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1 Law Firm Expertise dataset Acquirer and Target Legal Advisor Market Share Dataset used in C.N.V. Krishnan and Ronald W. Masulis, "Law Firm Expertise and Mergers and Acquisition Outcomes", Journal of Law and Economics 56 (1), February 2013. Acquirer/Target Legal Advisor Market Share is the prior 3-year rolling window lead bidder (target) law- firm market share of the legal advisory business. Each law firm is given full credit for each offer for which it provides advisory services. Specialty Delaware litigation counsels are excluded. Non-zero market share firms are shown for the years 1990-2008. Acquirer Legal Advisors Year Market Share (%) Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1990 6.3 Sullivan & Cromwell 1990 5.6 Richards Layton & Finger 1990 5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1990 4.4 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1990 4.2 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1990 4.1 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1990 3.3 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1990 3.1 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1990 2.9 Debevoise & Plimpton 1990 2.8 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1990 2.7 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1990 2.5 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1990 2.5 Shearman & Sterling 1990 2.3 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1990 1.9 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1990 1.8 Latham & Watkins 1990 1.6 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 1990 1.5 Pillsbury Winthrop 1990 1.5 Prickett, Jones, Elliot, Kristol & Schnee 1990 1.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1990 1.4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1990 1.1 Linklaters 1990 1.1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1990 1 Norton Rose 1990 1 SJ Berwin 1990 1

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Law Firm Expertise dataset

Acquirer and Target Legal Advisor Market Share Dataset used in

C.N.V. Krishnan and Ronald W. Masulis, "Law Firm Expertise and Mergers and Acquisition Outcomes",

Journal of Law and Economics 56 (1), February 2013.

Acquirer/Target Legal Advisor Market Share is the prior 3-year rolling window lead bidder (target) law-firm market share of the legal advisory business. Each law firm is given full credit for each offer for which it provides advisory services. Specialty Delaware litigation counsels are excluded. Non-zero market share firms are shown for the years 1990-2008.

Acquirer Legal Advisors Year Market Share (%)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1990 6.3 Sullivan & Cromwell 1990 5.6 Richards Layton & Finger 1990 5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1990 4.4 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1990 4.2 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1990 4.1 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1990 3.3 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1990 3.1 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1990 2.9 Debevoise & Plimpton 1990 2.8 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1990 2.7 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1990 2.5 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1990 2.5 Shearman & Sterling 1990 2.3 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1990 1.9 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1990 1.8 Latham & Watkins 1990 1.6 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 1990 1.5 Pillsbury Winthrop 1990 1.5 Prickett, Jones, Elliot, Kristol & Schnee 1990 1.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1990 1.4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1990 1.1 Linklaters 1990 1.1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1990 1 Norton Rose 1990 1 SJ Berwin 1990 1

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Arnold & Porter 1990 0.8 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1990 0.8 Baker Botts 1990 0.7 Hunton & Williams 1990 0.7 Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn 1990 0.6 Jenner & Block 1990 0.6 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1990 0.5 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 1990 0.5 Jones Day 1990 0.4 Kaplan, Strangis & Kaplan 1990 0.4 Kirkland & Ellis 1990 0.4 O'Melveny & Myers 1990 0.4 Stoel Rives 1990 0.4 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1990 0.3 Andrews Kurth 1990 0.3 Balch & Bingham 1990 0.3 Clifford Chance 1990 0.3 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 1990 0.3 Dreyer Traub 1990 0.3 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1990 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1990 0.3 Miles & Stockbridge 1990 0.3 O Sullivan Graer & Karabell 1990 0.3 O'Connor & Hannan 1990 0.3 Popham, Haik, Schnobrich, Kaufman & Doty 1990 0.3 Slaughter & May 1990 0.3 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1990 0.3 Allen & Overy 1990 0.2 Baker & McKenzie 1990 0.2 Borden Ladner Gervais 1990 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 1990 0.2 Coudert Brothers 1990 0.2 Dechert 1990 0.2 Dickson Minto 1990 0.2 Foley & Lardner 1990 0.2 Johnson & Swanson 1990 0.2 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1990 0.2 McGuireWoods 1990 0.2 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1990 0.2 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1990 0.2 Oppemheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1990 0.2 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 1990 0.2 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1990 0.2

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Theisen, Lank, Mulford 1990 0.2 Travers Smith 1990 0.2 Walther, Key, Maupin, Oats 1990 0.2 White & Case 1990 0.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1990 0.2 Adler, Hindy, Turner & Glasser 1990 0.1 Ashinoff, Ross & Goldman 1990 0.1 Ashurst 1990 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1990 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1990 0.1 Bondurant, Miller & Stephenson 1990 0.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1990 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1990 0.1 Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson & Oldfather 1990 0.1 Covington & Burling 1990 0.1 Crosby Guenzel Davis Kessner & Kuester 1990 0.1 Davis Wright & Jones 1990 0.1 Day, Berry & Howard 1990 0.1 Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine 1990 0.1 Dorsey & Whitney 1990 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1990 0.1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1990 0.1 Friday, Eldredge & Clark 1990 0.1 Glenn, Irvin, Murphy, Gray 1990 0.1 Godfrey & Kahn 1990 0.1 Goldstein & Manello 1990 0.1 Gollust, Tierney & Oliver 1990 0.1 Gordon Hurwitz Butowsky 1990 0.1 Hepworth & Chadwick 1990 0.1 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1990 0.1 Hill & Barlow 1990 0.1 Hirschler,Fleischer,Weinberg 1990 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 1990 0.1 Horn, Kaplan, Goldberg,Lorney 1990 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1990 0.1 Hutchins & Wheeler 1990 0.1 K&L Gates 1990 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1990 0.1 King & Spalding 1990 0.1 Lindquist & Vennum 1990 0.1 Lionel Sawyer & Collins 1990 0.1 Lippes, Kaminsky, Silverstein, Porter 1990 0.1 Lovell White & King 1990 0.1

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Mayer Brown 1990 0.1 McCarter & English 1990 0.1 McGrath North O'Malley & Kratz 1990 0.1 Michael Best & Friedrich 1990 0.1 Olshan, Grundman & Frome 1990 0.1 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 1990 0.1 Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler 1990 0.1 Petree Stockton 1990 0.1 Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol 1990 0.1 Rogers & Hardin 1990 0.1 Schiff Hardin & Waite 1990 0.1 Shea & Gould 1990 0.1 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 1990 0.1 Shereff Friedman Hoffman & Goodman 1990 0.1 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1990 0.1 Sidley Austin 1990 0.1 Spengler Carlson Gubar Brodsky 1990 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1990 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1990 0.1 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1990 0.1 Townley & Updike 1990 0.1 Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey 1990 0.1 Vinson & Elkins 1990 0.1 Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis 1990 0.1 Wiggin & Dana 1990 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 1991 5.8 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1991 5.7 Richards Layton & Finger 1991 4.5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1991 4.3 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1991 3.8 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1991 3.5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1991 3.4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1991 3.2 Shearman & Sterling 1991 2.8 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1991 2.7 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1991 2.6 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1991 2.4 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1991 2.2 Debevoise & Plimpton 1991 2.1 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1991 2 Latham & Watkins 1991 1.7 Pillsbury Winthrop 1991 1.6 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1991 1.6

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Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 1991 1.5 Prickett, Jones, Elliot, Kristol & Schnee 1991 1.5 Linklaters 1991 1.2 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1991 1.1 Norton Rose 1991 1 SJ Berwin 1991 1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1991 0.9 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1991 0.8 Arnold & Porter 1991 0.7 Clifford Chance 1991 0.7 Hunton & Williams 1991 0.7 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1991 0.6 Jenner & Block 1991 0.6 O'Melveny & Myers 1991 0.6 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1991 0.6 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1991 0.5 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 1991 0.5 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1991 0.4 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1991 0.4 Jones Day 1991 0.4 Kaplan, Strangis & Kaplan 1991 0.4 Kirkland & Ellis 1991 0.4 O Sullivan Graer & Karabell 1991 0.4 Sidley Austin 1991 0.4 Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease 1991 0.4 Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn 1991 0.3 Baker Botts 1991 0.3 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 1991 0.3 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 1991 0.3 Dreyer Traub 1991 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1991 0.3 Miles & Stockbridge 1991 0.3 O'Connor & Hannan 1991 0.3 Slaughter & May 1991 0.3 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1991 0.3 Wiley Rein & Fielding 1991 0.3 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1991 0.3 Andrews Kurth 1991 0.2 Ashurst 1991 0.2 Coudert Brothers 1991 0.2 Dickson Minto 1991 0.2 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1991 0.2 Lovell White & King 1991 0.2

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McGuireWoods 1991 0.2 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1991 0.2 Oppemheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1991 0.2 Stibbe Blaisse & DeJong 1991 0.2 Stoel Rives 1991 0.2 Theisen, Lank, Mulford 1991 0.2 White & Case 1991 0.2 Adler, Hindy, Turner & Glasser 1991 0.1 Allen & Overy 1991 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1991 0.1 Barger Walen 1991 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1991 0.1 Bondurant, Miller & Stephenson 1991 0.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1991 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1991 0.1 Covington & Burling 1991 0.1 Crosby Guenzel Davis Kessner & Kuester 1991 0.1 Day, Berry & Howard 1991 0.1 Dechert 1991 0.1 Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine 1991 0.1 Dorsey & Whitney 1991 0.1 Friday, Eldredge & Clark 1991 0.1 Glenn, Irvin, Murphy, Gray 1991 0.1 Godfrey & Kahn 1991 0.1 Goldstein & Manello 1991 0.1 Gollust, Tierney & Oliver 1991 0.1 Goodell,Stratton,Edmonds & Palmer 1991 0.1 Hepworth & Chadwick 1991 0.1 Hirschler,Fleischer,Weinberg 1991 0.1 Hutchins & Wheeler 1991 0.1 K&L Gates 1991 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1991 0.1 King & Spalding 1991 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1991 0.1 Lindquist & Vennum 1991 0.1 Mayer Brown 1991 0.1 McGrath North O'Malley & Kratz 1991 0.1 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1991 0.1 Nabarro 1991 0.1 Olshan, Grundman & Frome 1991 0.1 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 1991 0.1 Petree Stockton 1991 0.1 Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol 1991 0.1

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Rogers & Hardin 1991 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1991 0.1 Schiff Hardin & Waite 1991 0.1 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 1991 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1991 0.1 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 1991 0.1 Shereff Friedman Hoffman & Goodman 1991 0.1 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1991 0.1 Spengler Carlson Gubar Brodsky 1991 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1991 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1991 0.1 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1991 0.1 Travers Smith 1991 0.1 Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey 1991 0.1 Vinson & Elkins 1991 0.1 Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis 1991 0.1 Wiggin & Dana 1991 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 1992 6.2 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1992 5.5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1992 2.6 Shearman & Sterling 1992 2.5 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1992 2.4 Debevoise & Plimpton 1992 2.3 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1992 2 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1992 1.8 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1992 1.6 Linklaters 1992 1.4 Latham & Watkins 1992 1.3 Norton Rose 1992 1.3 SJ Berwin 1992 1.3 Richards Layton & Finger 1992 1.2 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1992 1.1 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1992 1.1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1992 1.1 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1992 1.1 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1992 1 Clifford Chance 1992 0.8 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1992 0.8 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1992 0.8 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1992 0.8 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1992 0.6 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1992 0.6 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1992 0.6

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Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1992 0.5 Jones Day 1992 0.5 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1992 0.5 Sidley Austin 1992 0.5 Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease 1992 0.5 Ashurst 1992 0.4 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 1992 0.4 Dreyer Traub 1992 0.4 Kaplan, Strangis & Kaplan 1992 0.4 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1992 0.4 O'Melveny & Myers 1992 0.4 Pillsbury Winthrop 1992 0.4 Slaughter & May 1992 0.4 Wiley Rein & Fielding 1992 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1992 0.3 Stibbe Blaisse & DeJong 1992 0.3 Stoel Rives 1992 0.3 Allen & Overy 1992 0.2 Arnold & Porter 1992 0.2 Baker Botts 1992 0.2 Barger Walen 1992 0.2 Coudert Brothers 1992 0.2 Covington & Burling 1992 0.2 Dickson Minto 1992 0.2 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1992 0.2 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1992 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 1992 0.2 Lovell White & King 1992 0.2 McGuireWoods 1992 0.2 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1992 0.2 Nabarro 1992 0.2 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1992 0.2 Oppemheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1992 0.2 Shea & Gould 1992 0.2 White & Case 1992 0.2 Baker & McKenzie 1992 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1992 0.1 Breed Abbott & Morgan 1992 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1992 0.1 Bryan Cave 1992 0.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1992 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1992 0.1 Dechert 1992 0.1

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Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine 1992 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1992 0.1 Fleischmann & Fleischmann 1992 0.1 Freehills 1992 0.1 Goodell,Stratton,Edmonds & Palmer 1992 0.1 Griggs & Ruiz-Suria 1992 0.1 Hepworth & Chadwick 1992 0.1 Hunton & Williams 1992 0.1 K&L Gates 1992 0.1 Kelley Drye & Warren 1992 0.1 Kelly Hart & Hallman 1992 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1992 0.1 Long Aldridge & Norman 1992 0.1 McConnell,Valdes,Kelley,Sifre 1992 0.1 Miles & Stockbridge 1992 0.1 Miller,Canfield,Paddock 1992 0.1 O Sullivan Graer & Karabell 1992 0.1 Petree Stockton 1992 0.1 Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol 1992 0.1 Richards Butler 1992 0.1 Rogers & Hardin 1992 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1992 0.1 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 1992 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1992 0.1 Shereff Friedman Hoffman & Goodman 1992 0.1 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1992 0.1 Simmons & Simmons 1992 0.1 Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne 1992 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 1992 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1992 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1992 0.1 Thompson & Mitchell 1992 0.1 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1992 0.1 Travers Smith 1992 0.1 Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey 1992 0.1 Vinson & Elkins 1992 0.1 Wiggin & Dana 1992 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1992 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 1993 4.2 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1993 2.4 Shearman & Sterling 1993 2.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1993 1.7 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1993 1.5

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Richards Layton & Finger 1993 1.4 Debevoise & Plimpton 1993 1.2 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1993 1.2 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1993 1.2 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1993 1.1 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1993 1 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1993 1 Clifford Chance 1993 0.8 Pillsbury Winthrop 1993 0.7 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1993 0.6 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1993 0.6 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1993 0.6 Latham & Watkins 1993 0.6 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1993 0.6 Sidley Austin 1993 0.6 Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease 1993 0.6 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 1993 0.5 O'Melveny & Myers 1993 0.5 Slaughter & May 1993 0.5 Wiley Rein & Fielding 1993 0.5 Ashurst 1993 0.4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1993 0.4 Jones Day 1993 0.4 Kirkland & Ellis 1993 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1993 0.3 Norton Rose 1993 0.3 Stibbe Blaisse & DeJong 1993 0.3 Stinson Mag & Fizzell 1993 0.3 Andrews Kurth 1993 0.2 Baker & McKenzie 1993 0.2 Barger Walen 1993 0.2 Freehills 1993 0.2 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1993 0.2 Griggs & Ruiz-Suria 1993 0.2 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1993 0.2 King & Spalding 1993 0.2 Linklaters 1993 0.2 Long Aldridge & Norman 1993 0.2 Lovell White & King 1993 0.2 McConnell,Valdes,Kelley,Sifre 1993 0.2 Monroe & Lemann 1993 0.2 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1993 0.2 Nabarro 1993 0.2

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O Sullivan Graer & Karabell 1993 0.2 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1993 0.2 Shea & Gould 1993 0.2 SJ Berwin 1993 0.2 Thelen Reid & Priest 1993 0.2 Weinberg & Green 1993 0.2 White & Case 1993 0.2 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1993 0.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1993 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 1993 0.1 Advokatfirmaet Selmer DA 1993 0.1 Allen & Overy 1993 0.1 Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn 1993 0.1 Arnold & Porter 1993 0.1 Bell Boyd & Lloyd 1993 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1993 0.1 Bryan Cave 1993 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1993 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1993 0.1 Christian Barton Epps Brent 1993 0.1 Covington & Burling 1993 0.1 Dechert 1993 0.1 Dickinson Wright Moon Van Dusen & Freeman 1993 0.1 Dinsmore & Shohl 1993 0.1 Dorsey & Whitney 1993 0.1 Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills 1993 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1993 0.1 Ervin, Cohen & Jessup 1993 0.1 Fenwick, Davis & West 1993 0.1 Fleischmann & Fleischmann 1993 0.1 Foster, Pepper & Riviera 1993 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1993 0.1 Ginsburg Feldman & Bress 1993 0.1 Godfrey & Kahn 1993 0.1 Goodell,Stratton,Edmonds & Palmer 1993 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker 1993 0.1 K&L Gates 1993 0.1 Kelley Drye & Warren 1993 0.1 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell 1993 0.1 Mahoney Adams & Criser 1993 0.1 McCarthy Tetrault 1993 0.1 McGrath North O'Malley & Kratz 1993 0.1 Miller,Canfield,Paddock 1993 0.1

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Morrison & Foerster 1993 0.1 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1993 0.1 Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Eliot 1993 0.1 Richards Butler 1993 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1993 0.1 Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis 1993 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1993 0.1 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1993 0.1 Simmons & Simmons 1993 0.1 Sommer & Barnard 1993 0.1 Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne 1993 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1993 0.1 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1993 0.1 Thompson & Mitchell 1993 0.1 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1993 0.1 Torys 1993 0.1 Vinson & Elkins 1993 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 1993 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1994 5.6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1994 4 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1994 3.4 Shearman & Sterling 1994 3.3 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1994 2.6 Sullivan & Cromwell 1994 2.6 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1994 1.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 1994 1.5 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1994 1.5 Sidley Austin 1994 1.4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1994 1.3 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1994 1.2 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1994 1.2 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1994 1.2 Richards Layton & Finger 1994 1.1 Baker Botts 1994 1 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1994 0.9 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1994 0.8 Werbel & Carnelutti 1994 0.8 Jones Day 1994 0.7 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1994 0.7 Pillsbury Winthrop 1994 0.5 Slaughter & May 1994 0.5 King & Spalding 1994 0.4 Latham & Watkins 1994 0.4

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McCarthy Tetrault 1994 0.4 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1994 0.4 Vinson & Elkins 1994 0.4 Ashurst 1994 0.3 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1994 0.3 Cohen,Weiss and Simon 1994 0.3 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1994 0.3 Hughes & Luce 1994 0.3 Jenkens & Gilchrist 1994 0.3 Kirkland & Ellis 1994 0.3 Long Aldridge & Norman 1994 0.3 Stinson Mag & Fizzell 1994 0.3 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1994 0.3 Andrews Kurth 1994 0.2 Arnold & Porter 1994 0.2 Clifford Chance 1994 0.2 Dorsey & Whitney 1994 0.2 Freehills 1994 0.2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1994 0.2 Fulbright & Jaworski 1994 0.2 Griggs & Ruiz-Suria 1994 0.2 Howrey & Simon 1994 0.2 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1994 0.2 McConnell,Valdes,Kelley,Sifre 1994 0.2 Monroe & Lemann 1994 0.2 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1994 0.2 Norton Rose 1994 0.2 Shea & Gould 1994 0.2 Thelen Reid & Priest 1994 0.2 Weinberg & Green 1994 0.2 White & Case 1994 0.2 Advokatfirmaet Selmer DA 1994 0.1 Allens Arthur Robinson 1994 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1994 0.1 Baker & McKenzie 1994 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1994 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1994 0.1 Bryan Cave 1994 0.1 Carter, Ledyard & Milburn 1994 0.1 Christian Barton Epps Brent 1994 0.1 Coudert Brothers 1994 0.1 Covington & Burling 1994 0.1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1994 0.1

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Dechert 1994 0.1 Desjardins Ducharme Stein Monast 1994 0.1 Dickinson Wright Moon Van Dusen & Freeman 1994 0.1 Dinsmore & Shohl 1994 0.1 Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills 1994 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1994 0.1 Fenwick, Davis & West 1994 0.1 Fleischmann & Fleischmann 1994 0.1 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 1994 0.1 Foster, Pepper & Riviera 1994 0.1 Ginsburg Feldman & Bress 1994 0.1 Godfrey & Kahn 1994 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1994 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker 1994 0.1 Hunton & Williams 1994 0.1 Linklaters 1994 0.1 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell 1994 0.1 Mahoney Adams & Criser 1994 0.1 McGrath North O'Malley & Kratz 1994 0.1 Miller,Canfield,Paddock 1994 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 1994 0.1 Nabarro 1994 0.1 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1994 0.1 Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Eliot 1994 0.1 Ogilvy Renault 1994 0.1 O'Melveny & Myers 1994 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 1994 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1994 0.1 Schiff Hardin & Waite 1994 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1994 0.1 Sommer & Barnard 1994 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1994 0.1 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1994 0.1 Thompson & Mitchell 1994 0.1 Torys 1994 0.1 Troutman Sanders 1994 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1994 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 1994 0.1 Zumbrun, Best & Findley 1994 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1995 7.3 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1995 5.2 Shearman & Sterling 1995 4.6 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1995 3.3

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Davis Polk & Wardwell 1995 3.2 Sullivan & Cromwell 1995 3.1 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1995 2.8 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1995 2.4 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1995 2.2 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1995 1.9 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1995 1.9 Richards Layton & Finger 1995 1.8 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1995 1.8 Debevoise & Plimpton 1995 1.7 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1995 1.4 Sidley Austin 1995 1.2 Baker Botts 1995 1 Latham & Watkins 1995 0.9 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1995 0.8 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1995 0.8 O'Melveny & Myers 1995 0.7 Werbel & Carnelutti 1995 0.7 White & Case 1995 0.7 Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson 1995 0.6 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1995 0.6 Howrey & Simon 1995 0.6 Jones Day 1995 0.6 Pillsbury Winthrop 1995 0.6 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1995 0.6 Linklaters 1995 0.5 King & Spalding 1995 0.4 Kirkland & Ellis 1995 0.4 Vinson & Elkins 1995 0.4 Arnold & Porter 1995 0.3 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1995 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 1995 0.3 Durling & Durling 1995 0.3 Hughes & Luce 1995 0.3 Jenkens & Gilchrist 1995 0.3 Lowenstein Sandler Kohl Fisher & Boylan 1995 0.3 McCarthy Tetrault 1995 0.3 Slaughter & May 1995 0.3 Steptoe & Johnson 1995 0.3 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1995 0.3 Andrews Kurth 1995 0.2 Clifford Chance 1995 0.2 Cohen,Weiss and Simon 1995 0.2

