Robert A. Jaffe of Kutak Rock LLP to Speak at KG’s Emerging Antitrust Issues: Exploring Non-Reportable Transactions in 2015 & Beyond Live Webcast
New York, NY, January 19, 2016 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Robert A. Jaffe, Of Counsel, Kutak Rock LLP will speak at the Knowledge Group’s webcast entitled: “Emerging Antitrust Issues: Exploring Non-Reportable Transactions in 2015 & Beyond LIVE Webcast.” This event is scheduled for June 29, 2015 from 12:00pm – 2:00pm (ET).
For further details, please visit:
http://theknowledgegroup.org/event_name/emerging-antitrust-issues-exploring-non-reportable-transactions-in-2015-beyond-live-webcast/
About Robert A. Jaffe
Robert A. Jaffe, of counsel in Kutak Rock’s Washington D.C. office, concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation and antitrust counseling, principally for banks, other financial institutions, major corporations, hospitals and other health care organizations. He has extensive experience in administrative proceedings and defense of government and agency investigations, as well as over 30 years of experience with leading firms in New York and Washington, D.C.
Mr. Jaffe’s financial institution cases include mortgage fraud, credit card portfolio, commercial lending, insurance, real estate lending and foreclosure, as well as numerous securitization cases for trustees, investors and insurers. He provides advice on antitrust and competition issues on joint ventures and mergers, including Hart-Scott-Rodino filings or exemptions, for health care organizations, financial institutions and other corporations and investors. Mr. Jaffe has been the lead counsel in jury and non-jury trials in state and federal courts, and on appeals in the D.C., Federal and Second and other federal Circuits. He has worked as part of defense counsel teams on multi-party antitrust and other class action cases. Mr. Jaffe recently headed a multi-lawyer team over five years in a major RMBS litigation, resulting in a significant, favorable settlement.
Mr. Jaffe received his J.D. with high honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law (1978), studied international law at the University of Vienna, and received his undergraduate degree from N.Y.U. He is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, and other federal courts.
About Kutak Rock LLP
Kutak Rock LLP (www.kutakrock.com) is a national law firm of more than 500 lawyers with offices from coast to coast. Our firm serves local, regional and national clients in a practice that spans a wide range of disciplines. We encourage our attorneys to take advantage of the national resources and broad range of expertise the firm offers in order to provide the best legal services possible to our clients.
Our firm’s primary practice concentrations are business and corporate law, public finance, litigation and real estate law, with numerous areas of specialization. Kutak Rock attorneys work together in well-integrated, national practice groups to maintain and enhance their technical expertise and to reinforce and support one another in achieving client objectives.
Kutak Rock attorneys have represented hundreds of state and local governmental units, a substantial number of Fortune 500 corporations, every major investment banking firm in the United States, major European, Asian and domestic money-center banks, insurance companies, national real estate investors and developers, major national franchising enterprises and numerous other financial institutions and businesses.
We have earned a national reputation for finding creative solutions to complex legal issues and for providing excellent legal services in a practical, cost-conscious manner. We maintain that reputation by actively communicating with our clients at the initial stages of each engagement to gain a complete and clear understanding of our clients’ desired objectives.
Event Synopsis:
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) increasingly are focusing upon enforcement of transactions that don’t require filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR), often referred to as non-reportable transactions.
Generally, only transactions valued greater than $76.3 million are reportable. However, almost twenty percent of merger investigations by the DOJ from 2009 to 2013 related to non-reportable transactions since they can affect competition and hence affect consumers. In the DOJ’s recent challenge to a non-report transaction, US v. Bazaarvoice, Inc., the DOJ demonstrated the agencies willingness to pursue merger cases under the Clayton Act, regardless of reportability. Indeed, the DOJ reached an agreement earlier this year with two tour bus companies to disgorge $7.5 million in profits garnered during the life of the companies’ joint venture.
Companies considering non-reportable transactions that may present competitive concerns should consider the pros and cons of voluntarily reporting with the relevant agencies, as well as other strategies to mitigate the risk of an unexpected investigation, and potentially litigation, down the line.
In this CLE webcast, The Knowledge Group has assembled a panel of key thought leaders to provide the audience with an in-depth analysis and discussion of Emerging Anti-trust Issues: Exploring Non-Reportable Transactions in 2015. Speakers will also review recent non-reportable transactions and offer best practices on avoiding common pitfalls and risks of anti-competitive activity.
