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From the program: Real Estate M&A and REIT Transactions 2013

Released on: Jan. 24, 2013

Do you know the best negotiating strategies in the current real estate M&A market? What are the “hot buttons” for seller, buyer and lender requirements, in the board room, the courts and with the SEC?  What are the factors and legal issues you should analyze with respect to investing in distressed situations? How do the nature and ownership of the entity, and the characteristics of its property and the structuring of the acquisition ...

From the program: ERISA Fiduciary Investment Basics 2013

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

Taken from the Web Program ERISA Fiduciary Investment Basics 2013 recorded February, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:00:44] Understanding Basic Financial Institution Activities  [01:00:44] What is a prime broker? What is a swap? Parties in interest, prohibited transaction rules, and key exemptions The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online:  ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2013

Taken from the briefing International Banking, Part I: The Federal Reserve's Proposed Prudential Regulations for Foreign Banks recorded February, 2013. On December 14, 2012, the Federal Reserve proposed significant new regulations affecting the operations of foreign banks in the United States. The proposals are designed to implement the enhanced prudential regulation and early remediation requirements of Dodd-Frank Act sections 165 and ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

MICHAEL J. ALBANO: OK. OK. So thank you, everyone. We're going to start the next session now. And just to introduce the speakers, we have Erin Cho, who is with Davis Polk, Erin Miner, who is with Credit Suisse, Patrick Menasco, who's at Steptoe, and Suzzanne Yao at Goldman Sachs. And this panel is going to deal with-- we talked a lot this morning about setting up the hedge fund and how the hedge fund manager is going to need to, as part of its strategy, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 13, 2013

Taken from the briefing Final FATCA Regulations: What Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds Need to Knowrecorded February, 2013. The FATCA regime represents the IRS’s far-reaching effort to require “foreign financial institutions,” including offshore investment vehicles, to assist it in enforcing the US tax obligations of US persons. The lengthy final FATCA regulations were published on January 17, 2013. The FATCA regime will ...

From the program: Commercial Real Estate Financing 2013

Released on: Mar. 1, 2013

This seminar will explore major issues and problems, and recent changes, in how lenders and borrowers negotiate commercial real estate loans in the still-lingering shadow of the recent financial crisis. Speakers will show how today’s lower valuations and the renewed conservatism of lenders will shape the terms, legal negotiations, and closing process of commercial real estate financing in 2013. This year’s program will turn back toward ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking Part One: The Federal Reserve's Proposed Prudential Regulations for Foreign Banks. Before I begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. And, time permitting, they will be addressed. Please ...

Recorded on: Mar. 8, 2013

Taken from the briefing International Banking, Part II: Foreign Banks Accessing the U.S. Markets recorded March, 2013. Foreign banks are increasingly seeking to diversify their financing opportunities.  With careful planning, banks can access U.S. investors without subjecting themselves to the securities registration requirements applicable to public offerings and to ongoing disclosure and governance requirements applicable to U.S. ...

From the program: Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013

Released on: Mar. 25, 2013

Asset-based financing is a key source of credit for small and medium-size companies and for some larger, publicly traded companies as well. In contrast to equity financing where ownership in the company is diluted, asset-based financing allows companies to use their own assets to generate cash flow. In structuring these loans, lenders and their counsel must consider all senior interests in the collateral, as well as the practical difficulties in ...

Recorded on: Mar. 12, 2013

Taken from the briefing Navigating the Requirements for Derivatives Trading: Title VII of Dodd-Frank recorded March, 2013.Now that the rulemaking relating to Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act has been nearly finalized, market participants are preparing themselves to function in a very different derivatives market.  Title VII imposes a comprehensive regulatory framework for derivatives, and requires both end-users and dealers to adopt ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking Part Two-- Farm Banks Accessing the US Markets. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook ...

Recorded on: Mar. 26, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello. My name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Navigating the Requirements for Derivatives Trading, Title VII of Dodd-Frank. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing ...

Recorded on: Apr. 2, 2013

Taken from the briefing International Banking, Part IV: Foreign Banks Issuing Covered Bonds into the U.S.recorded March, 2013.Despite the sovereign crisis and heightened volatility, the covered bond market remains very attractive.  Foreign banks continue to access the U.S. markets with covered bond offerings.  We will discuss the market environment, the legal and regulatory considerations, and the process for an exempt offering by a ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking, Part Three-- SEC Registration for Foreign Banks. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the Course Handbook ...

