February 29, 2012

From the program: Project Management for Lawyers 2012

Released on: Feb. 29, 2012

DVD's from the program Project Management for Lawyers 2012, held January 2012.

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

NANCY H. WOJITAS: OK, we're going to get started. Our next panel is entitled Ethical Issues Surrounding a Going Private Transaction. So you get all the needed ethics credit, MCLE credit. And it actually will kind of sensitize you to the fact that there are ethical issues when you're dealing with going private transactions. So let me introduce the panel before I turn it over to the three of you. So to my immediate right is Jonathan Levitsky. He is ...

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

MELISSA SAWYER: OK we can go ahead and get started with our next panel. I'd like to introduce the panelists first. To Nancy's right, we've got Tom Kennedy who is a partner at Skadden, Arps, who practices in the area of mergers and acquisitions, and among other things, mostly in the telecom media and technology industries. To Tom's right, is Clare O'Brien. She's a partner at Shearman and Sterling. She began her career as an Irish solicitor, which ...

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NANCY: We're going to start. So our next panel is entitled Advising the Special Committee. Let me introduce Rick Climan. He is a partner in the M&A group at Dewey LeBoeuf. In 2011, Rick, I didn't know this, you were recognized by Who's Who Legal as among the 10 most highly regarded M&A lawyers in the world. RICHARD E. CLIMAN: I didn't know that either. MICHAEL J. AIELLO: Not the galaxy? NANCY: Next, that's next. So Rick, I'll turn it over ...

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

MELISSA SAWYER: OK, we're going to go ahead and get started with the second half of the day's programming. Our next panel is going to be speaking about advising the financial advisor. And I'd like to introduce our panelists quickly. To Nancy's right is Susan Zachman. Susan is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis. And she works, as many of our other panelists, on a wide variety of transactions ranging from IPOs, a prepackaged ...

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MELISSA SAWYER: OK, we're going to go ahead and get started with our second panel. And the topic for this panel is the legal framework for the transaction. And we're fortunate to have exactly the right group of people to be talking about this subject with us today. First we have Jeff Wolters. Jeff is a partner in the corporate department of Morris Nichols in Delaware. He gives advice on a wide range of corporate law matters. But perhaps more importantly, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 29, 2012

NANCY WOJTAS: All right So as our panel is trying to find their seats I'll-- the last panel is representing the smaller public company. We put this on the agenda because we get questions from time to time about-- not every deal is a mega deal. And there are other challenges that are presented by small public companies. And we thought it would be a good idea to have the conversation about those challenges. Because a response of everything applies to ...