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Olivia Wilde
Star of 'Tron Legacy' and 'House', Olivia Wilde is Irish-American. Adopted her professional name "Wilde" after she developed a profound respect and admiration for Irish poet and writer Oscar Wilde and his body of literature. (Credit: ADRIAN SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Zachary Quinto
His father is of Italian descent and his mother is of Irish descent. (Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Rashida Jones
Daughter of composer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton, Rashida is of African, Irish, and Russian descent. (Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Will Ferrell
Is of Irish descent. Will has said on the Old School DVD commentary that his nationalities are Irish and Filipin. (Credit: Skip Bolen/Getty Images)
Rose McGowan
She is of French and Irish descent (Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images)
Sharon Stone
She is Irish-American. (Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Steve Buscemi
Surname pronounced Buss-ehm-ee. Is of Italian and Irish-American ancestry. His mother is Irish-American. (Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Richard Gere
Star of 'Pretty Woman', Richard Gere is Irish-American. (Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Lindsay Lohan
She is of Italian and Irish descent. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Liam Neeson
Liam was a boxer as a teen-ager in Northern Ireland, which resulted in getting his nose broken at the age of 15. Nevertheless, he went on to win the Irish Youth Championship. A brief blackout after one of his fights, however, caused him to give up the ring for good. In an interview with the BBC, he said that Northern Irish Protestant minister Ian Paisley influenced his decision to become an actor. He use to sneak into the church in his hometown of Ballymena and watch Mr. Paisley preach. "He had a magnificent presence and it was incredible to watch this six foot-plus man just bible-thumping away. It was acting but it was also great acting and stirring too.".(Credit: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Robert Downey Jr
He is of Irish and Russian-Jewish ancestry from his father's side and German-Jewish and Scottish descent from his mother's side. (Credit: TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images)
Mandy Moore
Singer & Actress, Mandy Moore is of Irish and Cherokee descent on her father's side and of English descent on her mother's side. (Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Mickey Rourke
The 'Iron Man 2′ star is Irish American. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
One of the biggest bands in the world, Irish rock band, U2 hails from Dublin, Ireland. Formed in 1976. (Credit: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Martin Sheen
His mother, Mary Ann Phelan, was an Irish immigrant with IRA connections, and his father, Francisco Estevez, was a Spaniard who came to the U.S. by way of Cuba. (Credit: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Matthew Broderick
Actor Matthew Broderick is Polish on his mother's side and Irish on his father's side. (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Lauren Graham
Actress Lauren Graham has Irish roots. Has a half sister, Maggie and a half brother, Chris. First paying job was in high school, in a video about Planned Parenthood. (Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images)(Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images)
Peter O'Toole
Father was Irish, mother was Scottish. Was friends with fellow Irish actor Richard Harris. After Harris died, his family hoped that O'Toole would replace him as Professor Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Both he and his fellow Irish actor (and close friend), the late Richard Harris appeared in versions of 'Gulliver's Travels': Harris played the 1977 film version Gulliver's Travels and O'Toole played the Emperor of Lilliput in the 1996 TV-film version Gulliver's Travels, where Ted Danson played Gulliver. (Credit: Frederick M Brown/Getty Images)
Paul Walker
His grandfather Paul Walker, Jr. (aka. "Irish" Billy Walker) was a professional boxer. Is of Irish descent. (Credit: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)
Rose Byrne
Is of Scottish and Irish descent (Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
Michaela Conlin
Actress Michaela Conlin of Fox's 'Bones'. Her mother is Chinese American and father is Irish American. Michaela has one older sister. She will be seen along fellow Irishman, Matthew McConaughey in 'The Lincoln Lawyer'. (Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
Natasha McElhone
Her mother (Noreen) is Irish. (Credit: Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
Patricia Heaton
Irish-American. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Received American Citizenship at the US District Court House in Los Angeles in 2004. He has dual citizenship: Irish and American. He was made a Freeman of Navan, Co. Meath, Ireland (the town he lived in until he moved to England in 1964) on 11th November 1999. His primary residence is in Malibu, California. Owns his own production company, Irish DreamTime. Its first release was The Nephew. Became an American citizen on 23 September 2004 but still plans to keep his Irish citizenship. (Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Sean Patrick Flanery
He is of Irish descent. (Credit: John Shearer/Getty Images)
Robin Tunney
Irish American; her father emigrated from Ireland and her mother is a first generation Irish-American. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Mark and Donnie Wahlberg
LOS ANGELES - DECEMBER 30: Actors Mark and Donnie Wahlberg attend the game between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center December 30, 2007 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2007 NBAE (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images)
Rachel Hurd-Wood
She is half Irish. (Credit: TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images)
Mischa Barton
Is half English and half Irish (Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images)
George Clooney
Irish-American descent. (Credit: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Anna Kendrick
The star of "Up In The Air" is of Irish descent. (Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
Emmy Rossum
Emmy Dutch and Scot-Irish. (Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Dermot Mulroney
Is of predominantly Irish ancestry. All of his siblings have traditional Irish names. (Credit: Randy Pearson/SeaWorld San Diego via Getty Images)
Christina Ricci
Her paternal grandfather was of Italian descent. The remainder of her ancestry is Scots-Irish. (Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Billy Bob Thornton
His father is of Irish ancestry, while his mother is half Choctaw Indian and half Italian. (Credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)
Bill Murray
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Chris Evans
Is of Irish and Italian descent. (Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Rachel McAdams & Channing Tatum
His ancestry includes Irish, French, and Native American & she is of Irish decent. (Credit: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Katherine Heigl
She is half Irish and half German. (Credit: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
Ed O'Neill
Star of 'Modern Family' & Married With Children', Ed O'Neil is an Irish-American…Sofía Vergara is from Colombia, not Irish. (Credit: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Heather Graham
'The Hangover' star is of Irish Catholic extraction. (Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images0
Ashton Kutcher
Actor Ashton Kutcher is mostly Irish American descent. He also has some Native American and Bohemian (the source of his surname) ancestry. (Credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
Laura Prepon
She is of half-Russian-Jewish and half-Irish-Catholic descent. (Credit: Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images)
Cillian Murphy
Actor Cillian Murphy of 'Batman Begins' & 'The Dark Knight'. As of 2006 he is the most nominated Irish Actor at the Irish Film and Television Awards with 6 nominations. He is fluent in French and Irish. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Bradley Cooper
His father, Charlie Cooper, is of Irish heritage and his mother, Gloria Cooper (formerly Campano) is of Italian heritage. (Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Brendon Gleeson
He played Irish leader Michael Collins in The Treaty. He later had a supporting role in the biopic Michael Collins. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Julia Roberts
She has Irish ancestry. (Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
Alyson Hannigan
Irish-American on her father's side and Jewish-American on her mother's side, Hannigan was raised in the Jewish faith. (Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Kristen Bell
Star of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall', Kristen Bell is of Irish and Polish descent. (Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty Images)(Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
Christian Slater
Actor Christian Slater is of English/Irish descent. (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Colin Farrell
Son of Irish football player, Eamon Farrell. Auditioned to become a member of the Irish boyband, Boyzone, but was turned down. Daredevil marks the first time he has been able to use his own Irish accent in an American movie. (Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
John Travolta
Is of Italian descent on his father's side and Irish descent on his mother's side. (Credit: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)
Kate Walsh
Star of ABC's 'Private Practice', Kate Walsh's mother is Italian and her father is Irish. (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
John C. Reilly
Born to an American father (of Irish ancestry) and a Lithuanian mother. He is the fifth of six children. (Credit: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Dane Cook
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Carla Gugino
Is of Italian, Irish, and English descent. (Credit: Frederick M Brown/Getty Images)
Andrian Grenier
Native American and Irish parentage (Credit: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
Josh Hartnett
The 'Pearl Harbor' Star is of Swedish and Irish descent. (Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Kevin Dillon
