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Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

ANDREW ORINGER: Welcome back, everybody to the second half of day one. We've done some of the technical underpinnings of tax qualified plans in the morning. We've done an overview and some specific technical rules. We're not going to go to specific kinds of plans. We're going to talk about things like 401(k) plans, defined benefit plans, and plans that invest in stocks. We're going to start with 401(k) plans. I really do think it's safe to say at ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

GRACE: and Marc Trevino. I'm just going to give you a brief bio of theirs. Their full bio is available in the course handbook. Linda is the Practice Group Leader Emeritus of the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Private Client group at Shearman & Sterling. Her practice focuses on all aspects of executive compensation and benefits, including corporate securities and tax laws, and ERISA. Marc is co-managing partner of Sullivan & ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

LINDA E. RAPPAPORT: Hello everybody. We're going to get started again. I think Mark is on his way back. So it's my great pleasure to introduce our next panelists. Assuming I can find their resumes here. To my immediate right is Jeannemarie O'Brien, who is a leader of the Executive Compensation practice at Wachtell Lipton, and will be addressing us in the area of M&A developments for Executive Compensation, which will be terrific. And then, for ...

Recorded on: Oct. 5, 2012

LINDA: While Marc and Jeannemarie argue about who's going to go first, let me introduce the next panel. I think you're all familiar with Marc, and he's agreed to speak to the bankruptcy issues involved in compensation. And Jean Marie, we're pleased to have her back with us again to talk about M&A implications in competition and vice versa. She's a partner in the New York law firm of Wachtell Lipton. And has the decision been made who's going to ...

Recorded on: Oct. 5, 2012

MARC R. TREVINO: Thanks for sticking with us. This will be Advising the Board and the Compensation Committee. I'm really looking forward to this. We have Linda, who you all know. Introducing themselves, to my right is Steve Bigler from Richards, Layton, and Finger. He's been here many times before, providing us background on what's going on in Delaware. And then, David Engvall from Covington and Burling, I think, will start us off, if I understand ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

ANDREW L. ORINGER: welcome back. Hope everybody had a nice lunch. We're going to start now with a portion of the program that I really sort of like. I think that Andy and I struggled a little bit with the multifaceted nature of the practice. And we try to provide a strong introduction to the basic principles. Then we try to provide certain targeted sessions, M&A and the like, to try to show how things work in practice. But there's so many different ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

GRACE E. O'HANLON: It's my pleasure to introduce you to the co-chairs of today's program. Arthur Kohn And Howard Pianko. Arthur is a partner in Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, and Hamilton's New York office. His practice focuses on compensation and benefit matters, including executive compensation, pension compliance, and investment employment law, and related matters. Howard is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw's New York office. He advises plan investors on ...

Recorded on: Feb. 8, 2011

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings, my name is Amy Taub and I am a program attorney with PLI, and I would like to welcome you to today's briefing: CFTC's Proposed Business Conduct Standards for Swap Dealers, Cost and Consequences to Swap Dealers and Plans. 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 ...

Recorded on: Mar. 3, 2011

MICHAEL ALBANO: Thank you. Join me on the panel this time around will be Steven Rabitz, who's a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Steve was previously at Goldman then spent some time at Lehman, and the Barclays before he went back to Stroock, or went to Strook. He's a Cleary alum, so he's near and dear to my heart, of course. Beside him is Ed Rayner, a partner at Pryor Cashman. The three of us do employee benefits exec comp, ERISA work, ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

SPEAKER: No break. There is no break. At the risk of my getting shot let me, on that note, introduce the panelists who are coming up. So do we have the panelists who are coming out? SPEAKER 2: Uh no. You're right here. You're going to be right here. SPEAKER: Alicia? SPEAKER 2: I will find her. Alicia is She's coming. She's here. SPEAKER: OK. So as I indicated earlier, our next panel is going to discuss in greater depth some of the issues that ...

Recorded on: Oct. 5, 2012

LINDA RAPPAPORT: All right, everybody. Are we good to go? OK. We're going to start our next session now. So if the people in the room could take your seats, it would be great. I'm going to briefly introduce our next speaker as we're very pleased to have them here to discuss clawback design and the ins and outs of clawbacks. We started talking a little bit about them in the morning. So I'm interested to do a deep dive here. Rosina Barker, who's directly ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

HOWARD PIANKO: We're going to switch over. There was some allusions, actually direct references to the prior panel to the world of defined contribution plans. And the next panel-- Patricia Kuhn from BlackRock on my right. Then right next to her-- Nick Waddles from Seyfarth. And we're going to switch over to the defined contribution world and look at the developments-- things that we're seeing from the ERISA fiduciary prospective with respect to DC ...

