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Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: Ready to go? TIMOTHY B. DONAHUE: Yep. DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: OK. TIMOTHY B. DONAHUE: Thanks for your time everyone today. Let's just talk through some big picture trends, what's going on in leveraged finance. And when I define leveraged finance, it's leveraged loans and high-yield bond market-- so anything that's not investment grade rated. What's going on in 2013? Way too much cash. I think everyone knows that the world is ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: I'd like to introduce the next panel, who will focus on the overlap between housing and immigration, including housing protections, how immigration status affects eligibility for subsidized housing, and cultural competency issues that arise when working with immigrant clients on housing issues. There are three panelists. Omar Calimbas is a senior staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, which is the nation's oldest legal and civil rights ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

DAVID A. BRITTENHAM: This is a panel of speakers who've been on our program for a number of years now. And we're very happy to have them back. I'll give a brief introduction and then turn it over to them. To my immediate right is Angela Fontana. Angela is co-head of Weil US banking and finance practice. She is resident in the Dallas office. To her right is Ann Makich, who is a partner in Cahill's corporate practice group doing all manner of financing. ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: All right, everyone. If we can kind of gather back. All right, everyone. So the first two sessions today, what [INAUDIBLE] just did, and then our next session, which is an orientation to domestic violence are really setting the stage for us in working at the intersection of these three issues of housing, domestic violence, and immigration. So we're kind of doing the big picture, and then we're sort of going to narrow down later on towards ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

PATRICK J. RYAN: Welcome back, everybody. We're going to start with our next panel on Middle Market and Mezzanine Financings. And to David's right is Carolyn Alford. Caroline is a partner at King & Spalding. She's the practice group leader for the finance practice group. And her practice focuses on representing lenders, investors, and borrowers in debt financings, among other things. Immediately to Carolyn's right is Mr. Raj Makam, who is a managing ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SPEAKER 1: All right. So the last session of the day we're focusing on immigration protections for survivors of domestic violence. And we're going to touch on a number of topics-- asylum, VAWA. You've heard people talking about that throughout the afternoon. U visas and T visas. And we have three panelists who are going to introduce themselves as they speak. Thank you. LISA FRYDMAN: I'm going last because I'm going to then go into the intro slides, ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

YVONNE S. QUINN: Well, and we're going to keep right on moving-- thank you guys-- to our next speaker and topic, which is basically, international antitrust law, or what you need to know about international antitrust law. And I'm very pleased to introduce Jan McDavid who, somehow, we've both been doing this for 100 years, and we had never gotten to work together. And earlier this year, I had the pleasure of, with I think unexpected speed, getting ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Yvonne comes to us from Sullivan & Cromwell, as you heard this morning. She has a broad portfolio in this arena, as well. She's a member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar, and she has served as Chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar. And she's been, again, a leading antitrust practitioner in a number of guides to the legal profession, which are ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

SAUL MORGENSTERN: I assume this is working and people can hear. We actually are going to bounce back and forth a little bit more than those bright lines might otherwise suggest between Jennifer and me. And so rather than get up and use the podium, because we'd be popping back up and down too much, I think we'll probably just stay in place and I'll try very hard to sit still while talking, which I find very difficult as most of you who've ever done ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

YVONNE S. QUINN: All right. Welcome back from the afternoon break. You've done a great job. You're heading into the home stretch here. Or maybe you've rounded third. I don't know. I'm bad at sports analogies. But as we try to do throughout this program, we like to come up with true experts, not just antitrust lawyers, but true antitrust lawyers who are expert in things to come in and talk to you. And we've done it again for this last session, which ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Well, welcome back everybody. I hope you had a good lunch. You're entering the final phase of the Practising Law Institute Antitrust Institute. This afternoon, we're going to deal with the Robinson-Patman Act. And then after that, Ted Banks from Chicago is going to give you some CLE on ethics and compliance in the antitrust world, which is not only an ethics credit but an important topic in and of itself. And Ted is a spectacular ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

YVONNE: OK. Good morning. I like to see all the early risers here. Ready to go. Congratulations. And you're in for a treat this morning, because our first session we've named Current Legal Problems at the Interface of IP Law and Competition Law. We've had some bits of this around, but this is a new session for us today. And so I'm very excited about it, and hope you are as well. And I'm also excited to have such truly qualified speakers for this ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Final panel. For our final panel, we're going to hear from Robbie Robertson and Nate Eimer. And I happen to know Robbie personally, because he was the FTC's principle litigation lawyer for a number of years while I was there. He litigated in one, the CCC Mitchell case, which has just been discussed, Polypore case, which has not been discussed, Chicago Bridge, which has not been discussed. He graduated from VMI and the University ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Well, I'm very pleased to introduce Holly House, who is going to be talking about vertical restraints today. She's an antitrust and competition lawyer in the litigation department of Paul Hastings. She again, has accolades that are as long as your arm, so I won't bother introducing that. But I do want to emphasize that she and I were colleagues in at least one law firm in San Francisco. And that she is the outgoing, or not outgoing, ...

