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Bond Buyer Ranks Preston Gates & Ellis Number One in Pacific Northwest Bond Financing Deals in First Half of '03.


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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2003

The Bond Buyer has announced that Preston Preston, city (1991 pop. 166,675) and district, Lancashire, N England, on the Ribble River. Preston has an active port and is a center of cotton and rayon manufacturing.  Gates & Ellis ELLIS - EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <pab@maths.bath.ac.uk> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991.  LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol  is ranked number one among law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
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  2. Linklaters, £935.
 providing bond counsel services in Washington Washington, town, England
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, Oregon Oregon, city, United States
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 and Alaska for the first half of 2003. The rankings, published on August 18 by Bond Buyer Magazine, a division of Thomson Financial Thomson Financial

A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings
, reported that the firm's bond transaction activity topped $4.2 billion in those three Pacific Northwest states. Among the transactions managed by the Preston Gates municipal bond group is the State of Alaska General Obligation Bonds 2003 in the principal amount of $461,985,000.

"With the largest municipal finance practice in the Northwest, this is the result we expect," said Preston Gates Municipal Practice Group Chair Cynthia Weed. "We have been serving municipal clients for more than 86 years. That experience gives us insight into the demands placed on public agencies that no other firm in the region can match."


    Bond Buyer Rankings for First Half of 2003 (1)

    Washington
    1        Preston Gates                          $1.32 billion
    2        Wilkie Farr                            $1.22 billion
    3        Foster Pepper                          $1.17 billion
    4        Gottlieb Fisher                        $182.3 million
    5        Lukins & Annis                         $163.0 million

    Oregon
    1        Preston Gates                          $2.47 billion
    2        Orrick Herrington                      $304.8 million
    3        Hawkins Delafield                      $152.0 million
    4        Mersereau & Shannon                    $136.2 million
    5        Foley & Lardner                        $40.9 million

    Alaska
    1        Preston Gates                          $475.4 million
    2        Wohlforth Vassar                       $209.8 million
    3        Chapman and Cutler                     $93.5 million



About Preston Gates & Ellis LLP

Founded in 1883, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP has long been recognized as one of the premier, full-service law firms in the country. Preston Gates provides clients with sound legal counsel and trusted representation from the best talent in the industry, handling complex business transactions, litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
, intellectual property and technology, as well as governmental and public policy work. The more than 400-attorney firm has nine strategic locations worldwide. For more information, visit www.prestongates.com.

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