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Denis Leary
Irish-American (Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images0
Anne Hathaway
Is of French, Irish, German and Native American descent. (Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Kevin Connolly
Star of 'HBO's Entourage', actor Kevin Connolly is of Irish ancestry. (Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
Matthew McConaughey
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James Earl Jones
Actor James Earl Jones is of African-American, American Indian and Irish ancestry. His paternal great-great-grandmother, Parthenia Connolly, was a native of Ireland who worked as an indentured servant. She married a former slave named Brice. Because Brice had no surname of his own, he took his wife's name Connolly. His maternal grandmother, Maggie Anderson, was part Choctaw Indian. He also has Cherokee ancestry. (Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Anthony Michael Hall
Is of Irish and Italian heritage. (Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Catherine Zeta-Jone
Mother is Irish, father is Welsh. (Credit: JOHN STILLWELL/AFP/Getty Images)
Christopher Nolan
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Jack Nicholson
His mother, June Nicholson, was of Irish and Dutch descent. He never knew his father and was raised by his grandparents. He was led to believe that June was his older sister and his grandparents were his parents. It was not until 1974 when a Time magazine reporter researched his life that he learned the truth. An Italian immigrant named Donald Furcillo who was married briefly to June claimed to be his father. But Nicholson chose not to investigate further. (Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
The Baldwin Brothers
The Baldwin Brothers are of Irish and French descent. They are frequently referred to as Irish-American and, although both of their parents have Irish heritage, they are not entirely Irish. Their father was half-English and their mother's side is primarily French (only one-quarter Irish). (Credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)
Edward Burns
He is Irish-American. (Credit: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Brian Austin Green & Megan Fox
He is of Irish, Scottish, Hungarian and Cherokee descent. Megan Fox has Irish, French and Cherokee ancestry. Her Irish ancestors were from County Tipperary, one of the first Irish counties to be established in the 13th century. (Credit: GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images)
Catherine Keener
Of Irish and Lebanese descent. (Credit: Alberto E Rodriguez/Getty Images)
John Slattery
The 'Mad Men' Star is Irish-American. (Credit: David Livingston/Getty Images)
Alex O'Loughlin
Is of Irish and Scottish descent. (Credit: MAX NASH/AFP/Getty Images)
Jason Patric
(Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Star of the 'Tudors', actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a good friend of fellow Irish actor Stuart Townsend. The two of them protested at the "Save Tara Hill Campaign" in 2006. (Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Jennifer Beals
Has an African-American father and an Irish mother. Daughter of Alfred Beals (an African-American grocery store owner) and Jeanne Cohen (an Irish elementary school teacher). (Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Daniel Day-Lewis
Moving to County Wicklow, Ireland, he assumed Irish citizenship (1993). Always quiet and introverted, he said that he was not popular in school and was mocked as an outsider while growing up in England, partially because he was of half-Jewish/half-Irish stock. The upside was that, instead of socializing, he developed a rich fantasy life that later helped him to delve so deeply into his characters. Holds dual citizenship – British and Irish. (Credit: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Janeane Garofalo
Star of CBS' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior', Actress/Comedian, Janeane Garofalo is of Italian and Irish descent. (Credit: Andrew H Walker/Getty Images)
Alison Lohman
She is of Irish descent. (Credit: FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images)
Dakota & Elle Fanning
Actress Dakota Fanning and actress Elle Fanning. Their last name "Fanning" is of Irish origin. Also, they are of half-German descent. (Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Charles Durning
Charles Durning is Irish-American. (Credit: Charley Gallay/Getty Images)
Dominic Purcell
His mother is Irish. (Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
Anna Friel
Actress Anna Friel from the show "Pushing Daisies" Is of Irish descent. (Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
Chuck Norris
Both his parents were half Irish and half Cherokee (Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Ben & Casey Affleck
(L-R) Actor/Director Ben Affleck and actor Casey Affleck's mother is Irish and father is Scottish. (Credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)
Kieran Culkin & Rory Culkin
Kieran Culkin & Rory Culkin are of Irish descent. (Credit: Peter Kramer/Getty Images)
Burt Reynolds
His father was of Irish-Cherokee Indian descent, his mother was of Italian descent. (Credit: Vince Bucci/Getty Images)
Catherine O'Hara
Third generation Irish/Canadian/Catholic. (Credit: Evan Agostini/Getty Images for The National Board of Review)
Ben Stiller
Mother, Anne Meara is Irish-American (Credit: Evan Agostini/Getty Images)
Krista Allen
Actress Krista Allen is of Portuguese heritage on her mother's (Katherine Mary Raposa) side and Irish heritage on her father's (Daldon Earl Allen) side. (Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Emily & Zooey Deschanel
Actresses Emily Deschanel (L) and Zooey Deschanel. Their paternal grandfather was French and the remainder of their ancestry is Irish American. (Credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
John C. McGinley
Actor John C. McGinley is Irish-American. (Credit: Matthew Simmons/Getty Images)
Ann, John & Joan Cusack
Siblings (L-R) Ann, John, and Joan Cusack are Irish-American. The name Cusack is not Slavic as many may believe. It is a Norman name, brought to Ireland when the Normans invaded in 1169. "Cussac" is a city in South Central France. (Credit: Matt Carmichael/Getty Images)
Luke, Owen and Andrew Wilson
(L-R): Director Andrew Wilson and his brothers, actors Luke and Owen Wilson are of Irish descent. (Credit: Marco Garcia/Getty Images)
Dominic West
Actor Dominic West is Irish-American. (Credit: CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images)
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Meet the 40 Under 40 Rising Stars in Legal Services
This is the second list of Rising Stars in the legal profession, which celebrates Financial News' editorial picks of the brightest up-and-coming lawyers in European capital markets.
The list shows that transactional lawyers are back in favour. While the 2013 list had a strong showing of restructuring experts, the 2014 list features many young stars working on corporate deals and in the revitalised equity capital markets.
There has even been strong representation from in-house lawyers with M&A expertise, handling complex takeovers.
There has been a near even split between those working in private practice and in-house. We've included a broad range of lawyers who work across investment banking, asset management, private equity and trading and technology – including regulatory and employment experts.
The Rising Stars comprise the standout young lawyers who have shown promise and often achieved promotion as they advise clients on critical issues to their business and helped drive the development of Europe's financial legal industry.
James Abbott, director and senior counsel, Deutsche Bank (Age 34)
Abbott, an equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions specialist, spends much of his time advising Deutsche Bank's corporate broking team and sponsor businesses on legal and compliance matters. Peers commend his "broad experience" and "involvement in many innovative transactions". In 2013, he won particular praise on the legal aspects of a complex six-month sale by the bank's subsidiary Deutsche Postbank of a £1.4 billion commercial real estate loan portfolio. He also worked as the key lead original syndicate lawyer for Deutsche Bank as global co-ordinator on the £5.8 billion rights issue by UK bank Barclays. Abbott, who previously worked at Linklaters, has worked at the German bank since 2007.
Scott Ashton, of counsel, Morrison & Foerster (Age 38)
Ashton specialises in representing issuers in the US private placement market. He has acted for more than 40 companies on new issues in that market, as well as advising on amendments and restructurings for prior issuers. He worked on three significant deals involving European companies turning to the US private debt markets. In 2014, he led the teams acting for EY Global Finance on its first US private placement, which totalled $200 million. He also led Morrison & Foerster's team on BASF's private placement of $1.25 billion senior notes, which was the largest in the US private placement market in 2013. His team was also the US counsel to the London School of Economics in its debut £125 million US private placement in senior notes in 2013. The LSE deal has already led other UK universities to consider following suit.
Alexandra Beidas, managing associate, Linklaters (Age 35)
A senior incentives lawyer in the employment department at Linklaters, Beidas is fast making a name for herself as a lead adviser to the financial services sector. She has led Linklaters' global remuneration initiative for the industry for four years, and has spent 2013 advising global banks and asset managers on the implications of the contentious new European Union bonus rules. These rules have led investment banks to find innovative ways to compensate their best-paid staff. Her client base includes over half the top 20 global investment banks. In 2013, she worked with UK public companies on the new executive pay rules, including the new binding vote on pay.
Jessica Brescia, chief risk officer, Old Mutual Group (Age 33)
Brescia was promoted into the newly created position of chief risk officer at Old Mutual Global Investors in February 2014, responsible for the asset manager's legal, compliance, enterprise risk and secretarial functions.A financial regulation specialist, she previously worked at SJ Berwin and Dechert, where she advised on the establishment, listing, management and marketing of investment funds as well as general regulatory issues.
