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Board Oversight and Program Structure: The Authority and Independence of a Program

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Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2013

REBECCA WALKER: OK, welcome back, everyone. I think there are still folks filling up on caffeine outside. But maybe when they hear us getting started, they'll wander back in here. So during the presentation this morning with Doug, he talked a little about how his program is structured and the role that the board plays in overseeing the program. I think a critically important part, the level of effectiveness of any program, I would say, probably the ...

Board Oversight and Program Structure: The Authority and Independence of a Program

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Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2012

REBECCA WALKER: So we're going to start now with the next session. This afternoon we're going to cover program structure and board oversight, auditing and assessment of the program, and then do a recent developments, hot topics, and a section on reporting procedures. So a lot to cover, but as I said, we have one hour, and then we're going to have a short break, and then we'll go to the last two panels of the day. Program structure, reporting procedures, ...

Bridge-the-Gap: Basic Skills for Newly Admitted Illinois Attorneys 2012

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From the program: Bridge-the-Gap: Basic Skills for Newly Admitted Illinois Attorneys 2012

Released on: Nov. 29, 2012

Taught by a faculty of expert practitioners from varied practice areas, this program will help you to “bridge the gap” between your law school education and the real world skills and knowledge needed for success in law.  Topics have been selected for their relevance and importance to legal practice, and to enable you to complete first year Minimum Continuing Legal Education Basic Skills requirements for newly admitted attorneys admitted ...

Broker-dealer and Adviser Advertising Developments

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Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

CLIFFORD KIRSCH: Great. All righty, welcome back. And Anna gave the lead-in for this session. Our next panel is going to look at advertising developments. And as I said at the outset, we wanted to spend an hour working through the material here, because there really are very, very significant changes both on the broker-dealer side and the adviser side. And I have a great panel to walk us through, Stephanie Nicolas and Jesse Kanach. Stephanie is a ...

Broker-Dealer and Adviser Regulatory Compliance Forum 2013

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From the program: Broker-Dealer and Adviser Regulatory Compliance Forum 2013

Released on: Mar. 6, 2013

Brokerage and advisory firms' compliance programs are under intense regulatory scrutiny. In this program, you will be provided with expert analysis regarding today’s hot topics impacting the relevant regulatory framework, as well as practical considerations regarding the design and implementation of such programs. A distinguished faculty of practitioners and regulators will review current regulatory initiatives and recent examination ...

Broker/Dealer Regulation and Enforcement 2012

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From the program: Broker/Dealer Regulation and Enforcement 2012

Released on: Nov. 7, 2012

More than three years since the financial crisis erupted, there continues to be heightened regulation and enforcement of the securities laws - by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, states and SRO’s.  A number of significant rules have been promulgated in the last year to implement various provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, enacted in 2010, while other rules have been proposed but not yet finalized.  The Dodd-Frank ...

Hedge Fund Compliance & Regulation 2013

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From the program: Hedge Fund Compliance & Regulation 2013

Released on: Feb. 12, 2013

Nearly one-third of the investment advisers that registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a result of the Dodd-Frank Act manage private funds.  As a result, the SEC’s examination staff has developed new strategies and processes to address the risks presented by hedge funds and other private funds.  In this program, three distinguished panels of experts will discuss the regulatory and compliance challenges facing ...

Building Your Brand through Social Media

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Recorded on: Oct. 13, 2011

BRIAN WINTERFELDT: Great. Thank you so much. Thank you both for having us here today. I think social media is becoming more and more relevant to all of our organizations. And what we're going to be talking about today is how to use social media to build your brand and think about important issues like social media policies and enforcement in the social media space. But before we get started, I'd like to introduce our great panel that we put together ...

Capital Markets Products

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Recorded on: Feb. 10, 2012

ROBERT S. RISOLEO: Well, welcome back. With me for the final segment of the day are Gary Brown who's returning. He was here this morning and will spend some time next speaking about life settlements. And after Gary, we will hear from Ken Josselyn, to Gary's right, who is managing director at Goldman Sachs where he's been advising the treasury function and having a lot of experience and doing a lot of work with their structured notes and other matters ...

Capital Markets Products

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Recorded on: Mar. 30, 2010

SPEAKER 1: OK, it's 11:15. Sorry for the abbreviated break, but we need to keep the schedule here and the rest of this program, I think, is pretty interesting. So, Rebecca, you've told us about loan assignments and participations and now we're about to enter a new territory. REBECCA: I have to throw in my aside. The loan participations and loan assignments have been going on for-- I don't know how long but-- at least a century. These are the longstanding ...

Capital Structure

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Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

RAJ TANDEN: Thanks, everyone, for returning. We're now going to turn to capital structure considerations. We have a couple of great speakers to discuss this topic. We've got Bill Brentani, who is a partner of Simpson Thatcher, & Bartlett in Palo Alto in the firm's corporate finance department. His practice focuses on representing issuers and underwriters in connection with a variety of public and private debt and equity offerings, including high ...

