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Thompson & Knight LLP

T&K Attorney Selected for Marketing Partner of the Year
Dallas - Thompson & Knight is pleased to announce Greg W. Curry has been selected for Thomson Elite's Marketing Partner of the Year. The Thomson Elite Excellence in Legal Marketing Awards were given out at the 2006 LegalWorks Marketing Partner Forum, the legal industry's leading conference on client development, in Key Biscayne, Florida, on Friday, January 20th.

These awards recognize excellence and innovation in law firm marketing. To honor the leaders in the field, the awards were granted based on demonstrable marketing results, demonstration of excellence, ability to show leadership and to take decisive action, innovation and sophistication, ability to communicate a specific message, and a person's intra-firm political and consensus building skills.

Mr. Curry, a partner in the Firm's Dallas office, has led the Firm's marketing initiatives as Firm Marketing Partner and Chair of the firm-wide Marketing Committee since 2003.

01-24-2006

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Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP

Article: Compliance Week: Matt Dyckman Quoted Regarding FASB's Proposed New Guidance
Matt Dyckman was quoted in an article entitled, "FASB Calms Fear Over Payout Clauses in Option Plans," regarding the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) proposed new guidance that relaxes language on how to account for options that are granted with a cash settlement feature attached.

According to Mr. Dyckman, while FASB’s newly proposed guidance might seem at first pass to provide companies with some relief on expensing options, he suspects the entire notion of classifying some options as a liability will come as a surprise to many companies.

“If they want to sign an agreement to a merger or file registration papers to initiate a public offering, this adverse accounting treatment might be triggered,” he says. “Companies are still not going to be happy with that. Overall companies will not see this as a positive development.”

01-24-2006

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Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP

Corporate and Financial Institutions Bulletin: Another Reason to Maintain Effective Anti-Money Laundering Compliance: OFAC Announces New Policy of Examining Banking Institutions
V. Gerard Comizio, Jeffrey L. Hare


Thacher Proffitt & Wood llp has published an article entitled "Another Reason to Maintain Effective Anti-Money Laundering Compliance: OFAC Announces New Policy of Examining Banking Institutions."

To access Thacher Proffitt’s Corporate & Financial Institutions Bulletin on "Another Reason to Maintain Effective Anti-Money Laundering Compliance: OFAC Announces New Policy of Examining Banking Institutions," click below.



01-24-2006

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Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.

TAFT ATTORNEYS NAMED OHIO SUPER LAWYERS
CINCINNATI, OH – The following attorneys from Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP have been chosen by Cincinnati Magazine as 2006 Ohio Super Lawyers. The 2006 Ohio Super Lawyers will be published as a magazine sent to the entire state bar, including in-house counsel, and the top 250 law school libraries across the country. It is published as a special section within the January issue of Cincinnati Magazine. Congratulations to the following attorneys named to the 2006 edition: Mary Balazs, Lawrence Barty, Kim Burke, Doreen Canton, Clifford Craig, Edward Diller, Jack Donson, Stuart Dornette, Gerald Greenberg, Stephen Griffith, Thomas Heekin, Jill Helfman, Timothy Hoberg, Daniel Hoffheimer, Timothy Hurley, David Johnson, Aimee Keller, Margaret Lawson, Charles Lindberg, Alan Lips, Bruce Lowe, Patrick Mitchell, Carl Murway, Stephen Nechemias, Stephen O’Bryan, Joseph Parker, Peter Poulos, Gerald Rapien, Timothy Reilly, Robert Rich, Laura Ringenbach, Gregory Rogers, Jeffrey Schloemer, William Setiz, Melvin Shotten, Robert Stachler, Mark Stepaniak, Timothy Sullivan, Thomas Terp, Roger Weber, Susan Wheatley, Daniel Wright, and Michael Zavatsky.

Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Covington, Kentucky. The firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.



