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

About the Speakers

Michael J. O’Sullivan, Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, and Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California
Mike O’Sullivan is a corporate partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.

He primarily advises (a) companies and their boards of directors on governance matters, (b) issuers and underwriters in securities issuances, and (c) bidders, targets and financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Mike is currently working on a multi-disciplinary team advising mortgage originators on issues arising in the origination and securitization process.

He recently started provided, however, a blog devoted to corporate law issues, and maintains a related Twitter feed @providedhowever. He previously wrote Corp Law Blog, one of the first corporate law blogs. He is also compiling a securities law dictionary.

Mike is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, where he teaches a course in mergers and acquisitions.

Mike graduated with honors in American history from the University of Pennsylvania. His honors thesis examined the origins of the Bank of North America, the New World’s first commercial bank. After college he worked in the research department of Shearson Lehman Brothers. After the October 1987 market crash and the firm’s subsequent merger with E.F. Hutton, he left Wall Street for law school. He graduated first in his class from the University of Southern California Law School, served on the Southern California Law Review and taught legal writing.

John P. Beavers, Partner, Bricker & Eckler LLP, Columbus, Ohio
John Beavers has been a practicing lawyer since 1972, including over 11 years as managing partner, with Bricker & Eckler LLP. Understanding the critical role governance plays in all organizations, Mr. Beavers established and directs Bricker & Eckler’s Counsel for Boards And Executivesthat counsels and represents governing boards, their committees and their executives regarding duties and responsibilities in providing direction and in overseeing matters critical to the success of their organizations. His focus currently includes counseling and representing boards and their audit, compensation, nominating, governance, compliance, investment, and similar oversight committees regarding

• Legal responsibilities and best practices;
• Generally accepted accounting principles, generally accepted auditing standards, and oversight of internal controls; and
• Executive compensation policies, design and implementation.

Anthony Blanchard, Vice President, Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance, LLC, Detroit, Michigan

Kevin M. Kinross, Member, Bricker & Eckler LLP, Columbus, Ohio
Kevin Kinross is an associate with Bricker & Eckler’s Business, Tax and Estate’s Practice Group.   Kevin’s practice focuses on corporate governance and he counsels executives and boards of directors of both for-profit and nonprofit corporations, and committees of the boards, on a wide range of matters including fiduciary duties, board direction, and protection from liability.  Mr. Kinross routinely conducts board education sessions for client and member companies of national association on corporate governance.

Trish D. Lazich, Ohio Attorney General’s Office
Trish D. Lazich is the Assistant Chief of the Collections Enforcement Section of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office where she manages the bankruptcy portfolio. Bankruptcy and creditors’ rights are the focus of Trish’s practice. Trish has both private and public practice legal experience. She has represented debtors and creditors in bankruptcy related matters and creditors in secured transactions. Her bankruptcy experience includes handling real property and equipment lease transactions; Section 363 sale of assets; secured creditor claims; cash collateral issues; prosecuting and defending preference and avoidance actions; claim objections; reclamation issues; set-off and recoupment; dischargeability complaints; motions for relief from stay; and 2004 examinations. She has represented creditors in state court replevin, foreclosures and receivership actions. Trish has handled complex tax resolution matters at both the state

and federal level and has experience with the sale and transfer of liquor permits in bankruptcy and receivership proceedings. Trish received her Bachelor of Science degree from Kent State University and her law degree from Capital University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in the State of Ohio, the United States District Court of Ohio, Northern and Southern Districts, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Jeannine R. Lesperance, Esq., United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch, Washington, D.C.
Jeannine Lesperance practiced for over sixteen years with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch.  She received her undergraduate degree in Foreign Service at Georgetown University, 1988, and her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992. Ms. Lesperance clerked for the honorable Rya W. Zobel at the United States District Court in Massachusetts. She joined the Department of Justice through the Honors Program. Her practice includes general commercial litigation (affirmative and defensive) with specialties in healthcare, bankruptcy, banking and government contracting.

