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Blake T. Franklin, a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, joined the firm in 1983. Mr. Franklin has extensive experience in project finance; restructuring of debt obligations; cross-border mergers and acquisitions in Latin America; negotiation and reformation of government concession and privatization agreements; and corporate and financial transactions related to power generation, water management, pipeline construction and mining. Mr. Franklin also represents clients in the negotiation and documentation of private and multilateral agency credits for both projects and program implementation. He has represented sovereign borrowers in the renegotiation of their foreign debt and has acted both as counsel and as arbitrator in ICC and AAA arbitrations in Mexico City, Madrid, Paris and New York. Mr. Franklin graduated from Harvard Law School in 1966. Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, he taught law in Costa Rica as a visiting professor through the U.S. Peace Corps. In 1969, he joined a major law firm and was a partner of that firm in New York and Washington, D.C. A member of the ABA and the New York, California and District of Columbia bars, Mr. Franklin has served on the boards of directors of several Latin American companies. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law and the Inter-American Bar Association. He has acted as counsel to state-owned enterprises and banks in Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. Mr. Franklin has lectured at legal and business programs in New York, Europe and Mexico on doing business in Latin America, and is a director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade in Tucson.

Mr. Ashe-Taylor's recent practice has concentrated on representing clients in Phase I and II investigations under the EC Merger Control Regulation and providing counsel in relation to EC cartel investigations and their overlap with private U.S. litigation. He has advised the European Commission and the European Parliament on amendments to current EC financial services legislation, and also advises on EC Customs law having represented clients before the U.K. VAT and Duties Tribunal. Mr. Ashe-Taylor was chosen as a recommended lawyer in the field of Competition law by PLC's Cross-Border Competition Law Handbook 2006/07. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Ashe-Taylor was partner in charge of the European antitrust practice of a leading Washington, D.C. law firm. Prior to that, he spent two years at JP Morgan, Inc. in London and New York.

James Barabas is an English qualified partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm's Corporate Transactions Practice Group. Mr. Barabas has extensive experience in UK City Code governed public takeovers and schemes, and private mergers and acquisitions for a mixture of corporate and private equity clients. Mr. Barabas also regularly advises on corporate restructurings and refinancings, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. Much of Mr. Barabas' practice is cross-border in nature. Mr. Barabas works across a variety of sectors including energy and natural resources, real estate, retail, and general industrial. Mr. Barabas is also recognised for his particular expertise in the financial institutions sector and has advised on a number of deals involving insurers and asset managers. Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 2006, Mr. Barabas practised for eight years with a Magic Circle firm in London.

James A. Cox is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm's Labor and Employment law group. Mr. Cox has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious labour and employment matters, with an emphasis on corporate governance matters, boardroom appointments and removals, contractor and directorship matters, employment issues facing private equity companies, cross-border employment issues, whistle-blowing and discrimination claims, worker consultation, collective labour and industrial disputes, redundancies and workforce restructurings, TUPE, the employment aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing arrangements. He has particular expertise in the private equity, real estate and transport sectors. Mr. Cox was chosen as a recommended lawyer in the field of Employment law by the 2007 edition of Chambers and Partners UK Guide to law firms and lawyers. Mr. Cox has been interviewed on matters relating to employment law on television and radio and has been quoted in both The Times and Financial Times newspapers on employment law issues. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Employment Lawyers Association and at commercial conferences. Prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Mr. Cox practiced as a partner in the Employment, Incentives and Pensions department of a major English law firm.

Kenneth M. Doran is the Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and serves as the Chairman of the Firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Doran has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, "going private" transactions, cross-border transactions, debt and equity securities offerings, strategic and VC-type investments, corporate reorganizations and other restructurings. Mr. Doran regularly counsels clients regarding corporate governance issues, fiduciary duties and other compliance matters. Mr. Doran has extensive experience in representing public and private companies in a wide array of industries, investment bankers and private equity groups, as well as individual investors and owners of closely held businesses. In addition, Mr. Doran has been retained as special counsel to numerous boards of directors and special committees organized to respond to sensitive merger and acquisition matters and to deal with various corporate governance issues. Mr. Doran graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Stanford University. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California, where he served as Executive Articles Editor of the Southern California Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Doran is a frequent lecturer at programs on merger and acquisition, corporate finance and board of director counseling matters.

Kevin W. Kelley is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the Firm's Capital Markets Practice Group. Mr. Kelley's practice encompasses a broad range of capital markets transactions, particularly involving non-US issuers engaging in US public or private securities offerings and exchange offers. Mr. Kelley's clients include major U.S. investment banks as well as corporations, financial institutions and sovereign issuers. He has significant expertise representing issuers and underwriters in global public and 144A offerings of debt and equity securities, compliance with U.S. securities laws, Sarbanes and NYSE and NASDAQ listings by foreign issuers. In recent years, Mr. Kelley has been particularly active in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. Mr. Kelley received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a member of the Law Review. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in History from the University of Pennsylvania. He clerked for the Honorable Thomas G. Gee in the Fifth Judicial Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals.

At Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Mr. Ulman specializes in entertainment finance. He regularly represents film studios in their film distribution and financial matters and banks providing production financing for theatrical motion pictures. His expertise includes negotiating and documenting international tax advantaged film financing transactions; acquisitions of film rights for foreign and domestic film companies; representation of financial institutions in innovative and complex loan arrangements, including film securitizations and credit enhanced and "gap" lending arrangements; and representation of completion guarantors insuring the completion and delivery of independent and major theatrical motion pictures. He also has experience in representing sellers and buyers of film rights and negotiating output and other forms of film and television acquisition agreements. His clients include Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema, Twentieth Century Fox, Miramax, Ideenkapital Media Finance AG, and Constantin Film AG.

Philip Rocher is a partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the Firm's Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Rocher specializes in commercial litigation and international arbitration, focusing on resolving large complex matters. He has particular experience in the fields of insurance and reinsurance and auditor liability. He acts for Swiss Re on a variety of matters, including "Bermuda Form" arbitrations in London, and has acted for major U.S. insurers in London arbitration proceedings. He also successfully defended the Singapore office of Deloitte in the High Court in London in relation to claims for over 1 billion arising out of the collapse of the Barings Group. In the early 1990s he successfully represented the Plaintiff Names in the Gooda Walker Lloyd's litigation securing an award in their favor of over 500 million. Mr. Rocher joined Gibson Dunn in 2005 from the London office of Clifford Chance.

Scott A. Edelman is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Century City office. Mr. Edelman is Co-Chair of the firm's Media and Entertainment Practice Group. He is a member of the Litigation Department and has first-chaired numerous jury trials, bench trials and arbitrations, and has a broad background in commercial litigation. He also is the firm's National Pro Bono Coordinator.

Stephanie Tsacoumis is co-partner in charge of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office. She has extensive experience in representing business organizations and has handled a broad range of transactional and advisory matters for public and private entities. Ms. Tsacoumis came to the firm in 1996 from Morrison & Foerster, where she was a partner. Ms. Tsacoumis has broad experience in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance in a variety of regulated and unregulated industries. She regularly advises domestic and international corporations, principal investors, financial advisors and Special Committees of Boards of Directors in mergers, acquisitions and dispositions. Her M&A experience includes mergers of equals, unsolicited offers, leveraged recapitalizations, acquisitions and dispositions of public and private companies, tender and exchange offers, proxy contests and significant equity investments. Ms. Tsacoumis's corporate finance experience has included a wide variety of complex transactions involving both equity and debt securities on a secured and unsecured basis. Representative transactions include public equity financings, venture capital financings, initial public offerings, high yield offerings, offerings of equity and debt securities for real estate investment trusts, rights offerings, and offerings of convertible and exchangeable securities. Ms. Tsacoumis also has represented clients in matters involving mortgage loan, credit card, commercial real estate loan and other receivables. In addition to her transactional work, Ms. Tsacoumis serves as advisor to public company boards of directors and senior management with respect to securities disclosure and compliance issues, internal corporate investigations, and corporate governance and investor relations matters. Ms. Tsacoumis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary in 1978 with a degree in economics and received her law degree from the University of Virginia in 1981. She is the co-author of "Proxy Solicitation and Stockholder Voting Using Electronic Media," Securities in the Electronic Age (Glasser Legal Works 2001 edition), Corporate Communications and the Federal Antifraud Rules (Global Financial Press 1992), and is on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown Law School. She also is a frequent speaker on securities and corporate law-related matters, including, most recently, Securities and Exchange Commission developments. Ms. Tsacoumis is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland and American bar associations.

Steven D. Guynn is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. His practice focuses on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructurings. He advises senior managements and boards of directors on transactions and corporate matters, including corporate governance issues. He has broad experience in the energy, insurance, telecommunications, financial institutions and transportation industries.

Steven R. Shoemate is a partner and co-partner-in charge of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's New York office. He is a corporate transactional lawyer whose practice emphasizes public and private mergers and acquisitions and also includes joint ventures, venture capital financings, public and private securities offerings and general corporate counseling. Mr. Shoemate has extensive experience in the various types of public and private mergers and acquisitions transactions including private company stock and asset sales, public mergers, tender offers, exchange offers stock and cash tenders and cross-border transactions. Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2006 ranked Mr. Shoemate among the top Corporate/M&A lawyers in New York. Mr. Shoemate's mergers and acquisitions representations range from large multinational industrial corporations to banks and financial institutions, to leveraged buy-out groups and their portfolio companies. Mr. Shoemate received his law degree with high honors from Duke University in 1988, where he was a member of the Duke Law Journal and the Duke chapter of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Shoemate received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting, graduating cum laude from Lehigh University in 1985. Mr. Shoemate is a member of the New York Bar.