01-24-2006

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Shearman & Sterling LLP

Banner Year in M&A for Shearman & Sterling
New York, 24 January 2006 – Shearman & Sterling's global Mergers & Acquisitions Group secured lead roles on many of the most significant M&A deals of 2005. The firm advised Viacom Inc. on the $50 billion division of its businesses into separate publicly traded companies, CBS Corporation and "new" Viacom Inc., in the largest transaction of its type ever completed. Other recent deals of note include the $27.2 billion contested bid by Boston Scientific for Guidant Corporation, Koch Industries' $21 billion acquisition of Georgia-Pacific and SunGard Data Systems' record-breaking $11.4 billion acquisition by a consortium of leading private equity firms.

The firm is currently involved in three hostile, multi-billion dollar M&A deals.

Recent league table results from Bloomberg confirm the strength of the firm's practice. Most notably, the firm was ranked 2nd in "US Announced Deals" by volume with 22.3% market share, and a volume of $252,472 million. The firm ranked 4th in "Global Announced Deals" by volume with 13.6% market share, and a volume of $353,409 million. The rankings were a sharp improvement over last year's results.

Bloomberg also ranked the firm in the top five in the following categories:


Cross Border Global Announced Deals by volume
US Announced Deals - Counsel to Principals by volume
Global Announced Deals above US$5 billion by volume
Global Announced Deals in the Communication Industry by volume

The firm also ranked in the top five in several of Thomson's yearly M&A league tables, including:


US Target Announced by volume
Worldwide Completed by volume
Any U.S. Involvement Announced by volume
Any U.K. Involvement Completed by volume
Any Benelux Involvement Completed by volume

"2005 was a remarkable year for the M&A Group, and for the firm as a whole," said Peter Lyons, co-head of the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions Group. "Our work was distinguished, not only by volume, but by the complexity of the deals in which we were involved. We have a strong deal pipeline for 2006 and expect to remain on an upward trajectory."

In addition to those listed above, the firm also advised on Legg Mason's $3.7 billion acquisition of the asset management group of Citigroup; Allianz's $7.1 billion cross-border merger with RAS and its conversion into a European Company; Axel Springer's $3.058 billion acquisition of ProSiebenSat.1; Hunan Valin's $338 million sale of 37% interest to Mittal Steel; France Telecom's $7.6 billion acquisition of 80% interest in Amena; Gerling-Konzern's sale of Gerling-Beteiligungs to Talanx; BASF's unsolicited $4.9 billion acquisition of Engelhard; Lottomatica's $4.65 billion acquisition of GTECH; mm02's $7.74 billion capital reorganization in the UK; Seven-Eleven Japan's $1.38 billion tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of 7-Eleven; and many others.

In the January 16, 2006 issue, Investment Dealers' Digest awarded "Deal of the Year" honors for the SunGard buyout (Overall and Private Equity), and the Citi/Legg Mason asset swap (Financial Institutions Groups). Hunan Valin/Mittal Steel was named a "Breakthrough Deal" in M&A.

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Shearman & Sterling has more than 1,000 lawyers in 19 cities throughout the world, including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Mannheim, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, São Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C.



01-24-2006

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Shearman & Sterling LLP

Shearman & Sterling Advises on Disney/Pixar Merger
Michael J. Coleman

The Walt Disney Co., the world’s second largest media conglomerate, recently announced it will purchase Pixar Animation Studios, an Academy Award® winning computer animation studio, for $7.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Disney will acquire each share of Pixar common stock in exchange for 2.3 shares of its own common stock. Shearman & Sterling is representing Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as financial advisor to Pixar.

Attorneys include partner Michael Coleman (Menlo Park - Mergers & Acquisitions), and associates Bryn Jedlic (San Francisco - Mergers & Acquisitions) and Dae Kim (San Francisco - Mergers & Acquisitions).

01-24-2006

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Shearman & Sterling LLP

Shearman & Sterling Advises on Disney/Pixar Merger
The Walt Disney Co., the world’s second largest media conglomerate, recently announced it will purchase Pixar Animation Studios, an Academy Award® winning computer animation studio, for $7.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Disney will acquire each share of Pixar common stock in exchange for 2.3 shares of its own common stock. Shearman & Sterling is representing Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, as financial advisor to Pixar.

Attorneys include partner Michael Coleman (Menlo Park - Mergers & Acquisitions), and associates Bryn Jedlic (San Francisco - Mergers & Acquisitions) and Dae Kim (San Francisco - Mergers & Acquisitions).

01-24-2006

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