She joined Skandia Investment Group in 2009 and in 2011 was named head of its in-house legal team in London. Following the 2012 tie-up between Skandia's multi-manager business and Old Mutual Asset Managers' direct investment business, Brescia was put in charge of the newly formed Old Mutual Global Investors' legal team. In 2013, she focused on the management of all legal and compliance aspects in the post-merger rebranding and integration of the two businesses.
Amélie Champsaur, partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Age 35)
Champsaur, a mergers and acquisitions and capital markets lawyer, is becoming well known on the regulatory side. In 2013, she took on the role of coordinating the firm's European financial regulatory practice, which spans Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris and Rome. Champsaur, who was made a partner in the Paris office of Cleary Gottlieb in 2012, is advising The Vatican Institute of Religious Works on the implementation of a broad range of financial regulatory and compliance matters. She is also advising BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole and Natixis on their registration as swap dealers under the Dodd-Frank Title VII framework for OTC derivatives.
On the M&A front, Champsaur acted for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the sale of its non-US wealth management business to Julius Baer Group.
Jamie Corner, associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Age 35)
A late starter to the legal profession, Corner qualified as a lawyer in 2009 after obtaining a doctorate in medieval history at Oxford University. He has since quickly established himself among the investment banking community as a member of Freshfields' highly respected equity capital markets team, which includes partners Mark Austin, Will Lawes, Sarah Murphy and Julian Makin. Corner won high praise from clients for his work on Barclays' £5.8 billion rights issue in 2013, which included the joint bookrunners and initial underwriters on the deal. Corner is on the Freshfields team that has won the mandate to advise retailer Poundland on its flotation and has also held the role advising the joint bookrunners of the UK government's £3.2 billion sale of its stake in Lloyds Banking Group.
Sarah Crouch, co-head, group general counsel's office, Barclays (Age 36)
Crouch joined the Barclays regulatory policy team from Allen & Overy in 2006, before moving into the treasury team to work on debt issuance and manage debt investor and rating agency relationships for the bank. She is now one of the leaders of the group general counsel's office and handles a raft of regulatory developments. Her work includes issuance of treasury debt and equity, advising on the bank's use of capital and reserves to comply with capital requirements under CRD IV, maintaining disclosure and inputting into capital and funding aspects of the Barclays' structural reform programme.
In 2013, Crouch worked with internal and external advisers on the bank's £2 billion contingent convertible bonds issue, its £5.8 billion rights issue and an exercise of outstanding Barclays' warrants.
Manish Das, head of competition law, Lloyds Banking Group (Age 38)
Das' responsibilities at Lloyds Banking Group expanded in January 2014 when he was promoted to head of competition at group level. Previously responsible for competition issues in Lloyds' commercial bank, having joined in 2011, his role now covers everything from public policy through to transactional work, compliance and risk analysis in liaison with the regulators. Das, a former senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, was involved in 2013 in the creation of the new TSB bank and dealt with the European Commission over the state aid the group had received. He also worked closely with the Financial Conduct Authority and its new competition unit.
Eamon Devlin, managing partner, MJ Hudson (Age 36)
Devlin, a co-founder of a specialist law firm, has taken an alternative approach in his choice of career path. He has been instrumental in setting up MJ Hudson from scratch to become a recognised brand in alternative assets with more than 200 asset manager clients. The firm is London's first law firm focused on acting exclusively for private equity and hedge fund managers. Devlin co-founded the firm with Matthew Hudson, a former head of the London offices of both O'Melveny & Myers and Proskauer Rose, in 2010, and became managing partner aged 33.
In 2013, Devlin guided the firm through two law firm mergers in the space of three months, teaming up with Jersey's VerrasLaw and hedge fund law firm MW Cornish & Co. MJ Hudson continues to hold big ambitions. It plans to open up to 10 offices in onshore and offshore jurisdictions, before listing in around four years' time, making it one of the first firms to set out such a strategy.
Karan Dinamani, partner, Ashurst (Age 32)
In his first year of partnership, Dinamani is already tipped to become one of Ashurst's private equity leaders and corporate stars. Specialising in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance, he has particular experience advising private equity houses, financial institutions and other financial sponsors. In 2009, he was seconded to Royal Bank of Scotland, helping to cement the firm's relationship with one of its key clients. Today he is one of the firm's relationship partners for RBS, winning corporate work from what was once purely a finance client for the firm. In 2013, he also advised Wm Morrison Supermarkets on its long-term agreement with online grocer Ocado.
Ed Fife, partner, Slaughter and May (Age 35)
Having spent his entire career at Slaughter and May, Fife made partner in the financing group in 2012 and had an active year in 2013. His highlights included advising Vodafone on the financing aspects of its disposal of its 45% interest in Verizon Wireless, working for the management of Investec Asset Management on the acquisition financing of a 15% shareholding in the business and advising Countrywide Group on the refinancing of its bank facilities and high-yield bonds in connect with its IPO.
On the lender side, he regularly works with Deutsche Bank, while his practice also has an Asian angle thanks to his spending two years on secondment to the firm's Hong Kong office, before returning to London in July 2010.
Mike Flockhart, partner, Herbert Smith Freehills (Age 32)
Flockhart is the only lawyer in the 2013 legal Rising Stars to have made it on again for a second consecutive year. Promoted to partnership in 2013, he continued to impress his peers both within the firm and across the market, in both mergers and acquisitions and the equity capital markets. In M&A, he worked on two of the most significant deals involving asset managers – Lloyds Banking Group on its disposal of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and Cazenove Capital on its £424 million takeover by Schroders. In ECM, he advised JP Morgan, Barclays and Investec as joint bookrunners on Cineworld's £110 million rights issue and £500 million acquisition of Poland's Cinema City International.
Nicole Fuller, head of international large corporate lending legal, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Age 39)
Fuller was promoted to her current role in 2013 and now manages both the European and Asian legal teams that support the syndicated and corporate lending origination and restructuring businesses. A former managing associate at Linklaters, she joined Bank of America in 2006 as its leveraged finance lawyer in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, before being promoted to the head of the European bank finance and special asset loans legal team in 2009.
In 2013, she advised on structural and legal concerns relating to a €3.3 billion financing for investment firm JAB's acquisition of coffee maker DE Master Blenders. The deal has subsequently won praise for its complexity, innovative structure, and the large size of the financing. Fuller also advised on another 2013 highlight – the £1.5 billion financing for Schneider Electric's acquisition of technology firm Invensys. In addition to transactional work, Fuller acts as a key adviser to senior management on legal and regulatory issues affecting the international loans market.
Denise Gibson, partner, Allen & Overy (Age 35)
After spending two years as an executive director in the debt underwriting group at Goldman Sachs, Gibson returned to Allen & Overy in September 2013 as a partner. A specialist in leverage finance, Gibson first worked at Allen & Overy between 2006 and 2011, when she left for the US investment bank to work on frontline negotiation and completion of deals, including for Dometic, Ontex and Four Seasons.
Since returning to Allen & Overy, she has worked for the mandated lead arrangers on the €875 million senior facilities provided for private equity firm 3i's buyout of Allianz Capital Partners' stake in Scandlines and refinancing of existing facilities. She has also advised the global coordinators in connection with bridge financing for media firm Liberty Global's €6.9 billion offer for Ziggo.
Jake Green, senior associate, Ashurst (Age 32)
Green, a senior associate in the non-contentious regulatory team at Ashurst, has led the firm's work in relation to the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive. He has worked for clients including Royal Bank of Scotland, Investec, Forex Capital Markets, Oakhill Capital Management and BGC Partners. He also works for clients on regulatory investigations, governance and conduct matters and online execution-only trading. He also has a relationship with the UK government that has enabled him to provide the Treasury with insight into the key issues of concern for clients around AIFMD and benchmarks reform.
Tom Hine, general counsel and head of enforcement, London Metal Exchange (Age 35)
Hine, who became general counsel at the end of 2009 at the age of just 31, has been helping to navigate the specialist commodities exchange through an eventful period in its history. The London Metal Exchange was acquired for £1.39 billion by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the end of 2012 following a 16 month competitive sales process.
