Events at Zoom

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Brad Okun is Global Co-Chair of the Tax Department and advises on the tax aspects of high-stakes mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and corporate finance transactions. His practice also spans partnership and LLC matters and cross-border investment structuring. His work includes acquisitions, take-private transactions, IPOs, debt and equity financings, and strategic commercial agreements. Click to register.

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Ryan Park is a partner in McGuireWoods’s Appeals and Issues and State AG Investigations and Enforcement practice groups. He litigates complex disputes in state and federal court, and helps guide clients facing investigations and enforcement actions by State Attorneys General. Prior to joining the firm, he served five years as Solicitor General of North Carolina, where he represented the state in its highest-stakes cases, including regularly before the U.S. Supreme Court. Click to register.

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Amazon’s 2018 search for a second headquarters became one of the most competitive economic development negotiations in North American history, attracting 238 bids from cities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In a surprise move, Amazon selected two locations—Long Island City in New York City and National Landing in Virginia. Despite pursuing the same […]

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Judge Eric D. Miller, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, previously served in the Department of Justice and as Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission and was a Partner at Perkins Coie. He also clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and the U.S. Supreme […]

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David Dominik is a Managing Director of Golden Gate Capital. He has extensive private equity investment and operational experience, especially in a broad range of technology-related industries. Prior to Golden Gate Capital, David spent ten years as a Managing Director at Bain Capital. Previously, David was a Partner at Zero Stage Capital, an early-stage technology venture capital firm where he helped co-found several successful technology ventures. Click to register.

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Amit Doshi is the Founder, Managing Partner, and Portfolio Manager of Harbor Spring Capital, a global and opportunistic investment firm. Amit was previously a partner and Managing Director at Tiger Global Management, a public and private equity investment firm. He has previous experience in private equity at Madison Dearborn Partners and in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Amit earned M.B.A., J.D., and AB degrees from Harvard University. Click to register.

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Steven Glaser is a Skadden partner with nearly 30 years of experience in government enforcement, white collar defense, and compliance. He represents companies and executives in investigations by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and state regulators, with a major focus on antitrust matters. He previously served as an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan. Click to register.

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Joanne is a cannabis and hemp attorney and strategist with more than a decade of experience in licensing, regulatory compliance, corporate transactions, and litigation. She works with regulators, supports state and federal legislation, and helps investors close deals through defensible structures and opinion letters. Her clients include operators, public companies, manufacturers, investors, and social equity applicants. Click to register.

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Recent events in Iran are often analyzed through geopolitical frameworks and short-term political or economic explanations. This talk offers a different perspective: a cultural and ethical interpretation rooted in Iran’s indigenous Zoroastrian heritage. Drawing on historical analysis, contemporary survey data on religious affiliation, and the Women, Life, Freedom (Zan, Zendegi, Azadi) movement, Dr. Sousan Abadian […]

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Jennifer Lane is Lead Ethics Counsel at Airbnb and co-chairs Women at Airbnb, shaping enterprise ethics and trust. She led high-stakes FINRA enforcement matters against major broker-dealers, examining C-suite witnesses, parsing complex trading data, and negotiating global resolutions. As an SDNY federal prosecutor, she handled serious white-collar cases and built diversity and diversion initiatives with national influence. Click to register.

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Pamela Martinson is a business-focused leader, board member, and counselor with deep experience in finance, corporate governance, risk management, and bank regulation. Formerly a senior partner at Sidley Austin and earlier with Cooley, she advises executives and boards on complex matters, secured financings, reorganizations, and growth through disruption. She is Chief Legal Officer of Visionary Fiber Technologies and serves on multiple financial technology and banking boards.Click to register.

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Viroopa Volla is a Senior Associate at Alvarez and Marsal in San Francisco, advising high-stakes restructurings and special situations in the firm’s North American Commercial Restructuring practice. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs, PJT Partners, McKinsey and Company, Walmart, and Star India. Viroopa earned her A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Harvard College, followed by a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School through the joint JD/MBA program. Click to register.

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Woodie Dixon is Golden State’s Chief Legal Officer. He leads business and legal affairs across the Warriors, Valkyries, and related entities, overseeing contracts, litigation, real estate, governance, and strategic initiatives. He previously served as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Chegg for five years, and earlier as General Counsel at the Pac-12 and the Kansas City Chiefs. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an MS from UMass Amherst, and a BA from Amherst College, and he serves on several sports-law boards. Click to register.