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From the program: Advanced Swaps & Other Derivatives 2012

Released on: Oct. 31, 2012

The Dodd-Frank Act establishes a novel, comprehensive framework for the regulation of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives and the market participants who transact in these products. The far-reaching effect of the Dodd-Frank Act upon the OTC markets is only now becoming clear. The new regulatory regime touches the activities of all participants in the swaps markets, from end users to major swap participants to swap dealers. The new regulations will ...

Recorded on: Jul. 18, 2013

CLIFFORD KIRSCH: All righty, and we are going to go right into the next panel. And I'm here with Phil Rutledge, and what Phil and I wanted to do was give you an overview, just assume-- put beside the analysis of is someone required to register or not. Someone is required to register. They're doing activity. That's an adviser. What Phil and I wanted to do in this panel is really just set the stage of what does it mean to be registered, what does it ...

From the program: Fundamentals of Investment Adviser Regulation 2013

Released on: Jul. 31, 2013

In the aftermath of the financial crisis and the resulting regulatory reform, the SEC has advanced significant rulemaking to impose a greater degree of controls on investment advisers’ operations. In fact, the SEC has put the regulation of investment advisers under the microscope, establishing new rules related to adviser custody, political contributions and adviser disclosure and has retooled its adviser exam program.In this program, you ...

Recorded on: Jul. 18, 2013

CLIFF: Thanks for sticking with us today. It's been a great audience and a great program. So thanks for your attention throughout. I'm very pleased to introduce our last panel, which is a dedicated panel. We structured this, just because of all the issues that are arising and people are dealing with, a standalone panel on advisors to private funds. And I'm very pleased to welcome, to my right, Peter Rosenblum. Peter has spoken on this program. But ...

Recorded on: Oct. 13, 2011

SPEAKER 1: I'm going to get started with our next panel on advising the board. And I want to introduce Mark Roellig, who is the executive vice president and general counsel of MassMutual Financial Group. Prior to joining MassMutual, Mark served as the general counsel and secretary for Fisher Scientific International and for Storage Tech. Mark, I will let you introduce your co-panelists. MARK D. ROELLIG: Sure, thank you very much. Sitting to my immediate ...

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: Jan. 27, 2011

CORINNE BALL: One may wonder why it is that someone that does a lot of distressed M&A is so focused on boards and fiduciary duties. And I must say that's something that Rich and I debated for a number of years. But rest assured that where all your advice gets tested, our cases are the margin, and they certainly get tested in bankruptcy course where there's-- So we are constantly concerned with this. And that's one of the reasons I want to talk ...

Recorded on: Jan. 29, 2013

RICHARD A. GOLDBERG: We're going to get started. Our next speaker is Marilyn Sonnie. She's going to be speaking on the subject of advising the board of directors. Marilyn is a seasoned M&A practitioner at Jones Day. She's in their M&A and corporate governance groups. And she's been with us a number of times before. So we're happen to have her back. Marilyn. MARILYN W. SONNIE: Thanks. Every M&A lawyer has to know about fiduciary duties. ...

From the program: Mergers & Acquisitions 2013: Trends and Developments

Released on: Feb. 1, 2013

A number of factors have combined to reinvigorate the environment for mergers and acquisitions. High corporate cash balances, unutilized private equity commitments and low interest rates have made capital plentiful for acquisitions. The challenges faced by strategic acquirors in growing organically, the pressure on private equity funds to spend their available capital, and the increased appetite of foreign buyers have fueled the demand for quality ...

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: Feb. 29, 2012

NANCY: We're going to start. So our next panel is entitled Advising the Special Committee. Let me introduce Rick Climan. He is a partner in the M&A group at Dewey LeBoeuf. In 2011, Rick, I didn't know this, you were recognized by Who's Who Legal as among the 10 most highly regarded M&A lawyers in the world. RICHARD E. CLIMAN: I didn't know that either. MICHAEL J. AIELLO: Not the galaxy? NANCY: Next, that's next. So Rick, I'll turn it over ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2013

Taken from the briefing Affordable Care Act: Compliance Program Considerations for Health Care Providersrecorded February, 2013. Compliance efforts are heating up under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Enforcement activities at both the state and federal level are on the rise making compliance programs and plans for the health care industry a must.  Under the ACA, mandatory plans will be required for certain providers by March 23, ...