Since the acquisition, Hine has been heavily involved in integrating the LME into the enlarged business. To that end, he has overseen the implementation of new systems, which are designed to ensure information is shared efficiently across the group, working closely with consultancy firm KPMG on an internal strategy for cultural integration post-merger. Hine has also supervised the legal aspects of the development of the LME's new clearing house, LME Clear, which is due to go live in September.
Tom Jaggers, senior vice-president, Oaktree Capital (Age 36)
Jaggers, who joined Oaktree from Linklaters in 2009 as an assistant vice-president, has been described by one person who has worked with him as an "experienced dealmaker who is now seen as an investor, rather than just an accomplished private equity lawyer". He was promoted to vice-president in 2011 and is now one of three members of the European principal group legal team, with responsibility for evaluating, structuring and implementing pan-European distress deals.
In 2013, he was instrumental in some of the firm's key deals, including the formation of Navig8 Chemical Tankers, a joint venture with Navig8 Group that has placed an order for 18 chemical tankers, the flotation of Stock Spirits Group and the sale of R&R Ice Cream to PAI Partners.
Andrew Jessop, general counsel, HgCapital (Age 37)
Jessop has impressed since taking on the general counsel role at HgCapital in the middle of 2012, when he joined from Clifford Chance. He has been the key legal force in the firm, advising the general partners, identifying legal issues and coordinating outside counsel as he helped navigate the buyout firm's successful final closing of HgCapital 7 – its £2 billion European buyout fund – and high deal activity across three separate fund products.HgCapital 7 completed its maiden investment in December 2013 with the acquisition of P&I Personal & Informatik, a payroll and HR software company, from The Carlyle Group.
David Johnson, senior vice-president and associate general counsel, Citigroup Global Markets (Age 34)
Winning praise for his commercial awareness by those who have worked with him, Johnson leads a team of four that supports the structured credit business at Citigroup in London. He joined the bank in 2010 from Mayer Brown and has since advised Citi's pre-eminent cash collaterised loan obligation business, which is a number one arranger of European and US CLOs by deal and volume size, according to data provider Creditflux.
With a focus on reputational and legal risk assessment, he has helped the bank purchase credit protection on many large portfolios of high quality but illiquid loans, so as to reduce consumption of Citi's credit lines and enable more lending. His work in structured repos has seen him closely involved in the development of a bespoke over-collateralised structure that reduces default risk and therefore has allowed the bank's structured credit team to lend larger amounts to counterparties.
Nicola Kerr-Shaw, head of intellectual property and technology law, corporate and investment banking London legal, BNP Paribas (Age 30)
Kerr-Shaw joined BNP Paribas in 2011 from Hogan Lovells, where she was an associate, and has since launched the bank's dedicated intellectual property and technology law team. Managing a team of three, her work cuts across e-commerce, protection of intellectual property rights, and advising on the legal issues. In 2013, she gained recognition for her involvement in an internal drive to enhance client services. As the lead contact for all technical, IP and legal concerns, she helped launch BNP Paribas' iX service, a foreign exchange algorithm that helps clients capture price movements and execute transactions more efficiently
Kerr-Shaw says one of her key influences was the late Professor Kurt Lipstein, who at the age of 94 supervised her during her first year reading law at Clare College, Cambridge.
James Kerton, head of legal for corporate transactions, London Stock Exchange Group (Age 33)
Kerton played a lead transactional role in the negotiation and implementation of London Stock Exchange Group's acquisition of a majority stake in clearing house LCH.Clearnet. He also played a role in the related shareholder approval process and the bourse's participation in LCH.Clearnet's €320 million capital raising.
Kerton joined the company in 2010 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was an associate in the corporate department. He has since worked on a range of corporate transactions, including as the legal lead on the establishment of the group's £1 billion euro medium term note programme and its subsequent £300 million retail bond issue on London Stock Exchange's order book for retail bonds in 2012.
Maximilian Kirchner, senior counsel, Proskauer Rose (Age 38)
Kirchner joined Proskauer's London office in 2012 from Latham & Watkins in New York and "stands out" for his work in high yield, according to one competitor. A senior counsel in the capital markets group at Proskauer in London, Kirchner focuses on acquisition finance work. He had a busy 2013, working for global healthcare company Grifols on a $1.5 billion bridge loan facility to fund its Novartis acquisition. He also worked alongside Jefferies on a $535 million high-yield bond offering and a senior loan facility for Woodbine Acquisition.
Other deals included advising Barclays Private Credit Partners in connection with a senior secured growth capital debt financing to euNetworks, a fibre networks infrastructure provider.
Natascha Kiernan, counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Age 33)
Kiernan was promoted to counsel in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's London office in 2013 and is widely regarded as the "next generation" of its European energy practice. She works closely with European energy head Douglas Nordlinger, the only Skadden partner focused on energy on this side of the Atlantic. Working across energy and infrastructure deals with an unusually broad range of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, project finance and dispute resolution work, she has handled several complex multi-jurisdictional deals involving political risk.
She is part of the Skadden team advising the Republic of South Sudan on issues such as oil and gas relating to its secession from the Republic of Sudan. She has also supported the team working on various energy-related disputes involving government entities, including the ongoing $1 billion South Sudan International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes arbitration.
Jamie Leader, partner, Eversheds (Age 36)
Promoted to the Eversheds partnership in 2011, Leader has specialised in contentious restructuring and insolvency work for clients dealing with multi-jurisdictional disputes spinning out of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. In 2013, he led the Eversheds team advising the administrator of German bank Lehman Brothers Bankhaus on English law. He has also been working for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in relation to claims it has against Lehman Brothers. Leader is also a solicitor advocate and, unusually, has appeared in two jurisdictions, before the UK courts and the Dubai International Financial Centre.
Mark Levine, partner, Mishcon de Reya (Age 39)
Levine, who has been a partner at Mishcon de Reya since 2009, is one of the go-to employment lawyers for senior executives and teams of employees in financial services. He led the Mishcon team that advised a group of Dresdner Kleinwort bankers who went to court to claim unpaid retention bonuses promised to them in late 2008. The five-year battle came to an end in 2013 when Commerzbank, which now owns Dresdner Kleinwort, lost its appeal. Since that verdict, he has also worked for another group of executives at one of the UK's biggest banks in a dispute over bonuses. That deal was settled before it reached the courts.
Levine has also represented those in financial services whose reputations have been damaged, including clients embroiled in the Libor scandal.
Samantha McGonigle, partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges (Age 36)
McGonigle, who was promoted to the Weil Gotshal partnership in 2013, has established herself as the key junior relationship partner for private equity clients such as Oaktree Capital Management, Lion Capital and Avista Capital. In 2013, she advised Advent and Bain Capital on their refinancing and acquisition of Royal Bank of Scotland's remaining stake in WorldPay, and she acted for Avista Capital and Nordic Capital on their joint offer for Swiss-listed pharmaceutical company Acino. Since joining Weil Gotshal in 2006 as a part of a team move from Lovells, she has worked to develop training programmes on the legal issues facing buyout firms both externally for clients and internally for the private equity team.
Adam McLain, managing director and general counsel Europe, TowerBrook (Age 36)
McLain is TowerBrook's first European general counsel and is responsible for overseeing the legal aspects of all the business' transactions in Europe, including those involving portfolio companies – whether buying, selling, restructuring or refinancing. The firm had an active 2013, with McLain involved in three European acquisitions and two refinancings in the second half of the year. In September 2013, he worked on TowerBrook's agreement to acquire AIM Aviation from LDC for an undisclosed sum. Before joining TowerBrook in 2011, he was a European counsel specialising in corporate finance at the London office of Sullivan & Cromwell.
Maegen Morrison, partner, Hogan Lovells (Age 39)
Morrison's responsibilities have continued to add up since she was made partner at Hogan Lovells in 2007. She has built her client base and enhanced her reputation in equity capital markets and corporate finance to the point where she now heads the London ECM team. In 2013, she was appointed to the corporate international leadership team, and is also now a member of the firm's core teams for major clients including Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays, as well as relationship partner for investment bank Jefferies. In 2013, she advised Lloyds Banking Group on the disposal of its 50% interest in Sainsbury's Bank and acted for Canaccord Genuity and Jefferies as joint sponsors and bookrunners on the £300 million flotation of The Renewables Infrastructure Group.
