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Solicitors Regulation Authority: CPD - 7 hours 30 minutes
New York and California: CLE - 9 hours
Hong Kong Law Society accreditation applied for

Agenda for the day:
08.15 Registration
08.30 Workshop commences
10.30 Morning coffee break
12.30 Luncheon
15.00 Afternoon coffee break
17.00 End of workshop

How to Navigate A Prime Brokerage Agreement will cover:
• The hedge fund-prime brokerage relationship
• Strategies, securities and markets for hedge funds
• RFP process to select a prime broker
• The relationship among investment manager,administrator and prime broker
• The US and non-US hedge fund models
• Analysing a prime brokerage agreement
• Offering memorandum disclosures
• Prime brokerage operations
• Conflicts of interest
• ISDAs and GMSLAs
• Key clauses in the prime brokerage agreement
• How certain events play out under the key clauses
• What happens when things go wrong?

The relationship between hedge funds and prime brokers forms the core of and drives the alternative investment industry, and is at the heart of our financial markets. Neither could exist without the other. This partnership revolves around and is based on the prime brokerage agreement. How are these crafted? On what requirements are they based? What is the impact of the credit crisis?

This unique one day workshop explores hedge funds and prime brokerage agreements. It helps you understand how hedge funds obtain the financing they need to trade, hedge their portfolios and deliver absolute returns. It explores how prime brokers operate during each phase of a hedge fund’s life. It explains how to navigate the intricacies of provisions such as collateral, charges, margin requirements, events of default, remedies and funding. It also explores what happens when something goes wrong: reorganisation, litigation and insolvency. It concludes with a discussion of ancillary documents such as ISDAs and GMSLAs.

Why should you attend How to Navigate a Prime Brokerage Agreement?
The Credit Crisis is continuing. Hedge funds and Prime brokers are not immune from its ravages. The Madoff affair is casting a shadow over the AI industy. Attend this event and understand what factors led to this crisis and what lies ahead for hedge funds and prime brokers.


SEC Regulation Outside the United States, 24th March 2010
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The 8th annual SEC Regulation Outside the United States, explores the effects of the credit crisis, the SEC?s response and how the SEC regulates capital markets. A faculty of current and former senior SEC officials, non-US regulators and distinguished industry leaders will guide you through the developments that have had an incalculable impact on the world?s markets and the ?real economy? ? and the SEC?s role in this.

The world remains seized by the credit crisis: how are the SEC and other regulators responding?

Attend SEC Regulation Outside the United States and hear directly from key representatives at the SEC how they legislate and enforce US securities laws, and how these affect companies outside the US.

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