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DECEMBER 4, 2012 NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, DC PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM Adams Holcomb specializes in representing groups of clients that are among the primary purchasers of products from suppliers that participated in unlawful cartels. Our clients opt out of class actions and file their own cases directly against the defendants. By sharing the risks and rewards of the litigation through (partial or wholly) contingent fee arrangements, we have consistently generated much larger recoveries for clients than they would have received had they remained as members of a plaintiffs' class. By sharing risk our clients receive the benefit of having their claim litigated at minimal cost by experienced counsel. They also avoid the burden of paying by the billable hour while risking an unfavorable outcome in court. Under our model, clients spread their litigation risks and costs while incentivizing their lawyers to aggressively prosecute their claim. We help our clients evaluate whether to opt out of the class and pursue their claims directly against the defendants. We are aided in this analysis by economists who are among the best in the business. If litigation is necessary, we co-counsel with top plaintiff-side litigators to press the litigation with maximum effort. Learn more at www.adamsholcomb.com. Founded by former Senior Managers and national leadership of the Economics and Statistical Consulting Group of Deloitte's Financial Advisory Services in 2009, Advanced Analytical Consulting Group, Inc. (AACG) provides economic, statistical, and computing consulting for business decisions and litigation. AACG assists business clients with strategic and operational consulting based on in-depth quantitative analysis of corporate data and the client's position in the market. AACG provides expert testimony, support for academic experts, and assistance in identifying the right expert from academic and business settings. From offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, AACG currently serves clients in Canada, Mexico, the UAE, the U.K. and the U.S.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012 NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON, DC

PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM

Adams Holcomb specializes in representing groups of clients that are among the primary purchasers of products from suppliers that participated in unlawful cartels. Our clients opt out of class actions and file their own cases directly against the defendants. By sharing the risks and rewards of the litigation through (partial or wholly) contingent fee arrangements, we have consistently generated much larger recoveries for clients than they would have received had they remained as members of a plaintiffs' class. By sharing risk our clients receive the benefit of having their claim litigated at minimal cost by experienced counsel. They also avoid the burden of paying by the billable hour while risking an unfavorable outcome in court. Under our model, clients spread their litigation risks and costs while incentivizing their lawyers to aggressively prosecute their claim. We help our clients evaluate whether to opt out of the class and pursue their claims directly against the defendants. We are aided in this analysis by economists who are among the best in the business. If litigation is necessary, we co-counsel with top plaintiff-side litigators to press the litigation with maximum effort. Learn more at www.adamsholcomb.com.

Founded by former Senior Managers and national leadership of the Economics and Statistical Consulting Group of Deloitte's Financial Advisory Services in 2009, Advanced Analytical Consulting Group, Inc. (AACG) provides economic, statistical, and computing consulting for business decisions and litigation. AACG assists business clients with strategic and operational consulting based on in-depth quantitative analysis of corporate data and the client's position in the market. AACG provides expert testimony, support for academic experts, and assistance in identifying the right expert from academic and business settings. From offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, AACG currently serves clients in Canada, Mexico, the UAE, the U.K. and the U.S.

Berger & Montague has been engaged in the practice of complex and class action litigation from its Center City Philadelphia office since 1970. The firm has been recognized by courts throughout the country for its ability and experience in handling major complex litigation, particularly in the fields of antitrust, securities, mass torts, environmental, civil and human rights. Berger & Montague pioneered the use of class actions in antitrust litigation and was instrumental in extending the use of the class action procedure to other litigation areas, having recovered billions of dollars for its clients. In the area of antitrust litigation, the firm has served as lead or co-lead counsel on many of the most significant civil antitrust cases over the last forty years, including the Infant Formula case (recovery of $125 million), the Retail Drug price fixing case (settlement of more than $700 million), the High Fructose Corn Syrup price-fixing case (settlement of more than $500 million), and the State of Connecticut tobacco litigation (settlement of $3.6 billion). The firm has also played a leading role in cases in the pharmaceutical arena, especially in cases involving the delayed entry of generic or other rival drug competition, having achieved nearly $1 billion in settlements in such cases over the past decade. Berger & Montague has prevailed in a series of notable cases in other areas. For example, the firm was among the principal trial counsel in the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill litigation and in a case brought on behalf of a class of property owners outside of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility in Colorado. Both cases yielded record jury awards, and both resulted in the firm winning the prestigious “Trial Lawyers of the Year” award from the non-profit Public Justice Foundation (formerly known as Trial Lawyers for Public Justice). For five of the last six years, the National Law Journal has selected Berger & Montague as one of the top plaintiffs’ litigation firms in the U.S. The firm has repeatedly been recognized in Chambers & Partners as one of the top antitrust firms in Pennsylvania, and many of its attorneys have been identified as leaders in their respective fields by Chambers & Partners, Lawdragon, Legal 500 and other legal publications.

