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Forwarded at request of Joe Hillings:
---------------------- Forwarded by Lora Sullivan/Corp/Enron on 12/10/99 01:15 PM --------------------------- "Leibowitz, Lewis E." <LELeibowitz@HHLAW.com< on 12/10/99 10:41:07 AM Attached is our press release on the addition of Hugo Paemen, former EU Delegation Head, to our firm. We're very excited about welcoming Hugo to our firm. The release is reprinted below if you cannot open the icon. For Immediate Release: December 8, 1999 Contact: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P Bob Glen Odle (202) 637-5639 Richard Weiner (32-2) 505-0931 Ambassador Hugo Paemen, Former Head of the European Commission's Washington Delegation, Joins Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. Washington, D.C., December 8, 1999 - Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., a Washington, D.C.-based law firm with more than 650 attorneys and 16 offices throughout the United States and Europe, is pleased to announce that Hugo Paemen, until recently Head of the European Commission's Washington Delegation, has joined the firm as Senior Advisor. Ambassador Paemen will split his time between the firm's Washington and Brussels offices. He will advise U.S., European, and other companies concerning their dealings with the European institutions and will provide counsel on a wide variety of trade and investment matters involving the European Union and the United States. In addition to his position at Hogan & Hartson, Ambassador Paemen will serve as Senior Advisor to the German Marshall Fund. Ambassador Paemen was nominated to the position of Head of the European Commission's Washington Delegation in July 1995. Between 1987 and that date, Ambassador Paemen served as Deputy Director-General of the European Commission's Trade Directorate, where among his many accomplishments he served as the European Community's Chief Negotiator during the entire length of the Uruguay Round. From 1985 to 1987 he served as the official spokesman of the first Delors Commission, and from 1978 to 1985 he served as Chef de Cabinet of Commissioner Viscount Davignon. Prior to 1978, Ambassador Paemen held various positions in the Belgian Embassies in Geneva, Paris and Washington, including service as Economic Minister in the Washington Embassy from 1974 to 1978. He is presently Special Adviser to European Commission President Romano Prodi and a Member of the Board of the Catholic University of Leuven. "We are extremely pleased that Ambassador Paemen is joining the firm," said Bob Glen Odle, Hogan & Hartson Managing Partner. "His many years of experience at the European Commission and his broad-based knowledge of international trade issues will benefit immensely our clients on both sides of the Atlantic." In Washington, D.C., Ambassador Paemen will work with the firm's commercial and regulatory practice groups to assist clients engaged in investment and international trade matters. In Brussels, where the firm's practice includes areas such as competition, communications, food, biotechnology, trade, arbitration, and international transactions, he will work with resident attorneys to provide clients with strategic counseling on a wide range of EU issues. Ambassador Paemen will also assist attorneys in the firm's six other European offices with matters involving EU law and policy. "Ambassador Paemen has given the European Union outstanding representation here in the United States," said Clayton Yeutter, Of Counsel to Hogan & Hartson and a former United States Trade Representative. "He is a brilliant diplomat and one of the world's most gifted and respected trade negotiators. His international trade knowledge is encyclopedic." "I view this next phase in my career as continuing my life-long commitment to fostering better international trade and investment relations, in particular between Washington and Brussels," said Ambassador Paemen. "I have long been impressed by Hogan & Hartson's experience in these areas and the sophisticated advice they offer their clients. I look forward to joining the Hogan & Hartson team." Hogan & Hartson, which was founded in 1904, has European offices in Brussels, Budapest*, London, Moscow, Paris*, Prague*, and Warsaw, and U.S. offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia. *Affiliated Office ********************************************************************** This electronic message transmission contains information from the law firm of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. which may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify us by telephone (202-637-5600) or by electronic mail (PostMaster@HHLAW.COM) immediately. ********************************************************************** (V1.5) - att1.unk
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