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Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Chadbourne Represented Plum Point Energy Associates in $750 Million Financing
Chadbourne & Parke LLP represented Plum Point Energy Associates, LLC in a $750 million financing for a 665 megawatt coal-fired power station in Osceola, Ark.

The financing, which closed on March 14, included $575 million of senior debt and $175 million of subordinated debt. A $100 million tax-exempt financing will be added later.

Simultaneously with the financial closing, Plum Point sold to and leased back the project from the City of Osceola and then sold tenancy-in-common interests in the project lease to three entities.

Chadbourne partners working on the deal were Paul Weber and Dick Leder in New York, and Keith Martin, Bob Shapiro and Andrew Giaccia in Washington, D.C. Also working on the deal were counsel Tom Charbonneau and Laura Hegedus and associates Aruna Spencer, Karen Bailey, Lauren Garsten, Jeremy Rosenshine and Ben Koenigsberg.

About Chadbourne & Parke LLP

Chadbourne & Parke LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York City, provides a full range of legal services, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, project finance, private equity, corporate finance, energy, communications and technology, commercial and products liability litigation, securities litigation and regulatory enforcement, special investigations and litigation, intellectual property, antitrust, domestic and international tax, insurance and reinsurance, environmental, real estate, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, employment law and ERISA, trusts and estates and government contract matters. Major geographical areas of concentration include Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS, and Latin America. The Firm has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Houston, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Almaty, Warsaw (through a Polish partnership), Beijing, and a multinational partnership, Chadbourne & Parke, in London.

03-21-2006

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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Buchanan Ingersoll Shareholder Wendy Newton Honored Among Women at the Helm
"Buchanan Ingersoll shareholder Wendelynne J. Newton was honored among the ""Women at the Helm"" in a supplement to the March 21, 2006, edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

As part of the newspaper's annual ranking of the Top 50 corporate performers in Pittsburgh business, the Post-Gazette added a twist this year by researching the number of women who hold executive roles in the public and private companies, universities, foundations, arts organizations and nonprofit health care foundations in Pittsburgh. Newton was found among those leaders.

The article highlighted Newton's career at Buchanan Ingersoll, which she joined in 1981 at a time when ""the big firms were traditionally male, and antitrust was a male-dominated area,"" according to Newton.

Newton, an antitrust attorney, now leads the firm's litigation practice in Pittsburgh.

""In some ways, I was more scrutinized,"" Newton told the Post-Gazette. ""It's an extra burden, but one that I was aware of.""

When asked about the reaction to her giving birth to her first of two children in 1988, Newton replied, ""Law firms hadn't seen women give birth, take three months off and come back full time. Today, nobody thinks twice about coming back.""

The article went on to highlight Newton's educational background, as well as examples of cases she has handled and her community involvement.

Newton advised young women to research potential employers to determine how women are treated within the company, as well as how many women hold management positions. She noted that women in decision-making positions should keep in mind the struggle professional women face in finding balance between careers and families.

""How you act reflects on the women coming behind you. If you do away with an alternative work schedule, it affects other women,"" Newton said. ""We bear that responsibility.""
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03-21-2006

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Quarles & Brady

Quarles & Brady Streich Lang Partner Honored as Arizona Woman’s Legal Star
Leezie Kim, a partner in Quarles & Brady Streich Lang LLP’s Corporate Services Group, is featured in the March 2006 edition of Arizona Woman as a Legal Star.

Ms. Kim was selected by Arizona Woman as one of five female attorneys who are among Arizona’s best and brightest. She is noted as the first Asian-American woman partner in the firm’s history. Ms. Kim’s expertise in representing technology firms in international mergers and acquisitions and dedication to volunteering her services to the community aided in receiving this honor.

“No matter what you do, if you care about the people you’re working with and for, you’ll end up doing it well. That’s one of the unifying traits of all five us honored,” said Kim. I feel lucky to have a career I find so interesting and to work with people I genuinely like.”

Leezie Kim practices in the area of corporate finance and securities and mergers and acquisitions. She represents both publicly-traded and private, domestic and international companies in their securities and corporate matters. Recently, she was the Executive Director of the Governor’s Citizen Finance Review Commission and listed as “Best Lawyer Under 40” by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Ms. Kim is a board member for Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation and the Phoenix Library Foundation.

