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Winston & Strawn, LLP

Winston & Strawn Advises Soitec on €200 Million Public Offering
Soitec, a French public company and the world's leading innovator and provider of engineered substrates that serve as the foundation for today's most advanced electronic products, recently completed a public offering that raised €204.7 million. The transaction, carried out in a period of strong growth for this company, is designed to allow the company to pursue its dynamic of expansion and finance in part a new production facility for 300mm wafers.

This public offering consisted of an issuance of 7.8 million newly issued shares sold by the company, and 1.1 million shares sold by certain members of senior management.

This transaction is the largest transaction to date made under recently introduced French securities regulations designed to facilitate accelerated book-building placements by issuers. The placement with institutional investors was a great success, which is expected to encourage the use of this procedure.

Soitec was represented by Winston & Strawn, its regular counsel. The team was led by Paris partners Jerome Herbet and Robert Flanigan, and assisted by Carole Sabbah. Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited, lead manager and Calyon, joint co-manager, were represented by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Winston & Strawn is a 152-year-old commercial law firm with nearly 900 attorneys in nine offices including Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Geneva and Moscow.

04-18-2006

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Ashurst LLP

Ashurst Paris advises Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited on the acquisition of Holding Sports Evénements, owner of Paris Saint-Germain football club
Ashurst Paris is advising Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited in relation to the acquisition of Holding Sports Evénements by Colony Capital SAS, Butler Capital Partners and Morgan Stanley & Co. International Limited.

Holding Sports Evénements owns 100 per cent of the capital of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), the French capital's major football club and winner of two national championships. The club is being sold by broadcaster CANAL+, part of the Vivendi Universal group.

Alain Cayzac, a long-time executive of PSG, will take up shares in the club again and become its chairman.

The Ashurst team comprises partners Jean-Pierre Farges and Bertrand Delaunay.

Veil Jourde (Guillaume Kuperfils) is advising Colony Capital SAS and Clifford Chance (Thierry Schoen) is advising Butler Capital Partners.
Lazard is acting as financial adviser to CANAL+.

04-18-2006

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Ashurst LLP

Ashurst advised Moto on its sale to Macquarie Bank
Ashurst advised the management of Moto, the motorway services division of Select Service Partner, on its sale to Macquarie Bank by Compass Group.

Compass Group is the world's largest contract caterer, with a presence in 90 countries worldwide and over 400,000 employees. Its Moto division operates 48 motorway service stations in the UK.

The Ashurst team was led by corporate partner Stephen Lloyd, assisted by tax partner Patricia Allen and employee benefits and incentives partner Paul Randall.

Travers Smith acted for Macquarie.

04-18-2006

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Ashurst LLP

Ashurst advised Nomura in relation to a £25 million investment in Chroma Therapeutics
Ashurst advised Nomura in its capacity as leader of a third-round £25 million investment in Chroma Therapeutics. Nomura provided £10 million of the investment itself.

Chroma Therapeutics is a UK-based biotechnology company focused on small molecule cancer and inflammation therapies.

The Ashurst team comprised corporate partner Stephen Lloyd, assisted by solicitor Shona Power.
Wragge & Co (Ian Piggin) advised Chroma Therapeutics.

04-18-2006

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Conley Rose, P.C.

New Patent Agent and Associate
Michael E. Ramon has joined the Austin office of Conley Rose, P.C. as a patent agent and John Leonard has joined the Dallas office of the Firm as an associate. Mr. Ramon holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in the electrical arts, including computer systems, software design, microprocessor architecture, analog and digital integrated circuit design, solid-state device physics, and semiconductor processing. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Ramon worked with Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas as a research and reliability engineer for the Advanced Products Research and Development Lab working on high-K gate dielectrics, strained silicon devices, and flash memories. His graduate coursework also included studies in nanoelectronics, organic and polymer semiconductor devices, and MEMS systems.

