Day One Program Agenda

Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing—In the US and Beyond: June 6-7, 2023

Tuesday, June 6

New York University School of Law
Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, New York City

Events marked with (^) will be available via a live stream on Zoom Webinar. Please register for the conference and a link will be sent to you 1-2 days before the conference.

Panels that have been approved for CLE credit hours are marked with an asterisk (*).

8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration

Location: Vanderbilt Hall (40 Washington Sq. South), 1st Floor, Kushner Lounge

Coffee and beverages will be available in Kushner Lounge. Please note that food and beverages cannot be brought into Tishman Auditorium (Morning Plenary).

9:00-9:05 a.m. Welcome to Conference (^)

Location: 1st Floor, Tishman Auditorium

Amélie Baudot, Conference Program Committee Co-Chair

Amaris White, Executive Director, Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship

9:05-10:00 a.m. Morning Plenary - A New Approach to Contracting: Building on Shared Values (^)

Location: 1st Floor, Tishman Auditorium

This opening plenary combines contract theory with practice as the speakers draw on their expertise in economics, business, and law to explore a new approach to contracting where the goal is to create and maintain resilient, long-term, strategic collaborations.

What might lawyers contracting for impact learn from the formal relational contracting being adopted by companies like McDonald’s? The answers may surprise you.

While formal relational contracting is not for every type of contract, hear stories of how this new approach to contracting can be particularly effective for shaping highly complex relationships that are operating in an uncertain world.

Panelists:

David Frydlinger, Managing Partner, Cirio Law Firm
Oliver Hart, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University; Winner of the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Kate Vitasek, Faculty, Graduate & Executive Education, University of Tennessee

Moderator: Deborah Burand, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU Law

10:00-10:15 a.m. Break

Locations: 2nd Floor, Golding Lounge; 1st Floor, Kushner Lounge

10:15-11:30 a.m. Panels Round 1 (*)(^)

A) Theme: Distributive Power and Wealth: Is the Impact Space Ready and Willing to Democratize Capital?
Democratizing Information: Spreading the Knowledge Wealth (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 206

What is being done to educate and inform existing investors and donors, as well as new entrants, on existing and new instruments in order to lower transaction costs, increase efficiencies, and share learnings? Who is currently working on these projects? What are the legal and practical issues that get in the way of making this information more publicly available?

Panelists:

Mary Rose Brusewitz, Member, Clark Hill
Andrew Grumet, Nonprofit Organizations Chair, Polsinelli Law Firm
Chintan Panchal, Founding Partner, RPCK Rastegar Panchal

Moderator: Christina Cahill, Shareholder, Polsinelli Law Firm

B) Theme: Impact Investing in Times of Crisis: Governance, Collaboration, Restructurings, Data, and Resilience
The Evolution of Contracting for Impact—Lessons Learned and Still to Be Learned (*)(^)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 220

This panel will discuss how the documentation that underpins impact investing and social entrepreneurship is evolving—from social franchise agreements, to impact bonds, to force majeure clauses, to intercreditor agreements, and more. Practitioners will share lessons learned about how they approach the formation of these contractual relationships and what they now are doing differently from earlier days when they first began developing agreements that aim at achieving both financial and impact goals. The panel also will discuss where contractual approaches are likely to head in the future—from incomplete contracting to relational contracting and beyond.

Panelists:

Daniella Jammes, Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Dave Koch, Founder and Partner, Plave Koch PLC
Louise Savell, Co-Founder, Social Finance
Carl Valenstein, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Moderator: Deborah Burand, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU Law

C) Theme: Dynamic Impact Capital: Evolving Rules, Players, Structures, and Products
Unlocking Endowment Assets for Greater Impact (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 214

The practical implication of the “5 percent payout rule” is that the remaining 95 percent of US private foundation assets are typically not invested in alignment with mission via mission-related investments (MRIs). What are the barriers to unlocking more foundation assets for greater impact? What are the tools to overcome traditional mindsets in foundation directors and personnel? What needs to be established to qualify an investment opportunity as an MRI? Of the various types of capital available, are we truly maximizing the efficacy of every dollar?

