LINKLATERS

RETIREMENT OF PARTNERS

Notice is given that as from 31 August 2007 the following retired as Partners from, or ceased to be held out as Partners in, the Partnership of Linklaters, an English Partnership having its principal place of business at One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ:

Michael Abels, Christian Ahlborn, Sebastián Albella, Mariusz Aleksandrowicz, Paul Alfieri, William Allan, Csilla Andreko, Ian Andrews, Bertrand Andriani, Anthony Lionel Angel, Joseph Armao, Andrea Arosio, Pauline Ashall, Jörgen S Axelsson, Philip Badge, Huw Baker, Duncan Barber, David Barnes, Gary Barnett, Roger Barron, Michael Bassett, Stuart Barnaby Bedford, Bruce Bell, Rupert Bellinghausen, Elizabeth Anne Bennett, Michael John Bennett, Sebastian Benz, Iñigo Berricano, Peter Ednyfed Bevan, Hermann Beythan, Benedict Bird, Janine Biver, Alan William Black, Stephen Michael Blackshaw, Jorge Maria Bleck, Jean-Pierre Simon Blumberg, Jens Blumenberg, Mark Blyth, Jens Bock, Axel Bödefeld, Annette Bödeker, Patrik Bolf, Michael Bonsau, Martin Börresen, Michael Bott, Scott Bowie, Ian James Bowler, Katie Bradford, Guy Christopher Hugh Brannan, Freddy Brausch, Christopher Bremme, Mark Andrew Brown, Jane Alison Brown, Andrew Bruce, William Donald McLean Buckley, Anthony Bugg, Andrew Richard Burge, Mark Crispin Burgess-Smith, Lachlan Burn, Alec Joel Burnside, Richard John Bussell, Anne Dilys Byrne, Lawrence Byrne, Ewan Cameron, Scott Campbell, Michael William Canby, Bertrand Charles Cardi, Andrew James Carmichael, Edward Chan, Gillian Joy Margaret Chapman, Philip Charlton, Koon Ying Paul Chow, Trevor Graham Clark, Charles Edward McIan Clark, Simon Howard Thorburn Clark, Euan Ellis Cole Clarke, Tim Clarke, Owen Harvey Clay, Robert Cleaver, Raymond Cohen, Theodore Harry Cominos, Aedamar Ita Comiskey, Joseph Conder, Christopher Brian Coombe, Janet Cooper, Timothy Eric Cox, Lance Croffoot-Suede, John Percy Crozier, Bindu Culas, David Culhane, Miles Hugh Curley, Michael Jonathan Cutting, Martin Gareth David, Alan Davies, Julian Edward Joseph Davies, François Jean Marie De Bauw, Arnaud de La Cotardière, Fabrice de La Morandière, Jonathan Mark de Lance-Holmes, Aymar de Mauléon, Pedro De Rojas, Guido De Wit, Thierry Florent Julia Mar Denayer, Philippe Derouin, Wolfgang Herbert Josef Deselaers, James John Dickson, Marly Didizian, René Diederich, Gert Dittert, Kurt Dittrich, Dmitry Alexandrovich Dobatkin, Satindar Dogra, Eamonn Doran, Olivier d’Ormesson, James Mark Douglass, Florian Drinhausen, Anne Janet Drummond, Sören Druve, Benjamin Dulieu, Hugh Charles Howard Dunn, Cécile Dupoux, Jörgen Durban, Pichitphon Eammongkolchai, Nicholas Wakefield Eastwell, Stephen Raphael Reynolds Edlmann, Fabian Ehlers, Götz Eilmann, Martin John Henry Elliott, Robert James Elliott, Jan Endler, Gilles Endréo, Peter Erbacher, Jean-Jacques Essombè, Carlton Peter Evans, Jasper Adie Ashley Evans, Jonathan Evans, Stéphanie Faber, Roland Fabian, Frédéric Falla, Jian Fang, Peter Farren, Anne Federle, Carl-Peter Feick, Iain William Fenn, John David Fenwick, Lucy Charlotte Fergusson, Simon Firth, Raymond Fisher, Mark Warwick Anthony Fletcher, Stephen Mark Fletcher, Martin Flics, Patrick Brian Fontaine, Caird Forbes-Cockell, Adam Freeman, Arnaud Fromion, Robert Marcus Teape Fugard, Amanda Joan Gallagher, James Charles Exton Gardner, Cenzi