Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of management consulting for businesses and governments for more than 90 years. Integrating the full range of consulting capabilities, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps clients solve their toughest problems, working by their side to help them achieve their missions.

Bowne & Co. provides financial, marketing and business communications services around the world. Dealmakers rely on Bowne to handle critical transactional communications with speed and accuracy, whether it’s a complex IPO, the demands of first-time reporting, or a domestic, foreign or cross-border M&A. With 3,200 employees in 60 offices around the globe, Bowne has met the ever-changing demands of its clients for more than 230 years.

Jones Day is one of the largest international law firms, with more than 2,200 lawyers in 30 offices on four continents. We represent a wide range of clients around the world, including a majority of the Fortune Global 500. Our M&A Practice is among the largest of any firm -- we advise principals in over 500 transactions every year. Our practice involves public and private companies and merchant banks in a variety of transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures; mergers-of-equals; leveraged buyouts and build-ups; bankruptcy buyouts and other distressed M&A transactions; joint ventures and strategic alliances; and contested takeovers. Because Jones Day operates as one firm worldwide, we can draw from our leading antitrust, employee benefits, environmental, intellectual property, labor, tax, and other practices to bring together fully integrated, multijurisdictional, and multidisciplinary teams tailored to the specific demands of any transaction, regardless of its scope.

Latham & Watkins has one of the world's leading mergers and acquisitions practices. With more than 1,900 attorneys spread across a worldwide network of 24 offices, Latham's global leadership, local expertise and industry focus help clients ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to emerging companies get deals done. Latham offers clients the vast resources of its international platform, while maintaining an on-the-ground understanding of local markets and extensive knowledge of industry-specific issues. Latham's M&A lawyers participate in transactions in virtually every part of the world, representing public and private companies, financial sponsors and financial advisors in all types of transactions. In 2006, Latham M&A lawyers handled more than $470 billion in announced mergers and acquisitions transactions worldwide, representing principal entities or financial advisors in both public and private transactions.

NYSE Euronext, a holding company created by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc. and Euronext N.V., commenced trading on April 4, 2007 . NYSE Euronext (NYSE/New York and Euronext/Paris: NYX) operates the world’s largest and most liquid exchange group and offers the most diverse array of financial products and services. NYSE Euronext, which brings together six cash equities exchanges in five countries and six derivatives exchanges, is a world leader for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds and the distribution of market data. Representing a combined $28.5 trillion/€21.5 trillion total market capitalization of listed companies and average daily trading value of approximately $118.8 billion/€89.9 billion (as of February 28, 2007), NYSE Euronext seeks to provide the highest standards of market quality and integrity, innovative products and services to investors, issuers, and all users of its markets.

With 700 lawyers and other professionals in thirteen U.S. cities and Brussels, and a global reach throughout the Americas, Asia and the Middle East, Sonnenschein serves the legal and public interest needs of many of the world’s best known and most admired businesses, nonprofits and individuals. It does so through seamless inter-office cooperation and teamwork among highly expert practice groups, combining to provide efficient, effective and timely legal services and business counseling.