Compiled by Lauri Johnson ADVANTAGE CAPITAL NAMED A TOP 100 VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM FOR ENTREPRENEURS Entrepreneur magazine has named Advantage Capital one of the nation’s top 100 venture capital firms for entrepreneurs. The list, published in the magazine’s July issue, is based on the number of first-time fundings in 2005 to companies in the early stages of development. The magazine’s list of top 100 firms for investing in later-stage companies also includes Advantage Capital. In total, Advantage Capital completed four early-stage deals and invested in two later-stage companies in 2005. Including all of its investments in 2005, Advantage Capital provided funding to a total of 42 companies. The magazine noted that 608 startup and early-stage companies received first-time venture capital funding of about $2.9 billion, which averages out to $4.8 million per company. In total, venture capitalists invested $21.7 billion in emerging companies last year. BLACK ENTERPRISE NAMES CH2M HILL A TOP 10 DIVERSE SUPPLIER CH2M HILL, a global engineering and construction firm, has been named one of the 10 best companies for supplier diversity by Black Enterprise magazine in the July issue. The distinction recognizes firms that demonstrate a commitment to diversity when compared to diversity practice benchmarks. Those benchmarks include total dollars spent with ethnic suppliers, total dollars spent with ethnic marketing, and workforce diversity. In 2005, CH2M HILL directed more than 27 percent of the $1.2 billion spent on subcontractors to diverse suppliers that included women, minorities and veterans. ARNOLD RECEIVES BAR FOUNDATION AWARD John Fox Arnold chairman, Lashly & Baer, P.C. John Fox Arnold, chairman of Lashly & Baer, P.C., has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 11th and 12th editions of The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward White, as a Missouri-Kansas Super Lawyer and one of the top 50 Super Lawyers in St. Louis, published by Law & Politics and Kansas City Magazine. He was recently recognized by the St. Louis Bar Foundation with the 2005-2006 Foundation Award for his significant contributions to the St. Louis community and the legal profession. Arnold has been selected by the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria, in cooperation with law faculties in Eastern Europe and the former states of the Soviet Union, for a short-term appointment as a visiting professor to acquaint students and junior faculty on the particular areas of common law legal systems. He has accepted a position offered by the Faculty of Law of the School of Business Administration Turiba in Riga, Latvia, to conduct a seminar on business law this fall. PIN-UP BOWL FEATURED ON COVER OF NIGHTCLUB & BAR MAGAZINE The Nightclub & Bar article can be found online at www.nightclub.com/NCB_Magazine/ NCB_June_2006/The_Kingpin_Of_The_Midwest/. Loop developer and nightclub owner Joe Edwards has created another social hot spot with his martini bar/bowling alley concept, The Pin-Up Bowl, and Nightclub & Bar magazine has taken notice. The magazine featured The Pin-Up Bowl in a cover story in its June issue, profiling the creative vision and attention to detail that Edwards poured into designing the retro lounge. “The combination of the by-gone décor set within the trendiness of a Martini lounge—all of it backed by a bowling aspect—creates a totally unique atmosphere that is impossible to find pretty much anywhere else on Earth,” writes the author. “In fact, Condé Nast selected the space as one of the 30 hottest new nightlife spots in the world for 2004.” The Pin-Up Bowl is located at 6191 Delmar Blvd. in St. Louis between two of Edwards’ notorious venues, Blueberry Hill and The Pageant concert hall. HUSCH & EPPENBERGER RANKS AMONG TOP 200 PRO BONO FIRMS The American Lawyer has ranked Husch & Eppenberger LLC No. 158 among the top 200 law firms dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to individuals who could not otherwise afford them. The list, published in the magazine’s July issue, ranks law firms based on the average number of pro bono hours per attorney and the percentage of lawyers who annually perform more than 20 hours of pro bono work. Husch & Eppenberger’s attorneys provide pro bono legal services to individuals and groups referred by various agencies, including The American Civil Liberties Union, Habitat for Humanity Law Committee, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, The United Way and many others.

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