Fisher Scientific International Inc.
Fisher Scientific International Inc. (NYSE: FSH) is a leading provider of products and services to the scientific-research community and clinical laboratories. We serve pharmaceutical and biotech companies; colleges and universities; medical-research institutions; hospitals, reference, quality-control, process-control and R&D; labs in various industries; as well as government agencies. From biochemicals, cell-culture media and proprietary RNAi technology to rapid-diagnostic tests, safety products and other consumable supplies, Fisher provides an unmatched suite of more than 600,000 products and services to its 350,000 customers worldwide. This broad offering, combined with Fisher's globally integrated supply chain and unmatched sales and marketing presence, helps make our customers more efficient and effective at what they do.

Fish & Richardson P.C.
Fish & Richardson P.C. is a national law firm with over 320 lawyers in nine offices: Austin, Boston, Dallas, Delaware, New York, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Twin Cities, and Washington, DC. The firm is one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law and the only firm with a truly national intellectual property practice. Founded in 1878, the firm represented Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers. For over 125 years we have served great innovators, helping to protect countless ideas, nurture discoveries, and bring new concepts to market. The firm prosecuted and litigated many of the fundamental patents of an industrialized America, serving corporations creating the cutting-edge technologies of the day: the telephone, the air-brake, the steam turbine, the automobile, and the radio. Frederick Fish, the firm's founder, was for many years the acknowledged leader of the patent bar of the entire country at a time when patents were more important than they had ever been. Today, the firm continues to represent great innovators working in cutting-edge technologies.

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
Howard Rice's seasoned, solutions-oriented attorneys have developed a deep understanding of our clients' businesses, technologies and strategic goals of turning scientific discoveries into commercial products, and have successfully represented a broad spectrum of life sciences clients, including entrepreneurs, scientists, start-up companies, public companies, joint ventures, nonprofit institutions and venture capital firms, in biotechnology, medical device, biopharmaceutical, bioinformatics and healthcare industries. By collaborating with the firm's attorneys in all of our practice areas, we provide our life sciences clients with expert advice throughout their corporate life cycle, from formation and capital raising activities, to strategic collaborations, intellectual property licensing and exit strategies.

MedImmune
MedImmune strives to provide better medicines to patients, new medical options for physicians, rewarding careers to employees, and increased value to shareholders. Dedicated to advancing science and medicine to help people live better lives, the company is focused on the areas of infectious diseases, cancer and inflammatory diseases. The company has four marketed products and an advancing pipeline of promising candidates, all designed to treat or prevent a number of debilitating or life-threatening diseases.

VWR International
VWR services the industrial, government, life science, education, electronics and pharmaceutical markets as a leading worldwide distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, chemicals and furniture. Through a combination of strategic partnerships with world respected manufacturers and continuous improvement of systems and services, we supply over 750,000 products to the scientific community on time, every time. That's the key to the science of supply.