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Roetzel & Andress A Legal Professional Association

Roetzel & Andress Attorney Peter Lawson Jones Named to Board of Trustees of Miami (Ohio) University
Peter Lawson Jones, Partner with Roetzel & Andress L.P.A., has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of Miami (Ohio) University. The appointment was made by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.

Mr. Jones was appointed to a nine-year term on the Board of Trustees, which will end in February, 2016.

With a long history of public service, Mr. Jones currently serves as a Cuyahoga County Commissioner. He has been a member of the Ohio State House of Representatives (1997-2002), serving as the Ranking Democratic Member of the Finance and Appropriations Committee. While a State Representative, he also served on the Rules and Reference and the Criminal Justice Committees. He was a member of the Shaker Heights City Council (1984-1991), serving as Vice Mayor of the City (1988-1989).

A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, Mr. Jones focuses his practice on public law and finance, specifically on governmental relation, economic development, and regional cooperation.

05-16-2007

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Nixon Peabody LLP

Nixon Peabody LLP Represents Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation in $84.4 Million Tax-Exempt Bond Deal; Leaders in Public Finance, Tax, and Nonprofit Law Structure Innovative Financing Partnership to Benefit Revitalization of Museum in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park
Exposition Park, a 160-acre public recreation area located just south of downtown Los Angeles, is home to the California Science Center, the California African-American Museum, the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Exposition Park Intergenerational Center, the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, and the 15-acre Rose Garden. This closing is significant as it will provide for the modernization of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and the revitalization of the museum’s public exhibitions.

Nixon Peabody advised the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation to issue $84.4 million in tax-exempt bonds for the museum’s Exposition Park campus renovation through an innovative public/private partnership financing. This included advising on complex tax, fundraising, nonprofit operations, and financing issues involving Los Angeles County–owned buildings on land owned by the State of California and the City of Los Angeles, and a unique operating agreement between the Foundation and Los Angeles County. Led by partners Thaddeus J. Stauber and Richard M. Jones, the team consisted of attorneys from the following areas:

* Public Finance: Daniel M. Deaton and Charles C. Wolf
* Tax: Travis C. Gibbs
* Interest Rate Swap: Barry M. Rothchild
* Nonprofit Organizations: Michael J. Cooney
* Real Estate: Paul E. Schrier

OmniCap Group LLC, a provider of investment advisory/management, arbitrage rebate, and consulting services, served as bidding agent for the bond proceeds. In September 2006, Nixon Peabody and OmniCap Group created a strategic alliance to enhance their representation of clients in the public finance and tax arenas.

Nixon Peabody has one of the most active public finance practices in the country. Nixon Peabody was ranked #1 underwriters’ counsel and #5 bond counsel in the country for the first quarter of 2007. In California, the firm operates from three offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. Another recent public finance transaction the firm completed on behalf of a client in California included the issuance by the State of California of $4 billion in refunding bonds.

05-16-2007

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Mayer Brown LLP

Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw advises Barclays and the European Investment Bank on the $60 million Munali nickel mining project in Zambia
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP's London mining finance group has advised the senior lenders, Barclays and the European Investment Bank ("EIB"), on the US$60 million senior debt facility for the development, construction costs and working capital for the Munali nickel mine in Zambia.

Barclays has provided US$20 million of which US$10 million will be provided as a cost over-run facility with US$40 million being provided by EIB. This funding completes the funding package of US$135 million which contains US$20 million of subordinated debt and US$5 million of equity from an arrangement with Jinchan Limited. This establishes a relationship with the largest nickel group in China and the rapidly expanding Chinese market.

The financing of this project ensures that the company has retained sufficient funds to continue exploration and business development activities in order to produce 8,500 tonnes of nickel per annum.

The Munali project is located some 60 km south of Lusaka, Zambia. The project area comprises the Enterprise deposit and a number of other nickel prospects in the Munali intrusion, the most advanced of which is the Voyager prospect.

