Product Description

The goal of this Video Leadership Seminar is to provide lawyers and venture capital firms with critical information about structuring private equity funds. The DVD is viewable on any computer or iPod (that supports video) and features 90 minutes of live video with Stephen Culhane of King & Spalding LLP sharing his best practices for creating the most advantageous structure possible for the venture capital firm. The Video Leadership Seminar provides essential information for structuring such a fund, tax consequences, and investor provisions, as well as an overall framework of the best practices that have worked for the top venture funds and how it can directly impact the profit of the fund.

Topics covered in the Video Leadership SeminarTM include:

Specific structure provisions that are most advantageous
The biggest mistakes and how to avoid making them when structuring private equity funds
Step by step for structuring the agreement and determining the provisions
Financial considerations
Case Studies of specific situations and what you can learn from them

Questions answered in this Video Leadership SeminarTM include:

How would you articulate your strategy when it comes to structuring private equity funds?
How are private equity funds different from other types of investments?
What is the difference between the structure components for US and offshore funds?
What factors are most significant in determining how you proceed with your strategy? Why are these factors important? What do they indicate?
What are the 3-5 arenas of investment most commonly entered when structuring private equity funds and determining the proper investment strategy?
What is the most difficult aspect of developing the structure and investment strategies for your client s private equity fund? Why?
What are the ways the top venture funds today are structuring their funds differently than in the past?
What are the three most important areas that have made you successful in structuring private equity funds for clients? Why do you think this is?
How do you explain the financial exposure to your client in a situation such as this such as the impact it could have on their business or personally if the fund is not properly structured, or the investments improperly chosen?
What are the various types of financial outcomes you have seen in different funds in the past? What decisions at the beginning of a fund can come back to haunt your client later on?
What are the approximate legal fees most often associated with structuring an agreement like this? How are these costs apportioned?
What is the biggest mistake a client could make that would adversely financially affect their fund? How can they avoid this mistake?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2989421 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-31
• Released on: 2006-10-31
• Binding: CD-ROM

About the Author
About Stephen Culhane: Stephen Culhane has been a partner in the New York office of King & Spalding in the Private Equity & Investment Funds Group since 2004. He leads the firm s New York private funds and asset management practice, focusing primarily on representing sponsors of private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds and funds of funds in connection with the structuring, establishment and operation of such fund products. He also represents clients with respect to the regulatory aspects of forming and investing in private funds. Prior to joining King & Spalding, he was a member of the Goldman, Sachs & Co. Legal Department from 1997. In that capacity he supported Goldman Sachs Investment Management Division, focusing on Goldmans direct hedge funds, private equity fund of funds and fiduciary businesses. Stephen was a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Goldman and also served as Legal Director to Goldman Sachs Asset Management s Private Equity Group, which is today the world s largest private equity fund of funds complex. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he was an associate with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Coudert Brothers.