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From the program: Leveraged Financing 2012

Released on: Jun. 13, 2012

DVD's from the program Leveraged Financing 2012, held May, 2012.

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. 7, 2012

DAVID BRITTENHAM: All right. While John is getting ready, I'll introduce him. John Brady is counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton, since 1998. He has been involved in leading the Lawyer Training Initiatives at our firm, including teaching us all about professional ethics. And he's here today to tell us something about it for the next hour. John. JOHN BRADY: Thank you, David. David has volunteered me again this year to speak about ethics. I'm happy ...

Recorded on: May. 7, 2012

PATRICK J. RYAN: So we're going to start with the final panel of the day, which happens to have middle in the title, just to keep everybody focused. Middle Market and Mezzanine Financing, and our panelists are Carolyn Alford from King & Spalding, Stephen Boyko from Proskauer, and Rachel Rawson from Jones Day. So I'll turn it over to the panelists. CAROLYN ZANDER ALFORD: I'm excited to be here. We're going to talk about both the middle market ...

Recorded on: May. 7, 2012

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: So with that, let's get started. I'd like to introduce the other members of our first panel. Marc Jaffe to the far right. And Doug Cruikshank. Marc and Doug are approximately 20 year veterans in their perspective professions. Marc's been at Latham & Watkins since 1993. Doug's been in the banking profession since 1991. Marc is co-chair of the firm's global capital markets group well known to many of us. And the foremost capital ...

Recorded on: May. 7, 2012

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: We're ready to go with our next panel on Restructuring Leverage Companies. And I'm delighted that Eric Rosof and Jasmine Ball are here with us today to talk about that. Eric is a partner at Wachtell. He has a unique practice that spans the worlds of finance and restructuring, and we're delighted to have his broader perspective on our world in the restructuring arena. Next to him is my partner, Jasmine Ball, who is a restructuring ...

From the program: Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company 2012

Released on: Jun. 22, 2012

Our experienced faculty walk you through all of the steps associated with acquiring and selling a privately held company, whether it is a large independent corporation, a division or subsidiary of a large public company, or a smaller venture capital-backed or family-owned entrepreneurial enterprise. You will learn about the special issues that apply when a private equity firm is the buyer or owns the target company, and about the techniques and strategies ...

From the program: How to Read Financial Statements 2012

Released on: May. 8, 2012

DVD's from the program How to Read Financial Statements 2012, held March, 2012.

From the program: Securities Offerings 2012: A Public Offering: How It Is Done

Released on: May. 9, 2012

Audio CD's from the program Securities Offerings 2012: A Public Offering: How It Is Done, held April, 2012.

From the program: Private Placements and Other Financing Alternatives 2012

Released on: May. 14, 2012

Audio CD's from the program Private Placements and Other Financing Alternatives 2012, held April, 2012.

From the program: Asset Based Financing 2012

Released on: May. 15, 2012

Audio CD's from the program Asset Based Financing 2012, held April, 2012.

Recorded on: Jun. 1, 2012

Taken from the Web Program JOBS Act 2012: What You Need to Know Now Recorded May, 2012 in New York The JOBS Act - SEC Response and Implementation [00:56:21] Regulatory and Legislative Initiatives Preceding the JOBS Act The reach of the JOBS Act and its implications for capital raising Effective dates and timing for rulemaking Required studies The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Summer 2012

