New York, May 8, 2008—Shearman & Sterling acted as counsel to joint bookrunning managers Merrill Lynch & Co., Lehman Brothers and UBS Investment Bank and the other underwriters of the initial public offering of Colfax Corporation. The company’s common stock will be listed on the NYSE under the symbol “CFX.”

Colfax Corporation is a global leader in critical fluid-handling solutions, including the manufacture of positive displacement industrial pumps and valves used in global oil & gas, power generation, marine, naval and a variety of other industrial applications.

The New York-based Shearman & Sterling team was led by capital markets partner Lisa Jacobs, assisted by litigation partner James Tallon and capital markets associates Carl McCarthy, Damien Grierson and Erica Tso. Additional support was provided by a Frankfurt-based capital markets team including partner Stephan Hutter and associates Katja Kaulamo and Stefan Otten.

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