Recorded on: May. 9, 2013

J. THOMAS ROSCH: Well, it gives me a good deal of pleasure to introduce to you Dan Swanson, who's a partner in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, with offices in Los Angeles and Brussels as well. He's a member of both the California and Brussels bar. He received his law degree magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School and is also a doctorate in economics where he got his doctorate in economics at Harvard as well. He's co-chaired Gibson Dunn's antitrust ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

MARK F. MENDELSOHN: Bring your cup of coffees back in. We're going to make this interesting for you. Our next panel is, number one, your opportunity to get ethics credit for your attendance today. But more importantly, we're going to try to address what are actually some very real world and sometimes difficult issues to navigate in connection with FCPA and anti-corruption internal investigations. Let me briefly introduce our panelists, and then we'll ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

MARK F. MENDELSOHN: OK. Welcome back. Our next panel is going to be on the World Bank and Multilateral Development Banks, a topic of which has been touched on briefly in a number of the earlier panels. But we're going to take deeper dive into the subject. Just a couple of preliminary observations on my side, because this may be an unfamiliar topic for many of you. Companies, big and small, participate routinely in World Bank, or MDB finance projects ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

RICHARD W. GRIME: OK everybody. This is the last session. And, hopefully, it's one where we can keep you engaged, because we have to keep you engaged, because it's a polling session. So in front of you are iPads. And I'm in control of the button here, which means that, in part, it may not work. But we'll hope that it does because the whole idea is that we're going to mind the benefit of these people on the panel here, which I'll introduce in a moment. We're ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

RICHARD W. GRIME: OK, good afternoon everybody, and welcome back. I guess there's just no break really for coffee, but hopefully the next panel will keep you on your toes. We're going to go to Greta Lichtenbaum, who's a partner of mine at O'Melveny & Myers, and let her introduce the panel members and kick off the panel. GRETA LICHTENBAUM: Great. Thanks, Richard. I didn't really focus on the fact that not only are we in the afternoon, but you ...

Recorded on: May. 6, 2013

RICHARD W. GRIME: But we've got the last program of the day, so I'd like if you could to have people take their seats and we can then get the program underway. So I think during the most of the day, we've spent our time focusing on the FCPA and looking at its impact, either through cases or through hypotheticals, or looking to see how to set up a compliance program, or ensure that the guidance itself is honed in and understood by employees, understood ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN K. YOUNGWOOD: --panel of the day is not on a specific part of the case, as the prior panels have all been. It's a panel that's going to focus on an ethical issues that really surround each of the topics that we've talked about today. And you actually may see that some of the things we discuss have in some way or another been discussed by earlier panels. But we're going to try and take a different angle on them. We're going to really focus ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN YOUNGWOOD: OK, we'll get started on our next panel. So we heard in the mediation panel that the plaintiffs are willing to try this case. That's the posture they're going to take. They're not afraid of going to trial on this. And so our next panel is going to talk about all those trial issues. Now some of that is, of course, the actual trial itself, if it gets there. But there's also a lot of things that go into before you actually get into ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

JONATHAN K. YOUNGWOOD: So most of these things don't begin and end with the discovery of the press release, or the press story with the regulatory investigation. Any company that's experienced what this company just experienced is, without fail, going to face civil litigation, as well. And the rest of the day is really largely going to focus on that, although, keeping in the back of our minds that there's an ongoing regulatory investigation. And ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

BRAD S. KARP: Thank you, very much, Lyle. The first issue, I should begin by saying, this fact pattern is not at all unusual. These are the sorts of situations we often find ourselves being called into. And the progression of the facts, likewise, is not all that unusual. And this is what presents the greatest challenge. You get a situation, you get a phone call, you are told about a problem. You don't know whether it's a little problem, medium sized ...

Recorded on: May. 1, 2013

LYLE ROBERTS: All right, everyone, we'll get started again, with our next panel, which is on prosecuting and defending the civil actions. So kind of the next step, we're going to assume, of course, that, in our fact pattern, WIND has not been successful in its motion to dismiss. So we're going to have to go ahead and we're going have to deal with two very thorny issues, that this panel is going to cover in depth. One is discovery, and all the obligations ...