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Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

SANFORD PRESANT: Hi everybody. This is Sandy Presant for you remote folks. Up here on the panel with us today are Blake Rubin, Co-Chair. We have Jon Finkelstein from yesterday and Jim Lowy from yesterday. And we have our newest addition, Jill Darrow. Jill's going to lead us through the capital gains planning portion of this course. Jill's a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, having come from the Rosenman side. Jill Darrow chairs their New York tax ...

Recorded on: Dec. 21, 2011

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Computing Tax in the Cloud, State and International Implications. 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 ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2010

SPEAKER 1: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] featuring Richard Larkin and company, dealing with a convertible debt instruments, and the tax issues arising there from. Richard is a partner at Ernst and Young in Washington. And he will now introduce the remainder of his panel. RICHARD LARKIN: Thank you Matthew. To my immediate right is Tom Kelly. Tom is director in the Deloitte Tax Washington National Tax office. And as a sidebar, Tom and I were actually office ...

Recorded on: Oct. 10, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Maeve Elise and Lisa. MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Great. Welcome back. Thank you. OK in our final segment, we're going to talk a little bit about credit and foreclosure. So let's go ahead and jump in. One of the monstrous and unintended consequences of course of the foreclosure crisis is millions and millions of people whose credit has been pummeled. And what is going to happen to them remains to be seen. I offer the stat about how many homeowners ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2013

BLAKE D. RUBIN: So we're going to start with recent developments in partnership taxation, also the real estate stuff. In terms of materials, there's an outline at page 47 in the book. And then copies of the slides have been handed out. Let me mention, in general the slides in the outline correspond. But the version of the slides is a little more up to date than the outline. If people are interested in the more up to date outline, which covers the ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

LESLIE H. LOFFMAN: It is my great privilege to introduce Stef Tucker, who's a partner at the law firm Venable. He is a dear, dear friend. And you know what, before anything else, he is a good soul, and that's more important than all the other things I'm about to tell you. But he is an amazing lawyer-- focuses on M&A, entity planning and structuring, asset protection and preservation, family business issues, wealth preservation-- he is a generalist ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2010

[DEBT-FOR-DEBT EXCHANGES IN TROUBLED TIMES PANEL COMMENCES] MATTHEW STEVENS: So we're going to immediately start the next panel so as not to get behind and preserve the sanctity of the break. Our next panel will discuss Debt-for-Debt Exchanges in Troubled Times, a topic which has been done before, but nowhere better than here. And to moderate, we have Mike Shulman, who is a partner at Shearman & Sterling in Washington, D.C., and I believe ...

Recorded on: Sep. 20, 2012

C. TUNA: So our first session is on distributing digital content through smartphone apps, managing risk and rewards. I'm not going to read the bios, the full bios, because you have them in your materials. FRANKLIN FINK: What's that? MARY NEWCOMER WILLIAMS: [INAUDIBLE] Think. But there's one called Think New. I think it should be the new. FRANKLIN FINK: Oh, I think we got the wrong one up. It's Think New because we added a slide. C. TUNA: Who's ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

LESLIE H. LOFFMAN: Let's get started. Once again, Stef Tucker's rejoined us. And while we were all speaking, he was learning estate planning. Thank you. And also let me welcome Barbara Sloan, a partner in the New York City law firm of McLaughlin and Stern. She began her practice in DC and moved to New York in '98. And her practice involves estate planning, the administration of estates and trusts, trustee and beneficiary litigation, business succession ...

Recorded on: Jan. 27, 2011

STUART M. FINKELSTEIN: Good morning. Little do you know, this is going to be the highlight of your day, talking for two hours about tax. Now, actually, to help me a little bit, there are no tax people here, right? Anyone here a tax person? No one really willing-- ah, we have one that's willing to admit it. The rest are corporate types? Yes? Pretty much? OK. Any repeat customers? Anybody that's been to a seminar here before this seminar? No. OK. Good. ...

Recorded on: Jan. 29, 2013

STUART M. FINKELSTEIN: OK. I don't have Richard Goldberg to give me an introduction, so I guess I will introduce myself. I am Stu Finkelstein, a partner at Skadden Arps here in New York. Tax jockey. Tax guy. Been doing this, I was just telling somebody, going on 28 years. Which is a little scary. All at Skadden actually. The only job I've had. A couple ground rules. Not really ground rules. But here's the way I like to do these things. I think it's ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2012

SPEAKER 1: And our next panel is the federal tax considerations panel, which we'll actually take a little break in between and then come back. And we'll finish up right before lunch, if you're following our schedule. But we're going to get started right now. And our speaker is Stuart Finkelstein. He's with Skadden, Arps, and he's the head of the firm's New York tax group where he represents clients on a wide range of tax matters, with particular ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2012

DAVID W. POLLAK: 1:45. Hopefully everybody had a nice lunch break. So, continuing-- this morning, there were a couple of instances where questions were raised with respect to fiduciary duties. And lo and behold, our next topic is just that-- fiduciary duties of directors and majority shareholders, which is an important topic not only in the public context, but also in the private context. And here to discuss that with us is Ron Deutsch, who's a counsel ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2012

ERIC B. SLOAN: Let me introduce for you our next panelist, the sole panelist, is Brad Borden. Brad is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches federal income tax. He focuses on partnership taxation, real estate taxation, and related matters. And Brad is going to take us through the financial analysis of non-corporate entities. BRADLEY T. BORDEN: Thanks Eric. And also thanks for inviting me to participate today. I think originally ...

