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4 Sep 2008

Paul joins DLA Piper's Corporate and Finance practice in New York

Addition supports DLA Piper's strategy to expand global practice

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(New York) – DLA Piper announced today that C. Robert Paul has joined the firm’s Corporate and Finance practice as counsel to the alternative asset management group in its New York office.

For more than 20 years, Paul has advised a wide variety of clients, including securities, futures and commodities exchanges, investment banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, advisors, funds and other market innovators on the legal, regulatory and advisory aspects of futures, commodities and derivatives products and transactions.

Previously, Paul served as General Counsel to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he negotiated a joint regulatory structure with the Securities and Exchange Commission for security futures products and contributed significantly to the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Later, he was appointed General Counsel of OneChicago, LLC, which he helped launch in 2002 as the first exchange in the US to trade futures contracts on individual equity stocks and narrow-based stock indices.

From 2005 to 2007, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the Philadelphia Board of Trade. Immediately prior to joining DLA Piper, Mr. Paul was engaged as an independent consultant by several start-up exchanges and trading facilities offering innovative products in the electricity and weather markets.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Paul served as in-house counsel to Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. from 1987 to 1997, Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation from 1997 to 1999 and Cargill, Incorporated from 2004 to 2005. He received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

“Bob is highly skilled and very well-versed in the complex and intricate areas of futures, derivatives and commodities regulation, litigation, compliance and exchange listing,” said Roger Meltzer, global chair of the Corporate and Finance practice. “The addition of a lawyer with his experience underscores our expansion strategy for the Corporate and Finance practice in New York, nationally and internationally. We welcome him to the firm.”

The arrival of Paul represents the latest expansion of DLA Piper’s Corporate and Finance practice since Meltzer joined the firm last year to lead the practice as its global chair. He has been working to attract and manage significant engagements in the U.S. and abroad and to spearhead recruitment of leading corporate and finance lawyers in major financial centers around the world.

DLA Piper has recently added a number of leading corporate attorneys, including well known and highly regarded corporate and securities partners Yvan-Claude Pierre and Leon Medzhibovsky in New York; emerging growth and venture capital partners Craig Andrews, Michael Kagnoff, Martin Nichols, Jeffrey Thacker and Ross Burningham in San Diego; corporate finance and energy partner Michael Bolton in Houston; and litigator Vanessa Wells in East Palo Alto.