Berman DeValerio is one of the country's premier class action law firms focused on business litigation, with 47 attorneys in Boston, San Francisco and South Florida. Since 1982, our firm has prosecuted hundreds of complex cases, recovering billions of dollars for our clients and the classes they represent. Backed by an in-house team headed by a licensed private investigator and former FBI Special Agent, our attorneys have taken on some of the world's largest companies on behalf of investors, consumers and businesses who have been damaged by corporate misdeeds. We are currently prosecuting securities fraud cases against top players in the schemes that led to the 2008 economic crisis. We also play a key role in some of the most prominent antitrust cases alleging anticompetitive behavior among automakers, drug manufacturers and others.

Based in Los Angeles, California, Blecher & Collins is recognized as one of the premier antitrust and complex litigation law firms in the country. Founded in 1971, our firm excels in handling complex business and commercial litigation. Led by Maxwell Blecher, one of the nation’s preeminent litigators, we have successfully represented small, medium-sized and major companies across a broad spectrum of industries. Our lawyers are seasoned professionals with sterling academic credentials and diverse backgrounds. We operate as a team in the type of open atmosphere that promotes progressive thinking and creative problem-solving. Blecher & Collins is known for undertaking cutting-edge cases with far-reaching implications, and the results we have achieved speak for themselves. When facing a major legal crisis, businesses need the advantage of a sophisticated legal team encompassing the experience and knowledge that we offer. Visit www.blechercollins.com

Bolognese & Associates, LLC is a nationally recognized leader in the area of antitrust and other complex commercial litigation, and has served in a leadership role in many of the most important and substantial antitrust cases. For over 25 years, the firm's attorneys have represented clients in lawsuits that have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in damages resulting from violations of the federal and state antitrust laws, including actions involving price-fixing, customer and geographic allocation, and monopolization. The firm’s attorneys have also successfully represented clients in a broad array of other complex commercial litigation, in state and federal courts, and in arbitration tribunals, throughout the United States. These actions have resulted in substantial recoveries and have, in several instances, also resulted in substantial industry-wide therapeutic measures and other reforms designed to enhance competition and prevent future antitrust violations. The firm’s accomplishments are described in greater detail at www.bolognese-law.com.

Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP, which has offices in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Ann Arbor, combines the diverse talents of attorneys with a wide range of litigation experience. Since its founding in 1992, the firm has focused on representing plaintiffs, such as investors, employees, consumers and companies, in complex civil litigation throughout the country. The firm and its attorneys have helped recover billions of dollars for the benefit of represented plaintiffs and classes, and in some cases, have secured the reform of corporate practices alleged to be unlawful or abusive. The skill and experience of our attorneys has been recognized on repeated occasions by courts that have appointed these attorneys to leadership positions in complex multidistrict or consolidated litigation. Our firm has participated in antitrust litigation involving a variety of industries and has helped secure substantial settlements for the benefit of classes harmed by alleged anticompetitive practices. Learn more at CaffertyClobes.com.

For over forty years, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has been at the forefront challenging price-fixing conspiracies, market-allocation agreements, monopolization schemes and other antitrust violations in the United States. During this time, our antitrust group has grown to become one of the largest Plaintiffs’-side antitrust practices in the country, with our attorneys recovering billions of dollars for our clients. Our work has improved the quality and availability of legal recourse for aggrieved businesses and individuals throughout the country. Tenaciously pursuing our clients’ interests, our attorneys are prepared to take – and have taken – antitrust cases to trial and to the United States Supreme Court. As one of the premier firms in the country handling major complex class actions, Cohen Milstein, with more than 60 attorneys and offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and West Palm Beach, is a firm that specializes in cases concerning Antitrust, Securities Fraud/Investor Protection, Civil & Human Rights, Consumer and Unsafe Products, Employee Benefits, Public Clients, and Whistleblowers/False Claims Act. For more information, contact us at [email protected].

Our firm has brought together a team of highly skilled lawyers with a diversity of experience matched by few other law firms of our size. Our lawyers have worked in large international law firms, in high-caliber specialized boutique law firms, on Congressional committee staffs, in the U.S. Department of Justice, in federal regulatory agencies, in public interest organizations, in legal academia, and in the public defender’s office. What unites all of our lawyers is an uncompromising commitment to excellence. We practice advocacy—and only advocacy. We bring our extensive experience and formidable skills into trial and appellate courtrooms, Congressional committee hearings, the halls of the executive branch and independent government agencies, and the arena of public opinion on legal and policy matters of national importance. We represent our clients—effectively and efficiently—as only a firm our size can. Whatever the forum to which we bring our skills and experience, we are committed to creative and tireless advocacy to advance the interests of each of our clients. We have an outstanding record of delivering winning results. Please visit www.cuneolaw.com to learn more about our lawyers, our practice, and our accomplishments.

Dickstein Shapiro LLP, founded in 1953, is internationally recognized for its work with clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations. Dickstein Shapiro provides strategic counsel and develops multidisciplinary legal solutions by leveraging its core strengths—litigation, regulatory, transactions, and advocacy—to successfully advance clients’ business interests. The firm has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Silicon Valley, Stamford, and Washington DC.

Econ One provides economic research and consulting relating to markets, competitive analysis, pricing, and valuation. We have experienced testifying experts at our offices across the U.S. We offer in-house expertise in applied economic theory, econometrics, statistics, market strategy, electronic data collection, manipulation and graphics. We are expert in using qualitative and quantitative evidence to explain market results. Antitrust matters comprise a large segment of our work. We have worked on 100+ matters involving class issues, market definition, market power, conspiracy effects, and damages across many industries (for example, auctions, credit cards, computers, flat glass, HFCS, insulation, pharmaceuticals, scrap metal, TFT-LCD panels, etc.). We are committed to providing high-value service to our clients. This means: well-conceived and well-presented analyses; research that is accurate and thorough; analytical approaches grounded in state-of-the-art economic methods; project management & budgeting to insure efficient use of resources and no unexpected costs; efficient staffing with experienced project teams to minimize learning time and false starts; willingness to explore innovative billing arrangements. For more information, visit our website at www.econone.com

The leader in complex claims administration, Epiq Systems has been engaged to work on some of the largest antitrust cases to date including Bradburn Parent/Teacher Store, Inc. v. 3M, In re Lorazepam and Clorazepate Antitrust Litigation, In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation and In Re Linens Antitrust Litigation. Clients choose Epiq because we have proven experience in delivering flawless execution, expert support, and process transparency, from initial project planning and notification to tax services and award distribution. We also provide eDiscovery services should the case require us to manage all client needs from discovery through settlement administration. Following proven best practices, we provide successful outcomes every step of the way. As client needs evolve, we regularly enhance our case management technology and project management methodology to deliver the right solution. Learn more at www.epiqsystems.com.

Expedia.com is the world’s leading online travel site, helping millions of travelers per month easily plan and book travel. Expedia.com aims to provide the latest technology and the widest selection of vacation packages, flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises and in-destination activities, attractions, and services. With the Expedia Best Price Guarantee, Expedia.com customers can get the best rates available online for all types of travel.

Launched in February 2011, the Fan Freedom Project (FFP) is a consumer education and advocacy group dedicated to protecting the rights of live event fans. FFP is supported by more than 130,000 live event fans, and is backed by leading consumer and business organizations such as the National Consumers League, Consumer Action, the Institute for Liberty, the League of Fans, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and Net Choice. Initial funding was provided by StubHub, a division of eBay.

Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP focuses on complex civil litigation, including securities, antitrust, wage and hour, and consumer class actions as well as shareholder derivative and merger and transactional litigation. The firm is headquartered in New York, and maintains offices in California, Delaware, Florida and Pennsylvania. The attorneys at Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP represent direct purchasers, third-party payors, end payors, and competitors in a variety of individual and class action antitrust cases brought under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. These actions, which seek treble damages under Section 4 of the Clayton Act, have been commenced by businesses and consumers who have been injured by anticompetitive agreements to fix prices or allocate markets, conduct that excludes or delays competition, and other monopolistic or conspiratorial conduct that harms competition. Learn more at faruqilaw.com.

Gustafson Gluek P.L.L.C. is a Minneapolis law firm committed to the protection of fair competition. The firm’s focus is on antitrust, consumer protection and class action litigation. The five partners of the firm have over seventy years of experience in these areas, as well as in the areas of intellectual property litigation involving patents, trademarks and trade dress, complex business litigation, and securities fraud litigation. Gustafson Gluek PLLC practices before state and federal courts throughout the country and works with and opposes some of the nation’s largest companies and law firms. The firm was formed in May 2003.

