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Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

AUSTIN T. FRAGOMEN JR: So our next topic deals with family immigration. And obviously, this is an area we've more than touched on, when it comes to all the different aspects of representing children in every context imaginable, right? So we've already been through children in great detail, but now, we're going to talk about family immigration. And we'll talk about children in the more traditional sense of media relative petitions and things of that ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

Taken from the Web Program 45th Annual Immigration & Naturalization Institute Recorded November, 2012 in New York Challenges for Families Coming to the United States [01:00:24] Backlogs and timing Child Status Protection Act, and K visa options: are these sufficient relief valves? The “DREAM Act” executive order - progress to date Affidavit of Support issues Conditional residency and its removal The ...

Recorded on: Nov. 26, 2012

CYNTHIA J. LANGE: Well, welcome back. We'll be rounding off the afternoon here with a couple of excellent panels. Right now, we'll be having Bernie Wolfsdorf and Stephen Yale-Loehr will talk to us about challenges to entrepreneurs coming to the United States. There's so much happening in this area, and we really appreciate the work that they've put into this. Robert Divine had planned on being here, and I think help work on the material but due to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 25, 2013

Taken from the briefing Choices of Law in Acquisitions Agreements: U.S. vs. U.K. recorded April, 2013.What are the key differences between U.K. and U.S. law with respect to acquisition agreements? These days the M&A community is ever more focused on this question, as these differences are becoming of increasing commercial and strategic importance in sale processes, particularly auction sales where seller often gets to select the governing ...

Recorded on: May. 24, 2012

Taken from the briefing Civil Enforcement Cases: Emerging Trends and Issues in the Wake of the Financial Crisis recorded May 2012. In recent years, many practitioners have anticipated criminal prosecutions related to the Financial Crisis.  Often overlooked, however, are the significant civil enforcement actions that have been brought in this area.   Lecture Topics  [Total Time: 01:06:42] Discovery tools available ...

From the program: New Jersey Basic CLE Marathon 2012

Released on: Jun. 12, 2012

Satisfy part of the newly instated mandatory continuing legal education requirements in New Jersey and hone your legal professionalism with PLI’s New Jersey Basic CLE Marathon program.  In accordance with New Jersey’s requirements, this program will include New Jersey-specific instruction and discussion on topics authorized by the Supreme Court of New Jersey Board of Continuing Legal Education. Lecture Topics  [Total time 06:13:38] Segments ...

Recorded on: Oct. 19, 2012

GARY BARNETT: OK, welcome back. We're going to move into our next session now, clearing and trading, grandfathering, end users, margin posting for cleared and uncleared transactions, client money segregation, loss mutualization. And our moderator is Kathryn, or Katie, Trkla. I'm going to introduce her, and then let her introduce the rest of the panel. Katie's a partner with Foley & Lardner. She's a member of Foley's securities, commodities, and ...

Released on: Jul. 31, 2012

Taken from the briefing Climate Change and Insurance: What's Ahead? recorded July, 2012. Climate change has become a leading issue in scientific, political, and legal circles, and this has profound implications for insurance. As the science and politics continue to evolve, climate change continues to emerge as a risk. Emitters of greenhouse gases may face climate change-related claims, while insurers face potential enterprise liability and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: So while our panelists are getting settled, this is our last panel of the day. This is a panel on closing business transactions. And before I let these guys get started, first let me introduce them. Drew Buechley is sitting to my immediate right. And to my far right is Michael Goodman. Drew and Michael are Senior Managing Directors, essentially partners, at Pharus Advisors in San Francisco and New York, respectively. Pharus is, I think, ...

Recorded on: Oct. 16, 2012

EWA KNAPIK: Hello, again. At this time, I would like to introduce our last panel of today. This is the Closing Business Transactions panel. And it is my pleasure to introduce our speakers. Both of them are founder and senior managing directors of Pharus Advisors. Michael Goodman is, as I said, the founder and senior managing director. His experience includes significant operational experience in technology companies, M&A and deal making from ...

From the program: Cloud Computing 2012: Cut Through the Fluff & Tackle the Critical Stuff

Released on: Jun. 25, 2012

Corporations, government organizations and millions of consumers are shifting massive quantities of data and their software applications to cloud computing facilities.  Cloud computing uses the Internet to give every size organization access to large, dynamically scalable resources (data storage, software applications and computing power).  “The Cloud” allows users, at all levels, to avoid large capital outlays for hardware and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

JANINE BOWEN: Before I begin I will start by introducing my co-presenter, Rachel Evans. Rachel joined Accenture in 2003, and is currently director of legal services, IT offerings, and alliances legal counsel. Her areas of focus include complex IT transactions, cloud computing, open source software, and Software as a Service. Rachel has been an in-house technology lawyer for 18 years, working at IBM and with Siebel Systems prior to joining Accenture. ...

Recorded on: Apr. 11, 2013

DEANNA L. KIRKPATRICK: Well, I think we'll get started again and try and stay on schedule. So I think in our next segment, Laird is going to talk about comfort letters, which as you heard-- or I'm sorry, financial statement requirements, which we didn't cover in the initial registration process part. LAIRD H. SIMONS III: So for a good probably 45 minutes or so, we're going to delve into the accounting piece of the registration statement. Some years ...

Recorded on: Jun. 28, 2012

STEVEN R. PEIKEN: Thanks, Rich. Sounds like my mom wrote that introduction. We have a great group of panelists, and let me introduce them to you briefly before we jump into this. So seated immediately to my right is David Anders, who's a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where his practice focuses on the representation of Fortune 500 and other companies in white collar criminal and related investigations. Before joining Wachtell, Lipton, ...

Recorded on: Apr. 22, 2013

ANNA PINEDO: -unannounced offerings. So as we were discussing earlier this morning, there are lots of complex issues in terms of making certain that companies don't have to make premature disclosures when they're attempting to conduct an offering that they want to remain unannounced. And so to help walk through all of those issues, we have Andrew Fabens. And Andrew's a partner at Gibson-Dunn in the New York office, where he's the co-chair of the ...

From the program: Private Placements and Other Financing Alternatives 2013

Released on: Apr. 29, 2013

Our expert faculty of leading practitioners and regulators will analyze current developments in private placements and hybrid financing transactions, including changes brought about by the adoption of the JOBS Act. We will discuss the basics of private placements and other exempt offerings. We will discuss recent changes to Regulation D effected by the Dodd-Frank Act and by the JOBS Act. We will address how changes brought about by the JOBS Act and ...

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: Feb. 22, 2013

ANNA T. PINEDO: So as Cliff mentioned, we're going to spend this hour talking about complex products and, indeed, complex products have become the most important issue for FINRA from a prudential and an enforcement perspective and have been for some time. And largely that's been as a result of concerns that emerged during the financial crisis, that investors who purchased particular products didn't necessarily understand all of the risks associated ...

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 ...