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Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2012

JANET L. SIEGEL: And now it's my pleasure to introduce to you today's program co-chairs. Julie Floch is a CPA, and director of not-for-profit services at EisnerAmper here in New York City, where she is the partner responsible for coordinating and administration of engagements in the firm's not-for-profit practice. She's participated in various not-for-profit initiatives of the AICPA, and continues as a panelist in many of its educational courses. She's ...

Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2012

SETH PERLMAN: OK with that, I now have the very unique pleasure of taking a step back, and doing a little review of nonprofit governance basics. And the unique pleasure is that I get to introduce Professor Dana Brakman Reiser, a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where, for over 10 years, she's taught courses on non-profit law, social enterprise, corporations, property, trust and estates. Her recent scholarship, in other words, some of her ...

Recorded on: Dec. 19, 2012

SETH PERLMAN: Thoroughly rested? Ready for the last third of our session? Yes. Oh, wait. I guess we're not starting yet. We're missing our speaker. Are you starting? JEAN L. TOM: David is first. SETH PERLMAN: David is first? Just give us a little minute or two. I'm sorry. DAVID G. SAMUELS: Right here? You know I'm not starting yet. I just want to make sure that-- SETH PERLMAN: Thank you. Welcome back from break. The next third of the session is ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

ADELE HOGAN: Thank you. So here we go again, and we're in the last part of the program in the home stretch. And we're going to have two one-hour panels. The first one's going to be a general review of M&A and securities law issues. It goes very fast but it will give you a lot of the buzz words, and the new trends and things, and there are excellent materials included in the book and in the slides. And then we're going to spend an hour, that's ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

ADELE HOGAN: OK, so our next panel is on regulation of proxy solicitations. And it's also going to include a discussion of executive compensation. And I have both in house people-- one in house person to give you sort of the real world sort of what you're dealing with you're in house as well, as well as two partners at law firms. So let me introduce our panelists. To my right is David Boston. He's a partner in the corporate and financial services ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

N. ADELE HOGAN: It's 3:45, so we're going to go ahead and get started. The last panel today, Anna Pinedo from Morrison Foerster is going to go through a lot about private placements. And as you know, with the disruption in the public capital markets, a lot of very, very big companies stay private much, much longer than they have in the past so there could be huge trading markets. There's a lot of issues that come up here. Anna is, as I mentioned, ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

N. ADELE HOGAN: Hi. It's 11:30, and I want to make sure that we start on time so that we get the full hour of CLE credit. To my right, I have Iris Chiu. She is at Morgan Stanley, particularly focusing on M&A transactions. Obviously, we have two people here that are highly substantive, so although they are kindly going to speak on ethics today, they're going to bring a lot of their business and legal judgments and practical experience here as well. And ...

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: Dec. 17, 2012

N. ADELE HOGAN: OK. Hi. Welcome back, everybody, after the break. So now is an important panel because we're going to focus on securities and liability and litigation. And this is the ammunition you need to help your clients get through their problems and also to counsel your clients, particularly on the corporate side, so they don't get into problems or the problems are contained. So I'm really thrilled today to have three prestigious practitioners ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

N. ADELE HOGAN: So we're going to immediately turn to our next panel just to get the full benefit of that. Thank you, very much. It was an excellent panel. So our speakers are going to come up right now. But we have Ken Josselyn who we started off the program with. And he's the general counsel for finance and corporate legal at Goldman Sachs. And you'll remember he was here yesterday as well. KENNETH L. JOSSELYN: No voice either day. N. ADELE HOGAN: ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

N. ADELE HOGAN: OK, we're going to go ahead and get started today with the afternoon program. Once again, we were very appreciate of the SEC being here. And it gave you a sense of the flavor of how they operate and what it would be like interacting with someone if you had to bump an issue up. So I thought that was very, very helpful. We're now going to turn to an hour on 34 Act reporting. We were focusing on obviously 33 Act earlier today. And we're ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

ADELE HOGAN: OK. Good morning, everyone. Thank you again for being back, and since yesterday was 12/12/12, I wanted to commend you that, since that's the only date this century that will be like that, that you used your time well to upgrade your skills and help your clients. So that's really commendable. Two quick things. First of all, that you may have seen in the Wall Street Journal this morning, there's two articles on crowd funding, both of which ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

KENNETH L. JOSSELYN: I apologize in advance. I am losing my voice. Hopefully an hour and half of this will, I'll still have a voice. Otherwise Adele will be doing the program, and I will be doing the color commentary as we go along. I'm going to start with a general overview. It's aimed at the basics, because some people have more advanced knowledge, and some people have little. So we want to get the basic grounding in here. As Adele said, feel free ...

