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1 The leading source of information about the world s best lawyers The content includes lawyers featured since 2008 in Expert Guides, a supplementary insert in International Financial Law Review.

2 Investment Funds Lawyers - June 2010 Jawad I Ali, Dubai Islamic Finance Practitioners - June 2010 Jawad I Ali, Dubai Nabil A Issa, Dubai/Riyadh Leroy Levy, Riyadh Andrew M Metcalf, New York Michael Rainey, London Isam Salah, New York/Dubai White Collar Crime Lawyers - June 2010 John M Bray Stephen S Cowen Competition & Antitrust Lawyers/Economists - March 2010 James M Griffin Kevin R Sullivan Litigation Lawyers - March 2010 R Doak Bishop Reagan W Simpson, Austin Real Estate Lawyers - March 2010 Scott J Arnold, New York Best of the Best 2010 (Energy and Natural Resources) Philip R Weems Kenneth S Culotta Best of the Best 2010 (International Trade) Joseph W Dorn 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC Tel: (1) ; (1) (mobile) Fax: (1) jdorn@kslaw.com Joe Dorn is the founding partner of 's international trade practice group. His practice focuses on international trade disputes in the, foreign countries, and before the World Trade Organization. Mr Dorn is recognised as a leading practitioner in the field of international trade by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Trade and Customs Lawyers; Chambers A; Washington, DC Super Lawyers; and The Legal 500 Litigation. He also is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In the, Mr Dorn has successfully pursued trade remedy actions on behalf of industries against imports from China, Canada, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand, France, and other countries. He has handled a wide variety of trade remedy investigations, including antidumping and countervailing duty cases, safeguard cases, and Section 337 cases (patent and trade mark infringement) and on behalf of a wide array of industries (including cement, steel, crude oil, welded steel pipe, tires, thermal paper, magnesium, tobacco, furniture, plastic bags, cookware, stoves, beef, skate boards, paint brushes, raspberries). In 2008, for example, Mr Dorn represented the following industries in successful antidumping and countervailing cases against imports from China of the following products: circular welded pipe, off-the-road tires, laminated woven sacks, and lightweight thermal paper. Mr Dorn has also successfully handled numerous NAFTA and WTO dispute settlement proceedings and argued numerous appeals before the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has spoken at seminars in Europe, Asia, and North America on customs and trade law issues, and at judicial conferences of the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also has testified before Congressional Committees concerning international trade legislation. Representative experience Represented John Maneely Company in obtaining antidumping and countervailing duties against imports of circular welded pipe from China; represented Bridgestone Firestone North America in obtaining antidumping and countervailing duties against imports of off-the-road tires from China; represented producers in obtaining antidumping and countervailing duties against imports of laminated woven sacks from China; represented Appleton Papers in obtaining antidumping and countervailing duties against imports of lightweight thermal paper from China and Korea; represented a Guatemalan industry in the first antidumping case ever prosecuted in Central America; represented industries in the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Cyprus in the first antidumping cases filed in these countries; defended a exporter of stainless steel in an antidumping investigation before the European Commission; prosecuted a State Aid case before the European Commission ; won NAFTA panel decisions on behalf of cement, cookware, and magnesium industries; represented the Government of Guatemala in the first antidumping case brought before a WTO panel and won a reversal of the panel's 02 IFLR

3 adverse decision before the WTO Appellate Body; won various judicial appeals on behalf of producers of various products. Memberships Board of directors, Customs and International Trade Bar Association; chair, International Trade Committee, Customs and International Trade Bar Association; served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Trade and Customs Law of the International Bar Association; served as vice chairman of the Antitrust and Trade Law Committee of the International Bar Association. Court admissions District of Columbia; Georgia; Supreme Court; Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; Court of International Trade; District Court, District of Columbia; District Court, Northern District of Georgia. JD, University of Virginia; served on the Virginia Law Review; elected to the Order of the Coif; BA, University of North Carolina; Morehead Scholar; member, Phi Beta Kappa. Gilbert B Kaplan 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW - Suite 200 Washington, DC Tel: (1) Fax: (1) gkaplan@kslaw.com Gil Kaplan is a partner at and is in the international trade group. His practice focuses on international trade cases and trade policy