Panelists:

Megan Bell, Partner, Morgan Lewis
Ed Ghisu, Chief Investment Counsel, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Mike Silvestri, Director, Social Finance

Moderator: Lisa Montez, Senior Counsel of Philanthropy & Impact Investments, Builders Vision

D) Theme: A Tale of Diverging Regulatory Environments: Navigating Local and Global Regulations and Developing the Skills to Respond
Diverging State Regulation of ESG and Impact Investing (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 218

At least 34 states have considered or enacted legislation that would restrict taking into account environmental, social, or governance factors in investing state, local, and public university pension funds and/or restricting business contracts with firms that consider such issues. Other states are moving to define fiduciary duty to require consideration of these factors. And the Department of Labor’s “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments” regulation, while current law, is being challenged in court. How should attorneys for impact fund managers, contractors, and others navigate this divergent landscape?

Panelists:

Larcy Cooper, Counsel, Paul Weiss
Josh Lichtenstein, Partner, Ropes & Gray
Beth Young, Managing Partner, Corporate Governance & Sustainable Strategies

Moderator: Kim Leslie Shafer, Senior Policy Advisor, Impact Capital Managers

11:30-11:45 a.m. Networking Break: Lunch Option 1

Location: 2nd Floor, Golding Lounge; 1st Floor, Kushner Lounge

Lunch will be available for pick-up on the 1st Floor in Kushner Lounge. You can pick up your lunch and eat during “Panels Round 2.”

The afternoon plenary at 1:15 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium does not allow food or drink. Please be prepared to pick up and finish your lunch before then.

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Panels Round 2 (*)(^)

A) Theme: Distributive Power and Wealth: Is the Impact Space Ready and Willing to Democratize Capital?
Democratization: Moving Beyond “Localization” (*)(^)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 220

Development aid and philanthropic donors, international NGO implementers, and the impact investment community all are taking steps to empower and enable more equitable participation of customers, underrepresented individuals, and local communities. These shifts in power and participation are important and overdue and will be examined by the panel. But will creating local versions of existing models alone produce the level of sustainable impact that is needed? How are each of these sectors moving beyond localization to look at new ways to provide access to and use capital and to collaborate more effectively across sectors? What legal and practical challenges and risks are raised by these developments?

Panelists:

Christian Diaz Ordonez, Legal Counsel, IDB Invest
Dr. Nomazulu Sibanda, Economic Development Specialist, South Africa
Randall Tift, Senior Associate, Oxford House UK
Ivy Wafford Duke, General Counsel, Impact Assets

Moderator: Harold Glasser, Chief Legal Officer, Pathfinder International

B) Theme: Impact Investing in Times of Crisis: Governance, Collaboration, Restructurings, Data, and Resilience
New Models for Impact: Technology, Data, Governance, and Collaboration (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 218

COVID accelerated mainstreaming of digitalization and technology solutions in key focus areas for impact investors, ranging from education to health to delivery of financial services to supporting entrepreneurs in the digital economy. These areas also challenge impact investors to develop new skills and processes, to identify new opportunities, and to manage new kinds of risks.

The panel will explore new kinds of technology- and data-based models attracting impact investor interest; new kinds of collaboration, including data sharing and technology alliances; and new kinds of risks and governance—including cybersecurity, data protection, and ethical AI—appropriate for impact investors, as well as emerging diligence and oversight obligations of fiduciary impact investors.

