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February 2011
Pre-Closing Actions to Mitigate Post-Closing Risks
Program Highlights
Please join the M&A Subcommittee for a discussion by Paul Koenig of Shareholder Representative Services LLC entitled “Pre-Closing Actions to Mitigate Post-Closing Risks”. Paul is a co-founder and Managing Director of SRS and will discuss how his experience at SRS in managing the post-closing process has allowed him to develop tips and best practices that attorneys may want to incorporate at the drafting stage to mitigate future risks for their clients, including the following:
- Escrow release procedures to avoid unnecessary lockups of funds
- Availability of seller's counsel post-closing
- Definition of merger consideration
- Establishing a meaningful expense fund
- Developments in case law and recent statutes impacting deal terms
- Working capital issues
- Obligations for tax return preparation
- Post-closing payments
- In re Trados - distressed sales
- Establishing a meaningful expense fund
- Developments in case law and recent statutes impacting deal terms
- Working capital issues
- Obligations for tax return preparation
- Post-closing payments
- In re Trados - distressed sales
- Escrow economics
Who Should Purchase This Product
- M&A attorneys
- In-house counsel
- Finance industry professionals
- Anyone who needs to be up-to-date on these important M&A issues!
Program Series Co-chairs
Darren R. Hensley, Esq.
Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC
Denver, CO
Hendrik F. Jordaan, Esq.
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
Denver, CO
Faculty
Paul Koenig is the Managing Director of Shareholder Representative Services LLC. He is an attorney and entrepreneur who co-founded and manages operations and heads the Professional Team at SRS. SRS serves as the professional representative of shareholders following the closing of M&A transactions. Since 2007, SRS has represented more than 400 venture capital firms and managed the post-closing process in M&A deals valued at over $10 billion. Before forming SRS, Paul practiced law at some of the nation's most prestigious law firms. He specialized in representing both public and venture-backed companies in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, company formations, and securities issuance and compliance. Paul also represented many venture capital investors in connection with private equity financings and other transactions. Paul was one of the founding partners of Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner, a Denver-based corporate and business law firm with a strong practice in mergers and acquisitions, securities and venture capital finance. Prior to that, he was an attorney in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins, and in the Colorado office of Cooley Godward Kronish. Paul graduated from Northwestern University School of Law and received his B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Iowa.
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $59.00 USD
- Member Price $39.00 USD
- General Credits 1.00
- Ethics Credits
- EDI Credits