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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Takes Collaboration Online With IntraLinks; Leading Law Firm Increases Speed and Efficiency While Reducing Costs.


Business & Technology Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2001

IntraLinks Inc., a provider of secure digital workspaces(TM) for business transactions and projects, today announced that Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, one of the world's most prominent international 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]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
, has signed a subscription agreement to migrate its client collaboration to IntraLinks' secure online environment.

With offices in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Charlotte, Washington, D.C. and London, Cadwalader will incorporate IntraLinks' highly progressive business solution across the board.

A leap forward in digital interaction, the latest version of IntraLinks provides its clients with faster, more reliable access, improved functionality and a more user-friendly interface, while maintaining features such as anytime, anywhere access and global 24/7 service and support that clients have come to expect.

"We chose to use IntraLinks digital workspaces at the request of our clients. We worked with IntraLinks for capital markets transactions in the past, and found they provide a highly efficient and effective inter-enterprise collaboration tool A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. ," said Linda Swartz, co-chair of the Tax Department and chairperson of Cadwalader's Technology Strategic Planning Group.

Cadwalader Director of Information Technology Greta Ostrovitz agrees wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed  
adj.
Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval.



whole
. "We could not cost effectively duplicate IntraLinks' services. In addition to their 24/7 support, our attorneys appreciate the flexibility of their business templates and the easy-to-use, intuitive interface."

Karl Rabke, general manager of professional services at IntraLinks, stated, "By signing with IntraLinks, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft further emphasizes its commitment to providing its clients with the expertise of one of the world's most respected legal teams and the enhanced efficiency afforded by IntraLinks' industry-leading digital workspaces. We are pleased to welcome Cadwalader to our fast-growing group of clients from the upper echelon of the legal community."

About IntraLinks, Inc.

IntraLinks (www.intralinks.com), the new digital workspace, enables companies to effectively collaborate outside the enterprise on complex business. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime using a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. .

Since April 1997, more than 70,000 participants worldwide have used IntraLinks' digital workspaces to communicate and collaborate on more than 6,000 projects and transactions. IntraLinks has been rapidly adopted by clients in the financial services, insurance, legal, pharmaceutical and professional services markets. Clients include: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP; Bank of America
See also:  and


Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world.
; FDIC FDIC

See: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


FDIC

See Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
; Chiron Corporation; Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Ernst & Young; Hogan & Hartson LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol ; ING Barings; International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group); JPMorgan Chase; KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm)
KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German)
KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen
 and Linklaters.

Founded in June 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with additional offices in Boston, London, and San Francisco.

About Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (www.cwt.com), established in 1792, is one of the world's leading international law firms with offices in New York, Charlotte, Washington, D.C. and London. Cadwalader serves a diverse client base, including many of the world's top financial institutions, undertaking business in more than 50 countries on six continents. The firm offers legal expertise in securitization Securitization

The process of creating a financial instrument by combining other financial assets and then marketing them to investors.

Notes:
Mortgage backed securities are a perfect example of securitization.

May also be spelled as "securitisation.
, structured finance, mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance, real estate, environmental, insolvency, 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.
, healthcare, banking, project finance, taxation and private client matters.
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