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Clark, Thomas & Winters,, P.C.

Twelve Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
Clark, Thomas & Winters, A Professional Corporation, announced today that 12 attorneys were recently nominated by their peers and listed as Super Lawyers by Law & Politics magazine and will be published in the October issues of TEXAS MONTHLY and Texas Super Lawyers.

Clark, Thomas & Winters attorneys who were recognized include:
Leslie Benitez – Personal Injury Defense: Products
Barry Bishop – Business Litigation
Jane Bockus – Personal Injury Defense: Products
Susan Burton – Employment & Labor
Joe Cain – Business/Corporate
Ann Coffin – Utilities
Walter Demond – Utilities
David Duggins – Appellate
Ken Ferguson – Personal Injury Defense: Products
Sam Hildebrand – Estate Planning & Probate
Mark Mitchell – Business Litigation
Celina Romero – Environmental

The selection of Super Lawyers is managed and conducted by Law & Politics magazine, which performs the polling, research, and selection of honorees in a nomination process designed to identify lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 5 percent of the lawyers in each state or region are named Super Lawyers.

09-18-2007

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cadwalader Acts for Wachovia on Two AIG Facilities
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP acted for Wachovia Securities International Limited as lead arranger for two AIG floating-rate facilities with a combined value of more than €1.4 billion.

The transactions, which closed on July 25, 2007 and August 9, 2007, respectively, were for €850 million secured floating-rate facilities issued by AIG MezzVest Investments II Limited and €575 million secured floating-rate facilities issued by AIG MezzVest Investments Limited.

Both deals were rated-to-model transactions not commonly seen in the Euromarkets. The facilities are available in euros, British pounds sterling, and U.S. dollars, and have been rated by both Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s. The proceeds of the issued facilities will be invested in a portfolio of predominantly European second-lien and mezzanineleveraged loans, which will be managed by MezzVest.

The portfolio management for both transactions is based on a rating agency approved trading model that incorporates Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s cash flow stress and criteria. One of the most notable features of the transactions is that the portfolio manager needs to run the trading model throughout the period of the transactions rather than merely at closing. Both transactions are based on a manage-to-model approach providing more flexibility to the collateral manager, as opposed to the more typical managed-to-constraint approach for CLOs.

Partner Angus Duncan led Cadwalader’s Capital Markets Department team representing Wachovia, assisted by associate Peter ten Broeke.

09-18-2007

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cadwalader Receives High Score in The Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index Report
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP announced that for the second consecutive year, the firm has received a score of 95 from The Human Rights Campaign in its Corporate Equality Index report. The report, released each fall, provides an indepth analysis and rating of large U.S. employers and their policies and practices pertinent to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) employees, consumers, and investors.

“I am very proud of our rating from The Human Rights Campaign,” said Robert O. Link Jr., Cadwalader’s Chairman and Managing Partner. “Cadwalader makes great efforts to promote and enhance diversity at the firm. We strive to help all of our personnel understand and support our individual differences.”

Cadwalader received perfect scores in the survey for the firm’s GLBT policies relating to nondiscrimination, diversity training, domestic partner health insurance and other benefits, companysupported resources, and marketing. The ratings are based on a comprehensive survey submitted by the firm or company being evaluated.

The Human Rights Campaign is the nation’s largest advocacy group for GLBT Americans.

09-18-2007

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Butzel Long

Butzel Long attorney Dr. Jerome D. Hill featured at MAPERS September 17 program
Dr. Jerome D. Hill, Of Counsel to Butzel Long, was a featured speaker at the Michigan Public Employees Retirement System (MAPERS) meeting, an association of financial advisors/certified public accountants, on September 17 in Grand Rapids.

Dr. Hill will be speaking on "China: Updates and Trends." His presentation will focus on economic development, World Trade Organization (WTO) status, the new employment law, as well as non-economic developments.

As an attorney, Dr. Hill has represented clients in matters ranging from civil litigation and commercial business issues to labor negotiations and employment matters. His clients include academic institutions such as Wayne State University and the University of Michigan. He also has represented and advised business entities such as the UAW/DaimlerChrysler National Training Center and Wausau/ Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. Dr. Hill has provided legal counsel and served as a member of a State of Michigan delegation to the People's Republic of China and many other delegations. Dr. Hill has published articles in the State Bar Journal and the State's International Law Journal, and is a member of several bar associations.

As a consultant on doing business in China, Dr. Hill has conducted several seminars for GE Capital, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, General Motors and Tenneco Automotive and many others. The seminars include cultural perspectives, negotiation techniques, and differences in management styles. He has made presentations on international business, education and arbitration in the U.S., China and Korea.

Dr. Hill has served as a China consultant and legal adviser to numerous auto industry clients on creating business entities in China, assisting with developing business plans, resolving employment/labor issues, solving repatriation of funds difficulties, and resolving related technical legal problems.

Dr. Hill is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1983). He also has completed additional studies in Chinese Philosophy at the University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1981) and the University of Michigan (M.A., 1974) and Oakland University (B.A., 1970). He speaks Mandarin Chinese and he has been designated an "honorary citizen" in China for his work in Guizhou Province.

