AABANY Corporate Law Committee and Student Outreach Committee Present: What Do Corporate Lawyers Do? — A Pre-OCI Information Session 

Are you more of a litigator or a dealmaker?  Maybe a bit of both?  Ever wonder what corporate lawyers do?  What makes corporate practice fun and interesting?  We are gathering a group of APA law firm partners and in-house attorneys whose practices center on various different areas of the corporate practice to share their experiences with law students who may be considering joining the corporate practice.  Heavy appetizers and dessert will be served.  A short networking time will follow the panel discussion.

6:30 - Arrival and registration

7:00 - Panel discussion

8:00 - Post-panel reception and networking

Speakers: 

Terry Shen, Partner at Kramer Levin - Terrence L. Shen represents public and private companies, financial institutions, investment funds, and government entities in connection with corporate finance and securities transactions and mergers and acquisitions. In his corporate finance and securities practice, Terry advises on debt and equity public offerings and private placements, leveraged finance transactions, financial restructurings, recapitalizations, and securities regulation. In his mergers and acquisitions practice, he counsels clients in structuring, negotiating and realizing public and private acquisitions and divestitures, private equity investments, and joint ventures. Terry also advises public companies on regulatory compliance, reporting and disclosure requirements, investor communications, corporate governance, and investigations. He has practiced both in the U.S. and internationally.

To read more of Terry Shen's biography and accomplishments, please click here. 

Ed Lee, Partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz - Ed’s practice focuses on both friendly and hostile mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and complex capital markets transactions. Ed has significant experience in both cross-border and domestic transactions, as well as spin-offs and carve-outs, joint ventures, LBOs, and initial public and other securities offerings.  He also frequently advises companies and their boards of directors on takeover defense and shareholder activism situations.  He has advised a broad range of public and private clients across many industries, including aerospace, technology and digital, pharmaceutical, automotive, telecom, industrial, media and advertising, energy, private equity, and financial institutions.

To read more of Ed Lee's biography and accomplishments, please click here. 

Lesley Peng, Partner at Simpson Thacher - Lesley Peng has a diverse practice advising clients on capital markets and general corporate matters. She represents both issuers and underwriters in IPOs, high yield and investment-grade debt financings, convertible debt offerings, and preferred stock offerings. Lesley has represented Blackstone in its $4.8 billion IPO and JPMorgan in its $5.8 billion common stock offering to repay its TARP preferred stock. Her practice has also included advising Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley in debt and equity capital markets transactions for a variety of issuers focusing on the energy and transportation industries. 

To read more of Lesley Peng's biography and accomplishments, please click here.

Marianne Chow, Counsel at Hearst Corporation - Marianne Chow focuses her practice on cross-border joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements and other transactional matters. Prior to joining Hearst Corporation, Marianne was a corporate associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she was a member of the Finance Group and primarily represented private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in financing transactions, including acquisition and other leveraged financings and asset-based facilities. Marianne has been an active member of AABANY since 2014 and previously served as co-chair of the Women's Committee and Career Placement Committee.

To read more of Marianne Chow's biography and accomplishments, please click here. 

Moderator:

Larry Wee, Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP - Lawrence G. Wee focuses on capital markets and finance transactions and securities regulation. Larry is recognized by The Legal 500 as a leading capital markets lawyer. His practice includes public and private equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, convertible debt offerings and offerings of asset-backed securities. He also represents public companies in connection with their ongoing securities law and corporate governance matters and advises in connection with public mergers and acquisitions transactions. Larry also has extensive experience in debt consent solicitations, debt restructurings and exchange offers.

To read more of Larry Wee's biography and accomplishments, please click here.