King & Spalding Expands Frankfurt Office

FRANKFURT, GERMANY, Jul 31 (MARKET WIRE) --
King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that
corporate lawyers Andreas Boehme and Susanna Fuchsbrunner have joined the
firm's Frankfurt office as counsel. Their arrival brings to 8 the total
number of lawyers in that office.

"We welcome Susanna and Andreas to our growing team of Frankfurt-based
lawyers," said Scott J. Arnold, co-head of King & Spalding's real estate
capital markets practice. "Their addition provides our Frankfurt office
with additional corporate, private equity and finance expertise and
enhances our ability to work closely with the firm's transactional teams
in New York, London and Dubai. Susanna and Andreas's skill in corporate
and finance matters also complements our existing real estate capital
markets practice in Frankfurt and further expands our ability to execute
sophisticated real estate capital markets work throughout Europe."

Boehme concentrates his practice on finance and restructuring work and
mergers and acquisitions. He also represents buyers and sellers in
distressed-assets transactions. Before joining King & Spalding, Boehme,
who is also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, was with the
German law firm of Heuking Kuehn Lueer Wojtek in Frankfurt and, before
that, with Kirkland & Ellis in London. He received a J.D. and a Dr. jur.
from the University of Augsburg.

Fuchsbrunner advises financial investors and private equity firms on
private equity transactions involving cross-border mergers and
acquisitions and various exit transactions including dispositions and
recapitalizations. She also represents corporations in strategic
transactions. She has experience in a wide variety of corporate
transactional matters, including LBOs, MBOs and MBIs, mergers and
acquisitions, corporate restructurings, joint ventures and strategic
alliances and general corporate and securities matters. Fuchsbrunner
comes to King & Spalding from SJ Berwin LLP, where she was a senior
associate. In addition, she practiced for several years with a leading
U.S. law firm in New York. She was educated at the University of Munich
and Fordham University School of Law, New York, and holds a graduate
degree in business administration (Diplom-Kauffrau) from the University
of Hagen School of Business. She is an adjunct professor at the
University of Applied Sciences, School of Business, in Ludwigshafen,
Germany. She is admitted to practice law in Germany and in the state of
New York.

King & Spalding's real estate practice is one of the U.S. leaders in real
estate capital markets, and it has earned a reputation for investment fund
organization, creative structuring of real estate company mergers and
acquisitions and for working on complex equity and debt financing
transactions for domestic and non-U.S. investors. King & Spalding has been
handling real estate matters for German-based open and closed-end funds or
funds of funds in the United States for 30 years and now advises many of
those same clients on their European real estate investments, including
their cross-border transactions, joint ventures and portfolio transfers.
The firm opened its Frankfurt office in September 2007 to respond to
growing client demand in the areas of real estate capital markets,
finance, corporate and tax.

About King & Spalding

King & Spalding is an international law firm with more than 800 lawyers in
Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London,
New York, Riyadh (affiliated office), San Francisco, Silicon Valley and
Washington, D.C. The firm represents half of the Fortune 100 and in a
Corporate Counsel survey in September 2007 was among the top firms
representing Fortune 250 companies. For additional information, visit
www.kslaw.com.

Contact:
Kimberly Brooks
King & Spalding
Ph. 212-827-4378
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