03-21-2006

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Duane Morris, LLP

IP Attorney James Markey Joins Duane Morris\' New York Office
Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that James G. Markey, formerly of Winston & Strawn LLP, has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in New York. Nationally, the IP practice has expanded by nearly 50 percent in the last three years, giving the firm one of the larger groups of patent and trademark attorneys in a general practice law firm. In the past year, the New York office also has expanded, adding seven partners.

With nearly two decades of experience counseling clients in the pharmaceutical, industrial gases and chemicals, healthcare products and clothing industries, James focuses his practice on matters of patent and trademark law as well as complex patent and trademark litigation and prosecution. He has participated in cases involving trade secrets and unfair competition, as well as antitrust issues. Prior to going to Winston & Strawn, James worked with Jones Day and Pennie & Edmonds LLP. James also brings strong industry experience to the firm: Prior to becoming an IP attorney, he worked as a design engineer at a heat transfer equipment manufacturing company in New York.

James is admitted to practice in New York and Florida, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. After earning a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College in 1981, James received his J.D. from St. John's University in 1985.

About Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP, among the 100 largest law firms in the United States, is a full-service firm of more than 600 lawyers. In addition to legal services, Duane Morris has independent affiliates employing approximately 100 professionals engaged in other disciplines. With offices in major markets, and as part of an international network of independent law firms, Duane Morris represents clients across the nation and around the world.

03-21-2006

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Proskauer & Rose, LLP

Proskauer Rose Announces 2005 Private Equity Fundraising and Fund Formation Statistics
Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 700 lawyers in the United States and Europe, announced that its private equity practice represented sponsors in closing over 60 private equity funds with over $20 billion in committed capital and closed over 300 private equity investments representing over $9.7 billion in 2005, demonstrating the firm's position as one of the world's leading practices in the area of private equity fund formation. Through its representation of sponsors, investors and industry service providers, the firm was involved with over 70 percent of the private equity funds raised in the United States in 2005. Proskauer has also been ranked third in Private Equity Analyst's 2005 league tables of most active law firms representing private equity funds.

Led by Robin Painter and David Tegeler, who are widely recognized as two of the world's foremost practitioners in the industry, Proskauer's private equity practice encompasses over 70 attorneys working in all of the firm's offices in the U.S. and Europe.

""The private equity market continues to grow and as it does, the important funds, sponsors and institutional investors that are driving this performance continue to turn to us,"" said Bruce L. Lieb, co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department. ""Our private equity practice has been a major force behind the growth of the firm's Corporate Department and our ability to provide sophisticated representation for our clients in fund formation, transactional and day-to-day management matters positions us to continue our role as a leading player in the market.""

A sample of private equity matters Proskauer handled in 2005 includes:

Representing Spectrum Equity Investors in structuring their fifth fund totaling over $1 billion. The fund is a buyout fund focused on investments in telecommunications and media companies.

Representing Abbott Capital Management, LLC in its latest venture, an $850 million fund of funds. The new fund, Abbott Capital Private Equity Fund V, L.P. will balance its investments between early stage, late stage, buyout, and special situation funds.

Represented Clarus Ventures in the closing of its inaugural fund - Clarus Lifesciences I, L.P. Clarus Ventures' first fund has $500 million in limited partner commitments and will invest primarily in U.S.-based biopharmaceutical and specialty pharma companies with products in development at value inflection points in their lifecycle. Secondary areas of focus will be companies specializing in biotechnology platforms or medical devices, European life sciences companies, and private investments in public entities (PIPEs).
Proskauer's private equity group is a highly sophisticated and diverse practice that represents clients around the world in nearly every significant area including: fund formation; early- and late-stage investments; leveraged recapitalizations; management buyouts; mergers and acquisitions; and dispositions of portfolio companies.