Mohamed Nurmohamed, partner, Latham & Watkins (Age 35)
Nurmohamed, who was promoted to the partnership in January 2013, advises global financial institutions, private equity sponsors and major corporations with a focus on cross-border leveraged finance deals. He spent much of 2013 on secondment to client JP Morgan. There, he advised the credit group – a team that is central to every leveraged finance transaction that the bank is engaged on and which operates as both a credit and executions team. Most notably, he played a role in advising JP Morgan as it sought to develop its own legal processes and as it led the surge in 2013 in the use of cashless rollover mechanisms, a technology that enables the exchange of existing loan terms for new or amended ones.
Since returning to Latham & Watkins in September, he has represented Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland on a €1.45 billion refinancing package for Tank & Rast and JP Morgan on the €470 million refinancing of Spanish theme park operator PortAventura ."
Prakash Paran, partner, DLA Piper (Age 37)
Paran has helped DLA Piper push its regional insurance practice up a level since he joined the firm in 2012 to run its European insurance sector group. The firm hired Paran one year after he had been promoted to partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf, which later slipped into administration. He moved over as part of a global team that was led out of New York by partner William Marcoux, previously co-head of insurance and now head of global insurance transactions and regulatory.
Since then, Paran has won the firm work with AIG, AXA and Catlin among others. In 2013, he advised on Zurich's sale of Eagle Star's $273 million general insurance business to RiverStone and on Tawa's reorganisation and demerger.
Lauren Pau, managing director and managing counsel, Bank of New York Mellon (Age 37)
In September 2013, Pau left her role as a senior associate in Weil Gotshal & Manges' capital markets team to join BNY Mellon, and she has already been involved in projects that have won the attention of her peers. She worked on the privatisation of Romanian utility Romgaz, by way of an initial public offering of global depositary receipts on the London Stock Exchange. This has potentially opened up a new market for Romanian issuers. In November 2013, she was appointed as a member of the consultative working group to the European Securities and Markets Authority's corporate finance standing committee, putting her in a key position to advise Esma on matters relating to its European securities laws legislative agenda.
Richard Perris, managing director legal, CVC Capital Partners (Age 35)
Perris, a former Clifford Chance private equity lawyer, joined CVC in 2005 at a time when the buyout firm had a limited legal function. He has since gone on to build a structured six-strong legal department. While still handling some deal work, he spends most of his time on internal corporate advice.
He was heavily involved when CVC bought external shareholders into the business in 2012, and when the firm acquired and integrated Resource America's leveraged loan investments unit in 2012 to expand in the US. In 2013, Perris took a front seat on the legal elements of CVC's €10.5 billion flagship European fundraising. This was the third-largest fundraising by a European private equity fund manager, and took place as Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive came into effect, further adding to its complexity.
David Pinder, head of legal for alternatives, Aberdeen Asset Management (Age 35)
Pinder joined Aberdeen as part of the firm's acquisition of Royal Bank of Scotland's asset management business in 2010 and has continued to be involved in M&A deals for the fund manager. He led the legal team working on the strategic partnership between Aberdeen and SVG Advisers, a £17.5 million deal that completed in February 2013. He is also advising on the acquisition of Scottish Widows Investment Partners, focusing on the private equity, infrastructure and alternatives part of the company. A former Hogan Lovells lawyer, Pinder also managed Aberdeen's compliance with the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, which regulates hedge funds and private equity firms.
Chris Pyper, head of AHL, FRM & finance, legal, Man Group (Age 37)
Pyper, who has worked at Man Group for nearly a decade, was handed his fourth promotion at the firm in January 2013 when he was appointed the legal and regulatory head for global product development in the quantitative division AHL, its investment specialist FRM and its finance department.In this role, he helped the firm restructure the AHL platform by overseeing the implementation of a new partnership structure and the roll-out of commission sharing across the product range. In 2013, he led the group's legal team in negotiating multibillion-dollar master service agreements with JP Morgan on behalf of FRM, and managed the implementation of these new arrangements across about 100 of FRM's funds.
Yen Sum, partner, Linklaters (Age 38)
Since making partner in 2010, Sum has emerged as one of the rising stars of the Linklaters finance practice. She has been widely credited with strengthening the firm's banking relationships as well as establishing new ties to alternative capital providers in the leveraged finance and distressed space. She is managing relationship partner for Barclays as well as being responsible for leading the firm's strategy in the alternative credit and hedge funds space. Her recent work includes advising the senior creditors on the £2.3 billion restructuring of hibu (formerly Yell); the ad hoc committee of noteholders in relation to gaming group Codere; and the senior creditors and shareholders in relation to Marken's financing, restructuring and post-restructuring 'amend and extend' transactions.
Nick Swinburne, partner, Clifford Chance (Age 39)
Swinburne has played a key role developing the global asset finance market for transport assets in the wake of the credit crunch. He has been at the cutting edge of advising airlines and aircraft lessors on tapping the capital markets and other alternative funding sources, as money from banks and export credit agencies has dried up. Boeing estimates that global capital markets will provide nearly a quarter of aircraft financing in 2014, up from 3% in 2010. Swinburne has been instrumental in facilitating that shift, not least thanks to his work for British Airways on its $928 million enhanced equipment trust certificates deal to fund 14 aircraft. That was the largest issuance of its type since 2008, the first EETC using English and US law and the first using Japanese equity investment.
James Taylor, partner, Mayer Brown (Age 37)
Taylor joined Mayer Brown in December 2012 as a partner, having previously been a senior associate in the London and Moscow offices of Allen & Overy. He is helping to strengthen Mayer Brown's capital markets brand by advising underwriting banks and state-owned and private companies on some of the most innovative equity-linked instruments coming to market. A highlight in 2013 was acting for Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi on the establishment of its $3 billion global medium-term note programme, which marked the first time a Turkish issuer had set up such a platform. He also acted for Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri on its inaugural €300 million bond offering and advised the Trade and Development Bank of Mongolia on the country's first dim sum bond offering.
Neil Tomlinson, general counsel, corporate, Schroders (Age 36)
Tomlinson played a key role in bringing about the successful completion of the firm's £424 million acquisition of Cazenove Capital in July 2013. The acquisition was a rare moment when Schroders had entered the mergers and acquisitions market. Supported by a team of four, Tomlinson helped to enhance synergies in the merger of the firms' product lines and has been on hand to advise on concerns relating to client experience and talent retention throughout the process. Based in London, Tomlinson joined Schroders as legal counsel in 2011 and was given his current role in December 2012. Prior to Schroders, Tomlinson spent three years as legal counsel at hedge fund RAB Capital and just under six years at Eversheds.
Peter Wright, partner, Fox Williams (Age 38)
Wright joined Fox Williams in mid-2011 from the Financial Services Authority, where he was a member of the enforcement division's legal group. Now leading Fox Williams' financial services group, which he built from scratch, he has attracted partner James Carlton, a specialist in white-collar crime, to join him. The team has since been winning work in both contentious and non-contentious financial services.In 2013, Wright led the team conducting the first-ever winding-up of a credit union in the High Court on behalf of the North Yorkshire Credit Union. He has since advised on the winding up of three other unions. Wright is also acting for individuals in the Financial Conduct Authority's enquiries and investigations into the manipulation of commodities and Libor benchmarks.
Khasruz Zaman, head of M&A legal, Barclays (Age 38)
Zaman is the inhouse lawyer responsible for advising on mergers and acquisitions for the entire Barclays group, across all business areas and jurisdictions. Having joined Barclays in 2006, after 10 years at Slaughter and May and then Lovells, he is leading on the creation of a separate retail ring-fenced bank in compliance with the new UK Banking Reform Act. In 2013, he executed over a dozen deals, the main highlight involving the merger of Barclays' African operations with Absa to create a pan-African listed group. He also led on the negotiation of the underwriting agreements for Barclays' £5.8 billion capital raising and worked on the acquisition of ING Direct UK, a business with about £11 billion of deposits and 1.5 million customers.
