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Nixon & Peabody, LLP

Nixon Peabody Grows Rhode Island Presence with the Addition of Four New Attorneys
Providence, Rhode Island. National law firm Nixon Peabody LLP announced today that it has expanded its Rhode Island presence by adding four new attorneys to the firm’s Providence office.

Mssrs. Gregory L. Benik, Neal J. McNamara, and Matthew J. Frankel each join the firm from the Providence office of Holland & Knight LLP. Jason P. Marino joins the firm from the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

“Nixon Peabody has a strong presence in New England and across the United States, Greg, Neal, Matthew, and Jason bring to Nixon Peabody an exceptional range of experience, knowledge, and relationships within their respective industries. Their addition to our Providence office marks a significant step in our growth strategy, and will allow us to expand the breadth and depth of the services we are already offering to our New England–based clients and national companies doing business here,” said Patricia J. Igoe, managing partner of the Providence office.

Mr. Benik joins the firm as a partner and will be a member of Nixon Peabody’s Energy and Environment Group, bringing tremendous experience in the areas of natural resources, energy and environmental law, administrative law, and litigation. His practice focuses on environmental matters including compliance with state and federal air and water pollution, Superfund, land use, hazardous waste regulatory programs, environmental insurance coverage issues, federal and state court litigation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. In addition, his representation of clients extends to state and federal administrative and judicial permitting, rule making, utility rate making, and enforcement proceedings.

Mr. Benik has extensive experience in representing clients before state and federal regulatory authorities, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and numerous state environmental regulatory agencies. He is admitted to practice before the State of Rhode Island, the U.S. district courts for the districts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, the U.S. courts of appeals for the First and Eleventh circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He received a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and an A.B., with honors, in Biology from Lafayette College.

Mr. McNamara also joins the firm as a partner in Nixon Peabody’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, focusing his practice on litigation and counseling. He has successfully handled matters involving all major employment-related statutes, including ERISA, Title VII, the ADA, FMLA, and ADEA, as well as state law employment issues, including noncompete agreements. A major portion of his practice is also devoted to counseling clients on employment issues in order to prevent matters that can be settled out of court from reaching the litigation phase. He has developed employment handbooks and policies, conducted internal investigations, and regularly conducts seminars on employment law topics.

Mr. McNamara is admitted to practice before the bars of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York, and before the district courts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut and the Southern and Eastern districts of New York, He received a J.D. from New York University Law School, an M.A. in history from Columbia University, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Frankel and Mr. Marino join Nixon Peabody as associates and will be members of the Labor and Employment and Business Litigation practice groups, respectively. Mr. Frankel focuses his practice on employment and labor law, commercial law, contracts, environmental law, public and administrative law, and lottery and gaming laws. He is admitted to practice in the state of Rhode Island, He received a J.D. from Boston College Law School, and a B.A. in history, cum laude, from Dartmouth College.

Mr. Marino concentrates his practice on litigation with a particular focus on products liability law, class actions, contracts, and trademark infrignement matters. He has considerable experience preparing expert testimony and reports, research and support, drafting motions and briefs, conducting depositions of adverse witnesses, drafting settlement agreements, and aiding in the development of demonstrative exhibits. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York and is pending bar admittance in Rhode Island. Mr. Marino received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Pace University School of Law and a B.S. in environmental management from the University of Rhode Island.

Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest law firms in the United States with approximately 600 attorneys collaborating across 15 major practice areas in 16 office locations, including Boston, New York, Rochester, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The firm’s size, diversity and advanced technological resources enable it to offer comprehensive legal services to individuals and organizations of all sizes in local, state, national and international matters. Nixon Peabody has been recognized by FORTUNE® magazine as a “100 Best Companies To Work For®” in 2006.

03-03-2006

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Nixon & Peabody, LLP

Nixon Peabody Grows New Hampshire Presence with the Addition of Three New Attorneys; Courtney Q. Bro
Manchester, New Hampshire. National law firm Nixon Peabody LLP announced today that it has expanded its New Hampshire presence by adding three new attorneys to the firm’s Manchester office: Courtney Q. Brooks, Brian M. Childs, and Andrew L. Share.

“Nixon Peabody has a strong and growing presence in New Hampshire and has a sophisticated understanding of the complex matters facing the area’s business community and our national clients doing business here. Courtney, Brian, and Andrew bring to Nixon Peabody an exceptional range of experience, knowledge, and relationships within their respective practice areas. Their addition to our Manchester office is a continuation of our significant growth, and will allow us to expand further the breadth and depth of our services both in the region and nationally,” said Kevin Fitzgerald, managing partner of the Manchester office.

Ms. Brooks joins as a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Brooks was an associate with the firm of Reed Smith in San Francisco and later with the Portland, Maine-based firm of Pierce Atwood LLP, where she concentrated on litigation of products liability matters and commercial disputes in state and federal courts and private dispute forums.

