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Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

CURTIS L. MO: Why don't we start with the first panel? Going down the line. Steve Baglio is a partner in the New York office of Gunderson Dettmer. Mick is co-chair of the emerging growth practice at WilmerHale in Waltham in Boston. And Ellen chairs the emerging growth practice from Covington's New York office. And they're going to talk about how do you position your company for financings and what do these financings look like that we're going to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2012

ANNA PINEDO: Good morning. If you're joining us on the web, we're going to get started with our next two segments. We're continuing on this morning in our discussion of private placements and exempt and hybrid securities offerings. This morning, we began with a general overview section 4(2), or now 4(a)(2), and the Regulation D safe harbor. As we discussed in our session, the securities that are sold in private placement transactions are restricted ...

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 ...

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

Taken from the Web Program Pocket MBA Summer 2012 Recorded June, 2012 in San Francisco A Detailed Look at Basic Financial Statements [01:32:37] The purpose of financial statements - Reporting to stakeholders - Comparability Basic Financial Statements - Income Statement - Balance Sheet - Statement of Cash Flows - Statement of Shareholders’ Equity Accounting fundamentals and core concepts  ...

From the program: Advanced Swaps & Other Derivatives 2012

Recorded on: Oct. 19, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Advanced Swaps & Other Derivatives 2012 recorded October, 2012 in New York. Lecture Topics  [00:58:46] Swaps, Security-Based Swaps and Mixed Swaps: What's Covered and What isn't Covered by Dodd-Frank? Who Are the Regulators? What is the Extraterritorial Reach of Dodd-Frank?  [00:58:46] The CFTC, the SEC and the Prudential Regulators Potential reach and likely impact on market participants  ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Good afternoon. Let's see if they get to start it. Good. OK. Welcome back from lunch. I would like to introduce our next speaker, who's going to cover the advising the board of directors panel. Marilyn Sonnie is a partner with Jones Day. She's a corporate and transactional lawyer with extensive experience in public company mergers and corporate governance. And we're happy to have her here this afternoon to cover this issue. Marilyn? MARILYN ...

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

MELISSA SAWYER: OK, we're going to go ahead and get started with the second half of the day's programming. Our next panel is going to be speaking about advising the financial advisor. And I'd like to introduce our panelists quickly. To Nancy's right is Susan Zachman. Susan is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. And she works, as many of our other panelists, on a wide variety of transactions ranging from IPOs, a prepackaged ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

JAMES J. AGAR: Welcome back everyone. Just a quick housekeeping note-- the lecture that we're about to start is going to go an hour and 3/4. Breaking for lunch at 12:15, and then we will reconvene at 1:30. I hope that you all enjoyed the first panel with Brad and Mark as much as I did. No matter how long I've been in this business, when I get to attend a great presentation such as theirs, I always learn something new. I'm confident that the learning ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Fall 2012

Released on: Oct. 26, 2012

An understanding of key accounting, financial 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 from this practical ...

Recorded on: Mar. 7, 2012

LAUREN ESPOSITO: Program attorney with the Practicing Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to how to prepare an initial public offering 2012. A welcome to our webcast attendees as well. Before we begin today's program, I'm excited to announce that PLI has installed iPad tablets at each attendee seat in the conference room. This electronic tablet has been designed to supplement and enhance our programs. You'll be able to access various program ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2012

ANNA PINEDO: Thanks for a wonderful panel. And we're going to move right along and continue into our next session. So we invite our speakers to join us. Our next session covers communications issues arising in connection with private placements and hybrid offerings. And with us this morning we have three panelists. Marty Dunn, and Marty is a partner at O'Melveny's Washington, D.C., office and a member of the corporate finance and capital markets ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2012

ANNA PINEDO: Joining us this morning for our first session, providing an overview of the basic provisions that guide private placements, Section 4(2), Regulation D, and introspective compensatory stock grants, Rule 701, are David Martin and Carol McGee. David Martin is the co-head of the securities practice at Covington & Burling. And he's joined us in the past a number of times. And has done a wonderful job providing a very thorough overview ...

Recorded on: Mar. 28, 2012

CHAD RUCKER: So I'll introduce our other panelists. The first one I'll introduce is Sean Windsor, and let him introduce himself. SEAN WINDSOR: Sure. Thanks, Chad. As Chad said, my name is Sean Windsor. I'm a director at Houlihan Lokey in their transaction advisory services group. For those of you who are not familiar with Houlihan Lokey, we basically have three different segments. The first one is being our investment bank, typical corporate finance, ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Fundamentals of Swaps & Other Derivatives 2012 Recorded October, 2012 in New York Bilateral OTC Derivatives: Termination, Valuation, Netting, Closeout, Netting Opinions [00:58:48] Netting opinions and jurisdictional considerations Valuation at termination: case law issues Other issues The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online:  ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

JAMES J. AGAR: Welcome back, everybody. I hope you had a great lunch that will sustain you through an information-packed afternoon and that you had an opportunity to do a little bit of networking during the lunch break. Just a couple housekeeping things. This session will last one hour, and our next module will begin immediately at 2:30 Eastern. That portion of the program will go until 3:45 Eastern, when there will be a 15-minute networking break ...

Recorded on: Mar. 28, 2012

CHAD RUCKER: So the next section that we will start on is talking about the cash flow statement. One of the things with any business what we really have to do is we have to take a business and break it down into its simplest component. And really when we break a business down into its simplest component, a business is nothing else other than a cash generator. We can't spend net income. We can't spend really the items on the balance sheet unless it'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 ...

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: Mar. 15, 2012

NILUFER VON BISMARCK: Good afternoon. I think we'll get started. Good afternoon everybody, and welcome to the Corporate Governance Session, What The Future Holds for Corporate Governance. Charles and I will be moderating the session. And we're very lucky to have a very experienced set of panelist here, which I'll introduce them from my left. Chris Hodge, who's the Head of Corporate Governance at the Financial Reporting Counsel and is responsible ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: So if you are doing this from home, or even here, you can do the seventh inning stretch while our two new panelists, thank you guys, come up. This is the most entertaining panel in no small measure because it's Bill Asher and Deirdre Cunnane. Bill is a partner at Choate Hall and has been representing companies and investors for over 30 years. So he has seen all sorts of horror stories. Deirdre is a general counsel of Advanced ...

Recorded on: Jan. 26, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Crowdfunding, The Next Big Thing or Entree to Digital Fraud. 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 tab ...

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: Mar. 15, 2012

CECIL QUILLEN: --[INAUDIBLE] from Linklaters, and here with Sarah Murphy from Freshfields, and a great panel of lawyers and industry professionals to try to talk about recent developments. The trade-off for the anodyne and incredibly boring slides, is that we're going to try to be generic enough in that way that when we actually talk to the specifics of what's been going on, we'll hopefully be as current and fresh as we can be. To introduce the other ...