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Recorded on: Mar. 1, 2012

ALAN BELLER:OK. I think we're ready to go. We are going to turn our attention to Comp and Nominating committees and some other interesting governance issues. We have another great panel. On my immediate right is Paul Cappuccio, who's the Executive Vice-President General Counsel of Time Warner Inc. He has extensive background experience as Chief Legal Officer at US corporations. Before he was at Time Warner, he was the Senior Vice-President and General ...

Recorded on: Sep. 13, 2012

SPEAKER 1: We're going to have the next panel. We don't have a hard break, so I'm just going to have the next panel come up. And this is compensation committees. And our panelists are Charles Nathan-- Chuck, he is a member of the corporate department in Latham and Watkins' New York office, and is global co-chair of the firm's mergers and acquisition group. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate counseling, and corporate governance. Seated ...

Recorded on: Jun. 4, 2012

REBECCA WALKER: Your ethics and compliance programs, ideally, should be designed around based on your particular compliance challenges and risks. And that's certainly something that the sentencing guidelines talk about, and really just sort of accords with common sense and good logic. You want to be trying to prevent those legal violations that you're most likely to encounter or that are going to cause the greatest harm to your organization. And ...

Recorded on: Jul. 24, 2012

CLIFFORD E. KIRSCH: All right, we are here for our last panel, compliance exams and ethical issues, ethical issues as they present themselves to lawyers and compliance professionals who operate and work with investment advisers. And for this panel, I'm very, very pleased to introduce to my right, John Walsh. John is a colleague of mine now at Sutherland. John's a partner in Sutherland's DC office in the financial services group. So I'm very, very ...

From the program: Fundamentals of Investment Adviser Regulation 2012

Released on: Aug. 1, 2012

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.  At the same time, Congress is considering financial regulatory reform that could impose a new self-regulatory organization in charge of adviser regulation.  In ...

Recorded on: Nov. 2, 2012

CARMEN J. LAWRENCE: OK, so the next panel, Compliance Officer Roundtable. And the moderator is Alan Cohen. Alan joined Goldman Sachs in 2004. He's a partner and Goldman's head of global compliance. Alan serves on a number of Goldman's committees, including the management committee. Prior to joining Goldman, Alan was co-head of the White Collar Regulatory Defense Practice and New York Litigation group at O'Melveny & Myers. And prior to joining ...

Recorded on: Jul. 23, 2012

Taken from the briefing Compliance with Disability Accessibility Requirements When Buying or Selling Instructional Technology: A Legal, Policy and Technical Primer for Lawyers recorded July, 2012. Persons with disabilities are demanding and obtaining legal rights to access and use instructional technology products. This is particularly true in the educational arena. However, the road to product accessibility is paved with a confusing ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

HELEN: Welcome back everybody. It's my pleasure to introduce the moderator of our next panel, Mei Lin Kwan-Gett. And I'll let her introduce her other panelists. Mei Lin is a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher here in New York and is the co-head of that firms White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group. Mei Lin specializes in white collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement matters, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. Before ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

RICHARD J. MORVILLO: This next panel is going to be talking about actually conducting the investigation. It took us a better part of an hour and 45 minutes to talk about all the background. And we are very fortunate to have another esteemed panel of experts in the area. And I'll introduce them. Nancy needs no introduction. To Nancy's right is David Brodsky, who is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb here in New York, who-- and this is going to be a refrain ...

From the program: Conflict Minerals 2012: How to Comply with the New SEC Rules

Released on: Dec. 21, 2012

The conflict minerals rules adopted under the Dodd-Frank Act will be in place by January 1, 2013. New procedures need to be taken to comply with the rules. Are you prepared to comply? Have you properly determined if your products contain conflict minerals? Do you know the procedures you need to undertake to comply? Currently many companies are trying to assess whether the rules apply to their products and, if so, how the company should comply with ...

Recorded on: Nov. 29, 2012

REBECCA WALKER: OK, we're going to get started. Welcome back. Thanks to those of you who stayed through to the-- a lot of folks did. Appreciate that. So I'm playing the role of Stacy Mines today. I'm going to sub in for her and talk about actually my favorite area of law, which is conflicts of interest. And I'm doing that alongside Larry Parsons, who was always scheduled to talk about it. Larry is now the Chief Compliance Officer at McLane Company, ...

