Seyfarth Shaw Adds Corporate Technology and Outsourcing Team to Atlanta Office

Group Boasts Particular Strengths in Outsourcing, Public-Private Partnerships, and Acquisitions and Equity Investments in Cleantech & Renewable Energy Companies

Atlanta, GA (July 1, 2009)—Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America’s leading full-service law firms, today announced that a team of corporate and technology attorneys has joined the firm. Robert C. Reynolds, Jr.; Shawn K. Baldwin; and S. Joel Cartee join the firm as partners. All were previously partners at Alston & Bird LLP. Baldwin and Cartee join the firm’s Atlanta office while Reynolds will work from both Atlanta and the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

The new partners’ skills complement the strengths of Seyfarth Shaw’s corporate outsourcing and telecommunications practices. In addition, the team builds upon the firm’s significant depth of knowledge and experience in infrastructure and renewable energy matters. The group brings deep capabilities in outsourcing; technology and licensing; mergers and acquisitions; joint ventures and alliances; and privacy and security matters.

“In addition to their tremendous outsourcing experience, Bob and his team are on the cutting-edge of advising parties in infrastructure and renewable energy development and investment. We believe this team’s practice has tremendous opportunity for growth,” said J. Stephen Poor, Chair & Managing Partner of Seyfarth Shaw. “They also share our firm’s vision of delivering value, cost predictability and best-in-class service through innovative billing and partnering arrangements with clients. We look forward to working with Bob on the further development and implementation of our expansive Seyfarth Lean offerings, which now include services provided by all of the firm’s practice groups.”

“We have made key additions to our corporate practice in recent months from Los Angeles to New York to the Southeast,” said Edward J. Karlin, Chair of Seyfarth Shaw’s Business Services Department. “The addition of this group further strengthens our ability to meet the needs of clients nationally that are looking for opportunities to outsource operations, engage in strategic partnerships or increase market share through strategic acquisitions.”

“We are delighted to welcome Bob, Shawn and Joel to the firm,” said Paul P. Mattingly, Managing Partner of the firm’s Atlanta office. “As we have grown to meet client demands in the Southeast, adding a corporate team with their depth of experience has been an ongoing goal. We are excited about the opportunity to offer their talents to our clients.”

“On behalf of the team, we are thrilled to join Seyfarth Shaw,” Reynolds said. “What the firm has accomplished by adapting Lean Six Sigma methodologies to the delivery of legal services is extraordinary. We share Seyfarth Shaw’s commitment to delivering value and cost predictability to clients and we look forward to putting the resources of Seyfarth Shaw’s platform and business model to work for our clients.”

Partner Biographies

Robert C. (“Bob”) Reynolds, Jr. is one of the leading outsourcing lawyers in the country and has often been recognized by Chambers and other publications for his technology and outsourcing capabilities. In his sourcing practice, Reynolds is active in providing support for the development of global and domestic sourcing strategies, project implementation and technology deployment. Reynolds, a founding co-chair of his previous firm’s energy infrastructure team, also focuses his practice on strategic enterprise projects, advanced energy platforms, carbon management strategies and complex sourcing arrangements. In the energy sector, Reynolds focuses on wind, solar and other generation platforms, ethanol, biodiesel, CTL and other fuels and Kyoto, CCX, storage and other carbon-driven projects.

He received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Virginia and he received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University where he was an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. Reynolds also plays an active role in the community, having served on the boards of a number of non-profits with a focus on child welfare. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Shawn K. Baldwin’s practice focuses on strategic corporate transactions, including: mergers and acquisitions, corporate technology law, and outsourcing, with a primary focus in the technology and energy industries. He has extensive experience in representing clients engaged in complex and strategic transactions such as the creation, maintenance and dissolution of international joint ventures and strategic alliances, and representing clients in targeted strategic mergers, acquisitions and other general corporate matters. Baldwin has represented and counseled clients in structuring, funding, negotiating and documenting joint ventures located in the United States and numerous international jurisdictions. He has also represented clients in large business process and information technology outsourcing arrangements with aggregate contract value in the billions of dollars, many with international components. He has negotiated domestic, near-shore and off-shore outsourced service contracts for information technology, human resources, finance and accounting, logistics, call center and other business processes. Baldwin has represented clients in dozens of information technology transactions, including software and intellectual property development, licensing and implementation, hosted service arrangements, and systems procurement and integration.

Baldwin received his undergraduate degree from Atlantic Union College and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is admitted to the Georgia Bar.

S. Joel Cartee represents a broad range of corporations, government entities and private equity investors in connection with complex global transactions. His primary practice areas include: mergers and acquisitions, securities, project finance, joint ventures, strategic alliances and private equity transactions. He has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating strategic acquisitions and equity investments in the renewable energy, cleantech and telecommunications industries. Cartee also represents clients in connection with international transactions involving climate change, carbon management and finance, and other Kyoto Protocol related matters.

Cartee has been appointed Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia in connection with his representations of the State of Georgia Retirement System and the State of Georgia Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services. He is a member of the American and Atlanta Bar Associations and the State Bar of Georgia, as well as the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia. He is also a member of the Section of Business Law and Section of Environment, Energy and Resources of the American Bar Association. Cartee received his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama where he also earned his J.D. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia.

About Seyfarth Shaw’s Corporate & Finance Practice Group

Seyfarth Shaw’s Corporate & Finance attorneys serve a diverse client base, ranging from start-up ventures to middle market companies to large multinational corporations. The breadth of the team’s knowledge allows them to guide clients through myriad legal issues. Since corporate matters frequently involve aspects of many legal disciplines, the firm’s corporate attorneys regularly draw on the resources of Seyfarth Shaw’s other practice areas such as employee benefits, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, environmental and bankruptcy to deliver coordinated, seamless service to clients. In this way, clients receive full attention from dedicated, focused business attorneys, as well as reap the benefits of a full-service law firm.

About Seyfarth Lean

With more than 50 projects executed and 75 in-house certified Six Sigma Green Belts through the end of the first quarter of 2009, Seyfarth Shaw is using the tools and Lean Six Sigma methodologies the firm has developed for the delivery of legal services and applying them across the firm’s practices to deliver cost savings to clients ranging from 13–50%. The firm has been able deliver these Seyfarth Lean services while continuously improving quality, not sacrificing it. The Association of Corporate Counsel has praised the firm’s commitment to delivering legal services in a new way—with an emphasis on value and continuous improvement—as "five years ahead of every other AmLaw 100 firm.”

About Seyfarth Shaw’s Atlanta Office

The Atlanta office opened in 1996 and is regularly a leader in associate and employee satisfaction surveys. The office was recently recognized in the Atlanta Business Chronicle for being the third fastest growing Atlanta law firm in terms of revenue over the last five years. As a reflection of this growth, the Atlanta office will be moving from its current 50,000 square-feet of space to a new location with 82,000 square-feet that will be able to accommodate 130 attorneys. The office is well represented in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business rankings of law firms, fielding three ranked practice groups (Immigration, Labor & Employment, and Real Estate) and eight individually ranked attorneys (Construction, Environment, Immigration, Labor & Employment, Litigation, and Real Estate).

Seyfarth Shaw has over 775 attorneys located in nine offices throughout the United States including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as Brussels, Belgium. Seyfarth Shaw provides a broad range of legal services in the areas of labor and employment, employee benefits, litigation and business services. The firm’s practice reflects virtually every industry and segment of the country’s business and social fabric. Clients include over 300 of the Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, newspapers and other media, hotels, health care organizations, airlines and railroads. The firm also represents a number of federal, state, and local governmental and educational entities. For more information, please visit www.seyfarth.com .