(Webcast) Corporate Counsel Symposium: Inside Counsel in the Age of COVID

Monday, January 31, 2022 | 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm

• Description
• Faculty
• Agenda
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• As the Covid pandemic continues through a second year, in-house corporate legal departments are grappling with how to operate and advise their business clients in a highly unsettled and fast-moving environment. This Symposium will focus on real-world business impacts for in-house lawyers in the areas of M&A and Government Investigations and on day-to-day operational impacts in the areas of Remote Work and Mobility.

  Program Fee:
  $199 Member | $299 Nonmember
  In-House Counsel: Free to Members & Nonmembers

• Government Investigations: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic and the Road Ahead

  Panel Leader:
  Andrew J. Ceresney, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

  Panelists:
  Cheryl Crumpton, Head of Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations, Robinhood

  Mei-Lin Kwan-Gett, Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Litigation, Citigroup

  Jonathan Slonim, Head of Litigation & Investigations, Deputy General Counsel, McKinsey & Company

   

  M&A: Takeaways from the Pandemic Era and the Impact on Deal Activity in 2022 and Beyond

  Panel Leader:
  Melissa Sawyer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

  Panelists:
  Lisa Hageman, General Counsel, Diageo North America, Inc.

  Leigh Harlan, Former Senior Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel, Tiffany & Co.

  Jay Grant, Chief Legal Officer, The Trade Desk

   

  The In-House Lawyer Working Remotely: Ethical & Practical Considerations

  Panel Leader:
  Estela Diaz, Akin & Gump LLP

  Panelists:
  Laura Franco, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Bumble

  Elaine H. Mandlebaum, General Counsel, Interactive Brokers LLC

  Lan Nguyen, Senior Vice President, Head of Litigation, Univision Communications Inc.

   

  Mobility in the Post-Covid World 

  Panel Leader:
  Michael S. Solender, Global Vice Chair and General Counsel, EY

  Panelists:
  Amit Banker, Partner, Financial Services, Ernst & Young LLP

  Heidi C. Chen, Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Zoetis, Inc.

  Parisa K. Karaahmet, Fragomen

• 1:30pm – 1:40pm
  Introduction

   

  1:40pm –  2:40pm
  Government Investigations: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic and the Road Ahead

  • How the pandemic changed the ways government investigations are conducted
  • COVID’S impact on negotiations and outcomes with regulators
  • Webex testimony:  will it remain; how best to prepare; risks and benefits
  • New compliance issues arising from COVID
  • Post-pandemic priorities for government regulators

  Panel Leader:  Andrew J. Ceresney
  Panelists: Cheryl Crumpton, Mei- Lin Kwan-Gett, Jonathan Slonim

   

  2:40pm – 2:45pm
  Break

   

  2:45pm – 3:45pm
  M&A: Takeaways from the Pandemic Era and the Impact on Deal Activity in 2022 and Beyond

  • Lessons learned from M&A deals that failed to close during the pandemic
  • Impact of strategic buyers competing with SPACs and private equity
  • Investor interest in sustainability and social capital and the focus on ESG-focused deals
  • Potential resurgence of shareholder activism and attempted break-ups of large conglomerates
  • How boards and senior management evaluate transformation M&A deals as well as joint ventures, licensing deals, and collaboration agreements
  • Navigating the enhanced global regulatory scrutiny of M&A transactions

  Panel Leader: Melissa Sawyer
  Panelists: Jay Grant, Lisa Hageman, Leigh Harlan

   

  3:45pm – 3:50pm
  Break

   

  3:50pm – 4:50pm
  The In-House Lawyer Working Remotely: Ethical & Practical Considerations

  • How best to organize a successful hybrid or remote work arrangement for a corporate in-house legal department, which complies with applicable bar and ethics requirements
  • Impact on legal departments of the ongoing inability to walk into colleagues’ offices for regular, impromptu consultations
  • Best “cyber substitutes” to promote interactions and collaboration beyond Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms
  • Building/maintaining relationships with key internal business clients in a hybrid or remote working environment
  • Best practices for managing outside counsel without (or far fewer) face-to-face meetings
  • With the advent of Bring Your Own Device policies, how best to protect client confidential information on personal devices
  • The pandemic’s impact on the increased competition for in-house talent (recruitment and  retention)

  Panel Leader: Estela Diaz
  Panelists: Laura Franco, Elaine H. Mandlebaum, Lan Nguyen

   

  4:50pm – 4:55pm
  Break

   

  4:55pm – 5:55pm
  Mobility in the Post-Covid World 

  • Constraints that can and should be placed on the physical location where in-house lawyers perform their jobs
  • Practical and ethical considerations for in-house and outside law firm lawyers who work on sustained basis from vacation and other remote locations
  • Immigration and tax issues in particular posed by remote work
  • Establishing internal notification and tracking requirements for remote work
  • How the prevalence of remote works affects employment contracts and other agreements that highlight were individuals are “based”

  Panel Leader: Michael S. Solender
  Panelists: Amit Banker, Heidi C. Chen, Parisa K. Karaahmet

   

  5:55pm-6:00pm
  Q&A

• New York: 4.5 Total, 3.5 Professional Practice, 1.0 Ethics
  New Jersey: 4.8 General
  California: 4.5 General
  Pennsylvania: 4.0 General

• Thank You To Our Sponsors.

  Gold Sponsor:

  

  Silver Sponsor:

  

  Sponsoring Association Committee:
  In-House Counsel, Michael Patrick Hogan & Michael S. Solender, Co-Chairs

  Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
  Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org