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Values into Community Action | 2007-2008 the thai Red Cross society Each year, we donate money to the Thai Red Cross Society to support the annual fundraising event “Thai Red Cross Fair”. UnIteD ARAB eMIRAtes Whilst pro bono efforts have not featured heavily in the Middle East business activities over the past year, as the region grows and the market develops, businesses are becoming more attuned to the idea of giving something back to the community. A new pro bono team has taken on the role of co-ordinating activities in the UAE offices, and we hope to get involved with as much CSR and pro bono work as possible in the region. What follows below is a summary of those activities the offices have participated in over the past year. CHARItABLe DOnAtIOns Cricket for Charity tournament In November 2007, the office made a donation of AED5,000 in support of a Cricket for Charity Tournament organised by Linklaters. Dubai and Hatta Desert Challenge In December 2007, sheryl niblett was part of a team that took part in a charity challenge, riding across the Dubai and Hatta desert for 478 kilometres, reaching the destination of Muscat in a record 22 hours and raising AED4,800 from staff donations. Dubai terry Fox Run In February 2008, Aimee Maskell and Joanne tull took part in the Dubai Terry Fox Run at Al Mazmar Park. They both gave personal donations of around AED200 each. Recycling and In-Kind Donations The Dubai office has recently moved premises, which gave us an opportunity to donate old furniture to The English College, worth approximately AED24,000, and to the Kings Dubai School, worth approximately AED46,000. In April 2008, desktop computers and other unwanted IT equipment was donated to three organisations: Charity of Hope-Shelter for Abused Women and Children; the Dubai Centre for Special Needs; and the Dubai Autism Centre. Throughout the year we also donated our used printer cartridges to Riding for the Disabled and Feline Friends. UnIteD stAtes Under the direction of the pro bono committee, headed by partner Ken Rivlin, the New York office again maintained a high level of commitment to pro bono, providing over 8,500 hours in fiscal year 2007-8. PRO BOnO ACtIVItIes securing political asylum An A&O team secured political asylum for Ms. A., a Colombian woman, based on what the immigration judge found was a well-founded fear that she would suffer persecution as a result of the political activities of her sons, both of whom had been killed. The cross-border element of the case was unique and required documentation of human rights and political conditions in both Venezuela and Colombia. The legal team included: sarah Dadush, sara Grdan, eloise Kauvar, toby Mann, Brittany Prelogar, Jacob Pultman and Kurt Vellek. 42 © Allen & Overy LLP 2008
south Bronx arts and community centre A team headed by partner Kevin O’shea and including Helen Kim, Joanna Hancock and Randi Goring represented the New York City Investment Fund in connection with a loan that will go towards developing a former engraving plant in the South Bronx into an arts and community centre. The new owners plan to develop the building into a multi-use centre that will include office and performance space for arts groups, design firms, community groups, non-profit organisations and a food market. The building already houses two of the South Bronx’s most important arts organisations: BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts And Dance, and Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre. These two organisations, founded in 1998 and 1996 respectively, have been at the forefront of the economic and cultural development of the South Bronx that the new ABN building hopes to build upon. Volunteer Appellate Defender programme 2007-2008 I Values into Community Action Working in conjunction with the Office of the Appellate Defender’s Volunteer Appellate Defender programme, associate Zorka Milin represented a client who had been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for robbery, burglary and criminal possession of a weapon. Zorka argued the client’s appeal before the Appellate Division, First Department, which unanimously reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial because the client's constitutional right to counsel was violated when the trial judge summarily denied his request for new counsel. City of new York Several associates and partners are representing the City of New York pro bono in connection with claims of false arrest, malicious prosecution and deprivation of civil rights. They include: Brian De Haan, Michael Feldberg, Adam Herman, nicholas Mitchell, Chintan Panchal, nathan Reilly and Julie Withers. Human Rights Institute and America Civil Liberties Union Working with the Human Rights Institute of Columbia Law School and the American Civil Liberties Union, Aimee Ferrer, Carrie Baker, eloise Kauvar and Jacob Pultman co-authored an amicus curiae brief in a case pending before the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The case concerns the constitutionality of the so-called “Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance” enacted by the town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, which is intended to deter undocumented immigrants from living in that town by making it difficult for them to secure housing and employment. The amicus brief urges the appellate court to affirm the lower court’s ruling that the law is unconstitutional. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) New York partners and associates, including David slade, Lawton Camp, Kieran Brenner, Benno Kimmelman and Brian De Haan are among the global Allen & Overy team who are advising the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) in connection with the joint formation of a mortgage finance corporation to promote the private ownership of residential housing in Palestine. In another pro bono matter involving OPIC, David slade, Ricardo Martinez and Vinod Aravind provided legal advice and co-ordination on establishing a standby loan facility to the non-profit organisation, the Calvert Social Foundation. Calvert “raises investment capital through individuals and institutions, and uses it to provide affordable loans to non-profit organisations and microfinance lenders that assist impoverished communities in at-risk global markets.” The A&O team that drafted and negotiated the OPIC loan facility over the course of about three months required additional legal expertise from a number of lawyers in the A&O global network, including ICM partners Cathleen McLaughlin and Diana Billik on certain securities law issues. © Allen & Overy LLP 2008 43
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