issues. He has represented clients in a wide range of cases on antidumping (price discrimination), countervailing duties (subsidies), Section 337, (intellectual property infringement) and other trade matters. He works extensively on market access, and trade negotiations. Mr Kaplan also represents clients in connection with legislative and trade policy matters. He has also practiced extensively in connection with WTO matters. Mr Kaplan recently published an article on Section 337 cases at the International Trade Commission, which is entitled "The ITC or the District Court? Where to Protect Your International Intellectual Property." From 1990 to 2004 he was a senior partner at Hale and Dorr, chairman of the government and regulatory affairs department and headed the international trade group. From 1983 to 1988, Mr Kaplan served in several senior positions in the government. He was the acting assistant secretary for Import Administration, and the deputy assistant secretary for Import Administration of the Department of Commerce. While there, Mr Kaplan was in charge of administering the antidumping and countervailing duty laws, and conducted over five hundred antidumping and countervailing duty cases. These included cases on cellular mobile telephones, steel and steel related products, pagers and a variety of semiconductor and high-technology products. Mr Kaplan supervised the President's Steel Programme, the -Japan Agreement on Trade in Semiconductors, the -Canada agreement on lumber and the machine tool programme. In addition, he oversaw the foreign trade zones programme, as well as the Office of Industrial Resource Administration, which develops and implements programmes to ensure the availability of industrial resources to meet peacetime and emergency requirements. He was a principal spokesman for the administration on legislative and congressional issues pertaining to the dumping, countervailing duty and National Security import relief (Section 232) laws. Mr Kaplan was also an active participant in the negotiation of the World Trade Organisation Agreement. He testified before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, as well as before the House and Senate GATT Task Forces. He worked extensively with congressional committees and Trade Representative officials to craft the final language in the GATT Implementing Bill, which was signed by President Clinton in 1994 and travelled to Geneva to meet with GATT officials and negotiators. Mr Kaplan graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and Harvard Law School, cum laude. JD, cum laude, Harvard University AB, magna cum laude, Harvard University Admitted to practise Massachusetts Washington DC st of the Best A 2010 (Energy and Natural Resources) Best of the Best /Best of the Best A 2010 (Product Liability) Chilton D Varner Trademark Law Practitioners - December 2009 Bruce W Baber, New York Ethan Horwitz, New York Commercial Arbitration Lawyers - September 2009 R Doak Bishop John Bowman James Castello, Paris John W Hinchey Jennifer Price Eric Schwartz, Paris Margrete Stevens Project Finance Lawyers - September 2009 Kenneth S Culotta 03 IFLR

4 Margaret E O Neil, New York Daniel R Rogers Scott A Samuel, London Labour and Employment Lawyers - June 2009 Michael W Johnston Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers - March 2009 Sarah Borders Henry J Kaim James A Pardo Patent Law Practitioners - March 2009 Ethan Horwitz, New York The Best of the Best A 2009 (Healthcare) Gary W Eiland 1100 Louisiana Street, Suite 4000 Houston, TX Tel: (1) Fax: (1) geiland@kslaw.com Gary Eiland has built a practice focused on providing legal services to the health care industry over the past 30 years. He is experienced in the special regulatory and organisational problems of academic medical centres and other healthcare providers, with a particular focus on clinical research and regulatory compliance, False Claims Act investigations and defence, self-disclosures, pursuit of OIG Advisory Opinions, Medicare and Medicaid coverage and payment issues (including Medicaid UPL programmes), and structuring healthcare business transactions and affiliation, and other contractual relationships. Mr Eiland has earned national recognition for his work, including being rated as one of the top healthcare lawyers in the state of Texas by Chambers A, which described Gary as "second to none" in the field, and has been featured as one of five "Go-To/Top Notch Lawyers" in health law in the Texas Lawyer's Go-To Guide, Legal Media Group's publication Best of the Best A 2007 included Gary in a list of 31 top healthcare lawyers in the country. Gary was also selected for Nightingale's Healthcare News 2004, 2006 and 2008 lists of outstanding healthcare fraud and compliance lawyers and was a charter member of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization's Health Law Exam Commission during Gary is also a recipient of the American Health Lawyers Association's prestigious David J Greenburg Award for career-long contributions to the association. Representative experience Represented various participants regarding the development and implementation of Medicaid supplemental payment/upl programs to provide enhanced Medicaid payments to hospitals