Dan Haaren Chairs and Scott Bennett Speaks at PLI’s Securities Offerings 2024 Program

On October 28, 2024, Cravath partners D. Scott Bennett and C. Daniel Haaren participated in “Securities Offerings 2024: A Public Offering from Start to Finish,” a program presented by the Practising Law Institute in New York. The program simulated a public offering from start to finish. Dan chaired the program, and Scott and Dan delivered opening remarks and appeared on panels entitled “Introduction to the Law of Securities Offerings,” which reviewed the basic legal framework for registered public securities offerings, “Working Effectively with the SEC: Preparing Your Registration Statement,” which covered registration statement preparation and SEC review processes, “Important Financial Statements, Accounting Disclosures and Key Securities Offering Documentation,” in which panelists discussed financial disclosure and other offering documentation processes, “Underwriting and Distribution Arrangements,” which reviewed the underwriting and stock exchange listing processes and “Ethics, Due Diligence and the Offering Process,” which surveyed ethical issues that arise in the due diligence and offering processes and how to avoid them.