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From the program: Venture Capital 2013: Nuts and Bolts

Released on: Mar. 14, 2013

A thorough understanding of current market practice, deal terms and conditions, transaction documents and applicable securities, regulatory and ethical issues is critical in the venture capital business. This program, designed for those seeking a secure foundation in the venture capital field, will teach you the essentials of venture capital. From examining the anatomy of a venture capital deal, to participating in a mock term sheet negotiation, to ...

Recorded on: Mar. 20, 2012

CURTIS L. MO: Why don't we start with the first panel? Going down the line. Steve Baglio is a partner in the New York office of Gunderson Dettmer. Mick is co-chair of the emerging growth practice at WilmerHale in Waltham in Boston. And Ellen chairs the emerging growth practice from Covington's New York office. And they're going to talk about how do you position your company for financings and what do these financings look like that we're going to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 17, 2012

ANNA PINEDO: Good morning. If you're joining us on the web, we're going to get started with our next two segments. We're continuing on this morning in our discussion of private placements and exempt and hybrid securities offerings. This morning, we began with a general overview section 4(2), or now 4(a)(2), and the Regulation D safe harbor. As we discussed in our session, the securities that are sold in private placement transactions are restricted ...

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: Jan. 20, 2011

PENELOPE L. CHRISTOPHOROU: We're going to begin now. If everyone can take their seat. So we're going to be turning now to some special collateral types that were alluded to in Ed's and Steve's presentation, but as to which I'm going to go into a bit more detail. These are deposit accounts, securities accounts, and letters of credit. Basically we're going to go over what exactly these categories are, the role of control with respect to these categories, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 14, 2011

CURTIS: So without further ado, why don't we talk about Startup to Seed Financing. Anthony Pergola, facing us to our left here, is a Vice Chair and Cofounder of Lowenstein Sandler's tech group. They're very active, particularly in the near Tri-State area. He's also perfect for this topic because he's actually an active angel investor also. ANTHONY O. PERGOLA: Sure. Active in that I've made a number of angel investments that haven't exited or resulted ...

Recorded on: Jan. 14, 2013

KENNETH CHIN: Our next speaker is Darrell Pierce, who is the co-leader of his firm Dykema's Lending Team. He supervises the UCC filing team. Darrell is a member of the Article 9 Study Committee for the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code. He is the chair of the Article 9 Filing Project and the primary drafter of the International Association of Commercial Administrators' Model Administrative Rules for Article 9 Filing Offices. So ...

Recorded on: Jul. 2, 2012

Taken from the briefing A Capital Idea? Proposed Changes to the U.S. Regulatory Capital Frameworkrecorded June, 2012. On June 12, 2012, the Federal banking agencies formally proposed for comment, in three separate but related proposals, significant changes to the U.S. regulatory capital framework: the Basel III Proposal, which applies the Basel III capital framework to almost all U.S. banking organizations; the Standardized Approach Proposal, ...

Recorded on: Nov. 28, 2012

LEE LEVINE: You ready? Are you ready? LUCY A. DALGLISH: Yes, he's ready. LEE LEVINE: All right, we're going to get started, if everybody could take their seats. We move rapidly now into the law of access. And our principal speaker is David Schulz of the Levine Sullivan firm here in New York, who is not only, for my money, the leading authority on access law out there today but is bringing the good word of First Amendment rights of access down all ...

From the program: Communications Law in the Digital Age 2012

Released on: Nov. 30, 2012

The world of communications and media law is robust with change, and this program, long recognized as the most comprehensive in its field, will highlight the hottest issues and case law in media, digital communications, intellectual property and privacy law. Reflecting an increased focus on the legal ramifications of an increasingly digital media environment, the program features a remarkable faculty comprising the country’s leading practitioners ...

Recorded on: Jun. 25, 2012

SPEAKER 1: This panel deals with accommodations, both in disabilities but in other contexts as well. And we're delighted to be able to have an in-house counsel on the panel, Mary Schuette, because in-house counsel are the ones who really are on the front lines of dealing with requests for accommodation and the potential problems at arise out of it. Mary Schuette is vice president of legal services, responsible for the labor relations benefits, workers' ...

From the program: Employment Discrimination Law & Litigation 2012

Released on: Jul. 5, 2012

Any attorney or human resources professional who advises or represents employers, employees, labor unions or government, or who has judicial/arbitral/mediator responsibility, must keep abreast of changes in the employment discrimination arena, and must also be aware of cutting-edge developments on the litigation front. This program, designed for employment law practitioners and human resources professionals at all levels, brings together prominent ...

