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Gov. Ed Rendell provided legislative leaders June 12 with copies of the expressions of interest submitted to the state in December regarding a potential lease of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The documents were provided with the condition that the information be kept confidential until the potential bidding process is finalized.

The 52 responses came from a variety of sources, including potential bidders, investment banks and consulting firms, transportation-engineering firms and law firms. The names and addresses of these firms were removed from the materials given to legislators.

Here are the names of the entities that responded to the state, courtesy of PennDOT:

* Abertis of Alexandria, Va.

* Allen & Overy of New York

* Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll of Washington, D.C.

* Banc of America Securities of New York

* Bear, Stearns & Company Inc. of New York

* Borealis Infrastructure of Toronto

* Cabrera Capital Markets Inc. of Chicago

* Cash-Ware Inc. of Monroeville, Allegheny County

* Chapman and Cutler of Chicago

* Cintra Developments of Austin, Texas

* Credit Suisse Securities (USA) of New York

* Deloitte Consulting of Harrisburg

* FFC Construction S.A. of Spain

* First Southwest Co. of Houston

* Fluor Enterprises Inc. of Arlington, Va.

* Goldman, Sachs & Company of New York and AIG Financial Products Co. of New York

* Global Capital Finance of Purchase, N.Y

* HDR Engineering, Inc. of Pittsburgh

* HH Capital Advisors (The Herrick Company Inc.) of Cedar Knolls, N.Y.

* Halcrow Inc. of Herndon, Va.

* ING Group of New York

* Infrastructure Management Group of Bethesda, Md.

* Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras S.A. of Spain

* J.R Morgan Investments Management of New York

* J.R Morgan Securities Inc. of New York

* KPMG Corporate Finance of Austin, Texas

* Lazard Freres & Company of New York

* Lehman Bros, of Philadelphia

* Macquarie Securities (USA) Inc. of New York

* Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw of Chicago

* Merrilll Lynch of New York

* Michael Baker Corp. of Moon Township, Allegheny County

* Morgan Stanley of New York

* National Economic Research Associates Inc. of Philadelphia

* Navigant Consulting of Pittsburgh

* Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott of Los Angeles

* Parsons Brinckerhoff of New York

* PBS&J of Coraopolis, Allegheny County

* Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission of Swatara Township

* Ramirez & Company of New York

* Rand Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif.

* RBC Capital Markets of St. Petersburg, Fla.

* RREEF America of New York

* The Carlyle Group of New York

* Transurban (USA) Development Inc. of New York

* UBS Investment Bank of New York

* Vantage Point Associates Inc. &The Public Private Strategy Group of Philadelphia

* Wachovia Capital Markets of Charlotte, N.C.

- Jessica Bair