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Vinson & Elkins LLP

Image First City Tower, 1001 Fannin Street, Suite 2300, Houston, Texas 77002-6760 US

Tel: +1 713 758 2222

Fax: +1 713 758 2346

Website: www.velaw.com

Contacts:

George M Gerachis    Email: ggerachis@velaw.com

Edward C Osterberg Jr    Email: eosterberg@velaw.com

Other offices:

Austin

The Terrace 7

2801 Via Fortuna, Suite 100

Austin, Texas 78746  US

Tel: +1 512 542 8400

Fax: +1 512 542 8612

Contact: Donald F Wood

Email: dwood@velaw.com Dallas

Trammell Crow Center

2001 Ross Avenue, Suite 3700

Dallas, Texas 75201-2975  US

Tel: +1 214 220 7700

Fax: +1 214 220 7716

Contact: Thomas Crichton IV

Email: tcrichton@velaw.com

New York

666 Fifth Avenue, 26th Floor

New York 10103-0040  US

Tel: +1 212 237 0000

Fax: +1 212 237 0100

Contact: Walter B Stuart

Email: wstuart@velaw.com

Washington DC

The Willard Office Building 1455 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20004-1008  US

Tel: +1 202 639 6500

Fax: +1 202 639 6604

Contact: Jay H Hebert

Email: jhebert@velaw.com

Vinson & Elkins' tax attorneys plan transactions, provide tax counsel in commercial and policy matters, and represent clients in audits, litigation, arbitration, and appeals of state, federal and international tax controversies. V&E attorneys integrate tax and non-tax legal advice to achieve favourable tax treatment for clients, consistent with their commercial objectives. The firm's clients include foreign and domestic enterprises, both publicly and privately held, individuals, trusts and estates, tax-exempt organizations, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities. V&E, which has been recognised as the world's leading energy law firm, has also been consistently recognised as having one of the top law firm tax practices in the nation. The firm has extensive experience in structuring international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, financial instruments, outsourcing arrangements, transfer pricing programmes, investment funds and tax incentive arrangements. V&E's tax lawyers are particularly experienced with issues in constantly evolving industries such as energy, technology, financial services, telecommunications and media, health care and private equity. V&E has more than 700 lawyers and solicitors who serve clients worldwide through its offices in Austin, Dallas and Houston, Texas, New York City, Washington, Beijing, Dubai, London, Moscow and Tokyo.

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