Sullivan & Cromwell Announces Newly Elected Partners

    NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Sullivan & Cromwell LLP today
 announced that six attorneys have been elected partners of the Firm,
 effective January 1, 2008. The newly elected partners represent multiple
 practice areas and geographic locations, reflecting the increasingly
 complex and global nature of client needs.
     H. Rodgin Cohen, Chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, said, "We are
 delighted to have added our six new partners. They are exceptionally
 capable lawyers with diverse experiences and expertise. They strengthen our
 practice and our ability to meet our clients' needs." The new partners are:
     Beijing Office:
     -- Robert Chu (Corporate). Mr. Chu heads the Firm's Beijing office after
        having been resident in its New York and Hong Kong offices. He has
        worked on a wide range of M&A and corporate finance transactions
        involving companies in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle
        East. His recent M&A experience includes advising Thomson S.A. on the
        combination of the global television businesses of Thomson and TCL to
        create the world's largest television producer; Dubai Ports on its
        acquisition of CSX World Terminals, which involved strategic assets in
        Mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia, the Americas, Europe and
        elsewhere around the world; Bank of China Limited on the strategic
        investments by The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Temasek Holdings, UBS
        AG and the Asian Development Bank; The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.,
        Allianz AG and American Express Company on their strategic investments
        in the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China; and Jilin Chemical
        Industrial Company Limited, a company tri-listed on the New York, Hong
        Kong and Shenzhen stock exchanges, on its going-private transaction
        involving a tender offer by PetroChina Company Limited. Mr. Chu's
        recent experience on corporate finance matters includes advising Bank
        of China Limited on its initial public offering, which involved a
        public offering and listing in Hong Kong and a Rule 144A offering in
        the United States; the underwriters on the initial public offering and
        Nasdaq listing of Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd.; and China Digital
        TV Holding Co., Ltd. on its initial public offering and New York Stock
        Exchange listing. Prior to joining Sullivan & Cromwell in 1999, Mr. Chu
        taught contracts and international law at Rutgers Law School. Mr. Chu
        received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1993.
 
     Frankfurt Office:
     -- Carsten Berrar (Corporate). Mr. Berrar is a member of our German law
        practice group advising on a wide range of international public and
        private securities and M&A transactions. In recent years, Mr. Berrar
        has regularly acted as counsel to the underwriters in high profile
        initial public offerings in Germany, such as Deutsche Postbank, Wincor
        Nixdorf (both 2004), Symrise, Wacker Chemie, Klockner & Co and Demag
        Cranes (all 2006) and Tognum (2007). His most recent capital markets
        experience also includes, apart from various block trades and
        accelerated bookbuilt offerings, the rights offering of Merck KGaA
        (2007) and other complex capital markets transactions, such as the
        share issuance and convertible bond offering associated with the
        acquisition of DEPFA BANK by Hypo Real Estate Holding (2007). Mr.
        Berrar studied at the LMU Munich, Germany (first and second German
        state exam 1997 and 1999 respectively, Ph.D. of LMU Munich 2001) and
        the Universite Pantheon-Assas, Paris, France (Licence en droit 1994).
        Mr. Berrar joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 2000 after receiving his LL.M.
        from Harvard Law School.
 
     London Office:
     -- Benjamin C. Perry (Corporate). Mr. Perry practices primarily English
        law and advises on a wide range of corporate and finance transactions
        including cross-border M&A, private equity, leveraged and project
        finance and capital markets. Mr. Perry's recent M&A transactions
        include advising Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on its
        acquisition (as part of a consortium) of AWG, and advising Arcandor
        (formerly KarstadtQuelle) on the merger of Thomas Cook with MyTravel.
        In the project finance sector, Mr. Perry advised the consortium which
        owns and operates the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project, a major
        crude oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Turkey's Mediterranean
        coast. Mr. Perry joined Sullivan & Cromwell in 2000, after qualifying
        at Clifford Chance LLP. Mr. Perry studied at Oxford University, from
        which he received a first class honours degree in law in 1995, and the
        College of Law, Chester.
 
