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Schiff Hardin LLP's Peter V. Fazio Jr. Elected to the Board of Directors of Commonwealth Edison Company

November 02, 2007

Peter V. Fazio Jr., a partner in Schiff Hardin's Corporate and Securities Group, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), a unit of Exelon Corporation, one of the nation's a largest electric utilities. ComEd maintains the electric transmission and distribution system in northern Illinois and provides customer operations for more than 3.8 million customers across the region, or 70 percent of the state's population.

Mr. Fazio is a past Chairman, Executive Committee Member, and Managing Partner of Schiff Hardin. He has a wide ranging general business practice with concentrations in finance and regulated industry matters. He has served as a director of public and private corporations and as corporate secretary to numerous clients. He renders general legal advice to senior management of both large and small businesses on a daily basis.

While at Schiff Hardin, from 2000 through 2006, Mr. Fazio served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for NiSource Inc., a Fortune 500 utility company engaged in natural gas transmission, storage and distribution, as well as electric generation, transmission and distribution. NiSource operating companies deliver energy to more than 3.3 million customers.

From April 1982 through August 1983, Mr. Fazio left the practice of law to serve as Chief Operating Officer of International Capital Equipment Limited, a Bermuda domiciled, publicly-held financial services company. During that time, he also served as President of its United States subsidiaries.