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Business, Corporate, and Securities Law Overview
Corporate law is the body of law that governs corporations. Corporate law is a subset of business law, which applies broadly to all types of business entities, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability partnerships (LLPs), limited liability companies (LLCs), and other business forms. Corporations receive numerous benefits in the tax code and other laws; as such, they are also subject to a great deal of regulation. Every state in the country has its own corporate code. Federal laws—such as the Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform, and Consumer Protection Act—regulate areas such as trading in company shares, corporate governance, and government oversight.
Corporate attorneys are employed in every field relating to businesses to ensure compliance, minimize liability, and finalize deals. Corporate law may include work in mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, executive compensation, corporate governance, securities, antitrust, finance, and more.
Who Should Take CLE Courses in Business, Corporate, and Securities Law?
Because corporate law is such a wide-ranging discipline, nearly every lawyer in private practice could benefit from some CLE courses in corporate law. The twenty-first century has seen significant changes to corporate regulation, making it vital that corporate attorneys stay abreast of updates in their field.
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Counseling the LLC Client
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Buying and Selling the Web-Based Business: Legal, Tax, and Technical Issues
Business mergers and acquisitions are complicated transactions for any attorney representing a buyer or seller, but there are special challenges when representing a client who wishes to buy or sell a Web-based business. Unlike their “brick and mortar” counterparts, the assets of a Web-based business are primarily intangible and can easily lose value – or disappear entirely -- when the business changes hands. Making sure that all of the seller’s web domain names (URLs), e-mail and e-commerce accounts, social media pages, and web traffic transfer smoothly to the buyer without interruption requires an in-depth familiarity with Web-based businesses and how they operate. In this fast-paced presentation, hosted by a leading small business attorney, author of “Advising eBusinesses” and nationally syndicated legal columnist who has helped dozens of clients buy and sell Web-based businesses over the past 10 to 15 years, you will learn how to handle the special issues involved in selling and buying such businesses so that your M&A transactions close smoothly, on time, every time.
The Buck Stops in the Boardroom: Empowering Today's Directors
Discover from corporate insider and attorney Douglas Gordon, in a nationally recognized program, the best corporate governance practices for the board of directors of any size corporation, large or small, public or private. Learn why the board of directors is the most powerful force in the corporation and why it should act accordingly. Get the tools the board and individual directors need to do their job such as Mr. Gordon’s exclusive “Ten Commandments for the Board” (as a group) and the “Director Bill of Rights” (for individual directors). If you’ve ever served on a board, would like to serve on a board, or you're an attorney with corporate clients or director clients, or you’re an attorney who would like to have those types of clients, this course is for you.
Human Trafficking Prevention & Mitigation: Counseling Corporate Clients
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Drafting Collaboration Agreements for Small Businesses & Startups
Working well with others is one key to a successful business. Drafting strategically prepared collaboration agreements can be one of the most valuable services you can provide to your small business and startup clients. This course explains how to prepare for, and then draft agreements, collaboration agreements that will keep your clients’ businesses running effectively and keep them out of court.
Senior Investors and Vulnerable Clients: Preventing and Reporting Financial Exploitation
Seniors and other vulnerable clients are susceptible to financial exploitation at alarming rates. Regulators estimate that billions of dollars are lost each year as a result of such exploitation, and given the aging of the investing population, that population's unique vulnerabilities, and their substantial wealth, stakeholders can expect this trend to continue to grow. This program will outline this problem and review best practices to protect senior and vulnerable clients from exploitation and fraud.
Corporate Transparency Act: A Primer
The Corporate Transparency Act is going to change dramatically the way that founders and investors in privately-held companies interact with each other. The CTA, once implemented, will require roughly 25 million U.S. companies to file a beneficial ownership report with FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Treasury. Each beneficial ownership report will contained personally-identifiable information (PII) about each of the company’s “company applicants” and “beneficial owners.” FinCEN will maintain a database of beneficial ownership information that will be confidential, but accessible by specific law enforcement agencies pursuant to regulations that FinCEN will adopt. Understanding how the CTA will change the interactions between founders and investors will allow attorneys to modify the contractual relations between those parties in anticipation of the CTA coming into effect.
Buy-Sell Agreements: Why Every Partnership Needs One and Critical Provisions
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Knowledge is Power: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities as a Private Business Owner
In this program, you will learn about the sources of a private business owner’s rights and responsibilities, fiduciary duties and how they play out in real business ownership disputes. We will review the importance (or not) of written agreements, remedies to be aware of, and how to reduce and eliminate liability risk.
Joint Ventures, Partnerships, Licenses and Other Ways for Companies to Collaborate
With the acceleration of the globalization of business over the last 20 years, alliances between companies have become commonplace. These alliances can be from different parts of the world or different ends of a supply chain. Whatever the duration and objectives of business alliances, being able to identify and execute alliance opportunities are keys to remaining competitive in the global economy.
Knock Down Drag Out Fight? The Anatomy of Business Ownership Disputes
Ownership disputes in closely-held and private companies, or “corporate divorces,” are among the most litigious and difficult matters to manage and resolve and can quickly become extremely expensive and damaging to a company. Understanding the technical law in this area is critical to successfully resolving these disputes and potentially avoiding them all together.
