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500Paul Clement Bancroft (Washington, dc) The ‘anti-Solicitor General’ isconsidered the best lawyer in the land by some for his ability to take the politicsout of divisive issues like healthcare, immigration reform and gay marriage.Richard Climan Weil gotshal (East Palo Alto) Climan negotiated hugedeals for Dell and represented Lazard as financial advisor to Google in theMotorola acquisition.Ty Cobb Hogan Lovells (Washington, dc) A Hall of Famer in every regard,Ethisphere magazine added him to its list of 10 Legends this year for his extraordinaryability to help clients from AIG to princes and kingdoms to Dell executivesfacing Congressional committees, investigations and ethical compliance issues.Charles Cogut Simpson Thacher (New York) This M&A attorney turned outa monster dealmaking year, including Sealed Air’s acquisition of Diversey,Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype Global and Cargill’s spin off of Mosaic.H. Rodgin Cohen Sullivan & Cromwell (New York) A one-man monopolyof legal advice to the world’s financial sector is advising Standard Chartered in$250B claims of Iranian money laundering, Barclays in the LIBOR conflagrationand advising world banks, such as China Merchants Bank Co. to establish a U.S.presence.Jay Cohen Paul Weiss (New York) While Cohen is known for his litigation andcounseling of Warner Bros., ASCAP and other media entities, he recently scoredseveral enormous wins in the business arena, saving Citigroup’s $7.5B investmentfrom the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and protecting a $8B challenge to thesale of EMI.Robin Cohen Kasowitz Benson (New York) In the arcane and critical area ofpolicyholder insurance coverage, Cohen is at the top for clients like Visa as well ascompanies who invested in Madoff funds and are now seeking coverage for their losses.R. Scott Cohen Jones Day (Dallas) A longtime advisor to Texas Instruments,he forged its $6.5B purchase of National Semiconductor, then helped TaiwanSemiconductor structure its $1.37B investment in next generation technology.Dean Colson Colson Hicks (Coral Gables, Fla.) Colson and his firm are passionateadvocates for consumers, as seen in their work for BP Oil Spill victims, on theChinese Drywall litigation and now against Ford Motor Co. for defective spark plugs.James Conlan Sidley Austin (Chicago) A world leader in cross-borderrestructurings, Conlan represented banks and Dynegy subsidiaries in Chapter 11 toreduce their debts and bondholders’ exposures.Joe Conner Baker Donelson (Chattanooga, Tenn.) His efforts snared TowerMusic $30.4M in an eminent domain jury trial against the MetropolitanDevelopment & Housing Authority, which had offered $16.1M for the property.L A W D R A G O N 86 I s s u e 13 Photo by: Laura Barisonzi