June 2007 :  

     Elaine Levin spoke on "Selling Your Business: Strategies to Achieve Maximum Value for the Company and its Owners" at the Northern Trust Bank Business Symposium on "Strategic Planning for Business Owners" in June 2007..

     Elaine Levin spoke on “Selling Your Business: Strategies to Achieve Maximum Value for the Company and its Owners: at the Northern Trust Bank Business Symposium on “Strategic Planning for Business Owners” in June 2007. She spoke on: (a) How to Choose the Right Structure for the Sale of Your Business to Maximize Value, (b) Important Pre-Sale Planning to Minimize the Time, Resources and Costs of Selling Your Business, (c) Tax Planning and Liquidity Structuring to Maximize Your Purchase Price and (d) Strategies to Minimize Your Liabilities to the Buyer and Others After the Sale. The presentation also focused on liquidity events and exit strategies for owners of a business, including recapitalizations and partial sales to private equity funds and ESOP transactions.

February 2007 :  

     Elaine Levin spoke on "Planning Mergers and Acquisitions to Maximize Company Value" at the Mergers and Acquisitions Seminar for Orange County CEOs and Owners “Buy, Sell or Hold?...Strategies for Optimizing Corporate Value to Maximize Your Net Worth” in February 2007.

     Elaine Levin spoke on "Planning Mergers and Acquisitions to Maximize Company Value" at the Mergers and Acquisitions Seminar for Orange County CEOs and Owners “Buy, Sell or Hold?...Strategies for Optimizing Corporate Value to Maximize Your Net Worth” in February 2007. Her presentation focused on pre-sale planning and how to structure stock sales, asset acquisitions and mergers to optimize the valuation and purchase price of the company. She described how to: (i) minimize potential and retained liabilities and other factors that decrease value, (ii) structure the sale and implement tax and liquidity strategies to maximize value and (iii) facilitate the sale by minimizing the time, resources and costs to maximize value. Other speakers at the seminar included a director of strategy and corporate development of a well known Fortune 500 company, an investment banker from a local investment bank, a managing director of a national tax and accounting services firm and a wealth management specialist from a global wealth management firm.

January 2007 :  

      Elaine Levin spoke on “Structuring Financial Incentives Between Medical Companies and Healthcare Providers" at the Life Science Industry Council Meeting in January 2007.

      Elaine Levin spoke on "Structuring Financial Incentives Between Medical Companies and Healthcare Providers" at the Life Science Industry Council Meeting in January 2007. She gave an overview of the legal issues in structuring arrangements between medical companies and healthcare providers to comply with the laws regulating gain sharing, economic incentives and inducements, kickbacks, fraud and abuse and financial interests of clinical trial investigators. Her presentation focused on both short-term and long-term financial incentives, such as gifts, medical directorships, advisory board memberships, consulting arrangements, investments and stock options, inventions and development agreements, gain and cost sharing arrangements and other economic incentives. She described how to structure incentives and the contracts to comply with healthcare regulatory laws, particularly under the antikickback, physician ownership, licensing, corporate practice of medicine, referral and disclosure laws.

March 2006:  

     Elaine Levin moderated a panel on "Distribution Strategies for Medical Products and Medical Devices" for the Life Science Industry Council Meeting in March 2006.  The panel discussed strategies for how to choose the right distribution channels for medical products and devices.  It also focused on when to build and use an internal sales team, when to use independent sales representative and how to choose and work with national, regional and specialized and local distributors of medical products and devices.  The panel included a well known medical products manufacturer, a major national distributor of medical products and a successful smaller local distribution company.

     Elaine Levin spoke on "The Business Side of Medicine" at the University of California-Irvine Medical Center in March 2006.  Her presentation focused on evaluating contracting arrangements between providers of healthcare services and businesses.  She described both how to evaluate the reasonableness of the business terms, as well as, how to comply with healthcare regulatory laws, particularly with issues under the anitkickback, physician ownership, licensing and referral laws.