MAGAZINE
November 2011 Issue
Financier Worldwide Magazine
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COVER STORY
The future of cleantech investment
FEATURES
Insider trading claims stain oil deal
Yahoo! looks for new lease of life
How do private equity investors create value?
The Carlyle Group files for IPO
Withdrawn IPOs reach record levels
ROUNDTABLE
Cracking down on corporate fraud
THE PANELLISTS: Jerry Oldham, 1stWEST Financial Corporation; Ed Shorrock, Baker and Partners; Matthew Fleming, KordaMentha; Kristy Balsanek, Mayer Brown LLP; Alex Lipman, Nixon Peabody LLP; and Matthew Cowie, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
SPECIAL REPORT
Investment funds
Outlook for investment funds: strategies, performance and challenges
THE PANELLISTS: Deborah Johns, Gilbert + Tobin; Gerhard Niggli, Niggli Rechtsanwalte; Timothy W. Mungovan, Nixon Peabody; and Gordon M. Goldstein, Silver Lake Partners.
Can active partnerships produce triple bottom line results?
Phil Case and Lauren Koopman, PwC
Global private equity fundraising
Kirk Radke, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Working through your ‘trust issues’
Deborah Johns, Gilbert + Tobin
Asia Pacific private equity: no longer emerging
2011: the year in hedge funds
DEALfront
mergers & acquisitions
United Tech to buy Goodrich for $16.5bn
Nama announces biggest loan sale yet
private equity & venture capital
PE deals and exits down in Q3
Private equity boosts UK technology M&A
bankruptcy & corporate restructuring
Swedish Automobile divests Spyker Cars
Bankruptcy rumours plague Kodak
PROFESSIONALinsight
Employee stock ownership plans
An overview of US ESOPs and research on the economic performance of ESOP companies in the US
J. Michael Keeling and Amy Gwiazdowski, The ESOP Association
ESOP as a liquidity structure using the S corp vs C corp structure
Alex Meshechok, CSG Partners, LLC
Unlocking and protecting pension assets
John N. Vitucci, Pension Equity Advisors, LLC
Employee stock ownership plans in corporate transactions
Gregory K. Brown and Nancy Laethem Stern, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Corporate governance in an ESOP company
Vaughn Gordy and James Staruck, GreatBanc Trust Company
ESOP repurchase liability – be prepared
Jamie Zveitel Kwiatek and Courtney Brunsfeld, Polsinelli Shughart
LEGAL®ulatory
Bankruptcy & corporate restructuring
D&O insurance issues in the context of a corporate bankruptcy
Alan Parry and Anna Osterhout, Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P.
Counselling clients in financial distress
Steve Silton, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Corporate governance
The hidden value of corporate governance
Howard Brod Brownstein, Brownstein Corp.
Reputational risks due to environmental performance of supply chains on the rise in China
Derek Langgons and Oliver Liu, Golder Associates Consulting
Governance without borders
Jim Bulling and Daniel Knight, Middletons
Corporate tax
CFC – proposals for full-scale reform
Pat Dugdale and Batanayi Katongera, Olswang LLP
The South African revenue authorities clamp down on rollover relief and debt push down structures
Emil Brincker, DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Intellectual property
Building fences to protect your turf: developing a global IP legal strategy
Andrew J. Sherman, Jones Day
Sea change for US patent litigation
R. David Donoghue, Holland & Knight LLP
CONTRIBUTORS
1stWEST Financial Corporation
Baker and Partners
Brownstein Corp.
CSG Partners, LLC
DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Gilbert + Tobin
Golder Associates Consulting
GreatBanc Trust Company
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Jones Day
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
KordaMentha
Mayer Brown LLP
Middletons
Niggli Rechtsanwalte
Nixon Peabody LLP
Olswang LLP
Pension Equity Advisors, LLC
Polsinelli Shughart
Silver Lake Partners.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P.
The ESOP Association