Private Investment in Financial Institutions and Financial Assets

The recent banking crisis has opened the door for private equity funds, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds to invest in U.S. financial institutions and financial assets. Join us to hear about the latest rules, challenges, and opportunities for these investments, and how the recent Bailout Plan will play a role.

At each of our sessions in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, noted investment bankers specializing in the financial services sector will provide an overview of U.S. banking markets and opportunities for private investment in the financial sector.

TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED BY OUR PANELISTS:

• Keynote: The current state of the banking markets
• Impact of the Treasury bailout and related measures on private investment
• Regulation of private investment in financial institutions
• Structuring private equity investment in the financial
  services sector
• Structuring effective diligence
• Acquisitions of financial assets

MORRISON & FOERSTER SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:

Henry M. Fields, Partner, Financial Services
Kenneth E. Kohler, Partner, Corporate Finance
G. Larry Engel, Partner, Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Oliver I. Ireland, Partner, Financial Services
Brett H. Miller, Partner, Bankruptcy and Restructuring
Kenneth W. Muller, Partner, Private Equity
Anna T. Pinedo, Partner, Capital Markets
Eric T. McCrath, Partner, Private Equity
Andrea R. Cohen, Of Counsel, Private Equity
David A. Riley, Of Counsel, Private Equity
Thomas Devaney, Associate, Private Equity

GUEST SPEAKERS:

Peter Wirth, Executive Vice President and Co-Head of Investment Banking, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (New York Session)

Jeffrey Wishner, Managing Director, Investment Banking,
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (San Francisco and Los Angeles Sessions)

Walter Mix, Managing Director, Secura LECG, and former Commissioner, California Department of Financial Institutions (Los Angeles and New York Sessions)

David E. Abshier, Principal, Secura LECG (San Francisco Session)

This seminar is also available:
San Francisco: November 6
Los Angeles: November 11

For more information please contact Heather Grall at 415.268.7025 or hgrall@mofo.com

MCLE credit for this program is pending.