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About Neo Material Technologies

Neo Material Technologies is a producer, processor and developer of neodymium-iron-boron magnetic powders, rare earths and zirconium based engineered materials and applications, and other high value niche metals and their compounds through its Magnequench and Performance Materials business divisions. These innovative products are essential in many of today’s high technology products. Magnequench’s Neo powders are used to produce bonded magnets, generally used in micro motors, precision motors, sensors and other applications requiring high levels of magnetic strength, flexibility, small size and reduced weight. Rare earth and zirconium applications include catalytic converters, computers, television display panels, optical lenses, mobile phones and electronic chips. Products from the newly acquired Recapture Metals Limited are primarily used in the wireless, LED, flat panel, solar and catalyst industries. The Company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has approximately 1,400 employees in 19 locations, across 10 countries.

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FirstEnergy is a diversified energy company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, as well as energy management and other energy-related services. Its seven electric utility operating companies comprise the nation’s fifth largest investor-owned electric system, based on 4.5 million customers served, within a 36,100-square-mile area of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and its generation subsidiaries control more than 14,000 megawatts of capacity.

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About Bennett Thrasher PC

Bennett Thrasher PC is the fourth largest Atlanta-based, full-service accounting, audit and consulting firm. We create significant value and a unique positive experience through collaboration – with and between clients, shareholders, associates and the community. Founded in 1980 by Rick Bennett and Ken Thrasher, today Bennett Thrasher has a dedicated, experienced team of shareholders and professionals. Bennett Thrasher has recently expanded its corporate structure to include BT Wealth Management, LLC investment advisors. Please visit the firm online at www.btcpa.net.

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Nexsen Pruet, LLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 170 attorneys and offices in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C. as well as Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh, N.C. Founded in 1945, Nexsen Pruet provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues.

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About Baker Hostetler
Founded over 90 years ago in 1916, Baker Hostetler is among the nation’s 100 largest law firms with 600 attorneys coast to coast. The firm has 11 offices nationwide: Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Washington, D.C. Its five primary practice groups are Business, Employment, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Tax. For more information, visit the website: www.bakerlaw.com

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ABOUT SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN LLP. _Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is a law firm with global reach known for solving challenging business problems and resolving sophisticated legal issues for many of the world’s largest companies. Founded in 1924, the firm handles matters throughout the United States and worldwide. Seven major practice areas—corporate, energy and environmental, financial services, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and tax—provide the framework for an extensive range of focus areas, allowing Sutherland attorneys to serve a diverse client base that ranges from small and medium-sized start-up businesses to a significant number of Fortune 100 companies.

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Plum Creek is the largest and most geographically diverse private landowner in the nation with approximately 7 million acres of timberlands in major timber producing regions of the United States and wood products manufacturing facilities in the Northwest.

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Moss Adams Wealth Advisors LLC is an independent investment advisory firm registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and an affiliate of Moss Adams LLP. Moss Adams Wealth Advisors has provided personal wealth management, financial planning and insurance services since 1988.

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About Ryan
Ryan is the leading tax services firm in North America, with the largest transaction tax practice in the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides a comprehensive range of state, local, federal, and international tax advisory and consulting services on a multi-jurisdictional basis, including audit defense, tax recovery, credits and incentives, tax process improvement and automation, tax appeals, and strategic planning. With a multi-disciplinary team of more than 800 professionals and associates, Ryan serves many of the world’s most prominent Fortune 1000 companies.

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Whitney Holding Corporation, through its banking subsidiary Whitney National Bank, serves the five-state Gulf Coast region stretching from Houston, Texas; across southern Louisiana and the coastal region of Mississippi; to central and south Alabama; the panhandle of Florida; and the Tampa Bay metropolitan area of Florida.

Affected executives will begin operating from Switzerland in January 2010.

Raymond J. Milchovich, chairman and chief executive officer of Foster Wheeler AG, said,

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Foster Wheeler AG is a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier delivering technically advanced, reliable facilities and equipment. The company employs over 14,000 talented professionals with specialized expertise dedicated to serving its clients through one of its two primary business groups.

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The newly elected Partners are:

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Legacy Family Office provides integrated wealth advisory services, professionals with diverse skills, customized financial solutions, and a full suite of family office services to multi-generational high net worth families. The experienced team of financial professionals seeks to provide independent investment advisory services that go beyond those typically offered at traditional financial or investment institutions.

Resident in the firm’s Akron office, Mr.

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Headquartered in Cleveland, Meaden & Moore is a regional accounting and business consulting firm with additional offices in Akron, Wooster, and Columbus, OH; Chicago and Naperville, IL; New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Charlotte, NC; Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles, CA; and Orlando, FL.

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Nixon Peabody LLP is recognized as a “Global 100” law firm—one of the largest in the world. With 800 attorneys collaborating across major practice areas in 17 cities, including Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rochester, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC, the firm’s size, diversity, and advanced technological resources enable it to offer comprehensive legal services to individuals and organizations of all sizes in local, state, national, and international matters. Nixon Peabody LLP was recognized as one of FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies To Work For®” three years in a row. The firm has also been named to the Human Rights Campaign’s 2010 “Best Places To Work For LGBT Equality” list.

Andrew Hubbard commented:

“It is a tremendous privilege to be able to recognise two such distinguished figures of the economic world as Denis Healey and John Kay.

“I am delighted both Lord Healey and John Kay were able to attend our annual lunch to receive their awards. The lunch was once again a great success with leading figures from all areas of the tax world, including politicians from all the major parties, senior civil servants, economic commentators and thinkers, and many of the foremost tax practitioners in the profession.”

