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Brazil
João Verner Juenemann, senior partner in Juenemann & Associados, has been recently re-appointed to the audit member committee of the state-owned bank Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul S.A, as well as a member of the board of directors of the bank, for a two-year term through 2008.

Juenemann & Associados is celebrating thirty years of auditing activities in August, 2007.