ALLEN & OVERY

(Retirement of Partners)

Notice is given that as from 1 May 2004, the following retired as Partners from, or ceased to be held out as Partners in, the Partnership of Allen & Overy, an English Partnership having its principal place of business at One New Change, London EC4M 9QQ:

David Max Aaron, Thomas Daniel Abbondante, Robert J Abendroth, Kenneth Aboud, Pervez Akhtar, Carlos Albinana, Christopher Hugh Andrew, Ian Anthony Annetts, Timothy Paul Arnheim, Andrea Arosio, Alistair Hugh Asher, Karl Dieter Baas, Johan Bakker, Anne Elizabeth Baldock, Andrew Mark Ballheimer, Andrew Bamber, Andrea Bartolucci, Alison Margaret Beardsley, Okko Hendrik Behrends, Catherine Bell-Walker, David Michael Benton, Jonathan Edward Morgan Bevan, Nicolas Hubert Marie Bichot, Peter Bienenstock, Femke Bierman, Barry Biggar, Simon Christopher Greville Black, Vanessa Kathryn Blackmore, Trevor James Leslie Borthwick, Philip Bowden, Mark Russell Brailsford, Ellen Benedikta Maria Braun, Jonathan Lugard Forrest Brayne, Anja Breitfeld, Francis Michael Bridgeman, Guido Brosio, John Brouwer, Roderick Michael Brown, Richard Kimberley John Browne, Jonathan Michael Brownson, Johannes Bruski, Katrina Mary Buckley, Jan Louis Burggraaf, Calum Donald Burnett, Paul David Burns, Anna Elizabeth Buscall, Nicholas Bartholomew Capeci, Antonella Capria, Roberto Casati, William Andrew Castle, Giancarlo Castorino, Paolo Cerina, Noel Chahid-Nourai, Andrew Joseph Campbell Clark, Adam Anthony Cleal, Angela Helen Clist, Paul Julian Wigg Cluley, Joshua D Cohn, Brenda Anne Coleman, Ken P Coleman, Mario Colombatto, Sheila Connell, Lucinda Cook, Roderic Victor Lloyd Cork, Patrice Couturier, Richard William Lionel Cranfield, Andrea Giovanni Cristaudi, Arnold Croiset van Uchelen, Daniel Paul Cunningham, Silvia D’Alberti, Davide D’Angelo, Giuseppe Massimiliano Danusso, Aled W Davies, Michael Hartley Davies, Richard Jeremy Charles De Basto, Bruno de Duve, Pieter Joost Maria De Koster, Donatella De Rosa, Hendrik Jan de Ru, Victor de Seriere, Wim Dejonghe, Luc Demeyere, Stephen Robert Noble Denyer, Bimal Kanoo Desai, Edouard Marie Leopold Didier, Mark Stefano Dighero, David Patrick Francis Doble, Graham John Donnell, Roberto Donnini, Anthony Gervase Drake-Brockman, Angus James Duncan, Michael Greig Duncan, Peter Eijsvoogel, Ian Francis Elder, Daniel Epstein, Paolo Esposito, Jacqueline Kelsall Evans, Joost Jules Paul Everaert, Werner Eyskens, Ross Fairley, Marc Feider, Michael Feldberg, Ian James Anthony Ferguson, Stephen Eugene Fiamma, Ian Thornton Field, Evelyn Jane Esther Patricia Finlayson-Brown, Cornelius Fischer-Zernin, Fiona Margaret FitzGerald, John Paul Flanagan, Marc Florent, Mark William Friend, Geoffrey William Fuller, Ceris Mary Gardner, Mark Gregory Patrick Gearing, Nicholas Gibbon, Judith Ann Elizabeth Gill, Jaspal Gillar, Arthur Stephen Gillespie, Daniel Gillet, Pierre Louis Marie Philippe Gissinger, Geert Valere Beni Glas, Paul