Paul Hastings Names Fourteen New Partners in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Shanghai, Stamford and Washington, DC Offices; Firm Admits Largest Partnership Class in History

Business Wire, Nov 17, 2004

NEW YORK -- Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings) is pleased to announce today that Dino Barajas (Los Angeles), James Bliss (Stamford), Allan Bloom (New York), Behnam Dayanim (Washington), Karol Denniston (Atlanta), Dennis Ellis (Los Angeles), Stacy Hopkins (Los Angeles), Robert Keane (Los Angeles), Michael McKinnon (Orange County), Maureen O'Neill (Atlanta), Lisa Rushton (Washington, DC), Kyle Sherman (Atlanta), Carolyn Sullivan (New York), and Gregory Wells (Shanghai) have been elected to the firm partnership. E[acute accent]"We are very pleased to have named this record number of partners. Their depth of knowledge and experience, along with their commitment to the clients of our firm is exemplary," said Seth Zachary, Chairman of Paul Hastings. "This diverse group of partners are all superb lawyers and valuable contributors to our firm and our clients. As we to continue to expand globally, each new partner will play an integral role in building the practice."

E[acute accent]The Following Attorneys Have Been Promoted to Partner:

E[acute accent]Dino Barajas, a member of the Corporate Department, resident in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Barajas has extensive experience representing lenders, investors, and developers in a wide range of domestic and international project financings in the energy, power, infrastructure and commercial sectors. E[acute accent]James Bliss, a member of the Litigation Department, resident of the Stamford office. Mr. Bliss represents corporations in all types of commercial litigation. E[acute accent]Allan Bloom, a member of the Employment Department, resident in the New York office. He represents and advises employers and management in all aspects of employment and labor law. E[acute accent]Behnam Dayanim, a member of the Litigation Department, resident in the Washington, DC office. Mr. Dayanim is a member of the Firm's Technology & Electronic Commerce, Intellectual Property, Privacy and Information Security, International Trade, and Government Affairs Practices. He represents clients in information technology & electronic commerce, privacy and information security, international trade, and advertising and other intellectual-property legal issues. E[acute accent]Karol Denniston is a member of the Corporate Department, resident in the Atlanta office. Her practice focuses on international distressed debt, insolvencies and reorganizations usually from a lender's perspective. E[acute accent]Dennis Ellis is a member of the Litigation Department, resident in the Los Angeles office. His expertise is in products liability defense, environmental law, business torts, and breach of contract actions. Mr. Ellis has done work for a diverse group of clients which include major retail chains, petroleum, pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies, and celebrities. E[acute accent]Stacy Hopkins is a member of the Corporate Department, resident in the Los Angeles office. She concentrates her practice in commercial finance and creditors' rights. She has represented banks and other financial institutions in credit transactions, including asset-based loan financings, workouts, and loan restructurings. E[acute accent]Robert Keane is a member of the Real Estate Department, resident in the Los Angeles office. He concentrates his practice primarily on the representation of domestic and international investment banks, opportunity funds, non-regulated lenders and pension funds in equity investments, joint venture formations, acquisitions and dispositions, real estate-related lending, secondary market transactions (including securitizations and whole loan sales), REO purchases and sales, and lending workouts and reorganizations in the United States, Japan and Korea. E[acute accent]Michael McKinnon is a member of the Corporate Department, resident in the Orange County office. His practice includes general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, securities, venture capital and private equity representation. E[acute accent]Maureen O'Neill is a member of the Employment Department, resident in the Atlanta office. She represents employers in all aspects of employment law litigation, including discrimination, wage and hour, breach of contract, and common law tort claims. Ms. O'Neill has significant experience in the defense of employment discrimination class actions/wage and hour collective actions. E[acute accent]Lisa Rushton is a member of the Real Estate Department, resident in the Washington, D.C. office. She represents a variety of large and small businesses within the commercial, real estate and industrial communities on matters relating to compliance with federal, state and local environmental and health and safety laws and regulations. E[acute accent]Kyle Sherman is a member of the Employment Dept., resident in the Atlanta office. He represents employers before the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Labor and Department of State with regard to applications/ petitions for immigrant/nonimmigrant employees. E[acute accent]Carolyn Sullivan is a member of the Real Estate Department, resident in the New York Office. Her practice is concentrated primarily in the area of real estate financing. She has represented institutional lenders in connection with their large loan, conduit loan, and other securitized lending programs, mezzanine lenders in connection with mezzanine loans and other structured transactions, and insurance companies and banks in their traditional permanent and construction loan programs. E[acute accent]Gregory Wells is a member of the Real Estate Department, resident in the Shanghai office. He has an extensive background in the acquisition and structuring of real estate transactions and has also represented non-real estate related companies in connection with private merger and acquisition transactions, public offerings, private placements and SEC reporting. E[acute accent]Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, founded in 1951, is an international law firm, representing Fortune 500 companies with nearly 1000 attorneys located in 15 offices: Atlanta, Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Paris, San Diego, San Francisco, Shanghai, Stamford, Tokyo and Washington, DC.