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. 12, 2012

LAWRENCE S. MAKOW: Good afternoon. It always seems like we run out of time at the end for questions. So I decided I would see if there any questions for this panel first. All right, that was pretty lame. I wanted to basically just say a few short words. This panel is a look at the current state of financial institution M&A and restructuring. We'll have to use a microscope to see it. But no, I think there's a lot of interesting things going on, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 22, 2010

LORI BOSTROM: We're going to go right into the next panel. And so I'm going to invite Cliff back up and introduce our speakers. So now you're all experts in mutual fund regulation and operation, and so to help you put together all your knowledge going forward, we've invited two of the best investment management legal intellect to pull out crystal balls and talk about what's going to happen in the future with the investment management industry, as ...

Recorded on: Feb. 5, 2010

SPEAKER: Welcome back folks. We're about to start our hedge fund panel. I think for institutional investors, hedge funds might be the most challenging asset class for number of reasons. First of all, for many institutional investors, it is not an asset class that they are at all used to investing in. Or investment vehicle that they're all used to investing in. If you think about private equity, many institutional investors have been investing in ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

DAVID M. LYNN: OK, now we're back with the next panel, and in this panel, we're going to shift focus to issues with broker dealers, investment advisers, funds, and more generally, the issues that we see in global capital markets with derivatives regulation. And so I have a great panel here to talk about these issues. To my right is Susan Ervin, who's a partner at Davis Polk and Wardwell, and she has held senior positions at both the SEC and CFTC. ...

From the program: Global Capital Markets & the U.S. Securities Laws 2013: Raising Capital in an Evolving Regulatory Environment

Released on: Jun. 19, 2013

Capital markets are adjusting to a wide range of evolving regulatory standards which affect the way in which offerings are conducted around the world. At the same time, issuers around the world are subject to changing accounting and corporate governance standards, while market participants navigate new ground in derivative product regulation. Issuers and market participants also face an increasingly active global enforcement environment targeting ...

Recorded on: Oct. 23, 2012

MARK S. HOLMES: Thank you, John, and welcome back. To me this is the most enjoyable parts of the whole program. And I want to thank our panelists we're going to introduce now for appearing. On my far left is Winston Henderson. He's a vice president and general counsel at NanoTerra, a Boston-based nanotechnology company with life science and non-life science divisions. Before that, he was at Surface Logix, which is a biopharmaceutical and drug development ...

Recorded on: Jun. 30, 2010

LEONARD T. NUARA: OK, folks. Welcome back. For those of you that are coming back. For those that are at home, put the phone down, put the paper down. Time to pay attention again. We're going to talk about contracting for cloud computing services. I'm going to moderate a discussion with Todd Machtmes and Mark Radcliffe. We have some slides. There were some slides that were posted last night so you should be able to find the slides. Those here in the ...

Recorded on: Apr. 5, 2010

OK, and with that we'll start our first panel, which is anatomy of a venture capital deal. I think that Sarah and Ellen-- now this is the third time you guys have done this? ELLEN: We're still training for the more advanced topics one on the West Coast. So maybe next year we'll get chosen for that one. DROR FUTTER: Once they finally get it right we will move them up. But they're definitely a great way to start the morning. Ellen is a corporate ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

CURTIS BURR: I've got a smiling gatekeeper in the back. LAWRENCE M. CIRELLI: She keeps the train running on time. CURTIS BURR: Yeah. Switch. So we'll restart, and the next topic, we've got a great overview of accounting, the language, all the pieces that belong as part of financial statements. And next, we're going to focus on one of the really fundamental parts of the accounting financial statements, which is the balance sheet, where often, people ...

From the program: Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2013: What Every Practicing Lawyer Needs to Know

Released on: Aug. 2, 2013

Accounting is a language of business. Because attorneys encounter accounting information in a wide range of legal issues, it is critical for lawyers to understand financial statements and core accounting concepts. This practical course, specifically designed for the non-accountant attorney, will provide an understanding of financial statements and the key principles of accounting, using “real life” examples of accounting issues that attorneys commonly ...

Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2011

MARC FOLLADORI: Everyone, let's get started if we can. There are handouts for this next session out on the table. And we're going to be talking about annual reporting practices. Laura Richman on your far left is going to be leading the discussion. Laura is a partner of mine, and is one of the deans of our securities practice. She's a tremendous resource, speaks a lot, writes a lot, and just superb know-how. So Laura will lead us here with this part ...