Glazener, Simon Gleeson, Jeffrey Bruce Golden, Inigo Gomez-Jordana Moya, John Christopher Goodhall, Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Massimo Greco, Earl Christopher Griffith, Simon Andrew Haddock, Alexandra Clare Minton Haines, Stuart McKenzie Harray, Julian Paul Harris, David Michael Harrison, Pauline Harrison, Helen Margaret Harrison-Hall, Henning Harte-Bavendamm, Matthew Charles Thomas Hartley, Robin Harvey, Peter Harwich, Susan Anne Hazledine, Eva Hegedus, Peter Erich Hein, Jack Heinberg, Guy Henderson, Sietze Hepkema, Francis Philippe Johan A. Herbert, Reinhard Hermes, Simon Guy Valdimir Hill, Philippe Luc Jan Elisabeth Hinnekens, Jonathan David James Hitchin, Mark Hoenike, Gillian Anne Holgate, Carol Jane Hopper, Wilhelmus Jacobus Horsten, Richard Ian Hough, Timothy James House, Matthew Douglas Howard, Susan Deborah Howard, David Samuel Hughes, Anthony Robert Humphrey, Peter Josef Hundgeburth-Hoegen, Jeremy David Hunt, Robert John Hunter, Hans-Christoph Ihrig, Jarek Iwanicki, Laurence Jacobs, Mario Jacovides, Christophe Marie Andre Jacquemin, Stephen Michael Jaggs, Stephen Jagusch, Michael Jahnke, Jan Erik Janssen, Philip Edward H Jarvis, Martin Jazbik, Jacek Jonak, Herald Jongen, Andrew Lindsay Joyce, Robert Kartheiser, Anthony Charles Keal, Colleen Anne Keck, Eileen Kelliher, Stephen Kensell, Eric Keyzer, Sylvia Kierszenbaum, Johan Kleyn, Karine Kodde, Elisabeth Kooij, Frank Hartmut Krause, David Sherwin Krischer, Morgan Krone, Adam Marc Kupitz, Christian John Boleyn Lambie, Jonathan Laurie Lang, Daniel James Lauder, Alanna Yvette Lee, David Peter Lee, Zoltan Lengyel, Pierre Jean Pascal Lenoir, David Edward Lewis, Robert Jan Lijdsman, Alistair Lindsay, Charles Lindsay, David Raymond Lines, George Patrick Link, Owen George Lomas, Ian Dos Reis Lopez, Giovanni Luppi, Anne-Claude Dominique Lutz, William A Macan, David Lindsay Mackie QC, Duncan Clive Macnab, Arunee Mahathorn, Pierre-Olivier Mahieu, Simon G Makinson, Mark Jeremy Mansell, Philip J Mansfield, Yannis Antonios Manuelides, Andre Marc, Giovanni Maria Marini, Stefan Ferdinand Martin, Irina Mashlenko, Clare Mary Maurice, Heather McCallum, Paul McCarthy, Michael S McDonald, Hugh Matthew McDonald, Donald Melville McGown, Keith Richard McGuire, Charles McKenna, Daniel Mark McKimm, Cathleen Ellen McLaughlin, Gary Cameron McLean, Patrick Michael Mears, Bart Jan Mari Abraham Meesters, Dirk Meeus, Adrian Michael Mellor, Jonathan Stanley Tolson Mellor, Jonathan P Melton, Wolfgang Melzer, Henning Mennenoeh, Stephen Matthew Miller, Paul Nicholas Monk, Frederic Moreau, Jean-Marie Moreels, Henry Morgenbesser, Imogen Ilyd Justine Moss, Siamak Mostafavi, Maarten Muller, David Terence John Murray, Edward Henry Murray, Sidney Albert Myers, Jan Myska, Alberto Nanni, Mohamed Salim Nathoo, Marcell Nemeth, John Gabriel Turlough O’Conor, Mark Brian O’Neill, Kevin O’Shea, Tom Ottervanger, Arndt Overlack, Joanna Margaret Page, Igor Palka, Francesco