States.

Mr. Graham is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and is a law graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was made partner at Baker McKenzie at 27 years old. He was most recently head of Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP's outsourcing practice in its London office, and he is ranked in both Chambers Global and Chamber UK as a top-tier Information Technology attorney and in Chambers UK as a top-tier Business Process Outsourcing attorney. He is also rated as an expert in technology, outsourcing, telecoms, and digital media law in Legal 500,Global Telecoms 200, Who's Who of E-Commerce Lawyers, Who's Who of Telecoms Lawyers, and Legal Business.

Morgan Lewis Outsourcing

Rory Graham follows another leading Chambers-ranked attorney, John Funk, the former head of outsourcing for Jones Day, who joined Morgan Lewis last year. The practice also includes Chambers-ranked attorneys Richard Barratt in London and Ed Hansen, Barbara Melby, Michael Pillion, and Akiba Stern in the United States.
The more than 30 lawyers in the Outsourcing Practice at Morgan Lewis have a long history of structuring and negotiating complex outsourcing and managed services agreements. Morgan Lewis's outsourcing attorneys represent clients in a wide range of transactions—ranging from global IT outsourcing agreements to business process outsourcing agreements for such processes as human resources, finance and accounting, logistics, call centers, and claim processing. The firm offers experience across numerous regulated industries, with particular focus on the life sciences, energy, and financial services industries. The lawyers are able to draw on their own specialized skills as well as from the resources of many key practice areas throughout the firm, including labor and employee benefits, data privacy, tax, and intellectual property.

03-13-2007

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McDermott Will & Emery

Trademark and Copyright Practices Ranked Among Leading Firms
McDermott Will & Emery's Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department was ranked among the leading trademark and copyright firms in Managing Intellectual Property's annual survey of the world's leading IP firms (March 2007). McDermott was recognized in the trademark prosecution section as well as in the combined trademark/copyright litigation section in the United States.

This annual survey ranks the leading IP firms in the world in the area of trademark and copyright, and only firms that were rated highly in the research were included in the rankings. The results of the survey are based on interviews with hundreds of companies and practitioners worldwide and reveal which firms are rated by their peers for the strength and the depth of their practice. The rankings were determined from the results of interviews and research conducted between September 2006 and January 2007 across 65 jurisdictions.

McDermott's Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department includes more than 215 lawyers and patent agents working throughout the world. More than 150 members of our team hold technical and/or scientific degrees; 95 are patent bar members. We represent the interests of a broad range of clients in numerous industries including life sciences, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, media and telecommunications, internet-based communications, processor design and fabrication, computer hardware and software, and design technology. The Firm's trademark lawyers are dedicated to protecting what are often our clients’ most prized assets around the world—their brand names, identity and reputation. Our trademark practice combines the talents of more than 30 professionals who focus all or much of their regular practice on trademark, unfair competition and related matters. Members of our practice are listed as leaders in their field in International Who's Who of Trademark Lawyers, Chambers Global and Chambers USA.

03-13-2007

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