Capital Structure

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Recorded on: Aug. 11, 2010

SPEAKER 1: Alright guys, keeping on schedule here, cause we've got a break and we've got one more session after this also, so we want to stay on schedule for all of you. We're going to move into our next section of the day, which is Capital Structure. And we've got two speakers here on the panel with us, Jonathan Isler and Carlos Schmidt. Again, to say a few words here, I'm looking at these lengthy bios with a lot of background and I'm trying to pull ...

Capital Structure

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Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2011

ERIC B. SLOAN: All right. For-- I can't tell what this screen is telling me to do, but I think we're live. For our next panel, as some have said before, we couldn't be more fortunate to have our two speakers. Immediately to my right is Lew Steinberg. Lew is the managing director and head of strategic advisory in the investment banking department of Credit Suisse, which is an international investment bank. And I should say now, for Lew's benefit, that ...

Capital Structure

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Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2010

ERIC: All right, so maybe we can just while everyone's taking their seat, and we're getting name tags going. The next panel is on capital structure. And this panel is, as its name implies, going to discuss capital structuring, including a run through of the various alternatives that companies have in raising capital, which obviously informs their capital structure. And they're going to use case studies, which is, I think, a fancy term for examples ...

Capital Structure

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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 ...

Capital Structure

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Recorded on: Oct. 12, 2011

OK. Well, welcome back everybody. Good afternoon. I know at times the after lunch sessions are sometimes difficult to battle through, but hopefully everyone had a nice opportunity to grab a sandwich. And as previewed from this morning, we're going to move into capital structure and really introduce some of the different ways capital structure comes to be, an overview of that, key drivers, common corporate transactions, and really get a little more ...

Capital Structure

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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 ...

Case Studies

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Recorded on: Aug. 1, 2012

L. KEVIN SHERIDAN JR.: We're in the last hour, called the home stretch, and Dave is going to take us out with a discussion to finish off the method piece about good writing, and in particular, focusing on organization of drafting, use of proper language, active voice, and some of the plain English rules, both as they're reflected in some SEC guidance on that, but more generally, as the common person would think of it as plain English. We have one ...

Case Studies: REIT Acquisitions in a Globalizing World

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Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2013

ADAM EMMERICH: Hi. Good morning again. I'm Adam Emmerich. As Warren mentioned-- one of the co-chairs today-- we're going to talk on this panel about some case studies-- REIT Acquisitions in a Globalizing World. And we're fortunate to have-- I guess it's as was mentioned in the first panel kind of some sort of ageist criteria to participate today. Because everybody on this panel also has upwards of 25 years of experience in the REIT and Real Estate ...

Real Estate M&A and REIT Transactions 2013

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From the program: Real Estate M&A and REIT Transactions 2013

Released on: Jan. 24, 2013

Do you know the best negotiating strategies in the current real estate M&A market? What are the “hot buttons” for seller, buyer and lender requirements, in the board room, the courts and with the SEC?  What are the factors and legal issues you should analyze with respect to investing in distressed situations? How do the nature and ownership of the entity, and the characteristics of its property and the structuring of the acquisition ...

Case Study

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Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

MARY MULLANY: Ron will be back to join us. Folks, we have now have gone through the entire panel and had introductions. So, I just join Debbie, Gary, Rich, Ron, even though he's not here, and Doreen-- Rick, Ron, and Doreen in thanking you for sticking around for this final panel. And we're gonna start with a question that the gentleman had at the end of the last panel. AUDIENCE: I asked Gary's thoughts what [? these ?] issuers could do to increase ...

Case Study: Putting It All Together - Having a Successful Annual Meeting

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Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2011

MARC FOLLADORI: Everybody, if we could return and address the last topic for the program today. Before we get into it, I want to mention two things. One, that there are some handouts. One in particular you'll need. It's a description of the case study that we're going to go through. The other is, again, please, I make a personal plea to all of you, fill out your evaluations. It's just so important that we could have that feedback so we can improve ...

Cash Flow Statement Analysis and Application

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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 ...

Catching Up on Clawbacks

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Recorded on: Sep. 11, 2012

Taken from the briefing Catching Up on Clawbacks recorded September, 2012. Since the introduction of compensation recovery (“clawback”) requirements in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, corporate America has been moving inexorably towards mandatory clawback policies. Not only have institutional investors and their advisors promoted the adoption of these policies, the recent spotlight on managing compensation-related risk ...

CFTC's Proposed Business Conduct Standards for Swap Dealers: Costs and Consequences to Swap Dealers and Plans 2011 (Audio-only)

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Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2011

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings, my name is Amy Taub and I am a program attorney with PLI, and I would like to welcome you to today's briefing: CFTC's Proposed Business Conduct Standards for Swap Dealers, Cost and Consequences to Swap Dealers and Plans. 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 ...

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