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Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

HOWARD SIEGEL: Good evening and welcome back. I want to introduce to you, two good friends of mine, and good friends of PLI. Rosemary Carroll, on my immediate right, graduated from Duke University, received her law degree from Stanford. She's worked in the field of entertainment since her graduation from law school. And first, she was an associate of Phillips Nizer, a firm familiar to most of you, I assume. And then she was counsel to TriStar Pictures ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

KATHERINE L. HENDERSON: Welcome back everyone. I hope you had a good lunch. I have the privilege of introducing our next panelist. And I'm sure most of you in the room and at home already know who he is. But I will give you some of the highlights of his impressive background. Professor Grundfest is the William A. Franke professor of law and business at Stanford Law School. And he's Senior Faculty at the Rock Center on Corporate Governance also at ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

HOWARD SIEGEL: OK, so we segue right into the next and final segment of our program, on this first of the three-day PLI seminar, and that is Jack Sahl, who will speak to us about ethics. I said about Rosemary and Kirk, and with absolute truth, that they are friends of mine personally, and friends of PLI. And certainly, that is true of Jack, who's standing here behind me on my left. He is a faculty director of the Miller-Becker Center for Professional ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

JAMES G. KREISSMAN: OK. If everyone could take their seats, we're going to get started again. [SIDE CONVERSATION] JAMES G. KREISSMAN: All right. Well, welcome back everybody. Our next panel's on settlements and D&O insurance. As we know, while many merger litigations are actively litigated, some fully to conclusion, it's still the case that the great majority of those cases ultimately settle. So on our last panel this morning, we're going to ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

TAMARA C. KIWI: OK. Welcome back, everybody. I hope that you had a good lunch. And before we get started with the afternoon panel, I'd like to introduce the other co-chair of today's program, Howard Siegel. Howard is a senior partner Pryor Cashman's Entertainment Group. He has more than 35 years of experience in representing clients in all aspects of the entertainment business-- with a particular emphasis on the music industry-- during which time ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

JAMES G. KREISSMAN: With that, rather than hearing from me, I want to turn immediately to our first panel, Key Issues In Drafting Merger Agreements. Now, as an attorney, negotiating a transaction on behalf of an acquirer, or a target, or a banker, advising a party in connection with such a transaction, one has to be mindful not only of the ebb and flow, and the negotiation of the deal itself, but also of the impact that that may have on subsequent ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

KATHERINE L. HENDERSON: So this next panel, we're going to focus on a few recent issues of Delaware law. Let me start by introducing my fellow panelists. Directly to my right here is Randy Baron. We've heard him ask a few questions already. So I'm expecting a lot now from his panel. RANDALL J. BARON: I'm quiet. KATHERINE L. HENDERSON: Exactly. Mr. Baron is a partner at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd. And he specializes in securities litigation, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

J. KREISSMAN: All righty. Hi, again. So our next panel's going to address the increasingly common situation which merger litigation is commenced, often simultaneously, in multiple state and or federal courts. Typically, the case is challenging the transaction filed in separate courts include relatively similar factual allegations and assert the same or similar types of claims. Now, the plaintiffs bringing these suits don't want to give up their chosen ...

Recorded on: Mar. 6, 2013

KENNETH M. KAUFMAN: Thank you, very much, Tamara. It's nice to see so many of you here. What I'd like to do initially is introduce my co-panelists this morning. We're going to be talking about to television and video production, financing, distribution, user generated content, and new developments in the industry, as well as an overview of common issues in the entertainment law area. To my immediate right is Vernon Chu, who is the General Counsel ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN N. BALLACK: Welcome back, everybody, and good afternoon, for those of you here in the California office. And I guess it's-- well, I guess it's still afternoon on the east coast, also. We are kicking off this afternoon's presentation with a panel discussion on due diligence of IP assets. And the moderator of this panel will look familiar to all of you who were here yesterday. We have David Randall again here today to moderate the panel on due ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN BALLACK: OK. back this afternoon for our last session of the day. As Lothar indicated, although it's the last session of the day, and is on common ethics issues in IP transactions-- and I know some of us all shutter when we hear the word ethics-- this is a delightful, and entertaining, and very educational session on ethics. And so, Lothar was telling the truth when he said, we were saving some great speakers here to keep this going to the very ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN N. BALLACK: OK, welcome back, everybody, from the break. Our next presentation this morning before our lunch break is on the treatment of IP licenses in bankruptcy. And we have with us today two speakers from O'Melveny & Myers. We're very pleased that they were able to join us this morning. To my right is Stanton Lovenworth. Stanton is counsel in O'Melveny's New York office, and a member of the Health Care and Life Sciences Practice. Stan ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LOTHAR DETERMANN: So we'll be switching from exhaustion of patent of exhausting other topics, that is copyright and trademark. We will start with copyrights today. No particular order, and then Beth Goldman will cover the trademark side of things. That's how we agreed to split it up for today. Beth is a partner in Orrick's San Francisco office. She's a member of the IP group there and focus on trademark, prosecution, litigation, licensing. She's ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LOTHAR DETERMANN: So thanks so much for the previous panel. We actually do not have a break, so everybody who is stepping out to get more caffeine, it is not necessary because we have some expert presenters here that will keep you at your toes. Denise Vieira is commercial council at Zynga. She was previously with other hot companies, with VMware. And also taught as an [INAUDIBLE] professor at USF law school, and she has disclosed that she was my student. DENISE ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

