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LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Ten attorneys from the firm’s New York office were named to the “New York Super Lawyers” list, which was published in The New York Times on July 18, 2006. Those lawyers were: Stewart Aaron (business litigation), Richard Anderson (tax), Michael Gerrard (environmental litigation), Robert Holton (securities and corporate finance),

Brussels / Frankfurt, June, 2006 LAWFUEL – Press Release Service …Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Gaby Eickstädt will join the firm effective July 15, 2006 as of counsel in the firm’s European Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Eickstädt, who initially will split her time between the firm’s Brussels and German offices,

London, 24 July 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Baker & McKenzie, London announced today that it has closed the securities arbitrage leg of the National Australia Bank sponsored CentreStar US$10 Billion asset-backed commercial paper conduit. Acting for National Australia Bank, the Baker & McKenzie team advised in relation to the establishment of

Winston & Strawn LLP announced today the further expansion of its Geneva office with the addition as a partner of Carl L. Liederman, a prominent corporate lawyer who has for many years led a broad-ranging cross-border practice from London and Paris. Liederman joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe where he was the head of the

July 21, 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Loan Pricing Corporation has posted its law firm rankings through the second quarter. Loan Pricing Corporation issues rankings for law firms representing lenders and borrowers. Simpson Thacher again leads the table in a number of top categories. Highlights include: #1 Overall Law Firm by Volume #1

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Cravath partner Katherine B. Forrest’s article, entitled “Clearance of Cross-Border Transactions: Achieving Consistent US/EU Clearance Results”, was published in the June 2006 issue of The M&A Lawyer.

PHOENIX – LAWFUEL – press release service – A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned an eight-count indictment against two current Department of Energy employees, two former Department of Energy employees and the businessman with whom they agreed to accept gratuities in exchange for helping to procure a federal contract to provide temporary power dispatchers.

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Rear Admiral David W. Kunkel, Commander 7th Coast Guard District, and Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announce that a Key West grand jury today returned a sixty-eight (68) count Indictment against

EUGENE, Ore. — LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Today in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Ore., Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff, 29, Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, 29, and Suzanne Nichole Savoie, 28, entered guilty pleas to criminal conspiracy and related arson charges that occurred from 1996 through 2001 in Oregon and four other Western states. U.S. District

LONDON – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Allen & Overy is advising Mitchells & Butlers (the UK’s biggest managed pub operator) on the £497m acquisition of 239 pub restaurant sites from Whitbread plc. The sale, which consists of 235 pub restaurants and 4 pub restaurants under construction, will be completed on 28 July 2006.