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Fulbright & Jaworski 1995 0.2 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1995 0.2 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1995 0.2 Hunton & Williams 1995 0.2 Long Aldridge & Norman 1995 0.2 Morrison & Foerster 1995 0.2 Stinson Mag & Fizzell 1995 0.2 Thelen Reid & Priest 1995 0.2 Torys 1995 0.2 Weinberg & Green 1995 0.2 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1995 0.2 Advokatfirmaet Selmer DA 1995 0.1 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1995 0.1 Allens Arthur Robinson 1995 0.1 Alston & Bird 1995 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1995 0.1 Baker & McKenzie 1995 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1995 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1995 0.1 Bryan Cave 1995 0.1 Calfee, Halter & Griswold 1995 0.1 Carter, Ledyard & Milburn 1995 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1995 0.1 Christian Barton Epps Brent 1995 0.1 Cowan Liebowitz & Latman 1995 0.1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1995 0.1 Dechert 1995 0.1 Desjardins Ducharme Stein Monast 1995 0.1 Dickinson Wright Moon Van Dusen & Freeman 1995 0.1 Dinsmore & Shohl 1995 0.1 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 1995 0.1 Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills 1995 0.1 Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot 1995 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1995 0.1 Fisher & Phillips 1995 0.1 Foley & Lardner 1995 0.1 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 1995 0.1 Foster, Pepper & Riviera 1995 0.1 Freehills 1995 0.1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1995 0.1 Ginsburg Feldman & Bress 1995 0.1 Godfrey & Kahn 1995 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1995 0.1

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Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker 1995 0.1 K&L Gates 1995 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1995 0.1 Lewis, Rice & Fingerish 1995 0.1 Lionel Sawyer & Collins 1995 0.1 Mahoney Adams & Criser 1995 0.1 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1995 0.1 Mayer Brown 1995 0.1 McAfee & Taft 1995 0.1 McGuireWoods 1995 0.1 Miles & Stockbridge 1995 0.1 Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp 1995 0.1 Monroe & Lemann 1995 0.1 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1995 0.1 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1995 0.1 Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Eliot 1995 0.1 Ogilvy Renault 1995 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 1995 0.1 Pitney Hardin Kipp & Szuch 1995 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1995 0.1 Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke 1995 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1995 0.1 Shereff Friedman Hoffman & Goodman 1995 0.1 Sherman & Howard 1995 0.1 Snell & Smith 1995 0.1 Sommer & Barnard 1995 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1995 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1995 0.1 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1995 0.1 Troutman Sanders 1995 0.1 Wiley Rein & Fielding 1995 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1995 0.1 Winston & Strawn 1995 0.1 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1995 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1996 7.8 Sullivan & Cromwell 1996 6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1996 5.7 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1996 4.2 Shearman & Sterling 1996 3.9 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1996 3.7 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1996 3.4 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1996 3.3 Richards Layton & Finger 1996 3

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Dewey & LeBoeuf 1996 2.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1996 2.6 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1996 2.4 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1996 1.9 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1996 1.8 Debevoise & Plimpton 1996 1.7 Hamada & Matsumoto 1996 1.5 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1996 1.3 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1996 1.2 Sidley Austin 1996 1.2 Latham & Watkins 1996 1.1 Lovells 1996 1.1 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1996 1.1 Dorsey & Whitney 1996 0.8 Arnold & Porter 1996 0.7 Baker Botts 1996 0.7 Clifford Chance 1996 0.7 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1996 0.7 Jones Day 1996 0.7 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1996 0.7 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1996 0.6 White & Case 1996 0.6 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1996 0.5 O'Melveny & Myers 1996 0.5 Werbel & Carnelutti 1996 0.5 Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson 1996 0.4 Howrey & Simon 1996 0.4 Linklaters 1996 0.4 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1996 0.4 Pillsbury Winthrop 1996 0.4 Slaughter & May 1996 0.4 Advokatfirman Vinge 1996 0.3 Alston & Bird 1996 0.3 Andrews Kurth 1996 0.3 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1996 0.3 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1996 0.3 Vinson & Elkins 1996 0.3 Cohen,Weiss and Simon 1996 0.2 Durling & Durling 1996 0.2 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1996 0.2 Hughes & Luce 1996 0.2 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1996 0.2 Jenkens & Gilchrist 1996 0.2

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King & Spalding 1996 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 1996 0.2 Lowenstein Sandler Kohl Fisher & Boylan 1996 0.2 McCarthy Tetrault 1996 0.2 McGuireWoods 1996 0.2 Norton Rose 1996 0.2 Parsons, Behle & Latimer 1996 0.2 Steptoe & Johnson 1996 0.2 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1996 0.2 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1996 0.2 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1996 0.1 Allens Arthur Robinson 1996 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1996 0.1 Calfee, Halter & Griswold 1996 0.1 Carter, Ledyard & Milburn 1996 0.1 Chadbourne & Parke 1996 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1996 0.1 Covington & Burling 1996 0.1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1996 0.1 Dechert 1996 0.1 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 1996 0.1 Foley & Lardner 1996 0.1 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 1996 0.1 Freehills 1996 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1996 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1996 0.1 Gowling Lafleur Henderson 1996 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1996 0.1 Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen & Quentel 1996 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Lewis 1996 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 1996 0.1 Hunton & Williams 1996 0.1 K&L Gates 1996 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1996 0.1 Lewis, Rice & Fingerish 1996 0.1 Lionel Sawyer & Collins 1996 0.1 Long Aldridge & Norman 1996 0.1 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1996 0.1 Mayer Brown 1996 0.1 McAfee & Taft 1996 0.1 Miles & Stockbridge 1996 0.1 Miller Nash Wiener Hager Carlsen 1996 0.1 Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp 1996 0.1

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Morrison & Foerster 1996 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 1996 0.1 Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1996 0.1 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 1996 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 1996 0.1 Piper Alderman 1996 0.1 Pitney Hardin Kipp & Szuch 1996 0.1 Quarles & Brady 1996 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1996 0.1 Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke 1996 0.1 Shereff Friedman Hoffman & Goodman 1996 0.1 Sherman & Howard 1996 0.1 Silver, Freedman & Taff 1996 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1996 0.1 Stikeman Elliott 1996 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1996 0.1 Torys 1996 0.1 Wiley Rein & Fielding 1996 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1996 0.1 Winston & Strawn 1996 0.1 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1996 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1997 7.6 Sullivan & Cromwell 1997 7.6 Shearman & Sterling 1997 5.6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1997 5.5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1997 4.3 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1997 4.2 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1997 3.6 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1997 3.5 Richards Layton & Finger 1997 3.1 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1997 2.4 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1997 2.1 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1997 2.1 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1997 2.1 Arnold & Porter 1997 1.9 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1997 1.9 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1997 1.7 Debevoise & Plimpton 1997 1.6 Latham & Watkins 1997 1.3 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1997 1.2 Hamada & Matsumoto 1997 1.1 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1997 1.1 Linklaters 1997 1

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Lovells 1997 0.9 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1997 0.9 Clifford Chance 1997 0.8 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1997 0.8 Dorsey & Whitney 1997 0.7 White & Case 1997 0.7 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1997 0.6 Jones Day 1997 0.6 O'Melveny & Myers 1997 0.6 Sidley Austin 1997 0.5 Alston & Bird 1997 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1997 0.4 Pillsbury Winthrop 1997 0.4 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1997 0.4 Slaughter & May 1997 0.4 Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson 1997 0.3 Chadbourne & Parke 1997 0.3 Howrey & Simon 1997 0.3 Norton Rose 1997 0.3 Ropes & Gray 1997 0.3 Advokatfirman Vinge 1997 0.2 Allen & Overy 1997 0.2 Allens Arthur Robinson 1997 0.2 Durling & Durling 1997 0.2 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1997 0.2 Freehills 1997 0.2 Heller Ehrman 1997 0.2 Lowenstein Sandler Kohl Fisher & Boylan 1997 0.2 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1997 0.2 Torys 1997 0.2 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1997 0.2 Baker Botts 1997 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1997 0.1 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 1997 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1997 0.1 Calfee, Halter & Griswold 1997 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1997 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1997 0.1 Covington & Burling 1997 0.1 Dechert 1997 0.1 DLA Piper 1997 0.1 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 1997 0.1 Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg 1997 0.1

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Foley & Lardner 1997 0.1 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 1997 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1997 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1997 0.1 Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen & Quentel 1997 0.1 Hammonds 1997 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Lewis 1997 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker 1997 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 1997 0.1 Hunton & Williams 1997 0.1 K&L Gates 1997 0.1 King & Spalding 1997 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 1997 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1997 0.1 Lewis, Rice & Fingerish 1997 0.1 Lionel Sawyer & Collins 1997 0.1 Mayer Brown 1997 0.1 McCarthy Tetrault 1997 0.1 McGuireWoods 1997 0.1 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1997 0.1 Miles & Stockbridge 1997 0.1 Miller Nash Wiener Hager Carlsen 1997 0.1 Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp 1997 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 1997 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 1997 0.1 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 1997 0.1 Parsons, Behle & Latimer 1997 0.1 Piper Alderman 1997 0.1 Quarles & Brady 1997 0.1 Satterlee, Stephens, Burke & Burke 1997 0.1 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 1997 0.1 Simmons & Simmons 1997 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1997 0.1 Steptoe & Johnson 1997 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1997 0.1 Taylor Wessing 1997 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1997 0.1 Troutman Sanders 1997 0.1 Uria Menendez 1997 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 1997 0.1 Vinson & Elkins 1997 0.1 Wiley Rein & Fielding 1997 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1997 0.1

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Winston & Strawn 1997 0.1 Worsham, Forsythe, Sampels & Wooldridge 1997 0.1 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1997 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 1998 8.2 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1998 6.9 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1998 4.9 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1998 4.9 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1998 4.7 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1998 4.6 Shearman & Sterling 1998 4.4 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1998 4.2 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1998 3.8 Richards Layton & Finger 1998 2.9 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1998 2.6 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1998 2.4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1998 2.1 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1998 1.6 Arnold & Porter 1998 1.5 Jones Day 1998 1.5 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1998 1.5 Latham & Watkins 1998 1.4 Debevoise & Plimpton 1998 1.3 Linklaters 1998 1 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1998 1 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1998 1 Allen & Overy 1998 0.9 Clifford Chance 1998 0.9 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1998 0.9 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1998 0.9 O'Melveny & Myers 1998 0.9 Sidley Austin 1998 0.9 Slaughter & May 1998 0.9 Alston & Bird 1998 0.8 Hamada & Matsumoto 1998 0.8 Lovells 1998 0.8 White & Case 1998 0.8 Dorsey & Whitney 1998 0.7 Chadbourne & Parke 1998 0.6 Allens Arthur Robinson 1998 0.5 Andrews Kurth 1998 0.5 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1998 0.5 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1998 0.3 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1998 0.3

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Norton Rose 1998 0.3 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1998 0.3 Stoel Rives 1998 0.3 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1998 0.3 Advokatfirman Vinge 1998 0.2 Ashurst 1998 0.2 Blake Dawson 1998 0.2 DLA Piper 1998 0.2 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 1998 0.2 Freehills 1998 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 1998 0.2 McGuireWoods 1998 0.2 Pillsbury Winthrop 1998 0.2 Ropes & Gray 1998 0.2 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1998 0.2 Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa E Guerreiro Advogados 1998 0.2 Vinson & Elkins 1998 0.2 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1998 0.1 Arnold Bloch Leibler 1998 0.1 Baker & McKenzie 1998 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1998 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 1998 0.1 Boles, Boles & Ryan 1998 0.1 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 1998 0.1 Bryan Cave 1998 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1998 0.1 Clayton Utz 1998 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1998 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 1998 0.1 Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg 1998 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1998 0.1 Foley & Lardner 1998 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1998 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1998 0.1 Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen & Quentel 1998 0.1 Hammonds 1998 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Lewis 1998 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker 1998 0.1 Heller Ehrman 1998 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1998 0.1 King & Spalding 1998 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1998 0.1 Mayer Brown 1998 0.1

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McCarthy Tetrault 1998 0.1 Miller Nash Wiener Hager Carlsen 1998 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 1998 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 1998 0.1 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 1998 0.1 Parsons, Behle & Latimer 1998 0.1 Perkins Coie 1998 0.1 Quarles & Brady 1998 0.1 Schiff Hardin & Waite 1998 0.1 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 1998 0.1 Silver, Freedman & Taff 1998 0.1 Simmons & Simmons 1998 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1998 0.1 Torys 1998 0.1 Troutman Sanders 1998 0.1 Uria Menendez 1998 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 1998 0.1 Winston & Strawn 1998 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 1999 8.9 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1999 8.8 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1999 7.4 Shearman & Sterling 1999 6.8 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1999 6.6 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1999 6.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1999 5.8 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1999 4.5 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1999 4.2 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1999 4.1 Richards Layton & Finger 1999 3.6 Arnold & Porter 1999 3.4 Debevoise & Plimpton 1999 2.8 Linklaters 1999 2.8 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1999 2.7 Lovells 1999 2.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1999 2.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1999 1.9 Jones Day 1999 1.7 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1999 1.6 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1999 1.6 Clifford Chance 1999 1.2 McGuireWoods 1999 1.2 Latham & Watkins 1999 1.1 Slaughter & May 1999 1.1

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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1999 1 Chadbourne & Parke 1999 0.9 White & Case 1999 0.9 Allens Arthur Robinson 1999 0.8 Bryan Cave 1999 0.8 O'Melveny & Myers 1999 0.8 Sidley Austin 1999 0.8 Allen & Overy 1999 0.7 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1999 0.7 Alston & Bird 1999 0.5 Dorsey & Whitney 1999 0.5 Munger Tolles & Olson 1999 0.5 Norton Rose 1999 0.5 Baker & McKenzie 1999 0.4 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 1999 0.4 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 1999 0.4 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1999 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1999 0.3 Ashurst 1999 0.3 Baker Botts 1999 0.3 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1999 0.3 Freehills 1999 0.3 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1999 0.3 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1999 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 1999 0.3 Vinson & Elkins 1999 0.3 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1999 0.3 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1999 0.2 Blake Dawson 1999 0.2 Clayton Utz 1999 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 1999 0.2 Covington & Burling 1999 0.2 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 1999 0.2 King & Spalding 1999 0.2 McCarthy Tetrault 1999 0.2 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1999 0.2 Minter Ellison 1999 0.2 Pillsbury Winthrop 1999 0.2 Ropes & Gray 1999 0.2 Schiff Hardin & Waite 1999 0.2 Shepherd & Wedderburn 1999 0.2 Stoel Rives 1999 0.2 Thelen Reid & Priest 1999 0.2

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Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa E Guerreiro Advogados 1999 0.2 Worsham, Forsythe, Sampels & Wooldridge 1999 0.2 Arnold Bloch Leibler 1999 0.1 Baker & Daniels 1999 0.1 Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll 1999 0.1 Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott 1999 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 1999 0.1 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 1999 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1999 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1999 0.1 Dechert 1999 0.1 Denton Wilde Sapte 1999 0.1 DLA Piper 1999 0.1 Ezkenazi Pernidji Advogados 1999 0.1 Fenwick & West 1999 0.1 Fredrikson & Byron 1999 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1999 0.1 Ginsburg Feldman & Bress 1999 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1999 0.1 Hammonds 1999 0.1 Harkins Cunningham 1999 0.1 Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker 1999 0.1 Heller Ehrman 1999 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 1999 0.1 Hunton & Williams 1999 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1999 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 1999 0.1 Lange, Simpson, Robinson, & Somerville 1999 0.1 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell 1999 0.1 Macfarlanes 1999 0.1 Mayer Brown 1999 0.1 Miles & Stockbridge 1999 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 1999 0.1 Perkins Coie 1999 0.1 Proskauer Rose 1999 0.1 Roschier 1999 0.1 Rudnick & Wolfe 1999 0.1 ShawPittman 1999 0.1 SJ Berwin 1999 0.1 Sommer & Barnard 1999 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1999 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 1999 0.1 Stokes & Bartholomew 1999 0.1

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Torys 1999 0.1 Travers Smith 1999 0.1 Troutman Sanders 1999 0.1 Uria Menendez 1999 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 1999 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1999 0.1 Winston & Strawn 1999 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 1999 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2000 11.2 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2000 10.5 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2000 8.8 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2000 8.4 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2000 8 Shearman & Sterling 2000 8 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2000 7.7 Linklaters 2000 7 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2000 6.1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2000 5.9 Clifford Chance 2000 5.5 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2000 5 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2000 4.1 Jones Day 2000 4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2000 3.4 Chadbourne & Parke 2000 2.8 Richards Layton & Finger 2000 2.6 Debevoise & Plimpton 2000 2.5 Arnold & Porter 2000 2.4 BEITEN BURKHARDT 2000 2.4 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2000 2.4 Lovells 2000 2.3 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2000 1.9 Allen & Overy 2000 1.7 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2000 1.7 Slaughter & May 2000 1.6 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2000 1.4 Stikeman Elliott 2000 1.3 White & Case 2000 1.2 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2000 1.2 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2000 1 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2000 1 Hengeler Mueller 2000 1 Latham & Watkins 2000 1 Norton Rose 2000 1

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Vita Samory, Fabbrinni e Associati 2000 0.9 McGuireWoods 2000 0.8 Mayer Brown 2000 0.7 Allens Arthur Robinson 2000 0.6 Ashurst 2000 0.6 Bryan Cave 2000 0.6 Sidley Austin 2000 0.6 Baker & McKenzie 2000 0.5 Blake Dawson 2000 0.5 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2000 0.5 O'Melveny & Myers 2000 0.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2000 0.5 Dorsey & Whitney 2000 0.4 Erede e Associati 2000 0.4 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2000 0.4 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2000 0.4 Munger Tolles & Olson 2000 0.4 Alston & Bird 2000 0.3 Baker Botts 2000 0.3 Clayton Utz 2000 0.3 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 2000 0.3 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 2000 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2000 0.3 Minter Ellison 2000 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 2000 0.3 Travers Smith 2000 0.3 Uria Menendez 2000 0.3 Vinson & Elkins 2000 0.3 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2000 0.2 Covington & Burling 2000 0.2 Foley & Lardner 2000 0.2 Freehills 2000 0.2 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2000 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 2000 0.2 King & Spalding 2000 0.2 McCarthy Tetrault 2000 0.2 Morrison & Foerster 2000 0.2 Pillsbury Winthrop 2000 0.2 Schiff Hardin & Waite 2000 0.2 Shepherd & Wedderburn 2000 0.2 Stoel Rives 2000 0.2 Andrews Kurth 2000 0.1 Appleby Spurling & Kempe 2000 0.1

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Arnold Bloch Leibler 2000 0.1 Baker & Daniels 2000 0.1 Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll 2000 0.1 Bar & Karrer 2000 0.1 Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott 2000 0.1 Bennett Jones 2000 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2000 0.1 Bredin Prat 2000 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 2000 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2000 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 2000 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2000 0.1 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2000 0.1 Dechert 2000 0.1 Denton Wilde Sapte 2000 0.1 Dickson Minto 2000 0.1 DLA Piper 2000 0.1 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2000 0.1 Fasken Campbell Godfrey 2000 0.1 Fenwick & West 2000 0.1 Fredrikson & Byron 2000 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2000 0.1 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2000 0.1 Gilbert & Tobin 2000 0.1 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2000 0.1 Goodwin Procter 2000 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2000 0.1 Hammarskiold & Co 2000 0.1 Hammonds 2000 0.1 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 2000 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2000 0.1 Irell & Manella 2000 0.1 Jenner & Block 2000 0.1 K&L Gates 2000 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 2000 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 2000 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2000 0.1 Loeff Claeys Verbeke 2000 0.1 Macfarlanes 2000 0.1 NautaDutilh 2000 0.1 Perkins Coie 2000 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2000 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2000 0.1

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Ropes & Gray 2000 0.1 Roschier 2000 0.1 SJ Berwin 2000 0.1 Sommer & Barnard 2000 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2000 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 2000 0.1 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund AS 2000 0.1 Torys 2000 0.1 Troutman Sanders 2000 0.1 Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa E Guerreiro Advogados 2000 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2000 0.1 Winston & Strawn 2000 0.1 Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han 2000 0.1 Worsham, Forsythe, Sampels & Wooldridge 2000 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2001 13 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2001 11.4 Shearman & Sterling 2001 9.6 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2001 9.4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2001 8.6 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2001 8.4 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2001 7.3 Linklaters 2001 7.2 Clifford Chance 2001 6.5 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2001 6.3 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2001 5.9 Jones Day 2001 5.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2001 5.2 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2001 4.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2001 2.9 Arnold & Porter 2001 2.7 Lovells 2001 2.6 Slaughter & May 2001 2.5 Chadbourne & Parke 2001 2.4 Debevoise & Plimpton 2001 2.3 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2001 2.2 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2001 2.1 BEITEN BURKHARDT 2001 1.9 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2001 1.9 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2001 1.8 Allen & Overy 2001 1.7 Norton Rose 2001 1.7 Richards Layton & Finger 2001 1.7 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2001 1.7