03-21-2006

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Gail Migdal Title Honored as Litigator of the Year by Century City Bar Association
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that Gail Migdal Title, head of the Firm’s Entertainment Litigation Practice and managing partner of its Los Angeles office, has been selected as Litigator of the Year by the Century City Bar Association. Ms. Title was honored at the Century City Bar Association’s 38th Annual Installation Dinner and Awards Ceremony on March 15 at the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa.
“Gail is one of the entertainment industry’s finest and most respected litigators,” said Vincent A.F. Sergi, national managing partner of Katten Muchin Rosenman. “We are very proud that she has been selected for this most deserved honor.”
In addition to serving as managing partner of Katten Muchin Rosenman’s Los Angeles office, Ms. Title is a member of the Firm's national Executive Committee and Board of Directors, as well as head of the Entertainment Litigation Practice.
Ms. Title is also a practicing litigator, handling a range of legal and business issues that arise in commercial disputes, with particular focus on the entertainment industry where her practice includes development, finance, production and distribution and involves trademark, unfair competition, contract, and business torts. Her practice encompasses all aspects of the entertainment industry, from motion picture and television development, finance, and production, to distribution in all media worldwide. She has extensive experience in state and federal, trial and appellate courts, as well as in arbitration tribunals.
Ms. Title has been involved in numerous precedent setting intellectual property cases, including representing several studios as amici in Grosso v. Miramax, a recent Ninth Circuit decision regarding copyright preemption, as well as representing petitioner Miramax in the United States Supreme Court in the same matter. She also represented Tom Clancy in Sohmer v. Clancy, a case that focused on the impact of the LMRA on the author's rights under the Copyright Act and representation of television exhibitors with respect to restoration of copyrights in foreign works under GATT and the Uruguay Accords.
Ms. Title has also handled many entertainment industry accounting disputes, primarily in defense of producers in actions brought by profit participants. She won judgments in favor of such producers in Anthony Yerkovich v. Universal; James Garner v. Universal; and DeGuere v. Universal. Additionally, Ms. Title also handled the case of Enright, et al. v. Universal, et al., in which she successfully defended a multi-billion dollar suit challenging the studio's distribution practices worldwide.
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Ms. Title is a recognized leader in the Los Angeles legal community and the recipient of the Top Women Lawyers in Business WLALA Women of Distinction award. She was recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas in 2004 and 2005 by Los Angeles Magazine Inc. and is included in Marquis Who’s Who. Ms. Title regularly lectures on a wide range of entertainment, business, and ethics-related matters, and has served as a commentator on MSNBC and in various print publications.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (www.kattenlaw.com) is a national, full-service law firm with offices in the nation's largest centers of business, government, finance and technology and an associated entity in London. The Firm’s 600 attorneys in more than 40 practice areas provide timely and cost-effective counsel to clients in numerous industries. They serve as business advisors and advocates for a wide range of public and private companies - from entrepreneurial, emerging-growth, and middle market firms to global Fortune 100 corporations - as well as government entities, non-profits, and charitable and cultural organizations.

03-21-2006

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Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P.

Dorsey & Whitney Names Diversity Fellowship Recipients
The global law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP today announced that Safiya Morgan and H. Ray Liaw are recipients of the Dorsey & Whitney Diversity Fellowship, a new diversity promotion program in the firm’s Minneapolis and Seattle offices. Each will join Dorsey as summer associates this year. Morgan will work in Minneapolis, and Liaw will be based in the firm’s Seattle office. And each receives $10,000 to be applied towards law school tuition and expenses during the 2006 - 2007 school year.

Safiya Morgan and H. Ray Liaw are first-year law students who have demonstrated academic achievement and a commitment to promoting diversity in the legal community. Morgan attends Vanderbilt University Law School and Liaw is a student at the University of Washington School of Law.

“We were heartened and delighted by the number of applicants,” said Cornell Moore, co-chair of the Dorsey Diversity committee. “We heard from an amazing variety of law students located all over the country. Choosing two recipients wasn’t easy, but Safiya and Ray are particularly strong candidates.”

“We look forward to an exciting, productive summer,” said Melissa Raphan, Diversity co-chair at Dorsey. “I’m optimistic that Safiya and Ray will benefit from their experience as summer associates at Dorsey, and I’m sure that the firm’s diversity initiatives will benefit from having them with us.”

The Dorsey & Whitney Diversity Fellowship is a natural extension of the firm’s commitment to diversity. The firm understands the value of a diverse work environment, and is resolved to attract, recruit, retain, and advance attorneys from diverse backgrounds.

Dorsey supports numerous organizations that promote diversity in the legal community, including the Human Rights Campaign, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and Minnesota Women Lawyers. The firm actively recruits from minority job fairs each fall and has hosted minority job fairs. In addition, Dorsey encourages attorneys to become involved in internal networking and affinity groups as well as local minority and women’s bar associations.

03-21-2006

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