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Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P.

Baker & McKenzie Represents Oceanis Group Shareholders on Group's Sale to MFS Living and Leisure
Baker & McKenzie advised the shareholders of the Oceanis Group (one of the world's largest aquarium owners and operators) on the sale of the group to MFS Living and Leisure Group for in excess of A$150 million.

The International Oceanis Group has aquariums in Australia, South Korea, China and Thailand. The global nature of the Oceanis Group meant that Baker & McKenzie's lead partner Hamish Walton and partner Bruce Webb needed to "obtain relevant consents to facilitate transfer of the aquarium business in a number of jurisdictions," commented Walton. "Our team had to negotiate a very complex suite of documents in an extremely short time frame," he added.

The MFS Living and Leisure Group owns a diversified portfolio of large leisure businesses in Australian Alpine Enterprises Holdings Pty Ltd and Oceanis Holdings Ltd. MFS Living and Leisure Group was represented by Deacons in the transaction.

12-14-2006

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Preston, Gates, Ellis, Rouvelas & Meeds, L.L.P.

Partners Vote to Create "K&L Gates"
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP (K&LNG) and Preston Gates & Ellis LLP (PG&E) today announced that their partners have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a proposed combination of the two firms effective January 1, 2007.

The name of the combined firm will be Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, and the firm will be branded as "K&L Gates." K&L Gates will comprise approximately 1,400 lawyers and 21 offices located in North America, Europe and Asia. The combination will rank as one of the most substantial in the history of the legal profession, and it will create one of the world’s largest law firms. The firm will be expected to have revenue exceeding US$750 Million in 2007, its first full year of existence.

Peter Kalis, K&LNG’s Chairman and Managing Partner, and Karen Glover, PG&E’s Managing Partner, said "When voting in favor of this combination, our partners were asked by their firm leaderships to endorse a specific vision of a law firm, and they have enthusiastically done so. Asstated in the combination agreement,

"The goal of the Combination is to achieve a focused alignment of the Combined Firm’s business with the business of clients and potential clients in an era characterized by intense consolidation and globalization and to create a Combined Firm that is committed to exemplary client service, to ethical probity, to best practices in all aspects of the enterprise, to reasonable and appropriate opportunities for work-balanced careers, to professional excellence, to workplace diversity, to the health and well-being of all of its stakeholders, to reasoned discourse and articulate communications, to professional development, to financial soundness, to community service and representations pro bono publico, and to effective management including practice group management as a key means to accomplishing its objectives."

K&L Gates will be governed by a firmwide Management Committee whose seven-person Executive Committee is believed to be one of the most diverse such governance bodies in the profession, as it will include two women, one Asian American man, and one African American man. Kalis will serve as Chairman and Global Managing Partner, and Glover will serve as Global Integration Partner.

K&L Gates will have offices in Anchorage, Beijing, Boston, Coeur d’Alene, Dallas, Harrisburg, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York, Orange County, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Spokane, Taipei and Washington, D.C. K&L Gates counts among its strategic advantages:

* Global Reach and Critical Mass. With 1,400 lawyers spread among 21 offices on three continents, K&L Gates will be aligned with the businesses of leading clients and potential clients and will be among the largest law firms in the world.
* Global Financial and Commercial Centers. With New York, London, China and California acknowledged as strategic intersections in the global economy, K&L Gates will be positioned in each market to serve clients at the highest levels of legal sophistication.
* U.S. National Coverage. K&L Gates will provide national coverage in the U.S. with 17 U.S. offices and leading practices from coast to coast.
* European Presence. With 150 lawyers in Europe’s largest legal market, London, K&L Gates will be able to meet clients’ legal challenges arising under the U.K. and E.U. legal regimes and will be poised for further growth in London and on the European Continent.
* Asian Presence. With 50 lawyers spread among Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei, and with a license application pending in Shanghai, K&L Gates will be able to advise clients in this increasingly strategic part of the world.
* World Capitals. With the growing importance of governmental interventions in the markets, K&L Gates will be able to address clients’ concerns in Washington, London (including the E.U.) and Beijing as well as various state capitals in the U.S.
* Substantial Offices in Leading Business Centers. K&L Gates will have from 100 to 250 lawyers in each of a number of leading commercial and financial centers, including Boston, London, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Washington, DC; 20 to 100 lawyers in Dallas, Harrisburg, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, Portland, San Francisco, and Taipei; and smaller offices in Anchorage, Beijing, Orange County, Palo Alto, and Spokane/Coeur d’Alene.
* Strong Commitment to Regional Practices and Local Communities. K&L Gates will continue to build upon its deep commitment to its regional practices and to the local communities in which it resides.
* Dynamic Practices. K&L Gates’ practice will have the depth and breadth required by clients with the most sophisticated legal challenges, including the full range of practices in corporate and transactional, regulatory and policy, litigation and dispute resolution, intellectual property and financial services, and all supporting practices.
* Industry Identifications. K&L Gates will be strongly identified with a multiplicity of industries central to the global economy, including technology, financial services, manufacturing, energy, transportation, and life sciences, among others.
* An Unsurpassed Assemblage of Professional Leaders. Among the many distinguished members of the firm, K&L Gates will count a former Attorney General of the United States, a former United States Senator, one former President of the American Bar Association and one President-Elect of the American Bar Association, former Supreme Court Law Clerks, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, three recipients of The American Lawyer ’s Lifetime Achievement Award, present and former Editors-in-Chief of leading legal publications, former Rhodes Scholars and White House Fellows, prominent community leaders, authors of leading treatises, acclaimed trial lawyers and transactional lawyers, and two recipients of the SEC’s award for most distinguished alumni.