Ms. Brooks is admitted to practice in California and New Hampshire, and the U.S. district courts for the District of New Hampshire and the Northern District of California. She received a J.D., cum laude, from the University of San Francisco, School of Law and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts.

Mr. Childs also joins the firm as a member of the Business Litigation Group. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Childs was an associate with the Boston firm of Sloane & Walsh LLP, where he concentrated his practice on business litigation.

While in law school, Mr. Childs was a law clerk at Cohan Rasnick Myerson LLP. Mr. Childs also interned with the Massachusetts Appeals Court, where he assisted the Honorable Cynthia J. Cohen. He has spoken and written on a variety of topics, including employment discrimination and the six New England states’ payment of wages statutes.

Mr. Childs is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and is pending bar admission in New Hampshire. He received a J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School and a B.A., cum laude, from Princeton University.

Mr. Share joins the firm a member of the Business Practice Group. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Share held the position as corporate counsel for Tyco International (U.S.) Inc. of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he was legal counsel to Tyco’s corporate and Plastics & Adhesives segments. He has also held the position as co-chairman to the Tyco Law Department’s Global Contracts Standardization and Quality Committee. As a member of Tyco’s groups focusing on mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and global contract standardization, he advised and collaborated with senior management and other in-house clients on a large variety of legal issues including comprehensive outsourcing initiatives, software licensing and technology procurement, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, licensing, and service provider agreements. Mr. Share was also lead counsel of Tyco’s information technology infrastructure, three business divestitures including international transactions, and was principal counsel to Tyco’s human resource payroll and benefits administration.

Mr. Share is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Mr. Share is a member of the American, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts bar associations. He received a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Maine School of Law and a B.A., cum laude, from Brandeis University.

Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest law firms in the United States with approximately 600 attorneys collaborating across 15 major practice areas in 16 office locations, including Boston, New York, Rochester, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. The firm’s size, diversity, and advanced technological resources enable it to offer comprehensive legal services to individuals and organizations of all sizes in local, state, national, and international matters. Nixon Peabody has been recognized by FORTUNE® magazine as a “100 Best Companies To Work For®” in 2006.



For press inquiries, please contact Andrea Goodman, Director of Communications, at agoodman@nixonpeabody.com or 617-345-1381.

03-03-2006

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Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P.

NYLPI Honors Zachary Carter with Law & Society Award
Dorsey partner Zachary Carter was honored by The New York Lawyers For the Public Interest (NYLPI) with the 2006 Public Interest Law & Society award, February 28. The award honors the attorney who best combines outstanding legal skills with a long-standing commitment to public service and the New York community. Past winners include Kenneth R. Feinberg, Special Master of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo.

Carter, a white collar crime expert, acknowledged the award by focusing on the legal community's unique responsibility: ""We who are trained in the law and who understand the role of our Constitution must overcome the insistent demands for expediency over process. It is our profession that must help Americans understand that democracy is hard, but worth the effort.""

Prior to joining Dorsey, Carter served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

03-03-2006

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Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP

Simpson Thacher Represents Meow Mix Holdings, Inc. in its Sale to Del Monte Corporation
Simpson Thacher is representing Cypress Group LLC and the shareholders of Meow Mix Holdings in the sale of all the issued and outstanding shares of Meow Mix Holdings, Inc. to Del Monte Corporation. Announced on March 2, 2006, under the terms of the definitive stock purchase agreement, Del Monte will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Meow Mix Holdings for an aggregate amount of $705.5 million in cash, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.

Simpson Thacher represented Cypress in the acquisition of Meow Mix from J.W. Childs Equity Partners II, L.P. in 2003 for roughly $432.5 million.

The Simpson Thacher team working on the transaction includes: Bill Curbow, Elena Centeio, Trinh Le (Corporate), Charles Rappaport, Hallie Grainer (Tax), Brian Robbins, Michael Richman (Benefits), Lori Lesser, Jennifer Rackoff (IP), Tim Mulvihill, Adeeb Fadil (Environmental), Krista McManus (Real Estate), and Rebecca Clar (Labor). Valuable help was provided by paralegal Amanda Laird and Joel P. Velez from Duplicating.

03-03-2006

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Dechert LLP

SEC Top Cop Shares Compliance Tips
At the IA Compliance Best Practices Summit 2006, several speakers discussed how mutual fund advisors can stay in compliance with federal regulations by focusing on their roles as fiduciaries, including the importance of the need for advisors to identify and fully disclose conflicts of interest. For example, firms need to adopt new policies and issue new disclosures promptly upon discovering that conflicts of interest exist, said John O'Hanlon, a partner with Dechert. O'Hanlon was part of a panel discussion called "Conflicts of Interest: Best Practices for Monitoring and Disclosure." "It is important to resolve conflicts quickly, perhaps with disclosures or new policies," he said. "Do it before your next SEC exam.