Lord Healey was one of three ex-Chancellors to attend the lunch. Also in attendance were Conservative ex-Chancellors Lord (Geoffrey) Howe and Lord (Nigel) Lawson, both of whom are already honorary fellows of the CIOT.

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1) Lord Healey of Riddlesden was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979. Born in 1917, Denis Healey served in the army during the Second World War, rising to the rank of major. He entered the House of Commons in 1952, remaining an MP until 1992. From 1964 to 1970 he was Harold Wilson’s Secretary of State for Defence. As Chancellor under both Wilson and James Callaghan he increased benefits for the poor, presided over a pay policy from 1975 and handled negotiations with the IMF in 1976. In opposition he was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. His autobiography, ‘The Time of my Life’, was published in 1989 to much acclaim.

2) John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists. He is a distinguished academic, a successful businessman, an adviser to companies and governments around the world and an acclaimed writer. Born in 1948, he was elected a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford at the age of 21, a position he still holds. As research director and director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies he established it as one of Britain’s most respected think tanks. Since then he has been a professor at the London Business School and the University of Oxford, and is currently a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. In 1986 he founded London Economics, which grew into Britain’s largest independent economic consultancy over the following 10 years. He currently writes a weekly column for the Financial Times.

Sebastian Tubb, a partner in the Milton Keynes office said:

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McDermott Will & Emery has one of the largest and most diversified state and local tax practices in the United States. The unique strength of our State and Local Tax Group is a product of the depth and breadth of our technical abilities combined with the experience and ardor of our advocacy and negotiation skills. We serve the needs of our clients regardless of the jurisdiction, issue, or procedural stage involved. With offices located across the United States, our State and Local Tax Group is uniquely positioned to advise and represent multi-state businesses on virtually any state and local tax matter, including structural and transactional planning, administrative and judicial resolution of controversies, and legislative initiatives and lobbying.

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Sutherland’s prominence in tax dates back to the founding of the firm 85 years ago. Today, Sutherland’s tax practice is composed of more than 85 attorneys representing many of the world’s largest and most prominent corporations – including more than 20 of the Fortune 100 – in every industry sector and in virtually every area of tax law, on the federal, international, state and local levels.

Paul Polman, Unilever Chief Executive said “We are delighted to have attracted a candidate of Jean-Marc’s talent and experience. He joins Unilever at an exciting time. His background and expertise will be important in helping us realise the growth ambitions we have for the future.”

Michael Treschow, Unilever Chairman said, “I am extremely pleased to welcome Jean-Marc to Unilever. His experience in the corporate and financial world will be a great asset to the business.”

Mr Huet said “I’m delighted to be joining Unilever. Paul Polman has set an ambitious vision for the company and I’m looking forward enormously to the challenge.”

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Reed Smith is a global relationship law firm with nearly 1,600 lawyers in 23 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Founded in 1877, the firm represents leading international businesses, from Fortune 100 corporations to mid-market and emerging enterprises. Its lawyers provide litigation and other dispute resolution services in multi-jurisdictional and other high-stakes matters; deliver regulatory counsel; and execute the full range of strategic domestic and cross-border transactions. Reed Smith is a preeminent advisor to industries including financial services, life sciences, health care, advertising, technology and media, shipping, energy trade and commodities, real estate, manufacturing, and education. For more information, visit reedsmith.com

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The tax team at CMS Cameron McKenna has a global perspective on tax, understanding different regimes across Western and Central Eastern Europe, where the firm has an extensive footprint. The team is aligned across the firm’s sector groups, providing a full range of advice, from bespoke cross-border structuring to drafting and negotiating tax indemnities.

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About Apollo Group, Inc.

Apollo Group, Inc. is one of the world’s largest private education providers and has been in the education business for more than 35 years. The Company offers innovative and distinctive educational programs and services both online and on-campus at the high school, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels through its subsidiaries: University of Phoenix, Institute for Professional Development, College for Financial Planning, Western International University, Meritus University, Insight Schools and Apollo Global. The Company’s programs and services are provided in 40 states and the District of Columbia; Puerto Rico; Canada; Latin America; and Europe, as well as online throughout the world (data as of August 31, 2009).

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Background Information about ATAF

The idea of establishing ATAF is the result of deliberations at a conference attended by African tax commissioners from 30 countries and representatives of international organisations and donors who met in Pretoria, South Africa in August 2008 to discuss Taxation, State Building and Capacity Development.

During deliberations at the Pretoria conference it became clear that a new way of thinking about tax collection in Africa was required. Delegates increasingly became aware of the need to think beyond tax collection as a purely technical or administrative exercise, and rather to understand that the broader role of domestic resource mobilisation is support of social and economic development. In addition delegates realised that the efficient and effective administration of tax collection had wide-ranging political significance in entrenching accountability, promoting democratic governance and state building as it focuses on the relationship between the taxpayer and the government.

The conference mandated a steering group of seven countries (Botswana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda) to work towards the establishment of the forum. In the build-up to the launch, several ATAF technical events have been held and projects begun in collaboration with ATAF’s development partners, including the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the International Tax Dialogue (ITD).

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About Windes & McClaughry

With 83 years in business, Windes & McClaughry has 19 partners, and more than 140 employees in two offices located in Long Beach and Irvine. The firm offers a full range of services, including: audit and assurance, cost segregation, employee benefits, estate and trust planning, human resources recruiting and consulting, and tax planning,

The tax attorneys elected to the partnership are:

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About Hoge Fenton:

Since 1952 Hoge Fenton has been synonymous with excellence in advocacy representation. Today we provide a single source of outstanding legal service to businesses and individuals for their most important needs, including business formation and transactions, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, real estate and land use, labor and employment law, estate planning and wealth management, complex family law matters, and pretrial, trial, and appellate representation in all areas of law.