From the program: Government Investigations 2019: Investigations Arising From Data Breach and Privacy Concerns and Parallel Proceedings

Released on: Feb. 8, 2019

Electronic information pervades our society. Corporations and other organizations create, store, and utilize that information in all facets of business. Unfortunately, security can be breached and any breach can lead to investigations by various government agencies at the federal and State levels. Those investigations may lead to disputes about scope, variety and volume of electronic information to be produced. This program will explore the role ...

From the program: Recent Developments in Distressed Debt, Restructurings and Workouts 2019

Released on: Feb. 7, 2019

Effective risk prevention practice, a volatile political environment, occasional fraud and cross border issues require businesses to preplan and limit risk, including with distressed companies. The program will cover current issues relating to structuring, drafting and enforcing the rights of creditors and parties to loans, various executory contracts and intercreditor agreements, principally in out-of-court restructurings and exchange offers. Documentation ...

From the program: Social Media 2019: Addressing Corporate Risks

Released on: Feb. 8, 2019

Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube and other social media sites are transforming not only the daily lives of consumers, but also how companies interact with consumers. Indeed, even the largest, most conservative blue-chip corporations have embraced social media; one recent study reveals that, of the Fortune Global 500, 97% are on LinkedIn; 86% have Twitter accounts; 84% have a presence on Facebook; 66% have ...

From the program: Private Fund Regulatory Developments and Compliance Challenges 2019

Released on: Feb. 7, 2019

PLI’s Private Fund Regulatory Developments and Compliance Challenges carries on a tradition as one of PLI’s first programs of the new year to review the private fund regulatory landscape, offering a first look at what the balance of the calendar will bring.  Led by an expert faculty of private fund in-house counsel and leading firm lawyers, the discussion is always lively and informative. The 2019 program starts with a review of ...

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From the program: 21st Annual Real Estate Tax Forum

Released on: Feb. 4, 2019

Our 21st Anniversary program will continue to focus on transactions, highlighting the tax problems encountered by practitioners in today’s typical commercial real estate transactions and structures, and examining the simple and sophisticated solutions being used by the experts.  Panels of nationally-recognized real estate tax experts from major law and accounting firms will provide attorneys, accountants and real estate professionals with ...

From the program: Cybersecurity Best Practices for Legal Services Providers 2019

Released on: Feb. 11, 2019

Legal Services providers are under increasing pressure from government regulators and clients to insure that sensitive client data stored in law firm servers is secure. The Securities and Exchange Commission, for example, is taking a closer look at cybersecurity breaches in public companies – viewing them as fiduciary lapses. Legal services providers, like most vendors, are required to adhere to the same security standards as their clients. ...

From the program: CMBS and the Real Estate Lawyer 2019: Lender and Borrower Issues in the Capital Market

Released on: Feb. 8, 2019

After robust CMBS issuance in 2015 and disappointing declines in CMBS originations for 2016 and 2017, CMBS loan originations are once again becoming a significant portion of mortgage loan origination.  The MBA’s latest Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding Report states that the level of such debt increased by $44.3 billion to end at $3.2 trillion for the first quarter. That increase was greater than “any other first quarter ...

From the program: Advanced Licensing Agreements 2019

Released on: Feb. 4, 2019

Please be advised that only breakout sessions 1a, "Analysis of a Technology License Agreement," and 2a, "Licensing Issues in the Life Sciences Industry," will be available via Live Webcast and Groupcast. Intellectual property licensing continues to grow increasingly complex with the legal, regulatory and technical landscape constantly evolving.  Building and maintaining a successful and effective practice requires that practitioners stay sharp ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

Taken from the Web Program Save Me a Seat: California Mandates Gender Diversity in the Board Room Recorded February, 2019 in New York [01:02:30] California is the first state in the country to mandate gender diversity on the boards of companies doing business in the state, but there are many questions that accompany this development.  Please join speakers associated with DirectWomen, an organization dedicated to preparing women attorneys ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

JON: So next up, social media and ethics issues, and I'm happy to introduce my friend who's Scott Malouf who's I would say a social media lawyer version of an influencer. Scott has very popular Twitter feed, and he monitors everything, and he's often the first to know about social media legal development. And so he's a great, terrific expert in this space and among other things. Scott is a social media lawyer. He advises organizations on social media ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

SPEAKER 1: I'm very happy to be presenting with my-- until a month ago-- colleague at Morrison and Forester, Aaron Rubin. Aaron is co-chair of Morrison and Forester's technology transactions group. His practice focuses on transactions and counseling involving intellectual property and technology-- including structuring and negotiating license agreements, supply agreements, technology transfers, joint venture agreements, and other types of transactions ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