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: Jun. 12, 2012

TANYA L. FORSHEIT: Hi everybody. We're going to get started again. We are going to stick right to the schedule. Our next panel-- and this one's going to be a little different in structure, so I'll give you a heads up about that-- but our next panel is going to be on contract issues. We're going to get down into the nitty-gritty of how these various issues play out in the negotiation process. And this will kind of be a two-part situation, because we're ...

Recorded on: Jan. 10, 2012

RICHARD RAYSMAN: Welcome back for our final segment of this program this afternoon, which is the coordination with law enforcement agencies. And our two panelists are Connie Yu from Sideman and Bancroft, and she concentrates her practice on business tort issues, including disputes over complex commercial transactions, banking practices, intellectual property, and real property rights, unfair competition, false advertising, and employment matters. ...

Recorded on: Sep. 10, 2012

SARKIS JEBEJIAN: It's 4 o'clock. Why don't we start our last panel of the day? In some ways, it's a perfect ending. In the morning, we heard a lot about how a large part of the M&A activity this year has been spinoffs and other divestitures, some of it activist driven, and so the last panel today is, in fact, to talk about those kinds of transactions. We have a great panel starting all the way to your left-- Paul Shim, who is a frequent guest ...

From the program: Corporate Counsel Institute 2012

Released on: Oct. 14, 2012

There’s always something new coming along to keep corporate counsel on their toes, and indeed, even awake at night. The role of the corporate counsel continues to evolve to meet new challenges in relation to an increasingly global economy, recent financial turmoil and continually changing new technologies. It is essential for all corporate counsel to be informed of the latest issues and possess effective, budget-conscious strategies for managing ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

AMY: Now it's my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Jessie Liu. JESSIE LIU: Thank you so much Amy. It is always a pleasure to do a briefing for PLI. And welcome everyone who's on the phone. And Amy said, the title of this briefing is Corporate Crime, Southern Union versus United States, and other key Supreme Court decisions of the 2011 to 2012 term. And I want to just take a little time at the beginning to set the stage for what I'm going to ...

Released on: Aug. 8, 2012

Taken from the briefing Corporate Crime: Southern Union v. United States and Other Key Supreme Court Decisions of the 2011-2012 Term recorded June, 2012. On June 21, 2012, the Supreme Court decided Southern Union v. United States, holding that the Apprendi rule extends to facts that increase the maximum fines in criminal cases. Apprendi ruled that “any fact that increases the penalty for a crime beyond the prescribed statutory maximum,” ...

Recorded on: Apr. 26, 2012

DAVID M. LYNN: OK. We're back at the Global Capital Markets Conference. And at the topic now we're turning to is corporate governance. And I would reminder those who are watching us on the web cast that you can ask a question if you press the Ask Question button, and we'll actually receive it here by the magic of the internet and we'll be able to answer it. The top, again, for this panel is to really survey a number of important corporate governance ...

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 ...

From the program: Corporate Governance - A Master Class 2012

Released on: Mar. 14, 2012

Audio CD's from the program Corporate Governance - A Master Class 2012, held February, 2012.

Recorded on: Dec. 6, 2012

ABIGAIL ARMS: Welcome back to continue on to our afternoon session and the remaining panels. We have two new faculty members up here. Down to Steve Brown's right is Rick Grubaugh, and Rick is senior vice president of D.F. King, and co-director of their extraordinary event group and proxy division, whatever extraordinary events are. And D.F. King is a leading full service proxy solicitation and corporate financial communications firm. Rick primarily ...

Recorded on: Dec. 5, 2012

JASON DOREN: This next panel is on corporate governance for venture-backed companies. We're got a distinguished panel. To my immediate right here is Thomas Kellerman. Tom's the managing partner of Morgan Lewis's Palo Alto office, and co-chair of their emerging Business and Technology practice. He concentrates his practice on advising companies, VCs, investment banks, focused on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance ...

Recorded on: Dec. 5, 2012

CURTIS L. MO: Why don't we get started? So our first panel in the afternoon has to do with corporate investments. And there been a lot of companies that have done investments over the years. But we've noticed a significant ramp-up in the last several years. And I don't know if that's because companies have cash in our flush because of low interest rate environment, or just great operations, or if they're doing [INAUDIBLE] investments. But we're going ...