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Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLP

Corporate Attorney Sara E. Finigan Elevated To Partnership
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP, a San Francisco-based law firm, has named corporate and transactional attorney Sara E. Finigan a partner of the firm, effective January 1, 2006.
Finigan’s practice encompasses general business transactions and securities issues. Her corporate transactional experience includes business formations, financings, mergers and acquisitions, employee and executive compensation, and technology licensing.
Finigan also helps clients develop and implement successful business strategies by counseling start-ups and existing companies in corporate formation, structuring, governance, compensation and finance.
Prior to joining the firm, Finigan was a business transactions attorney at the San Jose office of Rosenblum, Parish & Isaacs, LLP and worked for the Silicon Valley office of Arthur Andersen LLP as a tax associate.
Finigan earned her J.D. from Santa Clara University in 1997 and a B.A. from the University of Florida in 1994.
Established more than 100 years ago, Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP currently specializes in land use and real estate transactions; civil litigation; telecommunications; banking and trade practices; corporate and business, including securities, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property; nonprofit and charitable organizations; labor and employment; taxation; and trusts and estates

01-19-2006

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Carter, Ledyard & Milburn LLP

Carter Ledyard & Milburn Llp Elects Partner And Names Three New Counsel
NEW YORK, January 19, 2006 Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP is pleased to announce that Austin D. Keyes has been elected to partner and that Christine A. Fazio, John J. Hanley and Melinda Poon have been named to counsel. They were previously associates in the firm’s corporate (Mr. Keyes and Mr. Hanley), environmental (Ms. Fazio) and real estate (Ms. Poon) practices.
“These four attorneys have made excellent contributions to our firm, and we are pleased to elevate them today,” said Judith A. Lockhart, managing partner. “Their promotion strengthens the firm’s ability to offer in-depth services across a number of practice areas and reflects in particular out commitment to our growing clientele.”

01-19-2006

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Butzel & Long, P.C.

Theut keynote speech at APACC Salute to Excellence Dinner
Butzel Long attorney provided keynote speech at APACC Salute to Excellence Dinner
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Peter Theut was the keynote speaker at the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce (APACC) Salute to Excellence Award Dinner on January 11, 2006 at The Westin Southfield-Detroit in Southfield. Mr. Theut discussed investment in China and Chinese investment in Michigan.
The Salute to Excellence honors Asian Pacific American businesses and APACC members that have garnered honors and awards as a result of their business successes.
Mr. Theut’s practice focuses on the areas of international law, business and corporate law and admiralty and transportation law. He serves as chair of Butzel Long’s Global Trade and Transactions Practice and heads the firm’s China Alliance and Mexico Initiative. He has significant experience representing Japanese, Chinese and other Pacific Rim based companies in all of their North American operations, as well as advising European companies on their international business and legal strategies.
Mr. Theut has assisted U.S., Japanese and European companies in structuring investment strategies in China, Mexico, Europe and in expansion efforts in Asia. His range of experience includes mergers and acquisitions, organizing and operating global expansions, general corporate law, international joint ventures and oversight of U.S., Japanese, Chinese and Mexican legal issues. Mr. Theut is a member of the Detroit Chinese Business Association (DCBA) Advisory Board.
Butzel Long was established in 1854 and is headquartered in Detroit. Butzel Long is one of Michigan's oldest and largest law firms, with 215 attorneys and offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Holland, Mich., Washington, D.C. and Boca Raton, Fla., as well as Alliance offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The firm represents clients from diverse industries on a regional, national and multi-national level and is the sole Michigan member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 161 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com. * * * * *
Media Contact: Maribeth Farkas at Caponigro Public Relations Inc., (248) 355-3200.

01-19-2006

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Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

Foster Named One of the “Lawyers of the Year”
Missouri Lawyers Weekly named Blackwell Sanders Partner Robin Foster as one of its 2005 “Lawyers of the Year” in a special issue that profiled 10 individual attorneys who stood out from the crowd during 2005.
Foster was selected based on his role as lead outside counsel for Aquila, Inc., a Kansas City-headquartered utility conglomerate, in a coordinated auction process that resulted in the simultaneous announcement in September 2005 of agreements for the sale of four of Aquila’s regulated utility divisions to three different buyers for a total of $897.6 million.
Foster joined Blackwell Sanders in 1982 as an associate. His areas of practice concentration include mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and control, finance, and commercial transactions. He has acted as lead counsel in numerous acquisitions and divestitures of public and private companies across a broad spectrum of industries, including utilities, energy, financial institutions, chemicals, medical devices, and healthcare.
Foster has served in various leadership capacities both inside and outside of the firm, including as a member of the firm’s Advisory Board.
To read the full article that appeared in Missouri Lawyers Weekly, please click here.
Additional information about the Energy & Public Utility and Mergers & Acquisitions practice concentrations is available in the "industries & practice" section.