Michael Pabst, finance partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, commented: "We are delighted to be advising the Senior Lenders on this complex financing. This transaction followed a tight timetable and adds to our capabilities across Africa and enhances our reputation as specialists in innovative mine financings around the world.

"The Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP team was led by finance partner Michael Pabst assisted by Sabine Bertin.

Watson Farley Williams advised Albidon.

05-16-2007

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Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman, L.L.P.

Monolithic Power Systems Wins Patent Infringement Trial Against O2 Micro Intl., All O2 Patent Claims Asserted Against MPS Found Invalid
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) (Nasdaq: MPWR - News), a leading fabless manufacturer of high- performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced today that the jury from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California returned a verdict that all of the patent claims asserted by O2 Micro International (Nasdaq: OIIM - News) against MPS are invalid. The jury further found that none of the accused MPS CCFL inverter controllers -- including the MP1010, 1011 and 1015 product families -- literally infringes O2 Micro's patent (U.S. patent number 6,396,722). While two patent claims (claims 12 and 14) were found to infringe under the so-called doctrine of equivalents, the jury also found all asserted claims (including claim 12 and 14) to be invalid.

A judgment has not been entered in this case. We expect that the parties will file post trial motions and that O2 Micro may appeal the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

The jury also found that MPS's customer ASUSTeK Computer's products incorporating MPS inverter controllers do not literally infringe the invalid patent. The judge presiding over the trial dismissed O2's patent infringement case against MPS's foundry manufacturer Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturer Corporation Limited for lack of evidence after O2 Micro rested its case.

MPS is represented in this case by Cooley Godward & Kronish LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP. MPS's trial counsel includes Mark Flagel, Tom Friel, Jim Brogan, Dean Dunlavey and Matt Brigham.

05-16-2007

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Johnson & Bell, Ltd.

Conforti named ALFA Transportation Practice Group chair
Attorney Gregory D. Conforti was recently named the chairman of ALFA, International's Transportation Practice Group for 2007-2008. He previously served as its vice chairman. As chairman, Mr. Conforti is in charge of coordination of all transportation practice group business, including next year's practice group seminar to be held at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, from April 30 through May 2.

Johnson & Bell is the exclusive Chicago area ALFA representative, a global network of 120 independent law firms with over 9,000 lawyers worldwide. Member firms supplement their own expertise and resources with those of other members.

The ALFA Transportation Practice Group is one of the oldest and largest of the ALFA Practice Groups. The group is particularly well-known for the high degree of coordination among its members and the size and scope of its seminars. The group’s active national network of experienced lawyers is tailor-made for regional and national transportation companies whose trucks, charter or tour buses, railcars, or other vehicles traverse the country.

Mr. Conforti supports an active civil trial practice and enjoys an exceptional record of predominately not guilty verdicts. He concentrates his practice in Transportation Law, Products Litigation, Construction Litigation, and Premises Liability Claims.

05-16-2007

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Katten Names Leslie D. Minier as Firm’s First Chief Diversity Partner
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is pleased to announce that it has named Leslie D. Minier, a partner in the Firm’s Corporate Practice, as its first Chief Diversity Partner. She will serve in this role in addition to maintaining her active corporate legal practice. Ms. Minier has been instrumental in developing and implementing many of the Firm’s diversity initiatives. She serves as co-chair of Katten’s Diversity Committee and assisted the Firm in crafting its initial diversity commitment statement and Strategic Diversity Plan.

“In addition to being an excellent lawyer, Leslie has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to fostering diversity both in the Firm and in the legal and business communities during her 12 years at Katten,” said Vincent A.F. Sergi, Katten’s National Managing Partner. “As we strive to enhance our position as an industry leader in the area of diversity, it is only natural that Leslie assume the newly created role of Chief Diversity Partner.”

