John J. Huber, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP to Speak at KC’s Event on Cross Border 2009: Cross-Border Tender Offers & Other Emerging Issues for 2009, on 5/27/2009
Jersey City, NJ, April 16, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcast announced today that John J. Huber, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP will speak at the Knowledge Congress’ upcoming webcast entitled: “Cross Border 2009: Cross-Border Tender Offers & Other Emerging Issues for 2009”. This 2-hour event is scheduled on May 27, 2009, Tuesday at 12:00 NN – 2:00 PM ET. (For further details of the event and an updated list of panelists, please visit: http://knowledgecongress.org/event_2009_Cross.html)
Event Synopsis:
The SEC revised its rules on cross-border tender offers and business combinations in August 2008, aiming to ease the way for U.S. investments in foreign transactions. The new rules make it easier for foreign issuers of securities to make use of the “cross-border exemption” that allow them to avoid registering their securities with the SEC if they maintain registration of the securities in their primary trading markets. The SEC also revamped the disclosure requirements for cross-border transactions and changed some reporting deadlines. Learning about these new requirements will be crucial for companies to compete in an increasingly globalized economy.
The Knowledge Congress is assembling a panel of noted experts on cross-border transactions to help foreign and U.S. enterprises understand how the new requirements might affect their tender offers, mergers and other transactions. Panel members will share their expertise in a two-hour Live Webcast.
About John J. Huber
John J. Huber, a partner with Latham & Watkins since 1986, counsels clients, including companies and investment banking firms, on securities offerings, tender offers and mergers. He also advises companies, audit and compensation committees on a broad range of securities regulation issues, including securities law, accounting, restatements, internal control over financial reporting and corporate governance.
Mr. Huber is the former director and deputy director of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance. During his 11 years at the SEC, he was responsible for the Division's rule-making program for the integrated disclosure system, shelf registration, going private and the first permanent rules governing tender offers. He supervised the Division's review and comment process of filings by public companies.
Mr. Huber is an editor of The Practitioner's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , published by the American Bar Association. He is a former chairman of the ABA's Subcommittee on Securities Registration and the ABA's Task Force on Regulation Financial Disclosure as well as a former member of the NASD's Corporate Finance Committee. Mr. Huber is a frequent speaker at securities law and accounting conferences.
Mr. Huber is listed in the 2009 Best Lawyers in America survey in the Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Law categories. Mr. Huber is also cited as one of the leading securities lawyers in the Washington, D.C. market by Chambers & Partners in its 2008 Global Directory and described as, "one of the major players in securities advisory matters."
About Latham & Watkins LLP
Latham & Watkins’ Financial Regulatory Group advises banks, securities firms, insurance companies and their parent holding companies and affiliates, as well as the increasing host of companies engaged in financial services across the globe, on the full range of financial regulations affecting their activities and operations.
The founders of Latham & Watkins instilled an ethic of hard work, commitment and quality that flourishes today and has nurtured the firm’s dramatic growth into one of the world’s premier business law firms.
Latham & Watkins is a global leader in corporate, bank and project finance, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and complex business litigation.
For more information on John J. Huber, and Latham & Watkins LLP, please visit: http://www. www.lw.com
About The Knowledge Congress
The Knowledge Congress is a series of live webcasts produced by The Knowledge Group, LLC, which examine trends, regulatory, and technology changes across a variety of industries. “We bring together the world's leading authorities and industry participants through informative two-hour webcasts to study the impact of changing regulations.”
To contact or to register to an event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org.
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Event Synopsis:
The SEC revised its rules on cross-border tender offers and business combinations in August 2008, aiming to ease the way for U.S. investments in foreign transactions. The new rules make it easier for foreign issuers of securities to make use of the “cross-border exemption” that allow them to avoid registering their securities with the SEC if they maintain registration of the securities in their primary trading markets. The SEC also revamped the disclosure requirements for cross-border transactions and changed some reporting deadlines. Learning about these new requirements will be crucial for companies to compete in an increasingly globalized economy.
The Knowledge Congress is assembling a panel of noted experts on cross-border transactions to help foreign and U.S. enterprises understand how the new requirements might affect their tender offers, mergers and other transactions. Panel members will share their expertise in a two-hour Live Webcast.
About John J. Huber
John J. Huber, a partner with Latham & Watkins since 1986, counsels clients, including companies and investment banking firms, on securities offerings, tender offers and mergers. He also advises companies, audit and compensation committees on a broad range of securities regulation issues, including securities law, accounting, restatements, internal control over financial reporting and corporate governance.
Mr. Huber is the former director and deputy director of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance. During his 11 years at the SEC, he was responsible for the Division's rule-making program for the integrated disclosure system, shelf registration, going private and the first permanent rules governing tender offers. He supervised the Division's review and comment process of filings by public companies.
Mr. Huber is an editor of The Practitioner's Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , published by the American Bar Association. He is a former chairman of the ABA's Subcommittee on Securities Registration and the ABA's Task Force on Regulation Financial Disclosure as well as a former member of the NASD's Corporate Finance Committee. Mr. Huber is a frequent speaker at securities law and accounting conferences.
Mr. Huber is listed in the 2009 Best Lawyers in America survey in the Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Law categories. Mr. Huber is also cited as one of the leading securities lawyers in the Washington, D.C. market by Chambers & Partners in its 2008 Global Directory and described as, "one of the major players in securities advisory matters."
About Latham & Watkins LLP
Latham & Watkins’ Financial Regulatory Group advises banks, securities firms, insurance companies and their parent holding companies and affiliates, as well as the increasing host of companies engaged in financial services across the globe, on the full range of financial regulations affecting their activities and operations.
The founders of Latham & Watkins instilled an ethic of hard work, commitment and quality that flourishes today and has nurtured the firm’s dramatic growth into one of the world’s premier business law firms.
Latham & Watkins is a global leader in corporate, bank and project finance, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and complex business litigation.
For more information on John J. Huber, and Latham & Watkins LLP, please visit: http://www. www.lw.com
About The Knowledge Congress
The Knowledge Congress is a series of live webcasts produced by The Knowledge Group, LLC, which examine trends, regulatory, and technology changes across a variety of industries. “We bring together the world's leading authorities and industry participants through informative two-hour webcasts to study the impact of changing regulations.”
To contact or to register to an event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org.
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