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Simpson Thacher corporate partner Todd Crider will moderate a panel and litigation partner Cheryl Scarboro will speak on a panel at Practising Law Institute’s first annual Institute on Current Developments in Latin American Cross-Border Securities Transactions 2013 on September 17, 2013 in São Paulo, Brazil. 
 
Mr. Crider will moderate the panel entitled "Developments in SEC and CVM Regulations for Easing Issuer Market Access," which will discuss SEC and local regulators’ developments in easing market access for midsized issuers, including the JOBS Act in the United States; developments in local offerings by Latin American issuers, particularly governmental tax and other incentives for debentures and other exempt offerings; and prospects for continued change in SEC and CVM regulations.
 
Ms. Scarboro will speak on the panel entitled "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Other Money Laundering Regulations," which will cover recent guidelines published by the SEC and DOJ on the FCPA and their expected effects on corporate finance transactions; effects the FCPA, OFAC and other regulations have had on the due diligence process for corporate finance transactions; disclosure issues of FCPA, OFAC and other investigations in SEC/CVM public filings; Office of Global Security Risk; and addressing compliance issues in corporate transactions.
 
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