01-19-2006

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Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, L.L.C.

FinCEN Issues Final Rule Requiring Special Due Diligence Programs for Certain Foreign Accounts
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has issued a final rule implementing the foreign correspondent account and private banking provisions of Section 312 of the USA PATRIOT Act (the “Final Rule”).1 This provision requires U.S. financial institutions, such as mutual funds, to establish due diligence policies, procedures and controls reasonably designed to detect and report money laundering through correspondent accounts and private banking accounts that they establish or maintain for non-U.S. persons.

01-19-2006

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Baker & Hostetler, L.L.P.

CABC TO FILE AMICUS BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF NAFTA
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted amicus status to the Canadian
American Business Council in the constitutional challenge Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports,
Executive Committee v. United States of America, et al. The Canadian American Business
Council is the only non-lumber, private party to be granted such status.
This case puts NAFTA at risk, and therefore the stability and predictability of trade relations
throughout North America. The CABC, as the premier voice of the Canadian-American
business community in Washington, is dedicated to supporting NAFTA and encouraging the
growth of business between Canada and the United States.
As amicus curiae, the CABC will provide the Court of Appeals with the important perspective of
U.S. and Canadian businesses that value and depend on the proper functioning of NAFTA, a
unique bi-national perspective that does not otherwise exist among the parties to the case.
The CABC has developed expertise in the dispute settlement provisions of NAFTA Chapter 19
that are at issue in this proceeding. In 2004, the CABC hosted a conference, including the
presentation of an in-depth white paper, on issues concerning Chapter 19. The white paper
generated extensive discussions in policy circles on both sides of the border and put the CABC at
the forefront of thinking about Chapter 19. The Council thus will assist the Court, from the
perspective of the private industries that depend on NAFTA, on the history and role of Chapter
19 in the promotion of stable Canadian-U.S. trade relations, and on the constitutionality of
Chapter 19 itself.
Baker & Hostetler LLP is serving as CABC’s pro bono publico legal counsel in preparing the
amicus curiae brief.

01-19-2006

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Wiley, Rein & Fielding, L.L.P.

U.S. Industry Alleges $14 Billion in Indonesian Subsidies to Its Lined Paper School Supplies Producers
Washington, DC—The Association of American School Paper Suppliers has requested that the U.S. Department of Commerce investigate $14 billion in subsidies provided to Indonesian producers of notebooks, filler paper and other lined paper school supplies.

The Association has provided evidence of two additional subsidy programs:

That the government of Indonesia assumed US $1.3 billion in debts owed by Asia Pulp and Paper to Bank International Indonesia (BII), both of which are affiliated with Indonesian paper school supplies manufacturer P.T. Pabrik Kertas TK, and
That the government also required private creditors to forgive the vast majority of another $12.6 billion in debts owed them by Asia Pulp and Paper.
“Through these actions, we believe the Government of Indonesia has provided as much as $14 billion in subsidies to the principal Indonesian producer of lined paper school supplies,” said Alan H. Price, counsel to the Association of American School Paper Suppliers. “These subsidies, along with dumping of these products by India, Indonesia and China, have harmed American producers and their workers.”

In October 2005, the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously determined that there is a reasonable indication that imports of lined paper school supplies from India, Indonesia and the People’s Republic of China are causing material injury to the U.S. industry. The Association had alleged that these imports were dumped in the U.S. market, and that imports from India and Indonesia benefited from illegal government subsidies.

The Commerce Department is now conducting a full investigation of the margins of dumping and the subsidy programs in existence. If Commerce makes affirmative findings, and the Commission makes an affirmative final determination of injury, the United States will impose duties on these imports to offset the subsidies and unfair pricing.

At this stage of the proceeding, duties have been established to be 258.21 percent for China, 181.86 to 215.93 percent for India, and 77.07 to 118.63 percent for Indonesia for the antidumping cases alone. The Department of Commerce is currently scheduled to make its preliminary determinations in these investigations in approximately mid-February 2006.

01-18-2006

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