Gargaro, Alain Jean-Louis Philippe Garnier, Patrick Jules Joseph Geortay, Harald Gesell, Jeremy Benjamin Gewirtz, Adam Wallace Glass, Richard Westacott Godden, Peter Goes, Ruth Janice Goldman, Hanno Goltz, Diana Frances Good, Richard Henry Good, John Charles Goodwin, Nico Goossens, Carsten Grave, Toby Edward John Gray, Shane Gerard Griffin, Anthony John Grundy, Klaus Günther, Simon Patrick Gwynne, Matthew John Hagopian, Krister Fred Roeck Hansen, Robert James Harbach, Michael John Hardwick, Neil Francis Harnby, Herbert Harrer, Paul Harris, Markus Hartung, Marc Peter Harvey, Vanessa Caroline Havard-Williams, Clodagh Hayes, Jonathan Magnor Hayes, Dieter Heidemann, Emmanuel-Frédéric Henrion, Philippe Bernard Herbelin, Paul Hessler; Christian Hey; Edward Hickman; Fiona Hobbs, Nathalie Hobbs, Anne Su-Ling Hoe, Klaus Marinus Hoenig, Peter Wollmar Högström, Richard Charles Thomas Holden, Hans-Joachim Holzapfel, Pim Horsten, Andrew Howard Hughes, Mark Julian Humphries, Xavier Hunter, Manzer Ijaz, James Alexander George Inglis, Jonathan Paul Inman, Julian Stuart Innes-Taylor, Raymond Kenneth Jackson, Charles Richard Jacobs, Benedict Stephen Amyas James, Rebecca Lois Jarvis, Olivier Jauffret, Raymond Jackson Jeffers, Rolf Gunnar Johansson, Svante Eskil Johansson, Keith Charles Johnson, Andrew Alexander Jones, Nigel Huw Jones, Lars Per Erik Jonsson, Nicole Kar, Ian Albert Nathan Karet, Kent Sivert Karlsson, Sandeep Katwala, Nicki Kayser, Elaine Keats, Matthew Terence Keats, Francine Keiser, Christopher Richard Eason Kelly, George Michael Rudgard Kent, Mark Andrew Kingstone, Peter Klappich, James Peter Knox, Tadeusz Komosa, Stephan König, Martijn Koopal, Jonas Koponen; Wolfgang Krauel, Martin Krause, Paul Francis Kruger, Francis Kucera, Bart Jan Kuck, Artur Wieslaw Kulawski, Annette Kurdian, Berthold Kusserow, Annick Lainé-Audouard, Celia Lam; Stephen Britton Land, John Bristowe Lane, Michael Lappe, Jochen Laufersweiler, Martin Lausterer, Casper Lawson, Florian Lechner, Didier Leclercq, Sanghoon Lee, Françoise Lefèvre, Jean-Marc Louis Lefèvre, Richard Harris Levy, Guy William Lewin-Smith, Paul Gareth Lewis, Magnus Lidman, Lars Thomas Lidstrom, Chin-Chong Liew, Paul Claude Lignières, Fredrik Lindqvist, Dean Lockhart, Guy Loesch, Marc Loesch, Tom Loesch, Dario Longo, Hilary Margaret Lord, Jean Lovett, Marc Loy, Stephen Lucas, Kathryn Elizabeth Ludlow, David Ludwick, Elisabet Lundgren, Stefan Lütje, Martin John Lynchehan, Ka Ming Teresa Ma, Andrew Mackie, Georg Maier-Reimer, Françoise Maigrot, Andrew Craig Malcolm, Jason Adam Manketo, Alexandra Marks, Nicolas Martin, Adam Mattyus, John Maxwell, Paul McGeown, Thomas McGrath, Olivia S K McKendrick, Derek Neil McMenamin, Paul McNicholl, Sarosh Homi Mewawalla, Matthew Seton Middleditch, Christopher Millard, Jaroslaw Miller, Caroline Miller Smith, Elizabeth Ann Minogue, Bernard Moerman, Jason Mogg, Rafael Molina, Gideon David Moore, Mary Moran, Yves Moreau, Charlotte Morgan, Anthony Leslie Morris, Stephan Morsch, Clare Moulder, Stephan Müller, Hanns-William Mülsch, Andrei Murygin, Jean-Marie Nelissen Grade, Paul Maurice Nelson, Erik Nerpin, Thomas Nießen, Anders Nordström, Hideo Norikoshi, Jeffery Norton, Per Nyberg, Wilailuk Okanurak, Sigbjörn Olsson, Thomas N. O’Neill, Ivo Onkelinx, Michael Oppenhoff, Stephan Oppenhoff, Alejandro Ortiz, Jeremy Parr, Nikolaos Paschos, Wolfram