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Successfully Tried Major Securities Fraud Cases and Will Lead Sidley’s White Collar Practice in Northern California

San Francisco – Sidley Austin LLP announced today that David L. Anderson, First Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California, will join the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office. Mr. Anderson will lead Sidley’s white collar practice in Northern California and will also focus on the firm’s securities litigation and trial practices.

As First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Anderson had responsibility for criminal, civil and tax matters on behalf of the United States in the Northern District of California. He personally tried two of the most high-profile criminal securities fraud cases in the District in the past decade, United States v. Gregory L. Reyes, involving stock options backdating by the former CEO and board chairman of a technology company, and United States v. Charles W. McCall, involving accounting fraud by the former board chairman of a public company. Both trials resulted in convictions.

Thomas A. Cole, Chairman of Sidley’s Executive Committee, commented, “Dave is an outstanding trial lawyer with experience in the financial, accounting, regulatory and business issues that are important to companies and their boards. Dave’s professional accomplishments, exemplary record of public service and personal qualities will make him a tremendous addition to our firm.”

“We are delighted to welcome a lawyer as well known and highly regarded as Dave,” said Anne E. Rea, the member of Sidley’s Management Committee responsible for its West Coast offices. “Dave will enhance Sidley’s nationally recognized white collar, securities litigation and trial practices, and he will continue Sidley’s momentum in expanding our firm’s presence in San Francisco and Palo Alto.”

Before joining the United States Attorney’s Office in 2008, Mr. Anderson built a successful white collar practice and served as managing partner of an international law firm’s San Francisco office, where he focused on board-level representations of individuals, audit committees and public companies in criminal, SEC and internal investigations. Mr. Anderson previously served in the United States Attorney’s Office from 1998 to 2002, concluding his service as a member of the Securities Fraud Unit.

Mr. Anderson received his J.D., with distinction, Order of the Coif, from Stanford Law School in 1990, where he served as an editor of the Stanford Law Review. After law school, Mr. Anderson clerked for Chief Judge J. Clifford Wallace, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court, and Judge George H. Aldrich, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.

Mr. Anderson also has served as the chair and remains active in the Merit Selection Panel that screens candidates for magistrate judge vacancies in the federal court in San Francisco.

Sidley’s San Francisco office serves national and international clients across a range of industries. Key practice areas include corporate, mergers & acquisitions, finance, antitrust, securities litigation, commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation and health care regulation. Most recently, the office expanded its practice in hedge funds and investment management with the addition of lateral partners Mark Whatley and David Tang.

Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world’s largest full-service law firms, with approximately 1600 lawyers practicing in 17 U.S. and international cities, including Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Sidley is recognized for service and responsiveness. Sidley received the most first-tier national rankings of any U.S. law firm in the inaugural U.S.News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings for 2010 and was named as one of the“Best Law Firms to Work For.” BTI, a Boston-based research and consulting firm, has named Sidley as one of only two firms to have been in the top ten of the BTI Client Service rankings every year since the inception of those rankings in 2001, and as number one in three of those years.

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