A. SUPERVISION BY RESPECTED U.S. LAWYERS

As discussed above, the fact that our employees are supervised and trained by top-caliber U.S. attorneys, who are accountable for our work product, gives us an advantage that we believe no other India legal outsourcing provider can match. U.S. lawyers also serve as contact persons for our clients, and they review and ensure the quality of all work before it is delivered to those clients.

As discussed below, the credentials of the U.S.-licensed attorneys working for SDD Global are impeccable. Russell Smith, Frank Dehn and Kwarma Vanderpuye in particular each have over two decades of legal experience at big and small law firms alike. Bruce Campbell and Alex Hannell are also “big law firm” veterans, who bring expertise in commercial contract drafting and negotiations.

While at the venerable former firm of Webster & Sheffield, after graduation from Harvard Law School, Frank Dehn worked on all manner of complex commercial litigation, including IP cases and trials.

Columbia Law graduate Smith, while a partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, and also at SmithDehn, has also represented a wide variety of corporate and commercial clients, handling not only counseling and drafting, but also trials and appeals in the State and Federal courts of New York, California, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi and Ohio. Mr. Smith is now based in India, managing, training, and supervising the SDD Global attorneys in person.

Kwarma Vanderpuye, a former partner at Jones Hirsch Connor & Bull and the Cochran Firm, is a stellar trial lawyer who has won countless jury verdicts for corporate and other defendants over the years. Ms. Vanderpuye, a graduate of Princeton University and Howard University Law School, is devoted to handling our legal affairs and helping us recruit and train the best and brightest legal talent in India to carry out our operations.

Bruce Campbell, Special Advisor at SDD Global, is a specialist in corporate finance and intellectual property transactions. Bruce started his practice as an attorney at Hogan Hartson, one of the world’s largest international law firms. Inspired by his entrepreneurial clients, Bruce opened his own firm in February 2003. After experiencing the work of SDD Global first hand as a client, and after spending time with us at our headquarters in Mysore, India, Bruce decided to join our company and further develop its capabilities for corporate clients. In his ten years of legal practice, Bruce has helped to form and finance numerous companies. He has guided many early stage companies through mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings. His intellectual property experience includes representing clients in transactions with some of the most well known names in technology. He has provided advice on intellectual property transactions with companies located in Asia and Europe. He graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School and summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, Bruce studied at the University of Paris, La Sorbonne and the Institute for European and Asian studies in Paris, France.

In addition, Alex Hannell, head of our London Office, has distinguished himself in the area of negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts. He was Head of Commercial Affairs for Granada International, the worldwide arm of one of the U.K.’s largest companies, Granada Media Group (now ITV). Mr. Hannell is also a veteran of one of the most pre-eminent London-based law firms, Herbert Smith LLP, as well as the intellectual property/technology firm Bonnins, where he was Solicitor in the Media & Intellectual Property Groups.

Other members of our supervision and management team include U.S.-licensed attorneys Michael Cleaver and Priya Kumar whose biographical information can be viewed by clicking here.

B. THE HIGH QUALITY OF OUR INDIA TEAM

In addition to the fact that our India legal associates are trained and supervised by first-rate U.S. lawyers, we also take pride in our selectivity in hiring. Our Indian lawyers are hired only after a three-hour written aptitude test, a written essay, multiple interviews, and a thorough background check. All of our India attorneys graduated from the best Indian law schools, many of them have Masters Degrees in intellectual property law, one is a former star lecturer in law, many were trained in U.S. law at other legal outsourcing companies, and several had distinguished legal careers in private practice at the best law firms in India. While some of our competitors may focus on sheer numbers of employees, our focus is always on quality. More information regarding our India team is provided in the next section, and on our employee web page, which you can access by clicking here.

C. THE ONLY LEGAL OUTSOURCING COMPANY IN MYSORE, ONE OF THE BEST BUSINESS LOCATIONS IN INDIA

Although it has a population of nearly one million, the beautiful, green “Heritage City” of Mysore stands apart from India’s congested and inflation-ridden major commercial centers. While office locations in parts of Mumbai, Delhi/Gurgaon and Bangalore are now more expensive than in New York and Los Angeles, our offices in Mysore cost only 1/43rd as much money per square foot as the least expensive offices in Midtown Manhattan. The low cost of office space in Mysore means that our clients’ fees are spent on a high-quality workforce, rather than on real estate. Moreover, Mysore’s low cost of living, and high quality of life, also allows us to attract, and keep, excellent employees from all over India. Another important benefit of Mysore is that the commute times for our employees average less than five minutes, as compared to nearly two hours in hopelessly congested major cities. This means many more hours available for work and relaxation, as opposed to wasting countless hours snarled in traffic. Lastly, because we and Infosys (India’s software giant, with its largest facility in Mysore), are the city’s best employers, the scourge of “job-hopping” that affects so many legal outsourcing companies in large cities is not a problem for us. To the contrary, many of our employees have “hopped” to us, from big-city competitors.

