SHAUB & WILLIAMS, LLP, Los Angeles, California.

The firm has associated with the Shaub & Williams firm for twenty-five years. The affiliation with the Shaub & Williams Firm adds the following valuable capabilities to the Firm’s existing intellectual property capabilities:

• Complex business litigation
• Transnational litigation, consulting and coordinating with foreign counsel
• Arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings
• Intellectual property infringement
• Copyright, digital technology infringement
• Misappropriation of trade secrets
• Corporate, shareholder, and partnership disputes
• Employment issues
• Related insurance claims coverage and business torts

LAW OFFICES OF DAVID A. MAKMAN , San Mateo, California.

David Makman heads is a San Francisco bay area firm that focuses on international legal issues involving technology, including dispute avoidance,dispute resolution, litigation, and transactional matters, such as licensing, financing, IP strategy, standards work and policy work. The Makman Firm adds the following capabilities to the Firm’s existing capabilities:

• Serving as Trial Counsel in intellectual property litigation disputes, particularly in the Pacific Rim
• Arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings
• Commercial litigation disputes, such as shareholder disputes, merger and acquisition disputes or contract disputes
• Domestic and international business entity formation and financing
• International policy and position analysis and counseling

CORPORON & KATZ, LLC, Centennial, Colorado.

Corporon & Katz is a Denver, Colorado law firm specializing in franchise, business and real estate law and serves client domestically and internationally. With over 75 years of combined law practice and trial experience, they add the following valuable capabilities:

• Franchise law for Franchisors
• Franchise law for Franchisees
• Domestic and international business entity formation, including corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships
• Business reorganizations
• Corporate and commercial contract drafting and negotiating
• Real estate transactions