Ms. Lesperance's prior teaching experience includes the Department of Justice Advanced Bankruptcy seminars in 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007 and 2009; the Department of Justice Basic Bankruptcy Seminars in 2005 and 2007; 1999 nursing home fraud conferences in Philadelphia, PA and Des Moines, IO co-sponsored by the Department of Justice and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; the ABA Bankruptcy Update Conference in San Francisco, Sept. 2000; and the Commercial Litigation lunch series, Oral Advocacy, 2001-2009.

Andrew M. Malek, Esq., Assistant United States Attorney, S.D. Ohio, Columbus, Ohio
Andrew M. Malek is an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and serves as the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Coordinator for the District. He was previously Staff Counsel to the Chapter 13 bankruptcy trustee in Worthington, Ohio, Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Donald E. Calhoun, Jr., and practiced bankruptcy law and commercial litigation, representing corporate debtors and creditors, in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Malek graduated with a B.S. in Management from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and received his J.D., with honors, from the Ohio State University College of Law in 1986. He is admitted to practice law in California and Ohio, and has practiced in all District Courts in California, the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Southern District of Ohio, and the 6 th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jeffrey A. Marks, Principal, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio
Jeffrey A. Marks focuses his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, Chapter 11 reorganizations, debtors’ and creditors’ rights, and out-of-court workouts and restructurings.

He represents, in both transaction and litigation matters, various parties in insolvency proceedings and stakeholders in troubled business situations including debtor in possession lenders, senior secured and junior lien lenders, creditors’ committees, debtors, equity holders and business acquirers. He has been listed multiple times in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America and as an Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine.

Mr. Marks has concentrated on insolvency law ever since serving as a law clerk to a US Bankruptcy Judge in the Southern District of Ohio shortly after the 1978 Bankruptcy Code took effect. He is a frequent speaker at insolvency conferences. He is Vice President of the Tri-State Association for Corporate Renewal and serves as its program co-chair, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and is past chair of the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law Committee. He also served for several years as a member of the Advisory Committee for Local Rules of the US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio.

Recent engagements include: bank group agents in out-of-court workouts and Chapter 11 proceeding of retirement community borrowers, real estate developer, manufacturers; commodity pools in Refco Chapter 11 proceeding; bidder for Delphi’s catalyst business; secured lenders in Chapter 11 proceedings of PLVTZ (Levitz Furniture), Dwight’s Piano (formerly Baldwin Piano & Organ) and Harvey Electronics; state court receivers for home builder and medical equipment dealer; Enron Creditors’ Committee; Committee of Chrysler Affected Dealers; SHC (Top-Flite) Creditors’ Committee; committee members (book publisher) in Advanced Marketing Services, Koen Books and Sher Distributing; and Chapter 11 debtors EaglePicher Holdings, WCI Steel and Lodestar Energy.

Mr. Marks received a B.A. from The Ohio State University and his J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was student articles editor of the University of Cincinnati Law Review.

Victoria E. Powers, Partner, Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co., LPA, Columbus, Ohio
Victoria Powers serves as co-leader of the business restructuring and creditors' rights practice group and coordinator of the creditors' rights and corporate trust practice area, and served a five-year term on SZD's management committee through 2007. She concentrates her practice in the areas of complex chapter 11 reorganization, corporate trust defaults, bankruptcy court litigation, creditors' remedies, debtors' rights, out-of-court workouts and health law-related matters.

She is listed in the 2005-2009 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, has been selected as one of Ohio Super Lawyers Top 50 Female Lawyers in Ohio, and is listed in the 2005-2009 editions of the Chambers & Partners USA Guide as a leading business lawyer in bankruptcy/restructuring. In 2006 and 2007, Victoria served, at the request of the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, on the Merit Selection Panel of attorneys who review candidates for the position of bankruptcy judge.

Victoria currently represents corporate trust trustees in defaulted matters, bankruptcies and workouts, creditors committees in Chapter 11 bankruptcies, receivers in various proceedings, and the courtappointed patient care ombudsman in healthcare business bankruptcies.

Michael P. Shuster, Partner, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, Cleveland, Ohio

James A. Wilson, Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Columbus, Ohio and Immediate Past Chair, ABA Section on Antitrust Law