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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

MBHB Partners Quoted in Coverage of Medimmune Ruling
MBHB Partners Kevin E. Noonan, Ph.D. and Joshua R. Rich were quoted in IP Law 360's coverage of the Medimmune ruling.

Joshua R. Rich was also quoted in the Associated Press and Bloomberg coverage of the case.

01-10-2007

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Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow, L.L.P.

Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff LLP Forms Alliance With Leading Italian Law Firm Studio Legale Adami
Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff LLP and leading Italian law firm, Studio Legale Adami, announced today a joint alliance, dedicated to assisting Italian institutional investors to fulfill their fiduciary duties in recovering portfolio losses due to issuer fraud and mismanagement. The firms will represent Italian institutional investors in class actions and complex securities cases and provide related institutional investor services designed to preserve and, where necessary, to recover these investors assets.

Labaton Sucharow and Studio Legale Adami, headquartered in Verona, will work together to address the growing need for investor protection services in Italy. With the increase in investments by Italian institutional investors in the U.S. securities markets, combined with the level of financial fraud occurring in Italy, Europe, and the U.S., these sophisticated financial institutions now require an international perspective that will help safeguard their investments. This alliance directly speaks to that need.

"Studio Legale Adami has an enviable record of advising Italy's largest institutional investors on matters relating to global securities fraud and the recovery of investment losses due to fraud,” said Lawrence Sucharow, managing partner of Labaton Sucharow. “We are pleased and honored that they have agreed to work with Labaton Sucharow as part of our international network of law firms and experts which will provide our growing base of European institutional investors with an international perspective on their rights and remedies when securities fraud results in material portfolio losses. Today's global economy requires a broader awareness than national boundaries provide. We believe our arrangement with Studio Legale Adami furthers our international institutional clients' interests with respect to the breadth and depth of the advice we can provide."

Pietro Adami, founding member of Studio Legale Adami, which specializes in securities matters, international contracts and investment protection in Italy said, “This strategic alliance with Labaton Sucharow helps to create a fairer environment by using our legal skills to secure substantial monetary recoveries and corporate reform for our clients when they suffer losses in the U.S. securities markets due to fraud or mismanagement and seek compensation.”

Labaton Sucharow represents many of the most prestigious domestic and European institutional investors including pension funds from 13 different states, funds managed by city, county and other municipalities, banks, hedge funds, unions and major European asset managers and financial institutions. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Adami also shares his extensive knowledge and experience in international law as a Professor of Law at Padova University and as a teacher of private international law at Verona Law School.

01-10-2007

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Glankler Brown, PLLC

GLANKLER BROWN, PLLC ANNOUNCES NEW ASSOCIATE A. JAMES REED
Glankler Brown, PLLC is pleased to announce that A. James Reed has joined the firm as an Associate.

Mr. Reed concentrates his practice in the areas of business transactions, real estate and secured lending law. He received his B.S. degree, magna cum laude in Accounting from Union University in 2003 and his J.D. degree in 2006 from the University of Memphis. While attending the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Mr. Reed was recipient of the 2004 Legal Methods Best Oral Advocate Award. He is a member of the American, Tennessee and Memphis Bar Associations.

Prior to joining Glankler Brown PLLC, Mr. Reed handled real estate and other transactional matters as a trust officer for Regions Morgan Keegan Trust: Currently Mr. Reed is pursuing licensure as a Certified Public Accountant.

Glankler Brown, PLLC is a full service law firm that has engaged in the practice of law since the early 1900s. With a full service practice and experience in more than 20 different focus areas, our attorneys consistently deliver quality legal services to local, regional and national clients.

01-10-2007

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Davis Polk & Wardwell

Davis Polk Advises Greenhill Capital on Its Investment in Stroz Friedberg
Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Greenhill Capital Partners, LLC on its $30 million investment in Stroz Friedberg Inc., a New York-based national consulting and technical services firm specializing in digital forensics, electronic discovery, cyber-crime response and investigations.

Based in New York, Greenhill Capital manages several private equity funds with an aggregate of $1.3 billion in committed capital, focusing primarily on the financial services, energy and telecommunications industries.

The Davis Polk corporate team included partner Nancy L. Sanborn, associates Charles R. Nightingale and Waqaas Fahmawi and legal assistant Matthew Cohen. Partner William H. Weigel and associates Raymond J. Holst and Craig A. Phillips provided tax advice. Partner Barbara Nims and associate Ann Becchina provided employment advice. The intellectual property team included associate Stefan Quick (not yet admitted). Counsel James P. McIntyre and associates Regina Chang and Karla Booth provided real estate advice. All members of the Davis Polk team work in the New York office.

01-10-2007

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Vedder Price Kaufman Kammholz

Commercial Lending Shareholder Joins New York Office
The law firm of Vedder Price announces that Michael C. Nissim, formerly a partner with the New York office of McDermott, Will & Emery, joins its New York office as a Shareholder—effective today. As a member of the Vedder Price Finance and Transactions Group, Mr. Nissim will focus on the representation of commercial lenders, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) sponsors, private equity investors and international banks.

A graduate of New York University (B.A., cum laude, 1982) and Temple University School of Law (J.D., 1985), he has extensive commercial credit experience—including acquisition financing, asset-based lending, equity bridge financing, leveraged ESOP financing and a wide variety of credit enhancement arrangements.

