"Legal Opinions: The Hot Issues"

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

2:00 - 3:00 pm, eastern [archive and transcript to follow]

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Join the foremost authorities on legal opinions as they analyze the most difficult topics today:

• Don Glazer, Advisory Counsel, Goodwin Procter LLP (Co-Author, Glazer & Fitzgibbons on Legal Opinions)
• Ettore Santucci, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP (Reporter, ABA Report on Cross-Border Closing Opinions of U.S. Counsel)

Among the topics of this program are:

• Opinions on forum selection clauses when the contract chooses the law of another state or country
• Opinions on arbitration provisions, including contrasting practice on agreements governed by US and foreign law
• Opinions on provisions shortening or lengthening the statute of limitations
• Drafting the "no violation of law" opinion
• Excluding agreements governed by non-US law from the list of agreements covered by the "no breach" opinion
• Giving separate opinions on "choice of law" clauses choosing the law of another state or country (exclude fundamental policies for both)
• Venture capital opinion issues, including DGCL Section 204 opinions
• Dealing with New York's recent extension of its shareholder liability statute to non-NY corporations whose stock is not publicly traded
• Dealing with the possibility that a limited partnership has dissolved when giving opinions - validly existing and power - on a LP.
• Giving opinions on Delaware LPs when a gap exists between the filing of its certificate of limited partnership and its satisfaction of all the requirements for becoming an LP
• Not giving "as if" opinions on cross-border agreements choosing foreign law

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