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Robert Kabel, Senior Advisor to B&D; Consulting, will be a guest speaker at the Inter-American Bar Association Conference on June 18, 2010, at 2:30 p.m. Kabel will address the topic, "The 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics - Investment Opportunities in Major Sports Events."

The major sports events scheduled in Brazil over the next seven years will require significant improvements in airports, especially in Rio de Janeiro and in most of the 12 cities that will host the soccer games of the 2014 competition. Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport, the main entrance for the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to attend the Olympic Games, will have to almost double its capacity by 2016. Due to the amount of required investments, estimated at almost US $5 billion, and the short time period involved, Infraero is expected to seek greater contribution from the private sector, thereby opening opportunities for U.S. companies with expertise and capacity in this area to start operating in the near future, either by themselves or in consortia with local firms.

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