03-03-2006

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Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

DLA Piper advises Granville Baird on £10 million funding of Choices Holdings MBO
London - DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (""DLA Piper"") has advised Granville Baird Capital Partners (“Granville Baird”) on its provision of £10m for the management buyout of Choices Holdings (“Choices”), a Scottish care home operator for adults with severe learning disabilities. Barclays also provided an undisclosed amount of debt to support the deal.

Choices has been providing supported living and residential care services since 1995. The company provides round-the-clock care either in clients’ homes or in a residential care homes, and also operates day centres. It employs 690 staff, supports around 130 service users and is the market leader in Scotland and the north-east of England.

The DLA Piper team was led by corporate partner Tom Whelan, assisted by Mark Chivers, but also combined the experience of a number of partners from several other DLA Piper practices, including: Paul Ridout (specialist healthcare regulatory); Michael McCormack (tax); John Maciver (banking); Steve Edgecomb (property); and assisted by Abigail Jenkins (employment); James Malcolm (pensions); and Rezarta Bode (IP/IT).

Tom Whelan commented: ""It was great to represent Granville Baird on another transaction. This transaction was an excellent example of DLA Piper’s breadth and depth of capabilities and full service offering. Completing the deal required the involvement of six specialist teams in corporate, healthcare regulatory, banking, property, tax, HR, pensions and IT/IP. In addition we were also able to provide both Scottish and English legal advice from within one organisation.

03-03-2006

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.

SUPREME COURT PRACTITIONER TOM GOLDSTEIN TO JOIN AKIN GUMP
(Washington, DC) – Thomas C. Goldstein, a leading Supreme Court practitioner, will join Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in Washington effective May 1, the firm announced today. Mr. Goldstein will continue his Supreme Court practice as well as serve the firm’s litigation clients generally.

Mr. Goldstein joins the firm from Goldstein & Howe, P.C., where he focused primarily on Supreme Court litigation, briefing and arguing cases spanning a broad array of federal law questions – including both constitutional and statutory issues – for corporate, governmental and individual clients. This Term, he is counsel to a party in nine merits cases at the Court, more than 10 percent of the entire docket.

Mr. Goldstein has argued 16 cases before the Court. Most recently, he argued the first case of the current Term, Tum v. Barber Foods, which he won unanimously. In November 2005 he argued Georgia v. Randolph, an important search and seizure case, which is pending. Last Term he successfully argued Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Lines (involving the application of federal disability law to cruise ships) and Smith v. City of Jackson (involving disparate impact age discrimination claims). In addition, he has taken a leading role in numerous other cases, including serving as second chair on behalf of Vice President Al Gore in Bush v. Gore.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Goldstein teaches Supreme Court litigation at both Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School. Since 2003 he has been principally responsible for SCOTUSblog (www.scotusblog.com), which is devoted to coverage of the Court and is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading legal blogs.

Before founding Goldstein & Howe in 1999, Mr. Goldstein practiced law in Washington, D.C., at Boies & Schiller, LLP and at Jones Day Reavis & Pogue. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1992 and his J.D. summa cum laude from American University’s Washington College of Law in 1995. He subsequently clerked for the Honorable Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Mr. Goldstein has been recognized repeatedly as a leading member of the bar. He was named by Legal Times as one of the leading appellate lawyers in Washington, D.C.; by The National Law Journal as one of the nation’s leading attorneys under the age of 40 (and profiled as one of the top 10); by The American Lawyer as one of the nation’s top 45 attorneys under the age of 45; and by Washingtonian magazine as one of the leading constitutional lawyers and one of a half-dozen attorneys to watch in the 21st century in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Goldstein joins a strong appellate practice — led by Rex S. Heinke — that includes Judge William A. Norris, who served for 17 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit; Edward P. Lazarus, a former assistant U.S. attorney, Supreme Court clerk and critically acclaimed author; and Judge Murry B. Cohen, who served for 20 years on the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas in Houston, as well as former law clerks for the U.S. Supreme Court, nine state supreme courts, 10 federal appellate circuits, 20 federal district courts, three bankruptcy courts, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

R. Bruce McLean, Akin Gump’s chairman, said, ""Tom has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than all but a handful of senior private practitioners and veterans of the solicitor general’s office; his experience is invaluable to our clients. We are extremely pleased to welcome him to Akin Gump.""

Mr. Goldstein added, ""Akin Gump is the ideal platform for me to continue to expand my Supreme Court practice with an extraordinary team of lawyers who share my interests. The fact that the firm also has a rich and broad litigation practice, with an extensive client base with novel and difficult legal problems, makes it a perfect fit.

03-03-2006

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