and other providers located in Bexar, Crockett, Dallas, Harris, Hutchinson, Tarrant, and Tom Green counties in Texas; Represented a hospital district in settlement of a federal and state False Claims Act whistleblower action where suit was originally filed pursuant to the qui tam provisions of the FCA and Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act; Represented various state university medical schools in obtaining favorable Office of Inspector General advisory opinions addressing financial arrangements and donation of medical office building; Represented healthcare industry clients in obtaining Medicare coverage for new products and services including obtaining Medicare DRG for drug eluting stents; and Represented local governmental hospital district in transfer of hospital assets and operations to private healthcare system and negotiation of Indigent Care Agreement between hospital district and healthcare system. Awards and recognition Chambers A: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in healthcare law, The Best Lawyers in America in healthcare law for over 10 years "Go To/Top Notch Lawyer" in health law (one of five), Texas Lawyer's Go-To Guide, 2007 Activities and affiliations State Bar of Texas: chair, Health Law Section ( ); charter member, Health Law Exam Commission, Texas Board of Legal Specialization ( ); member, College of the State Bar of Texas American Health Lawyers Association: past president; recipient of the David J Greenburg Award for career-long contributions to the association (2005) Healthcare Financial Management Association: member, Compliance Officers Forum Advisory Council ( ); recipient of HFMA Medal of Honor (1999); chapter liaison representative, Region 9 ( ); president, Texas Gulf Coast Chapter ( ) Publications and presentations "Gainsharing in Orthopedics: Passing Fancy or Wave of the Future?" J Bone Journal of the Bone and Joint Surgery, 2007 (co-author) "Research Institutions Under Scrutiny- Reimbursement, Compliance Issues, and the False Claims Act," Aspen Publishers' Reimbursement Advisor, October 2005 "Medicare Parts A, B and C," Fundamentals of Health Law: American Health Lawyers, 3rd ed 2002 Admitted to practise Texas, 1976 United States Supreme Court Court of Claims Fifth and Eleventh Courts of Appeal Multiple Federal District Courts The University of Texas School of Law, JD with honours (Order of the 04 IFLR

5 Coif; Phi Delta Phi) The University of Texas, BBA in Marketing with honours (Phi Kappa Phi) Glen A Reed 191 Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA Tel: (1) Fax: (1) gareed@kslaw.com Glen Reed is a past president of the American Health Lawyers Association. His practice concentrates on the general representation of healthcare systems, on specialised regulatory support to healthcare technology, pharmaceutical and device companies, and on specialised projects involving compliance planning, healthcare industry restructuring, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, antitrust, managed care, healthcare policy and new service development. Mr Reed has served on the healthcare economic development task force of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Mr Reed was the legal consultant to Governor Zell Miller's Commission on Health Care. He is a member of the Dean's Council of the Emory University School of Public Health. Mr Reed has served as president of the Georgia Academy of Hospital Attorneys, and as chair of the first annual meeting of the American Health Lawyers Association. He has served as chairman of Visiting Nurse Health System, as president of the Atlanta Alliance on Developmental Disabilities and as chairman of MedShare International. He is an arbitrator for the National Arbitration Forum. Mr Reed has lectured extensively on healthcare industry legal matters. He served for six years as chair of the annual seminar Fundamentals of Healthcare Law, and he has provided the Legal Update for the annual healthcare conference of the Georgia Society of CPAs and Georgia HFMA since Mr Reed has participated in a healthcare programme for Sky Radio on all Delta Airlines and American Airlines flights. He was cited as one of the Most Influential Atlantans in the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Reader Choice column. Mr Reed has been listed in the publications Georgia Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers A Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He was appointed to the initial class of fellows of the American Health Lawyers Association, which also has named him a recipient of its David J Greenburg Service Award. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and the Yale Law School, where he served as articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. Richard L Shackelford 1180 Peachtree Street, NE Atlanta, GA Tel: (1) Fax: (1) rshackelford@kslaw.com office and a member of the firm's healthcare practice group. He is the president-elect of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). Mr Shackelford represents health systems, academic medical centers, pharmacy providers, health plans, pharmacy benefits managers, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, managed care organisations and physician organisations in connection with government investigations and a wide variety of litigation and regulatory matters. He has litigated numerous complex matters for healthcare clients in federal and state courts around the country, including numerous class actions. These matters typically involve specialised healthcare regulatory, managed care or complex commercial issues. He regularly represents healthcare clients in the defence of civil False Claims Act actions, government investigations, and whistleblower actions. He also regularly advises healthcare clients on federal and state regulatory issues, including self-disclosures, compliance, fraud and abuse, managed care, peer review/medical staff and certificate of need. Mr Shackelford is a frequent lecturer and writer on False Claims Act investigations, healthcare regulatory, fraud and abuse, compliance and healthcare litigation issues. Practice areas Healthcare litigation; Government investigations; Fraud and abuse; Consumer class actions; Managed care litigation; ERISA Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, University of Georgia; Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, University of Georgia School of Law Awards and recognition Listed in The Best Lawyers in America; Listed in Chambers A Client Guide; Named by Nightingale's Healthcare News in 2003 and 2007 as an Outstanding Healthcare Litigator; Designated a Georgia "Super Lawyer" by Atlanta Magazine; Listed in Guide to the Leading Healthcare Lawyers: Best of the Best Bar and court admissions Georgia trial and appellate courts; Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia American Bar Association, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta Bar Association Memberships Board of directors of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) ast-president of the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys ( ) Past chair ( ) and vice-chair ( ) of AHLA's Committee on HMOs and Health Plans Dennis M Barry Rick Shackelford is a litigation partner in 's Atlanta 05 IFLR

6 Best of the Best A 2009 (Commercial Arbitration) R Doak Bishop John Bowman International Trade Lawyers/Consultants - December 2008 Gilbert B Kaplan 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW - Suite 200 Washington, DC Tel: (1) Fax: (1) gkaplan@kslaw.com JD, cum laude, Harvard University AB, magna cum laude, Harvard University Admitted to practise Massachusetts Washington DC Bonnie Byers Joseph W Dorn Jorge O Miranda Stephen J Orava Product Liability Lawyers - D Gil Kaplan is a partner at and is in the international trade group. His practice focuses on international trade cases and trade policy issues. He has represented clients in a wide range of cases on antidumping (price discrimination), countervailing duties (subsidies), Section 337, (intellectual property infringement) and other trade matters. He works extensively on market access, and trade negotiations. Mr Kaplan also represents clients in connection with legislative and trade policy matters. He has also practiced extensively in connection with WTO matters. Mr Kaplan recently published an article on Section 337 cases at the International Trade Commission, which is entitled "The ITC or the District Court? Where to Protect Your International Intellectual Property." From 1990 to 2004 he was a senior partner at Hale and Dorr, chairman of the government and regulatory affairs department and headed the international trade group. From 1983 to 1988, Mr Kaplan served in several senior positions in the government. He was the acting assistant secretary for Import Administration, and the deputy assistant secretary for Import Administration of the Department of Commerce. While there, Mr Kaplan was in charge of administering the antidumping and countervailing duty laws, and conducted over five hundred antidumping and countervailing duty cases. These included cases on cellular mobile telephones, steel and steel related products, pagers and a variety of semiconductor and high-technology products. Mr Kaplan supervised the President's Steel Programme, the -Japan Agreement on Trade in Semiconductors, the -Canada agreement on lumber and the machine tool programme. In addition, he oversaw the foreign trade zones programme, as well as the Office of Industrial Resource Administration, which develops and implements programmes to ensure the availability of industrial resources to meet peacetime and emergency requirements. He was a principal spokesman for the administration on legislative and congressional issues pertaining to the dumping, countervailing duty and National Security import relief (Section 232) laws. Mr Kaplan was also an active participant in the negotiation of the World Trade Organisation Agreement. He testified before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, as well as before the House and Senate GATT Task Forces. He worked extensively with congressional committees and Trade Representative officials to craft the final language in the GATT Implementing Bill, which was signed by President Clinton in 1994 and travelled to Geneva to meet with GATT officials and negotiators. Mr Kaplan graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and Harvard Law School, cum laude. Product Liability Lawyers - December 