The Financial Crisis:
New Administration Initiatives and How Practitioners Should Advise Clients as a Result

8:00-8:25 am

Registration
Continental breakfast provided

8:25-8:30 am

Welcome
Dean Jack A. Guttenberg, Capital University Law School

8:30-10:00 am

Impact of the Financial Crisis on Corporate Governance in the United States and New Administration Initiatives
John Beavers, Partner, Bricker & Eckler LLP (Columbus, OH) and Kevin Kinross, Member, Bricker & Eckler LLP (Columbus, OH)

10:00-10:15 am

Break

10:15-11:15 am

Common Corporate Governance Myths
Speaker: Michael O’Sullivan, Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

11:15-11:45 am

Corporate Governance Realities
John Beavers, Kevin Kinross, Michael O’Sullivan

11:45 am -
12:45 pm

Lunch provided

12:45-1:30 pm

Transactions for Distressed Companies
Anthony Blanchard, Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC (Detroit, MI)  

1:30-2:30 pm

Options for Distressed Companies—Workouts, Reorganizations or Bankruptcy
Michael P. Shuster, Partner, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP (Cleveland, Ohio and Naples, Florida); Jeffrey Marks, Principal, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP (Cincinnati, OH); Victoria Powers, Partner, Schottenstein Zox & Dunn (Columbus, OH)  

2:30-2:45 pm

Break

2:45-3:30 pm

Insights and Pointers from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, the US Attorney’s Office, and the Department of Justice on a Smooth Business Bankruptcy Process
Andrew M. Malek, US Attorney, S.D. Ohio (Columbus, OH); Jeannine Lesperance, Department of Justice, Civil Litigation Division, Commercial Litigation Branch (Washington, DC, on detail in Columbus, OH); Trish D. Lazich, Assistant Chief, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, Collections Enforcement Section, Cleveland District Office (Cleveland, OH)

3:30-4:15 pm

Raising Capital, Workouts, Reorganizations and Bankruptcy
Anthony Blanchard; Jeannine Lesperance; Ken Cookson, Director, Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter LPA (Columbus, OH); Sherri L. Dahl, Senior Associate, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP (Cleveland, OH)

4:15-5:00 pm

New Antitrust Enforcement Initiatives and Implications for Distressed Companies
James Wilson, Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP (Columbus, OH)