The Souffront Group has  extensive and  diverse expertise in a broad  range  of disciplines
from business, corporate and securities law,  risk management,  compliance and  corporate
governance to  the  entire spectrum of  banking, capital markets and financial  transactions.
The Group’s experience spans  markets  worldwide  including  the  structuring,  negotiation
and   documentation  of  a  wide range of  complex   international  and   domestic  business,
corporate, banking and commercial transactions. It has successfully consummated a myriad
of international and  domestic joint ventures,  strategic alliances, mergers,   divestiture  and
acquisitions,  as  well  as  commercial,   corporate,  trade,  structured  and  project   finance
transactions.

In  addition, The   Souffront   Group  has   broad  experience  in  project  and  infrastructure
development and finance including the representation of  private  and  multilateral  financial
institutions, international and domestic infrastructure project developers  nd  sponsors,  US
utilities, as  well  as  telecommunications  service  providers,  institutional and private equity
investors, equipment  manufacturers  and  engineering  and  construction  companies in the
development, financing, privatization, acquisition, restructuring  and divestiture of numerous
international and domestic energy and infrastructure projects throughout Latin America, the
Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the United States.

Furthermore,  The  Souffront  Group  is  a leading provider of conflict assessment, analysis,
management  and  alternative  dispute  resolution  services.  The Group  offers clients and
parties  with  the  required  expertise  to  address  and   resolve,  in a cost and time efficient
manner, a wide range of international and domestic disputes through a suite of out-of-court
conflict   analysis   and   dispute   resolution   services.  Our  services  range  from  Dispute
Avoidance,  Early  Resolution,  Early  Neutral  and  Impartial  Evaluation,   Dispute  Review
Boards,  Fact-Finding   and   Mini-Trial   to   Structured  Settlement   Optional   Conciliation
Mediation and Arbitration. Any  of  these  methods  are  provided  whether on a stand-alone
basis  or  in  combination,  so  that  parties  and  counterparties  to  a  potential   or  existing
dispute  can  tailor  and   choose  those  methods  and  techniques  more  suitable  to  their
particular  situation  and  nature  of  dispute  and  their  own set of facts, circumstances and
needs.

The   Souffront   Group  brings  to  bear significant subject-matter and technical expertise in
the   fields  of   international   and   domestic   business,    commercial,   corporate,   capital  
markets, securities,   banking   and   finance,   as   well   as   international   and   domestic   
energy, telecommunications   and  infrastructure  project  development  and  finance.

We   further   provide   assistance   to  business  organizations  and  domestic  and  foreign
governmental instrumentalities in designing ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)  systems,
rules, protocols, processes and procedures. These ADR programs  are increasingly utilized
worldwide as a distinct element of general business strategy and as a critical component of
risk  management  techniques  and  methodologies  and  are also positively associated with
important or significant performance factors. To this effect, we are well-known for designing
Dispute-WiseSM  Business  Management  Systems  for  our  clients  so that they are better
positioned  to  efficiently  and  effectively  manage  over time the overall economic and non-
economic   impact  of   the  full  spectrum – or portfolio – of  disputes  they  face  across  all
segments  of  their  businesses.

The Souffront Group  additionally offers educational and training programs to domestic and
foreign  constituencies,  for  instance,  in  support  of  the  design  and  implementation  of
organizational  ADR  systems.