For more than 30 years, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP has represented businesses and individuals who have been injured as a result of price-fixing, customer allocation, or other anticompetitive behavior by sellers of a broad array of products and services. Kaplan Fox is frequently at the forefront of significant private antitrust actions, and we have been appointed by courts as lead counsel or member of an executive committee for plaintiffs in some of the largest antitrust cases throughout the country. We have, over the years, recovered more than $1 billion for our clients. We attribute our high rate of success in the antitrust arena to a variety of unique factors. At the outset of every action, we devote significant time considering our approach to the case. We tailor our plan for litigating each matter to the facts of the case, because we know that charting a proper course at the start is likely to pay off in the end. Once we have developed our plan, we draw upon all of the firm’s resources to see the case through to the best possible result. Our most experienced antitrust attorneys become thoroughly familiar with the details of each matter, providing a type of hands-on involvement designed to foster success. Finally, we utilize the significant expertise of specialists skilled in evaluating the economic damages resulting from the defendants’ anticompetitive actions. Learn more at www.KaplanFox.com.

KCC www.kccllc.com, a Computershare company, provides administrative-support services that help legal professionals realize time and cost efficiencies. With an integrated suite of corporate restructuring, class action and legal document management solutions, KCC alleviates the administrative challenges of today’s legal processes and procedures. KCC has gained client and industry recognition for its industry expertise, professional-level client service and proprietary technologies.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a law firm with over sixty attorneys in offices in San Francisco, New York, and Nashville. The firm is among the largest law firms in the United States that only represent plaintiffs. The firm assists companies, governments, and consumers affected by anticompetitive conduct, assess market circumstances and determine whether and how to pursue legal action to achieve their goals. On behalf of its clients, Lieff Cabraser has successfully challenged the world's largest corporations' cartels that fix prices, restrict supply, or perform other anti-competitive practices. The result: judgments and settlements in excess of $5.5 billion in antitrust cases in which Lieff Cabraser has had a leading role. In 2012, the Daily Journal noted, "With De Beers, it was a monopoly on diamonds. With vitamin makers, price-fixing. No matter the transgression, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP will avenge it. Because of that tenacity, the firm's antitrust practice group over the past 20 years has evolved into one of the most formidable in the state."

As the largest independent news service devoted specifically to covering regulatory and policy developments in and between US and European institutions, Mlex boasts an impressive clientele including many of the world’s largest leading law firms, corporations, regulators and financial institutions. Mlex US empowers law firms to better serve their clients. We deliver exclusive in-­-­‐depth antitrust news and analysis with the speed of a wire service, keeping you informed of the latest developments in important pre-merger filings; FTC and DOJ investigations; and the subsequent public and private litigation – providing you with timely, and directly actionable knowledge. Our service places easily targeted and detailed information about major deals and cases working their way through the various US decision-­-­‐making bodies, saving your information specialists time. We deliver intelligence in the manner that best suits your individual needs. We offer a range of real-time updates and customizable alerts, providing you with the information you and your clients need, when it is needed. Without Mlex you simply will not have the whole story.

NastLaw attorneys are nationally recognized for their antitrust experience and have been appointed to significant leadership positions in some of the largest antitrust cases. Our lawyers have successfully litigated dozens of major antitrust cases to protect consumers and ensure fair competition for businesses. It is common to find one of our lawyers holding the lead counsel position, or playing a prominent role in the steering committee for many major antitrust cases. Ms. Nast currently serves as lead counsel in the Wellburtrin SR Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa), and is active in multiple other current antitrust cases such as Effexor XR Antitrust Litigation (D. N.J.), Modafinil Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.), Lipiitor Antitrust Litigation (D. N.J.), Prograf Antitistrust Litigation (D. Ma) and Skelaxin Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Tenn.). In Skelaxin, she also serves as mediation counsel. Learn more at www.NastLaw.com.

OnPoint Analytics is an economic, financial and statistical consultancy specializing in expert testimony for complex, high-stakes litigation. OnPoint provides testimony and consulting services in all types of antitrust and competition matters. Issues routinely addressed by our experts include market definition, proof of anticompetitive conduct and antitrust injury, statistical modeling of but-for prices, and computation of damages. Our experts include first rate academic economists and statisticians. A highly skilled staff of economists, statisticians, database architects and document analysts provides clients with tailored, empirically focused work product, accessible to the lay audience. Recent antitrust successes include favorable class certification decisions in In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litigation, In re Flonase Antitrust Litigation, In re Southeastern Milk Antitrust Litigation, In re Northeastern Milk Antitrust Litigation, and a favorable settlement in In re Ready-Mixed Concrete Antitrust Litigation. OnPoint provided all data and analytical services and supplied plaintiffs’ sole economic expert for the coordinated actions in In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation. As well as class actions, we work on individual claims alleging antitrust violations, such as a direct action involving the price manipulation of LCD panels. Visit www.onpointanalytics.com to learn more.