Pätzold, Jörg-Alexander Paul, Ignacio Paz, Andrew Peck, Jaime Pérez-Bustamante, Jacques Périlleux, Jonathan Perkins, Claire Bridget Petheram, Olga Petrovic, John William Pickett, Miguel Pinto Cardoso, Carlos Alberto Pinto Correia, Patrick Gerard Plant, Simon Yau Hwa Poh, Vincent Ponsonnaille, Eric Pottier, Nigel John Pridmore, Kai Uwe Pritzsche, Pieter Puelinckx, Cecil Dyer Quillen, Clive Bryan Ransome, Simon Richard Ratledge, Nicholas Wyn Rees, Nigel Gregory Reid, Nigel William Reid, Stanford Renas, Brigid Rentoul, Eva Reudelhuber, Miguel Riaño, James Joseph Edward Rice, Jonathan Michael Richards, Jacques Richelle, Paula Devi Riedel, Pieter Riemer, Patrick John Rignell, Thierry Riguet, Gavin Robert, Andrew Peter Roberts, Séverin Robillard, Christian Roschmann, Oliver Rosenberg, Timothy Ross, Graham Rowlands-Hempel, Stuart Rowson, Nicholas James Rumsby, Yashpal Rupal, Klaus Saffenreuther, Alvaro Sainz, Reiko Sakimura, Stuart Robert Salt, Vinay Chandra Samani, Victoria Sander, Dominic Sanders, Michael Sanders, Karl Schäfer, Marianne Schaffner, Andreas Schaflitzl, Michael Schilling, Sabine Schmeinck, Laurenz Schmitt, Jennifer M. Schneck, Florian Schultz, Laurent Schummer, Detlev Schuster, Tim Schwarz, Daniela Seeliger, Luigi Sensi, Lukas Sevcik, Zili Stephen Shao, Patrick Joseph Sheil, Yoichi Shibasaki, Timothy James Morgan Shipton, Thomas Shropshire, Sabrena Silver, Pedro Gramaxo Siza Vieira, Catrina Smith, Robert Smith, Melvin Keng Yeow Sng, António Soares, Erik Söderlind, Agathe Lucienne Adrienne Soilleux, Michaela Sopp, Jean-Paul Spang, Philip Spittal, Rainer Stadler, Mark Alexander Stamp, John Booker Stansfield, Andreas Steck, Michael Steinbrecher, Klara Stepankova, Jeremy John Stokeld, Wolfgang Sturm, Christopher John David Style, Michael Andrew Sullivan, Nadia Swann, Godelieve Swartenbroux, Robert Swift, Morten Nicholas Syson, Lee Taylor, Stephen John Taylor, Isabel Teare, Conrado Tenaglia, Michael Tepass, Veeranuch Thammavaranucupt, Rüdiger Thiele, Stephen Alfred Thierbach, Stuart Thomas, Keith James Thomson, Daniel Edward Torsher, Pierre Tourres, Rainer Traugott, Marc Trinkaus, Jolanta Tropaczynska, Jean-Christophe Troussel, John Channon Tucker, Paul Tulcinsky, John Walker Turnbull, Steven Michael Turnbull, Daniel Charles Edgar Tyrer, Laurenz Uhl, Hidehiro Utsumi, Denis Alexandrovich Uvarov, Bernard van de Walle de Ghelcke, Olivier Van Ermengem, Gerwin Van Gerven, Paul Van Hooghten, Tanguy Van Overstraeten, Luc Vanaverbeke, Henk Vanhulle, Thierry Vassogne, Christoph Vaupel, Johan Verbist, Joost Verlinden, Alexander Vogt, Michael Richard Moran Voisin, Georg von Wallis, Ludek Vrana, Lawrence Allen Vranka, Anne Wachsmann, Marianne Waldenmaier, Lynne Elizabeth, Walkington, Andre Wallenrodhe, Martin Wallin, William Alan Walls, Peter Waltz, Akihiro Wani, James Warnot, Jr., Mary Warren, David Walls Watkins, Claire Watson, Isamu Watson, Jeremy Coningsby Webb, Michael Weigel, Dominic Michael Poplett Welham, Tom Wells, Carson Joseph Welsh, Giles White, Bruce White, Richard Wickes, Sarah Maria Wiggins, Hans-Ulrich Wilsing, Joseph Stephen Campion Windsor, Dominic Winter, Cezary Wisniewski, Ulrich Wolff, Kevin Wong, Julia Woolf, Gilbert Wurth, Nicole Helen Anne Xanthopol, Betty Hiu-Yee Yap, Richard Youle, Johan Ysewyn, Rolf Zander.

31 August 2007

David Cheyne

Senior Partner

For and on behalf of Linklaters