"How to Navigate Tricky Confidential Treatment Requests"

Learn how to put your best foot forward when seeking a CT now that the SEC is posting comment letters!

Thursday, June 16, 2005

4:00 - 5:00 pm, eastern time [transcript]

Now that the SEC is posting its comment letters - as well as responses to comments - on its website, it is more important than ever to know the intricacies of the confidential treatment process. Not only will you learn the nuts & bolts during this program, you will learn how this process has changed in recent years, particularly in the wake of the new 8-K rules - and you will learn about a number of complex problem areas that you are bound to run into sooner than you think. Join these experts, including two former SEC Staffers:

• Shelley Parratt, Deputy Director, SEC's Division of Corporation Finance
• Suzanne Hayes, Branch Chief - Legal, SEC's Division of Corporation Finance
• Bill Tolbert, Jenner & Block LLP
• Elizabeth Ising, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• John Saia, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP
• Patricia Whalen, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP  

Among the topics of this program are:

• What does the SEC Staff look for in a confidential treatment request, particularly for material definitive contracts filed on a Form 8-K?
• How does the confidential treatment request process differ under Rule 83 than Rule 24b-2, and why does it matter?
• How will the SEC be posting your responses to comment letters? And how should you respond to comments going forward?
• How to handle complex problem areas, such as how to handle confidential treatment requests for plans that are being filed as material contracts with 10-Qs after being described generally in an 8-K during a quarter following approval of the plan by the board?
• What can you do to protect a client if a confidential treatment request is rejected by the SEC Staff?

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