As part of our ongoing effort to educate market participants on the practices and procedures related to the securities processing industry, Computershare and Georgeson will be preparing a series of CLE program topics to offer to your law firm. The program time is typically 1 hour and will provide 1 CLE credit.
Our program is ideal for a lunch meeting of corporate and/or securities lawyers at a firm and can be completed in your office. Computershare and Georgeson will work with your firms' CLE rep to accredit the program, present and manage hand-outs.
Please complete the form below to set-up a presentation for your firm.
Available topics:
Feel free to suggest additional topics you like to see offered.
Demystifying M&A securities processing: A behind the scenes look at shareholder services in M&A
The following topics are addressed from the perspective of the securities processing agent:
Overview of Share Ownership
- Publicly Held
- Privately Held
Types of Transactions
- Voluntary Corporate Actions
- Tender Offers
- Exchange Offers
- Cash/Stock Elections
- Mandatory Corporate Actions
- Exchange for Stock
- Exchange for Cash
- Exchange for Cash & Stock
Agency Services
With regards to Voluntary and Mandatory M&A, the following agency services will be discussed:
- Information Agent
- Exchange Agent
- Escrow Agent
- Entity Management
The Process
After discussing the types of transactions and agency services, we will walk through the process involved in executing a transaction.
Hot Topics
We wrap-up the program with a discussion of timely topics, issues, and trends we encounter in our capacity as agent on over 500 corporate actions events each year.