By Bruce Carleton
29 February 2008

BERKELEY CA -- Insider Newswire reports on top transactions executed by corporate insiders at publicly held companies. This report is based on form 4 filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commision by publicly held companies in the last six business days.

Top Corporate Officer Transactions

The top buying officers were Aubrey K Mcclendon, Kevin R Davis and John C Lechleiter. Aubrey K Mcclendon of Oklahoma City OK bought 400,000 shares of Chesapeake Energy Corp (Common Stock) for a total cost of $18,447,805.53 at an average price of $46.02 a share. Kevin R Davis of New York NY bought 60,000 shares of MF Global Ltd. (Common Shares, Par Value $1.00 Per Share) for a total cost of $1,002,632.42 at an average price of $16.72 a share. John C Lechleiter of Indianapolis IN bought 19,558 shares of Lilly Eli & Co (Common Stock) for a total cost of $1,000,000.54 at an average price of $51.13 a share.

The top selling officers were Ronald S Lauder, Dennis M Diflorio and John L Bishop. Ronald S Lauder of New York NY sold 750,000 shares of Estee Lauder Companies Inc (Class A Common Stock) for a total of $32,449,950.00 at an average price of $43.27 a share. Dennis M Diflorio of Cherry Hill NJ sold 738,101 shares of Commerce Bancorp Inc /NJ/ (Common Stock) for a total of $28,461,174.56 at an average price of $38.56 a share. John L Bishop of Sunnyvale CA sold 443,113 shares of Cepheid (Common Stock) for a total of $13,213,152.93 at an average price of $30.01 a share.

Insiders file Form 4s with the SEC to report transactions in their companies' shares. Open market purchases and sales must be reported within two business days of the transaction. Indirect transactions and transactions with reported share prices of greater than $1000 are excluded from the report.

Write to Bruce Carleton at rbc@insidernewswire.com