American Cyanamid - Acted as advisor, negotiated and directed the divestiture of the Canadian-based Carbide Products businesses to SKW and Carbon Graphite Group.

Aristech Corporation - Acted as financial advisor to the company and evaluated shareholder value and financing alternatives.

Ausimont N.V. - Acted as financial advisor in the swap of Ausimont's Organic Peroxide operations in Italy for Elf Atochem's PVDF operations in Thorofare, N.J.

Ausimont N.V. - Acted as advisor in the sale of Ausimont's 50% interest in its Italian Tetraethyl Lead joint venture with Great Lakes (Octel).

Bayer AG - Acted as advisor to Bayer Corporation in the sale of ChemDesign Corporation, a fine chemical company, to Chestnut Investments LLC.

Caliper Life Sciences - Acted as advisor to Caliper Life Sciences, the leading microfluidics company, in its acquisition of NovaScreen, a life sciences service company.

Celanese AG - Acted as advisor to Celanese AG in the sale of its Worldwide Nylon 6,6 business to BASF.

Celanese AG - Acted as advisor to Celanese AG in the sale of its Nylon 6 business to Resinas T.B., S.A. de C.V.

Chirex - Co-managed the $87 million initial public offering of this pharmaceutical and intermediates company.

Chemtech Industries - Acted as advisor to Chemtech Industries in the sale of its Chemical Distribution Division to Soco.

Degussa AG - Acted as advisor to Degussa in the sale of its Cyanuric Chloride and Sodium Dicyanamide Businesses in Münchsmünster, Germany to Oxon Italia.

Deltech Corporation - Advised shareholders of this private chemical company in its sale, in a recapitalization to management.

Domtar - Acted as advisor in the sale of Domtar's Miranol surfactants business to Rhone Poulenc.

Domtar - Acted as advisor in the sale of Domtar's Longford surfactants operations to Stepan.

Domtar - Acted as advisor in the sale of Domtar's 50% coal tar joint venture interest to the joint venture partner, Ruetgers.

DSM - Acted as advisor in the sale of DSM's Styrene-Butadiene Resin business to Lion Chemical Capital.

Georgia Gulf - Co-manager of a $190 million offering of common shares.

Henkel - Acted as adisor to Henkel in the sale of its North American Paper Chemicals and Construction and Process Chemicals Business to Geo Specialty Chemicals.

International Specialty Products - Co-managed the $301 million initial public offering for this leading specialty chemical company.

Mitsubishi Group - Prepared valuation of Aristech for the Mitsubishi Group for shareholder purposes.

Mitsui - Advised Mitsui on its acquisition of Ocelot Ammonia in Canada from Methanex and Devco for approximately $100 million.

Mobil - Advised and coordinated the acquisition of a foreign polyethylene resin business from a major U.S. chemical company.

Monsanto - Acted as advisor in the sale of their Maleic Anhydride business to Huntsman Chemical.

National Distillers & Chemical Company - Advised and negotiated the purchase of a family-owned plastics compounding business.

National Distillers & Chemical Company - Advised and negotiated the purchase of a plastics compounding business from a major pigment producer.

National Distillers & Chemical Company - Advised and negotiated the acquisition of a plastics processing plant from a major oil company.

National Distillers & Chemical Company - Provided valuation for, and coordinated, the acquisition of an organic chemical producer from a family trust and the public.

National Distillers & Chemical Company - Negotiated the divestiture of a foreign polyethylene plant to a major oil company.

Nippon Sanso - Acted as advisor to Nippon Sanso in its acquisition of Hercules' Semi-Gas business.

NL Industries - Represented the Special Independent Committee of the Board in evaluating the proposal by Valhi Corporation to purchase the minority public shares that Valhi did not own. Offer was deemed to be unfair and was withdrawn.

NL Industries - Acted as advisor in the sale of Spencer Kellogg, a specialty resins business, to Reichhold for $86 million.

Olin Corporation - Co-managed a $101 million offering of common stock.

OM Group - Lead-managed the $154 million initial public offering of common stock.

OMV - Acted as advisor in the sale of OMV's Pyridate Herbicide business, Argolinz, to Sandoz. Amount undisclosed.

OMV - Sale of OMV's fine chemical division, Chemie Linz, located in Austria, to DSM for 2.2 billion schillings.

Oxiteno S/A - Acted as advisor to Oxiteno S/A Indústria e Comércio , a member of the Ultra Group in Brazil, in its acquisition of Canamex Especialidades Quimicas S.A. de C.V. in Mexico.

PCR Group - Acted as advisor to the shareholders of PCR Group in the sale of this organosilane company to Harris Specialty Chemicals.

Perkin-Elmer Corporation - Acted as advisor to the Perkin-Elmer Corporation in the sale of PerSeptive Biosystems GmbH-Hamburg to a subsidiary of SKW Trostberg AG.

Philipp Brothers Chemicals, Inc. - Acted as advisor to the company and its subsidiary, Phibro-Tech, Inc., in the sale of Agtrol International, a fungicide and plant growth regulator business, to Nufarm Limited.

PureTec Corporation - Acted as financial advisor to the company in evaluating shareholder value and financing alternatives.

Quantum Chemical Corporation - Negotiated the divestiture of an organic chemical business to a major foreign chemical company.

Quantum Chemical Corporation - Negotiated the sale of a synthetic lube oil base stock business to a major U.S. chemical company.

Quantum Chemical Corporation - Negotiated the sale of a specialty fragrance company to key employees in a leveraged buy-out.

Quantum Chemical Corporation - Negotiated the divestiture of a biotechnology start-up venture to an employee group.

Reichhold, Inc. - Advised Reichhold in the sale of its 50% interests in Synthomer Ltd. and Synthomer GmbH to Yule Catto for $95 million.

Rexene Corporation - Acted as advisor to the holders of $401 million of principal amount of Senior and Senior Subordinated Notes in a successful prepackaged bankruptcy.

Rhone-Poulenc - Advised Rhone-Poulenc on the sale/transfer of its TDI business to ARCO Chemical. Amount undisclosed.

Rustoleum - Acted as advisor to the shareholders of Rustoleum in its sale to RPM Corporation for $183 million.

Shell - Sale of Shell Chemical's polypropylene and related catalyst operations to Union Carbide. Sale was required by the anti-trust authorities to allow the merger of the remaining Shell and Himont Polypropylene operations.

Sybron Chemicals - Acted as advisor to Sybron Chemical in its acquisition of the Textile Chemical operations of National Starch, a division of Unilever.

Synthon Chiragenics - Acted as advisor to Synthon Chiragenics in the sale of its Fine Chemicals business and the license of certain technology rights to Avecia Ltd.

TETRA Technologies - Acted as financial advisor to the company in evaluating shareholder value and financing alternatives.

Thai Petrochemical - Co-manager of the company's initial public offering of common stock. Total offering was $146 million.

Undisclosed Client - Sale of a substantial interest in a Brazilian chemical company to another Brazilian chemical company.

Wellman - Acquisition of Akzo Nobel's PET bottle resin operations in the Netherlands.