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Corporate & Securities

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 ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Well welcome back to the very last section. We're going to get our ethics now, from Yasir Elbiali. He's with Mitsubishi down in Southern California, and he's agreed to do this the second year, right? YASIR ELBIALI: Correct. HARVEY: And he does an excellent job of taking us through compliance programs and giving us our legal ethics. So without further ado, to make sure we get the entire hour in here, I'm going to give you Yasir. YASIR ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. 19, 2011

MARC H. FOLLADORI: Good afternoon everyone. Why don't we get started. We're back live and pleased to empanel our new panel here, be led by good Dr. Grubaugh. Be talking to us about corporate governance and shareholder proposals. RICHARD H. GRUBAUGH: Thanks Marc. I have a brief presentation of the major shareholder proposals that we saw this year, and sort of the issues that we can expect to see for 2012. The first real issue that we have is the new ...

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. 7, 2011

SPEAKER 1: OK, welcome back from the lunch break. So for our first panel we're gonna talk about corporate governance. I find that this is an area that, at first blush, you require a lot of experience. You just have to be in the board room and deal with all the kind of conflicts and judgment calls. But once you're in there, you find that you need to call Delaware counsel or call corporate governance gurus. Because funny things that are highly technical ...

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 ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

RICHARD W. GRIME: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to day two of the PLI's program on FCPA and anti-corruption laws. This morning, I am pleased to be moderating a panel dealing specifically with China. And as you heard yesterday, there are many issues in dealing with that country. And in particular, we want to spend some time today sort of digging a little deeper than we're able to on panels that just deal generally with anti-corruption enforcement. And ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2011

CURTIS L. MO: Let me introduce the final panel. So I don't even have to tell you where they're sitting, because it's Bill and Deirdre. Bill Asher is a partner at Choate, Hall, & Stewart in Boston. He's on the firm's executive committee and he co-chairs their life sciences group. Deirdre Cunnane is with ATV, Advanced Technology Ventures, where she co-leads the operations team. She's a long time veteran at BancBoston Ventures and Goodwin Procter, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: So if you are doing this from home, or even here, you can do the seventh inning stretch while our two new panelists, thank you guys, come up. This is the most entertaining panel in no small measure because it's Bill Asher and Deirdre Cunnane. Bill is a partner at Choate Hall and has been representing companies and investors for over 30 years. So he has seen all sorts of horror stories. Deirdre is a general counsel of Advanced ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: Thank you, Paul. We're going to slide into the next panel because we're going to keep you on time here. So, I'll start with the introductions. The next panel is, for me, one of my favorite panels because I think that, hopefully, you can make this venture terms Nuts and Bolts interesting by telling some stories, et cetera. But sometimes I think it's hard to make the ethics part of this interesting. And Bill and Deirdre ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2013

CLIFFORD E. KIRSCH: Welcome back everyone. And we're ready with our next panel. As I said at the outset of the program, more and more people-- lawyers, compliance officers, [? at ?] broker dealers, and advisers-- are being asked to deal with cross border issues. I think it's a natural consequence from where the business is going. And I've asked a real expert in this area, Christopher Christian, who works very, very closely with these issues and counsels ...

Recorded on: Jan. 26, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Crowdfunding, The Next Big Thing or Entree to Digital Fraud. 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 tab ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

LEE A. MEYERSON: As I mentioned at the beginning of this conference, at one point within living memory, this conference was actually the bank M&A conference. Bank M&A has now been reduced to a 45-minute panel with three panelists. But I'm sure some day it's all going to change, and we'll stop talking about enforcement actions and start talking about doing deals. We have three of the leading market players in such bank M&A as there is. ...

Recorded on: Apr. 12, 2010

PAUL ROYE: Thanks, Buddy, for those remarks. I'd like to join Barry in welcoming you to the 2010 Investment Management Institute. We're going to be joined up here by Joel Goldberg. Joel is former Division director, and now partner at Stroock Stroock firm, and has extensive investment management practice. This panel is our opportunity drill down on what's going on in the investment management area, and you know, Buddy has talked about concerns about ...

Recorded on: Jul. 14, 2011

YUKAKO KAWATA: OK, picking up on the second M&A panel for this afternoon-- well John Bick and David Allinson I've already introduced, but we have now been joined by Stephen Besen, and he is a partner at Shearman & Sterling in the mergers and acquisition group with extensive experience in private equity and merchant banking. So with that. JOHN A. BICK: Welcome back. Here it's going to be a focus on how parties go about acquiring companies ...

Recorded on: Jul. 12, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Thank you YUKAKO KAWATA: OK, so welcome back, everybody, and we are on our second MNA panel, and the last panel for this afternoon. And for this panel we have with us again David and Michael, and we are joined by Justin HAMILL. Justin is a partner in the corporate department of Paul Weiss and is a member of the mergers and acquisitions group and private equity group. And we are particularly grateful that Justin is here because, unfortunately, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 7, 2011

STEVEN V. BERNARD: OK, so why don't we go ahead and get started. Welcome back. This is the portion of the program where we speak about our current issues. This is our current issues panel, where we try and take some of the most recent and hot topics from in front in securities practice. And talk about what's going on and give you some reactions. So with that, I'd like to start by introducing our newest members. And so starting all the way at the ...

Recorded on: Nov. 7, 2011

SPEAKER 1: I'd like to introduce Jackie Liu who is a partner in the corporate finance group at Morrison & Foerster in the San Francisco office and serves as co-chair of the firm's Public Companies and Securities group. Jackie is going to cover Form 8-K for us, and she's got 57 minutes. JACKIE LIU: OK. Thank you very much. SPEAKER 1: Do you have slides? JACKIE LIU: Yes. SPEAKER 1: Oh, there they are. JACKIE LIU: I wanted to let everyone ...

Recorded on: Oct. 5, 2012

STEVEN V. BERNARD: Welcome back, everyone. Hope you had a nice lunch. I'd like to introduce the newest member of our panel to my left. Our next speaker is Janet Fischer. Janet's a partner here to Cleary Gottlieb in New York City, and she's going to talk with you about Form 8-K. This morning we talked about how companies becomes public reporting companies. We talked about the 10-Qs, to quarterly reports, the 10-K, the annual report. And I mentioned ...