Panelists:

Sue Hendrickson, Executive Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Sanjeev Krishnan, Chief Investment Officer and Senior Managing Director, S2G Ventures
Susan Winterberg, Academic Advisory Board Member, VentureESG

Moderator: Gordon Myers, Of Counsel, Wave Law

C) Theme: Dynamic Impact Capital: Evolving Rules, Players, Structures, and Products
Lawyers As Partners, Not Problems (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 214

Foundations, multilateral organizations, and sovereign funds tend to be subject to more legal, regulatory, and reputational restraints and therefore may have developed more burdensome policies and compliance practices. The legal team, as gatekeepers of risks and people who hold these policies and rules close to heart, may often be viewed as prohibitors of impactful investments and “warranted risks.” Yet, as we know, lawyers often (when called early enough) can be more strategic in helping the business teams achieve their goals in a risk-compliant manner, whether that’s in structuring, in culling together the right resources, or in other ways. This panel focuses on strategies and solutions for in-house counsel to essentially “rebrand” as thought partners, rather than operations centers and roadblocks.

Panelists:

Jonathan Ng, Senior Counsel, USAID
Ashlee Pinto Zurita, Senior Counsel, Builders Vision
Kristina Schwartz, Assistant General Counsel, Kiva Capital
Radhika Shroff, Managing Director, Nuveen Capital

Moderator: Ruth Gao, Associate General Counsel, Impact Investments, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

D) Theme: A Tale of Diverging Regulatory Environments: Navigating Local and Global Regulations and Developing the Skills to Respond
Creating ESG- and Impact-Ready Lawyers: Academic Developments, Innovations, and Opportunities (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 206

Many lawyers and legal employers are now active in the ESG and impact investing spaces, but how are law schools working to build the pipeline of talent needed to contribute and rise to the challenges in this important field? This panel will explore the ways law students and lawyers can engage in these areas, learning the technical and professional skills required to navigate a rapidly evolving and interdisciplinary field. From doctrinal evolution to experiential learning to student-led initiatives, the opportunities to learn about, and participate in, this work are increasing rapidly and in different ways around the United States and the world. Panelists will describe their own efforts to innovate, support, and engage law schools, students, and employers in what should be an expected part of transactional legal education.

Panelists:

Sammy Burton, NYU Law Student, JD ’24
Susan Jones, Director/Supervising Attorney of the Small Business & Community Economic Development Clinic, George Washington University School of Law
Scott Taitel, Clinical Professor of Public Service; Director of Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment Specialization, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Brian Tang, Executive Director of LITE Lab; Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Joan Heminway, Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law and Interim Director of the Institute for Professional Leadership at The University of Tennessee College of Law

1:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch Option 2

Lunch will be available for pick-up on the 1st Floor in Kushner Lounge.

The Afternoon Plenary will start at 1:30 p.m.

Tishman Auditorium does not allow food or drink. Please be prepared to pick up and finish your lunch before or after the Afternoon Plenary.

1:30-2:30 p.m. Afternoon Plenary - Remarkable Achievements of Our Legal Community (^)

Location: 1st Floor, Tishman Auditorium

This plenary celebrates the six finalists for the 2023 Grunin Prize and explores the work they have done in contributing to the fields of social entrepreneurship and impact investing.

Lawyers play a critical role in designing, implementing, and advancing models by which economic and social activity are conducted globally. The Grunin Prize recognizes lawyers, legal educators, policymakers, in-house counsel, or legal teams that develop innovative, scalable, and social entrepreneurial solutions using existing law, legal education, or the development of new legal structures or metrics.

Grunin Prize Finalists Represented By:

Aaron Bourke, Senior Counsel, RPCK Rastegar Panchal LLP
Greg Curtis, Executive Director, Holdfast Collective
Simon Duffield, Lead, Legal - COVAX, representing Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
Melissa Obegi, President, Conduit Capital
Shirmila Ramasamy, Senior Counsel, World Bank
Tom Scriven, Senior Counsel, RPCK Rastegar Panchal LLP
Carolina Serra, Partner, Beccar Varela

Moderator: Anne Field, Contributor, Forbes Magazine

2:30-2:45 p.m. Networking Break: Lunch Option 3 and Afternoon Refreshments

Locations: 2nd Floor, Golding Lounge; 1st Floor, Kushner Lounge

Lunch will be available for pick-up on the 1st Floor in Kushner Lounge. You can pick up your lunch and eat during the Workshops and Table Talks.

