Bracewell & Giuliani (What's a presidential candidate doing in Kazakhstan-a former Soviet state?)

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP practices in the following areas of law: School and Public Law, Labor and Employment Law, General, Administrative, Public Utilities, Energy, Environmental, Banking Litigation and Legislative.

Firm Profile: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is among the world's most prominent law firms. With 400 lawyers in New York, Connecticut, Texas, Washington, D.C., Dubai, Kazakhstan and London, the firm is well positioned to serve clients concentrated in the energy and financial services sectors worldwide.

In 2005, former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani joined Bracewell as a senior partner. His international reputation for leadership and problem solving is a unique asset for firm clients, which include Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, leading private investment funds, governmental entities and individuals.

Bracewell provides guidance on business law, finance, litigation, and government relations and regulatory policy. The firm has developed highly regarded concentrations in specific industries and disciplines.

Some of these include: Energy: Bracewell delivers sophisticated legal, regulatory and transactional guidance to clients engaged in the exploration, production and delivery of traditional and alternative fuels, throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and the Caspian region.

Environmental Strategy: Bracewell helps senior corporate leaders address major environmental and energy issues such as climate change and air quality, through legislative advocacy, regulatory counseling, corporate governance and litigation.

Banks and Financial Institutions: Bracewell represents leading community, national and foreign financial institutions in commercial credit transactions, entity structuring, mergers and acquisitions, S-corporation conversions, IPOs, regulatory compliance and broker-dealer matters.

Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy: Bracewell represents domestic and multinational debtors, creditors, committees, purchasers and Chapter 11 trustees in formal bankruptcy proceedings, out-of-court workouts, loan restructurings and purchases of distressed assets.

Private Investment Funds: Bracewell provides timely, balanced advice to private investment funds and their portfolio companies on fund formation, regulatory compliance, trading and regulated transactions, investments, acquisitions, special situations and risk management.

White Collar Criminal Defense and Special Investigations: Bracewell's team of experienced former prosecutors helps clients conduct internal inquiries, prevent potentially illegal conduct, address compliance and governance issues, respond to regulatory inquiries, and defend against law-enforcement actions.

Other Areas: As a general practice firm, Bracewell has considerable bench strength in the requisite practice areas including government relations, strategic communications, tax, labor and employment law, intellectual property, real estate, government contracting and school and public law.

Houston, Texas, U.S.A. (Main Office) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. New York, New York, U.S.A. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. London, England Almaty, Kazakhstan Astana, Kazakhstan

Houston, Texas Office: 711 Louisiana Street, Suite 2300, 77002-2770. Telephone: 713-223-2300. Fax: 713-221-1212.

Austin, Texas Office: 111 Congress Avenue, Suite 2300, 78701-4052. Telephone: 512-472-7800. Fax: 512-472-9123.

Dallas, Texas Office: 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 3800, 75202-2711. Telephone: 214-468-3800. Fax: 214-468-3888.

Hartford, Connecticut Office: Goodwin Square, 225 Asylum Street, Suite 2600, 06103. Telephone: 860-947-9000. Fax: 860-760-6789.

New York, N.Y. Office: 1177 Avenue of the Americas, 19th Floor, 10036. Telephone: 212-508-6100. Fax: 212-508-6101.

San Antonio, Texas Office: 800 One Alamo Center, 106 S. St. Mary's Street, 78205. Telephone: 210-226-1166. Fax: 210-226-1133.

Washington, D.C. Office: 2000 K Street, N.W., Suite 500, 20006-1872. Telephone: 202-828-5800. Fax: 202-223-1225.

London, England Office: 15 Old Bailey, EC4M 7EF. Telephone: +011-44-20-3159-4220. Fax: +011-44-20-3159-4221.

Almaty, Kazakhstan Office: 57 Amangeldy Street, 480012. Telephone: 73272-581-400. Fax: 73272-581-444. Astana, Kazakhstan Office: Karaotkel Compound, Office C-7-2. Telephone: 011-7-3172-222-127.

(For Data on all Firm Personnel, see Professional Biographies at Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas, Texas, New York, N.Y., Hartford, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., London, England, Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan)

Did you know presidential wannbe Rudy Giuliani held a campaign fund-raiser in Kazakhstan? That's right, in Kazakhstan.

WHAT'S A US CANDIDATE DOING IN KAZAKHSTAN? Giuliani's Texas-based law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, has two offices in Kazakhstan. Bracewell & Giuliani's January closings in its Almaty, Kazakhstan office totalled $1.625 Billion.

