In almost any market, understanding the public offering process is an essential skill for both legal and business advisors. In this session, our corporate lawyers will guide you through the offering process and highlight issues presented by new regulations and the current state of the market.  They will discuss specific fact patterns that arise during the IPO process and how to practically address them. Topics to be Covered: IPO readiness Timetable and responsibilities o...

In this program our bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys will discuss the resources available to avoid financial troubles, the legal strategies involved in minimizing financial troubles during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the strategies that will help businesses emerging from the pandemic financially intact.    

In this session, our corporate and M&A attorneys will provide an in-depth analysis of the fundamentals of M&A due diligence, review the critical legal issues and risks associated with M&A transactions in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, as well as recent developments and trends that will help organizations maximize potential opportunities and mitigate risks.  

In this session our cybersecurity attorneys will review the legal aspects of cyber incident preparedness and provides best practices to help keep you out of the papers.  The program will discuss proactive legal strategies, including developing and testing a comprehensive incident response plans which include training and vulnerability assessments, and review of company processes, as well as roles and responsibilities of individuals throughout the organization.

This session explores all areas of consumer protection law that holding company, private equity attorneys, investment management attorneys, general counsel of private equity firms, and other legal advisers to private equity fund sponsors need to watch out for. All aspects of consumer protection and advertising law, including deception and unfairness, promotion and direct marketing, private remedies, privacy and data security, industry self-regulation, and international consumer protection ar...

The current pandemic has brought to light the importance of global supply chain agreements. If a U.S. company has a supply agreement with an entity outside of the U.S. and COVID-19-related consequences have disrupted the supply chain, does a force majeure provision apply, and which law governs to make that determination? Like all contracts, supply chain agreements devote considerable planning to address and allocate the risks of disruption and nonperformance. This session will identify p...

In this session, our corporate attorneys will provide an overview of the main considerations involved in buying a business and the principal provisions included in the related legal documents. Acquisitions by way of stock purchase, asset purchase and merger are all considered, with differences among those transaction types highlighted. Differences in approach between public company and private equity transactions are also discussed. Topics to be covered include legal due diligence; the u...

In this session, our corporate attorneys will review the fundamentals of the LBO process. Some of the topics to be covered will include: Benefits of the LBO structure Summary of a simple transaction structure for leveraged finance Types of acquisition finance Summary of the parties involved in a leveraged finance transaction

In this program our bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys will discuss best practices by which to wind down a post-confirmation bankruptcy estate in order to maximize creditors’ recovery and minimize the associated costs.   Among the topics covered are: What are the best solutions post confirmation – liquidating Trust, litigation Trust, original entity, other? What are the tax consequences and other common issues that must be addressed and how do they affe...

In this program our bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys discuss the goals, outcomes and claims of bankruptcy, the automatic stay, the debtor’s obligations while in bankruptcy, the debtor’s decision regarding leases, and landlord claims.