Coffee, beverages, and afternoon snacks will also be available on the 1st Floor in Kushner Lounge.

2:45-4:00 p.m. Workshop and People’s Choice Table Talks

Workshops are intended to be action-oriented meetings where participants identify issues and create action plans for steps to take in the coming year.

Table Talks are intended to be smaller group discussions on a “People’s Choice” topic that reflects conference participants’ suggestions. Table Talks are led by discussion leaders.

Workshop Theme: Distributive Power and Wealth: Is the Impact Space Ready and Willing to Democratize Capital?
Keeping Relational Impact Investing on Track: Exploring the Case for Investment Mentors
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 218

Join the team from Legal Innovation for Sustainable Investments (LISI) and special guests to co-create the role, qualifications, and contractual mandate for Investment Mentors—individuals who coach and mentor parties through impact investment deals based on relational contracting principles. The interactive workshop will include:

An overview of the Investment Mentor concept and its part in relational contracting;
Insights into how the concept may need to be adapted for impact investment;
Interactive real-time surveys; and
Curated discussion sessions.

Discussion Leaders:

David Frydlinger, Managing Partner, Cirio Advokatbyrå AB
Celinda Metro, Counsel, Dispute Resolution Group, Watson Farley & Williams
Raluca Radu, Co-Founder and Co-Creator, Legal Innovation for Sustainable Investments (LISI) Foundation; Europe Board Member, Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL); Managing Director at the LegallySaid Accelerator
Kate Vitasek, Faculty, Graduate & Executive Education, University of Tennessee

Moderator: Sarah Ellington, Partner, Watson Farley & Williams, Co-Founder and Co-Creator, Legal Innovation for Sustainable Investments (LISI) Foundation, UK Regional Board Member, Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL)

Workshop Theme: Impact Investing in Times of Crisis: Governance, Collaboration, Restructurings, Data, and Resilience
Managing Cybersecurity and Data Incidents: Fiduciary Duty and Operational Risk
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 220

Impact, digitalization, and security: Impact investors face new challenges as they integrate data and digitalization in their operations, and as their investees incorporate digital solutions to important development challenges. Workshop leaders will outline their experience in managing data governance and cybersecurity challenges in impact and development organizations, including data governance, privacy, and incident response, and offer mini “case studies” for participants to consider based on their learnings. Perhaps most importantly, the workshop also will offer participants the opportunity to forthrightly consider their own challenges with seasoned experts, under strict “Chatham House” rules.

Discussion Leaders:

Will Higginbothom, Chief Data Privacy Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Arjun Reddy, Director of Technology & Operations, Global Impact Investing Network
Gwen Thomas, Founder, The Data Governance Institute

Moderator: Gordon Myers, Of Counsel, Wave Law; Special Adviser, Sustainable Technology, Valoris Stewardship Catalysts; Project Lead, Responsible Technology Initiative, ISLP

Table Talk 1: Deep Dive into a Nature Bond Transaction: Structuring Deals for Biodiversity, People and Climate
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 206

The Nature Conservancy implements its Nature Bond program to address the triple crises of climate, biodiversity, and sovereign debt. We will do a deep dive on two sovereign debt deals supporting international climate and biodiversity commitments. Together with Inter-American Development Bank*, we will unpack the 2022 Barbados transaction, in which the Government of Barbados, The Nature Conservancy, and the Inter-American Development Bank completed a landmark USD 150 million debt conversion that created long-term sustainable financing for marine conservation and secured a government commitment to protect up to 30 percent of Barbados’ Exclusive Economic Zone and Territorial Sea. We will also address the more recent May 2023 transaction, supported by the Inter-American Development Bank and the US Development Finance Corporation that has allowed Ecuador to complete the world’s largest debt-for-nature conversion, generating savings for long-term marine conservation in the Galápagos Islands.