12-14-2006

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Patton Boggs LLP

Former CFTC Commissioner Fred W. Hatfield Joins Patton Boggs LLP
Fred W. Hatfield, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will join Patton Boggs LLP as a Senior Public Policy Advisor in early January 2007. Mr. Hatfield’s practice will focus on financial services and hedge fund-related matters.

“Fred is a valuable addition to the firm, combining comprehensive knowledge of financial policy with a sophisticated understanding of the political forces that influence and impact regulatory decisions,” said Patton Boggs’ Managing Partner, Stuart Pape. “These attributes will enhance our growing financial services practice.”

A prominent Democrat with several years of legislative and administrative experience, he was tapped by President Bush to serve as a CFTC Commissioner in December 2004. He facilitated discussions between the Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on single stock futures, foreign-based indexes, and debt security indexes. He also represented the CFTC at meetings of the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force, a federal interagency cooperative law enforcement effort chaired by the Deputy Attorney General.

Before joining the CFTC, Mr. Hatfield worked extensively on Capitol Hill serving as Chief of Staff to former Senator John Breaux (D-LA) and was Chief of Staff to former House Majority Whip, Tony Coelho (D-CA).

In addition, he served as Deputy Commissioner General of the U.S. Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Lisbon, Portugal in 1998.

In the private sector, Mr. Hatfield has worked as a Senior Vice President, Human Relations and Community Relations at Education Training Communications Inc., as a Partner at the lobbying firm, Copeland and Hatfield Government Affairs, and as a teacher in Fresno, California.

A native of California, Mr. Hatfield graduated summa cum laude from California State University, Fresno.

12-14-2006

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Moser & Marsalek, P.C.

Moser & Marsalek, P.C. elects a new Principal
The law firm of Moser and Marsalek, P.C. elected Zachary R. Pancoast as a Principal, effective January 1, 2007.

Zachary R. Pancoast , an attorney with Moser & Marsalek, P.C., since 2001, devotes his practice to Medical & Health Care Liability defense. Mr. Pancoast and The Medical & Health Care Liability group has defended hospitals, physicians, nurses, nursing homes and other healthcare institutions throughout Missouri and Illinois. Mr. Pancoast and the group also specialize in the defense of medical products and devices.

Mr. Pancoast is a member of The Missouri Bar, Illinois State Bar Association, American Bar Association, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Lawyer's Association of St. Louis and is licensed to practice in both Missouri and Illinois. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the St. Louis Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Mr. Pancoast holds a bachelor's degree from DePauw University. He received a Juris Doctoris and International Law Certificate from Saint Louis University School of Law in 2000.

12-14-2006

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Lommen, Nelson, Cole & Stageberg, P.A.

Veteran of Disney and Major Music Clients in Los Angeles Joins Leading Entertainment Firm in Central US
PAUL BEZILLA JOINS LOMMEN ABDO PRACTICE IN MUSIC, FILM, TV; WILL FOCUS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENT MATTERS.

With a resume minted in Los Angeles, veteran entertainment lawyer, Paul Bezilla, has joined the Twin Cities-based law firm of Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg, P.A. Bezilla’s 25-plus years in the entertainment industry includes legal services for an array of high profile individuals and companies, including Frank Sinatra, Cher, Quincy Jones, Warner Bros. Records, The Walt Disney Company, PolyGram Music Publishing and K-tel Records. Bezilla’s new position increases Lommen Abdo’s representation in the entertainment field to seven attorneys, further establishing it as the largest entertainment law practice based in the Midwest.

Bezilla joins Lommen Abdo to work on its music, film, television, technology and other entertainment law matters. He was born in Chicago, raised in Iowa and attended the University of Iowa College of Law, after touring with a rock band throughout much of the country following college.

“I’ve known the firm and its practice area for more than eight years and it’s very exciting to join Ken Abdo, Dan Satorius and the other lawyers as it becomes one of the leading entertainment law practices in the country, and certainly the dominant practice in the region,” says Bezilla. “The challenges that creators and owners of intellectual property face in the digital era throughout the entertainment industry require skilled and experienced lawyers. It’s a pleasure to join a firm whose reputation is well known in the business and highly regarded on both sides of the desk, not only in the Midwest but throughout the U.S. and other countries.”

“Paul’s golden resume speaks for itself,” notes Ken Abdo, who, with Dan Satorius, chairs Lommen Abdo’s growing entertainment department. Abdo was the former (and only Midwest) attorney to chair the American Bar Association’s Forum on Entertainment and Sports Law. He currently is the Chair of the Recording Academy’s (Grammy®) Entertainment Law Initiative. “Paul is highly skilled in all areas of music transactions and hits the ground running. As Lommen Abdo’s entertainment division continues to serve clients all over the world, and in new media, Paul’s experiences are a great asset, not only to the firm but to its varied client list. We’re elated he’s joined us to help enhance our practice.

12-14-2006

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Larson · King, LLP

Schooler to serve on North Central Region Trial Academy faculty
Voted to be part of the top 5% of lawyers in the State, eight of Kemp Klein Law Firm’s attorneys are listed in Super Lawyers 2006, a magazine using peer balloting, independent research, and blue ribbon panel to review attorneys and select the top lawyers

12-14-2006

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Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP Closes on Acquisition and Financing of 50 Kennedy Plaza and 59-63 Westminister Street in Providence
Representing O'Connor Capital Partners, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP successfully closed the acquisition and financing of 50 Kennedy Plaza and 59-63 Westminister Street (Exchange Building) in Providence, RI

12-14-2006

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