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New Ideas, Lasting Solutions
SPONSORS
Vera thanks these generous organizations and individuals for supporting Vera’s annual benefit event,
New Ideas, Lasting Solutions held on September 23, 2008.
PRESENTING SPONSOR
Evercore Partners
LEAD SPONSOR
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
INNOVATOR
Allen & Overy LLP
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The Starr Foundation
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
DIRECTOR
Citi
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Linklaters LLP
REFORMER
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation
The Dermot Company
Forest City Ratner Companies
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Anne and Vincent Mai
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Perry Capital, LLC
Laurie O. Robinson and Sheldon Krantz
Lynn and John F. Savarese
Ralph and Jane Schlosstein
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
PARTNER
Apollo Real Estate Advisors
Arnold & Porter LLP
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance US LLP
ConEdison
Covington & Burling LLP
Paul Curnin and Penny Shane
Dechert LLP
DLA Piper
John Feinblatt, Aber Unger Foundation
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
FTI Consulting
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Kekst and Company Incorporated
Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP
Walter P. Loughlin and Catherine Woodman
Bobbie and David Margolis
Catie Marshall
Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C.
NERA Economic Consulting
S. Andrew Schaffer
Karen and Sam Seymour
Sidley Austin LLP
Stillman, Friedman & Shechtman, P.C.
Nicholas Turner and Theresa Trzaskoma
Wiggin and Dana Counsellors at Law
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP