HELD: You are NOT indemnified!
Hosted by the Energy Transactions Practice Committee
Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
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Overview
You think you are indemnified for direct damages from your counterparty, but you probably are not. This session will cover what you need to know in both M&A and commercial transactions.
Webinar begins at 12:00 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers
Jonathan B. Newton
Moderator
King & Spalding LLP
Houston, TX
Jonathan Newton has almost 30 years of experience as a corporate lawyer representing clients in a broad range of transactional matters, including M&A, securities offerings and SEC reporting obligations. Jonathan regularly counsels C-suite executives and Board members on corporate governance and other advisory matters. He also has extensive experience with internal corporate restructurings, venture capital financings and joint ventures. In addition to his law practice, Jonathan served for 10 years as commissioner on the Finance Commission of Texas, which oversees banks, savings and loan institutions and consumer credit matters. He speaks Spanish fluently.
Jonathan spends a significant portion of his practice on energy-related transactions. He has extensive experience in complex cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including in both M&A and securities related transactions, as well as redomestication transactions.
Jonathan also represents clients in a variety of capital markets transactions, including registered and private offerings of debt and equity securities, convertible and straight debt offerings, secondary and follow-on equity offerings and Rule 144Aand Regulation S offerings, as well as tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations.
In addition to the energy industry, Jonathan’s client representations encompass companies and transactions in a variety of industries (information technology, medical devices, chemicals, among others) and includes the representation of both domestic and foreign companies.
Brandon Caire
Panelist
Director of Litigation
Air Liquide
Houston, TX
Brandon Caire specializes in business litigation and arbitration in the industrial sector, including commercial, real estate, employment, and business tort disputes. His responsibilities have included managing cases, analyzing complex contractual provisions, directing written discovery, taking and defending depositions, drafting, filing, and arguing discovery and dispositive motions, preparing and presenting corporate and expert witnesses for deposition and trial, preparing pretrial and trial submissions, evaluating potential jurors, and examining witnesses at trial.
Kristina McQuaid
Panelist
Senior Counsel
Phillips 66 Company
Houston, TX
Kristina McQuaid has approximately 15 years of experience as a commercial and corporate attorney, with an emphasis in the oil and gas industry. Prior to her in-house experience, she represented clients on a broad range of transactional matters, including M&A, securities offerings, SEC reporting obligations, and corporate restructurings. As an in-house commercial attorney, she has advised executives and clients in upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas activities. Mrs. McQuaid also has extensive experience leading various types of oil and gas corporate transactions, including M&A transactions, international deals, and joint ventures.
Daniel Ro-Trock
Panelist
Senior Associate General Counsel, Director of Government Relations
Transocean
Houston, TX
Mr. Ro-Trock has over 18 years of experience advising public company boards of directors and executives. Since joining Transocean 2014, he has led the company’s M&A and capital markets transactions, strategic joint ventures, emerging technology initiatives and complex litigation matters. Mr. Ro-Trock also advises on securities compliance and corporate governance matters and helps to lead Transocean’s Government Relations department. Mr. Ro-Trock earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas A&M University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Houston Law Center.
Tuition
- $50 - Non-Member
- $0 - IEL Members
- $0 - IEL Supporting or Sustaining Member Employee
- $0 - Law Student
MCLE Credit
Texas Course Number 174176151. This course has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of Texas Committee on MCLE in the amount of 1.0 credit hours, of which no credit hours will apply to ethics/professional responsibility credit.
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