Im Rahmen des „Treuenfels Private Equity – CFO Talk“ der auf Finance und Controlling spezialisierten Personalberatungs- und Projektrealisierungsgesellschaft sprach Nikolaus von Jacobs vor mehr als 30 Führungskräften zum Thema „Managementbeteiligungsprogramme bei Private Equity-Transaktionen“.

Kathleen Quinn spoke on Webcredenza: State Taxation & E-Commerce on December 28, 2017.

Understand how the new Tax Reform bill will affect the status of captive insurers and hear the latest 2017 tax developments.

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The forum will be held at the Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg in Berlin with various family businesses, start ups and investors.

This event is in German, find out more here.

Jennifer Geetter will be speaking at the AI Applications Summit, where speakers will share their experiences about how they have overcome obstacles and are realizing the opportunities of implementing AI technologies right now.

Philip Levine will present „Current Issues in Divisive Strategies – Spin-offs“ at PLI’s Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructuring 2017 seminar.

Topics will include:

• Tax-free spin-offs, split-offs and split-ups under Section 355
• Analysis of issues in innovative divisive transactions
• Developing IRS and Treasury views on no-rule policy
• Changes in administrative practice
• Evolving techniques leveraged distributions

Peter Faber will present „State and Local Tax Issues in Corporate M&A Transactions“ at PLI’s Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings 2017 program.

Topics will include:

• State and local tax issues that arise in corporate transactions
• IRC section 338(h)(10)
• Sales and tax-free reorganizations and spin-offs
• Potential pitfalls and planning

Partner Terry Dee spoke on the panel for “Strategies for Opposing Trials with Multiple Plaintiffs” at the 22^nd Annual Conference on Drug & Medical Device Litigation, hosted by the American Conference Institute (ACI) on December 5 in New York City.

In the wake of recent phenomenon involving multi-plaintiff trials where the courts are allowing multiple trials to be tried within one MDL case and where jury is hearing multiple sets of facts at one time, the panel discussed the strategies the defense bar employ to minimize the prejudicial effect of these situations and limit its use by courts, including:

• What is the current state of law on multi-plaintiff trials: overview of the latest decisions
• How are courts approaching this issue?
• Have there been any successful arguments with respect to defeating this phenomenon? If so, what are they?