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(October 1, 2008, San Francisco, CA) – Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, continues its West Coast expansion with the addition of another high-profile lateral partner from the General Counsel ranks. 

(September 22, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA) – Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, announces the addition of Rebecca Bugaj Zak as counsel in its Financial Industry Group (FIG) practicing in the area of investment management. Ms. Zak will be resident in the firm’s Pittsburgh office, effective immediately.

(September 15, 2008, Chicago, IL) – Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, today announced the addition of Diane Green-Kelly as a partner in its Regulatory Litigation Group. She will be resident in the firm’s Chicago office, effective immediately.

Philadelphia Partner Assumes Vice Chair Position in Department (August 11, 2008, Philadelphia, PA) - Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, today announced the selection of Ajay Raju, a partner in its Philadelphia office, as Vice Chair of its Business & Finance Department.  Mr. Raju will lead strategic development initiatives on behalf of the Department, which comprises 700 of Reed Smith's 1600 attorneys in 23 offices around the world.

August 6, 2008, Chicago, IL) - Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, announces the addition of Michael P. Bregenzer as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group of its Litigation Department. Mr. Bregenzer joins the firm's Chicago office from the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis, where he had been a partner since 2004.

(July 31, 2008, San Francisco, CA) – Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, today announced it will open an office in the Silicon Valley early this fall.

International law firm, Reed Smith is pleased to announce the appointment of Catherine May, as a Partner in the firm

International law firm, Reed Smith is pleased to announce that the firm

International law firm Reed Smith, is delighted to announce that Stephen Barker will join the firm on Monday 11th September 2006 as a Partner in the European Litigation group, based in the Firm

International law firm, Richards Butler is pleased to announce its role in advising ITV plc on the sale of TV3 Television Network ('TV3') to private equity firm, Doughty Hanson. ITV holds its interest in TV3 as a 45% stake in CanWest Granada Media Holdings Limited ('CGMH') which is the Irish holding company of Ireland's TV3.

The sale is representative of ITV's successful disposal programme of non-core assets which is now approaching £500 million since the merger creating ITV plc in 2004. ITV is continuing to focus on its core UK broadcasting operation and growing its revenues outside ITV1 advertising through developing its UK and international production and distribution businesses and its consumer operations.

Philip Taylor, Partner and Head of the Corporate Practice at Richards Butler commented:

"We are pleased to have advised an important client on this significant transaction. The existence of ITV's pre-emption rights created some interesting deal dynamics. Our instructions on this highlight the firm?s highly-rated expertise in the media sector, which will be further enhanced with the addition of Reed Smith?s prominent US media practice, when the merger takes effect on the 1st January 2007."

The team from Richards Butler advising ITV plc was led by Partner Philip Taylor.

International law firm Reed Smith, is delighted to announce that Harriet Morgan joined the firm on Monday 10th July 2006 as a Partner in the European Corporate group, based in London. Harriet will have particular responsibility for the development of the firm

International law firm, Reed Smith is delighted to announce its role in advising the Inspired Gaming Group Plc on its successful IPO and admission of its issued share capital to trading on the AIM market of the London stock Exchange.

The transaction was structured as an 'accelerated IPO' which was underwritten by Evolution Securities Limited, and comprised a placing of 60,000,000 Ordinary shares at a placing price of 180p per share. The company will have an initial market capitalisation of approximately £115 million.

Inspired Gaming Group is the leading player in the UK Server Based Gaming (SBG) market and is also the leading provider of analogue machines for the leisure and gaming markets. The Group provides SBG software systems and SBG digital and networked terminals in six countries today. The Group manages over 90,000 machines across the UK, of which in excess of 17,000 are already on the SBG platform.

Saul Sender, Senior Associate at Reed Smith said 'The accelerated IPO structure proposed by Evolution allowed management to take control of the future of their business and gain access to capital available in the public equity markets to accelerate the roll-out the new generation of gaming machines.'

Sue Albion, Company Secretary at Inspired Gaming Group PLC commented 'This is an exciting development for the company, facilitated by the exceptional levels of service from the team at Reed Smith, and will enable us to quicken the roll out of the Group's digital platform both in the UK and internationally.'

The Reed Smith team was lead by senior associate, Saul Sender and partner, Giles Beale with banking partner, Leon Stephenson advising on the ?116 million debt facility and associate, James Wilson advising on the IPO of Inspired Gaming which raised ?108 million. Norton Rose advised Evolution Securities.