Recorded on: Dec. 17, 2012

N. ADELE HOGAN: OK, and then we're going to move right in-- Robert Evans from Shearman & Sterling is going to come up, and he's going to talk about disclosure basics. Now, he will go through-- this again applies both to the 33 and the 34 Act. So it's a very helpful background review of this area. And thank you again. That was excellent. Thank you. Great slides. And that Latham chart that is on the Latham website is actually excellent. And basically, ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. At this point we're going to have a presentation on Rights of Publicity Licensing, and I'm pleased to introduce Kristina Dinerman Cooper and Brian Thompson as our panelists. Kristina's Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Yahoo, where she heads Legal Services for Media and Commerce, overseeing the legal work for Yahoo's consumer facing properties such as news, finance, sports, entertainment, shopping, ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: For this segment, it's the agreement that the panel's going to using for the mock negotiation. It is outside on the table. Everybody have the handout? Good. JOHN ELOVSON: Not to be relied on in real practice. [LAUGHTER] JOSEPH YANG: So welcome back. This is the last session of our two days, and we've saved the most interactive part toward last. This is a mock negotiation of a license agreement, and I'm delighted to introduce our panel ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks, Bob. Lots of great practical tips about the licensing in Europe. So one of last topics that Bob mentioned was competition law. That's the European term for antitrust law. So that's actually a perfect segue into our next segment. And Jose Esteves, to my right, is going to be speaking to us on antitrust law. Jose is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom-- and my old colleague-- in its New York office, where he focuses ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hello, and welcome back to the afternoon session of the second day. Joining us for the session on Drafting Tips for Litigation is Ira Levy, who's a partner at Goodwin Proctor, out of their New York office. Ira specializes in IP Litigation involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, false advertising, and unfair competition. He's tried multiple cases to verdict, including having argued a number of cases to the Court of Appeals for the ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks very much. I think with that, I would like to introduce our first speaker. It's my pleasure to introduce Sally Abel to my immediate right. Sally is a partner and chair of the 20 plus member of the trademark group at Fenwick & West, in Mountain View. Sally is really preeminent in the trademark field, and in fact was recently named the top trademark lawyer in the United States, and among the top seven in the world by Who's Who ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi, everybody. Welcome back. We're down to the last hour of our first day, and it's my pleasure at this point to introduce John Steele. I think many of you know John from over the years. John is currently a solo practitioner, but he's an expert in the ethics area. He represents clients in matters of legal ethics, professional liability, risk management, and the law of lawyering. For over 15 years, John has served as the top internal ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: So now we're going to switch gears a little bit. Are you going first? Are you doing the panel? CLIFFORD ALLEN: Adam's going to go first, then I'll go second. JOSEPH YANG: OK. Certainly welcome to sit up here as well. CLIFFORD ALLEN: OK. JOSEPH YANG: We're now going to talk about open source licensing, and we have two panelists joining us. To my far right is Clifford Allen. Cliff is a senior attorney at Microsoft, where he's the lead ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH LANG: At this point I'd like to introduce Cydney Tune. Cydney is the first of our two sort of content and entertainment related speakers. And Cydney is counsel at Pillsbury's San Francisco office and leads the firm's copyright, media and entertainment practice in the industry team. The Daily Journal's name Cydney one of 2008's top 10 copyright lawyers in California and listed her among California's top 25 portfolio managers, prosecutors, and ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Good morning. Welcome back. Good morning. At this point, it's my pleasure to introduce Bob Stankey, sitting to my right, who will be speaking to us about international licensing. Bob is a partner at Davis Wright firm in Washington, DC, so he's come out to join us from the Eat Coast where his practice areas include technology licensing, data protection, and electronic communications regulatory law. Bob is a graduate of the University ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Hi everybody. We're ready to continue with our last talk of the morning before lunch. At this point it's my pleasure to introduce Lillian Stenfeldt. She's a partner in the Creditor's Rights and Bankruptcy practice group. And in fact, she chairs that practice group at the Cedric firm here in San Francisco. Her practice areas and her expertise include bankruptcy and insolvency, creditor's rights, receivership matters, and complex commercial ...

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH LANG: Hello, welcome back. Hope everybody had a good lunch, and with that I'd like to start the afternoon session. And I will be talking about patent and technology licensing. For anybody that wants to follow along, my materials are on page 573 of the course handbook, and you're welcome to look at that. It's a word outline that, basically, follows the slides that are on the screen. Up until now we've had some great presentations by the copyright ...