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Roetzel & Andress A Legal Professional Association

Roetzel & Andress Named A Fund 25 Member Firm
Roetzel & Andress has been recognized for the sixth consecutive year by the Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund (The Fund) as a Fund 25 member firm. The law firm, with offices throughout Florida, ranked an impressive fifth on the list of 25 firms in the state of Florida.

""We are pleased to announce Roetzel & Andress is a member of The Fund 25,"" said Charles J. Kovaleski, president of Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund. ""With the Fund 25 designation, they rank among an elite group in our industry and the legal profession.""

With over 6,000 member attorneys, Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund, Inc. is Florida's leading title insurance underwriter and title information provider. The Fund 25 members are determined by the level of business conducted with the Fund the prior year.

The Fund invites representatives from the top 25 firms to attend the exclusive ""Annual Meeting of The Fund 25,"" where attendees have the opportunity to learn what's on the horizon for the title industry and real estate practice in Florida.

Roetzel & Andress attorneys, Mark Price, partner-in-charge of the Naples office, and Doug Lewis, associate, attended this year's annual meeting in March at the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Key Biscayne. The meeting provides an opportunity for member firms' attorneys to interact with colleagues from around the state, exchange views and discuss issues with the Fund's executive management team and board of directors.

05-03-2006

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Rich May, a Professional Corporation

Rich May Attorneys Tom Bilodeau and Scott Stokes Named Rising Stars - Among Top Young Lawyers in Massachusetts
Rich May business law attorneys, Thomas H. Bilodeau, III and Scott A. Stokes, were recently named among the top young lawyers in Massachusetts in the 2006 edition of Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars in Business/Corporate and Securities & Corporate Finance, respectively. 2.5% of Massachusetts attorneys have been named as Rising Stars and all are 40 or younger or have been practicing for ten or fewer years. Rising Stars were selected through a balloting process where previously selected Massachusetts Super Lawyers voted for whom they believed to have the most potential for the future.



For more information: www.superlawyers.com



About Rich May

Rich May’s diverse practice embraces the organization and operation of business ventures, venture capital, private placements, hedge funds, public offerings, technology licensing, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, joint ventures, internet and e-commerce law, employee relations, intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution, energy, telecommunications, public utilities, wealth planning and real estate. Rich May provides superior legal and strategic counsel through its extraordinary commitment to clients’ success, outstanding professional competence and straightforward ability to communicate. Rich May embraces an entrepreneurial spirit and maintains a mission execution culture that distinguishes Rich May from other law firms.

Rich May combines the stability and experience of one of Boston’s oldest preeminent law firms with the innovative spirit and energy of a venture catalyst intensely focused on serving high-tech entrepreneurs, emerging companies and investors in New England and throughout the United States.

05-03-2006

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Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, Pachios & Haley, L.L.P.

Preti Flaherty Welcomes Puffer and Fawcett to Concord, Portland Offices
Preti Flaherty today announced two new attorneys have joined the firm, strengthening its Real Estate Law, Litigation and Municipal Law groups. Mark H. Puffer has joined the Real Estate Law, Litigation and Municipal Law groups as Of Counsel in the firm’s Concord, N.H., office. Katherine W. Fawcett has joined the Litigation group as Of Counsel in the Portland, Maine, office.

Mark H. Puffer will practice municipal and real estate law, as well as civil litigation, from Concord. Prior to joining Preti Flaherty, Mark practiced as a partner-director with Barto and Puffer, P.A. in Concord where he focused primarily on municipal and administrative law. He also served as an assistant attorney general with the State of New Hampshire Office of Attorney General. He is a graduate of Boston College Law School and Bates College, and is admitted to practice in New Hampshire. He resides in Concord, N.H.

Katherine W. Fawcett joined the Litigation group as Of Counsel and will practice from the firm’s Portland office. She previously practiced as an associate with a small local firm, focusing on medical malpractice and other litigation. Katherine is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and Colby College. She is admitted to practice in Maine and resides in Portland.

About Preti

Preti Flaherty has offices in Portland, Bath and Augusta, Maine, Concord, N.H. and Boston, Mass. With more than 80 attorneys, the firm counsels clients in the areas of business law, energy, environmental, estate planning, health care, intellectual property, labor and employment, legislative and regulatory, litigation, technology and telecommunications.

05-03-2006

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McDonald Hopkins, LLC

Elizabeth A. Wambsgans Joins the Business Restructuring and Litigation Departments of McDonald Hopkins Co., LPA
Elizabeth A. Wambsgans has joined the law firm of McDonald
Hopkins Co., LPA as an Associate in the Business Restructuring Department. Elizabeth will focus
her practice on Chapter 11 reorganizations, debt restructuring and creditors’ rights matters. She will
also focus her practice in commercial litigation, handling matters such as discovery and motion
practice.
Ms. Wambsgans earned her J.D., magna cum laude, in 2005, from Cleveland-Marshall
College of Law and her B.A., magna cum laude, in 2002, from Hiram College.
McDonald Hopkins is a Cleveland-based law firm focused on the needs of middle and
upper-middle market businesses nationally. The firm’s offices are located in Cleveland and
Columbus, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and West Palm Beach, Florida, and are organized into service
departments that include Business Law, Business Restructuring, Litigation, and Estate Planning and
Probate Law. More information about McDonald Hopkins can be found at
www.mcdonaldhopkins.com.

05-03-2006

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Beveridge & Diamond PC

Nicholas van Aelstyn and Kenneth Finney Join Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., the environmental, land use, and litigation law firm, is pleased to announce that Nicholas W. van Aelstyn and Kenneth B. Finney have joined the firm as directors in its San Francisco office. Finney’s practice areas are environmental and land-use law, and related insurance recovery law, in both litigation and regulatory/administrative proceedings, and van Aelstyn practices environmental law as well as intellectual property and commercial litigation. In addition, Ryan Tacorda joins as an associate. Previously, they were shareholders and associate at Heller Ehrman L.L.P.