International law firm, Reed Smith advised Canaccord Adams, the Nominated Advisor and Broker to Clean Air Power Limited, who successfully floated on AIM on 28th February 2006.

Clean Air Power, the company behind Dual-FuelTM technology, floated successfully on AIM, in conjunction with a placing of 10,000,000 common shares at 100p pence per common share, raising

International law firm Reed Smith today announced its role in advising Bodisen Biotech, Inc., on the successful completion of the placing and dual listing of its US shares on AIM operated by the London Stock Exchange. Reed Smith also advised Bodisen on its listing on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) last year. Bodisen is a leading China-based manufacturer of environmentally friendly bio-fertilisers, which was ranked by Forbes Magazine in January 2006 as the

International law firm Reed Smith is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Stephan Rippert as a partner in the Munich office. He will join the firm on January 9th 2006, and will spearhead the growth of the telecommunication, media and technology practice in Munich.

Dr Rippert, who joins the firm from Haarmann Hemmelrath, specialises in advising clients in the telecommunications, media and technology sector, comprising a major global financial services media provider, a leading medical products company, a major US entertainment company and a well known French software company. He focuses on both transactional and litigious work including intellectual property, outsourcing, private equity, e-commerce and licensing issues. Dr Rippert also has extensive knowledge and experience of the New York legal market, he is admitted to the New York bar and has previously held Senior Counsel position at Viacom International in New York.

Dr Stefan Kugler, Partner, Reed Smith commented:

International law firm Reed Smith is pleased to announce its role in advising Hexagone Hospitalisation group on the disposal of part of the group to G

International law firm Reed Smith is delighted to announce the appointment of banking specialist Leon Stephenson to add further to its UK banking and finance practice. Leon will join the firm on the 1st December 2005 as a partner.

Leon, formerly a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb, has significant experience in corporate banking and financing transactions including syndicated secured financings and acquisition financings. In the past, Leon has represented a substantial number of well known corporates and financial institutions with specific emphasis on LBO transactions acting for private equity houses. Leon also has significant knowledge and experience of the French legal market, he is admitted to practice in Paris, New York and England and is a fluent French speaker, which is particularly relevant given the recent opening of the firms Paris office.

Leon

International law firm, Reed Smith LLP has today announced the opening of a Paris office, led by French partners Mathieu Rambaud and Benoit Charot, who join from the leading Paris firm Rambaud Martel. Marie Albertini and Philippe Lecler, who are also Rambaud Martel partners are joining the new office,, together with an initial team of 6 associates. The new office will handle transactional work and litigation work leveraging the profile of Rambaud

International law firm Reed Smith LLP is pleased to announce the appointment of two new partners and a senior associate to spearhead the growth of its UK Life Sciences Transactions practice.

John Wilkinson, formerly joint head of Bird & Bird

International law firm, Reed Smith LLP is pleased to announce that Paul Llewellyn will join the firm as a Partner on 1 November 2005, to head up the UK Product Liability Litigation practice. He will be based in the Midlands office.

Paul, a leading product liability lawyer, joins the firm from the Nottingham office of Eversheds, where he was a Partner for the last ten years. His practice focuses on product liability litigation, principally for medical device and pharmaceutical companies. He has extensive experience in dealing with pan-European and US product liability claims. Paul is one of only two European members of the Washington based Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC). Paul is also listed in the Who

International law firm, Reed Smith LLP is pleased to announce its role in advising Rhone Capital & Ontario Teachers

International law firm Reed Smith LLP has advised [long-standing client] Billing Services Group Limited (

International law firm, Reed Smith LLP is pleased to announce its role in advising Mellon Financial Corporation on the sale of its human resources outsourcing & consultants business to ACS, provider of business process and IT outsourcing solutions worldwide. In addition, ACS has acquired the operations and infrastructure associated with those businesses.

Mellon Financial Corporation is a global financial services company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Mellon is one of the world

International law firm, Reed Smith LLP is pleased to announce that Rajita Sharma will join the firm as a Partner, on Monday 6th June 2005, to spearhead the growth of the Intellectual Property group. Rajita

International law firm Reed Smith LLP (Reed Smith) today announced its role in representing Nations Healthcare in its

International law firm Reed Smith LLP is delighted to announce that the UK Real Estate team has been successful in securing the property portfolio work for the Harmsworth and Mail Newspapers