D. OUR STATE-OF-THE-ART INFRASTRUCTURE AND PROTECTION OF CLIENT CONFIDENTIALITY ARE UNMATCHED IN THE INDUSTRY

Thanks to our investors, we were able to spend nearly half a million dollars (Rs. two crore) to ensure the best possible infrastructure to serve our clients with state-of-the-art reliability, security, and speed. Through our partnership with Cisco Systems and IBM, we have a world-class-R&M-certified 1000 mbps network, with all of the best components such as IBM servers, and Cisco switches, firewalls, routers and IP-phones. In particular, we are using the latest Cisco ASA firewall for protecting data and systems from internet vulnerabilities. Our IBM servers are equipped with RAID (redundant array of independent disks) for additional security. Even more reliability and protection is provided by a Linux environment throughout our offices, as well as redundant 2 mbps lease lines, and multiple power back-ups, including two UPS systems and a massive, sound-controlled diesel generator that can power the entire building for as long as needed. Electronic access control is provided for all areas of the building, such that no one is able to enter any floor or project area without being specifically authorized to do so, and without using a custom-made electronic access card. To ensure the highest standards, we arranged for all of our office construction and interior work to be handled by the best construction management company in India, Integrated Property Management & Services, whose other clients include IBM, Citibank, Google, Goldman Sachs, Sony, and American Express.

Rigorous Employee Screening and Motivation Is the Best Protection

Ultimately, however, we believe that the best bulwark against breaches in data security and confidentiality is a carefully selected, rigorously screened, and highly motivated professional workforce. Unlike some other companies in our industry, where morale is poor, and where employees are treated like suspected criminals, SDD Global has recruited and cultivated a dedicated group of excellent, motivated, professionals who see our company as their career future. We believe that none of our employees, including those who move on to other career paths, would be tempted to engage in data theft or breaches of confidentiality.

We understand that you may be interested in outsourcing legal work of various kinds. Until we learn more about your specific needs, below is a discussion regarding our capabilities in such areas as legal research and drafting, litigation support, commercial contract analysis and drafting, patent and other IP services, document review, and immigration services. We are also capable of handling legal work in other areas, so please let us know if the work you need done is not covered by the following descriptions.

A. Legal Research and Drafting

As discussed above, SDD Global’s legal research and drafting teams, like all of our personnel, are comprised of experienced lawyers and/or former law lecturers who hail from prestigious Indian law schools and law firms, and who are fully trained by U.S. lawyers. They can provide any number of research tasks, across key subscription databases such as LexisNexis, Westlaw, and other platforms. Our teams have handled legal research in every one of the U.S. Federal Circuits and all of the 50 U.S. States. Our teams have performed multi-jurisdictional comparison surveys for Fortune 100 and other companies with results that have earned them public praise. (See Section VII below.)

We also are expert in helping clients obtain research results in multiple foreign countries, including those in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Regardless of which country’s law needs to be researched, we can conduct the first round of research in-house, before locating, retaining, and supervising local providers to complete the job in the most efficient manner possible.

SDD Global’s lawyers are fully trained in U.S.-style legal drafting and Bluebook (18th Edition) Citation form. They can expeditiously and cost-effectively draft any of the following materials and beyond:

• legal briefs and memoranda
• contracts and licenses
• employment manuals
• discovery requests and responses
• appeal papers, including notices and briefs
• summaries of witness statements
• deposition digests
• all types of litigation papers

B. Litigation Support When it comes to litigation, SDD Global can make a radical and positive difference in both expense and result, with its multiple teams of expert and enthusiastic lawyers, all highly-trained in U.S. legal work and serving our clients in an expeditious and cost-effective manner around the clock. The advantages of litigation support from SDD Global can mean victory instead of defeat, or settling early and favorably, rather than settling later and/or at a punishing cost.

In the litigation area, our focus is on the provision of high-end, high-quality, knowledge-based services, such as legal research, and the drafting of complaints, motions, legal briefs and memoranda, discovery documents, appeals, summaries of witness statements, and any other litigation papers, as well as preparation of exhibits for trial.

SDD Global’s litigation support enables attorneys in our clients’ legal departments and at their outside law firms to focus on the elements of litigation that actually require the work of a licensed professional. The result is that the licensed attorneys, whether their practice is in-house or with outside law firms, can concentrate on the areas that they handle best, such as determination of litigation strategy, negotiations with other parties, oral arguments and trials.