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP represents U.S. and international businesses and individuals in contingency-based antitrust, securities and corporate litigation. With nearly 200 lawyers in nine offices, the firm has been appointed as lead or co-lead counsel in some of the largest and most important antitrust and securities class actions in the U.S., including In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation (7.25 billion settlement pending), In re Currency Conversion Fee Antitrust Litigation. ($336 million settlement) and In re Enron Corporation Securities, Derivative & “ERISA” Litigation ($7.3 billion settlement). According to the Honorable Judge Melinda Harmon, the firm is considered the “‘lion’ at the securities bar” for its consistently high performance in the courtroom against some of the best corporate defense firms in the world. In fact, the firm has obtained many of the largest recoveries in history and has been ranked number one in the number of shareholder class action recoveries in MSCI’s Top SCAS 50 every year since 2003. According to Cornerstone Research, the firm’s recoveries have averaged 35 percent above the median for all firms over the past seven years (2005-2011). Please visit http://www.rgrdlaw.com for more information.

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. is one of the nation’s premier trial firms. With over 250 attorneys in Minneapolis, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston and Naples, FL, we represent some of the world’s largest companies, most innovative start-ups, and individuals from virtually every industry and walk of life, both in and out of the courtroom. Our diverse and divergent backgrounds and experience with both plaintiff and defense strategies allow our attorneys to bring valuable perspective and insight to our client’s sophisticated and challenging issues. Our proven creativity in analyzing and proposing solutions to complex legal and business challenges is at the core of our legal strategy, and a key part of what we bring into the courtroom, and the boardroom. We strive to collaborate with clients to help them conquer their most critical legal challenges and achieve their specific business goals. It is our firm’s foundational belief that everyone should have equal access to the civil justice system, regardless of their personal or economic situation. We recognize both the professional obligation of our firm and the personal obligation of our lawyers to serve our community. For this reason, we offer creative fee arrangements and share risk with our clients when needed.

Clients in the legal, public, and business sectors trust Rust Consulting, Inc., a Source HOV company, to design, implement, and manage complex and time-sensitive projects. With experience on more than 3,500 cases worth billions of dollars, Rust is the national leader in class action settlement administration. Rust’s legal sector experience includes class actions involving antitrust, consumer, finance, insurance and healthcare, labor and employment, property, securities, and telecom related settlements, as well as mass tort matters. Rust’s business sector experience includes data breaches and recalls, while our public sector practice includes enforcement actions, remission petition programs, consumer redress programs, and recovery and audit services for agencies at the federal, state, and local levels. Rust and its partner, Kinsella Media, LLC, headquartered in Washington, D.C, offer a full complement of services including project management, data management, notification, claims processing, contact center services, fund distribution, and tax reporting. SourceHOV provides business process and knowledge process solutions as well as expert and operational consulting. Our offers are driven by technology and analytics that increase accuracy and efficiency while providing continual improvement and critical quantitative insight.

Spector Roseman Kodroff & Willis, P.C. uses litigation to empower its clients. Whether they are investors who lost money due to corporate wrongdoing, businesses that overpaid for products due to price fixing or end-payers who overpaid for healthcare, SRKW works to recover monies its clients have lost and to build better governance going forward. SRKW has played a prominent role in prosecuting many significant antitrust actions. For example, the Firm co-led the In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation (E.D.Pa.), which settled for $ 202 million, the largest antitrust settlement in the Third Circuit. SRKW also led the In re OSB Antitrust Litigation (E.D.Pa.), which was one of the first antitrust cases to survive a motion to dismiss following the Supreme Court’s Twombly decision, and which settled for $ 120 million. In addition the Firm is currently lead counsel in McDonough, et al, v. Toys R Us, et al. (E.D.Pa.), one of the rare cases in which a class of purchasers damaged as a result of resale price maintenance has been certified. That case also survived motions to dismiss based upon the recent Supreme Court opinion in Leegin Creative Products. SRKW has been at the vanguard of the development of legal theories on behalf of its clients. Learn more about us at www.srkw-law.com.