May 4, 2007 (Paris, France) – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, announced yesterday that it has agreed to acquire ScreenTonic, a Europe-based mobile advertising pioneer, from 3I, I-SOURCE and the founders of ScreenTonic. This acquisition will be an extension of Microsoft’s commitments to connect advertisers with their target audiences.

The Proskauer Rose Paris office, which had already advised Microsoft in its acquisition of MotionBridge (in 2006), represented MICROSOFT in connection with the acquisition of ScreenTonic.

The Proskauer Rose team was led by Guillaume Kellner (Partner). The team also consisted of Etienne Mathey and Quentin Fournier (Corporate) as well as Jean-Baptiste Martin and Cécile Martin (Labor).

De Gaulle Fleurance (Louis de Gaulle, Charlotte Romano and Eloise Bigard-Prunet) was responsible for the IP/IT due-diligences and PWC (Philippe Chavanne) for the financial due-diligences.

Lovells (Jon Harry and Charles de Lavennes) represented 3I, I-SOURCE and the founders of ScreenTonic.

Jefferies Broadview also advised the selling shareholders of Screentonic with respect to the financial aspects of the transaction.

LawFuel – See – ‘Hot Gossip’ – The Washington Post reports on Montgomery Blair Sibley, attorney for the morally impugned and legally challenged, is first and foremost Montgomery Blair Sibley, which is to say a descendant of some of the most powerful families in Washington history.

ABC News, which has been given exclusive rights to Palfrey’s great big little black book, is scheduled to air a report on “20/20” that promises to name more names. One name that has already come up is Randall Tobias, who resigned his job as USAID chief while denying all wrongdoing. ABC teases in a promotional release that a secretary at the prestigious law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has been suspended after telling her bosses that she worked for Palfrey.

Sibley says that urging former clients to come forward and publicly say they did not have sex on their $300-per-hour dates is a necessary tactic.