The dramatic difference that SDD Global makes can be seen at every stage of litigation, as explained below:

Pre-Litigation:
SDD Global can enhance and strengthen your position before litigation begins. With SDD Global performing the necessary legal research, on a cost-effective basis, the strengths and weaknesses of a client's position in an impending suit can be assessed more quickly and thoroughly than ever before and the full scope of available damages can be predicted. This can allow you to adopt the strongest possible stance in pre-litigation negotiations and settlement discussions. With SDD Global’s help, clients that are facing claims are not held hostage by the usual runaway costs associated with the threat of litigation. This substantially reduces the pressure to make “nuisance-value” pay-outs. In plaintiff’s cases, our low-cost support levels the playing field and allows cases to be settled or resolved on their merits, rather than because of undue pressure from defendants who may attempt to bury a plaintiff’s firm in motions and other litigation tasks.

Interlocutory Stages:
SDD Global’s litigation teams can strip much of the costs associated with the interlocutory stages of litigation. Our professionals can draft interlocutory litigation papers and other documents with speed and efficiency. Whether the client needs a set of pleadings, discovery requests or responses, subpoenas, motion papers, memoranda of law, settlement agreements or trial preparation documents -- all can be drafted by SDD Global’s trained litigation support teams. Moreover, our litigation teams are trained to work for clients across various state and federal jurisdictions and even continents.

Furthermore, the review of discovery/disclosure -- which sometimes requires law firms to deploy small armies of legal associates – also can be performed by SDD Global, both faster and at a fraction of the cost. This could help avoid the undesirable position in which legal costs detrimentally influence the direction and the likelihood of success of litigation strategy.

All of this could help you avoid the undesirable position in which legal costs may undermine the direction and the likelihood of success of litigation strategy.

Throughout the interim stages of litigation, our support teams can perform the legal research that is needed to constantly improve and maintain the strength of a client's positions. The traditional mindset -- that a legal dispute must invariably be lengthy -- is changing, with SDD Global streamlining the litigation process by constantly preparing for the future and foreseeable stages of a case. Discovery requests can be served and responded to ahead of schedule, and motions made promptly, so that otherwise typical delays are avoided.

On the subject of speed, the advantages of SDD Global are extraordinary. Our support teams add approximately 12 hours to the normal litigation workday. As litigators in the West head home to sleep, a fresh round of litigation support on the day shift in India is just beginning, in a time zone that is essentially a day ahead.

Our speed is also enhanced by the number of SDD Global legal associates that our clients now can afford to devote to any given case. As a situation demands, we can provide the assistance of a single researcher or an entire platoon of trained professionals, thus enabling our clients to “flood the zone” where such an approach is warranted. You can thereby avoid "lean staffing" of cases, to address well-founded fears of compounded hourly fees climbing through the roof. Our aim in litigation support is to help obtain the desired result as quickly as possible, through the appropriate and unstinting application of concentrated legal pressure. We believe that by using this approach, your company or firm will be better able to run circles around the so-called "lean staffing" of your adversaries.

Trial:
In the event that any cases do need to proceed to trial, we can support your company/firm with the preparation of trial exhibits and other documents. Preparing for trial is an inherently laborious and costly process, but those costs now can be reduced dramatically, with the work done efficiently and quickly, by SDD Global.

Case Management:
SDD Global also can perform the more cumbersome case management tasks that are necessary in any lawsuit, which, while simple, can mount and result in additional and unexpected costs. These tasks include organizing client files, managing the online electronic court-filing of litigation papers, and maintaining and monitoring case-watch reports for changes and updates in cases.

C. Commercial Contract Analysis and Drafting
Led by Alex Hannell from our London office, and assisted by Bruce Campbell from the U.S., we have developed a team in India that has been handling commercial contract negotiations and drafting for many corporate clients and law firms. We can handle virtually all areas of contract drafting, such as licensing, acquisitions, financing, film and television production, software, and securities. One of our strengths has been the ability to quickly leverage the talents in our operation to learn new fields. For example, although we had no experience in the steel industry a year ago, we now are handling all U.S. legal matters for Electrosteel Castings, a $300 million Indian steel company and its U.S. subsidiary, Electrosteel USA, which we formed for this client.

D. Patent and Other IP Services
SDD Global Solutions provides a comprehensive range of patent and other intellectual property services, including trademark and copyright registrations, searches, and reports. Our multidisciplinary team, located in Bangalore provides depth of experience, combined with up-to-date technical knowledge, to allow our clients the best possible overall package. Our team members, including patent agents and patent attorneys, have strong technical backgrounds in different areas and extensive legal and commercial experience.