RICHARD RAYSMAN: OK. Well, we're ready for a second panel. And the first panel was talking about the SEC side of things. This panel's going to be talking about banking and financial services. The chair of the panel is Michael Graif. Michael is an intellectual property attorney whose practice encompasses trademark and copyright enforcement, technology and licensing transactions, patent and trademark portfolio management, and counseling clients on ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

RICHARD RAYSMAN: Thank you, Willis. Welcome back for the last panel that we have for today, which is really going to be a little more focused on law firms. It's the "How can law firms and legal services providers combat cybersecurity issues," and we actually have two bankers on the panel also, which I think is going to be very helpful. I'm going to do the introductions first. To my immediate right is Alexander Greenberg, who is Barclay's head IP ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

SANDY PRESANT: OK. Our first panel, Andrea, Bob Schachat, and-- BLAKE RUBIN: Lary Wolf. SANDY PRESANT: --Lary Wolf. Thank you, Lary. BOB SCHACHAT: You remember him? SANDY PRESANT: Yes, I do. I don't have your bio. LARY WOLF: That's OK. BLAKE RUBIN: I'll do Lary. You do the other two. SANDY PRESANT: There you go. OK. OK. Andrea Macintosh Whiteway, principal in the Partnership Transactions Real Estate Group in the National Tax Department of E&Y. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

JOSEPH PHILIP FORTE: We're in for our last segment of the program, which is really administering. So it's after the securitization has occurred, after everything is componentized, after it doesn't go into a CLO, what do we do with the loan? How do you deal with questions from the borrower and the relationships? Let me ask that single question we asked at the beginning, supposed to ask at the beginning of each of these, how many people in the room ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

MEREDITH J. KANE: OK, great. Welcome back from lunch. Welcome to the second half of CMBS and the Real Estate Lawyer. We spent a good deal of this morning talking about creating the loans that go into the securitization pool, and the way that the constraints of securitization and the rating agency requirements and the lender constraints reflect in the terms of the loan that the borrower gets. This afternoon, we're moving onto more technical aspects ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

SANFORD C. PRESANT: OK, no trepidation needed here. OK, now joining us on the panel are Jim Sowell and Linda Swartz. Let's do Linda first. She's closest to me. Linda is at Cadwalader, Wickersham, and Taft. She is the chair of Cadwalader's Tax Group, member of the firm's Management Committee. She's done lots of writing and speaking and has received lots of accolades for her work in M&A. Some of the biggest stuff like representing the US government ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

SPEAKER 1: OK, great. OK, we're back. It's 3:45 California time. Well every year at this conference, we save the best for last. And this truly is the highlight of the conference. We call it a view from the trenches. And we have lawyers that are actually on the front lines of all the crazy things that are happening in the social media, mobile app, online advertising, and marketing space telling us just what they're seeing and thoughts on that I think ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

RICHARD RAYSMAN: So our first program is going to be chaired by Mark Melodia. Mark as a privacy, data security, and consumer class-action defense lawyer in Holland and Knight's New York office. Mark focuses on governmental and internal investigations, putative class actions, and other bet-the-company suits in the following areas-- data security, privacy, mortgage, financial services, and other complex business litigation, including defamation. Mark ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

SANFORD C. PRESANT: Good morning, everybody. Welcome to day two of the marathon here. Today, we're opening with transactions involving real estate. New to the panel is Jill Darrow. Stacy, I'll ask your question in a minute. Jill Darrow, a longtime friend and colleague of ours, is a partner at Katten, Muchin, Rosenman, coming from the Rosenman side. Jill Darrow chairs the New York tax practice, concentrates on tax law, focuses on partnership transactions, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

SPEAKER 1: OK. I think we're back. I hope everyone had a nice lunch. I guess for people on the East Coast, maybe you had an afternoon coffee. So of course, you can't do a social media conference without talking about privacy. And unless you've been living in a cave, you know a lot has been happening since we last met a year ago in the privacy space in developments that directly impact companies that are trying to market and advertise and engage with ...

Recorded on: Feb. 4, 2019

SPEAKER 1: It is now my pleasure to turn this briefing over to Pat Gillette. PATRICIA K. GILLETTE: Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for this really important discussion about the new California law. Let me preface this with just some preliminary comments. Women have been waiting patiently for decades to take our seats in the rooms where power's being wielded, assuming that we'd be recognized for our competence, our skills, qualifications, ...