Deputy Chief of Southern District of New York Organized Crime Unit Joins Sidley Austin...

Deputy Chief of Southern District of New York Organized Crime Unit Joins Sidley Austin LLP

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Timothy Treanor has joined
the firm as a partner, resident in New York. Treanor, who most
recently served as the Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Unit in the
United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York,
will focus his practice on white collar defense and investigations.

Treanor is an experienced prosecutor and investigator of
securities, healthcare and bank fraud, wire and mail fraud,
racketeering, money laundering, tax evasion and other business crimes.
He has conducted a dozen significant federal criminal trials,
convicting all 24 defendants. Treanor joined the U.S. Attorney's
office in 1999 and held several leadership positions before his
appointment, by U.S. Attorney for the SDNY, Michael Garcia, to be
Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Unit in 2006.

"Tim is a highly respected trial lawyer who led the government's
efforts on a number of important white collar and criminal
investigations and trials in recent years," said Steven Bierman, a
member of the firm's Executive Committee and a global coordinator of
the firm's complex commercial litigation practice. "We look forward to
working with him on the further expansion of our white collar practice
in New York."

"I am pleased to be joining a firm I have long respected," said
Treanor. "Sidley already has strength and a great reputation in white
collar, securities and complex commercial litigation, and I am looking
forward to expanding the depth of services we can offer to the firm's
impressive roster of clients."

Treanor received his J.D. degree from Fordham Law School, where he
was Notes and Articles Editor of the Law Review and graduated Order of
the Coif. He received his B.A. degree from the College of the Holy
Cross. Treanor clerked for U.S. District Judge Harold Allbritton III
of the Middle District of Alabama.

Sidley's white collar practice, with more than 100 lawyers in the
U.S., has significant experience in all aspects of corporate criminal
defense and enforcement-related litigation, including internal
investigations, grand jury investigations, managing parallel criminal
and civil proceedings, trials, extraditions and counseling on foreign
criminal investigations and voluntary disclosure and compliance
issues, including issues under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Firmwide,
Sidley has more than 800 litigators, with more than 100 practicing in
the New York office.

Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's largest full-service law
firms, with more than 1800 lawyers practicing in 16 U.S. and
international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva,
Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Every year
since 2003, Sidley has been named to Legal Business' Global Elite,
their designation for "the 15 finest law firms in the world." BTI, a
Boston-based consulting and research firm, has named Sidley to their
Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank in
the Client Service Top 10 for seven years in a row.

For purposes of the New York State Bar rules, this press release
may be considered Attorney Advertising and the headquarters of the
firm are Sidley Austin LLP 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019,
212.839.5300 and Sidley Austin LLP One South Dearborn, Chicago, IL
60603, 312.853.7000. Prior results described herein do not guarantee a
similar outcome.

Sidley Austin LLP
Janet Zagorin, Director of Practice Development
212-839-8797
jzagorin@sidley.com
or
Rubenstein Associates
Peter Pochna, 212-843-8007
ppochna@rubenstein.com

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