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Corporate partner Risë Norman spoke on a panel at the New York City Bar Association's "Producing Private Equity, Offering, Financing and M&A Agreements Efficiently" program on September 14, 2012.  The panel entitled "Securities Offerings and Financing Documents" included an in-depth discussion about securities offerings, including annotated underwriting agreement and SEC Form S-1 registration statements; drafting and negotiating the key points; how the SEC rules and regulations tie directly to the documents; similarities between Rule 144A high yield offerings, SEC registered offerings, 1934 disclosure documents and 8-K Current Reports and Proxy Statements; and drafting skills needed to address selected recent SEC rule changes. The panel also covered bank credit agreements, including similarities between credit agreements and securities offering documents; and what to negotiate and when, and then how to reflect that in the agreements.