Key issues that will be covered in this course are:
· Recent Antitrust Scrutiny of Non-Reportable Transactions
· Recent Challenges Specific to Non-Reportable Transaction Investigations and Implications for Parties and Enforcement Agencies
· Nature of Developments
· Risk Analysis and Mitigation
· Best Practices to Avoid Investigations into Non-Reportable Transactions
About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series
The Knowledge Group, LLC was established with the mission to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webinars that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format. To contact or register to an event, please visit: http://theknowledgegroup.org/
For further details, please visit:
http://theknowledgegroup.org/event_name/emerging-antitrust-issues-exploring-non-reportable-transactions-in-2015-beyond-live-webcast/
About Robert A. Jaffe
Robert A. Jaffe, of counsel in Kutak Rock’s Washington D.C. office, concentrates his practice in complex commercial litigation and antitrust counseling, principally for banks, other financial institutions, major corporations, hospitals and other health care organizations. He has extensive experience in administrative proceedings and defense of government and agency investigations, as well as over 30 years of experience with leading firms in New York and Washington, D.C.
Mr. Jaffe’s financial institution cases include mortgage fraud, credit card portfolio, commercial lending, insurance, real estate lending and foreclosure, as well as numerous securitization cases for trustees, investors and insurers. He provides advice on antitrust and competition issues on joint ventures and mergers, including Hart-Scott-Rodino filings or exemptions, for health care organizations, financial institutions and other corporations and investors. Mr. Jaffe has been the lead counsel in jury and non-jury trials in state and federal courts, and on appeals in the D.C., Federal and Second and other federal Circuits. He has worked as part of defense counsel teams on multi-party antitrust and other class action cases. Mr. Jaffe recently headed a multi-lawyer team over five years in a major RMBS litigation, resulting in a significant, favorable settlement.
Mr. Jaffe received his J.D. with high honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law (1978), studied international law at the University of Vienna, and received his undergraduate degree from N.Y.U. He is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, and other federal courts.
About Kutak Rock LLP
Kutak Rock LLP (www.kutakrock.com) is a national law firm of more than 500 lawyers with offices from coast to coast. Our firm serves local, regional and national clients in a practice that spans a wide range of disciplines. We encourage our attorneys to take advantage of the national resources and broad range of expertise the firm offers in order to provide the best legal services possible to our clients.
Our firm’s primary practice concentrations are business and corporate law, public finance, litigation and real estate law, with numerous areas of specialization. Kutak Rock attorneys work together in well-integrated, national practice groups to maintain and enhance their technical expertise and to reinforce and support one another in achieving client objectives.
Kutak Rock attorneys have represented hundreds of state and local governmental units, a substantial number of Fortune 500 corporations, every major investment banking firm in the United States, major European, Asian and domestic money-center banks, insurance companies, national real estate investors and developers, major national franchising enterprises and numerous other financial institutions and businesses.
We have earned a national reputation for finding creative solutions to complex legal issues and for providing excellent legal services in a practical, cost-conscious manner. We maintain that reputation by actively communicating with our clients at the initial stages of each engagement to gain a complete and clear understanding of our clients’ desired objectives.
Event Synopsis:
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) increasingly are focusing upon enforcement of transactions that don’t require filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR), often referred to as non-reportable transactions.
Generally, only transactions valued greater than $76.3 million are reportable. However, almost twenty percent of merger investigations by the DOJ from 2009 to 2013 related to non-reportable transactions since they can affect competition and hence affect consumers. In the DOJ’s recent challenge to a non-report transaction, US v. Bazaarvoice, Inc., the DOJ demonstrated the agencies willingness to pursue merger cases under the Clayton Act, regardless of reportability. Indeed, the DOJ reached an agreement earlier this year with two tour bus companies to disgorge $7.5 million in profits garnered during the life of the companies’ joint venture.
Companies considering non-reportable transactions that may present competitive concerns should consider the pros and cons of voluntarily reporting with the relevant agencies, as well as other strategies to mitigate the risk of an unexpected investigation, and potentially litigation, down the line.
In this CLE webcast, The Knowledge Group has assembled a panel of key thought leaders to provide the audience with an in-depth analysis and discussion of Emerging Anti-trust Issues: Exploring Non-Reportable Transactions in 2015. Speakers will also review recent non-reportable transactions and offer best practices on avoiding common pitfalls and risks of anti-competitive activity.
Key issues that will be covered in this course are:
· Recent Antitrust Scrutiny of Non-Reportable Transactions
· Recent Challenges Specific to Non-Reportable Transaction Investigations and Implications for Parties and Enforcement Agencies
· Nature of Developments
· Risk Analysis and Mitigation
· Best Practices to Avoid Investigations into Non-Reportable Transactions
About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series
The Knowledge Group, LLC was established with the mission to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webinars that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format. To contact or register to an event, please visit: http://theknowledgegroup.org/
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1.800.578.4370
www.theknowledgegroup.org
Therese Lumbao, Director
Account Management & Member Services
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