United States

Advised Merlin Securities LLC, a leading prime brokerage company in the US, on its sale to Wells Fargo

Advised the Independent Directors of the Board of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners on the acquisition of Tennessee Gas Pipeline, a ~14,000 mile natural gas pipeline system connecting Texas, Louisiana, and the Gulf of Mexico with the northeastern US, and 50% of El Paso Natural Gas, a ~10,000 mile natural gas pipeline system connecting the Permian Basin in Texas / New Mexico with key consumer markets in Arizona, California and Mexico

Advised Roche Holding Ltd., a world-leading provider of healthcare pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, on its acquisition of Ventana Medical Systems, Inc., a US based provider of histopathology diagnostic equipment

Advised Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc, the third largest options market in the US and the nation's oldest stock exchange, on its sale to the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.

Retained by the US Justice Department to advise it on the financial implications of the full range of potential remedies in the Microsoft antitrust case (US v. Microsoft).

Advised Herb Allison in an independent review of a $35.9 billion energy loan portfolio

Advised Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, on the sale of its US direct-to-home continuities business to Sandvik AS

Advised the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in connection with the Chapter 11 proceedings of US Office Products Company

Advised the United States Department of the Treasury on the management and disposition of its common shares of AIG

Advised US Shipping Partners L.P. in connection with its pre-arranged Chapter 11 proceedings