Released on: Jun. 19, 2012

An understanding of key financial, accounting and economic concepts, principles and terminology will contribute to your ability to interact with and advise your clients with their critical issues.  The ability to identify and appropriately use financial and accounting information is relevant to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for both external and in-house attorneys.  Litigators and transactional attorneys alike will benefit ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: OK, thank you. Welcome back, and I'm pleased to introduce the dynamic duo of Dan Berner and Jason Downing. Dan is a Deloitte partner out of the Dallas, Texas audit practice. Deloitte's been serving large audit clients for the past 22 years, and has significant experience with SEC matters, including initial and follow-on registration statements, acquisitions, divestitures, and period filings. And our other colleague, Jason Downing, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN S. AUNAPU: OK. Well, welcome back. I hope you all had a wonderful lunch. We're going to start the second half of our day off with a great team of presenters here. I'm pleased to welcome back Professor Jennifer Blouin and Brian Doyle. They were both here with us last year and did a great job. They're going to speak to us on the practical elements of finance. Jennifer Blouin is an associate professor of accounting at the Wharton School of Business ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN S. AUNAPU: Good morning and welcome back to day two of Pocket MBA, Finance for Lawyers, the summer program. I'm pleased to welcome this morning Ken Herzinger and Dan Knappenberger. Ken is a partner at Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe's San Francisco office, and is a member of the Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement group. Ken's practice focuses on SEC and related criminal investigations and enforcement actions, securities class ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: Let me introduce for you our next panelist, the sole panelist, is Brad Borden. Brad is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches federal income tax. He focuses on partnership taxation, real estate taxation, and related matters. And Brad is going to take us through the financial analysis of non-corporate entities. BRADLEY T. BORDEN: Thanks Eric. And also thanks for inviting me to participate today. I think originally ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

KIRSTEN AUNAPA: OK. Welcome back. We're going to get started with our next topic, which is integrated performance management. I'm pleased to welcome back Dan Berner, a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Jason Downing, a principal at Deloitte Consulting. And they're going to kind of build on the basic introduction to financial statements that they gave you yesterday. And we'll get into a more practical read of how to actually read and analyze ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC SLOAN: ALL right, we're going to get started again. Hopefully everyone has coffee because, you know, at around 3 o'clock is when the caffeine is really needed. But we have a great panel today to keep you awake and interested. So we're going to focus on capital structure considerations in financing. And to do that we have another great panel. To my immediate right is Bill Brentani. Bill is a partner at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett in Palo ...

From the program: Private Equity Forum (Thirteenth Annual)

Released on: Jul. 24, 2012

The current economic crisis and the state of financial markets continues to have a negative impact on private equity, leading to lower levels of fund-raising and deal-making activities. There has also been increasing regulatory and legislative focus on private equity funds and their roles in the financial markets leading to the downturn, as well as their potential roles going forward. In this environment, private equity faces a number of significant ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK. So we are now going on to our last panel for this conference. And for this panel, we are lucky to have with us two people who are really experienced in negotiating these fund agreements and fundraising. And they will tell us, or they will give us, an experience in terms of how these terms are being negotiated in this current environment. To my right is Bruce Lieb. He is the managing partner of Proskauer Rose and a member Proskauer's ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK. So we're on to the final panel for this morning. Right before lunch, to keep you all here, we have the Ethics Panel on Conflicts of Interest. This will provide the ethics credit for this conference. And for that, I've asked, to my right, Ed Sopher. He is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher. He is the chair of the Investment Funds Practice Group and a member of the Corporate Transactions and Securities ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK. Let's get started. So welcome back everybody. And we are changing gears now, this afternoon, for two panels where we are actually going to be focusing on what it is that these private equity funds do, which is actually make investments, sell investments. That's the key part of a private equity fund's activity, after all. So for our first panel on the Fundamentals of Private Equity Investing, let me introduce the panel. I have sitting ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Thank you YUKAKO KAWATA: OK, so welcome back, everybody, and we are on our second MNA panel, and the last panel for this afternoon. And for this panel we have with us again David and Michael, and we are joined by Justin HAMILL. Justin is a partner in the corporate department of Paul Weiss and is a member of the mergers and acquisitions group and private equity group. And we are particularly grateful that Justin is here because, unfortunately, ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK, good morning everybody. Let's get started. We've got a pretty busy morning coming up. And as I mentioned to you yesterday, we have switched the order. We originally were going to start with the keynote and then the move to this panel. But we switched it around because Norm Champ wasn't able to join us for the keynote. That's because he just got appointed the head of the Division of Investment Management at the SEC. And he just ...