Parisi, Jeremy Arthur Parr, George Mervyn Parry, Alan Dennis Paul, Carlo Francesco Ermanno Pavesio, Colin Pearson, Alexander Michael Pease, Arek Pedzich, Paul Michael Phillips, Arkrapol Pichedvanichok, Timothy Polglase, Robert Howard Porter, Francois Jean Michel Marie Poudelet, Ian Charles Powell, Gareth D Price, Nigel James Pritchard, Thomas Pschera, Julie Marie Quinn, Alan Francis Rae Smith, Karin Rasschaert, Paul Reeskamp, Fabio Alberto Regoli, Luc Rentmeesters, Michael John Reynolds, John Richards, Pieter Willem Geerlig Riemer, Jean-Claude Marcel Paul Rivalland, Christopher Roberts, Simon Charles Roberts, Simon John Roderick, Werner Runge, Christopher Louis Rushton, Kayal Sachi, Carsten Alexander Salger, Julia Ann Salt, Timothy M C Scales, Michael Philip Scargill, Helge Schaefer, Jean Schaffner, Jan Herman Frits Schamp, Pierre Jean Francois Schleimer, Michael Schlitt, Hans Schoneweg, Andrew John Schoorlemmer, Steven Schuit, Peter Schulz, Eduardo Sebastian De Erice Ma, David Crawford Sedgley, Oliver Seiler, Pises Sethsathira, Karen Seward, David Francis Shearer, Carl Robert Sheldon, Tim John Shilling, Ian Shrank, Eric Shube, Daniel Joseph Shurman, Andrzej Siemiatkowski, Yvonne E M Siew, David Raymond Slade, Derek Scott Sloan, Richard Mark Slynn, Catriona Macdonald Smith, David Michael Walker Smith, Graham Richard Elliott Smith, Philip Dale Smith, Richard James Smith, Sabine Marie Isabelle Smith-Vidal, Patrick John William Speller, Kerry Madeline Spooner, Anna Helena Agatha Sprenger, Ian George Stanley, Jacques Steenbergen, Daniela Stele, Peter Stenz, Mark Jonathan Sterling, Tim M Stevens, Gordon Colin Stewart, Maria Stimpson, Christiaan Stokkermans, Jeremy Stoupas, Michael Leon Struys, Dumnern Subpaisarn, Moira Taylor, Andrew Maynard Telling, Jan Ter Wisch, Edwin Tham, Jeremy David Thomas, Christopher Thornes, Peter Timchur, Catia Tomasetti, Fernando Torrente Garcia de la Mata, Mikulas Touska, Jane Eleanor Bardo Townsend, Andrew Trahair, Richard Paul Tredgett, Julian Antony Tucker, Richard William Corbet Turnor, Vaclav Valvoda, Willem van Baren, Niels van de Vijver, Koen Van den Broeck, Olaf Ernst van der Donk, Annelies van der Pauw, Filip Van Elsen, Henry Constant van Geen, Marieke van Hooijdonk, Thierry Albert Marie J van Innis, Beverley Deanne Vara, Mona Bina Ann Vaswani, Cees Vellekoop, Louis-Henri Godelieve M Verbeke, Leonard Verburg, Franco Vigliano, Graham David Vinter, Gerbrand Visser, Henri Léon Eugene Wagner, David Wainer, Calvin John Walker, Mark St John Walker, Armelle Walters-Renaud, Miles Henry Walton, Christopher Ian Watson, Peter Maurice Watson, Sylvie Watts, Andrew Roger Wedderburn-Day, Kelvin Randal Weeks, Neil George Weiand, Mark Ronald Welling, Boyan Stewart Wells, Clive Wells, Thomas J Werlen, Nicholas James Clark Williams, Andrew Wilson, Mark Alexander Wippell, Wolfgang Witz, Lucy Anne Woodall, David Hugh Wootton, John Prier Wotton, Claire Michele Wright and Xiaowei Ye.
6 May 2004.