Message-ID: <4559070.1075842927107.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:35:00 -0800 (PST) From: james.derrick@enron.com To: randy.pais@enron.com Subject: Re: TECASO Project - Outside Counsel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: James Derrick X-To: Randy Pais X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \James_Derrick_Dec2000_June2001_1\Notes Folders\'sent mail X-Origin: DERRICK-J X-FileName: jderric.nsf Randy, your suggestion looks fine to me. Jim Randy Pais 12/12/2000 01:58 PM To: James Derrick/Corp/Enron@ENRON cc: Vicki Sharp/HOU/EES@EES, John Schwartzenburg/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT Subject: TECASO Project - Outside Counsel Jim, We are currently reviewing a new business opportunity with EES to enable EECC to provide technical and commercial due diligence services for global infrastructure project financing. If the new business opportunity receives approval from EES management, we see the need to retain outside counsel experienced in internet/web based issues. Presently this need would be with the web, structuring, IP, and antitrust areas. In an effort to find a firm that Enron has used recently for web related matters, I spoke with Mark Taylor and Marianne Castano. For Enron Online development, Mark used Sullivan and Cromwell and Milbank, Tweed for the web/trading effort and V & E for IP matters, For a recent EES internet project Marianne used Vivian Polak of LeBeouf Lamb for web/transactional issues and V & E for IP matters. She was very pleased with Vivian's support. After discussing our specific requirements with Mark and Marianne and reviewing this matter with Vicki Sharp, I spoke with Vivian briefly to confirm if she had the experience we needed. I found she had exactly what we needed and subsequently discussed this with John Schwartzenburg. John agreed. With your approval I would like permission to engage Vivian Polak of LeBeouf, Lamb for web, structuring and transactional related issues and Scott Brown of V & E for IP matters. If you should need any additional information concerning the TECASO Project or this request, please let me know. Thank you, Randy