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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2001 1.4 Stikeman Elliott 2001 1.4 Hengeler Mueller 2001 1.2 White & Case 2001 1.1 Latham & Watkins 2001 1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2001 0.9 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2001 0.9 Morrison & Foerster 2001 0.8 Simmons & Simmons 2001 0.8 Vita Samory, Fabbrinni e Associati 2001 0.8 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2001 0.8 Ashurst 2001 0.7 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2001 0.7 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2001 0.7 Sidley Austin 2001 0.7 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2001 0.7 Baker & McKenzie 2001 0.6 Bredin Prat 2001 0.6 Mayer Brown 2001 0.6 McGuireWoods 2001 0.6 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2001 0.6 Uria Menendez 2001 0.6 Allens Arthur Robinson 2001 0.5 Baker Botts 2001 0.5 Bryan Cave 2001 0.5 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2001 0.5 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2001 0.5 McCarthy Tetrault 2001 0.5 Blake Dawson 2001 0.4 Fenwick & West 2001 0.4 Munger Tolles & Olson 2001 0.4 Denton Wilde Sapte 2001 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 2001 0.3 Erede e Associati 2001 0.3 Freehills 2001 0.3 Hunton & Williams 2001 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2001 0.3 Minter Ellison 2001 0.3 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2001 0.3 Pillsbury Winthrop 2001 0.3 Torys 2001 0.3 Travers Smith 2001 0.3 Alston & Bird 2001 0.2

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Bennett Jones 2001 0.2 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2001 0.2 Clayton Utz 2001 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 2001 0.2 Covington & Burling 2001 0.2 Cuatrecasas 2001 0.2 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2001 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 2001 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 2001 0.2 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 2001 0.2 Macfarlanes 2001 0.2 Schiff Hardin & Waite 2001 0.2 SJ Berwin 2001 0.2 Thelen Reid & Priest 2001 0.2 Vinson & Elkins 2001 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2001 0.2 A&L Goodbody 2001 0.1 Addleshaw Goddard 2001 0.1 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2001 0.1 Andersen Legal 2001 0.1 Andrews Kurth 2001 0.1 Arthur Andersen & Co 2001 0.1 Baker & Daniels 2001 0.1 Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll 2001 0.1 Bar & Karrer 2001 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 2001 0.1 Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott 2001 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2001 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2001 0.1 Davis & Gilbert 2001 0.1 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2001 0.1 Dechert 2001 0.1 Dickson Minto 2001 0.1 Eversheds 2001 0.1 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2001 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2001 0.1 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 2001 0.1 Fredrikson & Byron 2001 0.1 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2001 0.1 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2001 0.1 Gilbert & Tobin 2001 0.1 Goodwin Procter 2001 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2001 0.1

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Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2001 0.1 Hammonds 2001 0.1 Heller Ehrman 2001 0.1 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 2001 0.1 Howrey & Simon 2001 0.1 Irell & Manella 2001 0.1 Jenner & Block 2001 0.1 JP Morgan & Co Inc 2001 0.1 K&L Gates 2001 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 2001 0.1 King & Spalding 2001 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2001 0.1 Loeff Claeys Verbeke 2001 0.1 Loyens & Loeff 2001 0.1 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2001 0.1 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2001 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 2001 0.1 McMillan Binch Mendelsohn 2001 0.1 Morais Leitao,Galvao Teles,Soares da Silva 2001 0.1 NautaDutilh 2001 0.1 Nixon Peabody 2001 0.1 Ogilvy Renault 2001 0.1 O'Melveny & Myers 2001 0.1 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2001 0.1 Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez 2001 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2001 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2001 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2001 0.1 Ropes & Gray 2001 0.1 Roschier 2001 0.1 Shepherd & Wedderburn 2001 0.1 Societe Generale SA 2001 0.1 Troutman Sanders 2001 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 2001 0.1 Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa E Guerreiro Advogados 2001 0.1 Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han 2001 0.1 Worsham, Forsythe, Sampels & Wooldridge 2001 0.1 Wragge & Co 2001 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2002 13 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2002 10.7 Shearman & Sterling 2002 9.1 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2002 8.2 Clifford Chance 2002 8.2

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2002 8.2 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2002 7.7 Linklaters 2002 7.7 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2002 7.4 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2002 6.6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2002 6.2 Jones Day 2002 5.5 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2002 4.9 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2002 4.4 Slaughter & May 2002 2.9 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2002 2.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2002 2.6 Allen & Overy 2002 2.2 Chadbourne & Parke 2002 2.2 BEITEN BURKHARDT 2002 2.1 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2002 2.1 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2002 2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2002 2 Hengeler Mueller 2002 1.8 Norton Rose 2002 1.8 Stikeman Elliott 2002 1.8 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2002 1.7 Arnold & Porter 2002 1.6 Lovells 2002 1.6 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2002 1.5 Latham & Watkins 2002 1.5 White & Case 2002 1.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 2002 1.4 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2002 1.2 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2002 1.1 Blake Dawson 2002 1.1 Ashurst 2002 1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2002 1 Bredin Prat 2002 0.9 Mayer Brown 2002 0.9 Simmons & Simmons 2002 0.9 Vita Samory, Fabbrinni e Associati 2002 0.9 Baker Botts 2002 0.8 Morrison & Foerster 2002 0.8 Sidley Austin 2002 0.8 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2002 0.7 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2002 0.7 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2002 0.7

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Uria Menendez 2002 0.7 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2002 0.6 Macfarlanes 2002 0.6 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2002 0.6 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2002 0.6 Allens Arthur Robinson 2002 0.5 Baker & McKenzie 2002 0.5 McCarthy Tetrault 2002 0.5 Richards Layton & Finger 2002 0.5 Denton Wilde Sapte 2002 0.4 Erede e Associati 2002 0.4 Fenwick & West 2002 0.4 Freehills 2002 0.4 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2002 0.4 Torys 2002 0.4 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2002 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 2002 0.3 Hogan & Hartson 2002 0.3 Hunton & Williams 2002 0.3 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 2002 0.3 Minter Ellison 2002 0.3 Pillsbury Winthrop 2002 0.3 SJ Berwin 2002 0.3 Travers Smith 2002 0.3 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2002 0.2 Allen & Gledhill 2002 0.2 Alston & Bird 2002 0.2 Bennett Jones 2002 0.2 Clayton Utz 2002 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 2002 0.2 Cuatrecasas 2002 0.2 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2002 0.2 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2002 0.2 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2002 0.2 Howrey & Simon 2002 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 2002 0.2 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2002 0.2 Morais Leitao,Galvao Teles,Soares da Silva 2002 0.2 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2002 0.2 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2002 0.2 Schiff Hardin & Waite 2002 0.2 Vinson & Elkins 2002 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2002 0.2

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A&L Goodbody 2002 0.1 Addleshaw Goddard 2002 0.1 Advokatfirman Vinge 2002 0.1 Andersen Legal 2002 0.1 Andrews Kurth 2002 0.1 Arendt and Medernach 2002 0.1 Arthur Andersen & Co 2002 0.1 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2002 0.1 Bar & Karrer 2002 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 2002 0.1 Brons & Salas 2002 0.1 Bruchou Fernandez Madero Lombardi & Mitradi 2002 0.1 Bryan Cave 2002 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 2002 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2002 0.1 Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott 2002 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2002 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2002 0.1 Covington & Burling 2002 0.1 Davis & Gilbert 2002 0.1 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2002 0.1 Dechert 2002 0.1 Dickson Minto 2002 0.1 DLA Piper 2002 0.1 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2002 0.1 Drew & Napier 2002 0.1 Eversheds 2002 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2002 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2002 0.1 Friedman Kaplan & Seiler 2002 0.1 Galicia Y Robles 2002 0.1 Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyra 2002 0.1 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2002 0.1 Gilbert & Tobin 2002 0.1 Goodmans 2002 0.1 Gorrissen & Federspiel 2002 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2002 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2002 0.1 Hammarskiold & Co 2002 0.1 Hammonds 2002 0.1 Heller Ehrman 2002 0.1 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 2002 0.1 Irell & Manella 2002 0.1

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Jenner & Block 2002 0.1 JP Morgan & Co Inc 2002 0.1 K&L Gates 2002 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 2002 0.1 Keleher & Mcleod 2002 0.1 King & Spalding 2002 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2002 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2002 0.1 Loeff Claeys Verbeke 2002 0.1 Loyens & Loeff 2002 0.1 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2002 0.1 Maitland & Company 2002 0.1 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2002 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 2002 0.1 McMillan Binch Mendelsohn 2002 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 2002 0.1 Nabarro 2002 0.1 NautaDutilh 2002 0.1 Negri-Clementi Toffoletto Montironi & Soci 2002 0.1 Nixon Peabody 2002 0.1 Ogilvy Renault 2002 0.1 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2002 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2002 0.1 Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez 2002 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2002 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2002 0.1 Societe Generale SA 2002 0.1 Steptoe & Johnson 2002 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 2002 0.1 Troutman Sanders 2002 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 2002 0.1 Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa E Guerreiro Advogados 2002 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 2002 0.1 WongPartnership 2002 0.1 Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han 2002 0.1 Wragge & Co 2002 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2003 10.9 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2003 7.9 Clifford Chance 2003 7.8 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2003 7.8 Shearman & Sterling 2003 7.7 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2003 7.1 Linklaters 2003 6.7

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2003 6 Jones Day 2003 5.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2003 5 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2003 4.8 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2003 4.3 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2003 4.2 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2003 4 Slaughter & May 2003 3.6 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2003 2.8 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2003 2.8 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2003 2.7 Allen & Overy 2003 2.6 Arnold & Porter 2003 2.6 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2003 2.1 Latham & Watkins 2003 2 Norton Rose 2003 2 Lovells 2003 1.9 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2003 1.8 Bredin Prat 2003 1.6 Hengeler Mueller 2003 1.6 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2003 1.5 White & Case 2003 1.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2003 1.4 Ashurst 2003 1.3 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2003 1.3 Blake Dawson 2003 1.2 Simmons & Simmons 2003 1.2 Baker Botts 2003 1.1 Debevoise & Plimpton 2003 1.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2003 1 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2003 1 Morrison & Foerster 2003 1 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2003 1 Sidley Austin 2003 1 Allens Arthur Robinson 2003 0.9 Barsalou Lawson 2003 0.9 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2003 0.9 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2003 0.9 Stikeman Elliott 2003 0.9 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2003 0.9 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2003 0.8 Denton Wilde Sapte 2003 0.7 Macfarlanes 2003 0.7

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McCarthy Tetrault 2003 0.7 Uria Menendez 2003 0.7 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2003 0.6 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2003 0.6 Freehills 2003 0.6 Mayer Brown 2003 0.6 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2003 0.6 Torys 2003 0.6 Baker & McKenzie 2003 0.5 Fenwick & West 2003 0.5 Hogan & Hartson 2003 0.5 Cuatrecasas 2003 0.4 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2003 0.4 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2003 0.4 Minter Ellison 2003 0.4 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2003 0.4 Allen & Gledhill 2003 0.3 Bennett Jones 2003 0.3 Chadbourne & Parke 2003 0.3 Cooley Godward Kronish 2003 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 2003 0.3 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2003 0.3 Howrey & Simon 2003 0.3 Hunton & Williams 2003 0.3 King & Spalding 2003 0.3 Kirkland & Ellis 2003 0.3 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 2003 0.3 Pillsbury Winthrop 2003 0.3 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2003 0.3 SJ Berwin 2003 0.3 Advokatfirman Vinge 2003 0.2 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2003 0.2 Alston & Bird 2003 0.2 Andersen Legal 2003 0.2 Bruchou Fernandez Madero Lombardi & Mitradi 2003 0.2 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2003 0.2 Clayton Utz 2003 0.2 Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott 2003 0.2 Dechert 2003 0.2 Eversheds 2003 0.2 Galicia Y Robles 2003 0.2 Gilbert & Tobin 2003 0.2 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2003 0.2

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Heller Ehrman 2003 0.2 Loyens & Loeff 2003 0.2 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2003 0.2 Maitland & Company 2003 0.2 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2003 0.2 McDermott Will & Emery 2003 0.2 McMillan Binch Mendelsohn 2003 0.2 Morais Leitao,Galvao Teles,Soares da Silva 2003 0.2 Nabarro 2003 0.2 Ogilvy Renault 2003 0.2 O'Melveny & Myers 2003 0.2 Travers Smith 2003 0.2 Vinson & Elkins 2003 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2003 0.2 A&L Goodbody 2003 0.1 Addleshaw Goddard 2003 0.1 Anderson Mori & Tomotsune 2003 0.1 Arendt and Medernach 2003 0.1 Arthur Andersen & Co 2003 0.1 Arthur Cox 2003 0.1 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2003 0.1 Bar & Karrer 2003 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 2003 0.1 Brodies WS 2003 0.1 Brons & Salas 2003 0.1 Bryan Cave 2003 0.1 Buddle Findlay 2003 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2003 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2003 0.1 Covington & Burling 2003 0.1 Davis & Gilbert 2003 0.1 De Pardieu Brocas Maffei 2003 0.1 DLA Piper 2003 0.1 Drew & Napier 2003 0.1 Felesky Flynn 2003 0.1 FoxMandal Little 2003 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2003 0.1 Friedman Kaplan & Seiler 2003 0.1 Garrigues 2003 0.1 Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyra 2003 0.1 Goodman and Carr, Toronto 2003 0.1 Goodmans 2003 0.1 Gorrissen & Federspiel 2003 0.1

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Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2003 0.1 Greenberg Traurig 2003 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2003 0.1 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2003 0.1 Hahn Loeser & Parks 2003 0.1 Hammonds 2003 0.1 Jeantet & Associes 2003 0.1 Jenner & Block 2003 0.1 JP Morgan & Co Inc 2003 0.1 Keleher & Mcleod 2003 0.1 Kim & Chang 2003 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2003 0.1 L'Estrange & Brett 2003 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2003 0.1 Macleod Dixon 2003 0.1 Maples & Calder 2003 0.1 McGuireWoods 2003 0.1 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2003 0.1 Morris Manning & Martin 2003 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 2003 0.1 NautaDutilh 2003 0.1 Negri-Clementi Toffoletto Montironi & Soci 2003 0.1 Nixon Peabody 2003 0.1 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2003 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2003 0.1 Pavia e Ansaldo 2003 0.1 Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez 2003 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2003 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2003 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2003 0.1 Ropes & Gray 2003 0.1 Schiff Hardin & Waite 2003 0.1 Societe Generale SA 2003 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2003 0.1 Steptoe & Johnson 2003 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 2003 0.1 Troutman Sanders 2003 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 2003 0.1 Veil Jourde 2003 0.1 Vieira, Rezende, Barbosa E Guerreiro Advogados 2003 0.1 Wardynski and Partners 2003 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 2003 0.1 WongPartnership 2003 0.1

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Wragge & Co 2003 0.1 Clifford Chance 2004 8.5 Linklaters 2004 8.2 Sullivan & Cromwell 2004 6.8 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2004 5.9 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2004 5.2 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2004 5.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2004 4.9 Shearman & Sterling 2004 4.5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2004 4.3 Latham & Watkins 2004 4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2004 3.9 Allen & Overy 2004 3.3 Jones Day 2004 3.2 Ashurst 2004 3.1 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2004 3 Slaughter & May 2004 3 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2004 2.9 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2004 2.8 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2004 2.8 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2004 2.8 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2004 2.8 Arnold & Porter 2004 2.7 Blake Dawson 2004 1.8 Hengeler Mueller 2004 1.8 White & Case 2004 1.8 Allens Arthur Robinson 2004 1.5 Baker Botts 2004 1.5 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2004 1.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 2004 1.5 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2004 1.5 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2004 1.4 Lovells 2004 1.4 Barsalou Lawson 2004 1.3 Bredin Prat 2004 1.2 Mayer Brown 2004 1.2 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2004 1.2 Hogan & Hartson 2004 1.1 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2004 1 Macfarlanes 2004 1 Norton Rose 2004 1 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2004 0.9 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2004 0.9

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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2004 0.9 Sidley Austin 2004 0.9 Stikeman Elliott 2004 0.9 Torys 2004 0.9 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2004 0.9 Baker & McKenzie 2004 0.8 Freehills 2004 0.8 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2004 0.8 Simmons & Simmons 2004 0.8 A&L Goodbody 2004 0.7 King & Spalding 2004 0.7 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2004 0.7 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2004 0.7 Denton Wilde Sapte 2004 0.6 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2004 0.6 Allen & Gledhill 2004 0.5 Clayton Utz 2004 0.5 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2004 0.5 Minter Ellison 2004 0.5 Advokatfirman Vinge 2004 0.4 Baker & Daniels 2004 0.4 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2004 0.4 Dorsey & Whitney 2004 0.4 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2004 0.4 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 2004 0.4 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2004 0.4 McCarthy Tetrault 2004 0.4 Suarez de Lezo & Asociados 2004 0.4 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2004 0.3 Bennett Jones 2004 0.3 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2004 0.3 Bruchou Fernandez Madero Lombardi & Mitradi 2004 0.3 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2004 0.3 Cuatrecasas 2004 0.3 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2004 0.3 Galicia Y Robles 2004 0.3 Gilbert & Tobin 2004 0.3 Kirkland & Ellis 2004 0.3 Nabarro 2004 0.3 O'Melveny & Myers 2004 0.3 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2004 0.3 Ropes & Gray 2004 0.3 Travers Smith 2004 0.3

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Uria Menendez 2004 0.3 Vinson & Elkins 2004 0.3 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2004 0.2 Alston & Bird 2004 0.2 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2004 0.2 Bryan Cave 2004 0.2 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2004 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2004 0.2 Dechert 2004 0.2 Dickson Minto 2004 0.2 DLA Piper 2004 0.2 Eversheds 2004 0.2 Felesky Flynn 2004 0.2 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2004 0.2 Garrigues 2004 0.2 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2004 0.2 Goodmans 2004 0.2 Hahn Loeser & Parks 2004 0.2 Heller Ehrman 2004 0.2 Jenner & Block 2004 0.2 Macleod Dixon 2004 0.2 Maitland & Company 2004 0.2 Negri-Clementi Toffoletto Montironi & Soci 2004 0.2 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2004 0.2 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2004 0.2 SJ Berwin 2004 0.2 Steptoe & Johnson 2004 0.2 William Fry 2004 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2004 0.2 WongPartnership 2004 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2004 0.1 Andersen Legal 2004 0.1 Andrews Kurth 2004 0.1 Arendt and Medernach 2004 0.1 Arthur Cox 2004 0.1 Barlow Lyde & Gilbert 2004 0.1 Bell Gully 2004 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 2004 0.1 Brodies WS 2004 0.1 Brons & Salas 2004 0.1 Bugge Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen 2004 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2004 0.1 Chadbourne & Parke 2004 0.1

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Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2004 0.1 CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati 2004 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 2004 0.1 Covington & Burling 2004 0.1 Creel, Garcia-Cuellar & Muggenburg 2004 0.1 De Pardieu Brocas Maffei 2004 0.1 Dittmar & Indrenius 2004 0.1 Drew & Napier 2004 0.1 Drinker Biddle & Reath 2004 0.1 Faegre & Benson 2004 0.1 Fenwick & West 2004 0.1 FoxMandal Little 2004 0.1 Friedman Kaplan & Seiler 2004 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2004 0.1 Goodman and Carr, Toronto 2004 0.1 Goodwin Procter 2004 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2004 0.1 Greenberg Traurig 2004 0.1 Grueninger Hunziker Roth Rechtsanwaelte 2004 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2004 0.1 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2004 0.1 Hammonds 2004 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2004 0.1 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2004 0.1 Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn 2004 0.1 Howrey & Simon 2004 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2004 0.1 Jeantet & Associes 2004 0.1 Jenkens & Gilchrist 2004 0.1 Kim & Chang 2004 0.1 Lang Michener 2004 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2004 0.1 L'Estrange & Brett 2004 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2004 0.1 Loyens & Loeff 2004 0.1 Maples & Calder 2004 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 2004 0.1 McGuireWoods 2004 0.1 McMillan Binch Mendelsohn 2004 0.1 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2004 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 2004 0.1 NautaDutilh 2004 0.1 Niederer Kraft & Frey 2004 0.1

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O'Donnell Sweeney 2004 0.1 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2004 0.1 Pavia e Ansaldo 2004 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2004 0.1 Reed Smith 2004 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2004 0.1 Roschier 2004 0.1 Sanchez Mejorada Velasco y Valencia 2004 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2004 0.1 Veil Jourde 2004 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 2004 0.1 Wragge & Co 2004 0.1 Clifford Chance 2005 9.3 Linklaters 2005 9.2 Sullivan & Cromwell 2005 8.2 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2005 6.7 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2005 6.6 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2005 6.6 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2005 6 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2005 5.2 Arnold & Porter 2005 4.6 Shearman & Sterling 2005 4.4 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2005 4.3 Latham & Watkins 2005 3.8 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2005 3.6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2005 3.5 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2005 3.5 Ashurst 2005 3.4 Jones Day 2005 3.2 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2005 3.2 Allen & Overy 2005 3.1 Freehills 2005 2.9 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2005 2.9 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2005 2.9 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2005 2.9 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2005 2.9 Allens Arthur Robinson 2005 2.7 Debevoise & Plimpton 2005 2.5 Slaughter & May 2005 2.3 A&L Goodbody 2005 2.2 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2005 2 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2005 1.6 King & Spalding 2005 1.6

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Stikeman Elliott 2005 1.6 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2005 1.5 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2005 1.4 Barsalou Lawson 2005 1.3 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2005 1.3 Lovells 2005 1.3 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2005 1.3 Baker & McKenzie 2005 1.2 Hengeler Mueller 2005 1.2 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2005 1.2 Baker Botts 2005 1.1 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2005 1.1 O'Melveny & Myers 2005 1.1 Torys 2005 1.1 Bredin Prat 2005 1 Hogan & Hartson 2005 1 Mayer Brown 2005 1 White & Case 2005 1 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2005 0.9 Norton Rose 2005 0.9 Sidley Austin 2005 0.9 Clayton Utz 2005 0.8 Minter Ellison 2005 0.8 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2005 0.7 Kirkland & Ellis 2005 0.7 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2005 0.7 Uria Menendez 2005 0.7 Ropes & Gray 2005 0.6 Simmons & Simmons 2005 0.6 Blake Dawson 2005 0.5 Dorsey & Whitney 2005 0.5 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2005 0.5 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2005 0.5 Advokatfirman Vinge 2005 0.4 Baker & Daniels 2005 0.4 Dechert 2005 0.4 Denton Wilde Sapte 2005 0.4 Fenwick & West 2005 0.4 Gilbert & Tobin 2005 0.4 McCarthy Tetrault 2005 0.4 McDermott Will & Emery 2005 0.4 Morrison & Foerster 2005 0.4 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 2005 0.4

