The new age of serving in-house has arrived. Successful corporate counsel are not just expected to be superb lawyers, but astute business partners as well. This session (and Part II) will aid you in developing the business acumen you need to succeed in your role and be primed to ascend the ranks within your organization. A common misconception is that the information generated by accounting systems does not generally reflect the underlying economic activities of the organization. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this session, we will provide an overview of the role and key components of the financial statements, and critically demonstrate how a strong understanding of them allows any user to identify and assess the operating and financing strategies of almost any company.
Ratios provide one of the most basic mechanisms to assess company performance. But most users do not fully understand the key inputs to these measures (which are overwhelmingly accounting-based), their limitations, or their broader roles in assessing a company’s activities. In this session, we will provide a framework for analyzing any business, provide a schematic for understanding the broad classes of ratios, and show how these ratios can be used individually and collectively to assess corporate performance.
This article discusses the MiFID II regime for access by financial institutions located outside the EU to EU customers and markets.
This is a sample form to use when filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
This article addresses how a General Counsel should evaluate which performance standards or metrics will help communicate the company's value.
Let’s face it, “running your department like a business” is no longer a goal but an expectation of the C-suite. Whether you are fully on board or still struggling to catch up, there are a few basic principles that will help you think and manage like a business owner. This intermediate-level program will give participants proven strategies to enhance the bottom line of the legal departments they manage. Your budget conversations with the CFO will never be the same!
This advanced-level program will provide a mock negotiation of a major-tenant large commercial office lease in a Class A commercial office building in a major metropolitan area. The audience will have an opportunity to watch seasoned leasing attorneys representing both the landlord and the tenant work their way through the most hotly contested issues in major lease negotiations, including tenant improvements; common area maintenance and real estate tax provisions; maintenance and repair obligations; landlord building services; tenant restoration obligations; casualty, insurance, and indemnification provisions; mortgagee nondisturbance; assignment and subletting; and other issues. The audience will follow along by viewing lease documents with sample redlined negotiated provisions, illustrating typical back and forth communications in lease negotiations.
This is a discussion paper on financial options to assist in the battle against online IP Piracy in the United Kingdom.
This is a list of documents to support third-party litigation financing.
Third-party litigation financing is on the rise. Such financing presents new issues and challenges for in-house counsel. This panel discussion will offer information on third-party financing in the United States and in other jurisdictions (e.g., Hong Kong), including both regulation of the industry and how such financing should affect a litigant's approach with respect to settlement considerations, discovery, and dispute resolution strategy.