Legal Business reported that an unnamed senior partner in the legal firm Allen & Overy, which is acting for Glazer, attended last year's United AGM with a bodyguard in case United fans became hostile.

Informed sources say the partner was Andrew Ballheimer, an English lawyer who was handpicked by Glazer to work on the case because of the excellent reputation he earned in New York, where Glazer came to know of him.

Some 50 staff at Allen & Overy are working on the United deal, and have been warned to be "vigilant" to attacks from militant anti-Glazer United fans. The firm has already been bombarded by an assortment of e-mail threats, black faxes and abusive phone calls.

A spokeswoman for Allen & Overy declined to comment on whether Ballheimer was working for Glazer and denied suggestions that senior figures from the firm are currently using 24-hour security to protect them




ALLEN & OVERY LLP
Andrew Ballheimer

Department: Capital markets and corporate finance.
Position: Partner.

Education: Highgate School; Gonville and Caius, Cambridge (1987 MA).

Career: Articled DJ Freeman & Co; qualified 1987; associate Allen & Overy, London 1987-89; associate New York 1989-91; associate London 1991-94; partner London 1994; Tokyo October 1994 to August 1996; New York from September 1996; publications: author 'The Legal Framework of the Securities Industry in the European Community under the 1992 Programme' published by the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law; co-author 'Exemptions for Institutional Investors or Concepts of Non-public Offerings; a Comparative Study' published by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law.

Leisure: Tennis, squash, theatre, travel.

Phone: +1 212 610 6300

E-mail: andrew.ballheimer@allenovery.com

Main areas of work:

Capital markets
Corporate and commercial
M & A, takeovers

PLEASE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DO NOT GET IN TOUCH TO LET HIM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK !! YOU MIGHT DISTURB HIS THEATRE ATTENDING SCHEDULE


Andrew Ballheimer
ALLEN & OVERY
1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York
NY 10020
USA
Tel: +1 212 610 6300
Fax: +1 212 610 6399

Please don't let him know what you think .... after all... he only attended the AGM in secret with a bodyguard.... and tried to rip our club to shreds at the behest of Glazer.

Not like he's tried to harm the club or anything. Don't be silly boys.