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SJ Berwin 2005 0.4 Suarez de Lezo & Asociados 2005 0.4 Vinson & Elkins 2005 0.4 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2005 0.4 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2005 0.4 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2005 0.3 Alston & Bird 2005 0.3 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2005 0.3 Bennett Jones 2005 0.3 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2005 0.3 Cuatrecasas 2005 0.3 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2005 0.3 DLA Piper 2005 0.3 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2005 0.3 Garrigues 2005 0.3 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2005 0.3 Goodwin Procter 2005 0.3 Macfarlanes 2005 0.3 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2005 0.3 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2005 0.3 Travers Smith 2005 0.3 William Fry 2005 0.3 Winston & Strawn 2005 0.3 Allen & Gledhill 2005 0.2 Andrews Kurth 2005 0.2 Bell Gully 2005 0.2 Bryan Cave 2005 0.2 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2005 0.2 Christensen Miller Fink Jacobs Glaser Weil & Shapi 2005 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2005 0.2 Coudert Brothers 2005 0.2 Covington & Burling 2005 0.2 Dickson Minto 2005 0.2 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2005 0.2 Dundas & Wilson 2005 0.2 Eversheds 2005 0.2 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2005 0.2 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2005 0.2 McCann Fitzgerald 2005 0.2 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2005 0.2 Roschier 2005 0.2 Veil Jourde 2005 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2005 0.1

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Arthur Cox 2005 0.1 Balch & Bingham 2005 0.1 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2005 0.1 Bingham McCutchen 2005 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 2005 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2005 0.1 Bugge Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen 2005 0.1 Chadbourne & Parke 2005 0.1 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2005 0.1 CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati 2005 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 2005 0.1 De Pardieu Brocas Maffei 2005 0.1 Deneys Reitz 2005 0.1 Dittmar & Indrenius 2005 0.1 Faegre & Benson 2005 0.1 Felesky Flynn 2005 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2005 0.1 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2005 0.1 Goodman and Carr, Toronto 2005 0.1 Goodmans 2005 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2005 0.1 Greenberg Traurig 2005 0.1 Grueninger Hunziker Roth Rechtsanwaelte 2005 0.1 Hahn Loeser & Parks 2005 0.1 Hammonds 2005 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2005 0.1 Haynes & Boone 2005 0.1 Heller Ehrman 2005 0.1 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2005 0.1 Houthoff Buruma 2005 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2005 0.1 Jeantet & Associes 2005 0.1 Jenner & Block 2005 0.1 K&L Gates 2005 0.1 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 2005 0.1 Kim & Chang 2005 0.1 Lang Michener 2005 0.1 Lee & Ko 2005 0.1 L'Estrange & Brett 2005 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2005 0.1 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell 2005 0.1 Loyens & Loeff 2005 0.1 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2005 0.1

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Macleod Dixon 2005 0.1 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2005 0.1 Miller & Chevalier 2005 0.1 Nabarro 2005 0.1 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2005 0.1 Negri-Clementi Toffoletto Montironi & Soci 2005 0.1 Niederer Kraft & Frey 2005 0.1 Osborne Clarke 2005 0.1 Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez 2005 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2005 0.1 Plesner 2005 0.1 Quarles & Brady 2005 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2005 0.1 Russell McVeagh 2005 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 2005 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2005 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2005 0.1 Stevens & Lee 2005 0.1 Stoel Rives 2005 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2005 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2005 0.1 Taylor Wessing 2005 0.1 Thompson Hine 2005 0.1 Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva 2005 0.1 Tughans Solicitors 2005 0.1 Venable 2005 0.1 Vieira de Almeida & Associados 2005 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 2005 0.1 WongPartnership 2005 0.1 Wragge & Co 2005 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2006 10.9 Clifford Chance 2006 9 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2006 7.6 Linklaters 2006 7.5 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2006 7.1 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2006 6.9 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2006 6.6 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2006 6.5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2006 6.2 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2006 5 Shearman & Sterling 2006 4.6 Jones Day 2006 4.3 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2006 4

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Arnold & Porter 2006 3.9 Allen & Overy 2006 3.7 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2006 3.7 Latham & Watkins 2006 3.7 Baker & McKenzie 2006 3.6 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2006 3.6 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2006 3.4 Ashurst 2006 3.1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2006 3.1 Freehills 2006 3.1 Debevoise & Plimpton 2006 2.9 Allens Arthur Robinson 2006 2.7 Stikeman Elliott 2006 2.7 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2006 2.7 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2006 2.5 A&L Goodbody 2006 2.4 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2006 2.4 Slaughter & May 2006 2.1 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2006 1.9 White & Case 2006 1.9 Hogan & Hartson 2006 1.8 Lovells 2006 1.7 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2006 1.7 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2006 1.4 Kirkland & Ellis 2006 1.4 Covington & Burling 2006 1.3 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2006 1.3 King & Spalding 2006 1.3 O'Melveny & Myers 2006 1.3 Torys 2006 1.3 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2006 1.2 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2006 1.2 Baker Botts 2006 1.1 Sidley Austin 2006 1.1 Simmons & Simmons 2006 1.1 Hengeler Mueller 2006 1 Mayer Brown 2006 1 Clayton Utz 2006 0.9 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2006 0.9 Bredin Prat 2006 0.8 Cuatrecasas 2006 0.8 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2006 0.8 McCarthy Tetrault 2006 0.8

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Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2006 0.8 Alston & Bird 2006 0.7 Blake Dawson 2006 0.7 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2006 0.7 DLA Piper 2006 0.7 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2006 0.7 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2006 0.7 Ropes & Gray 2006 0.7 Uria Menendez 2006 0.7 Dorsey & Whitney 2006 0.6 Garrigues 2006 0.6 Macfarlanes 2006 0.6 McDermott Will & Emery 2006 0.6 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2006 0.6 Vinson & Elkins 2006 0.6 Bryan Cave 2006 0.5 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2006 0.5 Fenwick & West 2006 0.5 Minter Ellison 2006 0.5 Morrison & Foerster 2006 0.5 Norton Rose 2006 0.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2006 0.5 Advokatfirman Vinge 2006 0.4 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2006 0.4 Dechert 2006 0.4 Goodwin Procter 2006 0.4 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2006 0.4 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2006 0.3 Baker & Daniels 2006 0.3 Chadbourne & Parke 2006 0.3 Cooley Godward Kronish 2006 0.3 Eversheds 2006 0.3 Gilbert & Tobin 2006 0.3 Heller Ehrman 2006 0.3 Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz 2006 0.3 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2006 0.3 SJ Berwin 2006 0.3 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2006 0.3 Suarez de Lezo & Asociados 2006 0.3 Allen & Gledhill 2006 0.2 Andrews Kurth 2006 0.2 Bech-Bruun 2006 0.2 Bell Gully 2006 0.2

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Borden Ladner Gervais 2006 0.2 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2006 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2006 0.2 Coudert Brothers 2006 0.2 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2006 0.2 Denton Wilde Sapte 2006 0.2 Dickson Minto 2006 0.2 Dundas & Wilson 2006 0.2 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2006 0.2 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2006 0.2 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2006 0.2 Hannes Snellman 2006 0.2 Jeantet & Associes 2006 0.2 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2006 0.2 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 2006 0.2 Ogilvy Renault 2006 0.2 Rajah & Tann 2006 0.2 Roschier 2006 0.2 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2006 0.2 Studio Pedersoli e Associati 2006 0.2 Travers Smith 2006 0.2 William Fry 2006 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2006 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2006 0.1 Balch & Bingham 2006 0.1 Bass Berry & Sims 2006 0.1 BEITEN BURKHARDT 2006 0.1 Bennett Jones 2006 0.1 Bingham McCutchen 2006 0.1 Blank Rome 2006 0.1 Bugge Arentz-Hansen & Rasmussen 2006 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2006 0.1 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2006 0.1 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2006 0.1 Christensen Miller Fink Jacobs Glaser Weil & Shapi 2006 0.1 Conyers Dill & Pearman 2006 0.1 Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle 2006 0.1 Deneys Reitz 2006 0.1 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2006 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 2006 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2006 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2006 0.1 Glatzova & Co 2006 0.1

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Goodmans 2006 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2006 0.1 Greenberg Traurig 2006 0.1 Grueninger Hunziker Roth Rechtsanwaelte 2006 0.1 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2006 0.1 Haynes & Boone 2006 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2006 0.1 Herguener Bilgen Oezeke 2006 0.1 Holme Roberts & Owen 2006 0.1 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2006 0.1 Houthoff Buruma 2006 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2006 0.1 Joelson Wilson & Co 2006 0.1 K&L Gates 2006 0.1 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 2006 0.1 Kocian Solc Balastik 2006 0.1 Kromann Reumert 2006 0.1 Lang Michener 2006 0.1 L'Estrange & Brett 2006 0.1 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2006 0.1 Macleod Dixon 2006 0.1 McCann Fitzgerald 2006 0.1 Miller & Chevalier 2006 0.1 Mochtar Karuwin & Komar 2006 0.1 Mori Hamada & Matsumoto 2006 0.1 Nabarro 2006 0.1 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2006 0.1 NautaDutilh 2006 0.1 Negri-Clementi Toffoletto Montironi & Soci 2006 0.1 Osborne Clarke 2006 0.1 Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez 2006 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2006 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2006 0.1 Quarles & Brady 2006 0.1 Reed Smith 2006 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2006 0.1 Russell McVeagh 2006 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 2006 0.1 Stamford Law Corp 2006 0.1 Stevens & Lee 2006 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2006 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2006 0.1 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund AS 2006 0.1

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Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva 2006 0.1 Tughans Solicitors 2006 0.1 Tulchinsky Stern & Co 2006 0.1 Veil Jourde 2006 0.1 Venable 2006 0.1 Vieira de Almeida & Associados 2006 0.1 Waselius and Wist 2006 0.1 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice 2006 0.1 WongPartnership 2006 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2007 11.2 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2007 8.9 Clifford Chance 2007 8.4 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2007 7.4 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2007 7.3 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2007 7.1 Linklaters 2007 6.8 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2007 5.5 Shearman & Sterling 2007 5.4 Latham & Watkins 2007 5.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2007 5.3 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2007 5 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2007 4.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 2007 4.2 Allen & Overy 2007 4.1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2007 4 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2007 4 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2007 3.8 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2007 3.7 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2007 3.6 Jones Day 2007 3.5 Arnold & Porter 2007 3.4 Baker & McKenzie 2007 3.2 Stikeman Elliott 2007 3.2 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2007 3 Freehills 2007 2.9 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2007 2.6 Allens Arthur Robinson 2007 2.4 Slaughter & May 2007 2.3 White & Case 2007 2.3 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2007 2 Kirkland & Ellis 2007 1.9 Ashurst 2007 1.8 Sidley Austin 2007 1.8

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Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva 2007 1.8 Hengeler Mueller 2007 1.7 Hogan & Hartson 2007 1.7 Lovells 2007 1.6 Mayer Brown 2007 1.6 O'Melveny & Myers 2007 1.6 A&L Goodbody 2007 1.5 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2007 1.5 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2007 1.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2007 1.5 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2007 1.4 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2007 1.3 Simmons & Simmons 2007 1.3 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2007 1.2 Uria Menendez 2007 1.1 Covington & Burling 2007 1 Vinson & Elkins 2007 1 Blake Dawson 2007 0.9 Bredin Prat 2007 0.9 Garrigues 2007 0.9 King & Spalding 2007 0.9 Perez Llorca 2007 0.9 Torys 2007 0.9 Baker Botts 2007 0.8 Cuatrecasas 2007 0.8 Dorsey & Whitney 2007 0.8 McCarthy Tetrault 2007 0.8 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2007 0.8 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2007 0.8 Ropes & Gray 2007 0.8 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2007 0.7 Goodwin Procter 2007 0.7 Schulte Roth & Zabel 2007 0.7 Studio Pedersoli e Associati 2007 0.7 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2007 0.7 Alston & Bird 2007 0.6 Clayton Utz 2007 0.6 DLA Piper 2007 0.6 Norton Rose 2007 0.6 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2007 0.5 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2007 0.5 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2007 0.5 Goodmans 2007 0.5

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Macfarlanes 2007 0.5 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2007 0.5 Minter Ellison 2007 0.5 NautaDutilh 2007 0.5 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2007 0.5 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund AS 2007 0.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2007 0.5 Advokatfirman Vinge 2007 0.4 Dechert 2007 0.4 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2007 0.4 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2007 0.4 Fenwick & West 2007 0.4 McDermott Will & Emery 2007 0.4 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2007 0.4 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2007 0.4 Morrison & Foerster 2007 0.4 Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz 2007 0.4 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2007 0.4 Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez 2007 0.4 Proskauer Rose 2007 0.4 Bryan Cave 2007 0.3 Heenan Blaikie 2007 0.3 Houthoff Buruma 2007 0.3 Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre 2007 0.3 KPMG 2007 0.3 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2007 0.3 Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo 2007 0.3 Ogilvy Renault 2007 0.3 Schreck Brignone Godfrey 2007 0.3 SJ Berwin 2007 0.3 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2007 0.3 Winston & Strawn 2007 0.3 WongPartnership 2007 0.3 Advokatfirman Delphi & Co 2007 0.2 Allen & Gledhill 2007 0.2 Andrews Kurth 2007 0.2 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2007 0.2 Bell Gully 2007 0.2 Bingham McCutchen 2007 0.2 Borden Ladner Gervais 2007 0.2 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2007 0.2 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2007 0.2 Chadbourne & Parke 2007 0.2

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Cooley Godward Kronish 2007 0.2 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2007 0.2 Eversheds 2007 0.2 Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyra 2007 0.2 Gilbert & Tobin 2007 0.2 Goncalves Pereira Castelo Branco e Associados 2007 0.2 Heller Ehrman 2007 0.2 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2007 0.2 Jeantet & Associes 2007 0.2 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 2007 0.2 Lang Michener 2007 0.2 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 2007 0.2 Roca Junyent Abogados 2007 0.2 Sayenko Kharenko LLC 2007 0.2 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2007 0.2 Travers Smith 2007 0.2 Veil Jourde 2007 0.2 Venable 2007 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2007 0.1 Arthur Cox 2007 0.1 Asters 2007 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 2007 0.1 Barbosa Mussnich & Aragao 2007 0.1 Bech-Bruun 2007 0.1 BEITEN BURKHARDT 2007 0.1 Bennett Jones 2007 0.1 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2007 0.1 Blank Rome 2007 0.1 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2007 0.1 Choate, Hall & Stewart 2007 0.1 Christensen Miller Fink Jacobs Glaser Weil & Shapi 2007 0.1 Conyers Dill & Pearman 2007 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2007 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2007 0.1 Creel, Garcia-Cuellar & Muggenburg 2007 0.1 Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle 2007 0.1 De Pardieu Brocas Maffei 2007 0.1 Deloitte & Touche 2007 0.1 Deneys Reitz 2007 0.1 Dickson Minto 2007 0.1 Dundas & Wilson 2007 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2007 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2007 0.1

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Fulbright & Jaworski 2007 0.1 Glatzova & Co 2007 0.1 Gorrissen & Federspiel 2007 0.1 Greenberg Traurig 2007 0.1 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2007 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2007 0.1 Herguener Bilgen Oezeke 2007 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2007 0.1 Johnson Winter & Slattery 2007 0.1 K&L Gates 2007 0.1 Karatzas & Partners 2007 0.1 Kromann Reumert 2007 0.1 Landwell 2007 0.1 L'Estrange & Brett 2007 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2007 0.1 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2007 0.1 McCann Fitzgerald 2007 0.1 Mochtar Karuwin & Komar 2007 0.1 Mori Hamada & Matsumoto 2007 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 2007 0.1 Nabarro 2007 0.1 Olswang 2007 0.1 Pekin & Bayar 2007 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2007 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2007 0.1 Rajah & Tann 2007 0.1 Reed Smith 2007 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2007 0.1 Roschier 2007 0.1 Russell McVeagh 2007 0.1 Setterwalls 2007 0.1 Solomon & Weinberg 2007 0.1 Stevens & Lee 2007 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2007 0.1 Studio Pavesi Gitti Verzoni 2007 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2007 0.1 Sutkiene Pilkauskas & Partners 2007 0.1 Tulchinsky Stern & Co 2007 0.1 Vieira de Almeida & Associados 2007 0.1 Waselius and Wist 2007 0.1 Wiley Rein & Fielding 2007 0.1 William Fry 2007 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2008 9.1

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Clifford Chance 2008 7.9 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2008 7.9 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2008 7.5 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2008 7.2 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2008 7.2 Linklaters 2008 7 Allen & Overy 2008 6.6 Latham & Watkins 2008 5.7 Shearman & Sterling 2008 5 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2008 4.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2008 4.5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2008 4.2 Slaughter & May 2008 4.2 Baker & McKenzie 2008 3.7 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2008 3.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 2008 3.5 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2008 3.5 Lovells 2008 3.4 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2008 3.3 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2008 3.2 Freehills 2008 3.1 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2008 3 Jones Day 2008 2.9 Stikeman Elliott 2008 2.8 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2008 2.7 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2008 2.6 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2008 2.5 Herbert Smith, Gleiss Lutz & Stibbe 2008 2.5 Kirkland & Ellis 2008 2.5 Allens Arthur Robinson 2008 2.1 Clayton Utz 2008 2.1 Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva 2008 2.1 Uria Menendez 2008 2.1 White & Case 2008 2.1 Arnold & Porter 2008 2 Blake Dawson 2008 2 Hengeler Mueller 2008 2 Ashurst 2008 1.8 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2008 1.6 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2008 1.6 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2008 1.5 Mayer Brown 2008 1.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2008 1.5

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De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2008 1.4 Sidley Austin 2008 1.4 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2008 1.3 Hogan & Hartson 2008 1.3 O'Melveny & Myers 2008 1.3 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2008 1.2 Simmons & Simmons 2008 1.2 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2008 1.1 Covington & Burling 2008 1.1 Goodmans 2008 1.1 Vinson & Elkins 2008 1.1 Bredin Prat 2008 1 Cuatrecasas 2008 1 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2008 1 McCarthy Tetrault 2008 1 Perez Llorca 2008 1 Torys 2008 1 Baker Botts 2008 0.9 DLA Piper 2008 0.9 Norton Rose 2008 0.9 Schulte Roth & Zabel 2008 0.9 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2008 0.8 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2008 0.8 Garrigues 2008 0.8 Hunton & Williams 2008 0.8 A&L Goodbody 2008 0.7 Dorsey & Whitney 2008 0.7 Goodwin Procter 2008 0.7 NautaDutilh 2008 0.7 Ropes & Gray 2008 0.7 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2008 0.6 McDermott Will & Emery 2008 0.6 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2008 0.6 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2008 0.6 Macfarlanes 2008 0.5 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2008 0.5 Proskauer Rose 2008 0.5 Studio Pedersoli e Associati 2008 0.5 Advokatfirman Vinge 2008 0.4 Alston & Bird 2008 0.4 Dechert 2008 0.4 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2008 0.4 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2008 0.4

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Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2008 0.4 Minter Ellison 2008 0.4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2008 0.4 Morrison & Foerster 2008 0.4 Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz 2008 0.4 Ogilvy Renault 2008 0.4 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2008 0.4 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2008 0.4 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund AS 2008 0.4 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2008 0.4 Allen & Gledhill 2008 0.3 Andrews Kurth 2008 0.3 Araoz y Rueda 2008 0.3 Bennett Jones 2008 0.3 Bryan Cave 2008 0.3 d'Urso Gatti e Associati 2008 0.3 Grimaldi e Associati 2008 0.3 Heenan Blaikie 2008 0.3 Heller Ehrman 2008 0.3 Jeantet & Associes 2008 0.3 King & Spalding 2008 0.3 Loyens & Loeff 2008 0.3 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2008 0.3 Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo 2008 0.3 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2008 0.3 Perez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martinez 2008 0.3 SJ Berwin 2008 0.3 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2008 0.3 WongPartnership 2008 0.3 Advokatfirman Delphi & Co 2008 0.2 Bech-Bruun 2008 0.2 Bell Gully 2008 0.2 Borden Ladner Gervais 2008 0.2 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2008 0.2 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2008 0.2 Chadbourne & Parke 2008 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 2008 0.2 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2008 0.2 Eversheds 2008 0.2 Fenwick & West 2008 0.2 Gilbert & Tobin 2008 0.2 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2008 0.2 Houthoff Buruma 2008 0.2

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Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre 2008 0.2 K&L Gates 2008 0.2 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 2008 0.2 KPMG 2008 0.2 Labruna Mazziotti Segni 2008 0.2 Lang Michener 2008 0.2 Mori Hamada & Matsumoto 2008 0.2 Nishimura & Asahi 2008 0.2 Plesner 2008 0.2 Roca Junyent Abogados 2008 0.2 Roschier 2008 0.2 Sayenko Kharenko LLC 2008 0.2 Schreck Brignone Godfrey 2008 0.2 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2008 0.2 Taylor Wessing 2008 0.2 Travers Smith 2008 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2008 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2008 0.1 Advokatfirman Cederquist 2008 0.1 Arthur Cox 2008 0.1 Asters 2008 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 2008 0.1 Barbosa Mussnich & Aragao 2008 0.1 BEITEN BURKHARDT 2008 0.1 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2008 0.1 Bingham McCutchen 2008 0.1 Blank Rome 2008 0.1 Bracewell & Giuliani 2008 0.1 BROWN, RUDNICK, BERLACK, ISRAELS 2008 0.1 Cabinet Franklin 2008 0.1 Chang,Pistilli & Simmons Corporate Lawyers 2008 0.1 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2008 0.1 Choate, Hall & Stewart 2008 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2008 0.1 Creel, Garcia-Cuellar & Muggenburg 2008 0.1 Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle 2008 0.1 De Pardieu Brocas Maffei 2008 0.1 Deloitte & Touche 2008 0.1 Dickson Minto 2008 0.1 Dittmar & Indrenius 2008 0.1 Dorda Brugger & Jordis 2008 0.1 Drew & Napier 2008 0.1 Dundas & Wilson 2008 0.1

