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Holland & Knight Assists Client in Acquisition of MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, Illinois

CHICAGO – A team of Holland & Knight attorneys, led by Chicago Partner Anne Murphy, today completed a transaction in which client MSMC Investors LLC acquired St. Francis Hospital and Health Center from SSM Health Care. The historic 410-bed hospital, founded in 1905, was slated for closure after earlier efforts to find a buyer were unsuccessful. The acquisition was successfully completed on an unusually aggressive timetable. The hospital is the largest employer in Blue Island, and is known for its high quality service and excellence in cardiac care.

Holland & Knight Expands Depth of Financial Services Practice Group on the West Coast With Addition of Two Public Finance Attorneys in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO – Holland & Knight has expanded the firm's Financial Services Practice Group on the West Coast with the recent additions of public finance lawyers Edsell M. "Chip" Eady, Jr. and Henry C. Har to the firm's San Francisco office. Eady and Har were previously in the San Francisco office of Nixon Peabody.

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Ethics panel dismisses complaint vs. Wiggins

January 25, 2008

Robert S. Highsmith- Atlanta

A Daily Report article featured Robert Highsmith who represented a candidate for the Georgia Supreme Court in a complaint that was filed alleging the candidate illegally coordinated with a coalition of business groups on expenditures for his campaign. Highsmith wrote the ethics commission explaining that communication with the coalition took place prior to the his client's announced candidacy. The State Ethics Commission reviewed the complaint and later dismissed it. "The First Amendment was under attack today, and the commission defended and protected it," Highsmith said.