2008 Jeffrey L Furr 227 W Trade Street Suite 600 Charlotte, NC Tel: (1) Fax: (1) jfurr@kslaw.com Jeff Furr is a partner in 's tort and environmental litigation practice group in the firm's Charlotte office. He has served as national coordinating counsel in nationwide product liability litigation and has a national trial practice. Mr Furr has tried cases to jury verdict in diverse jurisdictions including North Carolina, West Virginia, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, Florida and California. He has represented product manufacturers in class actions, mass consolidated proceedings and individual personal injury actions. Mr Furr has extensive expertise on the full range of legal, factual and scientific issues involved in such litigation. He has served as lead trial counsel for industry-wide cases against the tobacco industry for more than a decade. Mr Furr's experience includes: Trial counsel in a class action jury trial for medical monitoring; Defending class certification in personal injury and consumer fraud class actions in multiple jurisdictions; Defending punitive damage claims in personal injury actions; and Defending mass consolidated personal injury actions for fraud and product defect claims Practice areas: Litigation Product liability Mass tort 06 IFLR

7 Memberships: American Bar Association North Carolina Bar Association Professional activities: Mecklenburg County Bar Association North Carolina Bar Association American Bar Association Bar admissions: North Carolina, 1987 : BS, West Virginia University, cum laude, 1981 JD, Wake Forest University School of Law, cum laude, 1987 Editor-in-chief, Wake Forest Law Review, Awards: 2008 North Carolina Super Lawyers 2007 North Carolina Super Lawyers 2006 North Carolina Super Lawyers 2007 Chambers A Richard A Schneider Chilton D Varner Donald F Zimmer, San Francisco 07 IFLR

8 Methodology Legal Media Group's Expert Guides series has been an invaluable and indispensable source of guidance for in-house counsel in large corporations worldwide, since its inception in These practice area guides are designed primarily for individuals who require access to pre-eminent practitioners in specific areas of law for the purpose of instruction on an international basis. To ensure the credibility of the publications, Legal Media Group commissions its research department to carry out an in-depth study of experts in the various fields of law being examined. The initial stage of the research process involves distributing more than 3500 questionnaires to senior practitioners or in-house counsel involved in the practice area in some 60 jurisdictions. The questionnaire asks leading figures to nominate those lawyers they consider being among the most capable for that work. The results are analyzed and screened for firm, network and alliance bias. Researchers then meet with a number of acknowledged leading experts. Their considered views are solicited in a number of interviews held in major legal centres worldwide. This typically includes: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney. Using data collated from returned questionnaires and the interviews, we compile a preliminary list of those individuals who have been independently nominated by other senior practitioners or in-house counsel. As a final verification we discuss this list with a select group of advisers. At the culmination of the process we are able to identify those specialists of considerable repute in that aspect of law, typically in some jurisdictions. Once nominated, each individual is invited to enhance his or her complimentary listing by publishing a professional biography. Those submitting biographies are encouraged to provide information that might be of particular interest to clients. Where professional etiquette permits details of notable clients and cases is requested. The Expert Guides series is not intended as a substitute for legal advice and users should seek advice from qualified lawyers. The guides owe their value to the hundreds of individuals who take the time to complete questionnaires and meet our researchers. Their help is much appreciated. EXPERT GUIDES RESEARCH Expert Guides has been researching the world s legal markets for over 15 years, and has become one of the most trusted resources for international buyers of legal services. Our guides cover a broad and growing range of legal practice areas, including: Aviation Banking Capital markets Commercial arbitration Competition and antitrust Corporate governance Energy and natural resources Environment Insolvency and restructuring Insurance and reinsurance International trade Investment funds Islamic finance Labour and employment Litigation Mergers and acquisitions Patent law Private equity Product liability Project finance Real estate Shipping and maritime Structured finance and securitization Tax Technology, media and telecommunications Trade mark law Transfer pricing Trusts and estates White-collar crime Our guides are distributed to and regularly used by the world s most prominent decision-makers and frequent buyers of legal services. Each guide has an extensive distribution list plus additional tailoring to its area of focus. Each guide is also reprinted in full at 08 WWW. EXPERTGUIDES. COM