Over the past three months, Financial News canvassed the market for opinion and drew up a longlist of more than 200 potential rising stars. All nominees had to be under 40 on February 24, based in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, and working in private practice and in-house across investment banking, asset management, insurance companies, and corporates where a large part of their remit involves working with the capital markets. Candidates were then assessed by FN's editorial panel on four criteria: achievements to date given their age, the stature of their mentors, firepower at their disposal and their potential to reach a position of great influence. The list is not ranked.
• Correction: An earlier version of this article had an incorrect spelling of Maegen Morrison. This was amended on February 24, 2014


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Former city attorney identified as driver in fatal crashBy Brent Curtis
STAFF WRITER | April 12,2013Former longtime Rutland City attorney Christopher Sullivan has been identified as the driver in the hit-and-run crash that killed a 71-year-old Mendon woman on Wednesday night.
Sullivan, 53, who served under two Rutland mayors during a 19-year career in municipal government, has not been charged with a crime, according to Police Chief James Baker.
But police said charges are pending in the case, which is being reviewed by both the Rutland County states attorneys office and the Vermont attorney generals office.
Sullivan, through his attorney, turned over the vehicle he was driving Wednesday night to detectives with the city and Vermont State Police who are investigating the death of Mary Jane Outslay.
Police said the elderly woman was walking to her car at about 8 p.m. Wednesday after having dinner with a friend in downtown Rutland when she was struck by a southbound vehicle near the intersection of Strongs Avenue and Wales Street.
The vehicle that hit Outslay was travelling at sufficient speed to knock the woman about 50 feet from the point of impact, police said. The speed limit where the crash took place is 30 mph.
Asked whether investigators had any knowledge of Sullivans involvement before contact was made by his attorney, Baker said he couldnt get into the details of the ongoing investigation.
Through his attorney he has cooperated and provided his vehicle, the chief said.
The whereabouts of the vehicle, which police did not describe, was not revealed Thursday. However, a back bay at the citys fire station on Center Street was closed and the windows were sealed with plastic wrap Thursday. Asked if a vehicle was impounded at the station, Assistant Fire Chief Francis Robillard directed inquiries to city police.
Baker said a press conference will be held today at 2 p.m. to give further details about the investigation. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call city police at 773-1816.
Barry Griffith, a lawyer representing Sullivan, could not be reached for comment Thursday night and a woman who answered the phone at Sullivans Rutland home said he couldnt come to the phone and would not return calls.
Police did not release details about how fast Sullivan was driving, why the crash occurred, or an explanation of why he failed to stop at the scene.
Rutland County States Attorney Marc Brierre said Thursday evening he couldnt comment. However, Attorney General William Sorrell said his office has agreed to help the local prosecutors with the case.
We were asked by the Rutland County states attorneys office to be involved and we agreed readily, Sorrell said.
The attorney general said he didnt know whether his office would assist the local prosecutors office or whether his attorneys would take over the case.
Asked about the review of the case thus far, Sorrell said he couldnt comment. However, he did say Sullivans decision to cooperate with investigators would factor into the case.
I think I can say that someone who is trying to evade detection is different from someone who comes forward and cooperates, Sorrell said. How much different remains to be seen.
Outslays family said Thursday evening that they were digesting the news and limited their comment on the identification of Sullivan as the driver: We are expressing shock and grief with the facts that have come forth.
The family also thanked members of the community for their condolences and voiced thanks to the police, firefighters and paramedics who tried to save Outslays life.
Sullivan lost his job as city attorney in 2007 when Mayor Christopher Louras began his administration. He has worked as a private attorney since that time.
From 1988 to 1995, Sullivan was the citys assistant attorney and grand juror. In 1995, he was elevated to city attorney.
Former Mayor Jeffrey Wennberg said Thursday he worked with Sullivan for years and remembered in detail his hard work with the Board of Aldermen.
Im focusing on the history to get my mind off the news, Wennberg said. Honestly, I cant process this right now.
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Mrs. Forwood was born Jan. 10, 1945, in Beeville to Felix and Ramona Naranjo.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James Forwood; two brothers, Louis C. Naranjo and Richard C. Naranjo; and two sisters, Ofelia N. Luna and Felicita N. Montez.
Survivors include two sons, Johnny (Judy) Baltazar of Johnstown, Ohio, and Danny Baltazar of Normanna; four daughters, Irene (Paul) Posada of Harlingen, Jo Ann (Brian) Mitchell of Peculiar, Mo., Lisa (Mark) Duffey of Belton, Mo., and Amy Forwood of Normanna; two sisters, Ortencia (Joe Henry) Martinez of San Antonio and Alegaria (Ted) Neal of Green Core Spring, Fla.; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
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Zermeno, who served two years as the city's finance officer, will remain at City Hall after being promoted to city administrator during the city council's Feb. 19 meeting. Council unanimously approved the selection of Zermeno, who immediately began adjusting personnel to fill two vacant positions.
"My main priority is staff realignment," said Zermeno, who had served as interim city administrator since Sereniah Breland handed in her resignation in September. "We want to get staff responsibilities set up. We have a number of initiatives that the city has undertaken that have kind of taken a beating because we've been short-staffed."
Zermeno said the city won't fill his former position of finance officer, but he has given former utility billing clerk Brenda Moses the title of financial specialist and she will work with a consultant and Zermeno over financial affairs of the city.
"We have a consultant who helped us prepare for the audit and we're going to engage her maybe once a month," Zermeno said. "We'll have her review some of the statements and work with Brenda and, of course, I'll be here to oversee what's going on in regards to the finance officer position."
Zermeno also listed improvements to the city's water recycling plant as a main priority.
Zermeno is also looking at options to fill the economic development director position left vacant by Bridgette Bise's resignation in November.
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LAS VEGAS ( TheStreet) -- Doomsday prophecies abound for Dec. 21. If it's true that's the end of the world, there's no better place to spend your final hours exhausting your bucket list than in Las Vegas, a city of excess where you can live life to the fullest. TravelsinTaste has some suggestions for you whether you'd like to have a meal of a lifetime, max out your credit cards, live like a celebrity or even have that long-postponed wedding. After all, if the world doesn't end, at least anything that happens in Vegas will stay in Vegas.
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Want to try a meal by Chef of the Century Joel Robuchon ? His eponymous restaurant in the MGM is just the place for gourmands to have the meal of a lifetime. Having come out of retirement to open his first United States restaurant, he has transformed the Las Vegas dining scene. For your magnificent meal you can either choose from a 16-course tasting menu including Robuchon's specialties such as Le Caviar, a trio dish of thin couscous and Osetra caviar, smooth cauliflower cream and delicate gelee of green asparagus, in addition to La Langoustine Truffled langoustine ravioli with chopped cabbage, Le Bar pan-fried sea bass with five spices served with verjus sauce. Or simply try one of everything off the a la carte menu. After all, after the world ends who cares about the calories?
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After dinner it's a must to join in on Las Vegas' famous lavish nightlife scene, complete with celebrity sightings at one of the strip's newest hotspots, 1 Oak at The Mirage. Known for its A-list clientele, from Katie Perry and Fergie to John Legend, here is where you can rub elbows with the celebrities -- or even request their preferred tables -- and soak up 16,000 square feet of sexy while sipping sensational cocktails and taking in the music.


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Coal Run Cemetery's history began in early 1800s
COAL RUN – "Too fair, too dear for mortals here, her saviour called her home. But we are left to drop a tear and mourn her early doom."
So reads the epitaph of Harriet Cowee, whose final resting place is the oldest gravesite in the Coal Run Cemetery behind the Church of Christ just off Tick Hill Road near the Adams/Waterford townships' border.
"She was just 28 years old when she died in 1835, and was buried here 19 years before this became a cemetery in 1854," said Phillip Crane, researcher for the Lower Muskingum Historical Society.
The gravestone identifies Harriet as "consort of Seneca Cowee," who came to Ohio from Vermont and married Harriet-his second wife-in 1830.
Harriett Cowee was a daughter of Benjamin McAtee, who transferred the Coal Run property for a church and cemetery to the Christian Church in 1854.
