Fraud professionals estimate that businesses organizations lose 5-6% of annual revenue to fraud, and the largest losses typically come from financial statement manipulation. Identifying the indicia of manipulation can help you and your client steer clear of problem acquisitions. This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE. Key topics to be discussed: Background of fraud Common fraud…

This program will cover tips and best practices for conducting a privileged internal investigation, including how to maintain privilege in communications with third parties. The presenters will discuss how best to structure an internal investigation, including document collection and retention; company oversight of the investigation; and witness interviews. The program will also cover remediation-related considerations,…

This webinar will address common issues and opportunities in structuring equity rollovers in M&A transactions. The webinar will focus on (i) equity rollover planning for different forms target, seller and purchaser entities, (ii) certain less common “synthetic” rollover structures that may be used when tax-deferred rollover is not available and (iii) ways to address situations…

Data privacy compliance requires that vendor and customer contracts be reviewed with an eye toward privacy compliance. As state privacy regimes emerge across the United States and abroad, gone are the days that data processing agreements could be limited to only those agreements touching on Europe. Now a savvy commercial contract requires review of a…