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Recorded on: Jan. 5, 2012

GRACE O'HANLON: Good morning, my name is Grace O'Hanlon. I'm a program attorney with the Practising Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to our program, Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements 2012. A welcome to our groupcast and webcast attendees as well. Now, it's my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, Alyssa Grikscheit. Alyssa is a partner in the New York office of Sidley Austin. She has a diverse corporate ...

Course Handbook from the program Asset Based Financing 2012, held April, 2012.

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

MICHAEL TREISMAN: But if you don't satisfy that exemption, you still have to register as a registered investment company. 7(d) is really what applies to just offshore entities, not onshore entities. On the Investment Advisers Act side, as Dan mentioned, obviously, there has been heightened requirements for purposes of managers needing to register. And generally speaking, if you have more than $100 million in assets under management with some clients ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Hedge Funds 2012: Strategies and Structures for an Evolving Marketplace Recorded September, 2012 in New York Basic Hedge Fund Structures [01:00:07] Formation of domestic and offshore structures Current terms and conditions for hedge funds Developments regarding fee arrangements Fundraising activities, private placement requirements, pay-to-play issues The purchase price of this segment includes ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

EWA KNAPIK: Hello, again. At this time, I would like to introduce our last panel of today. This is the Closing Business Transactions panel. And it is my pleasure to introduce our speakers. Both of them are founder and senior managing directors of Pharus Advisors. Michael Goodman is, as I said, the founder and senior managing director. His experience includes significant operational experience in technology companies, M&A and deal making from ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: So while our panelists are getting settled, this is our last panel of the day. This is a panel on closing business transactions. And before I let these guys get started, first let me introduce them. Drew Buechley is sitting to my immediate right. And to my far right is Michael Goodman. Drew and Michael are Senior Managing Directors, essentially partners, at Pharus Advisors in San Francisco and New York, respectively. Pharus is, I think, ...

Recorded on: Oct. 19, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Pocket MBA Fall 2012 Recorded October, 2012 in New York Closing Business Transactions [01:01:32] A detailed look at negotiation How to divide-and-conquer when working with an investment bank Common stumbling blocks to closing transactions Examination of “fringe” deal issues that often create transaction friction Non-disclosure agreements from the banker’s perspective Letters ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Pocket MBA Summer 2012 Recorded June, 2012 in San Francisco Closing Business Transactions [00:59:50] A detailed look at negotiation How to divide-and-conquer when working with an investment bank Common stumbling blocks to closing transactions Examination of “fringe” deal issues that often create transaction friction The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) ...

From the program: Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements 2012

Released on: Feb. 15, 2012

DVD's from the program Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements 2012, held January, 2012.

From the program: Drafting Securities Filings 2012

Released on: Oct. 12, 2012

This workshop will analyze in detail the principal forms and certain drafting issues and techniques used in filings with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”), with particular emphasis on the mechanics of and timing for assembling particular filings. Recent legislation, including the controversial Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) ...

Recorded on: Jan. 5, 2012

ALYSSA A. GRIKSCHEIT: Great. We are live back for, as we promised, Deals Gone Bad and Ethics. I'd like to introduce our two speakers. First we'll hear from Eric Alan Stone. He's a partner at Paul Weiss, and he's in the litigation department with experience in litigation and arbitration. And then we will hear from Michael Sackheim, a partner of mine at Sidley Austin. And he concentrates on exchange traded and over the counter derivatives, regulatory ...

Recorded on: May. 7, 2012

DAVID BRITTENHAM: All right, we're back and we're going to now hear from our second panel, three luminaries of leverage finance. Angela Fontana to the far right, a partner at Weil, Gotshal. Ann Makich, a partner at Cahill Gordon, and Marissa Wesely, a partner at Simpson Thacher. You're on. MARISSA WESELY: Well, it's great to be back here once again. It's always fun for us to get together and compare notes. Just to kick it off and sort of set the ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Leveraged Financing 2012 Recorded May, 2012 in New York Financing Commitments and Acquisition Agreement Terms [01:29:35] A. Trends in Financing Commitments Financing commitment process Conditionality; agreed precedent principles Bridge loan terms; securities demand rights Market flex rights Fee terms and structures Highly interested and highly confident letters B. Acquisition Agreement ...

From the program: Fundamental Concepts in Drafting Contracts: What Most Attorneys Fail to Consider 2012

Released on: Apr. 20, 2012

DVD's from the program Fundamental Concepts in Drafting Contracts: What Most Attorneys Fail to Consider 2012, held March, 2012.

Recorded on: Mar. 23, 2012

GRACE O'HANLON: Contact customer service. It's now my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, Vincent Martorana Vinny is counsel in the corporate and securities group with Reed Smith's New York office. His practice includes the representation of clients in domestic and cross border mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, corporate restructurings, private ...

From the program: IP Issues in Business Transactions 2012

Released on: Apr. 4, 2012

DVD's from the program IP Issues in Business Transactions 2012, held February, 2012.

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

DANFORTH TOWNLEY: Welcome back, everybody. We're going to start our next panel. Where we get to hear from the experts on prime brokerage issues that are basically a lot of the bread and butter of actual trading activity and trading relationships of hedge funds. And the panelists today are to my right, Harry Jho who's a partner at his company Harry Jho, LLC. And he's been working for buy side and sell side firms and in working on exactly this area ...

Course Handbook from the program Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings & Workouts 2012, held January, 2012.

Recorded on: Jan. 5, 2012

ALYSSA A. GRIKSCHEIT: Welcome back. We're now moving on to equity agreements and I'd like to introduce Kevin Sheridan. He's a partner in the New York office of Bingham McCutchen. He focuses on corporate work, M&A, and the alternative asset management sector. L. KEVIN SHERIDAN, JR.: Thanks, Alyssa. And thanks for coming back after lunch. Gavin told me he was afraid half the people were going to flee after the morning session. This is a tough ...