Corporate & Securities

Political Law

Published: October 2008

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2010

DANIELLE BERSOFSKY: Good afternoon. My name is Danielle Bersofsky and I'm a program attorney with the Practising Law Institute. And it's my pleasure to welcome you to our program, Hedge Fund Registration and Compliance 2010. Welcome to our many webcast and groupcast attendees as well. Before we begin today's program, I have a few brief announcements. Please remember that absolutely no recording of this program is permitted. And today's featured ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2010

SUSAN GRAFTON: So while our next team of panelists are making their way to the stage, so that we don't cut in to the time we'll get to hear their views. I think we're alphabetical, so that works. To my right will be Michael Butowski. And Michael is a partner in the New York office of Mayer Brown, where he counsels public and private domestic and foreign investment vehicles. They are sponsors, directors, advisors, underwriters and administrators of ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2010

So as we have gotten into the legislative debate, I think that members of Congress have gotten much smarter about hedge funds. I think they've learned-- to some surprise-- that as a general matter there's much lower leverage in the hedge fund model than even a regulated back or broker-dealer. I think the legislative environment has created a positive educational opportunity for hedge funds to educate senators and members of congress on what they ...

Recorded on: Jan. 27, 2011

SPEAKER 1: We'll move on again. The next speaker is Eric Simonson. He's a partner at K&L Gates. He's a seasoned M&A practitioner. He's been speaking on the program for a number of years. And he's going to be speaking about various specialized areas of concern applicable to the transaction. ERIC SIMONSON: Thank you very much, Rich. A bit of a warning, I have a bit of a cold, so if I go into a sneezing or coughing fit or my voice fails me, ...

Recorded on: Dec. 1, 2011

REBECCA: A little different this year than we normally do, we spent most of the day today talking about different elements of the program, program structure, training and communications, measuring program, efficacy. And now we're going to talk about subject matter areas, about two different areas of the law, and two areas where compliance programs are particularly important and risks tend to be particularly high. And as I mentioned earlier, I think ...

Published: August 2012

Course Handbook from the program Corporate Political Activities 2012: Complying With Campaign Finance, Lobbying and Ethics Laws, held September, 2012.

From the program: Securities Products of Insurance Companies in the Course of Regulatory Reform 2013

Recorded on: Jan. 25, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Securities Products of Insurance Companies in the Course of Regulatory Reform 2013 recorded January, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [00:59:29] Regulation of Derivatives and Revisiting Dodd-Frank  [00:59:29] Federal Insurance Office Market infrastructure for swaps Stable value contracts CFTC regulation of funds and harmonization Scrutiny of repos and securities lending The ...

Recorded on: Jan. 25, 2013

JEFFREY PURETZ: OK, we're going to resume the program. Thank you all for getting back. Appreciate it. After the enactment of Dodd-Frank in July of 2010, a lot of the time on this program was spent on working through changes brought about by Dodd-Frank. I think that that has subsided a bit for us because some of it is kind of subsumed within the other discussions like Joan's discussion this morning of equity index products. But what continues to barrel ...

From the program: Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2013

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2013 recorded May, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:00:53]The Government's Perspective on Compliance and Ethics Programs  [01:00:53]The purchase price of this segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online: Government Has Set Compliance Agenda for 2013–Have You? (November 27, 2012)Rebecca Walker Revisions to the Federal Sentencing ...

From the program: Municipal Securities Activity by Broker-Dealers and Advisors 2013

Released on: Jun. 14, 2013

The Dodd-Frank Act and related developments ushered in new rules for broker-dealers and advisors in the municipal market arena. This program will provideyou with a solid foundation in the regulatory regime applying to broker-dealer and advisor municipal securities activity. Discussion will include the interplay between the various regulators with respect to municipal securities activity and offer practical compliance considerations.Lecture Topics  ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2013

REBECCA WALKER: So we are going to get started with a luncheon program, which was originally titled "Government Perspectives on Compliance and Ethics Programs." But today we are going to prove that we don't need no government officials to talk about government perspectives on compliance and ethics programs. I apologize, but our speaker cancelled at the last minute. So I've put together a panel in which we are going to discuss government's ...

From the program: M&A Litigation 2013

Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

Taken from the Web Program M&A Litigation 2013 recorded June, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [01:06:23]Addressing Disputes Over Stockholder Meetings  [01:06:23] Disputing Stockholder Communications Before the Stockholder Meeting- What has Delaware done with the materiality standard?- Can contractual restraints limit the duty of disclosure?- How long do stockholders need to absorb supplemental disclosures? Litigating Over the ...

Recorded on: Jul. 11, 2013

A. THOMPSON BAYLISS: So name that judge who said the following, "I'm just going to confess out loud that I have reached the point in my career of what I will call 'disclosure fatigue.' That is the struggle that the court goes through to try to figure out what information, about a target's financial advisor's analysis, needs to be disclosed to stockholders." Well everybody's voting. I'll just ask the panel, who here suffers from disclosure ...

Recorded on: Jul. 16, 2013

Taken from the briefing Supreme Court's Shelby County and the Future of Voting Rights Enforcementrecorded July, 2013.On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued one of the most significant voting rights opinions in decades: Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder.  The Court considered the constitutionality of Section 5 of the federal Voting Rights Act, which requires certain "covered" jurisdictions to obtain advance ...

• Sep. 30. - Oct. 1, 2013 Washington, DC

Lobbying, campaign finance and ethics rules in Washington, and in every state, are changing, and new court cases are affecting lobbyists, corporations, associations, and unions. Compliance with federal, state and local laws is more complex than ever. Congressional ethics rules, the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA), pay-to-play laws, as well as increasing pressure on corporations to disclose to shareholders their contributions and lobby expenditures, ...

• Sep. 18, 2013

• Sep. 19, 2013 Washington, DC

Events in the past year have again increased the complexities of the Federal government marketplace. Not only do compliance and transparency burdens remain at a high level, budgetary pressures and the sequester have added a further dimension to the issues confronted by both government buyers and contractors. Growing pressures to squeeze more dollars out of the procurement process affect everything from the training given to government personnel, to ...

• Sep. 18, 2014 Washington, DC

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• Sep. 29 - 30, 2014 Washington, DC

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