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Foley & Lardner 2008 0.1 Foresta 2008 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2008 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2008 0.1 Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyra 2008 0.1 Goncalves Pereira Castelo Branco e Associados 2008 0.1 Gorrissen & Federspiel 2008 0.1 Greenberg Traurig 2008 0.1 Hammarskiold & Co 2008 0.1 Hammonds 2008 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2008 0.1 Herrick & Feinstein 2008 0.1 Jenner & Block 2008 0.1 Johnson Winter & Slattery 2008 0.1 Karatzas & Partners 2008 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 2008 0.1 Landwell 2008 0.1 Lombardi Molinari e Associati 2008 0.1 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2008 0.1 Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr 2008 0.1 McGuireWoods 2008 0.1 Miller Thomson 2008 0.1 Nabarro 2008 0.1 Olswang 2008 0.1 Perkins Coie 2008 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2008 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2008 0.1 PricewaterhouseCoopers 2008 0.1 Rajah & Tann 2008 0.1 Reed Smith 2008 0.1 Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson 2008 0.1 Salans 2008 0.1 Schoenherr Attorney's at Law 2008 0.1 Setterwalls 2008 0.1 Solomon & Weinberg 2008 0.1 Studio Legale & Tributario Biscozzi Nobili 2008 0.1 Studio Pavesi Gitti Verzoni 2008 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2008 0.1 Troutman Sanders 2008 0.1 Tulchinsky Stern & Co 2008 0.1 Veil Jourde 2008 0.1 Venable 2008 0.1 Vieira de Almeida & Associados 2008 0.1

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Waselius and Wist 2008 0.1 Wiley Rein & Fielding 2008 0.1

Target Legal Advisors Year Market Share (%)

Sullivan & Cromwell 1990 6.7 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1990 6.6 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1990 5.6 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1990 5.1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1990 4.5 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1990 4.4 Richards Layton & Finger 1990 3.8 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1990 3.8 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1990 3.7 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1990 1.9 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1990 1.9 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1990 1.9 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1990 1.4 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1990 1.2 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1990 1.1 Shearman & Sterling 1990 1.1 Simmons & Simmons 1990 1 Debevoise & Plimpton 1990 0.8 Sidley Austin 1990 0.8 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1990 0.8 Jones Day 1990 0.7 White & Case 1990 0.7 Faegre & Benson 1990 0.6 Frost & Jacobs 1990 0.6 Heller Ehrman 1990 0.6 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 1990 0.6 Latham & Watkins 1990 0.6 Troutman Sanders 1990 0.6 Day, Berry & Howard 1990 0.5 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1990 0.5 Briggs & Morgan 1990 0.4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1990 0.4 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1990 0.4 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1990 0.4 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 1990 0.4 Ropes & Gray 1990 0.4 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1990 0.4 Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans 1990 0.4

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Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease 1990 0.4 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1990 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1990 0.3 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1990 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 1990 0.3 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1990 0.3 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1990 0.3 Irell & Manella 1990 0.3 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1990 0.3 Mayer Brown 1990 0.3 Nutter McClennen & Fish 1990 0.3 O'Melveny & Myers 1990 0.3 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1990 0.3 Snell & Wilmer 1990 0.3 Stutman, Treister & Glatt 1990 0.3 Vinson & Elkins 1990 0.3 Winston & Strawn 1990 0.3 Alston & Bird 1990 0.2 Bryan Cave 1990 0.2 Carter, Ledyard & Milburn 1990 0.2 Christensen White Miller Fink & Jacobs 1990 0.2 Donahue, Gallagher,Thomas & Woods 1990 0.2 Foley & Lardner 1990 0.2 Hunton & Williams 1990 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 1990 0.2 Lionel Sawyer & Collins 1990 0.2 McDonald,Carano,Wilson,Bergin, Frankovich & Hicks 1990 0.2 Pillsbury Winthrop 1990 0.2 Thelen Reid & Priest 1990 0.2 Verrill & Dana 1990 0.2 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1990 0.2 Baker & Hostetler 1990 0.1 Boone, Wellford, Clark, Langschmidt 1990 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1990 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 1990 0.1 Christian Barton Epps Brent 1990 0.1 Clifford Chance 1990 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1990 0.1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1990 0.1 Dechert 1990 0.1 DLA Piper 1990 0.1 Fennemore Craig 1990 0.1 Godfrey & Kahn 1990 0.1

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Goodman & Goodman 1990 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1990 0.1 Harwell,Barr,Martin & Stegall 1990 0.1 Haynes & Boone 1990 0.1 Holme Roberts & Owen 1990 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1990 0.1 Hughes & Luce 1990 0.1 Jenner & Block 1990 0.1 K&L Gates 1990 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1990 0.1 King & Spalding 1990 0.1 Linklaters 1990 0.1 Locke, Purnell, Boren, Laney & Neely 1990 0.1 Lord Bissell & Brook 1990 0.1 Lowenstein Sandler Kohl Fisher & Boylan 1990 0.1 Marshall & Melhorn 1990 0.1 McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen 1990 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 1990 0.1 McGuireWoods 1990 0.1 Mitchell,Williams,Selig&Tucker 1990 0.1 Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads 1990 0.1 O Sullivan Graer & Karabell 1990 0.1 Riker Danzig Scherer & Hyland 1990 0.1 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 1990 0.1 Sulloway Hollis & Soden 1990 0.1 Triplett Woolf & Garretson 1990 0.1 Weinberg & Green 1990 0.1 Whitman & Ransom 1990 0.1 Whyte & Hirschboeck 1990 0.1 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1990 0.1 Woods, Aitken, Smith, Greer* 1990 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1991 6.3 Sullivan & Cromwell 1991 6 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1991 5.7 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1991 5.4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1991 4.3 Richards Layton & Finger 1991 4.3 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1991 4.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1991 4.3 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1991 4.2 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1991 2 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1991 1.8 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1991 1.8

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Shearman & Sterling 1991 1.4 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1991 1.1 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1991 1.1 Simmons & Simmons 1991 0.9 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1991 0.8 Sidley Austin 1991 0.8 Debevoise & Plimpton 1991 0.7 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1991 0.7 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 1991 0.7 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1991 0.7 Frost & Jacobs 1991 0.6 Heller Ehrman 1991 0.6 Latham & Watkins 1991 0.6 Vinson & Elkins 1991 0.6 Day, Berry & Howard 1991 0.5 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1991 0.4 Briggs & Morgan 1991 0.4 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1991 0.4 Jones Day 1991 0.4 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1991 0.4 Linklaters 1991 0.4 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 1991 0.4 Ropes & Gray 1991 0.4 Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease 1991 0.4 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1991 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1991 0.3 Baker Worthington Crossley & Stansberry 1991 0.3 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1991 0.3 Clifford Chance 1991 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 1991 0.3 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1991 0.3 Faegre & Benson 1991 0.3 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1991 0.3 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1991 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1991 0.3 Nutter McClennen & Fish 1991 0.3 O'Melveny & Myers 1991 0.3 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1991 0.3 Slaughter & May 1991 0.3 Stibbe Blaisse & DeJong 1991 0.3 Stutman, Treister & Glatt 1991 0.3 Winston & Strawn 1991 0.3 Alston & Bird 1991 0.2

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Bryan Cave 1991 0.2 Carter, Ledyard & Milburn 1991 0.2 Christensen White Miller Fink & Jacobs 1991 0.2 Donahue, Gallagher,Thomas & Woods 1991 0.2 Goodwin Procter 1991 0.2 Hunton & Williams 1991 0.2 Irell & Manella 1991 0.2 K&L Gates 1991 0.2 Mayer Brown 1991 0.2 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1991 0.2 Snell & Wilmer 1991 0.2 Thelen Reid & Priest 1991 0.2 Verrill & Dana 1991 0.2 White & Case 1991 0.2 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1991 0.2 Allen & Overy 1991 0.1 Ashurst 1991 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1991 0.1 Boone, Wellford, Clark, Langschmidt 1991 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1991 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 1991 0.1 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1991 0.1 Christian Barton Epps Brent 1991 0.1 Dechert 1991 0.1 DLA Piper 1991 0.1 Fennemore Craig 1991 0.1 Foley & Lardner 1991 0.1 Haynes & Boone 1991 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 1991 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1991 0.1 Hughes & Luce 1991 0.1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1991 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1991 0.1 King & Spalding 1991 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 1991 0.1 Marshall & Melhorn 1991 0.1 McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen 1991 0.1 McGuireWoods 1991 0.1 Mitchell,Williams,Selig&Tucker 1991 0.1 MJ Meijer & Associates 1991 0.1 Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads 1991 0.1 Norton Rose 1991 0.1 O Sullivan Graer & Karabell 1991 0.1

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Pillsbury Winthrop 1991 0.1 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton 1991 0.1 Sulloway Hollis & Soden 1991 0.1 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1991 0.1 Whitman & Ransom 1991 0.1 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1991 0.1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1992 6 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1992 4.9 Richards Layton & Finger 1992 4.7 Sullivan & Cromwell 1992 4.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1992 3.9 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1992 3.7 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1992 3.4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1992 2.9 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1992 2.3 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1992 2.2 Shearman & Sterling 1992 1.4 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1992 1.3 Simmons & Simmons 1992 1.3 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1992 1.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1992 1 Debevoise & Plimpton 1992 0.9 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1992 0.7 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1992 0.7 Vinson & Elkins 1992 0.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1992 0.7 Day, Berry & Howard 1992 0.6 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1992 0.6 Latham & Watkins 1992 0.6 Linklaters 1992 0.6 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1992 0.5 Alston & Bird 1992 0.5 Baker Worthington Crossley & Stansberry 1992 0.4 Briggs & Morgan 1992 0.4 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1992 0.4 Dorsey & Whitney 1992 0.4 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1992 0.4 Slaughter & May 1992 0.4 Stibbe Blaisse & DeJong 1992 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1992 0.3 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1992 0.3 Clifford Chance 1992 0.3 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1992 0.3

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Hunton & Williams 1992 0.3 Jones Day 1992 0.3 O'Melveny & Myers 1992 0.3 Snell & Wilmer 1992 0.3 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1992 0.3 Carter, Ledyard & Milburn 1992 0.2 Christensen White Miller Fink & Jacobs 1992 0.2 King & Spalding 1992 0.2 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1992 0.2 Mayer Brown 1992 0.2 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1992 0.2 Ropes & Gray 1992 0.2 Sidley Austin 1992 0.2 Steptoe & Johnson 1992 0.2 Travers Smith 1992 0.2 Verrill & Dana 1992 0.2 White & Case 1992 0.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1992 0.2 Winston & Strawn 1992 0.2 Agustin Gordillo 1992 0.1 Allen & Overy 1992 0.1 Ashurst 1992 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1992 0.1 Barnes & Thornburg 1992 0.1 Bell Boyd & Lloyd 1992 0.1 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff 1992 0.1 Bodman, Longley & Dahling 1992 0.1 Choate, Hall & Stewart 1992 0.1 Dechert 1992 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1992 0.1 Fleischman & Walsh 1992 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1992 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1992 0.1 Haynes & Boone 1992 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 1992 0.1 Holland & Knight 1992 0.1 Holme Roberts & Owen 1992 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1992 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1992 0.1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1992 0.1 K&L Gates 1992 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1992 0.1 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 1992 0.1

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Kirkland & Ellis 1992 0.1 Marshall & Melhorn 1992 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 1992 0.1 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1992 0.1 Miller & Martin 1992 0.1 MJ Meijer & Associates 1992 0.1 Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard 1992 0.1 Norton Rose 1992 0.1 Nutter McClennen & Fish 1992 0.1 O Sullivan Graer & Karabell 1992 0.1 Roberts & Holland 1992 0.1 Shea & Gould 1992 0.1 SJ Berwin 1992 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1992 0.1 Stutman, Treister & Glatt 1992 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1992 0.1 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1992 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1992 0.1 Thorp Reed Armstrong 1992 0.1 Triplett Woolf & Garretson 1992 0.1 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1992 0.1 Zang, Moohon, Bergel & Vines 1992 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1993 3.8 Sullivan & Cromwell 1993 3.2 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1993 2.8 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1993 2.7 Richards Layton & Finger 1993 2.6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1993 2.2 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1993 2.1 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1993 1.5 Shearman & Sterling 1993 1.3 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1993 1.2 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1993 1.2 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1993 0.9 Latham & Watkins 1993 0.9 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1993 0.8 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1993 0.8 Debevoise & Plimpton 1993 0.8 Linklaters 1993 0.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1993 0.7 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1993 0.6 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1993 0.6 Baker Worthington Crossley & Stansberry 1993 0.5

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Stibbe Blaisse & DeJong 1993 0.5 Alston & Bird 1993 0.4 Clifford Chance 1993 0.4 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1993 0.4 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1993 0.4 Jones Day 1993 0.4 O'Melveny & Myers 1993 0.4 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1993 0.4 Slaughter & May 1993 0.4 Vinson & Elkins 1993 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1993 0.3 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1993 0.3 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1993 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1993 0.3 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1993 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 1993 0.3 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff 1993 0.2 Fleischman & Walsh 1993 0.2 Goodwin Procter 1993 0.2 Haynes & Boone 1993 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 1993 0.2 Holme Roberts & Owen 1993 0.2 King & Spalding 1993 0.2 MJ Meijer & Associates 1993 0.2 Orgain, Bell & Tucker 1993 0.2 Roberts & Holland 1993 0.2 Steptoe & Johnson 1993 0.2 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1993 0.2 Travers Smith 1993 0.2 White & Case 1993 0.2 Agustin Gordillo 1993 0.1 Allen & Overy 1993 0.1 Allens Arthur Robinson 1993 0.1 Arnold & Porter 1993 0.1 Ashurst 1993 0.1 Baker & McKenzie 1993 0.1 Barnes & Thornburg 1993 0.1 Bell Boyd & Lloyd 1993 0.1 Bingham McHale 1993 0.1 Bodman, Longley & Dahling 1993 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1993 0.1 Bryan Cave 1993 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1993 0.1

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Crowell & Moring 1993 0.1 Dechert 1993 0.1 Drinker Biddle & Reath 1993 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1993 0.1 Graham & Dunn 1993 0.1 Hjort, Erikfrud & Co 1993 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1993 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1993 0.1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1993 0.1 Johnson & Gibbs 1993 0.1 K&L Gates 1993 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1993 0.1 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 1993 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 1993 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1993 0.1 Law, Snakard & Gambill 1993 0.1 Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly 1993 0.1 Mayer Brown 1993 0.1 McCarter & English 1993 0.1 Miller & Martin 1993 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 1993 0.1 Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard 1993 0.1 Norton Rose 1993 0.1 Oppemheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1993 0.1 Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein 1993 0.1 Perkins Coie 1993 0.1 Powers & Hall 1993 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1993 0.1 Shea & Gould 1993 0.1 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1993 0.1 Sidley Austin 1993 0.1 Sinkler & Boyd, P.A. 1993 0.1 SJ Berwin 1993 0.1 Smith Lyons 1993 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 1993 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1993 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 1993 0.1 Thorp Reed Armstrong 1993 0.1 Torys 1993 0.1 Venable 1993 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1993 0.1 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1993 0.1 Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen 1993 0.1

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Woods, Rogers & Hazelgrove 1993 0.1 Zang, Moohon, Bergel & Vines 1993 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 1994 6.3 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1994 3.7 Sullivan & Cromwell 1994 3.3 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1994 2.8 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1994 2.7 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1994 2.4 Baker Botts 1994 2.3 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1994 2.1 Shearman & Sterling 1994 2.1 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1994 2.1 Jones Day 1994 1.7 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1994 1.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1994 1.7 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1994 1.3 Morrison & Foerster 1994 1.3 Perkins Coie 1994 1.3 Friedman & Kaplan 1994 1.2 Debevoise & Plimpton 1994 1 Latham & Watkins 1994 1 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1994 0.9 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1994 0.8 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1994 0.6 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1994 0.5 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1994 0.5 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1994 0.5 Alston & Bird 1994 0.4 O'Melveny & Myers 1994 0.4 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1994 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1994 0.3 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff 1994 0.3 Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff 1994 0.3 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1994 0.3 Greenebaum, Doll & Mcdonald 1994 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 1994 0.3 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1994 0.3 Baker & McKenzie 1994 0.2 Bingham McHale 1994 0.2 Drinker Biddle & Reath 1994 0.2 Fleischman & Walsh 1994 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 1994 0.2 Linklaters 1994 0.2

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Orgain, Bell & Tucker 1994 0.2 Roberts & Holland 1994 0.2 Sidley Austin 1994 0.2 Steptoe & Johnson 1994 0.2 Thompson & Mitchell 1994 0.2 Travers Smith 1994 0.2 Winstead, Sechrest & Minick 1994 0.2 Agustin Gordillo 1994 0.1 Allens Arthur Robinson 1994 0.1 Arnold & Porter 1994 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1994 0.1 Barnes & Thornburg 1994 0.1 Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott 1994 0.1 Bell Boyd & Lloyd 1994 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1994 0.1 Bodman, Longley & Dahling 1994 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 1994 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1994 0.1 Brown,Raysman & Millstein 1994 0.1 Bryan Cave 1994 0.1 Byers Casgrain 1994 0.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1994 0.1 Calfee, Halter & Griswold 1994 0.1 Clifford Chance 1994 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1994 0.1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1994 0.1 Dechert 1994 0.1 Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills 1994 0.1 Edward Nathan & Friedland 1994 0.1 Foley & Lardner 1994 0.1 Frost Brown Todd 1994 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1994 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1994 0.1 Graham & Dunn 1994 0.1 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1994 0.1 Hjort, Erikfrud & Co 1994 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 1994 0.1 Holme Roberts & Owen 1994 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1994 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1994 0.1 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1994 0.1 King & Spalding 1994 0.1 Law, Snakard & Gambill 1994 0.1

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Lord Bissell & Brook 1994 0.1 Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly 1994 0.1 Mayer Brown 1994 0.1 McCarter & English 1994 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 1994 0.1 Miller & Martin 1994 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 1994 0.1 Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs & Pollard 1994 0.1 Oppemheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1994 0.1 Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein 1994 0.1 Parsons, Behle & Latimer 1994 0.1 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1994 0.1 Powers & Hall 1994 0.1 Quarles & Brady 1994 0.1 Riordan & McKinzie 1994 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1994 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1994 0.1 Shea & Gould 1994 0.1 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1994 0.1 Sinkler & Boyd, P.A. 1994 0.1 Slaughter & May 1994 0.1 Smith Lyons 1994 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 1994 0.1 Stoel Rives 1994 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1994 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1994 0.1 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1994 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 1994 0.1 Torys 1994 0.1 Venable 1994 0.1 White & Case 1994 0.1 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1994 0.1 Woods, Rogers & Hazelgrove 1994 0.1 Zang, Moohon, Bergel & Vines 1994 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 1995 6.6 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1995 6 Sullivan & Cromwell 1995 5.6 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1995 3.8 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1995 3.8 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1995 3.6 Shearman & Sterling 1995 3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1995 2.5 Baker Botts 1995 2.2

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Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1995 2.1 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1995 2 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1995 1.9 Jones Day 1995 1.7 Morrison & Foerster 1995 1.6 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1995 1.6 Latham & Watkins 1995 1.4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1995 1.2 Perkins Coie 1995 1.2 Friedman & Kaplan 1995 1.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1995 0.9 Debevoise & Plimpton 1995 0.9 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1995 0.9 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1995 0.8 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1995 0.7 Mayer Brown 1995 0.7 O'Melveny & Myers 1995 0.7 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1995 0.7 Verrill & Dana 1995 0.6 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1995 0.5 Irell & Manella 1995 0.5 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1995 0.4 Hogan & Hartson 1995 0.4 Andrews Kurth 1995 0.3 Arias, Fabrega & Fabrega 1995 0.3 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1995 0.3 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1995 0.3 Drinker Biddle & Reath 1995 0.3 Greenebaum, Doll & Mcdonald 1995 0.3 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1995 0.3 Ropes & Gray 1995 0.3 Sidley Austin 1995 0.3 Werbel & Carnelutti 1995 0.3 White & Case 1995 0.3 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1995 0.3 Wise & Shepard, 1995 0.3 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1995 0.3 Arnold & Porter 1995 0.2 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff 1995 0.2 Bingham McHale 1995 0.2 Calfee, Halter & Griswold 1995 0.2 Dorsey & Whitney 1995 0.2 Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills 1995 0.2

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Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1995 0.2 Mudge Rose Gutherie Alexander & Ferdon 1995 0.2 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1995 0.2 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1995 0.2 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1995 0.2 Slaughter & May 1995 0.2 Vinson & Elkins 1995 0.2 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1995 0.2 Winston & Strawn 1995 0.2 Allens Arthur Robinson 1995 0.1 Alston & Bird 1995 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 1995 0.1 Baker & McKenzie 1995 0.1 Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott 1995 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1995 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 1995 0.1 Blum, Propper & Hardacre 1995 0.1 Blumenthal & Lynne 1995 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 1995 0.1 Brown,Raysman & Millstein 1995 0.1 Bryan Cave 1995 0.1 Byers Casgrain 1995 0.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1995 0.1 Chadbourne & Parke 1995 0.1 Clifford Chance 1995 0.1 Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott 1995 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1995 0.1 Dechert 1995 0.1 Edward Nathan & Friedland 1995 0.1 Fenwick & West 1995 0.1 Foley Hoag & Eliot 1995 0.1 Freehills 1995 0.1 Frost Brown Todd 1995 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1995 0.1 Gardere & Wynne 1995 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1995 0.1 Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein 1995 0.1 Graham & Dunn 1995 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1995 0.1 Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen & Quentel 1995 0.1 Hjort, Erikfrud & Co 1995 0.1 Holme Roberts & Owen 1995 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1995 0.1

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Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1995 0.1 Hutchins Wheeler & Dittmar 1995 0.1 Johnson & Wortley, P.C. 1995 0.1 Keating, Muething & Klekamp 1995 0.1 Kilpatrick Stockton 1995 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 1995 0.1 Lord Bissell & Brook 1995 0.1 Lovells 1995 0.1 Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly 1995 0.1 McCarthy Tetrault 1995 0.1 McGuireWoods 1995 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 1995 0.1 Oppemheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1995 0.1 Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1995 0.1 Orgain, Bell & Tucker 1995 0.1 Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein 1995 0.1 Parsons, Behle & Latimer 1995 0.1 Pennie & Edmonds 1995 0.1 Pepper Hamilton 1995 0.1 Pillsbury Winthrop 1995 0.1 Popham, Haik, Schnobrich &Kaufman, Ltd. 1995 0.1 Powers & Hall 1995 0.1 Proskauer Rose 1995 0.1 Quarles & Brady 1995 0.1 Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol 1995 0.1 Rubin, Baum, Levin, Constant, Friedman & Bilzin 1995 0.1 Shook Hardy & Bacon 1995 0.1 Simmons & Simmons 1995 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 1995 0.1 Stoel Rives 1995 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1995 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1995 0.1 Taft, Stettinius & Hollister 1995 0.1 Thompson & Mitchell 1995 0.1 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1995 0.1 Thorp Reed Armstrong 1995 0.1 Torys 1995 0.1 Troutman Sanders 1995 0.1 Venable 1995 0.1 Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas 1995 0.1 Winstead, Sechrest & Minick 1995 0.1 Woods, Rogers & Hazelgrove 1995 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1996 9.6

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Sullivan & Cromwell 1996 8 Richards Layton & Finger 1996 7.8 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1996 6.3 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1996 5.7 Shearman & Sterling 1996 5.3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1996 5.1 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1996 3.7 Baker Botts 1996 3.1 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1996 3 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1996 2.7 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1996 2.2 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1996 2.1 Debevoise & Plimpton 1996 1.9 Jones Day 1996 1.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1996 1.5 Kirkland & Ellis 1996 1.4 Latham & Watkins 1996 1.4 Morrison & Foerster 1996 1.3 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1996 1.2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1996 1.2 Hughes & Luce 1996 1.2 Prickett, Jones, Elliot, Kristol & Schnee 1996 1.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1996 1.1 White & Case 1996 1 Sidley Austin 1996 0.9 Slaughter & May 1996 0.9 Friedman & Kaplan 1996 0.8 Perkins Coie 1996 0.8 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1996 0.7 Lovells 1996 0.7 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1996 0.7 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1996 0.6 Mayer Brown 1996 0.5 O'Melveny & Myers 1996 0.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1996 0.5 Chadbourne & Parke 1996 0.4 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1996 0.4 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1996 0.4 Verrill & Dana 1996 0.4 Dechert 1996 0.3 Hogan & Hartson 1996 0.3 Irell & Manella 1996 0.3 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 1996 0.3

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Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1996 0.2 Andrews Kurth 1996 0.2 Arias, Fabrega & Fabrega 1996 0.2 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff 1996 0.2 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1996 0.2 Calfee, Halter & Griswold 1996 0.2 Clayton Utz 1996 0.2 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1996 0.2 Dorsey & Whitney 1996 0.2 Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills 1996 0.2 Freehills 1996 0.2 Greenebaum, Doll & Mcdonald 1996 0.2 Holme Roberts & Owen 1996 0.2 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1996 0.2 McCarthy Tetrault 1996 0.2 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1996 0.2 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1996 0.2 Stevens & Lee 1996 0.2 Torys 1996 0.2 Vinson & Elkins 1996 0.2 Werbel & Carnelutti 1996 0.2 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1996 0.2 Winston & Strawn 1996 0.2 Wise & Shepard, 1996 0.2 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1996 0.2 Allen & Overy 1996 0.1 Allens Arthur Robinson 1996 0.1 Alston & Bird 1996 0.1 Arnold & Porter 1996 0.1 Baker & McKenzie 1996 0.1 Bech-Bruun 1996 0.1 Bell Boyd & Lloyd 1996 0.1 Bingham Dana & Gould 1996 0.1 Bingham McHale 1996 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 1996 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 1996 0.1 Bourne Noll & Kenyon 1996 0.1 Brown,Raysman & Millstein 1996 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 1996 0.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 1996 0.1 Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott 1996 0.1 Covington & Burling 1996 0.1 Denton Wilde Sapte 1996 0.1

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Drinker Biddle & Reath 1996 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1996 0.1 Fenwick & West 1996 0.1 Frost Brown Todd 1996 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1996 0.1 Gardner Carton & Douglas 1996 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1996 0.1 Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein 1996 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1996 0.1 Greenberg Traurig Hoffman Lipoff Rosen & Quentel 1996 0.1 Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley 1996 0.1 Housley Kantarian & Bronstein 1996 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1996 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1996 0.1 Hunton & Williams 1996 0.1 Hutchins Wheeler & Dittmar 1996 0.1 Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss 1996 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 1996 0.1 Kilpatrick Stockton 1996 0.1 King & Spalding 1996 0.1 Kummer Kaempger Bonner & Renshaw 1996 0.1 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1996 0.1 McGuireWoods 1996 0.1 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1996 0.1 Mudge Rose Gutherie Alexander & Ferdon 1996 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 1996 0.1 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1996 0.1 Parsons, Behle & Latimer 1996 0.1 Pillsbury Winthrop 1996 0.1 Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy 1996 0.1 Proskauer Rose 1996 0.1 Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol 1996 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1996 0.1 Rubin, Baum, Levin, Constant, Friedman & Bilzin 1996 0.1 Sirote & Permutt, P.C. 1996 0.1 Stinson Mag & Fizzell 1996 0.1 Stoel Rives 1996 0.1 Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth 1996 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1996 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1996 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 1996 0.1 Thompson & Mitchell 1996 0.1 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1996 0.1

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Troutman Sanders 1996 0.1 Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas 1996 0.1 Winstead, Sechrest & Minick 1996 0.1 Wyche,Burgess,Freeman & Parham 1996 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1997 10.4 Sullivan & Cromwell 1997 8.5 Richards Layton & Finger 1997 7.6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1997 7.5 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1997 5.9 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1997 5.4 Shearman & Sterling 1997 5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1997 3.4 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1997 2.7 Chadbourne & Parke 1997 2.5 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1997 2.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 1997 2.3 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1997 2.1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1997 2 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1997 1.9 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1997 1.7 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1997 1.6 Baker Botts 1997 1.4 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1997 1.4 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1997 1.4 Jones Day 1997 1.3 Kirkland & Ellis 1997 1 Hughes & Luce 1997 0.9 Latham & Watkins 1997 0.9 Prickett, Jones, Elliot, Kristol & Schnee 1997 0.9 White & Case 1997 0.9 Slaughter & May 1997 0.8 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1997 0.8 Pillsbury Winthrop 1997 0.7 Sidley Austin 1997 0.7 Lovells 1997 0.6 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1997 0.5 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1997 0.5 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1997 0.5 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1997 0.4 Mayer Brown 1997 0.4 Morrison & Foerster 1997 0.4 O'Melveny & Myers 1997 0.4 Arnold & Porter 1997 0.3

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Clayton Utz 1997 0.3 Hogan & Hartson 1997 0.3 Irell & Manella 1997 0.3 Lewis, Rice & Fingerish 1997 0.3 McCarthy Tetrault 1997 0.3 Verrill & Dana 1997 0.3 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1997 0.3 Allens Arthur Robinson 1997 0.2 Arias, Fabrega & Fabrega 1997 0.2 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1997 0.2 Covington & Burling 1997 0.2 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1997 0.2 Dechert 1997 0.2 Dorsey & Whitney 1997 0.2 Freehills 1997 0.2 Holme Roberts & Owen 1997 0.2 Ivins, Phillips & Barker 1997 0.2 King & Spalding 1997 0.2 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1997 0.2 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 1997 0.2 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 1997 0.2 Vinson & Elkins 1997 0.2 Werbel & Carnelutti 1997 0.2 Wise & Shepard, 1997 0.2 Young,Conaway,Stargatt & Taylor 1997 0.2 Allen & Overy 1997 0.1 Alston & Bird 1997 0.1 Andrews Kurth 1997 0.1 Appleby Spurling & Kempe 1997 0.1 Ashurst 1997 0.1 Bech-Bruun 1997 0.1 Bell Boyd & Lloyd 1997 0.1 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff 1997 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 1997 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Hantson 1997 0.1 Bryan Cave 1997 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 1997 0.1 Buddle Findlay 1997 0.1 Calfee, Halter & Griswold 1997 0.1 Clifford Chance 1997 0.1 Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott 1997 0.1 Denton Wilde Sapte 1997 0.1 DLA Piper 1997 0.1

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Drinker Biddle & Reath 1997 0.1 Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills 1997 0.1 Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg 1997 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1997 0.1 Fenwick & West 1997 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1997 0.1 Gardner Carton & Douglas 1997 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1997 0.1 Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein 1997 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1997 0.1 Heller Ehrman 1997 0.1 Hengeler Mueller 1997 0.1 Housley Kantarian & Bronstein 1997 0.1 Howrey & Simon 1997 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 1997 0.1 Hutchins Wheeler & Dittmar 1997 0.1 Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss 1997 0.1 Jenner & Block 1997 0.1 Kelly Hart & Hallman 1997 0.1 Kilpatrick Stockton 1997 0.1 Kummer Kaempger Bonner & Renshaw 1997 0.1 Linklaters 1997 0.1 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1997 0.1 Miller & Chevalier 1997 0.1 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1997 0.1 Mudge Rose Gutherie Alexander & Ferdon 1997 0.1 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 1997 0.1 Norton Rose 1997 0.1 Perkins Coie 1997 0.1 Potter, Anderson & Corroon 1997 0.1 Proskauer Rose 1997 0.1 Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol 1997 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1997 0.1 Rubin, Baum, Levin, Constant, Friedman & Bilzin 1997 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 1997 0.1 Silver, Freedman & Taff 1997 0.1 Stevens & Lee 1997 0.1 Stinson Mag & Fizzell 1997 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 1997 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 1997 0.1 Thompson, Hine & Flory 1997 0.1 Torys 1997 0.1 Troutman Sanders 1997 0.1

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Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas 1997 0.1 Winston & Strawn 1997 0.1 Wyche,Burgess,Freeman & Parham 1997 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1998 9.4 Sullivan & Cromwell 1998 8.3 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1998 7.6 Richards Layton & Finger 1998 7.5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1998 7.5 Shearman & Sterling 1998 5.7 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1998 5 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1998 4.9 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1998 3.3 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1998 2.6 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1998 2.4 Chadbourne & Parke 1998 2.2 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1998 2 Davis Polk & Wardwell 1998 1.9 Debevoise & Plimpton 1998 1.9 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1998 1.9 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1998 1.8 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1998 1.6 Jones Day 1998 1.4 Slaughter & May 1998 1.4 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1998 1.3 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1998 1.3 White & Case 1998 1.3 Baker Botts 1998 1.1 Kirkland & Ellis 1998 1 Latham & Watkins 1998 0.8 Clayton Utz 1998 0.7 Hughes & Luce 1998 0.7 Prickett, Jones, Elliot, Kristol & Schnee 1998 0.7 Clifford Chance 1998 0.6 Sidley Austin 1998 0.6 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1998 0.6 Freehills 1998 0.5 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1998 0.5 Pillsbury Winthrop 1998 0.5 Allen & Overy 1998 0.4 Lovells 1998 0.4 Arnold & Porter 1998 0.3 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1998 0.3 Linklaters 1998 0.3

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Vinson & Elkins 1998 0.3 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1998 0.3 Allens Arthur Robinson 1998 0.2 Andrews Kurth 1998 0.2 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1998 0.2 Dechert 1998 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 1998 0.2 Howard & Howard 1998 0.2 Lewis, Rice & Fingerish 1998 0.2 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 1998 0.2 McCarthy Tetrault 1998 0.2 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1998 0.2 Morrison & Foerster 1998 0.2 O'Melveny & Myers 1998 0.2 Simpson Grierson 1998 0.2 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1998 0.2 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 1998 0.2 Alston & Bird 1998 0.1 Appleby Spurling & Kempe 1998 0.1 Arnold Bloch Leibler 1998 0.1 Ashurst 1998 0.1 Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott 1998 0.1 Bech-Bruun 1998 0.1 Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff 1998 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 1998 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Hantson 1998 0.1 Bryan Cave 1998 0.1 Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corp 1998 0.1 Cooley Godward Kronish 1998 0.1 Correro Fishman Haygood Phelps Weiss Walmsley & Cast 1998 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 1998 0.1 Covington & Burling 1998 0.1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1998 0.1 Denton Wilde Sapte 1998 0.1 DLA Piper 1998 0.1 Dorsey & Whitney 1998 0.1 Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg 1998 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 1998 0.1 Faegre & Benson 1998 0.1 Field Fisher Waterhouse 1998 0.1 Gardner Carton & Douglas 1998 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1998 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1998 0.1

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Heller Ehrman 1998 0.1 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 1998 0.1 Hengeler Mueller 1998 0.1 Holme Roberts & Owen 1998 0.1 Housley Kantarian & Bronstein 1998 0.1 Hunton & Williams 1998 0.1 Irell & Manella 1998 0.1 Jenner & Block 1998 0.1 Kilpatrick Stockton 1998 0.1 King & Spalding 1998 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1998 0.1 Kummer Kaempger Bonner & Renshaw 1998 0.1 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell 1998 0.1 Lowenstein Sandler Kohl Fisher & Boylan 1998 0.1 Maclay Murray & Spens 1998 0.1 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1998 0.1 Mayer Brown 1998 0.1 Miller & Chevalier 1998 0.1 Norton Rose 1998 0.1 Nyemaster,Goode,McLaughlin, Voigts,West,Hansell 1998 0.1 Pepper Hamilton 1998 0.1 Reboul MacMurray Hewitt Maynard & Kristol 1998 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1998 0.1 Silver, Freedman & Taff 1998 0.1 Simmons & Simmons 1998 0.1 Stevens & Lee 1998 0.1 Stinson Mag & Fizzell 1998 0.1 Stoel Rives 1998 0.1 Torys 1998 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 1998 0.1 Williams Mullen Clark & Dobbins 1998 0.1 Wyche,Burgess,Freeman & Parham 1998 0.1 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1999 11.7 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 1999 9.8 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 1999 8.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 1999 8 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1999 7.5 Richards Layton & Finger 1999 7.2 Shearman & Sterling 1999 6.8 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1999 5.6 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 1999 5 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 1999 4.3 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 1999 3.9

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Davis Polk & Wardwell 1999 3.1 Chadbourne & Parke 1999 2.8 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1999 2.7 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 1999 2.5 Jones Day 1999 2.4 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 1999 2.3 Slaughter & May 1999 2.2 Debevoise & Plimpton 1999 2.1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1999 1.9 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 1999 1.6 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1999 1.6 Covington & Burling 1999 1.4 O'Melveny & Myers 1999 1.2 Arnold & Porter 1999 1.1 Baker Botts 1999 1.1 Linklaters 1999 1.1 Latham & Watkins 1999 0.9 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 1999 0.8 Clifford Chance 1999 0.8 Clayton Utz 1999 0.7 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 1999 0.7 White & Case 1999 0.7 Freehills 1999 0.6 Minter Ellison 1999 0.6 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 1999 0.5 Pillsbury Winthrop 1999 0.4 Sidley Austin 1999 0.4 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 1999 0.4 Allen & Overy 1999 0.3 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 1999 0.3 Kirkland & Ellis 1999 0.3 McCarthy Tetrault 1999 0.3 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 1999 0.3 Stoel Rives 1999 0.3 Vinson & Elkins 1999 0.3 Allens Arthur Robinson 1999 0.2 Andrews Kurth 1999 0.2 Ashurst 1999 0.2 Baker & McKenzie 1999 0.2 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 1999 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 1999 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 1999 0.2 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 1999 0.2

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Deacon Graham & James 1999 0.2 DLA Piper 1999 0.2 Dorsey & Whitney 1999 0.2 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 1999 0.2 Foley & Lardner 1999 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 1999 0.2 Hutton Williams 1999 0.2 King & Spalding 1999 0.2 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 1999 0.2 Lewis, Rice & Fingerish 1999 0.2 Norton Rose 1999 0.2 Simpson Grierson 1999 0.2 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 1999 0.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 1999 0.2 Advokatfirman Vinge 1999 0.1 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 1999 0.1 Alston & Bird 1999 0.1 Altheimer & Gray 1999 0.1 Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott 1999 0.1 Bass Berry & Sims 1999 0.1 Blake Dawson 1999 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 1999 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Hantson 1999 0.1 Bryan Cave 1999 0.1 Correro Fishman Haygood Phelps Weiss Walmsley & Cast 1999 0.1 Coudert Brothers 1999 0.1 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 1999 0.1 Dechert 1999 0.1 Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg 1999 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 1999 0.1 Ginestie Paley-Vincent 1999 0.1 Goldberg & Simpson 1999 0.1 Goodwin Procter 1999 0.1 Graydon, Head & Ritchey 1999 0.1 Hammonds 1999 0.1 Hannes Snellman 1999 0.1 Heller Ehrman 1999 0.1 Hengeler Mueller 1999 0.1 Howard & Howard 1999 0.1 Irell & Manella 1999 0.1 Jenner & Block 1999 0.1 Jones & Blouch 1999 0.1 Jorden Burt Berenson & Johnson 1999 0.1

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Lovells 1999 0.1 Lowenstein Sandler Kohl Fisher & Boylan 1999 0.1 Macfarlanes 1999 0.1 Maclay Murray & Spens 1999 0.1 Mayer Brown 1999 0.1 Miller & Chevalier 1999 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 1999 0.1 Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly 1999 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 1999 0.1 Proskauer Rose 1999 0.1 Ropes & Gray 1999 0.1 Silver, Freedman & Taff 1999 0.1 Simmons & Simmons 1999 0.1 Stephenson Harwood 1999 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 1999 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 1999 0.1 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 1999 0.1 Williams Mullen Clark & Dobbins 1999 0.1 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2000 14 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2000 13.3 Shearman & Sterling 2000 10.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2000 8 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2000 7.3 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2000 6.6 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2000 6.2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2000 5.5 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2000 5.3 Richards Layton & Finger 2000 4.9 Debevoise & Plimpton 2000 4.8 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2000 4.2 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2000 4.2 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2000 4.1 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2000 3.7 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2000 3.7 Linklaters 2000 3.3 Slaughter & May 2000 3 Dorsey & Whitney 2000 2.6 Jones Day 2000 2.6 Norton Rose 2000 2.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2000 2.4 Allen & Overy 2000 2.1 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2000 1.9 Chadbourne & Parke 2000 1.6

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King & Spalding 2000 1.5 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2000 1.4 Clifford Chance 2000 1.2 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2000 1.1 Arnold & Porter 2000 1 Baker Botts 2000 1 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2000 1 Macfarlanes 2000 1 Pillsbury Winthrop 2000 1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2000 0.9 Covington & Burling 2000 0.9 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2000 0.9 Latham & Watkins 2000 0.9 O'Melveny & Myers 2000 0.8 White & Case 2000 0.7 Clayton Utz 2000 0.5 Freehills 2000 0.5 Lovells 2000 0.5 Minter Ellison 2000 0.5 Sidley Austin 2000 0.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2000 0.5 Andrews Kurth 2000 0.4 Mayer Brown 2000 0.4 Allens Arthur Robinson 2000 0.3 Ashurst 2000 0.3 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2000 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2000 0.3 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2000 0.3 A&L Goodbody 2000 0.2 Baker & McKenzie 2000 0.2 Bruchou Fernandez Madero Lombardi & Mitradi 2000 0.2 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2000 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 2000 0.2 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2000 0.2 Fenwick & West 2000 0.2 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2000 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 2000 0.2 Maclay Murray & Spens 2000 0.2 McCarthy Tetrault 2000 0.2 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2000 0.2 Simmons & Simmons 2000 0.2 Stoel Rives 2000 0.2 Torys 2000 0.2

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Vinson & Elkins 2000 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2000 0.1 Advokatfirman Vinge 2000 0.1 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2000 0.1 Alston & Bird 2000 0.1 Bar & Karrer 2000 0.1 Bass Berry & Sims 2000 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2000 0.1 Blake Dawson 2000 0.1 Bryan Cave 2000 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2000 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2000 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2000 0.1 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2000 0.1 Deacon Graham & James 2000 0.1 Dechert 2000 0.1 DLA Piper 2000 0.1 Eversheds 2000 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2000 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2000 0.1 Garrigues 2000 0.1 Ginestie Paley-Vincent 2000 0.1 Goodwin Procter 2000 0.1 Graydon, Head & Ritchey 2000 0.1 Hammonds 2000 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2000 0.1 Harkins Cunningham 2000 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2000 0.1 Heller Ehrman 2000 0.1 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 2000 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 2000 0.1 Howard & Howard 2000 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2000 0.1 Hutton Williams 2000 0.1 Irell & Manella 2000 0.1 Jorden Burt Berenson & Johnson 2000 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 2000 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 2000 0.1 Lee & Ko 2000 0.1 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell 2000 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 2000 0.1 Mourant du Feu & Jeune 2000 0.1 Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough 2000 0.1

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Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2000 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2000 0.1 Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy 2000 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2000 0.1 Riordan & McKinzie 2000 0.1 Ropes & Gray 2000 0.1 Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul 2000 0.1 Simpson Grierson 2000 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2000 0.1 Stikeman Elliott 2000 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 2000 0.1 Travers Smith 2000 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2000 0.1 Winston & Strawn 2000 0.1 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2001 12.2 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2001 11.5 Sullivan & Cromwell 2001 9.4 Shearman & Sterling 2001 8.6 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2001 8 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2001 7.5 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2001 6.8 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2001 6.3 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2001 5.9 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2001 5.7 Linklaters 2001 5.4 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2001 5.1 Debevoise & Plimpton 2001 4.5 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2001 4 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2001 4 Slaughter & May 2001 3.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2001 3.7 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2001 3.1 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2001 3 Richards Layton & Finger 2001 2.9 Allen & Overy 2001 2.7 Jones Day 2001 2.6 Dorsey & Whitney 2001 2.4 Norton Rose 2001 2.2 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2001 1.7 Clifford Chance 2001 1.5 Baker Botts 2001 1.4 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2001 1.4 King & Spalding 2001 1.3

