BYU Law Hosts Second Annual Winter Deals Conference to Address the Modern Global Economy's Most Pressing Legal Issues

PROVO, Utah, Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BYU Law, a leading national law school focused on innovation in the legal field, today announced that it will host its second annual BYU Law Winter Deals Conference, March 7-8. Focusing on "New Ideas for Modern Markets' Most Difficult Challenges," the Winter Deals Conference will feature state-of-the-art research and discussions on topics related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), venture capital, corporate and sovereign debt, transaction design, corporate governance and blockchain contracting.

BYU Law's Winter Deals Conference brings leading scholars and practitioners to Park City, Utah, located within one of the most vibrant technology clusters in the United States, to discuss some of the modern global economy's most pressing legal issues. The event is sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Bloomberg BNA's flagship legal technology platform, Bloomberg Law, alongside BYU Law's Transactional Design Project.

"Unforeseen events, from technological advancements to rising political populism, are affecting how global commerce is undertaken like never before. The unprecedented scale, complexity and dynamism of modern markets presents challenges for legal institutions grappling to balance stable rules that businesses can rely upon with the need to rapidly adapt to new demands in domains ranging from M&A to venture capital," said Matthew Jennejohn, Winter Deals Conference Founder and Professor at BYU Law. "BYU Law is collaborating with thought leaders to provide informed guidance on solutions and policies to help public and private institutions adapt. An incubator for developing new policy and law, the Winter Deals Conference brings together thinkers from academia, public sectors and private practice to debate solutions to these emerging problems." 

Commissioner Robert Jackson of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will deliver the conference keynote on how the SEC ensures the integrity of U.S. capital markets, and provides policy leadership in securities law and corporate governance around the globe. Commissioner Jackson has been an SEC Commissioner since 2018, and prior to that was professor of law at NYU School of Law and Columbia Law School.

Other leading scholars and practitioners who will moderate or present at the conference include: D. Gordon Smith, Dean, BYU Law; Curt Anderson, Associate Professor of Law at BYU Law; Bobby Bartlett, Professor of Law Faculty Director, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy; Elisabeth de Fontenay, Associate Professor of Law, Duke Law School; Rob Daines, Pritzker Professor of Law and Business, Associate Dean, and Senior Faculty for the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School; Pam Morgan, Director, Client Success Central Region at Bloomberg BNA; Eric Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Co-Director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Columbia Law School; and Megan Shaner, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, Professor of Law, Oklahoma School of Law.

Some of more than 30 topics of discussion will include corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, takeover defenses, venture capital, bankruptcy and reorganizations, sovereign debt, initial public offerings, technology alliances, and tax issues.

The Winter Deals Conference will be held on March 7-8 at the Grand Summit Lodge in Canyons Village of Park City Mountain Resort. For more information, including a complete agenda, visit https://winterdeals.byu.edu/2019-conference/.  

About BYU Law School
Founded in 1971, the J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU Law) has grown into one of the nation's leading law schools – recognized for innovative research and teaching in social change, transactional design, entrepreneurship, corpus linguistics, criminal justice, and religious freedom. The Law School has more than 6,000 alumni serving in communities around the world. In its most recent rankings, SoFi ranked BYU Law as the #1 best-value U.S. law school in their 2017 Return on Education Law School Ranking. For more information, visit http://www.law.byu.edu/.

(Media note: The event is closed to the public, but select speakers are available for comment).

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