Recorded on: Jun. 21, 2010

KIRSTEN S. AUNAPU: OK, great. We're going to get started. So welcome back everyone. I'm pleased to introduce James Webb, who's a partner in Deloitte special acquisition services group. James provides merger and acquisition services and related accounting services to one of the firm's largest private equity clients and its portfolio companies. And during our next segment which is, titled Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Statements, James will provide ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2011

KIRSTEN AUNAPU: OK great. Well, welcome back to our next segment, which is on accounting, auditing, and financial statements. I'd like to introduce to you two of my colleagues from Deloitte, both from the Dallas, Texas area. Dan Berner is an audit partner in the Dallas, Texas practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP. Dan has over 20 years of experience serving large complex clients in retail, consumer and industrial products industries. Dan has served ...

Recorded on: Oct. 12, 2011

MARC MILLER: OK. For those of you who joined us during the first session thank you, and good morning. As an introduction, my name is Marc Miller. I'll be chairing the two day conference. And again, appreciate everyone being here and being active listeners. And also as we said in the opening-- and I think on behalf of the next faculty-- to the extent there's questions, again please don't hesitate to raise your hand. During the session, for those ...

Recorded on: Aug. 11, 2010

MATTHEW SHELHORSE: OK is everyone ready to get started with our second segment here? The second segment is Accounting, Auditing & Financial Statements. And this will take us right into the lunch break. So I think we'll build on what we learned in terms of the accounting standards and policies and the background from the SEC. And I'll take that into more of a practical approach. And we have the pleasure of having with a Sy Jones and Ted Martens. ...

Recorded on: Dec. 16, 2011

ABIGAIL ARMS: OK, welcome. Welcome back to the afternoon session of today's program. And the next session is going to deal with accounting issues that we, as lawyers, should be aware of. And we're delighted that Roman Weil, who is an emeritus faculty member of the Chicago Booth School of Business, retired after 45 years on the faculty there. Roman currently is a visiting professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU and Program Fellow at Stanford ...

From the program: Annual Disclosure Documents 2012: Preparation of Disclosure Documents, Annual Meeting and Regulatory Developments

Released on: Dec. 18, 2012

Stay current on disclosure requirements and developments affecting annual disclosure documents and proxy soliciting materials prepared by SEC reporting companies. Hear from the SEC staff and our faculty who will focus on current “hot issues,” best practices and practical pointers. 2012 appears headed towards being another interesting year with significant events and uncertainties covering a wide spectrum of matters affecting public company ...

From the program: The SEC Speaks in 2013

Released on: Mar. 9, 2013

Over the past year, the Commission has been engaged in a broad range of rulemaking projects and other initiatives to implement the newly-enacted Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  The Commission has been working to implement the provisions of the JOBS Act, including with regard to the use of general solicitation and general advertising in certain private offerings, new exemptions ...

Recorded on: Feb. 23, 2012

KAREN BALLACK: OK. We're going to get started here, now that we have Mr. Valetti up here to join me. I have the pleasure of speaking this morning with Mark Valetti, who is Senior Patent Counsel at Texas Instruments. Although his title is Senior Patent Counsel, don't let that fool you. He has experience in a number of different areas within TI's legal department. Mark has been with TI for over 23 years, and during that period of time, he has prosecuted ...

Recorded on: May. 23, 2011

TARIQ MUNDIYA: Well, thank you. KAREN N. BALLACK: Thank you, Tariq. OK. Tariq's presentation actually leads very nicely into my presentation, which is focused on acquiring and selling off intellectual property. And much of what Tariq shared with us today about identifying, managing, organizing your intellectual property portfolio is very important as a company moves forward in determining whether there is the right opportunity and the right time ...

Recorded on: Apr. 20, 2011

JOSEPH SAMET: Welcome back. In Volume Two of our book, there are two articles on the duties of officers and directors, one starting at page 485 and Jane's article starting at page 501. Everything you want to know about officers and directors, duties, liabilities, and theories is in there. But we'll amplify and give you more of a sense of that and what the trends are. After spending some time on officer, director, liability, fiduciary duties, we'll ...

From the program: Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company 2012

Released on: Jun. 22, 2012

Our experienced faculty walk you through all of the steps associated with acquiring and selling a privately held company, whether it is a large independent corporation, a division or subsidiary of a large public company, or a smaller venture capital-backed or family-owned entrepreneurial enterprise. You will learn about the special issues that apply when a private equity firm is the buyer or owns the target company, and about the techniques and strategies ...

Recorded on: Jan. 6, 2011

ALYSSA A. GRICKSCHEIT: I was going to say, I'll take advantage of the pause to tell people to be interactive with this section. This is a very long section on acquisition agreements. There is a lot of material, so feel free to ask questions along the way. We don't mind being interrupted. In fact, it makes it more interactive and and the material more tailored to what you're interested in. So I would like very much to welcome Gavin Solotar. He's a ...