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Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking Part Two-- Farm Banks Accessing the US Markets. 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 ...

Released on: Apr. 4, 2013

Taken from the briefing International Banking, Part III: SEC Registration for Foreign Banks recorded March, 2013. Foreign banks seeking to diversify their financing opportunities may consider SEC registration. This briefing will focus on the registration process; disclosure considerations for financial institutions; and compliance, governance and ongoing reporting. Lecture Topics  [Total Time: 01:05:06] The registration process and ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2013

AMY TAUB: Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking, Part Three-- SEC Registration for Foreign Banks. 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 ...

Recorded on: Apr. 2, 2013

Taken from the briefing International Banking, Part IV: Foreign Banks Issuing Covered Bonds into the U.S.recorded March, 2013.Despite the sovereign crisis and heightened volatility, the covered bond market remains very attractive.  Foreign banks continue to access the U.S. markets with covered bond offerings.  We will discuss the market environment, the legal and regulatory considerations, and the process for an exempt offering by a ...

Recorded on: Apr. 16, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my name is Amy Taub, and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, International Banking, Part Four, Foreign Banks Issuing Covered Bonds into the US. 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 ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2013

MEGAN: And now it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you the chairs of today's program, Adam Emmerich and Warren Gorrell. Adam is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz where he focuses his practice primarily on mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the REIT and publicly traded real estate areas as well as on corporate governance and securities law matters. Adam is the co-author of a number of books and articles and is a frequent ...

Recorded on: Mar. 25, 2013

LAUREN: Permitted. It is now my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, LizAnn Eizen. LizAnn a partner in Cravath corporate department. Her practice focuses on domestic and international corporate finance transactions, corporate governance, and reporting matters, and restructurings. Ladies and gentlemen, LizAnn Eisen. LIZABETHANN R. EISEN: Thanks, Lauren. Thanks to everybody for coming today. I'm going to introduce my co panelists ...

Recorded on: Mar. 18, 2013

EDWIN E. SMITH: Before we start with Marshall and Inventory Financing, we did have one question, which was, how is Puerto Rico treated under Article 9? And the answer is, well. Puerto Rico has the most advanced Article 9 of any state of the United States, if it were a state. But Puerto Rico adopted the 1999 revisions to Article 9 in January. And as part of that adoption it also enacted the 2010 Amendments to Article 9, which everywhere else had a ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

RICHARD W. GRIME: But we've got the last program of the day, so I'd like if you could to have people take their seats and we can then get the program underway. So I think during the most of the day, we've spent our time focusing on the FCPA and looking at its impact, either through cases or through hypotheticals, or looking to see how to set up a compliance program, or ensure that the guidance itself is honed in and understood by employees, understood ...

From the program: Investment Management Institute 2013

Released on: Mar. 22, 2013

You’ll hear expert panelists discuss: significant business and legal developments in the investment management area over the past year and important regulatory initiatives such as: The SEC’s regulatory agenda Potential new regulations affecting money-market funds Potential SEC staff guidance regarding derivatives used by registered funds Potential new regulatory initiatives relating to target date funds and exchange-traded ...

Recorded on: Feb. 20, 2013

ALAN L. BELLER: --which is, is the "new look" compensation committee the same as the "old look" compensation committee? I think the answer to that is no. Though I would note that Floyd left you with the thought that maybe the "New Look" compensation Committee is producing the same results as the "Old Look" compensation Committee. But we can, maybe, talk about that. I want to introduce our three distinguished ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2013

IGOR KIRMAN: OK, why don't we get started with the last panel today. And this is the moment you've been waiting for, the name of the new pope. It's Pope Francis of Argentina. This is the hostile panel. I warned you about these guys in the beginning. This is where a lot of the things that we've been talking about, the basic things we've been talking about today come together in a non-consensual M&A transaction. And those of us who do regular M&A ...

Recorded on: Jan. 9, 2013

Taken from the briefing JOBS Act: Growing Momentum recorded January, 2013. Since enactment of the JOBS Act in April 2012, the Staff of the Securities & Exchange Commission has published many of the required studies and released significant guidance concerning many of the JOBS Act provisions. Market practice continues to evolve in relation to emerging growth company IPOs. Lecture Topics  [Total Time: 01:09:15]  ...

Recorded on: Feb. 14, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my name is Amy Taub, and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Key Elements of Effective Remediation-- An Insider's View. 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 ...