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Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2001 1.3 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2001 1.3 Chadbourne & Parke 2001 1.2 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2001 1.2 Arnold & Porter 2001 1.1 Covington & Burling 2001 1.1 Latham & Watkins 2001 1.1 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2001 0.9 Macfarlanes 2001 0.9 Sidley Austin 2001 0.9 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2001 0.8 Pillsbury Winthrop 2001 0.8 Ashurst 2001 0.7 O'Melveny & Myers 2001 0.7 Mayer Brown 2001 0.6 Minter Ellison 2001 0.6 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2001 0.5 Clayton Utz 2001 0.4 Cooley Godward Kronish 2001 0.4 Denton Wilde Sapte 2001 0.4 Freehills 2001 0.4 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2001 0.4 Howrey & Simon 2001 0.4 Lovells 2001 0.4 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2001 0.4 Richards Butler 2001 0.4 White & Case 2001 0.4 Allens Arthur Robinson 2001 0.3 Andrews Kurth 2001 0.3 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2001 0.3 Hengeler Mueller 2001 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 2001 0.3 Stikeman Elliott 2001 0.3 A&L Goodbody 2001 0.2 Baker & McKenzie 2001 0.2 Blake Dawson 2001 0.2 Bruchou Fernandez Madero Lombardi & Mitradi 2001 0.2 Bryan Cave 2001 0.2 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2001 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2001 0.2 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2001 0.2 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2001 0.2 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2001 0.2

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Fenwick & West 2001 0.2 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2001 0.2 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2001 0.2 Lang Michener 2001 0.2 McCarthy Tetrault 2001 0.2 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2001 0.2 Morrison & Foerster 2001 0.2 Proskauer Rose 2001 0.2 SJ Berwin 2001 0.2 Torys 2001 0.2 Uria Menendez 2001 0.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2001 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2001 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2001 0.1 Advokatfirman Vinge 2001 0.1 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2001 0.1 Alston & Bird 2001 0.1 Arthur Cox 2001 0.1 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2001 0.1 Bar & Karrer 2001 0.1 Bass Berry & Sims 2001 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2001 0.1 Bredin Prat 2001 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2001 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2001 0.1 Deacon Graham & James 2001 0.1 Dechert 2001 0.1 Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky 2001 0.1 DLA Piper 2001 0.1 Drinker Biddle & Reath 2001 0.1 Eversheds 2001 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2001 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2001 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2001 0.1 Garrigues 2001 0.1 Ginestie Paley-Vincent 2001 0.1 Graydon, Head & Ritchey 2001 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2001 0.1 Hammonds 2001 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2001 0.1 Harkins Cunningham 2001 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2001 0.1 Heller Ehrman 2001 0.1

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Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 2001 0.1 Hogan & Hartson 2001 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2001 0.1 Hutton Williams 2001 0.1 Jorden Burt Berenson & Johnson 2001 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 2001 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 2001 0.1 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel 2001 0.1 Lee & Ko 2001 0.1 Maclay Murray & Spens 2001 0.1 Mourant du Feu & Jeune 2001 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 2001 0.1 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2001 0.1 Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough 2001 0.1 Ogilvy Renault 2001 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2001 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2001 0.1 Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy 2001 0.1 Ropes & Gray 2001 0.1 Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul 2001 0.1 Snell & Wilmer 2001 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2001 0.1 Stoel Rives 2001 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2001 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 2001 0.1 Travers Smith 2001 0.1 Vinson & Elkins 2001 0.1 William Fry 2001 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2002 11 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2002 10.3 Sullivan & Cromwell 2002 9.4 Shearman & Sterling 2002 8.6 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2002 7.6 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2002 7 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2002 6.8 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2002 6.4 Linklaters 2002 6.2 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2002 5.7 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2002 5.1 Debevoise & Plimpton 2002 5.1 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2002 5 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2002 4.4 Slaughter & May 2002 4.2

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Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2002 3.9 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2002 3.8 Allen & Overy 2002 3.5 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2002 3.1 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2002 2.7 Dorsey & Whitney 2002 2.5 Jones Day 2002 2.5 Norton Rose 2002 2.4 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2002 2 Clifford Chance 2002 1.8 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2002 1.8 Latham & Watkins 2002 1.6 King & Spalding 2002 1.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2002 1.5 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2002 1.4 Richards Layton & Finger 2002 1.4 Baker Botts 2002 1 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2002 1 Sidley Austin 2002 1 Macfarlanes 2002 0.9 Pillsbury Winthrop 2002 0.9 Ashurst 2002 0.8 Arnold & Porter 2002 0.7 Mayer Brown 2002 0.7 White & Case 2002 0.7 Allens Arthur Robinson 2002 0.6 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2002 0.6 Lovells 2002 0.6 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2002 0.6 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2002 0.5 Chadbourne & Parke 2002 0.5 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2002 0.5 Denton Wilde Sapte 2002 0.5 Freehills 2002 0.5 Hengeler Mueller 2002 0.5 Cooley Godward Kronish 2002 0.4 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2002 0.4 Howrey & Simon 2002 0.4 Minter Ellison 2002 0.4 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2002 0.4 Richards Butler 2002 0.4 Stikeman Elliott 2002 0.4 Torys 2002 0.4

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Andrews Kurth 2002 0.3 Bryan Cave 2002 0.3 Clayton Utz 2002 0.3 Covington & Burling 2002 0.3 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2002 0.3 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2002 0.3 McCarthy Tetrault 2002 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 2002 0.3 Vinson & Elkins 2002 0.3 A&L Goodbody 2002 0.2 Alston & Bird 2002 0.2 Bar & Karrer 2002 0.2 Bennett Jones 2002 0.2 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2002 0.2 Blake Dawson 2002 0.2 Bredin Prat 2002 0.2 Bruchou Fernandez Madero Lombardi & Mitradi 2002 0.2 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2002 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2002 0.2 Fenwick & West 2002 0.2 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2002 0.2 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2002 0.2 Heller Ehrman 2002 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 2002 0.2 Lang Michener 2002 0.2 Morrison & Foerster 2002 0.2 Ogilvy Renault 2002 0.2 O'Melveny & Myers 2002 0.2 SJ Berwin 2002 0.2 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2002 0.2 Uria Menendez 2002 0.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2002 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2002 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2002 0.1 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2002 0.1 Arthur Cox 2002 0.1 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2002 0.1 Baker & McKenzie 2002 0.1 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2002 0.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 2002 0.1 Bracewell & Giuliani 2002 0.1 Brons & Salas 2002 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2002 0.1

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Chiomenti Studio Legal 2002 0.1 Cuatrecasas 2002 0.1 Dechert 2002 0.1 Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky 2002 0.1 DLA Piper 2002 0.1 Dow Lohnes & Albertson 2002 0.1 Drinker Biddle & Reath 2002 0.1 Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen 2002 0.1 Estudio O'farrell 2002 0.1 Eversheds 2002 0.1 Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy 2002 0.1 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2002 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2002 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2002 0.1 Garrigues 2002 0.1 General Counsel 2002 0.1 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2002 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2002 0.1 Hammonds 2002 0.1 Harkins Cunningham 2002 0.1 Haynes & Boone 2002 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2002 0.1 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 2002 0.1 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2002 0.1 Hunton & Williams 2002 0.1 Jonas Bruun 2002 0.1 Katten Muchin Rosenman 2002 0.1 Kirkland & Ellis 2002 0.1 Lawrence Graham 2002 0.1 Lee & Ko 2002 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2002 0.1 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell 2002 0.1 Maclay Murray & Spens 2002 0.1 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2002 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 2002 0.1 Mourant du Feu & Jeune 2002 0.1 Munger Tolles & Olson 2002 0.1 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2002 0.1 Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough 2002 0.1 Nishimura & Asahi 2002 0.1 O. Bondo Svane 2002 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2002 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2002 0.1

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Pinsent Masons 2002 0.1 Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy 2002 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2002 0.1 Ropes & Gray 2002 0.1 Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul 2002 0.1 Snell & Wilmer 2002 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2002 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 2002 0.1 Travers Smith 2002 0.1 Webber Wentzel Bowens 2002 0.1 William Fry 2002 0.1 WongPartnership 2002 0.1 Wragge & Co 2002 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2003 10.6 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2003 8 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2003 7.9 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2003 7.1 Linklaters 2003 6.7 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2003 6.6 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2003 6.4 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2003 5.8 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2003 5.6 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2003 5.5 Shearman & Sterling 2003 5.1 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2003 4.2 Slaughter & May 2003 4.2 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2003 4.1 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2003 3.5 Allen & Overy 2003 2.9 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2003 2.9 Debevoise & Plimpton 2003 2.8 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2003 2.8 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2003 2.7 Clifford Chance 2003 2.6 Jones Day 2003 2.4 Latham & Watkins 2003 2.1 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2003 1.8 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2003 1.7 Ashurst 2003 1.4 Baker Botts 2003 1.1 Sidley Austin 2003 1.1 Borden Ladner Gervais 2003 1 Hengeler Mueller 2003 1

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Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2003 1 White & Case 2003 0.9 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2003 0.8 Allens Arthur Robinson 2003 0.7 Arnold & Porter 2003 0.7 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2003 0.7 Denton Wilde Sapte 2003 0.7 Freehills 2003 0.7 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2003 0.7 Mayer Brown 2003 0.7 Howrey & Simon 2003 0.6 King & Spalding 2003 0.6 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2003 0.6 McCarthy Tetrault 2003 0.6 Richards Butler 2003 0.6 Stikeman Elliott 2003 0.6 Bredin Prat 2003 0.5 Clayton Utz 2003 0.5 Covington & Burling 2003 0.5 Dorsey & Whitney 2003 0.5 Lovells 2003 0.5 Minter Ellison 2003 0.5 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2003 0.5 Torys 2003 0.5 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2003 0.5 Bryan Cave 2003 0.4 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2003 0.4 Cooley Godward Kronish 2003 0.4 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2003 0.4 Norton Rose 2003 0.4 Simmons & Simmons 2003 0.4 Vinson & Elkins 2003 0.4 Bennett Jones 2003 0.3 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2003 0.3 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2003 0.3 Heller Ehrman 2003 0.3 Lang Michener 2003 0.3 Ogilvy Renault 2003 0.3 O'Melveny & Myers 2003 0.3 SJ Berwin 2003 0.3 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2003 0.3 Uria Menendez 2003 0.3 Webber Wentzel Bowens 2003 0.3

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Winston & Strawn 2003 0.3 A&L Goodbody 2003 0.2 Alston & Bird 2003 0.2 Arthur Cox 2003 0.2 Baker & McKenzie 2003 0.2 Bar & Karrer 2003 0.2 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2003 0.2 Blake Dawson 2003 0.2 Chadbourne & Parke 2003 0.2 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2003 0.2 Cuatrecasas 2003 0.2 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2003 0.2 Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen 2003 0.2 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2003 0.2 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2003 0.2 Hogan & Hartson 2003 0.2 Hunton & Williams 2003 0.2 K&L Gates 2003 0.2 Kirkland & Ellis 2003 0.2 Macfarlanes 2003 0.2 Morrison & Foerster 2003 0.2 Munger Tolles & Olson 2003 0.2 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2003 0.2 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2003 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2003 0.1 Advokatfirman Vinge 2003 0.1 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2003 0.1 Andrews Kurth 2003 0.1 Atanaskovic Hartnell 2003 0.1 Barnes & Thornburg 2003 0.1 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2003 0.1 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2003 0.1 Bracewell & Giuliani 2003 0.1 Brons & Salas 2003 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2003 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2003 0.1 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2003 0.1 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2003 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2003 0.1 Day, Berry & Howard 2003 0.1 Dechert 2003 0.1 Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky 2003 0.1 DLA Piper 2003 0.1

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Drinker Biddle & Reath 2003 0.1 Estudio O'farrell 2003 0.1 Eversheds 2003 0.1 Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy 2003 0.1 Fenwick & West 2003 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2003 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2003 0.1 Gaedertz Rechtsanwalte 2003 0.1 General Counsel 2003 0.1 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2003 0.1 Gilbert & Tobin 2003 0.1 Gowling Lafleur Henderson 2003 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2003 0.1 Hammonds 2003 0.1 Haynes & Boone 2003 0.1 Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe 2003 0.1 Holland & Hart 2003 0.1 Hutchins Wheeler & Dittmar 2003 0.1 Jeantet & Associes 2003 0.1 Jonas Bruun 2003 0.1 Lawrence Graham 2003 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2003 0.1 Macleod Dixon 2003 0.1 Marval O'Farrell & Mairal 2003 0.1 McDermott Will & Emery 2003 0.1 Nishimura & Asahi 2003 0.1 O. Bondo Svane 2003 0.1 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2003 0.1 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2003 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2003 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2003 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2003 0.1 Ropes & Gray 2003 0.1 Snell & Wilmer 2003 0.1 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal 2003 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2003 0.1 Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault 2003 0.1 Travers Smith 2003 0.1 William Fry 2003 0.1 WongPartnership 2003 0.1 Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han 2003 0.1 Wragge & Co 2003 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2004 9.2

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Sullivan & Cromwell 2004 8.1 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2004 7.6 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2004 6.8 Shearman & Sterling 2004 6.1 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2004 5.7 Linklaters 2004 5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2004 5 Clifford Chance 2004 4.4 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2004 3.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2004 3.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 2004 3.4 Slaughter & May 2004 3.3 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2004 2.9 Allen & Overy 2004 2.8 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2004 2.7 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2004 2.7 Latham & Watkins 2004 2.7 Jones Day 2004 2.5 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2004 2.2 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2004 1.8 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2004 1.8 White & Case 2004 1.8 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2004 1.6 Allens Arthur Robinson 2004 1.4 Ashurst 2004 1.4 Borden Ladner Gervais 2004 1.4 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2004 1.4 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2004 1.2 Hengeler Mueller 2004 1.1 Bredin Prat 2004 0.9 Freehills 2004 0.9 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2004 0.9 Stikeman Elliott 2004 0.9 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2004 0.8 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2004 0.8 King & Spalding 2004 0.8 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2004 0.8 Bryan Cave 2004 0.7 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2004 0.7 Lovells 2004 0.7 Mayer Brown 2004 0.7 McCarthy Tetrault 2004 0.7 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2004 0.6

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Vinson & Elkins 2004 0.6 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2004 0.6 Baker & McKenzie 2004 0.5 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2004 0.5 Minter Ellison 2004 0.5 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2004 0.5 O'Melveny & Myers 2004 0.5 Sidley Austin 2004 0.5 Simmons & Simmons 2004 0.5 Torys 2004 0.5 Baker Botts 2004 0.4 Bennett Jones 2004 0.4 Clayton Utz 2004 0.4 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 2004 0.4 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2004 0.4 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2004 0.4 Heller Ehrman 2004 0.4 Hogan & Hartson 2004 0.4 Kirkland & Ellis 2004 0.4 Norton Rose 2004 0.4 Webber Wentzel Bowens 2004 0.4 Arnold & Porter 2004 0.3 Bar & Karrer 2004 0.3 Blake Dawson 2004 0.3 Cuatrecasas 2004 0.3 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2004 0.3 Eversheds 2004 0.3 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2004 0.3 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2004 0.3 Goodwin Procter 2004 0.3 Hunton & Williams 2004 0.3 K&L Gates 2004 0.3 Macfarlanes 2004 0.3 McDermott Will & Emery 2004 0.3 Ogilvy Renault 2004 0.3 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2004 0.3 A&L Goodbody 2004 0.2 Advokatfirman Vinge 2004 0.2 Andrews Kurth 2004 0.2 Arthur Cox 2004 0.2 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2004 0.2 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2004 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 2004 0.2

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Coudert Brothers 2004 0.2 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2004 0.2 DLA Piper 2004 0.2 Dorsey & Whitney 2004 0.2 Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen 2004 0.2 Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy 2004 0.2 General Counsel 2004 0.2 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2004 0.2 Haynes & Boone 2004 0.2 Jenner & Block 2004 0.2 Lawrence Graham 2004 0.2 Macleod Dixon 2004 0.2 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2004 0.2 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2004 0.2 Ropes & Gray 2004 0.2 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2004 0.2 Travers Smith 2004 0.2 William Fry 2004 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2004 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2004 0.1 Allen & Gledhill 2004 0.1 Alston & Bird 2004 0.1 Baer & Karrer 2004 0.1 Bell Gully 2004 0.1 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2004 0.1 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2004 0.1 Bracewell & Giuliani 2004 0.1 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison 2004 0.1 Brons & Salas 2004 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2004 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2004 0.1 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2004 0.1 Chadbourne & Parke 2004 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2004 0.1 Covington & Burling 2004 0.1 Crowe & Dunlevy 2004 0.1 Deacons 2004 0.1 Dechert 2004 0.1 Demarest E Almeida 2004 0.1 Denton Wilde Sapte 2004 0.1 Dickson Minto 2004 0.1 Fennemore Craig 2004 0.1 Fenwick & West 2004 0.1

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Fraser Milner Casgrain 2004 0.1 Garrigues 2004 0.1 Gilbert & Tobin 2004 0.1 Glatzova & Co 2004 0.1 Goodman Phillips & Vineberg 2004 0.1 Goodmans 2004 0.1 Gowling Lafleur Henderson 2004 0.1 Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachi 2004 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2004 0.1 Heuking Kuehn Lueer Heussen Wojtek 2004 0.1 Holland & Hart 2004 0.1 Husch Blackwell Sanders 2004 0.1 Jeantet & Associes 2004 0.1 Kilpatrick Stockton 2004 0.1 Kozusko Lahey Harris 2004 0.1 Lang Michener 2004 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2004 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2004 0.1 Long Aldridge & Norman 2004 0.1 McCann Fitzgerald 2004 0.1 Moore & Van Allen P 2004 0.1 Morrison & Foerster 2004 0.1 Nabarro 2004 0.1 Nishimura & Asahi 2004 0.1 Nobel & Hug 2004 0.1 O'Donnell Sweeney 2004 0.1 Olsen Lemons 2004 0.1 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2004 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2004 0.1 Reed Smith 2004 0.1 Shin & Kim 2004 0.1 SJ Berwin 2004 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2004 0.1 Stamford Law Corp 2004 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 2004 0.1 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund 2004 0.1 Uria Menendez 2004 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2004 0.1 WongPartnership 2004 0.1 Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han 2004 0.1 Wragge & Co 2004 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2005 9.8 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2005 8.8

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Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2005 8.8 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2005 5.8 Clifford Chance 2005 5.6 Linklaters 2005 4.5 Shearman & Sterling 2005 4.2 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2005 4.1 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2005 3.7 Slaughter & May 2005 3.6 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2005 3.5 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2005 3.3 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2005 3.3 Jones Day 2005 3.1 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2005 2.9 Allen & Overy 2005 2.7 Latham & Watkins 2005 2.7 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2005 2.4 Bredin Prat 2005 2.2 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2005 2.2 Baker & McKenzie 2005 2 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2005 1.8 Debevoise & Plimpton 2005 1.6 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2005 1.6 Allens Arthur Robinson 2005 1.5 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2005 1.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2005 1.5 Ashurst 2005 1.4 Borden Ladner Gervais 2005 1.4 White & Case 2005 1.4 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2005 1.3 Hengeler Mueller 2005 1.1 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2005 1 Minter Ellison 2005 1 Stikeman Elliott 2005 1 Freehills 2005 0.9 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2005 0.9 McCarthy Tetrault 2005 0.8 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2005 0.7 Arnold & Porter 2005 0.7 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2005 0.7 King & Spalding 2005 0.7 Kirkland & Ellis 2005 0.7 Mayer Brown 2005 0.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2005 0.7

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Norton Rose 2005 0.7 Alston & Bird 2005 0.6 Blake Dawson 2005 0.6 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2005 0.6 Simmons & Simmons 2005 0.6 Baker Botts 2005 0.5 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2005 0.5 DLA Piper 2005 0.5 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2005 0.5 Hogan & Hartson 2005 0.5 Lovells 2005 0.5 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2005 0.5 O'Melveny & Myers 2005 0.5 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2005 0.5 Sidley Austin 2005 0.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2005 0.5 A&L Goodbody 2005 0.4 Bryan Cave 2005 0.4 Covington & Burling 2005 0.4 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 2005 0.4 Eversheds 2005 0.4 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2005 0.4 Goodwin Procter 2005 0.4 Macfarlanes 2005 0.4 Vinson & Elkins 2005 0.4 Webber Wentzel Bowens 2005 0.4 Bradley Arant Rose & White 2005 0.3 Burr & Forman 2005 0.3 Clayton Utz 2005 0.3 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2005 0.3 Dittmar & Indrenius 2005 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 2005 0.3 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2005 0.3 Heller Ehrman 2005 0.3 Hunton & Williams 2005 0.3 K&L Gates 2005 0.3 McDermott Will & Emery 2005 0.3 Perez Llorca 2005 0.3 Steptoe & Johnson 2005 0.3 Torys 2005 0.3 Travers Smith 2005 0.3 Winston & Strawn 2005 0.3 Advokatfirman Vinge 2005 0.2

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Andrews Kurth 2005 0.2 Bass Berry & Sims 2005 0.2 Bell Gully 2005 0.2 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2005 0.2 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2005 0.2 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2005 0.2 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2005 0.2 Cooley Godward Kronish 2005 0.2 Coudert Brothers 2005 0.2 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2005 0.2 Denton Wilde Sapte 2005 0.2 Edward Nathan & Friedland 2005 0.2 Fenwick & West 2005 0.2 Garrigues 2005 0.2 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2005 0.2 Goodmans 2005 0.2 Heuking Kuehn Lueer Heussen Wojtek 2005 0.2 Jenner & Block 2005 0.2 Morrison & Foerster 2005 0.2 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2005 0.2 Pinsent Masons 2005 0.2 Ropes & Gray 2005 0.2 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund 2005 0.2 Uria Menendez 2005 0.2 William Fry 2005 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2005 0.1 Allen & Gledhill 2005 0.1 Allen, Matkins, Leck & Mallory 2005 0.1 Bae Kim & Lee 2005 0.1 Baer & Karrer 2005 0.1 Bennett Jones 2005 0.1 Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod 2005 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2005 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2005 0.1 Creel, Garcia-Cuellar y Muggenburg 2005 0.1 Cuatrecasas 2005 0.1 Davis Wright Tremaine 2005 0.1 Deacons 2005 0.1 Dechert 2005 0.1 Dickson Minto 2005 0.1 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick 2005 0.1 Faegre & Benson 2005 0.1 Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy 2005 0.1