"The deed says McAtee sold the property for $40 to trustees of the Christian Church at Fair Play in Adams Township," Crane said. "But it couldn't be the Fair Play area we know today that's located on the other side of the Muskingum River, because the deed said the cemetery land was part of 100 acres on the south side of the Marietta and Chandlersville Road."
He said that roadway was an original stagecoach route that ran north to Chandlersville in Muskingum County.
Benjamin McAtee was born in 1781 in Virginia, and died in 1872 at the ripe old age of 91 at Coal Run, outliving his wife, Winny B. McAtee, who was 59 years old when she died in 1838, according to Crane.
"One curiosity is that the McAtee name was spelled 'Mackata' in the 1820 census," Crane noted. "The census-taker at that time apparently just spelled the name phonetically."
Also among the graves in Coal Run Cemetery are several soldiers who served in the Civil War and World War I.
The Coal Run Cemetery is located about a half mile from Ohio 60 on Waterford Township Road 722. Although located behind the Christian Church-now the Church of Christ-the cemetery is maintained by the Waterford Township Trustees.
Township Trustee Matt Cavanaugh said no one has been buried in the graveyard for at least 18 years.
"There are a lot of older graves, and some of the stones are crumbling," he said. "But we do get some calls-maybe one or two a month-from people interested in locating the cemetery or trying to trace their family histories."


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General: My Pile of 'research'.
I received an email from a distant cousin who found my website after doing a search for one of their uncles. They wanted to know if I wanted some additional information on that part of the family. I thought to myself, I've already got the details of the children of the couple but when I checked by Legacy database, I found that I didn't. I still thought I did have the information that I received from another connection to that family so last night I went through my pile of paper (notes, printed documents, things to do, filing) and I discovered two things: Yes, I did have the information though all I have is the list of names (no birth, marriage or death dates). The other thing I discovered when going through my pile was that there were things that I had searched previously on, and I have either handwritten or printed out information and placed in the to do tray but never done anything with it. Whilst going through it I realised I have duplicated my recent research. For example, I found some printed UK census records from FindMyPast (print date is 2003….!) and I thought I've just done that the other week.
When it comes to my Birth Death Marriage certificates that I have collected, my filing, storing and recording of the sources of that is fine, My problem really lies in the other stuff that I find, that is either connected or not connected. In some cases, I'm recording things and in other cases, I'm not but in all it just sits there in the pile to look at again oneday.
So what I need to do is to record my research, file into my folders and update my Legacy database as I find something and not leave it for another day. What I tend to do though is do a help of research and I tell my self that I'll update the database later. Doesn't always happen that way. I get side tracked into something else. I love the research bit. I can sit here all day trolling the internet, looking at sites, such as FindMyPast and be happy that I've discovered something. It's the updating of the database and filing all that other research I'm a little bit behind in.
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Have a horde of house guests coming for the holidays? (Can't they just stay in a hotel? Kidding, kidding. We love them.)
Don't panic. The Home Sale has everything – and I mean everything – you need to make every out-of-towner feel at-ease and leave ever-impressed. Here are a few quick tips to get you started.
Tuck some crisp sheets in tight and load up on the pillows. It's probably a tad chilly outside, so leave a few extra blankets stacked on a chair, just in case. Guests are always apprehensive about asking for things (even when we tell them to make themselves at home).
Coffee & Toast
Is there anything better in the morning? (Okay, maybe pancakes.) But there's no need to go overboard – you're probably preparing the big dinner feast. Have coffee brewing, offer some fruit or toast, and take them to your favorite breakfast diner.
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1935: "Mutiny on the Bounty" tells the story of Captain Bligh and a British sailing ship, the Bounty.
1936: "The Great Ziegfeld" shows the trials and tribulations of Florenz Ziegfeld, a producer of spectacular shows.
1937: "The Life of Emile Zola" is the biography of French writer Emile Zola.
1966: "A Man For All Seasons" tells the story of Thomas More, who stood up to Henry VIII when the king rejected the Catholic church.
1970: "Patton" tells the story of General Patton's career during World War II.
1982: "Gandhi" portrays the life of Mahatma Gandhi.
1984: "Amadeus" gives a biographical look at Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
1985: "Out Of Africa" tells the story of a Danish baroness who has an affair with a big-game hunter.
Hoosiers (1986) - A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.
1987: "The Last Emperor" tells the story of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China.
A League of Their Own (1992) - Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
Rudy (1993) - Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.
1993: "Schindler's List" tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi who saved his Jewish workforce during World War II.
1995: "Braveheart" tells the story of Scottish rebel William Wallace, who leads an uprising against the English ruler.
Remember the Titans (2000) - The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
2001: "A Beautiful Mind" tells the story of John Nash, a math professor who struggles with mental illness.
The Rookie (2002) - A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.
Seabiscuit (2003) - True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Radio (2003) - The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man whom he took under his wing.
Miracle (2004) - Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.
Friday Night Lights (2004) - Based on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) - A golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where 20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman, Harry Vardon.
Coach Carter (2005) - Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
Cinderella Man (2005) - The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.
We Are Marshall (2006) - When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Invincible (2006) - Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
Blind Side (2009) - Based on the story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a loving woman and her family.
2010: "The King's Speech" shows King George VI's struggle with a speech disorder as he rises to the throne.
The Fighter (2010) - A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.
Moneyball (2011) - Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
Lee Daniels' The Butler ( 2013): Forest Whitaker plays Cecil Gaines, a butler who served eight U.S. presidents in the White House. The movie is based on a true story.
Rush (2013): A film that showcases the 1970s rivalry between Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
Captain Phillips (2013): This tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013): This movie tells the story of Ron Woodroof, a man diagnosed with HIV who turns to alternative methods to get medication he hopes will save his life.
Diana (2013): Naomi Watts portrays Princess Diana in this movie that depicts the last two years of Diana's life and tells of an affair she had with a Pakistani heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan.
In 2014, Wahlberg played Marcus Luttrell in "Lone Survivor," which tells the story of a failed mission by SEAL Team 10.
Cesar Chavez (2014): Michael Pena stars in a movie that depicts the life of the civil-rights activist.
Get On Up (2014): Chadwick Boseman stars as James Brown in the movie that tells the story of his rise to fame.
When the Game Stands Tall (2014): Jim Caviezel stars as Bob Ladouceur, a high school football coach who led his team to a record 151-game winning streak.
"Unbroken" (2014): Jack O'Connell stars as Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
"Selma" (2015): "Selma" tells the story of Martin Luther King Jr. and the march he led from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965.
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Even with a government shutdown in effect Tuesday morning, certain elements of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act are set to take effect.
CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger explained some of the plans.
If you have insurance already, the open enrollment will not affect you at all and you do not need to take action, Schlesinger explained.
"If you have insurance through your employer, if you're on Medicare, if you're on Medicaid, if your child is covered by CHIP, you're on COBRA, relax, take a deep breath," she said on "CBS This Morning." "You don't have to do anything. You are covered."
Otherwise, it all depends on how much you make, whether you are looking for individual or family coverage, and how much coverage you want.
Those who are affected can begin shopping for health care coverage Tuesday at HealthCare.gov.
The shopping experience, Schlesinger said on "CBS This Morning," is like booking a flight on a travel website like Travelocity. She explained, "What you need to know is if you go to one of these marketplaces at HealthCare.gov, you're going to be led to a question that says 'where do you live?' because each state has something different. When you get there, you're going to see different types of coverage for each — say like covering 60 percent to 90 percent of your health care costs. You can choose it.
"You're going to a place, you're comparing costs, you're choosing coverage," she said. "That's what you need to know."
Here are the important dates to know as the health care roll-out begins:
• Oct. 1, 2013 – Open enrollment starts;
• Jan. 1, 2014 – Health coverage starts;
• March 31, 2014 – Open enrollment ends.
The exchanges are basically no more than a computerized system to help everyone find the right plan.
As for reported problems with the website, Schlesinger said on "CBS This Morning," "With any roll-out there are going to be glitches, but the concept should be easy. … From October 1 all the way through March 31, you have a chance to get coverage. Again, if you don't have insurance. If you have insurance, you don't have to do anything."