WHERE IS KAZAKHSTAN? Kazakhstan is a former Soviet Union state, the only Central Asian country sharing borders with both Russia and China, and has states of nuclear-transit significance such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

WHAT IS IT'S GLOBAL STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE Kazakhstan is in the Strategic Energy Ellipse and is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with China and Russia. A focal point of influence between the West and the East.....(can you say oil and gas pipelines?)

WHAT IS KAZAKHSTAN'S MAIN INDUSTRY Kazakhstan aims to become the world’s largest producer and exporter of uranium in the next five years.

Kazakhstan Country Profile 10: FirstWatch International (FWI)

Overview: At independence in 1991, Kazakhstan was among the four states of the former Soviet Union to inherit nuclear weapons, acquiring with it the status of the fourth largest nuclear power in the world.(1) The new acquisitions included thousands of nuclear warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), cruise missiles, and the world's largest testing facility (where 456 nuclear tests took place over a 50-year period).(2)

Kazakhstan actively pursued disarmament and nonproliferation policies by joining the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), and other international and bilateral nonproliferation initiatives. It participated in international and bilateral projects to improve safeguards and security at its facilities, to avoid becoming a target for nuclear trafficking. Kazakhstan signed the Additional Protocol to its safeguards agreement with the IAEA in February 2004, although it is not yet in force.(3)

All acquired nuclear warheads, ICBMs, and cruise missiles were returned to Russia between 1994 and 1996. (4)

Similarly by the end of 1999, Kazakhstan had dismantled all missile silos and sealed 194 test tunnels at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site.(5)

Kazakhstan continues to make remarkable progress in the area of nuclear safeguards, export controls, and nuclear material accountancy and control. Its cooperation in these efforts has been essential to maintaining stability and security in the region.

Kazakhstan’s nuclear fuel cycle resources include extensive uranium mining zones and fuel processing and fabrication technologies. Kazakhstan aims to become the world’s largest producer and exporter of uranium in the next five years.

The country is taking advantage of its advanced fuel fabrication facilities to offer those services for export. While its overall intent appears peaceful, Kazakhstan has made known its desire to operate all steps of the nuclear fuel cycle. If Kazakhstan decides to undertake enrichment or reprocessing capabilities, that may be of concern to the international community as a potential source of weapon material.

At present, Kazakhstan’s nuclear strategic significance lies not in its capabilities, which are polished by decades of being part of one of the world’s two nuclear superpowers, nor in its intent, which appears to be anti-proliferation, but in the risk of nuclear security and proliferation by virtue of its location and circumstances.

Kazakhstan’s geographic position makes it strategically important to current international nonproliferation efforts.

It is the only Central Asian country sharing borders with both Russia and China, and with states of nuclear-transit significance such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan continues to make remarkable progress in the area of nuclear safeguards, export controls, and nuclear material control and accountancy. Its continued cooperation regarding these efforts is essential to maintaining stability and security in the region.

Sources

(1) “Politics and Policy,” Embassy of Kazakhstan to the U.S. and Canada, accessed January 25, 2006, .

(2) Bruce Pannier, “Kazakhstan: Nuclear Fallout Still Signals Health Hazards,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Library, August 29, 2001, ; Vadim Nee, “Can Kazakhstan profit from radioactive waste? Domestic and international legal perspectives on a proposal to import radioactive waste,” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Spring 2003.

(3) Maribeth Hunt and Kenji Murakami, “Upgrading Nuclear Safeguards in Kazakhtan,” IAEA Bulletin, 46/2, March 2005, p. 26.

(4) The Nuclear Threat Initiative. “Kazakhstan Nuclear Facilities: Nuclear Weapons,” 20 September 2000.

(5) Jon Brook Wolfsthal et al., “U.S. Nonproliferation Assistance Program,” Nuclear Status Report: Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material, and Exports Controls in Former Soviet Union, Vol. 6, 2001, .

Any reproduction of text and data is authorized only by permission, SIPRI March 2006.

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and that ain’t all.......

snips from:
http://www.corridorwatch.org/ttc_2007/CWA0709210.htm

His partnership in the law firm has also brought Giuliani unwelcome criticism in connection with some of the firm’s more controverisal clients, including a Spanish contractor involved in planning part of a Texas superhighway toll road known as the Trans-Texas Corridor.

Texas farmers and other landowners are worried their property rights will be trampled to make way for the highway. Conspiracy theorists see Giuliani, because of his highway connections, as allied with a cabal of international monied interests plotting to supplant the United States with a North American Union that includes Mexico and Canada.

Giuliani joined the law firm — then called Bracewell & Patterson — in March 2005. More than 400 lawyers work for the firm, which has offices in New York, Washington, Connecticut, Dubai, Kazakhstan and London.