Ms. Minier became chair of Katten's Diversity Committee in 2003 and since then has led a number of national initiatives aimed at the promotion, development and retention of minority attorneys in the legal profession. These include the establishment of a firm-wide Minority Attorney Retreat and firm-wide Minority Newsletter, “Connecting Katten.” Acknowledging the national issue of women of color leaving law firms at a high rate, Ms. Minier recently created Katten's Leadership Forum for Women of Color in order to provide Katten’s minority female attorneys with the tools they need to succeed in their careers at the Firm. The Forum is the first of its kind in the nation.

In addition to her diversity efforts within Katten, Ms. Minier devotes a significant portion of her time to endeavors aimed at promoting diversity in the Chicago legal and business communities, as well as nationally. She serves as co-vice chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Alliance for Women, an organization dedicated to advancing the interests of women in the legal profession and the larger community, and is also a member of the Alliance’s Executive Committee. Ms. Minier is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms, an organization comprised of the 44 largest law firms in Chicago, which has become the preeminent voice for fostering racial and ethnic diversity in the Chicago legal community. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Joffrey Ballet, where she sits on the Diversity Council and the Corporate Subcommittee. Ms. Minier is also an active board member with the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

“I am honored to have been selected to serve as Katten’s first-ever national Chief Diversity Partner,” said Ms. Minier. “While progress has been made in recent years, the legal profession still struggles to retain minority and women attorneys. Katten has already made great strides in this area and has become one of the thought leaders for diversity among law firms. As Chief Diversity Partner, I hope to continue to shape the racial landscape of the legal community in Chicago and across the country.”

As a member of Katten’s Corporate Practice, Ms. Minier concentrates her legal practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and general corporate matters, representing clients in a wide variety of industries. She represents both public and private companies in structuring, negotiating and documenting both mergers with, and acquisitions and dispositions of, public and private corporations. She also represents private equity funds making investments in, engaging in leveraged buyouts of, and selling portfolio companies.

05-16-2007

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Gail Migdal Title of Katten Muchin Rosenman Named One of California’s Top Women Litigators for Second Consecutive Year
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 named one of California’s Top Women Litigators by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals for the second consecutive year. The full list of honorees will be published in a special supplement to the May 10 issues of both publications.

The Daily Journals selected California’s Top Women Litigators based on a number of criteria, including each nominee’s major litigation victories in last year, demonstrated leadership within their firm, involvement in the legal community, endorsements from their peers, and overall career accomplishments.

Selected in 1997 as one of the first-ever female managing partners of a major law firm office, a position she continues to hold today, Ms. Title has litigated many of the entertainment industry’s highest profile matters. Her practice includes all aspects of the entertainment industry, from motion picture and television development, finance, and production, to distribution in all media worldwide. Her representation covers a broad range of legal and business issues arising in the entertainment industry, including copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition, contract disputes, and business torts, and she is regularly called upon to handle her clients’ most significant matters. Ms. Title has extensive experience in state and federal, trial and appellate courts and in arbitration tribunals. She also frequently provides her clients with non-litigation advice and counsel.

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 of first impression that focused on the impact of the Labor Management Relations Act on an author's rights under the Copyright Act.

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 prevailed in 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.

Ms. Title is also recognized as a leader in the Los Angeles legal community. She serves on the executive committee of the Public Counsel Law Center, the largest pro bono organization in the world. She also acts as co-chair of the organization’s William O. Douglas dinner, which raises the bulk of the money to support the Law Center. In addition, Ms. Title sits on the executive committee of the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

Ms. Title was selected in 2006 as one of California’s Top 100 Leading Lawyers. In addition, she was recognized in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and last year received the Top Women Lawyers in Business WLALA Women of Distinction award. Ms. Title also regularly lectures on a wide range of entertainment, business, and ethics-related matters, and has served as a legal commentator on MSNBC and in various print publications.

Ms. Title is a lawyer representative to the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference and Vice-Chair of the Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the Central District of California. She is an Advisor on Intellectual Property to the ALI-ABA Continuing Professional Education Board's Program Committee.

05-16-2007

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