Former GM General Counsel Robert Osborne Returns to Jenner & Block

CHICAGO, July 20 -- Robert S. Osborne, Group Vice President and General Counsel of General Motors, will rejoin Jenner & Block in September 2009 as a Partner in its Chicago Office. Mr. Osborne returns to the Firm's highly regarded Corporate Department.

"We are very excited that Bob is returning to Jenner & Block," said Managing Partner Susan C. Levy. "Bob is one of the most talented, principled, and highly respected corporate lawyers in the country, and we are proud to welcome him back to our Corporate Department from one of our most valued clients."

"As a part of the senior management team at GM during what was arguably the most challenging period in the corporation's history, Bob will bring extraordinary insight to our clients and the issues they face," said Joseph P. Gromacki, Chair of Jenner & Block's Corporate Department and a member of the Firm's governing Policy Committee. "I am thrilled to welcome Bob back to the Firm, and I am delighted to work with him once again as my partner at Jenner & Block. His leadership, experience and extraordinary judgment will be a tremendous asset to the Firm."

"I'm honored to practice again at Jenner & Block," said Mr. Osborne. "I have a deep respect - both as a client and a partner at the Firm - for the unwavering commitment to the highest ideals of the legal profession shared among the lawyers at Jenner & Block. I'm excited to rejoin my colleagues and counsel the Firm's clients on a range of transactional, governance and securities matters."

"I am confident about GM's future and it was a privilege to work with the company's immensely talented executive and legal team," Mr. Osborne added. While at GM, Mr. Osborne had primary responsibility for GM's legal staff, office of export compliance and office of the secretary, and was a member of GM's senior management committee, the automotive strategy board. While at GM, he headed a global legal staff of more than 200 lawyers in 31 countries and led the legal teams that resolved complex securities litigation, negotiated a series of federal government loans and successfully executed a complex 363 sale and emergence from bankruptcy over a short period of time.

Mr. Osborne had previously been a senior partner of the Firm, Chair of its Corporate Department and a member of its Management and Policy Committees from September 2002 until he joined GM in September 2006. Prior to joining Jenner & Block, he was a senior partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP. Mr. Osborne graduated from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1979 and from Harvard College, magna cum laude, in 1976. He is admitted to the bar in the states of Illinois, Michigan and New York.