Released on: Apr. 4, 2013

Taken from the briefing International Banking, Part III: SEC Registration for Foreign Banks recorded March, 2013. Foreign banks seeking to diversify their financing opportunities may consider SEC registration. This briefing will focus on the registration process; disclosure considerations for financial institutions; and compliance, governance and ongoing reporting. Lecture Topics  [Total Time: 01:05:06] The registration process and ...

From the program: Consumer Financial Services Institute (18th Annual)

Released on: Apr. 23, 2013

On January 4, 2012, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Since that time, the CFPB has been involved in a whirlwind of regulatory, supervisory and enforcement activities. In addition to the CFPB, state and other federal regulators are pursuing initiatives focused on consumer financial services. This year’s Institute will explore in detail the Bureau’s activities as well ...

Released on: Apr. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing New OCC Foreclosure Settlements: Moving on From the Independent Foreclosure Review Process recorded March, 2013. Millions of homeowners have lost their homes and been subjected to unlawful conduct by mortgage servicing companies in the context of both judicial and non-judicial foreclosure proceedings around the country. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve recently announced that they reached ...

Recorded on: Apr. 16, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking, Part Four, Foreign Banks Issuing Covered Bonds into the US. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JOHN RODDY: I apologize for the ceaseless coughing. This is a panel on collection, FDCPA and TCPA. To my far right is Don Maurice. Don is the president of Maurice and Needleman, whose attorneys specialize in all areas of creditors' rights and financial services litigation. In nearly 225 years of practice, Don has successfully litigated for the financial services industry in both state and federal courts. He's appeared as amicus counsel before the ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JULIA STRICKLAND: So we're going to start our panel right on the minute. We have an enormous amount of ground to cover. So here we go. The four panel members are Jennifer McCabe, who's to my immediate right. Jennifer is a Principal in Cornerstone Research, a consulting firm that provides expert testimony and economic and financial analysis to lawyers in connection with all faces of commercial litigation and regulatory proceedings. I can vouch for ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

JULIA B. STRICKLAND: We're going to start our final panel of the day. And we know that everybody's going to stay so that they can get free drinks at 5 o'clock. In any event, the panel is "Credit Card, Retail Banking and Emerging Payment Models." We have two extremely able lawyers as our speakers here. They have a lot to add. Mike Donovan is to my right. He's a founding member of the Philadelphia firm of Donovan Axler and focuses his practice ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2013

ALAN KAPLINSKY: We're going to the segue rather rapidly into the first panel of the morning, also focused on the CFPB. The CFPB has got many different functions, but the three things that we felt would be of most interest to all of you are what's happening in the regulatory area, what's happening in the enforcement area, and what's happening with respect to supervision. And so the first panel is going to focus on the regulatory area. And we have three ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

Taken from the briefing SEC's Extension of Exemptions for Security-Based Swaps 2013 recorded April, 2013.Among its many important changes to the legal landscape, The Dodd-Frank Act defined the term “security” to include security-based swaps. The SEC has taken a deliberative approach in relation to the effects of this change, and recently extended until February, 2014 the expiration date of certain temporary exemptions and interim final rules ...

From the program: Negotiating Real Estate Deals 2013

Released on: Jun. 18, 2013

Many things have changed in the world of real estate: the structuring of transactions, availability of financing availability of equity capital, bankruptcy remote structures, the role of the bankruptcy process, joint venture considerations, work out pitfalls, carve-out guaranties and unanticipated judicial interpretations, global market gyrations, interest rate setting irregularities, evolving neighborhoods, mega public/private projects, special servicer ...

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2013

Taken from the briefing Basel III and Derivatives Exposures: Understanding the Regulatory Capital Effectsrecorded May, 2013.The implementation of Basel III in the U.S. and in other jurisdictions may or may not be just around the corner, but it is none too soon for banking organizations to embark on the process of understanding how the evolving regulatory capital regime will affect their balance sheets and operations. One key area of impact will ...