We offer a wide range and combination of intellectual property and business intelligence services to our clients. Right from the basic handling of trademark and copyright registration to helping clients formulate comprehensive and holistic Intellectual Property Policies to enable effective management of their intellectual assets. We also participate in the clients' management processes to advise in the formulation of a meaningful Intellectual Property Portfolio Management Policy enabling tracking and maintenance of all intellectual assets.

IP ANALYTICS:
We assist and advise inventors and the R&D community in developing and crystallizing their ideas into patentable inventions. Our goal is to enable our clients to achieve the maximum competitive advantage from effective exploitation and protection of their intellectual assets. We help our clients to assess market potential and commercial trends. IP Analytics services we provide include:

• Prior Art Searches
• Patentability Analysis
• Patent Infringement & Analysis
• Patent Mapping
• Patent Drafting & Prosecution
• IP Due Diligence & IP Audit

• IP Strategy & Policy Formulation
• IP Portfolio Creation & Management
• IP Valuation & Licensing

E. Document Review:
While our core strength lies in executing higher-end legal assignments, we are also eminently capable and eager to handle your needs concerning document review. We are experienced in providing high-quality document services such as reviewing and summarizing contracts, identifying privileged and discoverable documents in litigation, and summarizing lengthy depositions in an accurate manner. Moreover, we have partnerships with low cost, high quality, local service providers who are focused solely on providing document management services using proprietary processes and technology. Accordingly, we are able to handle voluminous paper and electronic files in any litigation or other matter, regardless of whether the data is in print, text, voice, or image formats. Our litigation teams are trained in the law, and in how litigations and investigations work, so they can efficiently and effectively locate, organize, and present the documents and data for which you may be looking, in any manner needed. Your documents would be filed and organized in a dedicated, customized, and secure web-based repository, and your document work would be performed with state-of-the-art on-line e-discovery and other platforms. In particular, and among other things, we can arrange to efficiently and cost-effectively achieve the following:

• Carry out electronic and other file reviews on a massive scale, if needed;
• Conduct thorough analysis regarding responsiveness, relevance, and privilege, in response to discovery requests, subpoenas, governmental requests, internal investigations, and corporate due diligence;
• Organize and present data from voluminous documents, in the form of understandable summaries, privilege logs, spreadsheets, databases and any other format, tailor-made for your needs in any given situation;
• Create electronic files with all documents searchable by subject, issue, author, recipient, date and document type, allowing you to retrieve needed documents in an instant;
• Undertake large data extraction projects, where the amount of data to be searched is vast, and where the guidelines are complicated;
• Search and analyze large numbers of complex agreements, and create spreadsheets or other databases presenting the relevant information.

F. U.S. Immigration Services
The goal of SDD Global in the immigration arena is to provide comprehensive legal advice, counselling, processing of immigration petitions, and preparation and assistance with consular visa processing. We seek to consolidate a long-term relationship with you for the benefit of both our organizations. SDD Global has hired, trained, and continues to train the best available lawyers and data processors to work on U.S. immigration processing in India. SDD Global proposes to constantly monitor, identify and seek immigration solutions for a client, through the application of existing immigration laws, and by tracking immigration legislation which may be of benefit to the potential employees of your clients. As you know, the legislative situation in the United States is volatile, and we continue to monitor the efforts to obtain immigration reform, which may lead to the promise of more immigration options for your clients, including the hope of a significant increase in the quota of available H-1B visas. SDD Global can provide assistance on a full range of immigration services, such as:

• Document and petition-drafting for all non-immigrant visa options, such as B-1 business visas, L-1As and L-1Bs for intra-company transferees, H-1Bs for speciality occupations, O-1s for aliens of extraordinary abilities;
• Labor Certification and PERM applications for “green cards”;
• Consular and USCIS interview preparation, including preparation of memoranda of law and affidavits as required;
• Document and petition-drafting for U.S. citizenship by naturalization for ALMT clients who wish to naturalize in the United States;
• Research assistance and preparation of administrative appeals where necessary.

• Private Company Acquisitions through Asset Purchase;
• Company law (in UK)
• Contract law (in UK)
• Boilerplate Clauses
• Distributor and Agency Agreements
• Joint Ventures
• Corporate Rescue or Liquidation
• Winding up and Liquidation
• Private Equity and Buyouts
• Standard Terms for Supply of Goods
• Limited Liability Partnerships
• Insolvency and Consideration for Directors
• Debt Recovery, and
• Checklists on Acquisitions.