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From the program: Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company 2013

Released on: Jun. 21, 2013

In this perennial favorite, our experienced faculty will 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, ...

Recorded on: May. 16, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Bankruptcy & Reorganizations 2013: Current Developments Recorded April, 2013 in New YorkAcquiring Assets from the Debtor Estate, Corporate Governance and D&O Duties and Liability [01:01:24] Process, procedures and litigation - break-up and topping fees Structuring and negotiating bids - Los Angeles Dodgers; Texas Rangers, GM, Chrysler, and small and medium cases Sales free and clear and grounds for objections ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Yvonne comes to us from Sullivan & Cromwell, as you heard this morning. She has a broad portfolio in this arena, as well. She's a member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar, and she has served as Chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar. And she's been, again, a leading antitrust practitioner in a number of guides to the legal profession, which are ...

From the program: Antitrust Institute 2013: Developments & Hot Topics

Released on: May. 21, 2013

From mergers and acquisitions to enforcement priorities, resale price maintenance to international competition, you can be certain to hear about all of the developments in antitrust law at this program led by top experts in the field.  Hear from leading antitrust practitioners, senior government officials, and state regulators about how to manage all of the challenges new developments might throw your way.  Whether you are a seasoned antitrust ...

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 ...

From the program: M&A Litigation 2013

Released on: Jul. 11, 2013

What better way to learn about M&A litigation than from the attorneys that litigate the nation’s most important M&A disputes and the judges who preside over them? We have assembled judges from the Delaware Supreme Court and the Court of Chancery - the most experienced and respected courts on M&A matters - and distinguished M&A litigators to give you their perspectives on the best ways to handle corporate M&A disputes.Whether you ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: OK, great. Welcome back everyone. I'd like to welcome you to our next section, which is called A Detailed Look at Basic Financial Statements. We have two additional speakers from Deloitte. I'm pleased to announce my partner Sally Ann Flood. Sally Ann's the leader of our Bay Area real estate audit practice, here in San Francisco. And she's a national leader for the real estate funds in the US. She has more than 19 years of professional ...

From the program: Pocket MBA Summer 2013: Finance for Lawyers

Released on: Jun. 17, 2013

The ability to identify and appropriately use financial and accounting information is relevant to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for attorneys and allied professionals. Litigators and transactional attorneys alike will benefit from this practical course designed specifically for non-accountants and taught by members of the nation’s top accounting, tax and advisory firms, leading law firms, in-house counsel and universities.Lecture Topics  ...

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: 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: 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 ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

Taken from the Web Program Basics of Accounting for Lawyers 2013: What Every Practicing Lawyer Needs to Know Recorded July, 2013 in San FranciscoAnatomy of the Balance Sheet [01:45:37] The elements of a balance sheet - assets, liabilities and stockholders’ equity and their significance What to look for when reading a balance sheet Current assets, such as cash, receivables, inventories, investments in debt and equity securities, and fixed and ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2013

JOHN DU: All right, thank you. We are going to move to the next panel, which is antitrust. We have talked about how to do due diligence in the emerging markets as well as on negotiations. And antitrust is one of the primary concerns in structuring a deal. So today, we have three panelists here. And all of them are M&A lawyers with a focus, for Janet and Mariana, in antitrust. So today, I'm going to introduce the speakers first. And then we'll ...

From the program: Doing Deals in and with Emerging Markets: BRICs and Beyond 2013

Released on: Jul. 25, 2013

With emerging markets players, like those of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries, playing an ever greater role in the global economy, attorneys and other professionals facilitating cross-border transactions need to familiarize themselves with their perspective on inbound and outbound investments. According to a recent Office for Economic Co-operation and Development study, emerging markets will account for over 60% of global economic ...

From the program: Audit Committees and Financial Reporting 2013: Recent Developments and Current Issues

Released on: Jul. 5, 2013

As we continue to see many new regulations from the SEC, PCAOB and financial institution regulators, we also continue to see numerous challenges emerge for the audit committee. If you are a director or member of an audit committee, or if you advise audit committees, this program will help you understand what is required of the audit committee, and those who advise them, in this rapidly changing environment. You will hear from an expert faculty of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2013

Taken from the briefing Basel III and Derivatives Exposures: Understanding the Regulatory Capital Effectsrecorded May, 2013.The implementation of Basel III in the U.S. and in other jurisdictions may or may not be just around the corner, but it is none too soon for banking organizations to embark on the process of understanding how the evolving regulatory capital regime will affect their balance sheets and operations. One key area of impact will ...

From the program: Basics of Mutual Funds and Other Registered Investment Companies 2013

Released on: May. 8, 2013

This program is designed to provide you with a basic overview of the legal, regulatory and operational issues affecting “registered investment companies” – the universe of publicly offered pooled investment vehicles that include mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”) and others. You will learn the fundamentals of the extensive regulatory framework that dictates the structure and operations of retail investment funds ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

RICHARD W. GRIME: OK everybody. This is the last session. And, hopefully, it's one where we can keep you engaged, because we have to keep you engaged, because it's a polling session. So in front of you are iPads. And I'm in control of the button here, which means that, in part, it may not work. But we'll hope that it does because the whole idea is that we're going to mind the benefit of these people on the panel here, which I'll introduce in a moment. We're ...

From the program: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and International Anti-Corruption Developments 2013

Released on: May. 17, 2013

Enforcement under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) continues as a critical priority for both the DOJ and the SEC. Recent FCPA enforcement actions and disclosures demonstrate that no industry is immune from FCPA scrutiny, and FCPA sweep investigations across industry sectors are becoming more common and challenging. Beyond the FCPA, an increasing number of countries, as well as international organizations, are ramping up anti-corruption enforcement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2013

Taken from the briefing Chinese Investment and U.S. National Security Reviews -- in 3D [Three Different Perspectives] recorded July, 2013.The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee that conducts national security reviews of in-bound foreign investments.  Deals not approved by CFIUS can face significant risks, including the risk that the deal may be blocked before closing or even the ...