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500500Joe Sims Jones Day (Washington, dc) This antitrust ace showed his finesseand knowledge of DC and the DOJ, securing approvals for two mergers lastyear: Comcast’s joint venture with GE to create NBCUniversal and ABB Ltd.’s$4.2B acquisition of Baldor Electric.Stuart Singer Boies Schiller (Ft. Lauderdale) An advocate for the biggestcorporations as well as the most vulnerable in the Sunshine State, he represented1.7 million Florida children suing the state for healthcare, asking it tomeet federal Medicaid Act requirements.Paul Singerman Berger Singerman (Miami) He’s on a roll, helping tolead one of Florida’s most successful business law firms and its deepest restructuringand workout team, which is representing fiduciaries in the SunshineState’s two largest billion-dollar-plus fraud cases (Taylor Bean & Whitaker andRothstein Rosenfeldt & Adler), as well as other high-profile restructurings both inand out of court.Pankaj Sinha Skadden (Washington, dc) He led several deals transformingthe energy sector, including Entergy’s $6B divestiture via tax-free spin-offand merger of its transmission business into ITC and AES Corp.’s $3.5B acquisitionof DPL.John Skenyon Fish & Richardson (Boston) This leading IP attorney hashandled more than 100 IP lawsuits, winning one of the largest patent infringementverdicts ever in Massachusetts.Daniel Slifkin Cravath (New York) He has tremendous trial expertiseand handles a broad array of matters, including bankruptcy, commercial,employment and securities, recently winning rulings that saved JPMorganChase from class claims on nearly $40B worth of mortgage-backed securities.Bradford Smith Microsoft (Redmond, Wash.) As the battle for patentsamong high-tech companies heats up, Microsoft’s general counsel is alsofocused on establishing legal underpinnings for the cloud and next-generationtechnology.Bradley Smith Davis Polk (New York) An outstanding finance counselor,he represented J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup in lending CliffsResources $4B to finance its acquisition of Consolidated Thompson Iron Minesas well as JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch as lead arrangers of $2.5B in credit forJohnson Controls.Paul Smith Jenner & Block (Washington, dc) Scoring big in the U.S.Supreme Court in EMA v. Schwarzenegger, he established that video games enjoyfull constitutional protection from content-based regulation of their expression.L A W D R A G O N 170 I s s u e 13