Mr. Leonard specializes in the electrical and computing arts, including computer systems and software design. His practice is primarily focused on prosecuting patents and advising clients on legal and technical issues. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Leonard worked for the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport Board as a software designer for the Central Utility Plant. He interned for the Honorable Ruben Brooks, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California. Mr. Leonard also taught courses in Argument and Research for the University of California at Irvine.

04-18-2006

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Neuberger, Quinn, Gielen, Rubin & Gibber, P.A.

Derrick Williams Joins Nelson Mullins
Derrick L. Williams has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as an associate in the Columbia office, bringing with him experience as a defense litigator who handles cases ranging from premises liability and workers' compensation to employment and labor related issues. He will practice in the areas of business and franchise litigation, as well as employment and labor litigation.

Williams has successfully represented clients in motions hearings, mediations and arbitrations. He has argued motions before both state and federal courts and has conducted hearings and appeals before the S.C. Employment Security Commission and the S.C. Workers’ Compensation Commission.

Active in his community, Williams serves as Gov. Mark Sanford’s 2005 appointee to the Board of Trustees of the John de la Howe School, a residential group child-care agency for at-risk youth. He also is affiliated with the Defense Research Institute, the American Bar Association, the S.C. Bar Association, the Richland County Bar Association (Membership Committee chair), the S.C. Defense Trial Attorneys Association, and the College of Charleston Attorney Assistance Program. He is also the Young Lawyer Representative to the S.C. Bar Foundation Board. He serves on the board of Columbia Opportunity Resource (COR), which is dedicated to fostering a greater sense of civic and community involvement in the Midlands through social, political and cultural education, communication, development and action.

Williams earned a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was a member of the S.C. Environmental Law Journal. A Florence native, he has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the Honors Program at the College of Charleston. He formerly practiced at a Columbia law firm.

Nelson Mullins, established in 1897, has more than 360 attorneys practicing from offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Raleigh, Washington and Winston-Salem. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com, or call (803) 255-9788 or (803) 255-9280.

04-18-2006

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Mason, Hayes & Curran

Mason Hayes+Curran move to South Bank House
Mason Hayes+Curran today (18 April, 2006) move into South Bank House, a purpose built nine-storey building on Barrow Street in the up and coming Dublin Docklands area. The first law firm to move into the Docklands area, the move consolidates Mason Hayes+Curran’s three existing premises providing the firm with a state of the art office space in a prime location .

Built to specifications devised through an extensive consultation process with Mason Hayes+Curran’s 200 plus staff, South Bank House’s 60,000 square feet will be entirely open plan, a first for an Irish law firm. The building features an atrium extending up five floors to provide plenty of natural light and a fifth floor landscaped terrace garden with views over Dublin Bay.

The enhanced working environment includes a staff café and fully equipped kitchen, multi media facilities, a dedicated training area, gym, exercise space and best in class IT and communications systems.

The building was designed with staff safety and comfort at the forefront of all decisions made. The atrium features sound absorbing tiles built into the walls, to combat excess noise and prevent echoes reverberating from the ground floor upwards. Flood gates were designed and built in Cologne and installed in the basement car park. Two floors of client meeting rooms have also been incorporated into the plan.

Commenting on the firm’s move, managing partner Declan Moylan said,

“The move to South Bank House presents exciting opportunities for Mason Hayes+Curran to further develop and enhance our proposition to clients. Dublin Docklands is undergoing a rapid transformation and is fast becoming the hub of Dublin’s commercial activity. We are delighted to be a part of this progress”.

Today’s move is the culmination of three years internal and external planning and consultation. In partnership with architects Anthony Reddy & Associates, all staff have been actively involved in all elements and stages of the development – from the naming of the building and aesthetic design, its acoustics, natural light provisions, floor plans and use of space.

The move from three premises on Leeson Street and Fitzwilliam Square into South Bank House has involved a fleet of delivery and removal vans, specialist archivists, storage facilitators, IT specialists as well as the support and co-operation of Mason Hayes+Curran’s own staff.

For information on how to get to South Bank House click here

04-18-2006

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