And as for those who do not sign up by the end of the year, they will be paying a penalty. For 2014, the penalty will be at $95 per year for each uninsured adult in the household – capped at $285 per household – or 1 percent of an your income.
The cost rises over the next couple of the years. By 2016, it will be $695 per person – capped at $2,085 per household — or 2 percent of your income.
As for Medicare, higher-income Medicare beneficiaries – those who earn more than $85,000 per person – will pay slightly more for their prescription drug coverage, or Medicare Part D. This is expected to affect about 5 percent of beneficiaries.
Source: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/30/the-affordable-care-act-how-does-enrollment-work/


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My son is 8 weeks old and has been supplemented with formula since he was a few days old. Is it possible for me to breastfeed him exclusively??? I always nurse him before giving him formula. I have been trying to pump more often the past few days and I have been drinking the mother's milk tea. Any suggestions on how I can increase my milk supply??
Also someone told me that oatmeal can help, is that true?


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Is there more plastic debris spread upon the American landscape than stars in the sky? I think so.
The spread of litter and trash may have reached the point of no return, as far as our ability as a people to turn back the clock and reverse this stain upon our nation, making the United States one of the dirtiest places in the world. The ever-present evidence shows clearly our loss of a "land ethic."
Two aspects of our consumer society—individuals and corporations—are guilty of causing this behavior. Convenient fast products are sold in mass quantities to individuals by corporations that promote and manufacture these products in a free market. Convenience has taken over, becoming a force that leads to this sign of social degeneration. Convenience needs to be defined as being absent or free from responsibility. For example, a corporation like Coke or Pepsi or any giant plastic-producing enterprise makes products for the open market. This is the cause; the effect is pollution, litter and trash, in amounts so great one cannot escape these eyesores and the offensive sight that stands before us. So what do corporations do as a direct result of their products' impacts? Nothing.
Buying their products also makes you responsible and depending on who you are, you either do or not accept the responsibility. However, when the result is mass pollution, for which only the corporation can be held responsible, they still are not held responsible. No sense of social responsibility is forthcoming from the corporations that make the products that pollute.
On their own, corporations already should have voluntarily initiated a workforce that receives payment for cleaning up their mess and for encouraging proper social attitudes and actions that would keep the nation clean and free from their products' waste. For example; shouldn't they be helping the National Parks, our nations' gems, stay clean through a litter abatement labor force? (The National Park Service has suffered much from recent budget cuts, while corporations receive more and more tax breaks). This responsibility is passed off to the public through feeble recycling and clean communities' programs that, in reality, do little to combat this corporate phenomenon.
The thing is, we believe America is beautiful, but we ignore or deny what has happened to our land and its people. Is not the "loss of a land ethic" a form of mental illness—a systemic result of mass production of convenience that encourages this negative impact, even as we deny it at the same time?
If there was truly a love of our country, call it patriotism if you will, then our landscapes would be clean, or there would be an uproar by Congress to stop what has happened to our country. Corporations have the money and our economy is controlled by them; this model serves them, not the people, from the spread of sprawl and development of shopping malls to the never ending result of the trash that this way of life leaves behind. It shows the difference between a real nation and a land that has lost its sense of responsibility.
One nation under God. We are a nation divided by greed and by an economic system that has outlived its purpose and meaning. No land ethic, no nation. Freedom is a farce and the dynamic of consumerism only suits the selfish. The more money one has, the more one wants; this, too, is a kind of mental illness.
America needs to clean its house, literally, and corporations need to be made responsible.
[Nick Homyak is from Lake Hiawatha, NJ.]


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MVPedrioa!!!! (and also Albert Pujols for the NL)
The MVPs were announced during the past two days. Albert Pujols won in the NL, and Ryan Howard came in second. Oddly enough, I barely heard any talk about Pujols winning the MVP, much more about the Phillies' potential to win a third in a row. They were talking about Ryan Howard or Chase Utley. That would've been crazy though. Congratulations to Pujols, he's a great player, and has one hell of a career average.
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I couldn't agree more! Congrats to Dustin & Albert! My question – how did one AL MVP voter leave Dusty off their ballot?
That is just so cool! He totally deserves it. Plus the Gold Glove and the Sliver Slugger, wow. He might need to buy a new trophy shelf!


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September – November 2013
HEDY HABRA will present on her book MUNDOS ALTERNOS Y ARTISITICOS EN VARGAS LLOSA. Hedy Habra demuestra la aptitud de los personajes para crear mundos posibles en la obra del Nobel peruano.
Hedy Habra, author of Flying Carpets and Tea in Heliopolis takes us on a journey in space and time to Egypt and Lebanon through a storyteller's and a poet's eyes.
ORI author Timothy Egan discusses his book, The Worst Hard Time, concerning the Great American Dust Bowl and those who survived it. See the 7:00 PM listing for more information.
Information for obtaining a $1 Visitor Parking Permit is available at http://www.oswego.edu/administration/parking/guests.html
This is can't-put-it-down history. – Walter Cronkite
Timothy Egan, the 2013 Oswego Reading Initiative (ORI) author discusses his book, The Worst Hard Time which won the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction and about the Dust Bowl. He also shares a 2001 Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of New York Times reporters for their series, "How Race is Lived in America." Egan is an online, op-ed columnist for the New York Times and a regular contributor to BBC Radio. His most recent book is Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward S. Curtis.
More at TimothyEgan.com
The Living Writers Series continues with poet Philip Pardi and a discussion about the craft of poetry. His first book, Meditations on Rising and Falling, won the Brittingham Poetry Prize and the Writers' League of Texas Poetry Award. A former human rights activist and labor organizer, Pardi teaches at Bard College.
For more, read Pardi's "How a Poem Happens."
The Living Writers Series continues with playwright Tammy Ryan, author of Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods, a full-length play that won the Francesca Primus Prize in 2012, awarded by the American Theater Critics Association. Ryan's plays have been performed across the United States and internationally, with eight of her fourteen plays being produced by the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Ryan talks about the process of playwriting and the influence that having an "artistic Home" has had on her work.
Prize-winning fiction and nonfiction writer BK Loren will speak about Theft, her debut novel. The novel is an exploration into how and why we need family, (however it is defined), and how beauty is dependent upon loss. Loren will speak about why focusing on publishing can kill a story, and the crossovers and differences between creative nonfiction and fiction.
"Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. Tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever." That anonymous quote captures an insight that makes sense to Cynthia Bishop, a storyteller who grew up in Greece, Italy and Egypt. As a young person, she collected folk tales from around the world, and as a founding member of Salt City Storytellers, Bishop learned to perform traditional as well as personal tales. She will perform some of those tales for us, and will talk about her work as a storyteller and as a narrator of audio books for youth.


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Mizuno Elixir 7 has the winning formula as a versatile shoe that's ready to handle tempo runs, daily training and race day.
We liked the Wave Elixir 6. We pretty much love the Wave Elixir 7. There's nothing earth-shattering about the update – you can see above that no big changes were made – but everything comes together to generate big praise from a wide range of runners on staff.
Both Daniel and Matt, who regularly run in the Asics DS Trainer series, were particular fans of this shoe. Like the DS Trainer, the Elixir 7 has a light and flexible feel, but the shoe lets you know it has you covered for the long-haul with just the right amount of cushioning. The shoe also carries on Mizuno's reputation for solid build quality. The outsole seemed just a little too fussy for daily training use, but we haven't heard any negative customer comments about similar outsole designs on prior Elixir models.
If you're looking for a ride that lets you feel connected to the ground, with a silky smooth transition and enough cushion to go the distance, Elixir 7 needs to be on your list.
This is my kind of ride. It has a tautness about it which feels great at faster paces. Definitely a performance shoe, but for me this is the kind of shoe I will use for any distance. My only complaint is that the heel feels stiff when walking, but hey this is a running shoe.
I feel very connected to the ground in this shoe. I didn't feel this way about the Elixir 6, but I would totally make the 7 my daily trainer.
Very cushioned in heel...makes me think 'Is this really a Mizuno?' The second-skin fit and responsive forefoot make me happy. Finally this shoe feels like serious competition to the DS Trainer for me.