Bracewell & Giuliani represents a business consortium involved in the Trans-Texas Corridor, a costly, high-profile toll road pushed by Perry and opposed by farmers and ranchers.

The first phase of Perry’s proposed $184 billion toll road, envisioned as part of a superhighway stretching from Oklahoma to the Mexico border, was planned by the Cintra Zachry consortium, composed of Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte SA of Spain, one of the world’s largest developers of toll roads,

Earlier this year, Giuliani sold his investment firm, Giuliani Capital, for an undisclosed sum to the Macquarie Group, which is part of Macquarie Bank of Australia. Cintra and Macquarie’s infrastructure group formed a consortium that operates a major toll road in Indiana.

Meet Global Rudy. Here's The Rudester's global connections (that we know of):

(1) Giuliani Capital Advisors, LLC (AKA Giuliani Partners LLC),

(2) Giuliani Group,

(3) Giuliani-Kerik (re-named Giuliani Security and Safety, after the departure of the tainted ex-Police Commissioner),

(4) Giuliani-Van Essen,

(5) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP law firm (based in Texas with global interests),

(6) Bracewell & Giuliani has two offices in Kazakhstan (a former Soviet state in Central Asia), and,

(7) Giuliani Security & Safety, Asia

Bracewell & Giuliani's Almaty, Kazakhstan (in Central Asia) January closings totalled $1.625 Billion---they have two offices there). NOTE WELL: ROOTY HELD A CAMPAIGN FUND-RAISER IN KAZAKHSTAN.

Bracewell & Giuliani's Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company (lobbied for Privatization of Toll Road in Texas)

Bracewell & Giuliani's Banco Santander Central Hispano, S.A. (SAN.MC, STD.N) (a bank that traded with a blacklisted Iranian Bank)

Bracewell & Giuliani's company tied to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, who has called President Bush "the devil." Bracewell & Giuliani lobbies on behalf of Texas-based Citgo Petroleum, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan oil company controlled by Chávez.

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Bracewell & Giuliani Firm Advises Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas

DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Texas-based law firm with global connections) advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties.

The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road. Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Department of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million. "Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal," said Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. "This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1803916/posts

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Construction of Hway in Mexico

NASCO Map of Corridor

NASCO Members: United States: Texas Dept. of Transportation Iowa Department of Transportation State of Oklahoma Minnesota Dept. of Transportation Bell County, Texas Denton County, Texas Tarrant County, Texas Webb County, Texas Jackson County, Missouri City of Denton, Texas City of Ft. Worth, Texas City of Gainesville, Texas City of Kansas City, Missouri International Trade Institute of the Americas Free Trade Alliance San Antonio Port San Antonio United States - Mexico Chamber of Commerce Kansas City SmartPort The Ardmore Development Authority, City of Ardmore, Oklahoma Belton Economic Development Corporation The Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization The Allen Group Hillwood - Alliance Texas The Ambassador Bridge Detroit/Windsor Crossing American Airlines Blackwood, Langworthy & Tyson, an established Kansas City law firm Cadre Technologies Franco Eleuteri & Associates EWI Risk Services, Inc. GrowthNet Trading, LLC International Bank of Commerce Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores PROTECT-US, Inc. Scrub Oak Technologies Strasburger & Price Law Firm Trans Am Group Yellow Roadway Corporation Worldwide The NAFTA Superhighway

AND NASCO member Lockheed Martin (the only Pentagon defense contractor listed)

Not just the TTC. All the toll road deals in all the states.

http://blog.newyorkcitycommunity.us/2007/09/28/giuliani-new-jersey-and-toll-roads—perfect-together.aspx
Giuliani, New Jersey, and Toll Roads - Perfect Together

Bracewell & Giuliani Firm Advises Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas

DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties.

The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a Texas toll road. Bracewell is acting as project counsel to Cintra with respect to the 50-year concession from the Texas Department of Transportation. Cintra will pay a $2.1 billion upfront and annual lease payments totaling $700 million. “Cintra was awarded this project because of its proven expertise and competitive proposal,” said Thomas O. Moore, partner with Bracewell & Giuliani. “This is the largest transportation deal of 2007. This is one of only five deals in the country.”

Three firms have competed for the Comprehensive Development Agreement for State Highway 121 since last summer. The proposals were reviewed and scored based on selection criteria set forth by the Regional Transportation Council, the metropolitan planning agency for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

This CDA is a public-private partnership that allows the provider to handle all facets of developing the toll road, including completing construction and operating and maintaining the corridor. Cintra, a subsidiary of Grupo Ferrovial specialized in toll roads and car parks, is one of the world’s leading private-sector developers of transport infrastructure.

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