Recorded on: Apr. 7, 2011

GRACE O'HANLON: My name is Grace O'Hanlon. I'm a program attorney with the Practising Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to Pension Plan Investments 2011, Current Perspectives. A welcome to our webcast and group cast attendees as well. It's my pleasure to introduce the co-chairs of today's program, Arthur Kohn and Howard Pianko. Arthur is a partner in Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton's New York office. His practice focuses on compensation ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

ANDREW GAINES: We're going to get started. With the last group presentations this afternoon, we're going to continue to cover some of the basics regarding qualified plans. We're going to shift gears a little bit now. We've talked about a lot of the rules relating to being a qualified plan. We're going to talk now about the process of actually procuring a letter from the IRS that gives you comfort that the words in your plan document satisfy those ...

Recorded on: Mar. 3, 2011

ARTHUR H. KOHN: OK, so we're going to start up. If there's anybody outside you should come in now. And we're going to start up with the last two panels of the day. So thanks to everybody for hanging in there. There's a prize at the end, which is ethics credit for the last panel. We can't offer that on this panel. But we are going to try to do something a little bit different, and I think fun, I hope fun. It's a little bit less scripted than the typical ...

Recorded on: Apr. 7, 2011

SPEAKER 1: OK, if everyone could take their seats so we could get started again and back on schedule. We'd appreciate that. And as that's happening let me just introduce the next panel. So the topic of the next panel is the last piece of the big changes that we've been discussing all morning and that I think are going to reverberate on the regulatory scheme for a while to come. We'll have to see how it plays out but we have with us to lead the discussion ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

SPEAKER 1: Thank you, Carroll. MARC R. TREVINO: Especially, Carol, thank you for joining us. We're going to go straight to the next panel which is going from Linda and me, because we have to introduce ourselves. But basically going from what's been going on this season to what we're expecting going forward. And that's a lot. Ann covered some of this already. So we'll try to go through it quickly, highlighting, in particular, rules that have just ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

ANDREW L. ORINGER: OK. We're going to pick up with our next series of lectures. First up, to do eligibility and coverage is my friend David Glaser. I used to work with David-- or in my more honest moments, for David-- way back when, and actually so did Andy. He and I both were tutored-- up under the tutelage of Mr. Glaser, and we're definitely the better for it. He co-chairs the employee benefits and executive compensation group at Patterson Belknap ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

DAVID W. POLLACK: OK, the next topic is employee benefits. And Mark Poerio, who is a partner at Paul Hastings in Washington in the Employment Law department of that firm and whose practice relates to employment law matters, including in the context of M&A, is going to walk us through some of the employee benefit and labor and employment related matters. Mark? J. MARK POERIO: Yeah, thank you, very much. Yeah, I didn't get a pen today for being ...

Recorded on: Mar. 3, 2011

GRACE O'HANLON: --O'Hanlon. I'm a program attorney with the Practising Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to ERISA Fiduciary Investment Basics 2011. A welcome to our group cast and webcast attendees as well. It's my pleasure to introduce the co-chairs of today's program, Michael Albano and Howard Pianko. Michael is a partner in Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton's New York office. His practice focuses on executive compensation, corporate ...

Recorded on: Aug. 8, 2012

ANDREW L GAINES: As we get set up here, I'll begin the introductions. As I mentioned in my earlier remarks, the next panel is going to be a little survey of ERISA litigation. We've already said 100 times that we think that ERISA plans are probably the largest source of equity capital in this country, maybe the world. And as a result, there is a tremendous amount of litigation targeted at these plans, targeted at sponsors of plans, and the fiduciaries ...

Recorded on: Feb. 11, 2013

SPEAKER 1: --invite them up. But just to help save some time, it's on ERISA litigation, which is a new panel this year. And so it's Shannon Barrett from O'Melveny, Linda Haynes from Seyfarth, Javier Hernandez from Curtis, Mallet, and Sara Pikofsky from Jones Day. HOWARD PIANKO: What we're going to do in this panel is actually, we spent most of the day talking about investments that really relate to large defined benefit plans in the ERISA world-- ...

Recorded on: Apr. 7, 2011

HOWARD PIANKO: Our last panel is going to look at some of the ethical considerations applicable to our practice area. We've broken it down into three parts. I'm going to start off with a review of planned governance and we've used the word planned governance today, how do you apply it? And there's a handout which Grace has informed me I should have sent to be done electronically, but I didn't. But you've got a colored handout. Steve Rabitz is to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2013

HOWARD PIANKO: Our last hour, we're going to go into ethical considerations for ERISA lawyers both outside lawyer and also the kind of questions that come up working in-house. We're really pleased to have Howard Shapiro with us. Howard, from Proskauer, is a litigator who many of us have heard of and worked with. And Liza LeAndre from Colgate-Palmolive is here to talk to us from the in-house perspective. I'll turn it over to-- who's starting? You? ...

Recorded on: Mar. 3, 2011

HOWARD PIANKO: --things that we've been discussing today. We've broken it down into three sections. Where-- is Martha here? There you are. I didn't see you back there. OK. So we're joined, to my far right, by Martha Steinman. Martha is a Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf where her practice focuses extensively, if not totally, on ERISA Fiduciary and related questions. To my immediate right is Linda Haynes, who's a fellow partner of mine at Seyfarth, ...