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Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2013

REBECCA WALKER: OK, we're going to get started. You can continue-- OK, not yet. OK. Now we're going to get started. You can continue eating your cookies and drinking your coffee. I think somebody needs to be a compliance monitor for me, and prohibit me from having any more coffee after that one, because I think I'm pretty much running on caffeine fuels at this point. But it's good, because it gives me more energy for you guys. The next topic is Helplines, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 12, 2013

REBECCA WALKER: OK, everybody, we're going to get started. The last panel of the day. This one is on social media. It ties in nicely to the whole risk assessment notion, because social media was not a topic that we had on this program seven or eight years ago. But it's certainly become a risk area for a lot of organizations in a lot of different ways, and we're going to look at the topic from really two perspectives. One is the risk perspective-- ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

PHILIP M. BERKOWITZ: OK, everyone, I guess we're ready to start for our final panel. This is going to be a real fascinating presentation. I'm very pleased to introduce you to Ed O'Callaghan. Ed is the moderator of this particular panel. Ed is a partner in Clifford Chance's litigation and dispute resolution practice in New York. He has, as will become evident, extensive litigation experience. Ed was assistant US attorney in the Southern District of ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

J. ANTHONY BOWEN: OK. For our next panel, we have two presenters. One of our presenters will be joining us via conference call, and so he will be on the phone. And we have Steven Hunter is here, who will be live. And so I'll start by introducing our conference call participant faculty, and that is Joseph DeMarco. Joseph is a partner at DeVore & DeMarco LLP, where he specializes in litigating and counseling on complex issues involving information ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

PHILIP M. BERKOWITZ: OK. We're going to move right into our next panel. And let me make the introductions, please. There are fewer panelists on this one, but I think you'll agree that there's much more brainpower, frankly, on this panel than the last one. I think they've all left. Let me make the quick introductions, please. I'd like to start. To my immediate right is Don Dowling. Don Dowling is really a legend in this field. I've known him for ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

TANYA FORSHEIT: Hey, are we on? Can everyone hear us, hopefully? We're going to go ahead and get started with our next panel, which is on contract issues. And I'm going to introduce-- everyone knows who I am already since I've been here all morning. I'm going to introduce my co-panelists, one of whom, Perry Robinson, is here and one of whom, David Bloch, will be joining us momentarily. He is caught up somewhere. But he will be here very soon. So ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

JANINE ANTHONY BOWEN: So I'm the first panelist up and my co-panelist is Rachel Evans. Rachel joined Accenture in 2003 and is currently the director of legal services for IT Offerings. Her areas of focus include complex IT transactions, cloud computing, open source software, and software as a service. Rachel has been an in-house technology lawyer for 19 years, working at IBM and with Seibel Systems prior to joining Accenture. Rachel grew up in the ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

JANINE ANTHONY BOWEN: Welcome back. It is now 2:15. And we're getting ready to have our Privacy panel. And we have three excellent privacy experts talking with us today. And so I'll introduce them all and let them have at it for their time. First, we have Heidi Salow. Heidi is currently the vice president and senior privacy officer of Thomson Reuters. She's an expert in privacy and data security, intellectual property, e-commerce, and global data ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

JOHAN LUBBE: Thank you, Phil. Good morning, everyone. Our task as the first panel is to address cross-border assignments and employment agreements. I am equally very pleased and honored to have a number of very well-known international employment lawyers on the panel. They are all greatly appreciated and recognized in their jurisdictions as employment lawyers who focus on cross-border issues. I'm going to be introduced them very briefly but invite ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2013

