October 27, 2003

LOS ANGELES – Hogan & Hartson, LLP, announced today that Carissa Coze has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner practicing in the corporate group.

Coze joins the firm from Thelen Reid & Priest where her primary areas of practice included mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt securities offerings, corporate reorganizations, insider trading compliance and general corporate representation of pre-IPO and publicly held companies. Her experience includes working with semiconductor equipment manufacturers, telecommunications companies, government contracting businesses and electronics and other technology companies.

“Carissa’s talents make her well suited to help us expand and grow our transactional capabilities in Los Angeles,” said Neil O’Hanlon, managing partner of the Century City office of Hogan & Hartson.

Coze was represented by Watanabe Nason & Seltzer.