*The Inter-American Development Bank is devoted to improving lives. Established in 1959, the IDB is a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Discussion Leaders:

Lauren Boccardi, The Nature Conservancy
Pilar Jiménez de Aréchaga, Senior Attorney, Inter-American Development Bank

Table Talk 2: Impact Measurement: Best Practices, Global Standards, and Novel Tools
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 214

Overview and analysis of the many sides of impact measurement, including regulatory developments, best practices, global standards, and practical tools, in the broad context of sustainable and impact finance and corporate governance.

Discussion Leaders:

Catherine Dun Rappaport, Vice President, Social Finance
Emiliano Giovine, Senior Associate at RP Legal & Tax; President of GAIL (Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers) Europe
Roberto Randazzo, Partner, Head of ESG and Impact, Legance
Vivien Teu, Partner, Head of Asset Management & ESG, Dentons Hong Kong

Table Talk 3: NYU Law Students Present: The State of Social Enterprise and the Law
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 202

Each year, NYU Law students and the Grunin Center publish The State of Social Enterprise and the Law. These reports describe considerations and challenges in defining the field of social entrepreneurship and impact investing, legislative developments in the United States with respect to forms of legal entities that are available to social entrepreneurs, the role of US legal education in training a new generation of lawyers knowledgeable about the field of social entrepreneurship and impact investing, and the past decade of legal scholarship in the field of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. In this Table Talk, students will discuss their research and the current state of US social enterprise law.

Discussion Leaders:

Robert Esposito, Managing Director and Senior Counsel, ESG, Apollo Global Management
Matt Kuhlik, NYU Law Student, JD ’24
Elise van den Hoek, NYU Law Student, JD ’25

Table Talk 4: Global Legal Communities of Practice
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 216

As the global impact investing community continues to grow, different and complementary communities of practice have emerged. This table talk offers an informal setting to discuss concrete ways of connecting and collaborating.

Discussion Leaders:

Samantha Biggio, Legal Officer, TrustLaw, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Connie Connolly, Co-Founder, Keidos Impacto Legal
Sarah Dobson, Executive Director, Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL)
Jonathan Ng, Senior Counsel, USAID
Kevin Saunders, Vice President, Legal, Fidelity Foundations

4:00-4:15 p.m. Networking Break: Afternoon Refreshments

Location: 2nd Floor, Golding Lounge; 1st Floor, Kushner Lounge

Coffee, beverages, and afternoon snacks will also be available on the 1st Floor in Kushner Lounge.

4:15-5:30 p.m. Panels Round 3 (*)(^)

A) Theme: Distributive Power and Wealth: Is the Impact Space Ready and Willing to Democratize Capital?
Distributive Models: Thinking Outside the Box (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 214

How have existing instruments been adapted to enable the sharing of assets or revenues and promote more equitable impact? What new instruments are being introduced to achieve these outcomes? We will discuss several of these instruments and models that are including workers, consumers, and other stakeholders in shared ownership, profits, and governance in the US and abroad and legislation that is being introduced to incentivize more equitable capital.

Panelists:

Joseph Blasi, J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.
Louise Harman, Partner, Bates Wells
Jens Lowitzsch, Kelso Professorship of Comparative Law, East European Business Law and European Legal Policy, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt

Moderator: Maria Santos Valentin, Distinguished Scholar and Senior Fellow, Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship, NYU School of Law

B) Theme: Impact Investing in Times of Crisis: Governance, Collaboration, Restructurings, Data, and Resilience
Pandemics, Wars, and Earthquakes: Distressed Situations in Impact Investments—Experiences and Tools (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 206

This panel will explore management of stressed scenarios and defaults during the COVID pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and other crisis situations. The discussion will cover topics such as how to restore equilibrium and manage deals and relationships during restructurings and insolvencies in the context of mission-driven investments. The panel will look at specific tools, technologies, training, clauses, or approaches to support colleagues, clients and counterparties during future crises as new investments are made and undergo due diligence.

