MSU Law Hosts Annual Midwest Securities Law Institute

NOTE: The 2013 Midwest Securities Law Institute was cancelled as a result of the SEC’s inability to participate due to the government shutdown.

Michigan State University College of Law hosts leading financial industry experts to discuss current issues in securities regulation. The event will be held in the Castle Board Room at the Law College Building on Friday, October 11, 2013.

The 2013 Midwest Securities Law Institute brings together attorneys, corporate counsel, arbitrators, and financial industry professionals to receive updates from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and experts in securities law and litigation. The event is sponsored by the State Bar of Michigan’s Business Law Section.

Topics include developments in broker-dealer and investment adviser regulation, broker-dealer arbitration and litigation, SEC enforcement, SEC “transactional” hot topics, and State of Michigan investigations and enforcement.

The luncheon speaker is Patricia Geoghegan, acting special master for TARP Executive Compensation, U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Additional speakers include:

Jennifer McCarthy, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Kris Easter, O’Melveny & Myers
Hugh H. Makens, Warner, Norcross & Judd
Raymond W. Henney, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn
Felicia Fox, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Gary M. Saretsky, Saretsky Hart Michaels & Gould
Anthony V. Trogan, Anthony V. Trogan PLLC
John A. Hubbard, Hubbard Snitchler & Parzianello
Benjamin P. Edwards, MSU College of Law
John Birkenheier, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Chicago Regional Office
David J. Van Havermaat, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, L.A. Regional Office
Richard E. Zuckerman, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn
Martin Dunn, O’Melveny & Myers
Mark A. Metz, Dykema Gossett
Peter Sugar, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss
Lindsay DeRosia, Corporations, Securities and Commercial Licensing Bureau, State of Michigan
Joseph H. Spiegel, Joseph H. Spiegel PC
Clarence L. Pozza Jr., Miller Canfield
Mark L. Kowalsky, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss

Elliot Spoon, assistant dean for career development and professor of law in residence at Michigan State Law, and Ann Arbor attorney Joseph Spiegel co-chair the Institute.

For more information on the 2013 Midwest Securities Law Institute, visit www.law.msu.edu/securities.

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