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Fennemore Craig 2005 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2005 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2005 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2005 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2005 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2005 0.1 Harris Beach 2005 0.1 Haynes & Boone 2005 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2005 0.1 Jeantet & Associes 2005 0.1 Kim & Chang 2005 0.1 Kozusko Lahey Harris 2005 0.1 Lawrence Graham 2005 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2005 0.1 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2005 0.1 Macleod Dixon 2005 0.1 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2005 0.1 Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr 2005 0.1 McCann Fitzgerald 2005 0.1 McMillan Binch Mendelsohn 2005 0.1 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2005 0.1 Moore & Van Allen P 2005 0.1 Nabarro 2005 0.1 Nishimura & Asahi 2005 0.1 Ogilvy Renault 2005 0.1 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2005 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2005 0.1 Plesner 2005 0.1 Rajah & Tann 2005 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2005 0.1 Roschier 2005 0.1 Shin & Kim 2005 0.1 SJ Berwin 2005 0.1 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2005 0.1 Stamford Law Corp 2005 0.1 Stoel Rives 2005 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2005 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2005 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 2005 0.1 Veil Jourde 2005 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2005 0.1 WongPartnership 2005 0.1 Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han 2005 0.1

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2006 9.1 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2006 8.7 Sullivan & Cromwell 2006 8.3 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2006 7.7 Shearman & Sterling 2006 6.3 Clifford Chance 2006 6.1 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2006 4.8 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2006 4.6 Slaughter & May 2006 4.5 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2006 4.1 Latham & Watkins 2006 3.8 Linklaters 2006 3.7 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2006 3.4 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2006 3.4 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2006 3.2 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2006 3 Allen & Overy 2006 2.7 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2006 2.7 Jones Day 2006 2.5 Debevoise & Plimpton 2006 2.4 Baker & McKenzie 2006 2.3 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2006 2.1 White & Case 2006 2 Bredin Prat 2006 1.8 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2006 1.8 Allens Arthur Robinson 2006 1.7 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2006 1.7 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2006 1.6 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2006 1.5 Hengeler Mueller 2006 1.4 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2006 1.3 Kirkland & Ellis 2006 1.2 McCarthy Tetrault 2006 1.2 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2006 1 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2006 0.9 Sidley Austin 2006 0.9 Ashurst 2006 0.8 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2006 0.8 Garrigues 2006 0.8 Minter Ellison 2006 0.8 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2006 0.8 Norton Rose 2006 0.8 Stikeman Elliott 2006 0.8

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Gide Loyrette Nouel 2006 0.7 Hogan & Hartson 2006 0.7 King & Spalding 2006 0.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2006 0.7 Vinson & Elkins 2006 0.7 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2006 0.6 Alston & Bird 2006 0.6 Bryan Cave 2006 0.6 Covington & Burling 2006 0.6 Lovells 2006 0.6 Mayer Brown 2006 0.6 O'Melveny & Myers 2006 0.6 A&L Goodbody 2006 0.5 Arnold & Porter 2006 0.5 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2006 0.5 Blake Dawson 2006 0.5 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2006 0.5 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2006 0.5 DLA Piper 2006 0.5 Freehills 2006 0.5 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2006 0.5 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2006 0.5 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2006 0.5 Araoz y Rueda 2006 0.4 Baker Botts 2006 0.4 Eversheds 2006 0.4 Goodwin Procter 2006 0.4 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2006 0.4 Macfarlanes 2006 0.4 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2006 0.4 Morrison & Foerster 2006 0.4 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2006 0.4 Uria Menendez 2006 0.4 Borden Ladner Gervais 2006 0.3 Cooley Godward Kronish 2006 0.3 Dittmar & Indrenius 2006 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 2006 0.3 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 2006 0.3 Gomez Acebo & Pombo 2006 0.3 Goodmans 2006 0.3 Kromann Reumert 2006 0.3 McDermott Will & Emery 2006 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2006 0.3

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Perez Llorca 2006 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 2006 0.3 Torys 2006 0.3 Travers Smith 2006 0.3 Webber Wentzel Bowens 2006 0.3 Advokatfirman Vinge 2006 0.2 Andrews Kurth 2006 0.2 Bell Gully 2006 0.2 Bradley Arant Rose & White 2006 0.2 Burr & Forman 2006 0.2 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2006 0.2 Clayton Utz 2006 0.2 Dechert 2006 0.2 Denton Wilde Sapte 2006 0.2 Edward Nathan & Friedland 2006 0.2 Fenwick & West 2006 0.2 Heller Ehrman 2006 0.2 Hunton & Williams 2006 0.2 Nabarro 2006 0.2 Ogilvy Renault 2006 0.2 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2006 0.2 Pinsent Masons 2006 0.2 Ropes & Gray 2006 0.2 SJ Berwin 2006 0.2 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2006 0.2 Steptoe & Johnson 2006 0.2 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2006 0.2 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund 2006 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2006 0.1 Allen & Gledhill 2006 0.1 Arnold Bloch Leibler 2006 0.1 Baer & Karrer 2006 0.1 Bass Berry & Sims 2006 0.1 Bennett Jones 2006 0.1 Bingham McCutchen 2006 0.1 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2006 0.1 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2006 0.1 Conner & Winters 2006 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2006 0.1 Coudert Brothers 2006 0.1 Creel, Garcia-Cuellar y Muggenburg 2006 0.1 Cuatrecasas 2006 0.1 Davis Wright Tremaine 2006 0.1

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Deacons 2006 0.1 Demarest E Almeida 2006 0.1 Deneys Reitz 2006 0.1 Dickson Minto 2006 0.1 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick 2006 0.1 Faegre & Benson 2006 0.1 Fennemore Craig 2006 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2006 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2006 0.1 Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman 2006 0.1 Fulbright & Jaworski 2006 0.1 Gorrissen & Federspiel 2006 0.1 Gowling Lafleur Henderson 2006 0.1 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich 2006 0.1 Greenberg Traurig 2006 0.1 Haynes & Boone 2006 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2006 0.1 Heuking Kuehn Lueer Heussen Wojtek 2006 0.1 Hofmeyr Herbstein Gihwala Cluver 2006 0.1 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2006 0.1 Jeantet & Associes 2006 0.1 Jenner & Block 2006 0.1 Johnson Winter & Slattery 2006 0.1 K&L Gates 2006 0.1 Kim & Chang 2006 0.1 Lawrence Graham 2006 0.1 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2006 0.1 Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr 2006 0.1 McCann Fitzgerald 2006 0.1 McMillan Binch Mendelsohn 2006 0.1 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2006 0.1 Nestor and Nestor 2006 0.1 Pepeliaev,Goltsblat & Partners 2006 0.1 Pepper Hamilton 2006 0.1 Perkins Coie 2006 0.1 Phelps Dunbar 2006 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2006 0.1 Pitney Hardin Kipp & Szuch 2006 0.1 Plesner 2006 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2006 0.1 Roschier 2006 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 2006 0.1 Stamford Law Corp 2006 0.1

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Studio Pedersoli e Associati 2006 0.1 Tekinalp Lawyers 2006 0.1 Thelen Reid & Priest 2006 0.1 Thompson & Knight 2006 0.1 Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva 2006 0.1 Veil Jourde 2006 0.1 Venable 2006 0.1 William Fry 2006 0.1 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2006 0.1 Winston & Strawn 2006 0.1 WongPartnership 2006 0.1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2007 11.2 Sullivan & Cromwell 2007 9.1 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2007 7.4 Shearman & Sterling 2007 6.6 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2007 6.6 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2007 6 Clifford Chance 2007 5.4 Dewey & LeBoeuf 2007 5.2 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2007 4.7 Linklaters 2007 4.7 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2007 4.1 Latham & Watkins 2007 4.1 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2007 4 Slaughter & May 2007 4 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2007 3.7 Jones Day 2007 3.4 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2007 3.3 Allen & Overy 2007 3.1 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2007 3.1 Allens Arthur Robinson 2007 2.7 Bredin Prat 2007 2.7 Baker & McKenzie 2007 2.5 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2007 2.3 Debevoise & Plimpton 2007 2.1 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2007 2.1 Hengeler Mueller 2007 2.1 Sidley Austin 2007 2 White & Case 2007 2 Kirkland & Ellis 2007 1.8 Garrigues 2007 1.6 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2007 1.5 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2007 1.4

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McCarthy Tetrault 2007 1.4 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2007 1.3 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2007 1.3 Hogan & Hartson 2007 1.2 King & Spalding 2007 1.2 Minter Ellison 2007 1.1 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2007 1.1 Araoz y Rueda 2007 1 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2007 1 Ashurst 2007 0.9 Freehills 2007 0.9 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2007 0.9 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2007 0.9 Vinson & Elkins 2007 0.9 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2007 0.8 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2007 0.8 Dechert 2007 0.8 Kilpatrick Stockton 2007 0.8 Mayer Brown 2007 0.8 McDermott Will & Emery 2007 0.8 O'Melveny & Myers 2007 0.8 Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva 2007 0.8 Alston & Bird 2007 0.7 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2007 0.7 Covington & Burling 2007 0.7 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2007 0.7 Goodwin Procter 2007 0.7 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2007 0.7 Venable 2007 0.7 Blake Dawson 2007 0.6 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2007 0.6 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2007 0.6 Lovells 2007 0.6 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2007 0.6 Stikeman Elliott 2007 0.6 Uria Menendez 2007 0.6 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2007 0.6 A&L Goodbody 2007 0.5 Baker Botts 2007 0.5 Bass Berry & Sims 2007 0.5 Clayton Utz 2007 0.5 Cuatrecasas 2007 0.5 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2007 0.5

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Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 2007 0.5 Morrison & Foerster 2007 0.5 Norton Rose 2007 0.5 Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2007 0.5 Brandford-Griffith & Associes 2007 0.4 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2007 0.4 DLA Piper 2007 0.4 Goodmans 2007 0.4 Houthoff Buruma 2007 0.4 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2007 0.4 Torys 2007 0.4 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2007 0.4 Arnold & Porter 2007 0.3 Arthur Cox 2007 0.3 Bracewell & Giuliani 2007 0.3 Cooley Godward Kronish 2007 0.3 Dorsey & Whitney 2007 0.3 Garayar Asociados 2007 0.3 Gilbert & Tobin 2007 0.3 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2007 0.3 Shepherd & Wedderburn 2007 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 2007 0.3 SJ Berwin 2007 0.3 Stinson, Morrison, Hecker 2007 0.3 Travers Smith 2007 0.3 Webber Wentzel Bowens 2007 0.3 Advokatfirman Vinge 2007 0.2 Bell Gully 2007 0.2 Bennett Jones 2007 0.2 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2007 0.2 Borden Ladner Gervais 2007 0.2 Bradley Arant Rose & White 2007 0.2 Bryan Cave 2007 0.2 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2007 0.2 Burr & Forman 2007 0.2 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2007 0.2 Dittmar & Indrenius 2007 0.2 Eversheds 2007 0.2 Fenwick & West 2007 0.2 Fulbright & Jaworski 2007 0.2 Goncalves Pereira Castelo Branco e Associados 2007 0.2 Gowling Lafleur Henderson 2007 0.2 Greenberg Traurig 2007 0.2

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Heller Ehrman 2007 0.2 Holland & Knight 2007 0.2 Hunton & Williams 2007 0.2 Jeantet & Associes 2007 0.2 K&L Gates 2007 0.2 Kromann Reumert 2007 0.2 Macfarlanes 2007 0.2 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2007 0.2 Ogilvy Renault 2007 0.2 Perez Llorca 2007 0.2 Pinsent Masons 2007 0.2 Reed Smith 2007 0.2 Richards Layton & Finger 2007 0.2 Ropes & Gray 2007 0.2 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2007 0.2 Tremonti Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati 2007 0.2 Vieira de Almeida & Associados 2007 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2007 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2007 0.1 Allen & Gledhill 2007 0.1 Andrews Kurth 2007 0.1 Arnold Bloch Leibler 2007 0.1 August and Debouzy 2007 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 2007 0.1 Barbosa Mussnich & Aragao 2007 0.1 Bingham McCutchen 2007 0.1 Cabinet Franklin 2007 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2007 0.1 Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young 2007 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2007 0.1 Creel, Garcia-Cuellar y Muggenburg 2007 0.1 Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle 2007 0.1 Davis Wright Tremaine 2007 0.1 De Pardieu Brocas Maffei 2007 0.1 Deacons 2007 0.1 Demarest E Almeida 2007 0.1 Deneys Reitz 2007 0.1 Denton Wilde Sapte 2007 0.1 Duane Morris 2007 0.1 Edward Nathan & Friedland Ltd 2007 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 2007 0.1 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick 2007 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2007 0.1

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Foster Pepper & Shefelman 2007 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2007 0.1 Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman 2007 0.1 Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyra 2007 0.1 Haarmann Huegel Rechtsanwaelte 2007 0.1 Haynes & Boone 2007 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2007 0.1 Hofmeyr Herbstein Gihwala Cluver 2007 0.1 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2007 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 2007 0.1 Johnson Winter & Slattery 2007 0.1 Krogerus Attorneys 2007 0.1 Lang Michener 2007 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2007 0.1 Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2007 0.1 Matheson Ormsby Prentice 2007 0.1 Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr 2007 0.1 McCann Fitzgerald 2007 0.1 Nabarro 2007 0.1 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2007 0.1 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 2007 0.1 Nishimura & Asahi 2007 0.1 Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz 2007 0.1 Perkins Coie 2007 0.1 Phelps Dunbar 2007 0.1 Plesner 2007 0.1 Proskauer Rose 2007 0.1 Roschier 2007 0.1 Schulte Roth & Zabel 2007 0.1 Setterwalls 2007 0.1 Steptoe & Johnson 2007 0.1 Studio D'Angelo (Genova) 2007 0.1 Studio Pavesi Gitti Verzoni 2007 0.1 Studio Pedersoli e Associati 2007 0.1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2007 0.1 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund 2007 0.1 Thompson & Knight 2007 0.1 Veil Jourde 2007 0.1 WongPartnership 2007 0.1 Sullivan & Cromwell 2008 10 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 2008 9.6 Davis Polk & Wardwell 2008 6.7 Linklaters 2008 5.5

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Dewey & LeBoeuf 2008 5.4 Shearman & Sterling 2008 5.4 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2008 5.4 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2008 5.2 Allen & Overy 2008 5.1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore 2008 4.9 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 2008 4.7 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2008 4.5 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 2008 4.4 Clifford Chance 2008 4.2 McCarthy Tetrault 2008 4.2 Latham & Watkins 2008 4.1 Debevoise & Plimpton 2008 4 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson 2008 3.4 Weil Gotshal & Manges 2008 3.2 Allens Arthur Robinson 2008 3.1 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher 2008 3.1 Slaughter & May 2008 2.8 Jones Day 2008 2.7 Sidley Austin 2008 2.7 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt 2008 2.6 White & Case 2008 2.5 Baker & McKenzie 2008 2.3 Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva 2008 2 Blake Cassels & Graydon 2008 1.9 Kirkland & Ellis 2008 1.9 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg 2008 1.8 Garrigues 2008 1.8 Hengeler Mueller 2008 1.8 Bredin Prat 2008 1.6 Hogan & Hartson 2008 1.5 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison 2008 1.5 Stikeman Elliott 2008 1.5 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin 2008 1.3 Johnson Winter & Slattery 2008 1.3 Willkie Farr & Gallagher 2008 1.3 Chiomenti Studio Legal 2008 1.1 Hunton & Williams 2008 1.1 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 2008 1.1 McDermott Will & Emery 2008 1.1 Araoz y Rueda 2008 1 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan 2008 1 Freehills 2008 0.9

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Goodwin Procter 2008 0.9 King & Spalding 2008 0.9 Uria Menendez 2008 0.9 Baker Botts 2008 0.8 Bonelli Erede e Pappalardo 2008 0.8 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 2008 0.8 Dechert 2008 0.8 Gide Loyrette Nouel 2008 0.8 Mayer Brown 2008 0.8 Morrison & Foerster 2008 0.8 O'Melveny & Myers 2008 0.8 Squire Sanders & Dempsey 2008 0.8 Venable 2008 0.8 Vinson & Elkins 2008 0.8 Alston & Bird 2008 0.7 Ashurst 2008 0.7 Blake Dawson 2008 0.7 Covington & Burling 2008 0.7 Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners 2008 0.7 Kilpatrick Stockton 2008 0.7 Morgan Lewis & Bockius 2008 0.7 Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell 2008 0.7 Ogilvy Renault 2008 0.7 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld 2008 0.6 Cuatrecasas 2008 0.6 Minter Ellison 2008 0.6 Norton Rose 2008 0.6 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 2008 0.6 Clayton Utz 2008 0.5 Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier 2008 0.5 Lovells 2008 0.5 Torys 2008 0.5 A&L Goodbody 2008 0.4 Allen & Gledhill 2008 0.4 Arthur Cox 2008 0.4 Deacons 2008 0.4 Dorsey & Whitney 2008 0.4 Gilbert & Tobin 2008 0.4 Goodmans 2008 0.4 Houthoff Buruma 2008 0.4 Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler 2008 0.4 Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyra 2008 0.4 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe 2008 0.4

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Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker 2008 0.4 Travers Smith 2008 0.4 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr 2008 0.4 Advokatfirman Vinge 2008 0.3 Bass Berry & Sims 2008 0.3 Bracewell & Giuliani 2008 0.3 Brandford-Griffith & Associes 2008 0.3 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft 2008 0.3 Cooley Godward Kronish 2008 0.3 DLA Piper 2008 0.3 Fulbright & Jaworski 2008 0.3 Levy & Salomao Advogados 2008 0.3 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy 2008 0.3 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitt 2008 0.3 Proskauer Rose 2008 0.3 Schulte Roth & Zabel 2008 0.3 Simmons & Simmons 2008 0.3 SJ Berwin 2008 0.3 Studio Legale Failla Rotondi & Zambelli 2008 0.3 Andrews Kurth 2008 0.2 Arnold & Porter 2008 0.2 Bennett Jones 2008 0.2 Berwin Leighton Paisner 2008 0.2 Bingham McCutchen 2008 0.2 Borden Ladner Gervais 2008 0.2 Bryan Cave 2008 0.2 Burnet Duckworth & Palmer 2008 0.2 Cassels Brock & Blackwell 2008 0.2 Fenwick & West 2008 0.2 Garayar Asociados 2008 0.2 Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyra 2008 0.2 Goncalves Pereira Castelo Branco e Associados 2008 0.2 Greenberg Traurig 2008 0.2 Heller Ehrman 2008 0.2 Holland & Knight 2008 0.2 Jeantet & Associes 2008 0.2 Loyens & Loeff 2008 0.2 Macfarlanes 2008 0.2 McGuireWoods 2008 0.2 Nishimura & Asahi 2008 0.2 Perkins Coie 2008 0.2 Reed Smith 2008 0.2 Roschier 2008 0.2

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Shepherd & Wedderburn 2008 0.2 Stinson, Morrison, Hecker 2008 0.2 Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz 2008 0.2 Webber Wentzel Bowens 2008 0.2 Winston & Strawn 2008 0.2 Addleshaw Goddard 2008 0.1 Arnold Bloch Leibler 2008 0.1 August and Debouzy 2008 0.1 Baker & Hostetler 2008 0.1 Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll 2008 0.1 Barbosa Mussnich & Aragao 2008 0.1 Bell Gully 2008 0.1 Bowman Gilfillan 2008 0.1 Cabinet Franklin 2008 0.1 Cahill Gordon & Reindel 2008 0.1 Chadbourne & Parke 2008 0.1 Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2008 0.1 De Pardieu Brocas Maffei 2008 0.1 Demarest E Almeida 2008 0.1 Deneys Reitz 2008 0.1 Dittmar & Indrenius 2008 0.1 Drew & Napier 2008 0.1 Duane Morris 2008 0.1 Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge 2008 0.1 Eversheds 2008 0.1 Foley & Lardner 2008 0.1 Foster Pepper & Shefelman 2008 0.1 Fraser Milner Casgrain 2008 0.1 Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman 2008 0.1 Gowling Lafleur Henderson 2008 0.1 Hannes Snellman 2008 0.1 Heenan Blaikie 2008 0.1 Homburger Rechtsanwalte 2008 0.1 Hughes Hubbard & Reed 2008 0.1 Jenner & Block 2008 0.1 K&L Gates 2008 0.1 Krogerus Attorneys 2008 0.1 Kromann Reumert 2008 0.1 Labruna Mazziotti Segni 2008 0.1 Landwell 2008 0.1 Lang Michener 2008 0.1 Lefevre Pelletier 2008 0.1 Lenz & Staehelin 2008 0.1

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Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice 2008 0.1 Macleod Dixon 2008 0.1 Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr 2008 0.1 McCann Fitzgerald 2008 0.1 Mori Hamada & Matsumoto 2008 0.1 Nabarro 2008 0.1 Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu 2008 0.1 Neal Gerber & Eisenberg 2008 0.1 Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz 2008 0.1 Osborne Clarke 2008 0.1 Perez Llorca 2008 0.1 Pinheiro Neto Advogados 2008 0.1 Pinsent Masons 2008 0.1 Plesner 2008 0.1 Richards Layton & Finger 2008 0.1 Ropes & Gray 2008 0.1 Setterwalls 2008 0.1 Shalakany Law Office 2008 0.1 Stroock & Stroock & Lavan 2008 0.1 Studio Benessia - Maccagno 2008 0.1 Studio D'Angelo (Genova) 2008 0.1 Studio Pavesi Gitti Verzoni 2008 0.1 Studio Pedersoli e Associati 2008 0.1 Taylor Wessing 2008 0.1 Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund 2008 0.1 Thompson & Knight 2008 0.1 Tremonti Vitali Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati 2008 0.1 Troutman Sanders 2008 0.1