“We are thrilled to have Michael Nissim join our firm’s largest practice area,” commented Michael A. Nemeroff, President of Vedder Price and the Chair of the firm’s Finance and Transactions Practice. “He is a highly-skilled transactional attorney and there is great synergy between the services that he provides his clients and those offered by the 60+ members of our group.”

Mr. Nissim has actively represented private banks throughout his career. He has advised private banks in a variety of secured and unsecured facilities, in transactions ranging from $5 to $250 million. Examples of his ESOP expertise include advising an ESOP-owned company in its $300 million revolving credit facility and accounts receivable securitization. In addition, he has substantial experience in distressed, high-yield and sovereign debt assignments and participations as well as debt and loan restructurings and workouts. He represented creditors in the Enron and Budget Rent-a-Car bankruptcy transactions.

His representation of international banks is also quite significant. For example, he advised the U.S. branch of a German bank in the issuance of over $2 billion in credit enhancement letters of credit. He represented a U.S. money-center bank in a $100 million revolving credit facility for a hedge fund borrower and he assisted an international corporate group in establishing a $750 million integrated cash management system for its U.S. subsidiaries.

Mr. Nissim is a member of the ESOP Association, the American Bar Association (Uniform Commercial Code and Letter of Credit subcommittees) and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is licensed to practice in the State of New York.

01-10-2007

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Troutman Sanders LLP

18 Troutman Sanders Attorneys Named 'Rising Stars' In Virginia
Troutman Sanders LLP is pleased to announce that 18 of its lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the 2007 edition of Law & Politics’ Virginia Super Lawyers – Rising Stars Edition. The list of attorneys will also be included in a special section in Richmond magazine.

For inclusion and distinction as a “Rising Star,” attorneys are selected by the most recent group of “Super Lawyers” – representing just 5 percent of attorneys in Virginia – and independent research by Law & Politics. The Super Lawyers are asked to vote for leading attorneys who are either 40 or under, or who have been practicing 10 years or fewer. They are also instructed to vote for lawyers they have personally observed in action (opposing counsel, co-counsel or other first-hand courtroom observation).

Only 2.5 percent of Virginia attorneys are named Rising Stars, and combined, they represent more than 60 practice areas.

Troutman Sanders’ 2007 Virginia Rising Stars are:

Name Primary Practice Area(s)

Susan Stoops Ancarrow Securities & Corporate Finance

Robert A. Angle Intellectual Property Litigation

R. Mason Bayler Jr. Securities & Corporate Finance

Coburn R. Beck Mergers & Acquisitions

Carl H. Bivens Real Estate

Edwin C. Cox Securities & Corporate Finance

Michael T. Damgard Business/Corporate

Paige S. Fitzgerald Administrative Law

Bryan M. Haynes Business Litigation

David I. Meyers Securities & Corporate Finance

Kevin W. Mottley Business Litigation

Megan C. Rahman Business Litigation

Melissa J. Roberts Personal Injury Defense: Products

Thomas M. Rose Securities & Corporate Finance

Nicole A. Skinner Securities & Corporate Finance

Krisina M. Vaquera Employment & Labor

Christopher E. Vinyard Business/Corporate

Kenneth N. Whitehurst III Business Litigation

About Law & Politics:

Law & Politics is a division of Key Professional Media, Inc. As a polling and research entity, it has been publishing legal magazines and conducting Super Lawyers balloting since 1990

01-10-2007

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Troutman Sanders LLP

Joseph A. Tessari Joins Troutman Sanders In Its Richmond Office
The law firm of Troutman Sanders LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Joseph A. Tessari to its Intellectual Property practice group in Richmond, Va.

Tessari comes to Troutman Sanders from the Tredegar Corporation, where he was the Director of Intellectual Property. Prior to working at Tredegar, he was Intellectual Property Counsel at Tyco Electronics, Corporate Counsel at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and an associate at the Paul & Paul law firm in Philadelphia, Pa.

“We are thrilled to welcome Joe to the firm,” said Ted Fauls - managing partner, Troutman Sanders’ Richmond office. “He brings to Troutman Sanders a broad range of experience dealing with patent, IP, merger and acquisition, business venture and trade secret litigation.”

“Joe has built an outstanding reputation as a lawyer over the past 21 years,” said Robert W. Webb Jr. – chairman and managing partner, Troutman Sanders. “He’ll be a great asset to our Intellectual Property practice group and will help to ensure that our clients get top-notch legal advice when it comes to IP, patent, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate law.”

Tessari's practice will focus primarily on handling patent matters, including strategic review and administration of patent portfolios, analyses concerning infringement, validity, freedom-to-operate, and patentability and design issues. Additionally, he will negotiate and review patent (domestic and foreign), IP, and merger and acquisition agreements; work with clients on potential IP concerns, including strategic counseling; review or create in-house IP policies, processes and procedures; draft, review and negotiate IP related agreements; and provide due diligence and other assistance in connection with merger and acquisition activities. He will also assist clients with trade secret litigation, business venture and alliance advice as well as counsel clients on sales and marketing, distribution and branding.

Tessari received a Bachelor of Science in toxicology, cum laude, from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science in 1982 and earned his J.D. from Vermont Law School, cum laude, in 1985. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, Virginia and before the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

01-10-2007

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