TANYA FORSHEIT: The last panel of the day, the final presenter of the day on ethics, and this is the credits everybody's been waiting for, so the best part of the day. We are very fortunate to have Merri Baldwin with us. Merri is a shareholder at the San Francisco office of Rogers Joseph O'Donnell PC. Her practice focuses on business litigation and matters related to attorney conduct, legal malpractice, professional responsibility and ethics, and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back to the second session of the morning program. And we're about to hear from Ron Sernau and Rob Sorin, relating to successfully negotiating a contract of sale and what are the things one has to do to close a transaction. With us, we have, as I said, Ron Sernau, who's the co-chair of the real estate department of Proskauer Rose. Ron has represented some of the most prominent real estate developers in New York, as well ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: OK. Our next speakers are Steve Horowitz and Steve Klein. And they will discuss with us and relate to us about joint venture provisions that should receive special or extra attention when you have your discussions with your joint venture partner. Steve Horowtiz which is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb and is the chair of its real estate group. Steve has a very interesting practice. He concentrates not only on representing US folks, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: Welcome back, everybody. We have the piece de resistance for today, which is the ethics panel. Where we have two fabulous professors, retired professors and people very knowledgeable in the world of ethics, who've decided to dip their toes into the world of real estate and talk about the kinds of things that we face as real estate lawyers. So we have with us Bonnie Host, who's a conflicts attorney at SNR Denton and counsels ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MEGHAN K CARNEY: Without further ado, it is now my pleasure to introduce to you the chairs of today's program, Martin Polevoy and Jonathan Mechanic. Martin is a partner of, and chair of, the New York real estate practice at DLA Piper, LLP. Martin's practice includes all areas of real estate, with particular emphasis on sales development, leasing, financing, and joint ventures. Martin's practice includes representing Port Authority of New York and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: The next part of the program, we're going to be talking to you about lending and things we're seeing in the lending market, today. We have, with us, two friends and outstanding members of the bar, Lou Hait, who is a partner at Kaye Scholer, who I've had the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time with this past year. And Lou has been very active in some of the major loan transactions in New York, little properties like a ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back for the second part of the program. We have with us Richard Fries and Jamie Levitt. Richard Fries is the co-chair of the real estate department of Bingham McCutchen. He represents institutional lenders and owners in distress loan workouts and in restructuring of various financing instruments. Some of his recent transactions included representing lenders in the Carlton House renovation project on Madison Avenue and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

GARY M. HNATH: Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Gary Hnath, and it's my great pleasure to talk to you about Section 337 cases at the ITC. How many of you have are familiar with the use of the ITC as a place to enforce patents? A few people. If I asked that question three or four years ago, people would put probably maybe one or two hands in the audience. But it is becoming increasingly important. Just yesterday, around 4 o'clock morning, we ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

PAUL M. DUDEK: This is our panel on hot topics-- annual great panel, where we have practitioners going through both in house and outside counsel, focusing on what are the issues that they highlight for their clients in capital markets, especially foreign companies coming to the US market, neither exempt basis or on a fully registered basis. We can't have a better panel. Next to David, we have Anna Pinedo, who is a partner, along with David, at the ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

IAN N. FEINBERG: Welcome back. So because of our little schedule shift-- and actually, as I looked at the schedule, we probably should have done it in this order rather than the scheduled order-- we're now going to have our program on the Markman process and hearing. And our speaker is Madison Jellins, who has more than 20 years of experience in patent litigation and strategic counseling, mostly in the pharmaceutical and medical device clients. So ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

IAN N. FEINBERG: Welcome back. We have a slight change in plans, and the change in plans occurred about 90 seconds ago. So we're going to do the anatomy and timeline for a district court patent infringement case. Hopefully, our speaker for Markman will come later. These programs are interchangeable in terms of which comes first. In many ways, maybe this one should have gone first. But that's what we're going to do. So as much as Josh talked to you, ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

PAUL M. DUDEK: OK. Welcome back to you on the web and to you in the room here in New York at the Global Capital Markets 2013. Our next panel is a perennial favorite, focusing on IFRS and other accounting matters. And we have an all-star panel, I think, of commenters and panelists to address issues relating to IFRS and other accounting issues that face foreign private issuers in the United States. To David's right, we have Wayne Carnall, who is a ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

DAVID M. LYNN: OK, now we're back with the next panel, and in this panel, we're going to shift focus to issues with broker dealers, investment advisers, funds, and more generally, the issues that we see in global capital markets with derivatives regulation. And so I have a great panel here to talk about these issues. To my right is Susan Ervin, who's a partner at Davis Polk and Wardwell, and she has held senior positions at both the SEC and CFTC. ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

IAN FEINBERG: OK. I'm going to assume-- oh. We go. OK. Welcome back those of you who are still here. Our next speaker is Joseph Lavelle. He is a patent lawyer focusing primarily on the preparation and trial of patent infringement cases. By the way, he also has a reg number, meaning he's also license under the PTO. He's handled a number of appeals to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He's an author, teacher, and lecturer regarding antitrust ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

IAN FEINBERG: So our first two programs today are "Patent Prosecution for Litigators" and "Elements and Burdens in a Patent Infringement Case and the Defendant's Response." Our first speaker on patent prosecution for litigators is Sanjeet Dutta. Sanjeet is a partner in King & Spalding's Silicon Valley office. His practice focuses on patent litigation, patent prosecution, license agreements, and IP diligence and audits. He's ...

Recorded on: Jun. 6, 2013

DAVID M. LYNN: All right, welcome back. We're here for the afternoon session. And the first topic we're going to talk about this afternoon is corporate governance. And obviously, in the totality of considerations around the world, in terms of capital markets access, corporate governance has become very much integral to decisions that issuers make and investors make with regard to securities and investments. And so, we've assembled here a great panel ...