UTS:LAW Professional Development (CLE/CDP)

US REGULATION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Potential Participants:

• Legal practitioners
• Legal clerks
• Advocates
• Professionals engaged in finance and banking
  

Course:

Just as there is significant American investment in Australia, there is significant investment as well moving from Australia to the United States, particularly in the area of intellectual property. In addition, many Australian companies raise capital in the US capital markets.

Accordingly, the subject has three significant aims: first, to learn the current US regulatory system; second, to focus on the strains in that system as it attempts to deal with a global economy, global markets and the ebb and flow of such international economic problems as the 'sub prime crisis'; and third, the role of the regulatory lawyer and some of the skills which enable such a lawyer to provide counsel to clients as they deal not just with the US, but any regulatory system.

Thus, if successful in its aims, the subject will allow an Australian law student to have a deeper understanding of the Australian regulatory system and its strengths and weaknesses because of a comparison with the US regulatory system.  

Presenters:

Professor Ted J. McAniff

Professor McAniff, an attorney, has spent his entire 41-year career at O'Melveny & Myers and is currently Of Counsel to the firm. O'Melveny & Myers LLP is one of the worlds most successful and enterprising law firms. Established in 1885, the firm maintains 13 offices around the globe. As one of the world's largest law firms, O'Melveny & Myers' expertise spans virtually every area of legal practice. He specializes in banking law, particularly where the banking and securities industries intersect. Previously named by the National Law Journal as one of the 20 leading banking lawyers in the U.S., Professor McAniff also has an extensive background in corporate and securities law, in mergers and acquisitions and in public financial transactions. Ted has been lead counsel in business transactions of all kinds, including venture capital start-up offerings, major private placements, off-balance sheet commercial paper programs, major project financings, restructurings, and, during his time with a solicitors firm in Australia, multinational natural resource project financings.

Dates:

• Saturday 6 September, 9-4.30pm
  The U.S. Governmental System as it relates to Financial Institution Regulation
  

• Saturday 20 September, 9-4.30pm
  U.S. Regulation of Financial Institutions generally and of the Banking Industry  
  

• Saturday 27 September, 9-4.30pm
  U.S. Regulation of the Insurance and Securities Industries  
  

• Saturday 1 November, 9-4.30pm
  The Current Crisis and the American response

  
  

Venue:

• UTS:LAW, 1-59 Quay Street, Haymarket NSW 2000
  
  

Cost:

• $425 (inc GST) per session or
  
• $1595 (inc GST) for all sessions
  
• 10% discount to UTS:Alumni & Students

 

Registration:

Further information and enrolment details are available
via the US Regulation of Financial Regulations [PDF] brochure.

Further information:

For further information on this course, or any in-house training you may require please contact:

Professional Development Unit
Ph: +61 2 9514 3793 or 3085
Fax: +61 2 9514 3112
Email: pdu.law@uts.edu.au