Recorded on: Jan. 14, 2013

MALE SPEAKER: Good morning to everyone in the room here, and on the web. Welcome back for day two of our program. This morning, for the first segment, we're going to talk about more financial products, a different type. And then we're going to have a pause to hear from a tax practitioner about some of the tax issues that arise in this area of practice. We can never cover everything, so each year, we choose topics that seem to be topical and interesting. I ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

SANFORD C. PRESANT: OK. Our next speakers are Michael Hirschfeld and Gino Bianchini. Michael Hirschfeld, former partner of mine at-- MICHAEL HIRSCHFELD: [INAUDIBLE]. SANFORD C. PRESANT: Where was it? Where was it, OK? Tell me. OK. Oh, Gino. Perfect. Wonderful. OK. SPEAKER 1: --and Presant. SANFORD C. PRESANT: He's a partner in the New York office of Dechert LLP. He specializes in international corporate workout partnership matters. He's Vice President ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

DOREEN ODOM: It is now my pleasure to introduce you to the chair of today's program, Pamela A. Mann. Pamela Mann is chair of the Tax Exempt Organizations Group in the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, LLP, with a practice concentrated in the representation of tax exempt organizations. From 1996 to December, 2012, she was Principal in the Mann Legal Group LLC, a boutique law firm serving tax exempt organizations. From 1985 to 1995, Ms. Mann was ...

Recorded on: Apr. 27, 2010

STACEY GREENBLATT: Good morning. My name is Stacey Greenblatt. I'm a program attorney with PLI, and I'd like to welcome you to Taxation of Financial Products and Transactions 2010. Before we get started, I just want to let you know that if you visit our bookstore during the break today, you can get 35% off on today's featured book: Financial Product Fundamentals. Now I'd like introduce the chair of today's program, Matthew Stevens. Matthew is ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

PAMELA A. MANN: OK. Break's over. I am very happy to introduce our next speaker, Dave Shevlin, who is a partner and the head of the Exempt Organizations Group at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett in New York City. He has been with Simpson Thatcher for a number of years, where he advises a variety of international and domestic exempt organizations, including "Friends of" organizations and all forms of private foundations and public charities. He ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

BLAKE D. RUBIN: OK, why don't we get started. We've got some new speakers joining the panel. To my immediate right is David Levy. David is a partner at Skadden Arps here in New York City. He specializes in REIT and other real estate related tax matters. To David's right is Lary Wolf. Lary's a partner at Roberts & Holland here in the city. Roberts and Holland, for those who don't know, it's a small firm, but a very fine tax boutique. I guess they ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: So with that, I will introduce our first speaker, Oz Karan. Oz is the senior manager at Deloitte & Touche. He's in the accounting, evaluation, and analytics practice here in San Francisco. He has over nine years of accounting, valuation, and project management experience with a focus on banking and securities and consumer business clients. He has technical expertise in accounting and reporting for derivatives and hedging activities, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 30, 2010

[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] [SILENCE] SPEAKER 1: Welcome to today's PLI program. We hope that you will find it informative and valuable. Before we start the program, please listen carefully to the following important information. If you have any questions, please feel free to stop by the registration desk. For CLE credit purposes, please be sure to sign in at the registration desk before the program start. Also, sign out at the registration desk at the ...

Recorded on: Jun. 5, 2013

SPEAKER 1: --for the Pocket MBA program, which is securities fraud litigation, recent trends and practical tips. We're lucky to have Dan Dooley, Sr., CPA, who was a former partner retired in the firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was the global leader of the firm's securities litigation and investigations consulting practice. As an audit partner, he performed examinations of companies in a wide-range of industries and sectors, including computers ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

ROBERT SCHACHAT: --slides they are. OK. Let's start with the general rules. It's funny, because here in New York, we don't have the same level of experience with like-kind exchanges as in many other parts of the country. We were talking about that before, prepping for this panel. Maybe that's because of the investment funds. A lot of real estate investment funds here that are sort of closed-end, and so when a property is sold, the sponsor wants to ...

Recorded on: Feb. 21, 2013

PAMELA MANN: Our last speaker today is Sean Delaney. Sean Delaney is the executive director of the Lawyers Alliance of New York, the leading provider of pro bono business legal services to community development organizations and other nonprofit groups in New York City. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Delaney served as the legal director of the Lawyers Alliance. Prior to his work with Lawyers Alliance, Mr. Delaney served as the chief of the charities bureau ...