What is the Biggest Mistake a Client Could Make That Would Adversely Financially Affect Their Fund?DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c48123) has announced the addition of Video Leadership Seminars: Strategies for Structuring Private Equity Funds with Stephen Culhane of King & Spalding LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol to their offering The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide lawyers and venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] with critical information about structuring private equity funds. The DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 90 minutes of live video with Stephen Culhane of King & Spalding LLP sharing his best practices for creating the most advantageous structure possible for the venture capital firm. The Video Leadership Seminar provides essential information for structuring such a fund, tax consequences, and investor provisions, as well as an overall framework of the best practices that have worked for the top venture funds and how it can directly impact the profit of the fund. Topics covered in the Video Leadership Seminar[TM] include: - Specific structure provisions that are most advantageous - The biggest mistakes and how to avoid making them when structuring private equity funds - Step by step for structuring the agreement and determining the provisions - Financial considerations - Case Studies of specific situations and what you can learn from them Questions answered in this Video Leadership Seminar[TM] include: - How would you articulate your strategy when it comes to structuring private equity funds? - How are private equity funds different from other types of investments? - What is the difference between the structure components for US and offshore funds? - What factors are most significant in determining how you proceed with your strategy? Why are these factors important? What do they indicate? - What are the 3-5 arenas of investment most commonly entered when structuring private equity funds and determining the proper investment strategy? - What is the most difficult aspect of developing the structure and investment strategies for your client's private equity fund? Why? - What are the ways the top venture funds today are structuring their funds differently than in the past? - What are the three most important areas that have made you successful in structuring private equity funds for clients? Why do you think this is? - How do you explain the financial exposure to your client in a situation such as this - such as the impact it could have on their business or personally if the fund is not properly structured, or the investments improperly chosen? - What are the various types of financial outcomes you have seen in different funds in the past? What decisions at the beginning of a fund can come back to haunt haunt v. haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts v.tr. 1. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being. 2. your client later on? - What are the approximate legal fees most often associated with structuring an agreement like this? How are these costs apportioned ap·por·tion tr.v. ap·por·tioned, ap·por·tion·ing, ap·por·tions To divide and assign according to a plan; allot: "The tendency persists to apportion blame as suits the circumstances" ? - What is the biggest mistake a client could make that would adversely financially affect their fund? How can they avoid this mistake? About Stephen Culhane: Stephen Culhane has been a partner in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of office of King & Spalding in the Private Equity & Investment Funds Noun 1. investment funds - money that is invested with an expectation of profit investment assets - anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company Group since 2004. He leads the firm's New York private funds and asset management practice, focusing primarily on representing sponsors of private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds hedge fund, in finance, a highly speculative, largely unregulated investment device. Originating in the 1950s, the funds "hedge" by offsetting "short" positions (borrowing a security and then selling it at a higher price before repaying the lender) against "long" and funds of funds in connection with the structuring, establishment and operation of such fund products. He also represents clients with respect to the regulatory aspects of forming and investing in private funds. Prior to joining King & Spalding, he was a member of the Goldman, Sachs & Co. Legal Department from 1997. In that capacity he supported Goldman Sachs' Investment Management Division, focusing on Goldmans' direct hedge funds, private equity fund of funds Fund of Funds A mutual fund that invests in other mutual funds. Notes: For example, an investor would select a general risk profile and the fund-of-funds manager would pick underlying investments from a range of products managed by external managers. and fiduciary businesses. Stephen was a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Goldman and also served as Legal Director to Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. Asset Management's Private Equity Group, which is today the world's largest private equity fund of funds complex. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was an associate with Akin AKIN American Kurdish Information Network Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Coudert Brothers Coudert Brothers was a law firm founded in 1853[1] in New York by three sons of Charles Coudert, Sr.: Frederic René Coudert, Sr., Charles Coudert, Jr., and Louis Leonce Coudert, which specialized in international law. . For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c48123 |
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