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Sidley Austin LLP

www.sidley.com

Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world’s largest law firms, with approximately 1,700 lawyers in 17 offices. Sidley combines practical experience, extensive knowledge and a commitment to providing quality legal services responsive to the needs of its clients. The firm offers extensive experience in transactional, regulatory and litigation matters spanning virtually every area of substantive law. The firm has been recognized for its leadership in its litigation, transactional and international practices. Sidley has been named to Legal Business’ Global Elite, its designation for the 18 firms “that define the pinnacle of the legal profession”, every year since 2003. In its

2010 edition, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business recognized 61

Sidley lawyers and the firm received number one rankings in 15 practice areas for practices in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States. Sidley consistently ranks among the top US capital markets firms in the Thomson Reuters league tables, both by deal value and by number of deals, with strong showings as both issuer and underwriter counsel in major security type categories. The firm has been recognized for its focus on client service and is one of only two law firms to be ranked in the top 10 for overall client service in BTI

Consulting Group’s The BTI Client Service 30

every year since its inception in 2001. Sidley was named the number one law firm for overall client service for three of those years and was named to The BTI Client Service Hall of Fame in recognition of these achievements. Sidley has also been recognized for its pro bono and diversity programmes.

International clients

The firm’s clients include investment and commercial banks; industrial and service corporations; public utilities; private equity firms and alternative asset managers; investment funds, including mutual and hedge funds; insurance and other financial services companies; professional service firms; executives, individuals and entrepreneurs; government agencies; and non-profit organizations.

Main international areas of practice

Sidley has a broad transactional practice. Disciplines include corporate and securities; M&A; structured finance and securitization; intellectual property; funds and other pooled investments; bankruptcy and corporate reorganization; bank and commercial lending; public finance; real estate; tax and employee benefits; as well as trusts and estates. Sidley offers clients extensive litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution experience, at trial and appellate levels and spanning virtually every area of substantive law. Major practice areas include general and commercial litigation; securities and financial litigation; antitrust; international trade law; international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution; Securities & Exchange Commission enforcement; white-collar criminal defence; food and drug; healthcare; patent and other IP litigation; product liability and mass tort litigation. Sidley provides regulatory services in virtually every major industry, especially those that are strictly regulated worldwide, such as life sciences; finance; communications; energy; environmental and climate change; food and drug; healthcare; insurance; privacy and data protection; and securities. Many of the firm’s regulatory lawyers previously held senior positions in government agencies in the United States, the European Union and Asia, where they participated directly in the legislative process.

Attorney advertising. For purposes of compliance with New York State Bar rules, our headquarters are Sidley Austin LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, +1 212 839 5300 and One South Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60603, +1 312 853 7000. Prior results described herein do not guarantee a similar outcome. Sidley Austin LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership which operates at the firm’s offices other than Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, is affiliated with other partnerships, including Sidley Austin LLP, an Illinois limited liability partnership (Chicago); Sidley Austin LLP, a separate Delaware limited liability partnership (London); Sidley Austin LLP, a separate Delaware limited liability partnership (Singapore); Sidley Austin, a New York general partnership (Hong Kong); Sidley Austin, a Delaware general partnership of registered foreign lawyers restricted to practising foreign law (Sydney); and Sidley Austin Nishikawa Foreign Law Joint Enterprise (Tokyo). The affiliated partnerships are referred to herein collectively as Sidley Austin, Sidley or the firm.

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