Panelists:

Amy Bergstraesser, Head of Legal, Symbiotics Group SA
Alice Decker Burke, Associate General Counsel , United States International Development Finance Corporation
Claudio Rechden, General Counsel, Deva Capital
Matthew Sparkes, CRO and General Counsel, BlueOrchard Finance Ltd.

Moderator: Mary Rose Brusewitz, Member, Clark Hill

C) Theme: Dynamic Impact Capital: Evolving Rules, Players, Structures, and Products
Impact-Linked GP Compensation—From Theory to Action (*)(^)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 220

Whether and how impact fund managers should tie a portion of their compensation to the achievement of specific impact targets has been a perennially hot and controversial topic in the impact investing industry. The discussion typically revolves around the concept of “impact carry”—that is, the idea that a portion of an impact fund manager’s carried interest should be tied to the achievement of impact targets. However, while impact investors and fund managers long have expressed support for the concept of impact carry, real-world examples of impact carry structures are few and far between.

This panel will aim to move the discussion around impact carry from theory to action by doing a deep dive into the issues and challenges presented when designing impact carry structures. It will seek to present a diversity of experiences and perspectives: (1) fund formation attorneys who have structured and drafted impact carry structures; (2) fund managers who have tied their compensation to the achievement of impact targets; (3) fund investors who have considered investments into funds with impact carry structures; and (4) impact measurement and management specialists, whose work is vital in providing the data necessary to implement an impact carry structure.

Panelists:

Ed Briscoe, Managing Director, Weave Social Finance
Krysta Copeland, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, The Rockefeller Foundation
Sasha Dichter, Co-Founder and CEO, 60 Decibels
Ariella Rotenberg, Director, Maycomb Capital
Joe Pileri, Chief Legal Officer, Mission Driven Finance

Moderator: Aaron Bourke, Senior Counsel, RPCK

D) Theme: A Tale of Diverging Regulatory Environments: Navigating Local and Global Regulations and Developing the Skills to Respond
Fifty Ways to Measure Impact: Challenges and Opportunities in Impact Reporting (*)
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 218

Discussion of the current state and future of reporting on impact, both informally in firm-designed impact reports and in more formal regulatory filings like Form 10-Q/Ks.

Panelists:

Satyadeep "Bobby" Patnaik, Chief Technology Officer, Lafayette Square
Danielle Reyes, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
Elodie Timmermans, Managing Director, Ernst & Young

Moderator: Lorraine Spradley Wilson, Chief Sustainability Officer, Novata

5:30-7:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception and Grunin Prize Award Ceremony

Location: 1st Floor, Greenberg Lounge

The Grunin Prize Finalists are represented by:

Aaron Bourke, Senior Counsel, RPCK Rastegar Panchal LLP
Greg Curtis, Executive Director, Holdfast Collective
Mark Dawson, Counsel, Linklaters; Grunin Prize Ceremony Representative, Gavi
Melissa Obegi, President, Conduit Capital
Shirmila Ramasamy, Senior Counsel, World Bank
Tom Scriven, Senior Counsel, RPCK Rastegar Panchal LLP
Carolina Serra, Partner, Beccar Varela

Speakers:

Jay Grunin, Founder & Chairman, Grunin Foundation; Advisory Board Chair of the NYU Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
Troy McKenzie, Dean and Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Introducer: Helen Scott, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Founder & Co-Director, Mitchell Jacobson Leadership Program in Law and Business, NYU School of Law; Faculty Co-Director, NYU School of Law’s Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship

This event has been approved for 16 New York State CLE credits in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. Each panel is approved for 1 credit. The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. Those panels that have been approved for CLE credit hours are indicated with an asterisk (*) in this conference program.

NYU School of Law is committed to the availability of quality affordable CLE programs for its alumni community and members of the bar-at-large. Prospective attendees interested in obtaining financial aid for this program should contact NYU Law School's the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at law.gruninsocent@nyu.edu. Written requests for financial aid should include applicant name, phone number, email address, employment status and recent employment history, along with a brief statement of financial need. All requests for financial aid will be kept confidential.