William R. Campbell is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the Firm's Energy Practice Group. He is also a member of the Corporate Department, the Global Infrastructure Group and the Cross-Border Practice Group. He has more than 25 years experience in advising clients in connection with the development, financing, construction and operation of major infrastructure projects in the United States, Asia, Latin America and Europe. He also has significant expertise in the acquisition and disposition of and the restructuring of major infrastructure projects. Mr. Campbell has represented lenders, sponsors, EPC contractors, fuel suppliers, equipment suppliers and governments in connection the development of major infrastructure projects, including base-load and cogeneration power projects utilizing conventional and alternative energy sources, transmission lines, pipelines, petrochemical facilities and related infrastructure to support major projects such as railroads, ports and coal-mining operations. Mr. Campbell has advised the Argentine, Ecuadorian, Indonesian, Korean, Malaysian and Thai governments on systemic financial reform in the wake of economic collapse in those countries and in connection with those representations advised the governments on the restructuring of so-called national interest infrastructure projects. He also advised those governments on the sale of more than $35 billion of energy and other infrastructure projects to various investors through auction processes and private placements. Mr. Campbell represented Hawkeye Renewables, LLC, in connection with a Credit Suisse led $185 million Term-B loan facility to Hawkeye for the construction of ethanol facilities in Iowa recently recognized by Project Finance Magazine as the 2005 Renewable Energy Deal of the Year. Mr. Campbell practiced in Asia for five years before returning to New York in 2001. While in Asia, Mr. Campbell was recognized 4 consecutive years by Asia Law & Practice as one of Asia's leading project finance lawyers. Mr. Campbell earned his Juris Doctorate degree in 1976 cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and a member of the Texas Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from the University of Arizona, 1969, Phi Beta Kappa.

William Candelaria is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He specializes in securities, finance, private equity and restructurings. Mr. Candelaria has extensive experience in U.S. securities law compliance, SEC-registered debt and equity offerings by U.S. companies and foreign issuers, cross-border securitization transactions, debt restructurings, asset and stock acquisitions, contract negotiations, and joint ventures with an emphasis on cross-border ventures. Mr. Candelaria represents clients in internal corporate investigations and SEC investigations, delisting of publicly traded securities from U.S. national securities exchanges and SEC deregistration, and private placements and off-shore offerings of securities, including high yield bonds, and medium term notes. He also advises institutional clients in private equity investments and joint ventures. Mr. Candelaria received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1995 and served as Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He earned his A.B. in 1992 from Stanford University. He is admitted in New York and California. He is Chair of the Governance Committee, and serves on the Board and Executive Committee of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. He also serves on the Board of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Christopher B. Campbell is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Orange County office. He currently practices in the firm's Litigation Department. Mr. Campbell earned his law degree cum laude in 2003 from Loyola Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and an Articles Editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. Mr. Campbell graduated with honors in 1997 from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Kelly A. Leggio is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ms. Leggio graduated magna cum laude in 2002 from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and Editor-in-Chief of the San Diego Law Review. In 1997, Ms. Leggio earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently practices in the firm's Litigation Department. Ms. Leggio's practice is primarily dedicated to complex business litigation, including securities class actions, intellectual property litigation, derivative actions, and labor and employment class actions. Ms. Leggio has also handled investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as special investigations (including potential whistleblower investigations).

Lise Johnson is an associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where she currently practices in the firm's Litigation Department. Ms. Johnson received her law degree summa cum laude and Order of the Coif in 2004 from the University of Arizona Law School. While there, she was an Executive Note Editor for the Arizona Law Review, and published her Note, After Tahoe Sierra, One Thing is Clearer: There is Still a Fundamental Lack of Clarity, 46 Ariz. L. Rev. 353 (2004). In 1999, she graduated from Yale University, earning her Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Studies in the Environment.

T. Kevin Roosevelt is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Orange County office and a member of the firm's Litigation Department. Mr. Roosevelt's practice emphasizes complex business and antitrust litigation, including defending against price fixing conspiracy class action lawsuits brought in both federal and state court, securities litigation, and real estate claims, as well as a variety of business/commercial litigation matters. Most recently, Mr. Roosevelt played a key role in the defense of a Japanese corporation against a multi-million dollar price fixing conspiracy claim, which resulted in a favorable settlement for the client. Mr. Roosevelt was also primarily responsible for the defense of a lawsuit brought by limited partners of a limited partnership claiming a variety of injuries allegedly caused by improper accounting practices, which resulted in the dismissal of the case without prejudice in favor of the client. Mr. Roosevelt has also successfully briefed and argued an appeal of a summary judgment ruling in our client's favor in the California Court of Appeals. Mr. Roosevelt earned his J.D. degree in 1999 from the University of Southern California Law School, where he was the Senior Editor of the Southern California Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. Mr. Roosevelt graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1995 with two bachelor of arts degrees, in political science and economics.