Released on: Feb. 14, 2013

Taken from the briefing Key Elements of Effective Remediation: An Insider's View 2013 recorded January, 2013. The SEC and DOJ place a “high premium” on effective remediation in deciding whether to prosecute or demand a monitor.  Remediation done poorly, or worse, not at all exposes the organization to enhanced penalties, difficult audit processes and recurring financial loss.  And it is not just the organization that suffers.  ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

JAMES G. KREISSMAN: With that, rather than hearing from me, I want to turn immediately to our first panel, Key Issues In Drafting Merger Agreements. Now, as an attorney, negotiating a transaction on behalf of an acquirer, or a target, or a banker, advising a party in connection with such a transaction, one has to be mindful not only of the ebb and flow, and the negotiation of the deal itself, but also of the impact that that may have on subsequent ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: Welcome back. I hope you all had a good lunch. We're going to get back to the topic of financings. And we're going to talk about key issues in follow-on financing rounds. You've heard a lot about the Series A round. That you've heard about Series C. These panelists will tackle the not so simple issues that come up when there's already preferred in the company and you're doing additional financings. So our panelists are ...

Recorded on: Apr. 30, 2013

ANDREW J DONOHUE: Before I start my prepared remarks, just an observation. Many of the folks that are going to be talking to you today about investment company matters are the people I call when I don't know the answer. So fabulous faculty I think that you've together here, and it looks like a really good program. I wish I could stay for it all. I asked Lauren to stay up here, because I actually like her to interrupt me as I speak. If there's issues ...

Recorded on: Jan. 14, 2013

REBECCA SIMMONS: And my apologies if I'm hard to hear, but I'm hoping the microphone will make all the difference. So as Bob said, we've been doing this for a number of years. And for a number of years, I was able to give the very same presentation, it was quite straightforward. It's changed a little in the last few years with the adoption of the Dodd-Frank Act, but this presentation is just intended to be a very high level overview. We will go into ...

Recorded on: Jan. 14, 2013

ROBERT S. RISOLEO: Now, with that, I will rest my voice and turn things over to Gary Brown, who is joined to my right. And Gary, thank you for coming back. Gary is the CEO of CMG Life Services Inc, a leading company in the life settlement industry, which he joined after a very long and distinguished career as a lawyer. Gary has also taught securities law at Vanderbilt University School of Law, and served as general counsel to the Ethics and Compliance ...

Recorded on: Jan. 29, 2013

RICH: Good morning. I'd like to introduce our first speaker, David Morse. He's a partner at Otterbourg. He's been representing lenders for the past 25 years. And so I guess he has something of a lender bias in practice, but he's going to try to give us a balanced presentation on financing the transaction. DAVID W. MORSE: Thank you, Rich. Yeah. That's one of things I'd like to make clear before we get going just in case it doesn't come through over ...

Recorded on: Feb. 7, 2013

NICHOLAS J. SHAW: Hi. Welcome, everyone. I'm told the mic is live. I can hear my own voice booming back at me. I hope everyone's enjoyed lunch. Thank you for having us. Thanks for being here. Just to introduce the panel quickly on updates in leveraged finance, I'm Nick Shaw, Simpson Thacher. I do a lot of high yield. The same could be said for Jane Rogers of Ropes & Gray. And they're probably best known for doing a lot of very large, complicated ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: Ready to go? TIMOTHY B. DONAHUE: Yep. DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: OK. TIMOTHY B. DONAHUE: Thanks for your time everyone today. Let's just talk through some big picture trends, what's going on in leveraged finance. And when I define leveraged finance, it's leveraged loans and high-yield bond market-- so anything that's not investment grade rated. What's going on in 2013? Way too much cash. I think everyone knows that the world is ...

Released on: Mar. 27, 2013

Taken from the briefing Life Sciences M&A: You are Not Buying Widgets - Special Considerations that You Need to Know to Buy and Sell Life Sciences Companies or Assets recorded March, 2013. Handling an acquisition or divestiture deal involving pharmaceutical products, biologics, medical devices, diagnostics or the like can be challenging. These deals often involve critical intellectual property and complex regulatory assets and/or third party ...

Recorded on: Mar. 15, 2013

BARRY P. BARBASH: This morning we're starting with the topic of litigation in the investment management, the asset management area. It's been a busy year. I would venture to say a little bit toned down from a couple of years past, although, we'll see whether that's really the case from the experts. I'm joined today by two very prominent litigators in the asset management area and two good friends of mine. To my immediate right is Jim Benedict, a ...