Leading Global Outsourcing Lawyer Joins Morgan Lewis: John Funk Joins Morgan Lewis to Spearhead the Firm’s Initiative to Further Expand its International Outsourcing Capabilities

New York and Dallas, May 1, 2006 — Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is pleased to announce that John A. Funk has joined the firm as a partner in its International Outsourcing Practice. Mr. Funk, the former head of outsourcing for Jones Day, brings more than 25 years of extensive experience representing clients in complex information technology and business process outsourcing transactions to the firm's well-established practice in this area. He will be spearheading the firm’s efforts to further expand our international outsourcing capabilities.

"John adds further depth to our already highly regarded outsourcing practice," said David W. Pollak, Co-Leader of the firm's Business and Finance Practice. "Clients will continue to benefit as we build a team of lawyers in this area that few firms can match," he continued. Mr. Funk will work closely with Morgan Lewis partners in the United States, Europe and Asia, as outsourcing continues to grow as a key corporate strategy for many clients.

Mr. Funk's practice primarily focuses on business process outsourcing and information technology outsourcing, with significant global and offshore experience. Chambers lists Mr. Funk as a leader in the business process outsourcing market and describes him as a "seasoned veteran" and as "one of the premier providers on the customer side." Mr. Funk is resident primarily in the firm's Dallas office.

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John Funk follows outsourcing partners Akiba Stern and Ed Hansen, who joined Morgan Lewis from Shaw Pittman’s New York office last year. The practice also includes partners Barbara Melby and Michael Pillion.

The more than 20 lawyers in the Outsourcing Practice at Morgan Lewis have a long history of structuring and negotiating complex outsourcing and managed services agreements. Morgan Lewis' outsourcing attorneys represent clients in a wide range of transactions—ranging from global IT outsourcing agreements to business process outsourcing agreements for such processes as human resources, finance and accounting, logistics, call centers and claim processing. The firm offers experience across numerous regulated industries, with particular focus on the life sciences, energy and financial services industries. The lawyers are able to draw on their own specialized skills as well as from the resources of many key practice areas throughout the firm, including labor and employee benefits, data privacy, tax and intellectual property.

About Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Morgan Lewis is a global law firm with more than 1,200 lawyers in 20 offices located in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Harrisburg, Irvine, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information about Morgan Lewis, please visit www.morganlewis.com.

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