09-18-2007

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Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

Entrepreneur Jeff Schneid Honored by Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP
Buckingham, Doolittle, & Burroughs, LLP (“BDB”) presented its annual Stellar Performer Award on September 5, 2007 at the BDB Cleveland office. The award recognizes community and business leaders for exemplary leadership.

Cleveland Entrepreneur, Jeff Schneid, received the Stellar Performer Award for his entrepreneurial and professional successes, as well as his civic and community contributions. Mr. Schneid’s professional career has been built on his innate sense of business. Mr. Schneid was the President of Numation, Inc., a manufacturing company recently acquired by Emerson Electric. He now owns and operates two new businesses: 1) Lorad LLC, Unistrut Service; and 2) Diversified Fall Protection, Inc.

His key accomplishments include his ascent from a 28 year-old Vice President at Zaytran, to President and co-owner; starting his own business, Numation, Inc., in 1994 and growing it into a multi-million dollar company, becoming a subsidiary of Numatics, Incorporated, and then, eventually leading to its acquisition by Emerson Electric.

Mr. Schneid’s impressive civic background includes working with a dedicated group of people to renovate the Avon Lake high school stadium. Their efforts are focused on raising $2.8 million.

Nick George, President and CEO of Buckingham, said, “Jeff received this award because over and over again, he has said he could do it, believed he could do it, and did it: At Zaytran, Numation, Emerson Electric, Unistrut, and Diversified Fall Protection. His entrepreneurial spirit makes him an exceptional leader in his businesses and in the community.”

Buckingham’s Stellar Performer Award recognizes business and community leaders exhibiting exemplary leadership in the cities where we have offices. Nominations for the award come from attorneys within Buckingham’s six offices, and the Board of Managers select the recipients. Buckingham typically honors one to three stellar performers each year in each of its six offices.

09-18-2007

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Brown & Brown

Brown Rudnick Partner Serves as Judge at Seedcamp, an Incubator-Style Event for European Start-Ups
Brown Rudnick, a premier international law firm, today announced that Tina Baker, a Partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in London, served as a business plan competition judge at Seedcamp, the recently launched initiative that was started to support entrepreneurialism in Europe. Ms. Baker was also a mentor and coach to participating entrepreneurs during the week-long event.

Six Seedcamp winners out of 20 participants were announced on September 7th: Buildersite, a web marketplace for construction services
?? Kublax Financial Technologies Ltd, an online personal finance management
service
?? Project Playfair, a software application designed to track numbers through an
organization
?? Rent Mine Online, an online rental marketplace
?? Tablefinder AB, an advanced web-based restaurant reservation system
?? Zemanta, a provider of content intelligence platforms for automatically enhancing
web content.

Ms. Baker also moderated a panel on "Working with Big Corporates" during Seedcamp week, which included participants from Google, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Cisco and Microsoft.

Brown Rudnick is a founding supporting of Seedcamp. Other supporters include Index Ventures, Atomico Investments, Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital, TAG and Forsyth Group.

The mission of Seedcamp is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs in Europe by providing the money, mentoring and media to help propel their great ideas. Seedcamp will invest €50K in each of the final teams and provide ongoing mentorship and support for three months in preparation for the companies’ formal rounds of financing. In its first year, Seedcamp received 268 applications from entrepreneurs in more than 40 countries. Seedcamp Week took place September 3-7, 2007 in London.

09-18-2007

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Brown & Brown

Brown Rudnick Represents the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA) in Hartford Landfill Closure Project
Brown Rudnick, a premier international law firm,today announced that it is representing the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA) on its closure of the Hartford Landfill. This project, which was announced in February 2007, involves the City of Hartford and the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The landfill is scheduled to close by the end of 2008 in a manner that protects natural resources and the public health, benefits city residents and allows CRRA to meet its responsibilities for efficient processing of solid waste.

Brown Rudnick is providing a full slate of legal services to CRRA including counsel on matters related to general real estate, permitting and zoning, litigation, environmental and energy law. To represent CRRA, Brown Rudnick assembled a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys from its Environmental, Government Law & Strategies, Real Estate and Energy Practice Groups. The legal team consists of Douglas A. Cohen, Thomas D. Ritter and Michael E. Kozlik.

This team assisted CRRA in drafting the Hartford Landfill Closure Settlement Agreement, and advised the client in its negotiations with the City of Hartford. In the signed agreement, the city agreed to partner with CRRA to find state assistance for the closure and long-term maintenance and monitoring of the landfill.

The DEP has granted approval for a modification of CRRA’s permit for the landfill that includes provisions calling for an end to waste disposal at that facility by December 31, 2008; installation of the latest technology synthetic cap as the final cover; and development of plans for post-closure use of the site.

Brown Rudnick also represented CRRA in the DEP administrative hearings concerning the approval of a new regional recycling facility. In January 2007, CRRA received a permit from the DEP to consolidate its paper and cardboard recycling operations with container processing. The new facility allows 70 Mid-Connecticut towns to recycle boxboard, oversized glass and metal containers, aerosol cans and junk mail.

09-18-2007

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