"Ken and Nico have well-earned reputations for excellence in their fields of practice. Together with Ryan, they bring valued experience in local and regional issues of concern to our national and international clients doing business in California and they enhance our ability to serve our clients’ needs at the intersection of intellectual property and environmental issues. Nico, Ken and Ryan share our vision of what a law firm should be and provide a strong foundation for the further expansion of this office," said San Francisco office managing director Gary J. Smith.

"Nico and I are excited to be joining a firm with a national reputation and depth of experience in the environmental and land use areas in which we practice. This move expands our opportunities and enables us to serve our clients in these areas more cost-effectively with increased resources," said Ken Finney.

"We are thrilled to welcome Nico, Ken and Ryan. Their addition is a big step in our effort to continue growing this office, implementing the firm’s strategy and model for offices across the country. As larger general practice law firms increasingly move away from environmental law, we are in a unique position to hire the best lawyers and we are aggressively pursuing this strategy, in California and in other offices," said Rob Brager, Managing Director of Beveridge & Diamond.

Nicholas W. van Aelstyn’s environmental practice includes cost recovery litigation, representation of PRP groups at Superfund sites, Brownfields redevelopment, and counseling re sustainability, insurance, regulatory and transactional matters. His IP litigation practice includes misappropriation of trade secrets and patent infringement cases, and his commercial litigation practice includes real estate, insurance coverage and other matters. He has appeared in state and federal courts, handled ADR proceedings, and negotiated settlements and other agreements with agencies and private parties. van Aelstyn also has an active appellate practice. He recently won a major victory in the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Oregon, where he was lead counsel for the terminally ill patients defending Oregon’s physician-assisted dying law. His pro bono practice is wide-ranging and includes international human rights. He was lead trial counsel in the case that was the first to hold anyone accountable for the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador.

van Aelstyn received his B.A. from Williams College in 1986 and his J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1990, where he was associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation and a member of the Order of the Coif. van Aelstyn is a former Motions Law Clerk to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation, Intellectual Property, Environmental and International Sections), the State Bar of California, and the Bar Association of San Francisco; he also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Justice & Accountability.

Kenneth B. Finney has extensive experience with California and federal statutes and regulatory programs in the areas of hazardous substances, natural resources and worker safety. In addition to land-use permitting and litigation, his practice has included serving as: outside counsel for major corporations handling the full range of environmental and land-use regulatory, litigation and transaction matters; litigation counsel in federal and state courts on specific environmental and land-use litigation engagements; and, administrative law counsel in proceedings, including before the federal Environmental Appeals Board, with respect to government environmental, worker safety and land use actions. Finney has handled significant enforcement and variance proceedings before California Air Quality Management Districts and Regional Water Quality Control Boards.

Prior to his legal career, Mr. Finney worked in the California Governor’s Office as the Assistant to the Governor for Toxic Substances Control, and worked in the California Legislature as a Consultant to the California State Senate Committee on Natural Resources, and as a Legislative Aide for a State Senator whose district spanned from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. In those capacities, he drafted and negotiated numerous statutes and administrative policy initiatives in toxic substances control and resource protection. Among other things, he drafted the legislation creating CalOSHA’s Worker Right-to-Know Hazard Communication System and was responsible for the administrative creation of the Division of Toxic Substances Control.

Finney received his B.A. from Reed College in 1978, his M.S. from University of California, Berkeley in 1987 and his J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1987. He is a member of the American Bar Association and State Bar of California.

Ryan Tacorda is an associate practicing environmental law. He had previously worked at Public Advocates, Inc. on educational equity issues and at the Asian Pacific American Law Center in its Legal Services Unit. He received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1997, and his J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. He was the managing editor of UCLA Law Review, and comments editor of Asian Pacific American Law Journal. He is a member of the State Bar of California.

05-02-2006

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Ashurst LLP

Ashurst advises Intermediate Capital Group PLC on NOK 4,320 million acquisition financing
Ashurst is advising Intermediate Capital Group PLC on the provision of subordinated debt and equity financing to Engel Holding AS, in connection with its NOK 4,320 million (£383.8 million) offer for Visma ASA.

Visma is a Norwegian-based provider of business software and IT consultancy services to several European countries. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and employs around 2,000 people. Engel Holding, the Norwegian acquisition vehicle, is wholly-owned by Hg Capital.

The Ashurst team is led by international finance partner James Hogben and comprises corporate partners Charlie Geffen and David Carter, as well as corporate solicitor David Arnold.

Linklaters (Richard Youle) is acting for Hg Capital and Engel. Clifford Chance (Emma Foulds) is advising Citibank.

05-02-2006

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Ashurst LLP

Ashurst advised HSBC Trinkhaus & Burkhardt on a €280 million CLO
Ashurst advised HSBC Trinkhaus & Burkhardt KGaA in its capacity as underwriter of a €280 million multi-tranche collateralised loan obligation (CLO) by H.E.A.T. Mezzanine S.A., a Luxembourg-based special purpose vehicle.

The Ashurst team comprised international finance partner Gonzalo Fernandez with solicitors Paul Parker and Indra Rajaratnam.

An Ashurst team comprising international finance partner Richard Kendall and solicitors Paul Murdoch and Katie Tam also advised BNP Paribas Trust Corporation UK Limited in its capacity as trustee.

Latham & Watkins advised on German law aspects of the CLO. Bonn, Schnitt & Steichen advised on Luxembourg law aspects.

05-02-2006

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