STEVEN L. BAGLIO: So I'm going to tackle the very beginning of how a venture backed company might be formed. And then I'll turn it over to Sarah, who will talk more specifically about venture capital deal terms. And by the way, if anybody in the live audience has a question, they should feel free to interrupt me as I go. And we'll stop periodically, if you'd like. So it's really three buckets within what I'm going to talk about. Just to organize. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

SPEAKER: We will move on to our next presenter of today, who is Linda Carlisle. Linda flew in from Washington, DC. Hopefully you didn't have too bad of a flight coming into the Bay Area. LINDA CARLISLE: A very long one. That's what-- SPEAKER: Oh, gosh. Well, we're pleased that you're here and that you're here safely, so thank you. Thank you very much, Linda. Linda's a partner in the Washington, DC office of White & Case and is a tax specialist. ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN N. BALLACK: OK. So welcome back, everybody. Thank you again for joining us today. I'm pleased this morning to introduce to you Mary Fuller, who will be our next presenter. Mary is chief patent counsel at Maxim Integrated Products, where she is responsible for developing and implementing Maxim's strategy to protect, enhance, and capture the value of its intellectual property. As Maxim's chief patent counsel, her responsibilities extend to all ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LIZETTE M. PEREZ-DEISBOECK: Welcome back. I hope you all had a good lunch. We're going to get back to the topic of financings. And we're going to talk about key issues in follow-on financing rounds. You've heard a lot about the Series A round. That you've heard about Series C. These panelists will tackle the not so simple issues that come up when there's already preferred in the company and you're doing additional financings. So our panelists are ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

KAREN BALLACK: OK, we're going to get started again. Our last session of the afternoon is on shared or jointly developed IP. And I am very pleased to announce our last speakers of the day. Thank you all for hanging out so long. And I know those of you on the web, some of you may be from the east coast, so hopefully you are still participating by viewing the last presentation of the day. I am pleased to introduce you to Phil Strauss and Jason Kipnis, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

DR. LOTHAR DETERMANN: I think we're back on. There's very confusing light signs here, but I'll get started. Welcome, everybody. Hope you had a good lunch. For our next panel, I'll introduce Dave Randall, who is now with Sheppard Mullin's Los Angeles office. And Dave has been 20 years litigating, prosecuting, patents, and also advising clients on trademark matters. And one particular victory here, I see a landmark Japanese high court IP case resulting ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LOTHAR DETERMANN: So good morning everybody. Welcome back to day two of our conference of IP issues in business transactions. Yesterday was an action-filled day. And today, we're going to kick off with a slightly different perspective. Rather than covering one of the many multidisciplinary topics, we will go into a different perspective and different angle. And that is how these things come up in day-to-day life. I'm very excited to introduce a leading ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

PAUL E. HURDLOW: Great, thank you. We are back together after our break. And our next session is going to be focused on the exits that the venture capital backed companies can hope to experience. And I'll be participating on this panel directly. But that's the bad news. The good news is you get to hear from John Egan. John is over here on the right of Lizette. And he's a partner with a Goodwin Procter and focuses on securities and M&A work for ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

PAUL E. HURDLOW: OK. We're back I'm Paul Hurdlow with DLA Piper. And this is our panel on term sheet negotiation. I've got a lot to manage up here. I've got the clicker. And I just got pointed at. And I'm going to introduce the panel. So I'll be looking at multiple-- the other thing is I can't see my computer with my glasses on, so it'll be this the whole time. But we have a great panel. And this is, I think, my favorite part of this panel, anyway, ...

Recorded on: Mar. 4, 2013

LOTHAR DETERMANN: With this introduction, I will hand over to our first panel. Carla did already a great job introducing the two. Karen and Mark have worked together on matters. And if you look through Karen's bio in the handout materials, you'll see that Karen impersonates this intersection of intellectual property and business transaction in her practice, advising companies both on the IP heavy side of things, and then also how these things are ...

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 ...