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JO ANN
TO
DIRECTORS
April 11,
2008,
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face='Times' color='black'>Jo Ann J. Brighton
face='Times' color='black'>of Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman,
LLP (
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since 1996 and frequent speaker at
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education boards, and has been a contributing editor to the
Review. Shewill serve
a term of three years on the 60-member
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restructuring, representing institutions and lenders in all areas of
commercial and bankruptcy law. Her work has included such matters
as syndicated debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing loans,
litigation in bankruptcy court involving relief-from-stay motions, cash
collateral, extension of exclusivity, DIP arrangements, disclosure
statements and plans of reorganization, and negotiation, documentation
and restructuring of loan obligations. Brighton is also a member of the
International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation and
recently became a Fellow of the
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The complete list of directors
and officers is available at
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