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Recorded on: Jan. 14, 2013

KENNETH CHIN: When Grace talked about the audience feedback, we really do welcome that. I just want to tell you that people last year said they appreciated some of the props I brought along for my presentation. I'm doing a slightly different one this year. But I also want to let you know that us UCC lawyers are a special breed, we actually have our own coffee. So if you want a taste of this, I'm going to pour some in my cup, but I'll leave the open ...

Recorded on: Jan. 15, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Secured Transactions 2013: What Lawyers Need to Know About UCC Article 9 NY Recorded January, 2013 in New York A. Basic Building Blocks: Attachment, Perfection,and Priority; B. Drafting the Security Agreement [01:15:39] A. Basic Building Blocks: Attachment, Perfection, and Priority Does Article 9 apply to the transaction? What does a security agreement require? When does an oral security agreement ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jan. 3, 2013

GRACE E. O'HANLON: It's now 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 practice that currently emphasizes complex transactions and alternative investment funds. Her experience also includes private equity and hedge funds, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and restructurings. She represents domestic and foreign ...

From the program: Drafting and Negotiating Corporate Agreements 2013

Released on: Jan. 16, 2013

In this perennial favorite, our expert faculty will teach you the basics of drafting and negotiating corporate agreements - from how the provisions of an agreement fit together, to the fundamental drafting and negotiating principles common to all corporate agreements. You will learn how to reduce your client’s goals to a complete, clearly written and enforceable agreement, and how to identify what issues are most likely to come up in a ...

Recorded on: Jan. 3, 2013

ALYSSA GRIKSCHEIT: OK. We are moving on to acquisition agreements. You'll notice this is the longest segment of the day. We have a networking break in the middle of it. It is worth devoting this amount of time to the topic, though. These types of agreements are very complex, and I think if you can negotiate these, you can negotiate almost anything. It gives me great pleasure to introduce Sarkis Jebejian. He's a corporate partner of Kirkland & ...

Recorded on: Apr. 14, 2010

PRESENTER 1: OK, we are ready to start our afternoon program. Marsha just reminded me. I wanted to urge all of you to please fill out your evaluations. Those turn out to be very useful to us. They tell us what materials to emphasize in the program, which ones to delete, what panelists to throw off the panel. They tell us lots of good things so please go ahead and fill them in. And now, Marsha's going to talk to us about acquisition finance. MARSHA ...

From the program: Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Asset Based Financing Strategies 2013 recorded March, 2013 in New York. Lecture Topics  [01:00:04] Equipment Financing Issues  [01:00:04] Brief review of common equipment financing structures including leasing Issues involving perfection by filing Stumbling blocks in obtaining purchase-money equipment priority When to do a fixture filing Exploring common equipment financing ...

Recorded on: Apr. 14, 2010

SPEAKER 1: Good morning, everyone. I hope we're all ready for our second day of Asset Based Financing in Today's Economy. Today we're going to be talking about a number of different transactional issues in the morning. And in the early afternoon, we're going to be talking about assignments, participations, guarantees, multi-lender, multi-borrower issues. That's going to be followed by-- Christine is going to lead us through that. And Scott it's going ...

Recorded on: Mar. 19, 2013

GRACE E. O'HANLON: It's 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 an asset acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing arrangements, corporate restructuring, private equity investments, and security ...

From the program: Fundamental Concepts in Drafting Contracts: What Most Attorneys Fail to Consider 2013

Released on: Apr. 2, 2013

The reduction to writing of an agreed-upon understanding among parties can sometimes be viewed as a cursory step in formalizing a business relationship. Yet the manner in which concepts are expressed on a page is often as important as the concepts themselves. Solid contract-drafting skills are therefore essential tools to any professional who deals with transactions or business relationships. Unfortunately, although contract counterparties might have ...

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 ...

From the program: Building Better Construction Contracts 2013

Released on: Oct. 9, 2013

Construction is one of the largest sectors in the U.S. economy. After several lean years, construction activity is beginning to pick up. The need for major infrastructure development is apparent, but tight budgets require novel contracting approaches. The Great Recession has resulted in the failure of many construction firms. This has placed a renewed emphasis on appropriate risk allocation. These challenging times require innovation in project delivery ...

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: Jun. 5, 2013

RAJ TANDEN: All right. So we're going to get started here. We're on to our last panel, which is Closing Business Transactions. We have Andrew Wiederhorn, who is the CEO of Fatburger. Previously, Andy founded and served as the CEO of Wilshire Credit Corporation, and by the age of 32 amassed a fortune estimated to be worth $140 million. From there, he founded Fogcutter Capital Group, which invested in a diverse range of equity, corporate, debt, and ...

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: 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. 5, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Pocket MBA Summer 2013: Finance for Lawyers Recorded June, 2013 in San FranciscoClosing Business Transactions [00:51:50] 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 ...

Recorded on: Feb. 5, 2010

Just to start off by recognizing that through this crisis, both the vehicles set up in Delaware and in the Cayman Islands have proven very resilient. The structuring changes that have been made in the last six months are more tweaks than any material or earth-shattering changes to what we were doing before. In this presentation, Jim and I hope to provide some brief background on these vehicles and remind ourselves why they're used. We'll also look ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: All right we're going to get started-- it's 3 o'clock-- with our next panel, entitled Drafting and Leveraged Finance. While the topic Drafting and Contract Interpretation may not seem as exciting as some of the other things you've heard about thus far, I can assure you that I learned more from this panel about those topics, than I knew before, reading their presentation. And I hope you will, too. Let me introduce the panel to ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Leveraged Financing 2013 Recorded May, 2013 in New YorkDrafting in Leveraged Finance [01:01:26]The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Drafting in Leveraged FinanceJeffrey E. Ross, Julian S.H. Chung Presentation Material Drafting in Leveraged FinanceJulian S.H. Chung,Jeffrey E. Ross

Recorded on: Apr. 14, 2010

SCOTT LESNE: OK, well, welcome back. We're now going to move on to discussion of enforcement issues. Yesterday we talked a fair amount about how to obtain a perfected security interest in various types of collateral, and now we're going to talk a little bit about why that's really, really important. A lot of the issues that we talked about yesterday are all precursors or prerequisites to having a successful enforcement. The way I look at enforcement ...

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: Jan. 3, 2013

ALYSSA A. GRIKSCHEIT: Great. Welcome back. Thank you. It's now my pleasure to introduce Eric Alan Stone. He's a litigator. He's a partner at Paul Weiss. And he will talk to us about when deals go bad. ERIC ALAN STONE: Hi, folks. Nice to meet you all. So let me start by asking for a brief show of hands. How many of you are litigators? Oh my god, I'm alone. We're nine short of litigator minion. OK. All right. So giving the litigators lecture speech ...

Recorded on: Apr. 14, 2010

CHRISTINE HAMM: My name is Christine Gould Hamm. I'm an attorney in the Kansas City office of Husch Blackwell and Sanders. I get the pleasure of following up the exciting discussion of chattel paper with the discussion of equipment financing and fixture financing. I also got you at the perfect time of day, so hopefully I can keep you awake right after lunch. I'm going to try very hard to not spend a lot of time on the topics you've already covered ...