Christopher Lovell

A. has an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell;

B. was first appointed by a Court as class action or derivative action counsel in 1981, and has since then been appointed as class or derivative action counsel in more than forty cases, including

• Co-Lead Counsel in In re NASDAQ Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation, M.D.L. No. 123 (U.S.D.C. S.D.N.Y.) ($1,027,000,000 settlement);

• Lead Counsel and Chairman of Executive Committee in several different class actions consolidated in In re Sumitomo Copper Litigation, 96 Civ. 4584 (MP) ($145,350,000 settlement);

• Co-Lead Counsel in Blatt v. Merrill Lynch Fenner & Smith Incorporated, et al., 94 Civ. 2348 (JAG) ($76.5 million settlement providing claiming class members, after all attorneys fees and costs had been paid, with a positive return on their investment (exclusive of prejudgment interest));

• Co-Lead Counsel in In re Microsoft Litigation, M.D.L. No. 1332 (U.S.D.C. Dist. Md.); (nationally consolidated class actions alleging long term unlawful maintenance of a monopoly and other anticompetitive conduct by Microsoft);

• Chairman of Co-Lead Counsel in Eugenia J. Fiala, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, et al., Index No. 00/601181 (N.Y.S. Sup. Ct.) (claims challenging the largest insurance company demutualization and the then largest initial public offering ever);

• Chairman of Co-Lead Counsel in In re Soybean Futures Litigation, 89 Civ. 7009 (U.S.D.C. N.D.Ill.) (CRN) ($21,500,000 class settlement providing claiming class members/ soybean futures traders, after all attorneys fees and costs had been paid, with all of each class members' damages due under plaintiffs' expert's formula (exclusive of prejudgment interest));

• Lead Counsel in Kaplan v. E.F. Hutton Group, Inc., et al., Civ. Action No. 88-00889 (N.Y. Sup. Ct.) ($8,180,000 settlement providing class of terminated executives, after all attorneys fees had been paid, with substantially all damages due on their equity share employee benefit interests and substantial damages on their "underwater" options (exclusive of prejudgment interest));

• sole Class Counsel in Moelis v. Hyperion Capital Management, Inc., et al., 94 Civ. 3328 (MBM) (after the securities claims made in two separate suits had been dismissed totally, this firm then pursued those claims but based them on somewhat different factual allegations and theories of recovery. Defendants paid $5,000,000 to settle such different claims, resulting in praise from Judge Michael B. Mukasey of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for this firm's resourceful work).

D. has maintained a private law practice since June 1980 including while being employed as Vice-President and General Counsel of a Fortune 500 company, American Bakeries Company, from 1981 until 1983.