Corporate Transparency Act: A Master Class for Company and Law Firm Leaders
The Corporate Transparency Act will cause one of the greatest changes in corporate governance in our lifetimes. If you are already familiar with the basic provisions of the CTA, this class will prepare you to lead your company or law firm through the transition. We will explore (1) the key exemptions for companies that will be relieved from a duty to file, (2) the corporate governance mechanisms companies should adopt now to prepare for the CTA, and (3) the record-keeping and data management tools that companies and law firms will need to implement before this new law takes effect.
ESG: Why It Matters
Whether its climate change, diversity on corporate boards, shareholders valuing more than financial returns or the integration of ESG factors in the investment process, ESG is shifting the paradigm in today’s business world. This course will examine what ESG really means, the forces driving the discussion, the issues gaining momentum, and the extent to which ESG is shaping corporate accountability. In addition to providing an overview of the ESG framework, the course will examine the key players driving the ESG dialogue as well as the the role of shareholder advocacy and employee activism. In addition, it will evaluate ESG’s impact in the boardroom and on corporate governance. Highlighted throughout the course will be legislative initiatives and the extent to which regulatory scrutiny by the Securities Exchange Commission is impacting issues ranging from climate related risk disclosures to investment and portfolio management.
An Anatomy Of A U.S. Department of Labor Investigation And Related Litigation
Today’s program, taught by David Johnson of Hawkins Parnell, will take a practical dive into what you need to know about a US Department of Labor Investigation and the surrounding litigation. We will provide a general understanding of ESOPs and best practices for you and your defense counsel in responding to DOL investigations while also discussing the DOL’s authority and precedence in relation to ERISA.
Perspectives on Corporate Criminal Enforcement Under the Biden Administration
From very experienced former federal prosecutors, participants will learn how and why corporate criminal enforcement is investigated, prosecuted, and resolved by the U.S. Department of Justice and federal law enforcement agencies. Participants will also learn the latest “carrots and sticks” approach to corporate criminal enforcement, future enforcement areas, and potential outcomes, along with practical suggestions about when and why to associate with outside counsel and proactive measures to consider taking to lessen the risk profile of businesses in today’s enforcement environment.
ESOP Formation and Business Succession Planning
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It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye! Business Valuation, Business Succession, and Estate Planning
Selling or transferring a company can be a once in a lifetime event and understanding the value of the company when transferring it can be a difficult challenge. This course will focus on how to value a company and how to successfully transfer the company and capture its value while minimizing the tax liability and the estate planning that follows. Roman Basi will teach participants the methods used in valuations, succession planning, estate planning, and much more.
Basic and Beyond: Litigation and Expert Opinions in Securities Class Actions
Since the late 1980’s with the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Basic Inc. v. Levinson, in securities class actions, plaintiffs have been able to rely on the “fraud-on-the market” presumption of reliance at class certification. In recent years, the validity of that presumption and its evidentiary burdens at the class certification stage have been repeatedly questioned, leading to a “battle of the experts” to determine whether a class should be certified. This course examines the evolution of the fraud-on-the-market presumption and its uses at class certification and then delves into expert’s role in securities class actions at the class certification stage.
Internal Investigations by Board Committees
Generally Board Committees are delegated to undertake internal investigations when the issues are important to the company , complex, and need to be done by sophisticated people who have no personal stake in the outcome. Other investigations can be undertaken by employees in the legal function or the human resources department. Such investigations may be very important to the organization but lack the need to be done by individuals who have no need to satisfy internal corporate pressures on their decision making. However, given the hierarchical structure of most companies, where an investigation must actually be free of influences from within the company there is a need for truly independent investigators. This can often only be achieved by having critical investigations be under the supervision of the Board or a Board committee such as the audit committee, a risk committee or a special committee appointed by the Board to run the investigation. The key notion to understand is the great importance of their being no conflicts of interest and independence of the investigation so that its work is above reproach and not conflicted. This course will teach among other things, when a board committee investigation is called for, how it should be populated, how to preserve attorney client privilege and how the committee should bring its findings back to the full board.
How to Conduct Effective Lease Due Diligence for M&A Transactions
In a vast majority of M&A transactions, the real estate component of the transaction may not sink a deal. However, it is an important component of the whole transaction. This course will focus on how to effectively review a lease in connection with a M&A transaction so that (i) the transaction is not held up or delayed by an aggressive landlord, and (ii) the acquiring company is not left with fewer rights and more obligations than what the acquiring company contemplated. The issues covered in this course apply to all types of leases – offices, retail and warehouse. This course will be beneficial to both new attorneys and the experienced practitioner.
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The Buck Stops in the Boardroom: Empowering Today's Directors
Discover from corporate insider and attorney Douglas Gordon, in a nationally recognized program, the best corporate governance practices for the board of directors of any size corporation, large or small, public or private. Learn why the board of directors is the most powerful force in the corporation and why it should act accordingly. Get the tools the board and individual directors need to do their job such as Mr. Gordon’s exclusive “Ten Commandments for the Board” (as a group) and the “Director Bill of Rights” (for individual directors). If you’ve ever served on a board, would like to serve on a board, or you're an attorney with corporate clients or director clients, or you’re an attorney who would like to have those types of clients, this course is for you.
Human Trafficking Prevention & Mitigation: Counseling Corporate Clients
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