Trading Compliance – On Demand – Expires 5/27/16

Proprietary Trading and Covered Fund Activity - Compliance and Conformance

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

Item# 58497

Lecture Topics:

How to approach assessment of covered activities

Planning for conformance

Creating and implementing the compliance plan

The conformance period

Preparation for an extension request

How to prepare for a compliance examination

FREE!

CLE Credit: 1.50 units
  
On Demand – Expires 5/27/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Proprietary_Trading_and_Covered_Fund_Activity/_/N-4nZ1z12c3u?ID=224804&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Employment Issues When Buying/Selling Companies Part II - On Demand - Expires 6/8/16

Employment Issues When Buying/Selling Companies Part II 

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

Buying and selling companies raises a number of difficult legal and practical issues that transactional, compensation and employment lawyers – both in-house and outside counsel – must navigate successfully for their clients.

Listen to Samuel Estreicher, Laurence M. Moss and Ronald E. Richman of the Employment and Employment Benefits practice group of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP.

Lecture Topics

Labor law issues in buying or selling a union-represented business or property, including: 

• Asset sale or stock sale?
• Decision bargaining or merely "effects" bargaining?
• Do you need to hire the seller's employees?
• Do you need to worry about employment issues at all if the union-represented employees are not direct employees of the seller, but, rather, employees of a managing company or other vendor?
• Special rules for NYC building service workers?

Employee benefit plan considerations related to an acquisition, including: 

• Which entity is the sponsor of the employee benefit plans?
• Will the employee benefit plans be acquired in connection with the transaction?
• Does the company or its affiliates sponsor a defined benefit pension plan or provide retiree medical benefits?

Executive compensation issues related to an acquisition, including: 

• How will equity based compensation be treated in the transaction?
• Will severance provisions in employment arrangements be triggered by the transaction?
• Will the executives be subject to parachute excise taxes and can they be avoided?

FREE!

CLE Credit: 1.50 units

 On Demand - Expires 6/8/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Specialty_Areas_Continued_C_Labor_and_Employment/_/N-4nZ1z12f2n?ID=226564&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Business Tax Planning - On Demand - Expires 6/11/16

Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances

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Item# 59714

Taken from the Web Program Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances 2014.

Recorded June, 2014 in San Francisco.

This Web Program segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online:

Interesting Partnership Transactions of the Past Year (PowerPoint slides)

Speakers:

David B. Strong, Linda E. Carlisle, Philip B Wright

A discussion of recent and pending transactions that have used the tax rules applicable to partnerships and other pass-through entities in new and innovative ways during the past year. The panel will discuss specific deals and new trends in flow-through entity structures and transactions.

FREE!

CLE Credit: 1.00 unit  Expires 6/11/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Interesting_Transactions/_/N-4nZ1z12fhe?ID=226823&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Retaliation Claims - On Demand - Expires 6/18/16

 Retaliation Claims - - Expires 6/18/16

"Don't Get Mad, Get Even": Retaliation Claims

Sponsored by Practicing Law Institute


Matters to be discussed:

·         Review of new whistleblower laws

·         Advice to clients concerning use of anonymous hotlines – from employer and employee perspectives

·         Inappropriate social media postings – is discipline retaliation?

·         Evolving judicial views of constructive discharge claims

Speakers:

Hon. Lois Bloom ~ United States Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

Tracy Richelle High ~ Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Edward Hernstadt ~ Hernstadt Atlas PLLC

FREE!

On Demand  - Expiration Date: 06/18/16

Total Credits:  1.00

For more information follow the link below:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/_Dont_Get_Mad_Get_Even_Retaliation_Claims/_/N-4nZ1z12ez4?ID=227438&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Copyright Licensing - On Demand - Expires 6/30/16

Copyright Licensing

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

On Demand web segment Item no. 60177

In one location on the website it states that the webinar is free, but in another it is not clear

Topics to be covered:

Copyright Licensing 

·         Key license provisions and practical considerations

·         Open source v. freeware

·         Digital media figures as branding for collateral products

·         Licensed characters and sequels, prequels, spinoffs

·         Video games into graphic novels, movies, Halloween costumes

FREE!

Total Credits:  1.00 unit

On Demand - Expires 6/30/16

For additional information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Copyright_Licensing/_/N-4nZ1z12f1k?ID=228721&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

The Foundation of Securities Law - On Demand - Expires 9/30/16

The Foundation of Securities Law 

Taken from the Web Program Securities Law and Practice 2014: How the SEC Works recorded September, 2014 

Sponsored by the Practising Law Institute

Item# 61660

Matters discussed:

Learn about the origins of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the federal securities laws, interaction between the federal and state securities laws, the interaction of the SEC with other regulators, and how the SEC speaks.

• Origins of the SEC and the Federal Securities Laws

• Interaction between the Federal and State Securities Laws

• The Interaction of the SEC with Other Regulators

• How the SEC Speaks

This segment includes the following article from the Course Handbook available online:

Approaching Securities Law by Gary M. Brown

FREE!

CLE Credit:  1.00 unit

On Demand – Expires 9/30/16

Online

For more information follow the link below:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Laying_the_Groundwork/_/N-4nZ1z12esh?ID=236867&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4

Corporate Compensation - On Demand - Expires 9/15/16

Hot Topics and Trends in Privacy and Security Litigation  

Taken from the Web Program Hot Issues in Executive Compensation 2014

Sponsored by Practising Law Institute

Item# 61461

Issues covered:

Implementation of the remaining Dodd Frank rulemaking
Pay ratios and hedging
Implementing clawbacks in the absence of rulemaking
Movement in Delaware law
The director’s role in the shareholder engagement process
The interplay of risk oversight and compensation
CEO succession planning
Board composition and director qualifications
Splitting the Chairman and CEO Roles
Increase in Executive Chairmanships
Lead Director Role
Compensation at Emerging Growth Companies

FREE!

Online

CLE Credit: 1.00 unit  Expires 9/15/16

For further information see:

http://www.pli.edu/Content/OnDemand/Corporate_Governance_Compensation/_/N-4nZ1z12f2s?ID=234729&t=NGZ4_SMBR9&utm_source=SMBR9&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=NGZ4