Robert B. Stebbins Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8736 F 212-728-9736

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Robert B. Stebbins is a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Stebbins specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, hedge funds, capital markets transactions, and corporate matters involving athletic organizations. He also advises clients on SEC compliance issues and corporate governance matters.

Mr. Stebbins has been involved in numerous major merger and acquisition transactions, certain of which are listed below. In the area of hedge funds, Mr. Stebbins has represented S.A.C. Capital Advisors and its affiliated entities since 1995. In connection with his representation of S.A.C. Capital Advisors and various other hedge funds, Mr. Stebbins represents these entities in connection with preparation of offering documents, private equity investments, acquisitions of public companies, joint ventures, investments in other hedge funds, credit agreements, and other matters. His capital markets practice includes representation of both issuers and underwriters in public and Rule 144A securities offerings.

Mr. Stebbins is recognized as a leading attorney by New York Super Lawyers and Lawdragon 500.

Mr. Stebbins is a member of the American Bar Association and of the New York City Bar International Business Transactions Committee.

Mr. Stebbins represented:

• Varroc Group in its acquisition of Visteon Corp.’s automotive lighting business
  
  
• Fiat in its acquisition of the equity interests in Chrysler of The United States Department of the Treasury and the Canadian government
  
  
• Fiat in its acquisitions from Chrysler of additional equity interests in Chrysler, raising Fiat’s percentage ownership of Chrysler above 50%
  
  
• RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in the sale of its U.S. insurance business to QBE Holdings, Inc.
  
  
• APX, Inc. in connection with its transactions with NYSE Euronext
  
  
• RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. in various offerings of common stock, senior notes and preference shares
  
  
• Sbarro, Inc. in its acquisition by MidOcean
  
  
• Shurgard Storage Center in its merger with Public Storage
  
  
• Major League Baseball as to the sale of the Washington Nationals franchise
  
  
• Carrix, Inc. in connection with an investment by Goldman Sachs Infrastructure Partners Inc.
  
  
• New Plan Excel Realty Trust in the sale of community and neighborhood shopping centers to Galileo America LLC
  
  
• Simon Property Group in its acquisition of Chelsea Property Group
  
  
• Simon Property Group in its proposed tender offer to acquire shares of Taubman Centers
  
  
• Developers Diversified Realty Corporation in its acquisition of JDN Realty Corporation
  
  
• Major League Baseball in its purchase of the Montreal Expos baseball franchise
  
  
• Simon Property Group in the acquisition by Simon, The Rouse Company and Westfield America Limited Partnership of Rodamco North America, N.V.
  
  
• IntelliTax, a portfolio company of Platform Partners, LLC, in its sale to a unit of Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting
  
  
• Converium AG in its acquisition by Scor
  
  
• S.A.C. Capital Management, LLC in its participation in an investor consortium as to the acquisition of Laureate Education
  
  
• Warburg Pincus in the sale of its portfolio company Fame Information Services
  
  
• Warburg Pincus in the sale of its portfolio company Kiodex
  
  
• Major League Baseball in its satellite radio contract with XM Satellite Radio
  
  
• The Atlantic Coast Conference in its football television and basketball contracts with ESPN
  
  
• The United States Golf Association as to matters involving the International Golf Federation
  
  
• Investors in connection with National City Corporation’s $7 billion capital raise
  
  
• Warburg Pincus in connection with investments in various companies, including Yodlee, Inc., Vector Development, Fame Information Services and Envirogen, Inc.
  
  
• Pardus Capital Management, L.P. in the proposed investment by affiliates of Appaloosa Management L.P., Pardus and other investors in equity of reorganized Delphi Corp.