     New York Office:
     -- Nicolas Bourtin (Litigation). Mr. Bourtin's practice focuses on white-
        collar criminal defense and internal investigations, class action
        defense, and securities and complex civil litigation. He has
        represented individuals, corporations and financial institutions in
        matters involving corruption, tax fraud, banking, OFAC sanctions,
        antitrust, securities and commodities trading, employment and other
        areas. He represents individuals in a DOJ tax shelter investigation and
        is defending a European engineering firm under investigation by the
        Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), DOJ and foreign
        prosecutors' offices for alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt
        Practices Act. In addition, he represented a New York Stock Exchange
        specialist firm in regulatory and criminal investigations of the firm's
        trading practices and continues to represent the firm in related
        private securities class actions. He has represented employers in
        employment-related arbitrations and lawsuits in New York State court.
        He has conducted numerous jury trials and has argued frequently before
        the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Bourtin is a
        member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel in the Eastern District of New
        York and is regularly appointed to represent indigent defendants
        charged with federal crimes. Mr. Bourtin joined the Firm in 1998 after
        clerking for the Hon. Federico A. Moreno of the U.S. District Court for
        the Southern District of Florida. He left the Firm in 2001 to join the
        U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, and
        returned to the Firm in 2005. Mr. Bourtin received his J.D. in 1996
        from Columbia University School of Law.
 
     -- Suhana S. Han (Litigation). Ms. Han's practice focuses on commercial
        litigation, including securities, banking, contract and employment
        disputes. She has represented leading financial institutions in class
        action lawsuits, including the JPMorgan Chase/Bank One merger
        litigation and the Goldman Sachs mutual funds fee dispute. Ms. Han has
        also represented The Clearing House Association, which submitted an
        amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Watters v. Wachovia
        Bank, N.A. and Wachovia Mortgage Corp. In addition, she has represented
        clients in regulatory and white-collar investigations before the SEC,
        DOJ, Federal Reserve, New York State Banking Department, NASD and the
        Office of the New York State Attorney General. Ms. Han is currently
        representing Goldman Sachs in an action filed by the Director of the
        Department of Insurance for the State of Missouri in his capacity as
        liquidator for General American Mutual Holding Company. Ms. Han has an
        active pro bono practice, including the representation of an Alabama
        death-row inmate in post-conviction proceedings. She is a member of the
        Firm's Diversity Committee, as well as a member of the Committee for
        the Future of the New York Women's Foundation. Ms. Han joined the Firm
        in 2000 after clerking for the Hon. Raymond J. Dearie in the Eastern
        District of New York. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in
        1999.
 
     -- Tracy Richelle High (Litigation). Ms. High specializes in representing
        financial institutions and other corporations in regulatory enforcement
        proceedings and corporate internal investigations. She also has
        represented those entities in related civil litigation, including
        shareholder derivative and class action suits. Ms. High represented the
        Audit Committee of Computer Associates, Inc. (now known as CA) during
        its independent investigation into the company's past accounting
        practices in connection with joint investigations into those matters by
        the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New
        York and the SEC. Ms. High has also represented clients responding to
        regulatory requests and inquiries initiated by the U.S. Senate
        Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, DOJ, SEC, Federal Trade
        Commission, NASD, Internal Revenue Service, New York State Banking
        Department, the Office of the New York State Attorney General, New York
        Stock Exchange, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Chicago Board of Examiners
        and independent examiners appointed by court order. Ms. High serves on
        the Firm's Diversity and Diversity Recruiting Committees and is co-
        chair of the Women's Initiative Committee. She is a co-chair of the
        Federal Bar Council's Membership Committee. Ms. High joined the Firm in
        1999 after receiving her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
     About Sullivan & Cromwell
     Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is a global law firm that advises on major
 domestic and cross-border M&A, finance and corporate transactions,
 significant litigation and corporate investigations, and complex
 regulatory, tax and estate planning matters. The Firm's hallmarks are the
 highest quality independent advice and intense dedication to solving client
 problems. Founded in 1879, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has nearly 700 lawyers
 on four continents, with four offices in the U.S., including its
 headquarters in New York, three offices each in Europe and Asia, and two in
 Australia.
 
 

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