Securities and Shareholder Litigation 2015: Cutting

An incisive briefing on key
developments in securities and
shareholder litigation and their
impact on the business world
Advanced Course
Securities and Shareholder Litigation 2015:
Cutting-Edge Developments, Planning, and Strategy
Thursday,
January 29, 2015
New York (Thomson Hall)
and Live Video Webcast
Register online:
www.ali-cle.org/CW034
6.5 CLE credit hours
7.5 CPE credit hours
in Business Law
Featuring a high-level faculty that includes the Director and an
Associate Director of the SEC’s New York City Regional Office,
senior in-house lawyers at leading financial institutions, and
premier plaintiff and defense lawyers, this must-attend program
examines the latest developments in securities and shareholder
litigation and government enforcement of the securities laws,
including:
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Securities class actions
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Standing, statutes of limitations/repose,
and jurisdictional issues
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Delaware shareholder litigation
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SEC and DOJ enforcement
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Disclosure and offering-related issues
For an inside business perspective, the program also includes a
roundtable discussion with in-house counsel sharing their views
on the key securities-related issues confronting businesses today
and strategies for managing those issues.
Special feature! Attend this program in New York City for a
luncheon keynote address and live Q&A session featuring Andrew
M. Calamari, Director of the SEC’s New York Regional Office.
Planning Chair (also on faculty)
Brian E. Pastuszenski
Partner and Co-Chair of Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement Practice,
Goodwin Procter LLP, New York
Faculty
Joel H. Bernstein
Partner, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York
Andrew M. Calamari
Director, New York Regional Office,
Securities and Exchange Commission, New York
Wayne N. Carlin
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz,
New York; former Director, New York Regional
Office, Securities and Exchange Commission
Tracy A. Nichols
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP, Miami
Brian E. Pastuszenski
Partner and Co-Chair of Securities Litigation
and SEC Enforcement Practice, Goodwin
Procter LLP, New York
Daniel P. Roeser
Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP, New York
Amelia A. Cottrell
Associate Regional Director for Enforcement,
New York Regional Office, Securities and
Exchange Commission, New York
Joseph Salama
Director and Associate General Counsel, Litigation
and Regulatory Investigations, Deutsche Bank AG,
New York
Stuart M. Grant
Managing Director, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.,
Wilmington, Delaware
Sherrie R. Savett
Partner, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia
Adam S. Hakki
Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York
Hon. Jack Jacobs
Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP, Wilmington,
Delaware; former Justice of the Delaware
Supreme Court
Mitchell A. Lowenthal
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP,
New York
Abby S. Meiselman
Managing Director, Head of Litigation, Investment
Banking Americas, UBS AG, New York
Mark K. Schonfeld
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP,
New York; former Director, New York Regional
Office, Securities and Exchange Commission
Steven J. Toll
Managing Partner, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Edward G. Turan
Senior Deputy General Counsel and Managing
Director, Citigroup Inc., New York
Amanda Vaughn
Associate General Counsel,
Bank of America Corporation, New York
Scott D. Musoff
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP, New York
Robert A. Wallner
Partner, Milberg LLP, New York
Kenneth J. Nachbar
Partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP,
Wilmington, Delaware
ALI CLE Program Attorney:
Thomas M. Hennessey
([email protected])
Program
All times are Eastern.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
8:00 a.m.
Registration and
Continental Breakfast
8:55 a.m.
Welcome and Announcements
—ALI CLE Staff
11:45 a.m.
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Webcast Segment A
9:00 a.m.
Introduction and Overview
—Mr. Pastuszenski
9:15 a.m.
Developments in Securities
Class Actions —Ms. Savett
and Messrs. Hakki, Lowenthal,
Pastuszenski, Toll, and Wallner
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•
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Halliburton: how will it change
challenges to class certification
Status of the Second Circuit’s
“class standing” rule
Application of American Pipe
tolling to class actions filed in
state court
Tolling of federal and state
statutes of repose
10:30 a.m.
Networking and
Refreshment Break
10:45 a.m.
Developments in Jurisdictional
Issues —Ms. Nichols and Messrs.
Bernstein, Lowenthal, Musoff, Toll,
and Wallner
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•
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Federal appellate jurisdiction
and interlocutory appeals in
multidistrict litigation
State court concurrent
jurisdiction over securities
actions, and the scope of SLUSA
Federal removal jurisdiction, the
amendment of 28 U.S.C. § 1441,
and bankruptcy “related-to”
jurisdiction
Territorial limitations on federal
securities laws and the scope of
domestic transactions
Developments in Delaware
Shareholder Litigation
—Justice Jacobs and Messrs. Grant,
Nachbar, and Roeser; Moderator: Mr.
Pastuszenski
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•
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12:45 p.m.
Forum selection and
loser-pays bylaws
Financial advisor conflicts
Shareholder activism: conscious
parallelism and disproportionate
responses to corporate threats
Post-merger shareholder
derivative standing
Disclosure-only settlements
Challenges to non-employee
director compensation
Lunch with Faculty and Registrants
Keynote Address and Live Q&A:
Andrew M. Calamari, Director,
New York Regional Office,
Securities and Exchange Commission
(Note: This session will not be webcast.)
Webcast Segment B
2:00 p.m.
Developments in SEC and DOJ
Enforcement —Ms. Cottrell and
Messrs. Carlin, Pastuszenski, Roeser,
and Schonfeld
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•
•
•
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Admissions of liability
in settlements
Parallel proceedings issues
Trends in insider trading
prosecutions
Use of FIRREA in civil litigation
against financial institutions
Whistleblower developments
3:00 p.m.
Developments in Disclosure
and Offering-Related Issues
—Mss. Cottrell, Nichols and
Savett and Messrs. Bernstein,
Hakki, and Musoff
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•
•
•
4:00 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
Liability for statements of
opinion and Omnicare
Liability for statements
by others and Janus
Confidentiality agreements,
insider-trading liability,
and Cuban
Rule 10b5-1 trading plans:
Worth the trouble?
Through the Eyes of In-House
Counsel: Inside Perspectives
on the Securities Litigation
Landscape —Mss. Meiselman and
Vaughn and Messrs. Salama and
Turan; Moderator: Mr. Pastuszenski
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•
Networking and
Refreshment Break
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•
5:15 p.m.
Hacking and other
cyber threats: securities
litigation risks?
Admissions of liability in SEC
and DOJ settlements
• Significance for the
defense of parallel
civil proceedings
• Effect on business strategy
Use of mediators and
damages consultants in
negotiating settlements
The next big thing in
securities and shareholder
litigation: predictions
Adjournment
Total 60 minute hours of instruction: 6.5
7.5 CPE credit hours in Business Law
(live group and group internet-based programs)
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Securities and Shareholder Litigation 2015:
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Securities and shareholder litigation is
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Stay ahead of these developments—join us for a review of the Supreme Court’s latest
decisions and cases, as well as insights into other significant developments in federal and
state securities and shareholder litigation and government enforcement. Explore with
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Halliburton and class certification
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NECA-IBEW Health & Welfare Fund and standing in class actions
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IndyMac MBS, Inc., Waldburger, and statutes of repose
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Chadbourne & Park LLP, SLUSA, and state court jurisdiction
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M&A litigation developments from the Delaware courts
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Gelboim and federal appellate jurisdiction
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Morrison, Parkcentral, and the reach of federal securities laws
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Omnicare Inc. and liability for statements of opinion
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Janus Capital Group, Inc. and its wake: disclosure liability arising
from statements by others
The issues are dissected and analyzed from multiple perspectives by our faculty of inhouse counsel from global financial institutions, the Director and an Associate Director
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